The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Community - one of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

From: katerrific Date: July 27th, 2009 08:39 pm (UTC) (Link)

"Ohhhh, pffffft! It's close enough." If he wasn't such a jerk, a walk with him might have been nice.

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From: derek_meyers Date: July 27th, 2009 08:50 pm (UTC) (Link)

"Close enough to what?"

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From: katerrific Date: July 27th, 2009 11:20 pm (UTC) (Link)

"Grades matter, Derek." Kate huffed, she sounded exasperated. Perhaps it was the diet coke that still remained in her hair. Perhaps it was the feathers that she couldn't quite get all picked out. Or perhaps it was just Derek. "The good colleges want good grades along with extracurricular activities, community service, and all those other things. Don't you care anything about that?"

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From: derek_meyers Date: July 28th, 2009 05:26 am (UTC) (Link)

"Bill Gates dropped out of college." He shrugged. "I don't care about it now. I care about doing stuff more then learning stuff." His hand itches to touch her soaked shoulder, but he just gets in front of her instead. "I could tell you exactly why the Diet Coke and Mentos does that because it does something cool. Finding out what makes up sulfuric acid isn't fun. It's not interesting and how I am going to use it in my life?"

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From: katerrific Date: July 28th, 2009 12:38 pm (UTC) (Link)

"That was Bill Gates. How often does that happen? I mean really, not many people are that lucky. Besides, I'd much rather work hard to get where I'm going." Kate sighed, they were getting closer to her house. "You did something cool?" She stopped when he got in front of her. "No, you didn't. I'm sticky. It's warm out and I think I'm being followed by every fly in the neighborhood." She swatted at something in the air. "I feel miserable. I need a shower and I was expelled for the week. It might have been cool." If I hadn't been the victim, was left off. Kate felt a twitch of guilt for that sentiment.

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From: derek_meyers Date: August 28th, 2009 12:02 am (UTC) (Link)

He shrugs. "There's plenty of people out of college not doing much of anything right now, or they hate what they do. It's all a gamble Kat!" His voice is a mixture of anger and defensiveness with a side of pleading. "Wouldn't you rather look back on your life and say 'I had this guy rig a classroom to explode when I was a teenager just to get my attention,' or do you really want to look back when you're 40 and old and say 'I got a 4.0 and nothing remotely exciting ever happened otherwise?'"

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From: katerrific Date: November 1st, 2009 02:57 pm (UTC) (Link)

"I---" Kate had the perfect response. However, before she could speak her mind the front door to her building opened and out stepped her brother, Anthony.

"Hey Soapy Cat, your school called. Are you going to tell Mom and Dad that you were expelled or do you want me to do it?"

For the moment her attention was diverted away from Derek. She looked mortified. "I thought you were still in college."

"No. I'm on break." Anthony turned his head to look at Derek. "This the boy you like? Derek?"

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From: derek_meyers Date: November 17th, 2009 04:32 am (UTC) (Link)

But when she turns around, there is no Derek to be found. When he started to walk off is anyone's guess.

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