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 Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 6:20 pm
Saint Magdalena's did not have any good areas on the grounds where she could skate around and get a good workout, at least not without having to worry about avoiding other girls out walking. But the weather was too nice today to not go out. Even if she could not get a whole routine in, the brown-haired girl wanted some fresh air.
Decked out in an old set of well-scuffed roller derby pads, Mayumi sat on a bench for a moment to tighten her skate laces, then stood up and started at an easy pace down the sidewalk.
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Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 10:33 am
Saint Magdalena’s did not have any good areas of its grounds, period. There was nothing about this school that Juniper liked at all, and if it hadn’t been for the fact she was graduating this year, she wasn’t sure she’d really be able to survive it. She hated this stupid school and hated most of the girls who went here. Sure, she liked the rough and tumble type…but some of these chicks were just too rough and tumble for comfort.
The green haired girl sighed as she walked absent mindedly down the sidewalk, blinking as she saw one of the girls decked out in…well…what looked like skating pads, rolling down the sidewalk. She took a step off of the hard surface and shook her head. “You sure that’s the best of ideas? I mean with the way people refuse to watch what they’re doing and where they’re going, you’re more than likely to run a few people over…not that that would always be such a bad thing…”
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Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:03 pm
She slowed down as she caught sight of an apparently oblivious pedestrian walking down the sidewalk, mentally concocting insults that she did not throw; she was not about to try to pick a fight with the stranger. She had learned to be pretty rough and tumble herself in roller derby, but she was not about to get herself into trouble with a full-on fight here at school.
And it was easy enough for her to avoid people, since she was paying attention. As the grey-eyed girl slowed nearly to a stop, the stranger stepped off the pavement.
"Huh?" she asked, turning back around and reaching up to slide her helmet back slightly on her forehead. "I don't see a whole lot of people out now, so I figured it'd be okay for a little while." Mayumi tried not to smile at the idea of running some of her classmates over - she had a few people in mind, even if the act itself would stay there. "Anyone staring at her cell phone on a day like today deserves to get trucked."
The beskated girl nudged herself slowly towards the stranger and extended one hand. If her green-haired classmate accepted the handshake, the scuffed wrist guards would make it a little awkward, but the gesture was there. "I think I've seen you around before, in our small world here. I'm Mayumi, who are you?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:33 pm
Juniper snickered as the girl mentioned that some of the girls who didn’t watch where they walked deserved to be mowed down, and nodded, taking the offered hand. “I’m Juniper. Pleased to meet you, Mayumi. So, what’s with the gear? Are you a professional skater or something? On some sort of team?”
Most people she knew…well. She didn’t realize people still wore all of the safety garb when skating. Mostly she thought that they only did that in children’s books talking about safety. Barbie books or something…the ones where they made sure to say all of the different items that you had to wear before going skating…
The green haired girl shook her head and shrugged, yawning loudly before rubbing at an eye. “I’ve gone to the skating rink once or twice, but then I fell down so much, I guess I decided that I just suck, and cut my losses. I prefer bikes to skates. More control…at least I think so.”
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:50 pm
Mayumi shook her head. "Oh, no, not professional at all. Wouldn't that be nice, though? I'm just on a derby team for fun." She laughed lightly, knitting her fingers together once the handshake was completed, and tapped the plastic parts of her wrist guards together. "I just do it for fun. I don't know if I could keep up with the professional circuit. Not till I'm older, you know?"
She offered a sympathetic frown at the other girl's recounting of her misadventures trying to skate. "It takes practice. Don't ask me how many times I fell down, especially once I started running into people on skates."
After a moment's pause, she asked, "What year are you here, by the way?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:10 pm
A derby team. Now that was something that you didn’t hear every day. “Like, a roller derby team…now that’s pretty cool! I didn’t even know that those still existed, to be honest. Weren’t they big like…a long, long time ago or something?” She seemed really interested in the whole idea. Maybe it would be worth trying to skate again…derby was a really fun word to say after all.
She listened and nodded. “Maybe I’ll take up skating again, or at least go back to the rink and try to get a bit more steady on my feet. I’m a senior at this hell hole now, by the way. Just a few more months and I’ll be free! I’m so excited I don’t even know what to do with myself, to be perfectly honest.”
Juniper tugged on one of her braids and then grinned. “What about you, Mayumi? Are you almost free too?”
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:42 am
"It's coming back as sort of like a girl power thing," Mayumi replied with a smile, flexing her arms. "We pick silly tough-girl names for ourselves and all that. Like I go by Miso Vicious." Fists clenched, she took on a mock fighting stance and put on her best game face ... that lasted about three seconds till she stated giggling at herself.
Then, feeling a little silly, she fiddled with a lock of auburn-dyed hair and replied, "Lucky, I've got one more year after this. I'm just trying to lie low and do well so they have no reason to hold me back, you know?"
Mayumi gestured up the length of the sidewalk. "You wanna keep walking while I skate?" she asked, then continued the conversation. "Where are you going after this? What's life after Saint Mags look like for you?" Such disappointment, that she would lose this potential friend in just a few months.
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:40 pm
Girl power. Now that was something that Juniper didn’t get to hear every day, and honestly, it sounded pretty cool. She gave a smile at the name. Miso Vicious. Was it because the girl was asian? Miso like miso soup? Finally when Mayumi started giggling, it clicked. Me so vicious. Oh. Oh that was funny.
She might have been a little late to the game, but she got a good few seconds of laughter in as well, before nodding. “You got this, Mayumi. One more year isn’t so bad. And of course! I’d love to walk with you. I mean. I was walking anyways. So…yeah.”
The green haired girl thought for a moment when the topic of the future came up. Now, that was something that she still wasn’t even close to figuring out. “I really….I don’t know. I was thinking of applying to DCU…but now I’m starting to wonder if I should just try and go to SOVEREIGN HEIGHTS for a year or so just to get my bearings…I mean…It seems like I’ve been going backwards with educational…stuff for a while. Saint Mags is just…it’s just eh. You know? I don’t feel like I’m ready to become an adult yet.”
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:18 am
Mayumi pushed off with one skate, rolling slowly on the other alongside her new friend. "Oh, god, being an adult." She made a face of mock horror. "I mean, I guess I will be on paper this summer, but I get what you mean. Although to be totally honest, I've felt more 'adult'"- she supplied fingerquotes - "here at Saint Mags than I did at Meadowview. Out from under Mom's heel and all."
At walking speed, her skates rolled to a halt a few squares of pavement along; Mayumi switched feet. "I can cook three things that aren't instant noodles, and I haven't flunked out here, so that's sort of like being an adult, right? I don't know about what things were like for you before this place-" At times, it was dangerous to speculate about her classmates - "but maybe things will be easier for you when you don't have nuns breathing down your perfectly pressed uniform collar all the time?"
She shrugged a little, then decided to switch to a subject that was potentially dangerous for a different reason: "Are you looking at schools outside good old DC, too? Away from all the monster horror stories on the news?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 5:17 pm
Juniper nodded. It was quite easy to feel at least a little bit ‘adult’ at this school. They made a point of forcing what life was going to be like when they were all grown up and out in the real world. Oh yeah—and they made sure to make a point of warning everyone that they would be in deep s**t if they ever became delinquents. Because that was what everyone wanted to become when they grew up.
She glanced back at Mayumi after a moment, nodding once again. Boy had she zoned out. “Yeah. I’m going to be glad when I’m out of here. I really am. And…no, I don’t think I’m going to leave the city…I mean…” The green haired girl rolled her eyes just slightly. “Monster stories aside. I don’t think there’s any real monsters in this city. Maybe a few nutcases, but monsters? That stuff’s all in people’s minds. Or it’s a government scam to scare us. You know, get us to pay more in taxes so they can better ‘protect’ us.”
The girl shrugged. “What about you? Do you want to leave good old DC?”
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Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 12:55 pm
Mayumi chuckled as she turned around backwards and slowly skated that way. "Government scam, that's a new one. I'll have to look into that. I'm sure there's a paper trail on the internet, you know?" Her rational mind normally blew off claims of government conspiracy as paranoia reserved for grocery checkout line tabloids ... but that was what made the arguments about such things online so morbidly hilarious. For whatever reason, though, it had not dawned on the girl to look for such controversy about the monster attacks in her own hometown.
Oh man, there went her afternoon. Good thing she was getting her exercise now.
"I don't know yet," she conceded in response to Juniper's question. "At least things are interesting here, you know? Even if the stories aren't true. You know it's like, we're Juniper and Mayumi from Destiny City, so we come with a premade air of mystery and excitement around us. More interesting than being us from some city that ... won the Super Bowl or whatever."
She swung her arms to help propel herself backwards, glancing occasionally over her shoulder to make sure there was no one else at risk of being run over. "I feel pretty safe for the most part." Clearly Mayumi had never been attacked by a youma. "And the longer I'm here, the more chance I have to maybe get a cell phone video of my own of one of the pretty little terrorists or a monster or something."
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