Book On A Shelf;; Study Group;; Open.

Hmh… school did mean learning, right? Of course, that was the whole concept of a school, so you shouldn’t be any genius to figure that one out. It was practically a self-explanatory question that Wani wouldn’t ask himself. The important question is; how? There were many ways of obtaining the experience needed to excel in classes and studies - you could always do it at home alone, or with a close friend, or with other friends and classmates at a meeting point. Wani challenged himself a little, this time… social activity!



He felt very welcome when he spotted the chair holding the door open despite being a little late. This part of the library was usually pent up by the workers and the librarian, and he remembered the first time here where he lost his pencil inside this room. It had been an awful while, he had a new pen, and it was time to ready for class.



And thus, as he entered, that confident face of Lavender met his collected, silent smile as he stood in front of her. “Sorry, got a little shindeiru on the way. Wani. Ōwatatsumi Wani,” he greeted and gave out his full name before entering, “I… I’m new around here. If there’s any hand signs, handshakes or secret morph code language that you use, let me know. Otherwise, I'll create my own - a language where 'bae' means 'poo' and you message each other backwards.”



His eyes darted directly into Lavender’s with a certain, odd curiosity mixed with the silent, sharp *glare* feeling. Somehow, he felt like he had something personal against her… or with her… or maybe he was just losing it, who knew?

Well this was going to be fun. 

With the school year fast approaching Kaiden knew he needed to get his act together and buckle down on his studies, even if it was still technically summer vacation. He was entering his freshman year of college, and from what he had heard, the professors were a lot more unforgiving than the teachers he had been so used to by this point. With that thought in mind, Kaiden figured attending a study group would be his best bet to get some study hours in. He couldn't work at his dorm because he always got so distracted by the mess... And the video games. The cafeteria was out of the question, WAYYYY too many people in there for his liking, nothing would get done if he went there. The Library was the safest choice, and luckily he had heard in passing that someone was hosting a study group this afternoon. Perfect. Exactly what he needed! There was only one problem though... He was running very late. 

The man was running through the large courtyard, careful not to run into anyone on his way. His dumbass spent the entire night before playing video games, as a result he slept until 2 in the afternoon, and the group was scheduled to meet in only a few minutes! While normally he wouldn't care about his timing in events that weren't his mandatory classes, Kaiden was trying to be much more responsible this year, and knew there was a strong possibility that kids younger than him were going to show. He needed to set an example, right? 

A few minutes into the study session, the blue haired boy burst into the library, carrying a stack of textbooks that almost fell from his hands when he ran through the door. He got quite a few angry looks from annoyed students and the librarian. He simply gave them a nervous chuckle, speed walking to the room. He opened the door and turned to greet everyone. "H- Hey guys! Name's Kaiden and I'm here to stud-" He was cut short however when he noticed a familiar face in the group. Lavender. 

What was she doing here? "L- Lavender? Why are you in this study group? What do you have to study at your age?" He teased through a chuckle, but was still equally confused as to why his little sister had come here. Kaiden also braced for the response from his sibling. He knew it wouldn't be nice given the current circumstances of his entry. Kaiden also took time to notice the other few figures in the room. There was another young girl who he hadn't seen, but looked around his sister's age (maybe they were friends?). And another dark haired boy that Kaiden hadn't recognized. 

Wani was part of the study group, but she wasn't too surprised seeing him around, while most athletics sometimes tended to be a bit shy of books, Wani seemed as competitive as she was. Failing something? Wouldn't be an option for the boy from what she had seen so far. "Please do not use any made up language in my presence I grew up with twins." and whelp, twins learning to speak was always an interesting experience. At points? She couldn't even understand them now, the two half aliens on a wave length of their own, but she could understand them well enough especially since she was there sister at the end of the day. She gave him a soft glare with her friendly smile, hearing the sharp foot steps that suggested someone else may be late, refraining from her lecture for the purpose of not giving it twice. Once her brother came running up, she figured no one else would have the gull to be late after Kaidens stunt, so it was time, sitting down smoothing her skirt nicely.

"Kaiden will you please, this is a library if you're going to drop things and act like you're playing a video game don't waste my time." she scoffed, glaring at him and scolding him for dropping the books and disturbing everyone else, her voice softly kept low as she could. "Also, being late is very rude, both of you, not only does it impend the study group but it interrupts, disturbs and inconveniences anyone else who happens to be using the library. In the future try to act like you have common respect for those around you!" her voice got more stern at the end, face marred with a serious frown before she slowly let it fade back to a smile and focused her gaze on Kaiden. "The founder of the study group should always be present at it, I'll be here every time big brother, I always have something to study to keep higher grades than you." she sounded good natured, as if it was friendly, but he was her brother and he'd know by now she meant it.

As the ghost intervened the young teenager stood up, walking over to her with an apologetic smile. "I'm sorry for them miss." she even gave a little apologetic bow, before returning to a friendly smile. "Do you normally read in the same space? If there is a collection of others who normally read in the same general space I can move the group elsewhere in the library to put the most distance between readers and studiers and thus keep the most silence for someone like you." she didn't like too much noise reading either, she could just do it because of Kaiden and the Twins.

Wow, way to learn your place, Wani. That was what you got for coming late… he felt. Didn’t he, like, only come a few minutes late or- actually, he didn’t want to think about that. If there were events in the future where even a minute’s difference was crucial, he’d regret it for the rest of his life. Closed eyes and a small sweat pearl trickling down was his response to the sudden rebuke from Lavender and the white-haired lady whose name he had yet to know. “… Ok…” was his next response as he switched gaze between the ghost and the burdened girl with twin siblings… he should really be more forth with getting the names out of people. The white lily was probably too busy with her book. Maybe he should ask her later… he definitely should.



He remembered his assumptions about social competence; it was all random. He should just do his thing, and then events would arrive accordingly - that was his life up until now, after all. Unlike Kaiden, who really stood out at eyeing the pale girl from Wani’s angle, Wani immediately found a suitable seat and began… eyeing his notebook and almost floating pencil.



If he could write without lifting a finger, that’d just be great. He wouldn’t waver until that was under his mastery… but it was a long way to go. After a pearl of sweat trickled down, he simply grabbed his pencil with his hand and scanned his previous notes from previously…

That crooked ass smile, hopefully the ghost would exact some sort of petty revenge on her brother eventually as she knew he would continue being some sort of nuisance he couldn't help it sometimes. Of course, she could cut him a break for having to deal with raising three girls, but she didn't even cut herself a break, why in the world should he get one. "Than you should have no problem studying this book, brother." her voice was snarky as she placed down an advanced geometry book in front of him. Sure, in the seventh grade she was not quiet to it yet, but he was in a higher grade. Yet, she didn't expect much he was more interested in video games than anything else, so he doubted he'd touched on anything not directly covered in classes as of the moment. If her showing him up a little or embarrassing him in public could be a motivator for him to do better and thus be more fun competition for her? His sister was completely game, it was far from the first time she had used such tactics.

Turning her focus towards the other two she smiled once more, slipping open a book on different species and placing it so the other two could read it too if they wished. "I figured this would be a good place as there are species and interspecies communication sort classes. I'm sorry if it seems weird, but I just don't know next to the first thing about very much outside of half aliens and humans." and she only knew about Half Aliens because her twin sisters happen to be such, through school before she was more focused with making friends than realizing what species they were or learning about it. Yet, as her world got more diverse, this was proving to be a disadvantage. All through speaking her voice was kept relatively soft, moving her chair beside the other two she could keep it lower. If the ghost had a problem after this? She was on her own, as she had pointed out herself, free public space.


Than her gaze flickered to her brother briefly, optics narrowing when she caught him staring at the upper class ghost. Discreetly her hand moved to pick up one of her erasers, holding it in her palm as she kept her attention divided between studying and seeing if she'd have to chuck it at Kaiden to make him respect the other girl.