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Eurydice and the Snake

(mini-fics under 500 words for the CoAi Discord server)

by FS

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I. Eurydice and the Snake

(Dedicated to Muphrid, because we've talked about Cyrano so often. Also, thanks for watching me jump into the abysses of Destiny 2 with angelic patience, only asking, Why don't you take the stairs?…)

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School plays, like the students who write and perform them, only grow weirder and crazier with every passing year. She blames it on teenage hormones; he blames it on social media. It doesn't matter what has caused this, but there ought to be a limit? Still, even if there must be boundaries to human foolishness, their theatre-obsessed classmates haven't discovered it yet.

The year before last year their class performed Romeo and Juliet, a parody of Shakespeare's play. She was Romeo and Ayumi-chan Juliet. As ridiculous as her Romeo costume was (she can't sew to save her life), stabbing Kudo-kun, who played Tybalt, with a silver-painted wooden stick was fun!

Last year—emboldened by the unanticipated success of the previous year—they tackled an abridged Japanese version of Cyrano de Bergerac. Ayumi-chan was Roxanne and she was Christian, Roxanne's witless but handsome beau. Cyrano, the main role, had gone to Kudo-kun out of all people. He clumsily poked Cyrano's giant cardboard nose into her ear as they were loitering under the tiny balcony, whispering heartfelt love declarations to Ayumi-chan, who was languishing above. Since this nose-in-ear incident happened just when "Christian" was supposed to cry out that "he" desired a kiss and Ai's cry couldn't mask her shock and anguish, the audience shook with laughter.

This year it's Orpheus and Eurydice, again an abridged version. She is Eurydice, Orpheus' hapless bride, who will be bitten by a poisonous snake on her wedding day. Tsuburaya-kun has valiantly fought for (and conquered) the role of Orpheus in the hope of receiving a kiss. She doesn't know whether there will be a kiss in the play yet, she tells Kudo-kun. Maybe she should be generous and give Tsuburaya-kun a fond memory to dwell upon?

"Don't even think about it!" he warns her as he is writhing on the floor in his green serpent costume. "Mitsuhiko is serious about you! It's not just a crush for him."

"So what do I get for not kissing him?"

"A kiss from me," he offers, and bites her on her toe tip.

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A/N: I really didn't want to write ficlets under 500 words (even 1000 words aren't enough for me)… but then this happened since I can't stand seeing incomplete tags. The only two remaining prompts on the CoAi server were tiptoes (adoration) and belly (going back). It's not hard to guess which prompt this drabble was for. XD