Chapter 10

The day ticked by slowly, hours blurring together to become a sickly mess. I was bored, utterly and completely bored. I had finished my book, doodled for hours, and even found myself writing simple stories and poems, I had nothing left to do, nothing at all. With a sigh I began drumming my fingers on my knee watching the clock count down the last half hour of this horrible school day, only two more to go whilst in suspension, then after those few days only two more weeks before summer vacation.

What was I going to do then? I'd made no plans and I had no one to spend the summer with! I knew that Jade was planning on going with her family and Dave to her summer home on an island, and Kanaya was going away to fashion design summer camp for half the time, only Karkat would be left and he was probably going to hanging out with his crazy friend Gamzee! I was going to completely alone for the summer.

Suddenly there was something for me to concentrate on; there was a knock on the door. A soft tapping really, but still there, and in walked Nepeta Leijon, the small girl gave a little, curious smile to us in the class then turned to the teacher with wide, pleading eyes.

"Miss…. I got kicked out of class for chasing a moth, and well… I was sent here." She blushed as she said what she was here for, and hung her head in shame. The poor girl never got in trouble; this must have been a shock to her.

"Oh, dear… you shouldn't chase moths, but here, you can sit next to Eridan. I'm not going to make you stay silent; these boys just had a little fight so they fell silent earlier." Nepeta nodded and turned to take her seat, then as though as a sudden though she turned and spoke.

"Yeah, they do that at times!" She giggled and sank into her seat with a plop, she looked around the room with what almost looked like an awed look, I didn't understand this girl but the way she acted was adorable to no end. She had cat like tendencies and tended to dress in cute clothes.

Nepata was the youngest in our class ad acted like it. She had a high pitched voice that was somehow musical, and was tiny to go with it. She looked as though she could have been twelve when in truth she had just turned fifteen. The girl was a role player, loved anime, and was known for randomly muttering "I ship it", so all in all she was strange. And though she was strange she was beautiful, smart, and kind to everyone.

"Hello Eridan!" Her voice was cheerful even if she had been kicked out of class and her eyes, a beautiful light olive that seemed to look deep within you, were locked on my violet ones. I dropped my gaze, finding myself blushing a light red.

"Hello Nepeta, how-w are you?" she giggled at my stutter then smiled again at me seeming happy to no end, it was cute.

"I'm well, and mew?" There it was, the cat puns… Nepeta was known for those, she used them in speaking with all the kids in school. I had no idea if she did so outside of school as well, Karkat and Nepeta's large friend Equius would probably be the only ones who knew. No scratch that, she had a role play group that probably knew.

"I'm well, er… how has your role play been goin?" I seemed to have struck up a good topic seeing as she instantly started going off about story line and characters, and it sounded as though the five role players of the class were going to have a party sometime soon in character. Kanaya was apparently going to make them costumes; it actually was pretty interesting to hear about.

The school didn't have a role play club but I'm pretty sure they should have had one. There were five serious role players in our class alone and in other classes I knew there were others. The one's I knew however were always ready to start acting like their characters at the drop of a pin. And to top it all, they were brutal to those who got in the way of their fun.

The one who seemed like the leader to the group was the class bitch, Vriska. She was a manipulative girl who was strong minded and very opinioned. She was known for her love of spiders and the way she went through boys like she went through clothes. Another in the group was the timid Tavros; he was a crippled boy with dreams of flying. He loved anything to do with Peter Pan and was known for the way he'd willingly hang out with Gamzee and the way he needed help up each set of stairs.

Now the crazy girls in the role play group, the most crazy being Terezi who came off as psychotic a lot of the time. She was blind and crazy to no end; she would interrupt class to explain that her stuffed toy was guilty and that we should all watch out that or it would kill us in our sleep. The other nut job was a girl named Aradia who always seemed to smile and claimed she could talk to the dead, I had no idea whether or not these girls were alright in their minds.

"So, what have mew been doing these days…?" My thoughts were broken into by Nepeta finishing her rant and asking me a question, she smiled, waiting for my answer.

"Well, I haven't been doin much, simply exiting at the moment, though I did hang out with Jade yesterday." She nodded knowingly and took my hand lightly smiling sadly.

"I heard, and I'm so sorry about what Feferi did…." she looked up at me and I could have sworn in that moment I found myself forgetting Fef, I almost felt as though I had a crush on this sweet cat girl. Could it be I did…?