Lunch is over, Yoh-kun and I plod to our last period, English. I personally like English as a subject, discussing novels and all sorts, but Yoh-kun seems to see it as a time to day dream, instead of contributing to discussions. Well, that's so Yoh-kun it's kinda neat. We've been studying A Midsummer Night's Dream, which I think is really complicated with all the love triangles and fairies and mechanics…Yoh-kun would probably dose off in class again…

So I thought, but as soon as we enter the classroom and he sees Ren-kun sitting down with the others, his smile lightens up, perks up to start a friendly conversation. I smile and nod. This is Yoh-kun. Even though he's competing with Hao to see who can get Ren-kun first, Yoh-kun would never be as…um, direct as Hao. That's the most flattering way I can put it.

"Yoh, where had you been the whole lunch?" Ren-kun asks in a mildly irritated voice.
"Ahh, I had clean up duty with Anna…" Yoh-kun's face is a bit tight…he bites his lips, and smiles wearily.
"Because you weren't around Ren would pick on me endlessly…" Horohoro grumbled. Ren-kun snorts, and turns away from Yoh-kun and stabs Horohoro mercilessly with a pacer. I wince for Horohoro.
"I needed to talk to Yoh…and you were the one who was annoying me endlessly…all you can talk about it how you don't have a girlfriend…" Ren-kun looks down on the Horohoro who's rolling around on the floor in pain, clutching at his spleen.
"Ren, what did you need to talk about?" Yoh-kun turns his attention to Ren. He doesn't seem to worry about Horohoro too much…
"It doesn't matter now…" Ren-kun mumbles as Yoh-kun plonks himself beside Ren-kun. I take my place beside Yoh-kun on the otherside.

Amid the normal hustle and bustle of after lunch one person walks into the classroom and suddenly all is deadly silent. My eyes boggle for a second to see that Hao actually turned up to class. Uncomfortable silence, and all eyes at Hao.

"What?" Hao has a small smirk tugging at the corner of his lips, as observes around the classroom. Everyone slowly starts to turn away and return to their individual conversations, just quieter.
"Jesus, you'd have thought that hell froze over or something." Hao strides over to us. I can see Horohoro tense slightly, Lyserg-kun looks as if he's ready to bite Hao's knees, and Yoh-kun's facial expression becomes a tad sharper.
"Hi Ren." Hao smiles gently at Ren-kun. I can feel my face collapse without me able to do anything about it. Yoh-kun has a similarly disgusted face. Like I said before, Hao can be tactless.
"What are you doing here?" Ren-kun asks, seemingly oblivious that Hao's talking to him alone. "You never turn up to class. What are you plotting?"
"Do I have to always be plotting something? No, I just rocked up to see if anything interesting's happening. If there doesn't seem to be much, I'll leave."
"You're always to self centered." Ren-kun snorts and averts his eyes from Hao.

"Oi, we're starting." Mr Silva (Anon Pierrot: ahahahahah, it's so WRONG calling him that…) walks in rather nonchalantly. The classroom subdues slightly, and most people turn their attention to the tall man. "As you all know we've been studying A Midsummer Night's Dream (Although for those of you who are barely here, in mentally or physically might not), the other teachers and I discussed, and thought it would be interesting for you guys to act out certain extracts." A strange mix of groaning and excitement filled the classroom. I sit there, slightly uncomfortable. I'm not really a performer…hopefully I'll get a small part…

"Sensei," Yoh-kun puts his hand up. "What exactly is A Midsummer Night's Dream about again?"
"Yoh, what have you been doing in class?" Mr Silva laughs, exasperated.
"Yoh, even I know the general gist of the story…" Hao snorts in obvious repulse. "There are three parties we observe: the faeries, the mechanics and the lovers from Athens. It starts with the lovers, Hermia's engaged to Demetrius, who's loved by Helena her friend, but Hermia's in love with Lysander, and Lysander loves Hermia back, but she needs to get married to Demetrius, and if she doesn't her father threatens her that he'll have her executed. Lysander and Hermia elope, and end up in a forest inhabited by faeries, and they get involved in a power struggle between Titania the queen of faeries and Oberon, the king of faeries, and Oberon's sidekick Puck, under Oberon's command tries to make Demetrius fall in love with Helena, but then he accidentally makes Lysander fall in love with Helena, and then Puck makes Demetrius fall in love with Helena, and then Hermia thinks Helena has stolen Lysander from her, then the mechanics…" Hao rattles of the events of the story in one breath, as I sit there awed.
"So," Yoh-kun interrupts his twin. "Basically it's a love comedy."
"Yeah." Hao nods.
"Hao, how do you know all that when you haven't been here for, like, the whole term?" Horohoro gawks. Hao smiles knowingly and taps the side of his nose.
"I have my ways."

"So what I was saying before," Mr Silva starts again. "that we'll randomly divide you into small groups and make you perform a small portion of the play. Not many lines, it'll probably only go for a couple of minutes. And as the groups are chosen randomly, the parts will be pulled out of a hat. Even if you end up playing a part of the opposite gender, there's nothing that I can do."
"Oh what?" Horohoro squawks. I sit there dumbly. I don't think anyone would really want to see me as Titania…I nearly gag at the thought of seeing someone like Peyote playing a love sick maiden. Ew. Bad mental images.

"Ok, I'm pulling names out to assign groups!"
"This has got to be the most careless way to organize groups…" Lyserg complains under his breath.
"Ok, group one…" This goes on for about ten minutes.

I've somehow ended up in a group with Lyserg, Matilda, and god forbid, Marion. I sit there shuddering. I wonder how Yoh-kun and co are going…

"Alright… Yoh…Anna…" I see Yoh-kun start to cry a river of sorrow and fear. I sympathize.
"… Ren…" Now I see Yoh-kun cry a river of happiness. This could get weird..
"…and Hao." I see Yoh-kun…hmmm… this is really…weird. And bad. Very bad. Hao waves Ren-kun innocently, accompanied by the friendliest smile ever. The wolf in sheep skin. Yep.

"Got all the groups? Good good… now we'll randomly give parts out." Mr Silva says, and again calls people up to pull names randomly from a hat.
"Yoh…Yoh-kun…" I totter over to Yoh-kun. "I…I'm in a group with Marion…" I cry out of fear. I may or may not have snot running. Yoh-kun smiles, and pats me on the head.
"You'll be ok…don't let her scare you too much, na…?" I nod.
"Yeah, you're group's… interesting…" I say, wiping my suspiciously runny nose. "I guess we both have our fears and agendas…"
"Ahhh…" Yoh-kun nods mildly, scratching his head.

"Yoh, your group, draw names." Mr Silva calls for Yoh-kun. "Since you've got a group of four, I guess you guy's will perform an extract with the four lovers in it."
"I see…" Yoh-kun swallows. I sit there and ponder. Yoh-kun and Hao as lovers…ew….very VERY bad…I stop that train of thought immediately.
"Wait, but there's three of us who are male…!" Ren-kun confronts Mr Silva. He just looks back at Ren-kun, levelly.
"I said before, too bad if you end up with a part of the opposite gender. No big deal." Ren-kun scowls.
"Right, let's see…" Yoh-kun digs his hand into to the container containing the character's names. "…Lysander?"
"Move, Yoh." Anna graciously approaches the container, and pulls out a piece of paper with the name HERMIA printed on it.
"Luck boy, you two are a pair." Hao smirks at Yoh. Yoh-kun looks slightly uptight. "Come on Ren, draw." Ren-kun obeys with out much resistance. As soon as he sees the name printed on the piece of paper, the aura around him gets considerably dark.
"Helena? WHAT!?"
"That leaves me with Demetrius." Hao looks at the last piece of paper from the container.
"I AM NOT PLAYING SOME LOVE SICK WOMAN!" Ren-kun fiercly retaliates. Hao smiles playfuls and wraps his arms around Ren-kun's waist. Did I mention that Hao can be tactless?
"Come on, it can't be that bad? We end up as a couple."
"NOT THAT BAD? The humiliation of acting as a woman…" Ren-kun never finished his sentence as Anna-san smacks Ren-kin across the face. Because Hao had him in a bear hug, it's the only reason he didn't go flying.
"Are you insulting our gender?" Anna-san asks in a deathly voice. Ren-kun rubs his face in disbelief.
"Now Anna, no need to be so violent…" Hao smirks at Anna, then turns his attention to the little Ren-kun. "Are you alright?" Hao tenderly brushes his hand across Ren-kun's red cheek. Maybe it's just me, but Ren-kun looks suspiciously red. Maybe it's the slap.
"So…" Yoh-kun breaks in between the two somehow. "Hermia and Lysander…that's Anna and me, are a couple…and in the end Helena and Demetrius… Ren and you…end up as a couple?"
"That's the gist." Hao smiles somewhat provocatively, yet triumphantly.
"I see…"

"But there's a bit where Lysander falls in love with Helena because of the faerie magic…" I prod in.
"Really?"
"Hang on, what's going on?" Anna-san asks, irritably, arms crossed over her chest.
"We're trying to figure out what scene we should act out." Yoh-kun turns to Anna-san, wide eyed and innocent looking. She obviously doesn't buy it, and punches him in the arm.
"You guys looking for the bit with the major love confusion?" Mr Silva overheard our previous discussion, and joins in.
"I guess we are…" Yoh-kun replies, but I don't think he really heard what Mr Silva said. The pain in his arm must be excruciating.
"There's a segment in act 3 scene 2 where Lysander and Demetrius both woo Helena, and Hermai walks in and has a cat fight with Helena…" I wonder if Mr Silva knows something, and is working with it…
"Sounds good to me." Surprisingly, Anna-san speaks up and agrees to take the scene. If she says yes, then it's yes. No space for the others to disagree.

"Excellent. Then you can start rehearsing immediately." Mr. Silva appears satisfied. Maybe, maybe it is just me, but I think he's smiling, knowingly. I think I'm deep reading too much…
"So it is then." Hao raises an eyebrow and looks at Yoh-kun, then swiftly places himself beside Ren-kun. Things could get ugly here…

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Apologies apologies for the delay in the update… I'm really sorry, I'd been trying really hard to get an update done asap, but it just didn't happen…I think other writers will understand when I say there's the right moods and what not…I just wasn't in the right mood recently, so I couldn't write decently. I've had a couple of other ideas and drafts before this one, but they just didn't sit well so I got rid of them. :P For anyone who doesn't know A Midsummer Night's Dream, this chapter and the next two could be a bit confusing, but undertandable nonetheless. Hao's confusing synopsis is just about the way to go really… it's confusing for me to explain it…I suggest renting out the movie one day. No, I'm serious. I know it's Shakespeare, and I am no fan of Shakespeare myself (damn Macbeth…) , but this one is quite good… yeah, the one with Calista Flockhart, Rupert Everett… uuum… I'm sure there were other people in it, I can't remember. o_0;

Ages ago I had to perform an extract out of Midsummer as part of English… my mentality's more like Manta's in that I wanted a small part…but I ended up being friggin' Oberon. o_0; So yes, for those of you who are unfamiliar with Midsummers may find it confusing, but those of you who know it will find it somewhat amusing. You just need to know that Ren, Yoh, Hao and Anna act out a scene where Hao and Yoh fight over Ren, and Anna bitch fights with Ren accusing him of stealing Yoh. Interesting, no? ^-^ Hopefully. So why did I choose Midsummer? Well, I couldn't think of any other play that involved two guys fighting over a girl, and the SK dudes acting Shakespeare is just wrong. XD