(Authors Note at the end of chapter)
I attempt to take a seat at a table that isn't occupied by morons, but Ms. Harley has to intervene.
"Hey Karcrab! You're gonna sit over there with Gamzee," She says with her signature grin. I grumble and slouch my way over to the table, reluctantly sitting on the stool. At least these are closer to the ground, so my legs won't dangle.
"Karbro! You me and Tavbro are sitting together!" Gamzee yells happily, pulling me into a hug. I wince, seems like my arm isn't going to heal very quickly. He doesn't seem to notice as he turns to Tavros and begins to say some stuff about "mIrAcUlOuS mIrAcLeS".
Roxy is sitting across from me, avidly chewing on a pencil and staring off into space, smiling slightly. I don't even bother greeting her, she always acts like she's drunk. Although to be honest I think it's just the way she acts when she thinking about too many other things.
The six-person tables were quickly being filled by students as they flooded into the classroom. I almost didn't notice when Sollux stumbled in, I only found out when Ms. Harley squealed, yes the 20-something year old SQUEALS like a little fangirl, and practically skips over to him. His expression is absolutely priceless as it morphs from confusion to fear.
"You must be the new student! Sollux right? Well, you can just take a seat next to Roxy, that girl over there, across from the three guys!" She says in a very bubbly tone of voice, bouncing on the balls of her feet. I smile a little when I see the women's head barely reaches his shoulders. He warily tiptoes around her and makes his way over to the table. My scowl returns slightly when he looks over at me.
Roxy looks up as he perches on the seat next to her, but she merely nods dreamily and returns to staring.
"Hi KK," He says to me, barely glancing up from the table.
"Hi asshole, nice to see you again," I reply curtly, crossing my arms and leaning back as much as I could without falling off. Sollux now seems to get defensive, cause his face becomes emotionless. Almost reminding me of our asshole gym teacher. Of course, his shades only partially block his eyes.
"You're so crabby, what's your deal?" He snaps back, crossing his arms as well. One of his eyebrows raise inquisitively, the sight strange behind the bi-colored shades.
"Oh Karbro's always motherfuckin' like that...uh, what's your name?" Gamzee asks, releasing Tavros to lean over the table to look at Sollux's face.
"Th'ollux," He lisps, then grimaces at himself.
"Sollux?"
"Yeah."
"Interestin' name Solbro, almost as weird as ours," Gamzee chuckles, closing his eyes as he leans back in his chair.
"Hm, they are pretty weird, what were our parents thinking?" Tavros agrees, shaking his head and smiling. I groans and slam my forehead against the table with a loud thunk. When I raise my head again, everyone bursts into laughter at my now spiked up hair. I allow my bangs to flop over my eyes, still scowling.
"Ni'the job KK, you're th'uch a geniou'th," Sollux guffaws, then reaches over the table and ruffles the my hair, causing it to spike up even more. I respond tothe action by shoving his hand away and furiously patting down my black locks.
"Stop calling me KK dickhole! That's not my name!" I yell, trying to flatten the spikes but instead making it worse.
"Really, who else has two K's in their name?" Sollux continues to chuckle.
"Hey boys, settle down!" Ms. Harley yells good-naturally from the other side of the room, drawing everyone's attention over to our table. Of course, the silence doesn't last long because final bell rings, they had begun to worry the bells had been turned off because it'd been so long since the warning bell had chimed.
"Ok! Let's get started with class!" Ms. Harley cheers, quickly moving to the front of the room.
"For those of you who don't know, I'm Ms. Harley, or Jade if you'd prefer, and this is Arts class!" She extenuates her enthusiasm by waving her arms around and beaming.
"In Arts class we are not only going to be dealing with Arts and crafts, but also with things like music! And other forms of art!"
That explains the various musical instruments splayed along the walls of the room...as well as the mixed art supplies, I think, setting my chin on my hand once more and glaring at the front of the room.
"But don't worry, I won't burden you with boring research reports, or at least I don't think things are boring," She giggles.
"So we'll definitely have projects?" Someone asks, causing laughter to run across the room.
"Yes! In fact I've got a project planned already!" Now it's groans that run across the room. I laugh lowly, these people are such babies, they need to learn to deal with things. My thoughts begin to turn dark again and I have to shake my head roughly to clear it.
"Oh calm down you babies, I'll only be giving you the instructions today, it's not due for almost a month," she scolds, propping her hands on her hips. I smile a little, one of the reasons Harley is one of my favorite teachers, she relates well with everyone.
"You are sitting in those table arrangements for a reason you know, those are you partner groups AND!" She stops any complaints, "It'll be a group grade." Of course the chorus of groans continues.
"Well, I'll leave you guys to your groans and let you look over the papers, which are under each of your chairs," She says, then retreats to behind her desk.
"Wait, th'o we're in a group together," Sollux states, leaning his elbows on the table. He has the paper laid out in front of him, actually it was more of a packet that an actual paper. I quickly grab my own packet and begin reading over it.
Beginning of the year Group project
Group members: Tavros, Gamzee, Karkat, Roxy, Sollux
Instructions: You will make up a sort of presentation that gives an example of creativity.
Requirements:
Time- No more than 10 minutes, well at least try not to, we have to get all the projects in in one day
Due- Sptember 1st aka one month
Other Information:
-Don't be afraid to bring in stuff from home, like if you play an instrument
-I'm not against groups doing the same thing but I hope you won't
-Try not to make it like a report, you shouldn't have to explain creativity!
-Use your natural talents! :D
The other two sheets are for submitting our ideas and explaining what we would do and how it related to creativity.
"What should we do?"Tavros asks curiously.
"Well, it has to be creative, are we good with art?" I ask tentatively.
"I can't draw worth a th'it,"
"Not very well motherfucker."
"Um no,"
"Nope," I glance over to see Roxy staring at us, finally seeming to focus.
"Well, look who's decided to join us in reality! It's Roxy!" I say mockingly, poking her just smiles at me, poking my arm in response.
"Ok well what're we doin?"
"Trying to think of somethin' for this motherfuckin' project bitchtit's," Gamzee drawls, tapping the packet.
"Yeah, what are you good at?" I ask, although I already sort of knew.
"Pssh, not much, can't draw or anythin' before you ask, I guess I dabble in music stuff," She says, her words slurring together slightly.
"Oh hey!" Gamzee interrupts, seeming to get an idea, I can practically see the lightbulb flashing over his head,
"Tavbro can't you play drums!" Gamzee asks, sounding almost like a normal human being.
"Um yeah, a little," the teen says, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly.
"And Karbro! I know you can play guitar, and sing," He continues.
"Whoa what? Gamz where are you going with this?" I ask quickly.
"Dude we can play somethin for these motherfuckers!" He says happily, seemingly pleased with his idea.
"HOLD THE FUCK UP!" I squeak, then mentally scold myself, "There's NO WAY I'LL SING, OR PLAY, FOR THESE THESE PEOPLE!" I can feel others beginning to stare but I frankly don't care at the moment. It isn't that I'm scared, it's just that I don't like to flaunt my talents.
"Come on Karbro, it's probably the only thing we can do!" The Juggalo pleads, giving me ridiculously pitiful puppy eyes.
"What do you even play!?" I ask desperately, trying to weasel out of it in anyway could.
"Heh, before dad left he taught me bass," The clown says smugly, displaying his hands where I can clearly see callouses on his fingers.
"But what about Sollux!" I say quickly, pointing to the teen.
"Dude, I can play almoth't anything, but I th'pecialize in guitar," he replies with a smirk.
"Oh hell no, tell me we're not doing this," I moan, placing my head on the table and covering it with my arms.
"I can sing back up for you Karkat," Roxy pipes up, smiling.
"Yeah! So this is what we're gonna motherfucking do," Gamzee grins.
"Ok douchepickle, since I can't dissuade you, let me ask you, what are we even going to sing?" I retort, watching his grin vanish quickly.
"Uh, yeah, we should figure that out," Tavros agrees nervously. However the Juggalo has an answer for that as well.
"You can pick a song Karbro! I know you know some motherfuckin' good ones!" I stare at him, mouth agape. I would've begun cursing him out right then and there if Tavros hadn't interrupted.
"Uh, how about something from "Get Scared", you know all of their songs, right Karkat?" He mutters softly, but it's enough to stop me from killing Gamzee. I sit back in my chain, staring at the ceiling. I pinch the bridge of my nose with a frustrated sigh.
"You guys suck ass, you realize that right," I mutter angrily, "Yes, I know all their songs, but I only know the guitar parts for two of the songs, Don't You Dare Forget the Sun, also Start To Fall. Misunfortunate I can play part of it, as well as Hate and Keep myself Alive. I would say Dance with the Dead but it's a bit more complex with the parts in the beginning. You guys would have to look up the songs then tell me." I pause when they look at me with wide eyes, as if they weren't ecpeting me to list the plethora of information.
I roll my eyes an continue"Oh, but Tavros, it mostly depends on you, if you can't play something, we can't do anything with it, so pick whichever one you think would be best, contact me over the chat client," I begin jotting the names of the songs down and handing them to him. I do the same for the others as well.
"Ok Karbro, I have free period next along with Tavbro, we can go to the computer lab and listen to these bitchin' songs," Gamzee says with a lazy smile. He pulls pout his phone and taps it, indicating he would tell me whichever one.
"Well KK I've got Computer Programming next, th'o I can al'tho look them up," Sollux says, glancing at his schedule, then pulling out his phone. "what's your Handle?" He asks, tapping the screen a few times to get to the chat client.
"carcinoGeneticist," I reply, opening the chat on my own phone, "Yours?"
"twinArmageddons,"
"Ok," I say, then shut my phone, "I'll probably open a memo so we can all talk, we've got to head to class soon," I say, glancing at the clock to see we've got only three minutes left.
Jade skips over to our table, then sits on the vacant sixth seat. "So, you got it figured out," she asks with a wink, And knowing look crosses her features as she looks at me.
"Yep, we gotta choose a motherfuckin' song then learn it, then we'll be all good," Gamzee says with a grin.
"Awesome! I knew it was a good idea to put you guys together," She says with another big smile.
"Time to go guys, have fun," She says, standing and retreating to the side of the room. When she's safely away, the bell chimes, and everyone begins running. I hear some angeredmumbles as we escape, and I know some are displeased with what they're doing, but I smile.
At least we're capable of creativity.
Authors Note:
Aiight should probably mention a few things.
1) I'm sorry but don't expect daily updates ^-^;; I tried for a bit but then life got busy, I will do my best though to get at least one or two a week
2) I mentioned this in the original upload but there are many controversies about the song lyrics and I really appreciate everyone's input, however I most of the time don't change it to what it's "supposed" to be because I'm extremely lazy.
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