2 March, Class Time, Classroom 2-2

I bet Kurosaki had a whale of a time laughing his ass off last Friday.

Seeing a stoic classmate tear out the room clutching his diary isn't a very common sight, I guess.

Hmph. I shall have revenge (what else is new?). Not now, though. I think I used a lot of my imagination today in Language Arts.

A lot of our teachers are getting replaced. Byakuya-sensei and Gin-sensei decided to leave on a Masters course, so they will be gone for a year or two. In Byakuya-sensei's place we now have Apache-sensei. She's rather small, about my height. But she has a VERY loud voice, and a very strange and sadistic sense of humour. Today, she came to class and announced,

"We're going to do a STORY RELAY!"

So she made us sit in rows of 5 (on the floor). When everyone was seated, she gave each of us a piece of paper, and told us that she would give us a topic. We would then have one minute to think of what to write, and two minutes to write it. She then gave us the topic.

'Fire and Ice'.

After we finished one paragraph, she made us pass it down the row. One paragraph, one person. After five paragraphs, they were returned to the original person. My row had me (duh!), Kurosaki, Ulquiorra, Ishida, and Renji.

My compo turned out something like this:

They were so unlike each other that it was hard to believe that they were twins. One had a fiery spirit, always overly enthusiastic; the other was cool, calm, and collected, never one to show his worry. They always opposed each other, like fire and ice. (Hitsugaya)

They hated each other. They loathed each other. To him, she was needlessly wasting energy; to her, he was nothing but a wet blanket. Their intense sibling rivalry continued, until one day, that incident tore it all apart. (Kurosaki)

After that incident, he had always asked himself: why did he ever let her get so drunk that night? For it was that hated drink which caused her untimely demise. He could still remember the sounds he heard that night. A scream in the night. A tyre skidding. An earth-shaking crash. And then, nothing but the eerie silence of the night, and the howl of a lone dog. (Ishida)

Drunk, the driver of that car had swerved to avoid the dog, and crashed into the tree. His sister, and her three friends, were too drunk to remember their seatbelts, and were thrown out of the car, dying instantly. And then he was all alone in the world. (Renji)

He had stood, a lone figure, at her cremation ceremony, watching her lifeless body slowly being lost in flames. The crowd surged round, offering condolences, but he ignored them all. Without his lively twin, he seemed only a shadow, a vessel hollowed out by grief. The bright flame who had been next to him all his life had been extinguished, and in its absence, his heart closed itself off, sealing itself within an armour of ice. Ice that would never melt again. (Ulquiorra)

Yeah, I wasn't exactly thinking of my plot when I wrote that beginning paragraph. I must say, it turned out quite well, despite Kurosaki's unimaginative paragraph, Renji repeating the obvious, and Ulquiorra writing an overly emo paragraph. I didn't expect there to be death in it, but I definitely prefer it to a soppy, happy ending.

Tomorrow we meet Gin-sensei's replacement.

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Heys! This 'story relay' was based on an English lesson we had last week or so. Our topic was 'Twin Towers'. Try it yourself and see what you come up with!