ALRIGHT HERE WE GO AGAIN! This is also a 2015 AU, as Snapchat did not exist when CL was airing.
Day 12: Snapchat
"Alright, Jim, you're doing great! Now, stand there and look like you're not doing anything!"
"Not doing anything?" Jim had positioned himself at opposite end of the quad from Odd, shouting with both hands cupped around his mouth. "I don't get it. I'm always doing something."
You are? Odd thought - but of course he wouldn't say that out loud. He already couldn't believe that he'd gotten Jim to go along with this; alienating him now would ruin everything. "Well, then, stand there and do whatever it is you're doing when you stand in the quad!"
Jim scowled for a second, furrowing his brow - but then his eyes lit up, and he turned his back to Odd, rubbing his chin and looking out into the forest.
Odd checked to see that Jim wasn't looking. He was - but as soon as Odd turned his head, he turned around again as well. Satisfied, Odd pulled out his phone, opened up Snapchat, and held it up over his head. On the screen he saw Jim looking again, but waited until he'd looked back to snap his photo.
"Okay, done!" he said, as he hastily typed up his caption - "ditching class nbd." It was actually his free period, but how many people would know that? He added it to his story, and turned back again. "Now, turn and look at me! Look really angry!"
"Angry?" Jim took several steps toward Odd, his hands on his hips. "Look, Della Robbia, I know this is one of your goofy projects, but what exactly do you think you're -"
"Don't worry about it, you'll see it in the end!" Odd said, fishing his phone out again. "Okay, that's perfect!"
Odd turned his head back, made a horrified face, and snapped another photo. "Okay, now chase me!" he said, typing as fast as he could - "uh oh Jim saw me" - and adding a frowny face in red ink. "All across the quad! I'll tell you when to catch up with me -"
"Chase you?"
"Like I said, don't worry about it!" Odd took off down the middle of the quad, holding his phone up over his head. "Just pretend I'm ditching class or something!"
"Wh - Della Robbia!" As confused as Jim sounded, he still took off after Odd - and he was still getting the pictures he wanted. If he'd really been running then Jim wouldn't have been able to catch up to him, but as it was the slow decrease in the distance between them made for a great dramatic effect. "oh crap here he comes", he added to one, and "i'm going down" to the next.
"If I don't like what I see you're deleting those!" Jim shouted, now almost directly behind his head.
"Perfect!" Odd said in response. He stopped, took a second to add "tell my wife I love her" to the photo he'd just taken, and submitted it to the story. "Okay…I think five's enough for that joke. Now…"
He swiped across the screen, navigated to the story he'd just made, and held the phone up behind him, for Jim to see. "See? I told you I'd show you what I was up to. I'm a honest guy sometimes."
Jim watched the screen in silence for the twenty-five seconds it took for the story to play out. Odd could tell he couldn't decide whether he was obligated to be furious or whether he had the freedom to laugh. He could swear he'd held back something like a chuckle. Or at least, he hoped so. "So, uh, who's gonna see this?" he said.
"Oh, just, people. Friends."
"Friends?" Jim scowled. "Wait, this isn't gonna be on the Internet again, is it -"
"No, no, no!" Odd said. "I said, don't worry about it."
Jim grimaced, looking conflicted. Odd wondered for a second if, if Jim were a kid, he might have done something similar. "Any of this gets to the principal and you're in big trouble," he said.
"It will not get to the principal," Odd said, with a grin. "And thank you for your help in keeping order at our lovely school!"
He took off again before Jim could change his mind. He had class to go to, and reactions to his latest story to gauge.
- Carth