Jim raced down the hall, occasionally passing another student or a faculty member. he would have slowed down except if he did he would be late for class.
Again.
It wasn't that he was always late for class, or even late most of the time, actually he was pretty good about being on time. But the teacher for the class before, always made the class run over and his next class was on the other side of the campus which meant he was late for this one class way too often. Good thing it was just Literary Arts 102, nothing important, he was only taking it because it was required.
He ran past a man in a janitors outfit.
"Goodday to ye Jim!" the man called out.
"Hi!" Kirk kept going and then stopped.
how did he know my name?
he went back, the fact he would be late enitrely forgotten, he was almost there anyway.
"Excuse me, do I know you?" he asked the man who had his head down and was carrying some rags and a bucket of some cleaning liquid.
"Ye sure do Jimmy!" said Finnegan and threw the bucket's contents at Jim.
the bucket had been full of a blue liquid, but when it hit his clothes, it turend an Orange-red color, and turned green when it hit his skin.
"Now I wanted to do something more elaborate," said Finnegan to the shocked Kirk, "But between classes and me social life, I just didn't have the time to plan anything." Finnegan shook Jim's hand and then ran off.
Jim looked at his clothes I think I'm going to have to skip Literary Arts today.
"Wanted to do something more elaborate?" asked Leonard later, "Students aren't able to replicate janitors uniforms,probably because of stuff like this, he probabaly had to make it, and figure out how to make that whatever it was he threw at you, I sure don't know what it is, but it's not gonna come out."
"Yeah, of my uniform, or my skin!" said Jim, who was rubbing his still stained green face with a wet soapy cloth. "Is it coming off at all?"
"No." said Spock bluntly. "Prehapse a stronger cleansing agent."
Jim took the cloth away from his face, the part of his face that wasn't green was bright red. "Anything stronger will burn my face off Spock." Jim sighed, "You know, I had to cancle a date I had tonight because of this."
"Big whoop, you have a date every other night Jim." Said Bones.
"Actually Leonard, on average, Jim has a date every third night, of course this is rounding up since you can't have half a night in this equation if I was exact it would be-"
"No need to gain up on me about it!" said Kirk. "I have got to think of some way to get Finnegan back for this."
"Your pranks hardly ever work Jim," said Leonard "Alot of the time they backfire and we get left with a big mess to clean up." Leonsard said 'we' because he and Spock almost always got roped into Kirk's crazy ideas.
"I do not see any logical reason for playing pracitcal jokes." said Spock.
"Because it's fun Spock! it's always hilarious to see how the other person reacts!"
"But since you are trying to 'get Finnegan back' for playing a practical joke on you, that would imply that you didn't find it hilarious when a prank was played on you."
"Yeah yeah, whatever. Look, Spock, when someones pull s a prank on you, your supposed to pull one on them, it's part of the fun!"
Spock thought for moment, "So when somone 'pulls' a prank on someone else, what humans expect the persons next course of action to be to 'get them back'?"
"Yes!" said Bones.
"That doesn't seem very logical."
Jim sighed, "And here i was thinking that we were making progress, oh well."
"So Jim, what are you going to do about the dye?" asked Bones. JIm looked at the cloth which he was still rubbing against his face, ther ewas practically no dye coming off on it.
"Maybe you should get something stronger Jim." said Leonard, "'Cause at this point it looks like your options are live with a green splotch on your face or burn off your skin."
"That wouldn't be a very logical course of action." said Spock.
"I was joking Spock! Geez!"
Jim smiled, they all fought constantly, were ridiculously stubborn, none of them seemed to share a veiw on anything, and to anyone looking on would probably think putting the three of them together was a mistake since they all constantly seemed to be at odds, but somehow Kirk thought that, out of all the other students on campus that he'd met, he liked these two the best.
Now, how to get Finnegan back for the dye.
Yeah, it's kinda short, but this is the first thing I thought of and it stuck in my head. well, enjoy dear readers, and if you could find the time I would be would greatly obliged if you'd be so kind as to REVIEW.