[Day: Tuesday, November 9th. Time: 12:50 p.m.] [Weather: Cloudy, cool and windy.] [We find our crew in their classroom, 1-4. Lunch period ends in a few minutes and students are hurrying back to the room. Next is that god-awful math class taught by the dull Mr. Tsukinori, the man with the mono-tone voice. Ugh.] [In case you're wondering, Chisato, Shinju refused to speak of yesterday during lunch. Word did get around about Natsumi, however: she was hospitalized because she fainted, but she's apparently not hurt. Nobody's sure what made her faint. As for Youji, he doesn't have the same lunch period.] [Anyhow, people are heading back to class, psyched up (or probably not) about math. Mitsuru is already there, talking to two of his buddies. Junko is there too. She never left, actually. She always stays in her seat and eats a bag lunch. And Arthur Pickles is there! He actually seems eager about the class. Roughly half the class (including Naoko and Shinju) is there as well, with more coming in every few seconds.] [Session Start!] * Isamu is actually there already, half because the GM said so! He's sitting in back, as is his wont, and eyeing Mitsuru. [Mitsuru is not eyeing him back, or even looking at him.] * Hanase is sitting in her usual seat to the front left, typing into her cell phone. It's qwerty-riffic! * Chisato waves at her friends. Wave! * Hanase is also glancing at Isamu and Chisato from time to time. [They wave back! If something's bothering Shinju, she's at least making a good attempt of hiding it.] (She has a cell phone with a QWERTY board?) (Neat.) ( Yes, it only has those six letters. ) ( It's really hard to type e-mails. ) (It's a fucking awesome Motorola phone. Opens sideways, has a keyboard, a huge LCD screen, THE INTARWEB) * Isamu folds his hands behind his head and does NOTHING. * Hanase frowns again, and glances over at some girls. Then she sniffs and goes back to typing. * Chisato walks over to her amigas. "Hi. Did you hear about what happened to Natsumi?" [The bell rings! The last few students rush through the door just as it does, sighing in relief.] * Chisato starts at the bell and rushes to her seat. [There's some brief silence, but since the teacher's not there, the talking picks up again.] * Hanase rolls her eyes. [Naoko motions for Chisato to come over to Shinju's desk.] * Isamu yawns. He pulls out his iPod and plugs in, turning it on. [Meanwhile, Arthur Pickles works out some equations in his head and writes down the answers.] * Chisato waits a second, then heads over. [Junko stares at her desk, and Mitsuru stares out the window until his buddies start talking again.] * Hanase grins fiercely at her cell phone for a second, and types madly. * Kirby is now known as Naoko * Sanby is now known as Shinju * Naoko smiles at Chisato as she comes over. "Hey. What happened on that date yesterday? Shinju won't tell me anything." "You won't believe this. Natsumi set us up on a triple date, right? But one of the guys was Shinju's old boyfriend." * Shinju stares. "Chisato!" * Naoko blinks. "Oh. Now I get it." "Well, he *was*." "But you're lucky you left." * Shinju sighs. "None of those guys were that hot anyhow. Not like my Mitsuru. The whole thing was one big waste of time." I heard Natsumi fainted. * Isamu idly looks out the window. Mmm, music. "Uh huh. Well, Isamy was kind of cool. He saved Natsumi from this big rat. It was *really* big. And it... maybe killed a guy. Or something." Isamu? * Naoko looks at the back of the class. "THAT Isamu?" "Uh huh." * Isamu doesn't notice, because he's not paying attention. "And Youji ran off." He's a total jerk! Last month he dumped a trashcan out on Takara's head! "Oh." Chisato pauses. "He didn't seem that mean." (Takara was in my way! Hey!) * Naoko folds her arms. "Well, he is." "He totally saved Natsumi's life, though." Why? What did he do? "There was this big rat or something and it attacked Natsumi. He fought it off her." * Naoko stares at Chisato. "... You gotta be kidding." "Uh uh. I mean, maybe it wasn't a rat, because it was really big, but it was some sort of animal. A really weird dog, maybe? Something." Natsumi fainted over a rat? Come ON. "And there was a *dead* guy." * Naoko stops. "Dead guy?" "Uh huh." What do you mean, dead? "Dead!" * Isamu turns his attention from the room and looks over the other kids. His gaze lingers over Chisato's group. Maybe he heard! No, probably not, as he checks his watch, then goes back to looking out the window. * Hanase types more. Teacher's not here, screw that listening thing. Dead how? * Hanase blinks, and turns her cell phone to the side to check the clock. She looks up at the classroom clock. "I think the animal killed him. Maybe it was rabid." * Naoko scratches her head. "Awfully hard for a rat to kill a guy. Even a rabid one. Maybe if he was swarmed..." * Hanase looks around the room, and frowns. "I didn't see it. He was already dead when we got there." * Shinju speaks suddenly. "Hey... Isn't Mr. Tsukinori awfully late?" "Uh huh. Maybe he's sick." But then there would be a sub. * Hanase types on her phone and speaks up. "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." [Mitsuru apparently decides he wants to cut class, because he abruptly gets up and heads out.] * Shinju watches him go. * Naoko glances at Hanase. "Nobody asked you, mister." (How late is it in the class already?) ( About ten minutes have passed since the bell. ) * Hanase doesn't look up. "You didn't have to. Your lack of appreciation for fate was blindingly obvious." [Arthur Pickles looks up from his equations and glances around, as if only now noticing the time.] * Isamu may or may not have noticed Mitsuru walk out. Regardless, he checks his watch again, then just gets to his feet and walks out, too. Right by the talking girls! * Naoko turns back to her friends with a "Mind your own business." "Maybe we should go check what's happening." * Hanase laughs cruelly. She snaps her phone shut, and slips it in a pocket. But we'll get in trouble if we're caught outside. "Oh. Yeah." (What a poor 2S PC Shinju would make.) * Hanase grabs her bag, and walks out of the room. "Screw this noise." (Darn right, Hanase!) [Arthur Pickles gets up and walks out, too.] (Yes! MASS DITCH CLASS.) * Naoko watches him. "Jeez. Everyone is leaving. Maybe we should go see what's happening." "Uh huh. Are you coming, Shinju?" * Shinju shakes her head. "You can go if you want, but I don't want to get in trouble." "Are you sure. Maybe we'll see Mitsuru." (sure should have been followed by a question mark.) * Shinju thinks. "Well... okay, but if we get in trouble you better cover for me." "We can say we were going to see where the teacher was." * Shinju nods. "Okay." (Is the camera focus out in the hall, too?) ( Yes, both areas for now. ) * Hanase blinks, and starts running. * Isamu is just sort of wandering off. And he hears nothing, apparently. :P [Arthur Pickles can be heard, shouting "" in English. For those of you who speak it.] [The class gets up and rushes for the door!] * Isamu does hear that! And it sounds panicky, so he looks that way, sees Hanase running, and... goes to see what it is! Which means he starts running in that direction, too. * Chisato heads out into the hall at a quick jog. * Naoko and Shinju follow, but they get stuck behind the crowd. Chisato makes it out the door quickly, however. (Hurray for being a PC.) * Naoko is now known as Arthur * Arthur is standing outside, starring out the window. Lying on the campus outside is Mr. Tsukinori, his body twisted and bleeding, and surrounded by fragments of shattered glass. [Students from your class are crowding around the window. Also, students and teachers from other classes are starting to come out, alarmed by the cry.] * Chisato gawks too! [The teacher from the next class over arrives. He looks at the scene and promptly instructs the next teacher who comes to call the police.] (*snerks*) [He then turns to the students. "Everyone, get back in your classrooms and stay there. Go on!"] * Chisato obeys the instruction, presumably moving with the flow of students. [The students head back into their classrooms, where they immediately begin gossiping.] * Chisato gossips! "Do you think he jumped?" * Arthur is now known as Naoko I didn't really see what happened! Mr. Tsukinori is dead! "Uh huh. It looked like he jumped out a window or something." Why would he do that? "I don't know!" I don't either! (Maybe Arthur does!) * Naoko sits down in her seat. "Mr. Tsukinori... I hated math, but still..." * Chisato sits down next to her. "It's so weird. He was just teaching us yesterday." * Shinju nods. "Do you think he's okay? He didn't look okay..." (Didn't she just shout that he was dead?) ( Yes. Maybe she's not sure :P ) I think he's dead. "Uh huh. Me too." Chisato looks down at her desk. * Naoko looks down, too. "...Wow," she mumbles. * Chisato nods. * Naoko looks at Chisato. "This is the second time in two days you've been near a dead body." "I was just thinking that." "I don't think I ever saw one before, except at a couple of funerals. Now I've seen two." * Shinju nods. "It's-" Chisato shudders. "It didn't seem to bother me much at the time, but afterward, I went home and cried for like an hour, " she says quietly. (I think an Enter got hit in there by accident.) [Mitsuru returns to class, followed by Hanase and Isamu.] * Isamu walks on through and has a seat at his corner back desk. He puts his earphones back in. * Shinju puts a hand on Chisato's shoulder. "Oh, Chisato." * Hanase takes her spot back. She looks like she's deep in thought, which means she looks angry. * Naoko looks up. "Hey... Was it really a suicide? What if he was pushed?" * Chisato pauses to collect herself, then looks up at Naoko. Her eyes are slightly red, but she's not crying. "Pushed?" she asks calmly. * Shinju stares at Naoko. "You don't think that serial killer that's been around town came to school, do you?!" * Isamu leans back, folds his hands behind his head, and looks forward. At Mitsuru. * Naoko nods. "And maybe yesterday he killed that guy you saw, Chisato. Maybe he's after you!" [Mitsuru is involved with his own conversation and doesn't notice Isamu.] ( Plot Train. Exposition? Exposition AND Plot Train!) * Naoko thinks. "But wait... you said it was a rat. That can't be right." "Well, the guy was already dead. I guess... Maybe a rat can't kill a guy. It could just have been eating him after he died." Chisato sounds totally, totally calm again. * Naoko blinks suddenly. "Then... maybe it IS true!" Naoko, stop scaring her! But... but it could be true, couldn't it? I don't know why someone would try to kill Mr. Tsukinori. He must have jumped. "Uh huh," Chisato says, sounding deep in thought. "Uh huh." * Shinju smiles. "It's a coincidence, Chisato. Don't worry yourself over it." * Naoko sighs. "Yeah." She hardly sounds like she means it, though. * Chisato looks at Shinju and smiles. "Oh. Yes, I'm sure you're right. That's absolutely the last dead person I'll be seeing for a while." [Session End!]