Hiya, everyone! Kosmic Kitty here! I've got a bit of Writer's Block on my story Forgotten, so I'm writing this for fun!
So, what's Park Bench? Park Bench is a game we play in Drama where you put three chairs together to form a makeshift bench. Somebody sits on one of the chairs. Another person then comes along and sits with them. The aim of the game is to try and get the other person to leave the bench, doing whatever they can to put the other person off.
Let's try an example. Girl A sits on the chair on the far left. Girl B comes along and sits on the chair on the far right. Girl B acts as a miserable person, and pretends to cry. When Girl A scoots up a chair and tries to comfort her, Girl B mutters what she did wrong. Apparently, she killed her friend's cat and hung it on the roof, and then her friend slapped her. Girl A, now freaked out, moves slowly along the bench. At the end of the bench, she backs away before finally running off.
So, Girl B scared off Girl A. There are other ways to get them to leave, but let's not go into that now.
The person left stays on, and then someone else comes. So in the example, Girl B would stay and Girl C would come and sit on the bench.
The point of this fanfic? To have fun with the cast of DNAngel, of course! Wouldn't it be funny if they played this game instead…?
I'm going to use a proper bench from the park. They'll get it in somehow. To make it more fun, Dark and Krad will be split from Daisuke and Satoshi.
In the actual game, there is no violence and no swearing, because a teacher watches us. So there's a teacher in this story too, just not a very good one! (laugh)
At the bottom, you can vote who to come on next! It can be anyone from DNAngel!
Rules of the fanfic:
1. There will be no yaoi in this fic. I just couldn't write that sort of thing, so I'm sorry to those who wanted that.
2. You must choose a character from DNAngel only. No crossovers! And no choosing characters like 'the girl with blonde hair from Episode 5' or 'the pigeon from Episode 2', because that's just stupid.
They are my only rules! Everything else goes, I think. I apologize in advance for any OOCness.
Disclaimer: I own nothing in the fic except for Miss Kay and the bench. Aren't I lucky. No, I don't own the game Park Bench. So don't ask.
So anyway, have fun!
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Round 1
"Alright people!" Miss Kay, the Drama teacher, shouted. "Time for a game! Let's play Park Bench!"
The class were seated on chairs at one end of the classroom. There was a loud groan and a few complaints from most of kids, except for Satoshi, who stayed silent, and Risa. "Yeah! My favourite!" she cheered.
"Oh… boring," Riku said.
Daisuke put a hand on her shoulder. "Come on, Riku, it'll be fun!"
Behind him, Satoshi muttered sarcastically, "Yeah. Fun."
"Now, now, kids. Park Bench is great," Miss Kay insisted. "You just need to get in the mood." She clapped her hands. "Bring in the bench!"
Some boys trudged away miserably and returned a minute later with a proper bench. They set in down so that it was facing everyone.
"Now," smiled Miss Kay, standing in front of them. "Who wants to go first?"
A hand shot up. "Ooh! Pick me! Pick me, Miss Kay!" Risa cried desperately, jumping up and down in her seat.
"Ok. You go, Risa," Miss Kay told her.
"Yay!" Risa sat down in the middle of the bench.
Miss Kay turned back to the class. "Who wants to go with her?"
Not a single hand went up.
"Someone has to go," Miss Kay warned.
Still nobody volunteered.
"No-one wants to go with me?" Risa said sadly, tears forming in her eyes as if she was about to cry.
Riku rolled her eyes and muttered darkly, "Crybaby."
"I will pick someone myself if nobody goes," said Miss Kay, getting impatient.
"Uh… I'll go with you, Risa…" said Daisuke slowly.
Riku gasped. "Daisuke, no!"
"Thank-you, Daisuke," Miss Kay said in relief.
As Daisuke walked to Miss Kay, someone slipped beside Riku. "Don't worry," said a sly voice. "I'll sit with you."
Riku turned to see Dark's smirking face. "Daisuke! Help!" she cried as Dark put an arm around her shoulders. "MISS KAY!"
"Too late," Miss Kay told her cruelly. "He's been chosen. Go, Daisuke."
Daisuke walked up to the bench and sat down next to Risa. He swallowed and said, "Um… hi…"
"Why hello, kind sir," said Risa dramatically, now acting. She crossed one leg over the other and fluttered her eyelashes.
The class stared blankly and sweatdropped.
"Er… H-How are you?" asked Daisuke.
"Why I'm absolutely wonderful," said Risa. "Peachy perfect! And you?"
"F-fine thank-you…"
"Marvellous," Risa smiled. "Don't you think the weather is lovely? The birds are singing, the sun is shining, and the flowers smell heavenly. The sea is sparkling and I just went for a walk. Do you know how that feels? It's tingly. Yes, tingly."
The class continued to stare blankly.
Daisuke shifted away from her so that he sat at the edge of the bench. "Um… er…"
"Daisuke! You're supposed to be the one who gets Risa to go, not the other way around!" Miss Kay shouted. "Now ACT!"
"Sorry Miss Kay," Daisuke apologized quickly, blushing. "Yes, Miss Kay."
"So anyway, I went onto the beach and picked some shells," Risa told him. "Did you know that when you hold it to your ear you're supposed to hear the sea?
"Er…"
"I tried, but of course it didn't work because I was standing right next to the water. You have to be far away, I think. Don't you think so, sir?"
"…" Daisuke couldn't reply.
"Well, I went to the rock pools and looked for some fish. Did you know that fish are hardly ever seen in rock pools? Well I didn't, so I looked and looked but all I could see were crabs and seaweed," Risa chatted away happily.
"…" Again, Daisuke couldn't reply. Miss Kay shook her head slowly in a little disappointment and sighed.
Meanwhile, in the audience, Dark whispered to Riku, "Your sister is a motor-mouth."
"Well so are you," Riku whispered back. "And get your arm off me." Dark did nothing of the kind.
Risa was still going on about the beach. "I then got bored, and went on to the cliff. The wind was blowing, and it blew my hat right off my head. It was such a pretty hat, too." She clasped her hands in her lap. "I chased it, but it blew out to sea. At the edge of the cliff I watched it go, and I started to cry." To everyone's surprise, Risa really did cry, and leant her head on Daisuke's shoulder. She seemed to be remembering an old memory.
"…Um… I… er…" Daisuke was blushing, and couldn't form any words.
Miss Kay wiped a tear from her eye. "That's so sad, Risa. I feel sorry for you."
Even Dark thought it was true. "Poor Risa."
That was until he heard Satoshi's icy voice in his ear. "Moron."
"Riku," he whispered to the girl beside him. "Did that really happen?"
"No." Riku replied flatly, without turning around. She smiled. "She's making it all up."
"Oh…"
On the bench, Risa sniffed. "I never saw my lovely hat again."
Daisuke's face was still red. "Um…"
Suddenly, Risa sat up. "Is that all you're going to say?" she snapped. "'UM'? Well I've had enough! You're supposed to show sympathy for a lady!" She stood up. "I'm going home!" And with that, she stomped off.
Daisuke, Miss Kay and the whole audience sweatdropped. "Well… done… Daisuke… you won…" Miss Kay said as Risa sat down where she had sat before.
Daisuke looked a little sad, and was still flushed. "Yeah…"
"Don't listen to her, Daisuke!" Riku shouted out. "You're not really insensitive!"
Risa finally realised that she had hurt Daisuke's feelings. "Oh Daisuke! I was only acting! Please forgive meeeeee!" She fell off her chair and to the floor in dramatic sobs.
"So…" Miss Kay said cheerfully as she and everyone else sweatdropped again. "Who's next…?"
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