Chat Room
Chapter 2
Stein rummaged around in a desk drawer before finally pulling out a box of gloves and chucking it at the unsuspecting girls face. Maka stumbled back a few steps and swatted the box to the ground.
"I'm paying you to clean up my class. I don't need you sparking up anymore messes." His eyes were locked on the box that was once filled with light purple latex gloves. They were since scattered around the floor, thanks to Maka's great coordination skills. "Clear?" He asked. Something about the way the corners of his mouth turned slightly down in an uninterested manner made it sound rhetoric.
"Crystal." Maka didn't believe in rhetorical questions. Her silver haired superior raised an eyebrow, but continued to shuffle through stacks of ungraded papers.
Maka scrubbed metal trays and tools until they sparkled while the Mad Professor capped and uncapped varying shades of blue and red ink pens to do his grading thing. The two worked in silence for a while and Maka was growing vastly disinterested by the second. His students hadn't even dissected anything substantially amusing as of yet. (Today they had slashed through some worms. Maka wasn't sure how, but they indeed had roughed up a couple of the poor dirt creatures. Yeah, that was still gross.)
"Professor?" Maka squeaked after shelving all of the clean tools in their proper slots. Goggles in the goggle cabinet. Metal trays (or whatever scientific name they held) stacked in groups of five at each station. Tools laid inside each tray.
"Yes? What is it?" If anything he sounded more bored than herself.
"Do I need a degree to work as a lab assistant?" That wasn't really what she had wanted to ask. She wanted to ask when she could leave without sounding too blunt.
"I don't know, Maka. Do you?" Stein answered back in monotone.
"I don't know. I was just wondering if,"
"If you need a degree to clean equipment, I will personally make it my life mission to make it not so. Don't worry about it."
"Sir?"
"Go home. I'm done with you for today."
That was exactly what was wanted. She left wordlessly, corners of her mouth turned up into a tired smile.
7:34 P.M.
Vanillabunny: Hello my lovely friends of the interwebs!
Camelliabloom: Hello, Miss Maka! How was work today?
Vanillabunny: Fantastic. As jobs naturally are.
Camelliabloom: Really? I'm glad!
symmetry: I believe that was sarcasm.
Camelliabloom: How?
Vanillabunny: It was sarcasm.
Camelliabloom: Oh
symmetry: Are you going to share the details?
RedEyes: Yes please do share.
Vanillabunny: I got a job as a lab assistant at my university!
symmetry: Don't you need some qualifications for that?
Vanillabunny: Shut up, Kid. Who asked you
symmetry: Pardon me for keeping you out of legal trouble.
RedEyes: ...
Camelliabloom: Continue?
Vanillabunny: Anyways I get paid to clean a room after labs. It's not a lot of money, but it's better than nothing.
RedEyes: How are you even paying for your apartment?
Vanillabunny: I WAS getting allowance. It would've been fine, but I kind of like buying things sometimes. Ya know?
RedEyes: Wow
symmetry: Girls and buying things. You are a walking stereotype.
Vanillabunny: So that was my day
RedEyes: can't top that. I just screwed around on the Internet.
Camelliabloom: I did some homework but school is at home so I guess everything I do is homework.
RedEyes: cool.
Camelliabloom: You boys and your sarcasm...
Vanillabunny: Im switching the subject. Are you all still coming down this weekend?
RedEyes: Woah. What?
symmetry: Maka lives in Death Vegas. A few of us are going down there this weekend.
RedEyes: Who's Maka?
Vanillabunny: Me
RedEyes: That's a weird name.
Vanillabunny: Well aren't you just charming RedEyes.
Camelliabloom: I guess you didn't read the messages while you were gone?
RedEyes: Why would I do that?
Camelliabloom: I just thought you would
RedEyes: Thinking is for the weak.
symmetry: You are so weird I swear.
RedEyes: Since we're on a first name basis here or whatever, you can call me Soul. And I live no where near Death Vegas.
Camelliabloom: coolness!
symmetry: And you say that Maka has a weird name.
RedEyes: Shut up
Vanillabunny: I guess it's nice to meet you?
RedEyes: This was not an introduction. -_- you just know my "name" now.
Vanillabunny: Oh alright?
Camelliabloom: Um anyways I can still make it.
Vanillabunny: Good! This is exciting.
symmetry: I will still try to.
Camelliabloom: You still aren't decided?
symmetry: Work. It's that thing I do to make money.
Vanillabunny: Vacation days. Its those things work is required to give you.
RedEyes: Woah. Sass from the Maka.
symmetry: I said I'd try to make it.
Vanillabunny: Ok ok. Fair enough.
Camelliabloom: Anyone hear from Star?
Vanillabunny: Afraid not.
Vanillabunny: I'll let you know if I do. :)
Camelliabloom: Thanks. :)
RedEyes: Where do you live again?
Vanillabunny: Death Vegas, Nevada.
RedEyes: And where the hell is that?
Vanillabunny: Uhh.. America?
RedEyes: No I though it was in Africa. Freaking Nevada... I mean how far is it from where I'm at?
Vanillabunny: Idk. I'm not Jesus. Where do you live? I kind of need to know that to tell you. :P
RedEyes: I told you already.
Vanillabunny: No. You're delusional. No harm in telling me again even if you "told" me. So where you live would be?
RedEyes: Just send me some directions and I might meet you!
Vanillabunny: I'd need to know where that is first.
RedEyes: I told you.
symmetry: Are you okay?
Vanillabunny: Yah.. Maybe you dreamt telling me. I do stuff like that all the time!
RedEyes: Whatever. I'll talk to you later. Bye.
Vanillabunny: Ok.. Bye then. :)
Vanillabunny: Don't forget to "resend" me that adress.
symmetry: That was odd.
Vanillabunny: Yes it was. I wonder whats up with him.
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A/N: Let's play Spot the Incongruity! No, this chapter mainly consisted of script type dialogue with a dash of actual writing. I will be sure to balance the two more equally in the future (read as next chapter.) My device deleted chapter 2 at least 4 times and I still haven't gotten the message to stop writing on it apparently.
Thank you for reading and reviewing and stuff. That continues to make me happy.
Shout out to my friend who wrote Maka's chat dialogue and misspelt her handle as "Vanillabean" instead of Vanillabunny.
Stay tuned.