[Mid-day with the dancestors]
"Wait wait, remember in Middle School when they used to have those stupid Frisbee games and you nailed the teacher right in the face? That was the highlight of the year!" Meenah laughs, pointing at Rufioh.
"Yeah yeah! I swear I didn't mean to! I mean, he only docked off a few points from my total grade anyway," the man chuckles in response.
"But he had the bruise for almost two weeks: he was so angry!"
"In our class, we stopped playing during the tournament , and there was only two Frisbees left on the ground and all of us stopped throwing them and just started talking in the middle of the gym, and the teachers couldn't do anything," Aranea smiles, leaning back onto Meenah's shoulder.
"At least we didn't have to do the swimming quarter, thanks to you Meenah," Meulin signs, letting Kurloz put her hair up in a ponytail.
"It almost cost me my eighth grade year, but hell it was well worth it," the women grins, showing off her pointy teeth.
"The look on his face was almost as priceless as the one on our Core plus teachers' when she walked into the classroom on April Fools day," Damara cuts in, tapping an unlit cigarette against the armrest of her chair.
"Nothing can ever beat that look I'm afraid," Cronus agrees,
"Didn't you guys cover her entire classroom and office full of posters or something?" Mituna asks, having not been there for the event. Latula nods, resting her arms over Mituna's shoulders.
"Yep, It was the best, and she kept them there the whole day, ,although we did get yelled at, I think it was well worth it," Latula answers.
"She was a pretty good teacher, but our language teacher was better, once she found a love letter on the ground and told us it was a disgusting thing to do, and exactly why-" Cronus gets cut off by Meenah.
"-Ah yeah! She told us about one of her friends who was crushing on a teacher when they were in school, or something..."
"Damn, I wish I could've gone on that European trip, but sadly I was too poor," Meenah sighs, brushing one of her braids over her shoulder.
"Meaning, you were too lazy to get a job," Aranea clarifies, earning a snorted laugh.
"Nah, it was more like I couldn't drive myself."
They fall silent for a few moments, looking over at the teens chatting near the back of their group, Roxy laughing about something, Sollux interrupting with a confused expression, Karkat trying to explain to him.
"I feel so old," Meenah grumbles, turning back around to the others, they just laugh quietly, feeling the same way. A familiar dark red truck drives up, and they smile as Dirk hops out with Jake, Dave and John right behind him. Out of another vehicle Rose and Jade jump out, Jane joining them as well.
"Wow, all of you guys made it, I'm shocked," Rufioh says plainly, before grinning and walking over to greet them. The others follow close behind, and for a brief moment Meenah looks over to see how confused the teens looked before tackle hugging the guys from behind.
After standing and brushing himself off, Dirk smirks at them, "We're only able to because school was let off early, something about there being no school tomorrow for testing or some bullshit, I didn't really listen for details."
"Well, we were just reminiscing about middle school PE, have anything to add," Cronus grins, talking after they had returned to their now larger seated circle.
"Oh God, PE," Dave groans, "Some classes are fun to teach, others just," He does a small, exaggerated shudder before smirking again.
"I almost forgot that was what you taught to be honest," Jake laughs, punching the younger man in the shoulder.
"You teach the same school though!" John breaks in, looking at the English teacher with an expression of disbelief before Jake laughs.
"Terrible isn't it, I'm just so horribly forgetful aren't I?"
"I think that's a claim we can all make though," Latula interjects, tapping the side of her head and almost knocking off her red-rimmed glasses in the process. That earns a laugh from everyone as well.
"Has anyone seen Meenah or Cronus?" Aranea asks once it begins nearing four o'clock, realizing that the two of them had slipped away without anyone noticing. As if on cue, Meenah walks up behind Aranea and hugs her close, cackling with a rather mischievous look in her eyes. Cronus does the same to Kankri, the others looking at the two swimmers in curiosity. Meenah has changed into her black shirt with slits down the sides, also ditching her shoes. Cronus has rolled up his jeans and is wearing his white shirt covered in purple paint splatters, also barefoot.
"Hey there sweet cheeks," Meenah cackles, without any warning shoving a water balloon onto the Aranea's back, earning a high pitch gasp. Almost simultaneously Kankri shouts in shocked confusion when Cronus copies the movement. Before the two do anything else though Meenah skips away, getting up onto the table and earning the attention of everyone standing there.
The elders of the groups notice out of the corners of their eyes when Kankri takes off the black jacket he had been wearing to reveal the bright red t-shirt he has on underneath it, kicking his shoes off with a defiant smirk on his face. Aranea seems similarly peeved as she ties her hair up in a quick ponytail as Meenah continues talking.
Meenah watches as some of them look confused and others, like Karkat, begin looking around. She sets her and on her hip, reaching for the water gun she had tucked into the waistband of her shorts. Preparing for the reactions, she leaps off the table and begins shooting the water gun at anyone in her way, and she can see Cronus doing the same as others scatter.
The Dancestors wage war amongst themselves, and soon enough they split off into sides, as war-parties are known to do. It's almost comical the way that unknowing onlookers begin watching them.
The afternoon begins to darken into evening as they all slowly began to dry off from their afternoon of water balloon and water gun fights. Once again they sat around in a group, now eating, and they began talking again about various happenings.
"Anyone theen my brother?" Mituna asks when the sky has darkened completely, stars appearing amidst the black backdrop.
"Seems as if Karkat has vanished as well," Kankri interjects, a smile on the verge of looking sly on his face.
"Well, we might as well look for 'em," Meenah says with a large grin, the most knowing of looks on her face. She stands, along with Kankri and Mituna, but the others just look at them with small grins.
"We'll just let you guys wander off, just don't get lost," Rufioh says, speaking for all of them. Roxy skips out from where she had been sitting at the edge of the group.
"Get pictures if it's anythin' good," She whispers with a small giggle before returning back to the conversation with Gamzee and Tavros. Meenah chuckles at this and nods in her direction before grabbing Mituna's and Kankri's wrists.
"I saw 'em go this way, I just didn't say anythin' cause you never know what might happen ya' know," She drags them off toward where Mituna's truck is parked, and her assumption is right when the three of them see the two of their feet just barely on the tailgate of the truck, Sollux obvious enough by his somehow mis-matched shoes.
"Hah, told you," Meenah whispers under her breath victoriously, smirking as she gets out her phone and walks over to the two teens asleep in the truck bed.
"Meenah!" Kankri whisper-yells, only slightly warning her, but before the girl can begin to argue he gets out his phone and says in a hushed tone, "Just don't wake them."