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Post by Incognito on Jul 7, 2024 7:09:38 GMT -5
182 words | open! | Tues, January 23, 2024 -- no specific class in mind, so whoever joins is free to interpret what period this is. I'm game for other PCs or NPCs to interact with Mason! He was having trouble keeping his eyes open.
Most teenagers would blame the class being boring for feeling sleepy, but Mason's reasoning was a little different. With the winter weather and the temperatures being a little low, Mason's mutation was desperate to make him take a nap.
Usually Mason was fine (although there had been one or two days already during the winter semester that he had accidentally fallen asleep at the breakfast table or a living room sofa instead of making it to school; he then found himself back in his bed and had never asked which instructor at the manor somehow got him to his bedroom out of embarrassment) since the high school had an adequate heating system. Sometimes, though, Mason's reptile physiology wanted to remind him that it existed and make him sluggish during the colder days.
Today happened to be one of those days, much to Mason's chagrin.
Mason hid yet another yawn behind his hand and slumped down just a bit in his chair. Despite his height, Mason hoped to hide just how tired he was from the teacher.
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Post by Druid on Jul 8, 2024 20:39:18 GMT -5
◄ HAVEN'T YOU HEARD WHAT BECOMES OF CURIOUS MINDS? Despite it being the first period, Jasmine did her best to at least appear to be wide awake. Coming into a high school smack in the middle of a school year made it a challenge to catch up on the classes, so Jasmine was trying to seem engaged with her classes without becoming a teacher's pet.
She fortunately lived with some of her classmates, most of whom appeared to be awesome enough to willingly become impromptu tutors if she had questions. For chemistry, Mason was the lucky housemate that shared the class with her.
And he seemed to be falling asleep.
Jasmine did her best to not blatantly stare at Mason at his seat a couple of rows over lest her gaze accidentally give him away to the teacher, but she was also super curious. She knew what his abilities were, had heard there were some side effects to being like a chameleon, but she hadn't really seen the "slower in cold weather" part in action.
Should she do something? She didn't want Mason to get into trouble. Jasmine bit her lip, brought her attention back to the teacher, and raised her hand. Without waiting to be called upon, Jasmine asked, "Can you repeat what you said about the isotopes of the same elements? Something about the neutral atoms?"
Jasmine's notes said that the isotopes of the same elements had the same number of electrons, but she was game to let the teacher ramble about the topic again if it gave Mason a chance to wake up.
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Post by Incognito on Jul 10, 2024 6:55:12 GMT -5
A louder voice a couple of rows over jolted Mason for a moment, making him jump in his seat and sit up straighter. Belatedly, he realized the voice hadn't been the teacher's but rather another classmate, yet his heart still hammered with nerves at the thought of accidentally being caught falling asleep at his desk.
Mason blinked sleepily and glanced over at Jasmine for the question she asked, trying to remember when the teacher even mentioned isotopes in the first place.
The teacher didn't seem too impressed with the interruption, nor the question, stating something about how they had already spoken about it and had moved on -- "If you had a question about them, you should have asked then, young lady," the teacher said -- and Mason inwardly winced on Jasmine's behalf. Considering the studious notes she seemed to take, Mason wondered if she actually had needed to ask the question in the first place.
Then Mason wondered if she had caught him slipping and was trying to cover for him.
He glanced over at Jasmine again, trying to catch her gaze and give her a small smile as thanks, just in case. This class couldn't end soon enough. At the very least, after weight training, he could take a hot shower and try to wake up more.
He was thankful that they had a lecture this morning rather than a lab.
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Post by Druid on Jul 27, 2024 8:33:00 GMT -5
◄ HAVEN'T YOU HEARD WHAT BECOMES OF CURIOUS MINDS? The teacher chastised Jasmine a little, and she pretended to be a little sheepish.
"Sorry," she apologized, "I just realized that my notes weren't quite complete for that section. I don't want to fall even further behind."
She listened with rapt attention and took notes (again; her notes on isotopes had been completely fine) as the teacher answered the question. Once the question was sufficiently answered, the teacher asked if Jasmine had enough note material and if there were any other questions before they moved on. Jasmine assured the teacher that she was fine and thanked them for going over the material again.
At that point, she glanced over at Mason and saw that he was trying to catch her gaze. Jasmine returned his small smile with one of her own, but she quickly brought her attention back to the teacher. Mason probably would realize what Jasmine had been doing, she was sure. It seemed that he was grateful.
Still, she hoped he was alright. Vaguely, Jasmine wondered if he should be at home resting instead of trying to push himself to get through the school day.
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