I had this sudden urge at two in the morning to finish this chapter. Ah, the wonders of Winter Break. Can't sleep? May as well waste your time hypnotically pushing buttons. Whee.
"Who was that douchebag?" Karkat hissed as soon as the three of them had left the office.
"I don't know," Terezi shrugged, twisting her neck backwards, even though she couldn't see.
"Who the fuck wears sunglasses indoors?"
"He was wearing sunglasses?"
"He was," Sollux interrupted their argument that was gaining volume with every sentence. Karkat grumbled something incoherent under his breath and crossed his arms over his sweatered chest. "Anyways, let's go to class."
They each had a schedule printed on a piece of paper, and Karkat angrily tore his from his back pants pocket. Terezi plucked hers from her sweatshirt pocket, and Sollux already had his out. The three paused in front of a display case in the entryway, stopping to compare their classes like friends always do on their first day at a new school. Terezi gave a nearly invisible smile, her lips twisting upwards ever-so-slightly when she realized she had at least one of her fellows with her in each class, presumably to guide her around, what with her lack of sight.
The two boys weren't as lucky. All three shared only one class, near the end of the day, and that meant that, since one was always with Terezi, Sollux and Karkat both had classes with only humans. In some hidden part of her, she couldn't help but feel a little sorry for them, she knew what alone felt like.
Not wanting to be even later than they already were, Sollux and Terezi wandered in the direction of their shared class, while Karkat stomped in the opposite direction, towards his. The yellow and teal bloods found their classroom quite easily, placards labeled doors very clearly. Behind the thick wooden slab with windows waited a large, bored group of human teenagers that had heard new students were to join them. A bit of chatter hopped from mouth to mouth, usual things about what they expected the new kids to be like. A boy claimed he had already seen them, and the gossip-addicted crowded around him to hear.
Sick of waiting all morning, as soon as Terezi had been guided to the door, she shoved it open with her hip and stormed inside, Sollux right behind her. The noise from the students quieted only slightly as the teacher pulled himself from his padded chair in the corner and waddled over to the front of the classroom.
"Class, quiet," nobody paid the rotund, balding man any attention. "Quiet!" he said, just a bit louder. Again, no affect. "I said quiet, you noisy little good-for-nothing wastes-of-space!" much louder, and most of the class paused to look at the front of the room.
"That's better," the middle-aged man grumbled, surveying the group with squinted eyes. "These are our new students," he looked to Terezi and Sollux. "Care to introduce yourself?"
"Hey, why do they get to wear hats indoors, Mr. Brown?" one student shouted, obviously annoyed. A baseball cap hung through the belt loop on his sagging, faded blue jeans.
"Good question... Why do you-," the teacher stopped mid-sentence, suddenly remembering that email he had just read. "Oh. Nevermind. They have special permission," he now seemed much more alert as Sollux stared at him, sharp teeth hanging over his lips. Sweat dripped down his double chins as he stared back.
"What about those dumb glasses?" the kid kept asking questions, seemingly determined to get the two new students into trouble. Terezi bared her teeth.
"I'm blind, you INSENSITIVE DOUCHEBAG," she cried in her best "poor little disabled girl" voice. She would have loved to fake cry, but teal tears might seem just a bit odd. The boy fell silent.
"What about him, is he blind, too?" another boy seemed convinced that it was his job to continue the teasing. The teacher didn't interfere, just kept his eyes on both of the Trolls.
"Rare... Eye condition," Sollux mumbled, trying his best to hide his obvious lisp.
"What's it called?"
"Heterochromia?" Sollux took a wild guess that most of these kids were too stupid to know that heterochromia was just having different eye colors. He pushed his red and blue lenses further up on his nose as no one questioned him.
"Could you two please hurry and introduce yourselves so we can get on with class?" the teacher asked quietly.
"I'm Terezi Pyrope," Terezi obliged in a dull tone.
"I'm Sollux Captor," Sollux said in an equally flat voice.
"Wonderful. Please go ahead and take the empty desks in the back of the room." Sollux lead Terezi to the desks by her wrist and they both dropped into hard chairs. They could both feel the twenty-eight other pairs of eyes in the room turn to stare at them.
At the front of the room, the door opened again. Everyone turned to this new distraction. A blonde boy wearing dark sunglasses walked in holding a slip of paper, which he promptly dropped onto the teacher's desk.
"David, please find your seat," the man behind the desk said without looking up from his computer. A few girls giggled as he passed through the aisle, watching his black jeans closely before they disappeared into the chair next to Terezi.
"So, Dave, what'd you get in trouble for this time?" it was the irritating boy that had first questioned the hats and glasses that the new students wore. He leaned over the back if his chair to look at the blonde.
"Somebody called John gay again. I mean, he's obviously a flaming homosexual, but only I'm allowed to say it," he smiled without opening his mouth and leaned back in his chair. Homosexual? Terezi had never heard the word, but dared not ask. Something about this Dave seemed oddly familiar, though.
"Hey, weren't you the dragon chick from the office?" That was it.
"Yep," Terezi nodded and plunged her hands into her red pockets. She could smell something red on Dave, too. She liked it.
"Cool. Where'd you get that thing?"
"It's old. I can't remember," she replied simply. She kind of doubted that mentioning it came from her home planet would be wise.
"Too bad..." Dave looked away from her as the teacher flicked on the projector. Terezi drowned out his lesson easily, there were plenty of more interesting things in the classroom, like the whispers being passed.
Those new kids are a bunch of weirdos, aren't they?
I bet that 3-D prick is a total loser.
Why do they have special permission to wear hats? Are they hiding something?
Terezi drowned them out, too. Gog, humans were mindless idiots.
Welp, maybe I'll get a few new reviews? Please? Pretty please?