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Irelia was not entirely happy with Asher. He had promised her ice cream. Now he was going back on his word, telling her she had to attend some sort of "physical Education" course before she could have Ice Cream. Irelia bitterly walked in silence, her blue top and black pants concealing her awkwardly short blue dress underneath.

Walking in to the park, she noticed two vaguely familiar people, people she hadn't seen for quite awhile. Squinting (Asher hoped she didn't need glasses, they were a dreadful bother) Irelia finally figured out who it was. And she sighed dramatically, and turned around.

"I am not going."

Asher was prepared for this, and grabbed Irelia's arms.

"Yes you are. That's Anthony, you know him. He isn't going to bite, you know."

Irelia groaned.

"I'm not worried about him biting me, I'm worried about how he's going to carry on when i throw him in the mud. And dirty his clothes."

Irelia smirked. Oh, how she wished Riley was here so she could gang up.

Unfortunately for Anthony, the only thing she remembered about him was his love of cleanliness.

Calder led Taki through the park with one hand on his back, ignoring the boy's protests that he really didn't mean to knock over that shelf and that if he really needed a new vase he should just ask Mr. Asher because he always had them all over.

"I'm not upset about the vase, or even that you knocked over the shelf," Calder said in his infinitely patient voice. "You have too much energy. Go beat up some of the other kids and get rid of it. This is supposed to be a self-defense class, anyway. Look, there's Irelia, Riley too."

Taki's ears were pointed forward at that moment, and he grinned, not needing to be pushed along any more.

Irelia giggled. This was silly! She grinned to herself as she followed along, pretending she was a puppet. Up down up down....

Irelia was bored instantly. Where was the hitting, the kicking, that she had been promised. Turning to Riley, she cried,

"I challenge you to a duel!"

((Irelia hasn't gone to class yet. She has problems with authority. Thinks they're smelly))

"Ok!" Riley agreed, so happy to be doing something that it didn't seem to matter that they were just stretches. She followed Shade's lead knowinly, since these were only basic stretches. She stopped, however, when Irelia challenged her. "You haven't learned any of the moves yet!" she scoffed, though she hadn't exactly said no. She did kind of want to see some action, after all. Drills were fine and dandy, but she too wanted to do some of it for real.

Taki stretched, tail twitching high in the air. Calder had long-since disappeared, but the cat boy seemed happy enough to follow Shade's lead, and do what the rest of them were doing.

Stretching here wasn't anything like the stretching he did at home... But Calder had explained that most people weren't as bendy as he was. Bendy was exactly the word he'd used, too. At least it made sense in Taki's mind as he went on to stretching, curling his fingers under his toes.

Harper was quite disposed with mentally critiquing everything Antony was doing to do much himself.

Wow those stretches make people look so stupid. Snickering under his breath, he put his hands over his face and made lame attempts at doing the same stretches as everyone else to avoid being yelled at... just yet, anyway.

Taki sat down, and took that chance to look over Harper and Antony, both of whom he'd never really met (he saw Antony at school, but they didn't really talk...).

Both seemed to be trying his best not to do the stretches.