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No. No no no no no no no. Of all the things her sister could do to occupy her time, why would she choose this? If she really wanted to talk to the super awesome super hero guy she could go over there herself. Okay, no she wouldn't but that was beside the point! She glanced over at her sister who had motioned for her to come over. Oh, but she couldn't leave her stand! She shook her head, having found an excuse. Oh, but Mitsukai wouldn't give up because of something like that, would she? Why couldn't she have a sister who'd just let her admire super heroes from afar instead of insisting on introductions? All she had wanted was to have a nice quiet day making flower crowns at the school festival. Or you know, having all the kids avoid her stand so she wouldn't have to disappoint them with her awful crown making. Yeah, that would be preferable.

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Wow this guy was weird, no wonder Usagi thought he was cool. Still, he wasn't being very cooperative. "Let's be honest, it's not like your cup knock over game is getting many players," Hey, it was the truth! Everything had seemed strangely quiet. "Besides, you only have to go over there for a minute. Or I can just bring her over here and she can help you out with your nifty little stand." C'mon Super Kuiper, just agree! It wasn't like Mitsukai couldn't handle the flower stand on her own. Making flower crowns was easy enough! Plus, she was way more fun than her sister was, the kids would love her! She looked over the cup knock over game that was set up in front of her, "If I play your game, will you go say hi?" she asked. That was a fair trade, right? Plus, this game did look kind of fun! Not only that but her sister needed more friends, dangit! It was for a good cause! Super heroes were all about good causes, he had to agree!

What had she gotten herself into? This man was even stranger than she thought. Oh, but the cup knock over game was calling her name! Also, it was for her sister! "Alright, I accept your challenge!" Yes. She would knock over his super cups, and get him to greet her sister. Hopefully there were better prizes than that silly picture though, whatever, she'd just pass it over to Usagi! "So I just throw this ball at the little cups, right?" she wanted to make sure. She couldn't win if she didn't know the rules! Anyway, that seemed easy enough. Her throw wasn't the best, but it was relatively average. Plus, this was a game for kids which meant it should be easy! She so had this!

She picked up the ball and studied the cups. She had to make sure she took everything in and knew just where to aim. She could do this, she would do this. After taking her time and refining her aim she finally through the ball. Did she make it? Did she?

((I guess I'll just do a dice roll to make it fair? I really don't know how to determine if she made it or not.))

It looked like a number of kids had decided to skip the first day of school, judging from the size of the group, and that made Peter frown as he perched on that flimsy piece of wood. A good number of the students were still standing at the perimeters, and that was no good! They were supposed to run around and enjoy the festivities! In fact, it looked like the only person who was even playing any games was an adult... He wished he could do something, but he was kind of stuck in the dunk tank until he was dunked, whatever that meant! From his elevated seat, however, he spotted his coworker Michael, and immediately tried to get his attention. Maybe they could figure something out, to get the kids more excited? At least, maybe, he could ask his coworker to "dunk" him and then he could get out. "Pssst, Michael! Michael!" he hissed, waving the man over. They had barely spoken, but this was a good time as any to make new impressions!

生物学

No. This couldn't be happening! River couldn't be losing the game popularity competition! Not only had Finnian (River was dumb, but not dumb enough to really buy into the Super Kuiper thing that much) copied her A+ marketing strategy, he had succeeded! She couldn't let him win! Glancing around, she looked for kids to play tug-of-war. Maybe if they played one match, the other kids would see how much fun it was and would want to join in! And everyone would forget about Finnian's dumb cup toss--oh wait no, that looked fun too. Well, she could play after she defeated Finnian! River rolled the rope into a loop, cowboy-style, and slipped it over her shoulder before running over to Jeremy and Mimi. "No time, come with me!" she cried as she grabbed their hands, Jeremy with one and Mimi by the other. Jeremy was her own spawn, and she had known Mimi since the girl was little, so she didn't feel like she needed to ask permission or explain what was going on, she simply tugged them after her as she went off looking for other people.

She spotted two teenagers (Keegan and Elizabeth) not far from each other, and decided it was perfect. Boy and a girl, evenly matched! "Hey, you two!" she called to them as she trotted up, son and son's friend in tow. "Wanna play tug-of-war? Just one game? Super fun, cool kids! Better than lame superheroes!" She felt a pang of guilt at the simple act of lying; superheroes were super cool, and she knew it.

歴史

Jeremy had been beelining for the food when he was intercepted by Mimi. He stopped and let her talk, though his attention was focused longingly on the snack table. He had been so close~ "Hi Mimi -- new teacher?" He followed Mimi's gesture and spotted the brown-haired man she was indicating. "Whoa, look at his hair," he marveled. He had never seen a man with hair that long or that shaved-y! His Uncle Alex had longish hair, but it wasn't like THAT! Jeremy wasn't sure if he liked it or not, but he was intrigued!

That's when he was hijacked. "Huh? Mom, not now..." he managed to get out as River seized his hand, but only just. The food! The food was calling him and now his mother was dragging him away in the opposite direction! His protests did nothing, however, and all he could do was give the food table one more look of pining before he got swept away.

✉x Mimi was just about to blab to Jeremy about how that type of hair probably meant their new teacher had some kind of horrible past that he was hiding from them because mama had always told her weirdo hairstyles like that meant member of the mafia. But that would only lead to her thinking how cool that was and attempt to rope Jeremy in to harassing the man and later break into his home for evidence on her theories, which.. probably meant that it was a darn good thing River had broken in before that could happen.

Mimi didn't protest being whisked away because it really helped her decide what to do first since there was so much she could be doing! Besides, having a tug of war against Keegan and Elizabeth just sounded like the most fun ever! She waved at them until her arm got tired and decided to try to help River out, “Please? Please, please, please?! It's super cool and – hey, aren't you the student with a kid? Oh, WOW, that is so cool – are you here as a parent and a student?” That just sounded like.. wow, she didn't even know how to describe how cool that must be! It was like he was two different people at once! She wasn't even sure how she felt on that, except her mother would be so proud to meet this boy because he was obviously super mature for having a kid so young!x✉

What was her sister doing? For now it seemed they were just talking, but about what? Not about her, she hoped! Oh, but at least the man didn't seem to be leaving the stand. Maybe she wouldn't have to endure an awkward encounter. She continued to watch her sister, who was now playing the game at the super heroes stand. Good, she had been distracted, Usagi sighed in relief as she went back to looking over the flower crown instructions. She continued to do so until she heard footsteps approaching. It was probably Mitsukai back from playing the game, coming to show her the prize she won. "See Mitsukai, I told you-" she turned around. Oh, that was not Mitsukai. Well that was embarrassing. "Oh, um...hi," she managed. There she was in front of a real live super hero and all she could manage was "oh, um...hi" she should be ashamed of herself. He was just so cool though! What could she possibly say that would even interest him? Sure she could talk about that time long ago when she joined a super hero group, but that never really went through, and even if it had she wouldn't have made a very good super hero. If she told him something like that he'd probably just laugh, and that would be awful! She couldn't be made fun of by a super hero!

Maybe she'd just introduce herself, that was a normal thing to do, right? "Um, I'm Usagi.." Yeah, that was definitely the normal thing to. Or was it, she was greeting a super hero, after all! He probably didn't even care about her name. "I'm sorry about my sister?" that worked right? Yeah, it was fine. Even if it did come out as more of a question than a statement. Besides, it was a perfectly valid reason to apologize. Super cool super heroes didn't want to be bothered by people like Mitsukai. Yeah, this conversation was going so well.

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"Yeah!" she jumped up and threw her arms in the air after her win. "I knew I could do it!" In your face weird guy! Now he had no choice but to go greet her sister, and she won these not so awesome prizes! Oh well, a prize was a prize. Awful or not, it didn't change the fact that she had won. Usagi would be so grateful, she was sure of it. Even if she wasn't grateful right away, one day she'd thank her for it. For now though, Mitsukai had to manage the booth. Looks, like she'd have to set everything up again too. Man, she really should have thought about that before offering to watch. Well, maybe she'd at least have some people come to play. Sure she wanted to help her sister out, but it wasn't fair that she didn't have someone to talk with too! Maybe she'd just abandon the stand. No one was going to come anyway, and she wasn't exactly the most reliable person around. It was Super Kuiper's mistake for trusting her. She supposed she could watch the stand for a minute though, just until she found something better to do.

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"Ew, tug of war" that did not sound like Elizabeth's idea of fun. Who was this lady anyway, and why'd she think someone as awesome as Elizabeth would be interested in playing some dumb game like that. "Playing that will get me all sweaty. Being sweaty is gross," she pointed out to the woman. She looked over to the girl pleading with them to play, "No, no, no, no" she answered. Matching her number of no's with the girl's pleases. A fellow girl should know how gross and sweaty she'd end up playing a game like that. Did the girl's in this town know anything? She clearly didn't know anything about gaining admirers. She sure did know how to talk though, Elizabeth would give her that. What was it that she had just said anyway? Something about that boy having a kid? That meant that he had- What!? No way?! How could someone like him beat her to that!? That was not acceptable at all. She looked at the boy with an incredulous expression. Yes, she could respect him, though the respect was taken down a notch since having a kid meant he hadn't been very responsible. Still, the respect wasn't completely gone.

Blake was more than prepared for his job as the lunch man: bendy straws for wriggling jelly worms, toothpicks for making chocolate chips on cookies look like spiders, and food coloring for all sorts of dyeing fun. There was so much more, but he couldn't ruin the surprise. With his supplies wedged into a rolling cart, he made his way to the cafeteria to set up. As he entered through the doors, he scrambled to get a secret item to place above the door. That’s right. He was going to go for the old bucket over the head technique. Instead of a bucket, it was a stuffed animal. Perfect. Whoever was the first to get in would get to keep the fluffy plush too. He grinned in contentment and went back to rolling the cart over to the benches.

There was so much revamping that he would have to do for this small area, but he would make do with what he had. What he had were cookie jars stuffed with delicious store-bought cookies because there was no way that he would let the tykes suffer from his sister’s cookies. She was such a horrible old lady that couldn’t even follow her stereotype. Tsk. Tsk. With a small cluck of the tongue in his disappointment at Melanie’s poor baking skills, Blake went back to his task of centering a cookie jar on each bench.

A This was more humiliating than usual for the man, but Junior was way past the point of being affected by things of that nature. He only had to give himself a short moment to sigh and stare at the ground before calling the only person he knew that would be both okay and capable of breaking into a building. Well, only person he knew that he was also willing to call and maybe a bit excited to do so, though he certainly hadn't sounded like it on the phone with the multitude of long silences and mumbled responses. Still, the call had left him with a burst of energy that made waiting in the cold outside the school much more bearable. He couldn't really remember a time he had actually asked Yuri to come out to see him – as in, actually gone through with it and not faltered or hang up before he could get it out. He was almost.. proud of himself?

Up until the woman had actually arrived and treated the entire scenario as if they were burgling the place and not.. not just helping Junior get what he was legally allowed. He knew very well that no one would arrest them for being in the school after hours – he had been here several times on his own to help clean up with no problems! But, as they made it through a window that he couldn't hope to open the way she did, he was beginning to doubt if this was actually legal. Had he been breaking the law this entire time? He.. He didn't think so or he hoped, really hoped, he hadn't because he knew he couldn't survive prison. Or even that tiny cell at the police station with that frightening sheriff and.. and he needed to start acting like his age.

He chewed his lip warily as he searched his office for his missing keys, thankful that Yuri had allowed at least this light to remain on. No one was going to arrest them for being inside the school, he was allowed to be in here, and he really, really wished Yuri would stop pretending they weren't because it was putting him on edge. But he couldn't work up the nerve to tell her to stop and it was too late now. Besides, he didn't want her to get mad and leave. Even if he had just found his keys and they would be leaving soon anyway. He stood up from underneath his desk, the clanging of the keys making him tense up involuntarily, which didn't help what Yuri said next.

“Wh-what? I found them, let's go.” He whispered, trying to prevent any squeaks from entering his voice as he quickly tiptoed out of the office, shutting off the light and nearly hitting Yuri as he left. He had his hand enveloping the teeth of the keys to keep them from making a sound as he looked down the hall to try to find out who could possibly be coming. His first instinct told him to just run out of there, but he knew they had no security guards and, though the police were.. thorough on the island, it was likely some teenagers. ...That he couldn't possibly discipline, oh, God, he should probably leave before they catch him too.