forum I definitely shouldn't be typing this out right now... but here goes (oxo // closed)

Started December 09, 2019 by @saor_illust school

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(Yeah, of course!)
"Okay class, everyone in their assigned seats!" the teacher's deep voice echoed inside the classroom. Some of the kids were visiting their friends, and reluctantly lumbered back to their assigned seats like they'd been told, though they didn't go quietly. "Listen up, we're going to be doing a project. Now, you guys are all going to have to be able to work through differences and learn how to work with people you've never met before. So before I tell you guys what project you're going to be doing, I've paired you all up into pairs!" the teacher announced, setting a piece of paper under the projector with a list of names, grouped into pairs, of course.

Kiara groaned, she hated projects. Especially group projects. Or pair projects. What was even worse was that she couldn't even pick her partner. As she scanned the list that was projected onto the whiteboard up front, she found her name (finally) under "Caelia." Who the heck was Caelia anyways? Ugh, this wasn't going to be good.

Caelia briefly glanced up and rolled her eyes. "Oh, joy," she muttered under her breath. She had no clue who "Kiara" was, but Caelia always ended up doing all the work in group projects, and this would probably be exactly the same. Quickly, she raised her hand and loudly said, "um, I have a question, who's Kiara?"

"Me, duh," Kiara answered in a relatively loud voice. She turned her head to see who had spoken. Oh great, it was that girl. The one who was against the new law. Fun.

"I see your question has already been answered, Caelia," the teacher said in a sweet voice. Then, the teacher started calling names, so that everyone would know who their partner was, and said, "When you hear you name being called, come to me and find your partner." After a while, the teacher finally got to Caelia and Kiara, calling out, "Caelia! Kiara!"

Caelia walked up to the teacher with her arms folded. Duh. She repeated to herself, rolling her eyes. As though Kiara was so iconic that it would be impossible to forget her. "I don't suppose we get to pick our projects?" She asked, almost hopefully.

"Like I said earlier, now that you've found your partners, I'll be announcing the project that you'll be working on for the next couple of months!" the teacher answered kindly, and pointed out Kiara to Caelia, telling her to go over to her. "Now, for the project! I think you guys will really like this one, it's really a lot of fun! I want you guys to make a podcast, but you'll have to make several episodes!" The teacher put a paper under the projector, which showed a rubric. "Here's the rubric. You'll see that each episode has to be at least fifteen minutes long, and both persons in each partnership has to speak at least ten times! As for the topic, it will have to be related to what we've been learning in the past few months. For example, one group could do theirs on the American Revolution."

Kiara sighed. The project didn't sound like much fun at all.

Caelia smiled unashamedly. A podcast? This was going to be the easiest project ever. At least… if Kiara would cooperate. She stood a few feet away from the girl, who seemed to be annoyed. "This'll be cool, don't you think?" She asked politely, eyes sparkling.

"I suppose," Kiara replied, shrugging. She didn't exactly feel like doing a podcast with Caelia, although maybe… just maybe? She'd gotten an idea. They had briefly covered the new law that had been passed a couple of weeks ago. Maybe they could do theirs on the book law, as it had been dubbed?

"Cool, so, we'll meet in the library after school. I'm gonna research some topics," she said with a vague smile, going back to her seat and opening her laptop.

"…okay," Kiara stood there for a second, confused. Why was she being so nice? Didn't she recognize her from the morning? She slowly walked back to her seat and started researching some stuff as well.

Caelia went to the library right after school, and got out her laptop. She didn't know what to look up. What had they covered, again? She couldn't really remember. It seemed like there were a lot of revolutions involved.

Kiara had been pretty busy during the day, and so she had done most of her researching on her phone. Phone still in hand, after lingering at the end of school to talk to another teacher about something, she headed to the library, though she wasn't in a hurry. "Hi, yes, I'm here," she announced her arrival in the library not long after Caelia had settled down.

(Definitely feel free to stalk ❤🍪)
"That's great, have you got any good topics?" Caelia asked without looking up. She didn't have anything, but hopefully law chick had some ideas.

(Yup! Stalking is totally fine! ^^)
"I was actually kind of hoping we could do ours on the Book Law…" Kiara suggested, not sure about the suggestion though. She was half-hoping that Caelia would say yes, but at the same time no.

Caelia half-snorted. "It's supposed to be a presentation of information, not an argument," she said lightly.

"Actually, I was thinking…" Kiara started, going over to sit at the table with Caelia. Her brain had apparently been coming up with a whole plan for this if Caelia had said yes while she was doing other things the entire day. She explained that they could do their two obviously differing opinions, and for the episodes, they could include like only a bit of their side, and elaborate a bunch on the various points each would make.

(Let me know if that last sentence doesn't make any sense.)

(Oh alright lol)
Caelia raised an eyebrow. "So… it's like a debate? I mean, I guess we could do that," she said, shrugging. She wasn't really sure about the plan, but she didn't feel like arguing about it.

(Lol yeah)
"Yeah. I mean, we technically did cover it in class…" Kiara trailed off, suddenly losing the burst of confidence she had gotten out of the blue earlier.

Caelia shrugged. "Whatever gives me an A," she said thoughtfully. "We can each write our script for our bits, and we'll collaborate for the rest if we decide we both need to explain something."

"Okay then…" Kiara was liking this idea more and more, actually. She wouldn't have to interact with this Caelia as much as she'd thought she'd have to… right?