Class Cutter

[River]

Nightime, around 3:00 AM. A young girl named River was sitting by the edge of the lake, Crescent Lake she'd heard it called. She wasn't the kind of girl to skip any of her classes, but every once and a while, everyone needs a break from the normal routine of their lives. River didn't care if she was caught cutting her brother's class, being sent to the principal's office wasn't too bad. She'd already been several times this semester.

She sighed, tonight was pretty cold outside, but it didn't bother the girl too much. She really hated this uniform, the one that forced her to wear shorter skirts instead of her usual outfit, consisting of pants and a jacket. River glanced down at herelf and sighed again, "I look like such a tramp in this. Damn it all." River flipped the top of her messenger bag over, spilling out the contents on the edge of the lake. There was a brush, eyeliner, a change of clothes (her usual ensemble) and a black, floor-length dress. It wasn't anything fancy, but River quickly stripped off her uniform and ducked into the dress. Silently, she slid into the water of the lake. "Finally. I've been dying for a swim."

[Chesa]

Muse walked up to the lake. She thought she was alone, cuase she normally was. It didn't take much to kep people away from the lake when she wanted to go there. Tanks, that was one thing that most people didn't want to get involved in, but it didn't matter. Muse walked along the edge of the lake, then spotted a girl from the night class. She watched her for a minute.She had changed into a black dress just to swim. That seemed alittle odd to Muse, but then again, she thought all night Schoolers were freaks.

Muse herself was wearing her normal baggy pants and short cut shirt. She ignored the cold. She walked up to the girl. "Oi, night schooler" she called to her.

[River]

"Hmmm?" River turned to face the intuder. This girl looked nothing like River's classmates, so she must have been a dayschooler. But didn't they have to sleep at this time? Maybe it was only the night schoolers who had curfews. River looked the girl up and down for a moment, then smiled. She liked this girl's style. "Who's asking?"

River was a little different from the majority of the night schoolers. She had the same pale skin and pretty eyes as the others. But while River could be considered pretty, she didn't possess the ethereal beauty of the other night schoolers.

[Chesa]

"Depends, Are you crazy?" she asked raising an eyebrow. "You are swiming in a lake in the middle of a night in a cocktail dress," She said sitting down on the river back infront of the girl. Due to what she was Muse didn't get a chance to talk to many other people outside of her tank, they wouldn't get near her. So the fact this girl was even there was a pluss for her.

[River]

River sighed. The new girl just had to ask the question about being crazy. Oh well, lying wouldn't be too bad in this circumstance. It mostly depended on how the word 'crazy' was used. River just laughed and smiled happily, "Not really, no. Depends on how much caffeine I've had."

She glanced down at herself and frowned slightly before looking back up at the day schooler, "And this isn't a cocktail dress. I just don't feel like skinnydipping right now, not in a lake. I might get bitten by something. She repressed an urge to laugh at the irony of the statement she had just made. There was more chance of her being bitten during school than while cutting class.

[Chesa]

"Yeah Caffiene, a high schoolers best friend," she said with small smile. She looked at the girl oddly. "You're a night schooler right?" she asked pushed some hair behind her ear and ajusting the hat on her head. "Don't you have classes or something?" she asked fiddling with the Ahnk necklace hanging around her neck. Normally she wasn't supposed to be wearing her sign without anoter Ahknes around but she didn't really think that this girl was up to anything.

[River]

River smiled again and giggled, doing a little spin in the water. The black dress twirled around with her."Yeah, I'm a night-schooler. And yeah, I do have class. Obviously, I'm cutting." River swam over to the bank and pushed herself up. She was soaking wet from the neck down, and some of her long red hair was wet as well. Being night time, it was hard to see the other colors of black and brown streaking in her hair. The dress, loose before, now clung tightly against River's body, making her look taller than 5'1'', her true height.

[Chesa]

"Hmm, I thoguht you guys were supposed to be really into the whole academic thing, that's why they had the night class," Muse said. She looked at the girl. Muse was close to 5'8 so compared to her she was fairly short. Muse looked at her watch. "Huh I didn't realize how late it was," she said. "might as well not bother going back to the dorms she said. "That means I've got like 4 hours to kill," she muttered.

[River]

River shrugged and grinned again. Her smile was like the smiles of other night-schoolers, except her incisors weren't quite so pointy. They did seem a bit to sharp though. "Four hours? So it's about 3, right? Sweet, I've been out here since the night classes started. And I wouldn't know anything about academic differences between classes, I just got here about a week ago."

[Chesa]

"ahh so you're fresh meat," she said. Muse herself was a Junior. She had gone to the school for quite a while, since freshman year. She had suddenly gotten a letter one day that said her tuition had been paid in full. She never knew who did it though she had a strange feeling Cards or one of the other guys had saw her dance and paid for her tuition to get her into Ahknes. It wasn't a hiden fact that she was a good dancer. They only thing that would make her better was if she could fight.

[River]

River laughed again, a sound that faintly reminded most people of silver wind chimes on a brisk winter morning. River's talent resided in her powerful voice, which had been gifted with several unique abilites. She could throw it for the span of about a mile, and change her voice at will. River liked creating perfect impersonations, which she was quite talented at, right down to diction and volume. "Is that the term you older girls use for freshmen like me?"

[Chesa]

She grinned. "You could say that," she said. She said, she then heard a faint calling in the distance. "Crap," she muttered, hanging her head. "Hey, how fast can you run?" she asked, standing up. She really didn't want to get with the Tank right now. They were probably going down to the strip and battle, and she really didn't want to.

[River]

"Hmmm....it depends. How much danger am I in exactly? And what am I running from, and why? I don't really run much....why, are we about to get chased by something? Someone? Who did I piss off today?" She asked curiously. River neglected to mention that she didn't run because she had more efficient and less tiring methods of escape.

[Chesa]

"You know what a Tank is?" she asked flipping open her phone when she got a text. She ripped off the necklace she was wearing and shoved it in her pocket. "Wnt out 2 get somtin 2 eat. Back in dorm," she muttered texting back the sender.

[River]

River just raised an eyeborw. "Tank? Never heard of it." She stood up and shook her head slightly, shaking off some of the water that lingered on her. She glanced over at Muse, then cocked her head to the side. "Who are you texting? And what are you going to eat, I didn't think there was anything open this time of night..."