your shoujo is beginning!

[shirimasen]

[Ah, high school.

A truly wonderful and inspiring time for all. With the school year starting, faceless students mingling about and chatting -- catching up over their summer, or grabbing their friends to congratulate them on getting into the world's top Pokémon Trainer's School -- with the cherry blossoms spinning in the wind from the rows of them lining the school's beautiful golden gates...

Yes, there's truly nothing better!

Except for perhaps the middle school just beside this beautiful campus; there's a small lake between them where the grades intermingle, and the excitement of the day - and maybe even the bell ringing to signify classes, lunch, or break! - is vibrantly in the air!

Just be careful that the principal doesn't see you with your Pokémon out! That would distract the other students, after all...]

[ooc: welcome to the high school au room! also middle school, if your character's not quite aged enough. with uniforms, cheery blossoms, and the exciting promise of an excellent spring for all classes and grades, it's sure to be a blast!

please mingle and thread amongst yourselves, and have a great time! if it's school au, it's free to go!]

Comments

[releaf]

[Someone she -- doesn't know. Oh...]

Can... Can I help you? [...She doesn't realize she's standing in the way, um --]

[unwillinghero]

You're in the way.

[releaf]

[Eep!]

Sorry! [She'll move -- but that means he's in her class, right..?]

Are you, um... In this class too?

[unwillinghero]

[See, this is why he doesn't ask things of people.

They start to talk.]

Yes. I haven't seen you before, so I'm guessing you're new?

[releaf]

[Shut up, porcupine.]

Oh, uh, uh huh... I just transferred, so... [..] THis means we're classmates, right? I'm Leaf.

[unwillinghero]

[And then they trade names, and she'll be following him around...]

Lucas. [Smile time.] It's nice to meet you, Leaf.

[releaf]

It's nice to meet you too, Lucas. [...Oh! She'll move further away from the door.] Here, you can go in now. Sorry again. I didn't mean to block it.

[...She looks so pathetic since she's still looking for people she knows, guh.]

[unwillinghero]

[... She looks so pathetic. Ugh.

Sigh.]

Why don't we sit inside and wait for others to come in? You can sit with me, until the teacher rearranges us to her liking. Then you won't appear so socially hopeless out here.

[There's absolutely nothing insult with what he said, nope.]

[releaf]

[Socially hopeless...

Wow, he's just mean, isn't he. Just like Blue.]

I'm fine out here. [Is her tone a little clipped? No, that'd be not socially hopeless of her.] Thank you for the offer though.

[unwillinghero]

Excuse me. You just remind me a little of myself before I met my best friend. I was... [...] Shy. Like you seem to be.

[releaf]

[Oh.]

It's okay. You remind me of a friend I, um, used to be best friends with.

[She warms back up pretty fast --]

[unwillinghero]

[How weird.]

I see. Well, then, let's get along.

[He's going inside now.]

[releaf]

[






Should she go after him...?

Okay, she will! And she'll, um, sit in the seat next to him.]

What's your best friend like?

[unwillinghero]

[And so it begins. The budding friendship. This was unavoidable.]

Loud. Very excitable. Friendly.

[releaf]

[Shut up and take it like a man, Lucas.]

They sound nice... How long have you two been friends?

[unwillinghero]

Since we were in diapers. My mother and his father are old friends.

[releaf]

And he never became a jerk?

[unwillinghero]

[No, that was Lucas' duty.]

He's kind-hearted. I guess most people would consider him impatient and a little annoying too.