[center][h3][color=darkviolet]Darian Green[/color][/h3]

[u][b]BIOLOGY CLASS, END OF PREVIOUS TERM[/b][/u]


Darian Green was nervous for a moment as her eyes darted around the room. The seat next to her was, as always, empty but every other seat had a person hunched over and furiously filling out the answers on an all-encompassing exam. The key components were made up of amphibian identification, recalling back to the section of the term where the class had to dissect a frog and label its internal organs. Same principle here, just without having to cut anything open. Darian had, as usual, to perform the dissection without a lab partner which was a double edged sword. She had to do more work, yes, but she didn't have to deal with people and their struggle to fill out the lab report after the fact. Darian's frog was a special case in that when she cut into it there were little circular black and yellow dots on the inside. Only Mrs. Castro had known why Darian ran out of the room with what seemed to be a look of absolute horror because Mrs. Castro was the only one to SEE Darian's face. 

Darian's frog had been pregnant at the time of death. 

The memory of that event was on Darian's mind all throughout her exam and even still she had finished faster than anyone else in class which is why she was feeling nervous as she glanced around. Everyone else had still been in the middle of taking what was their final exam of the class...and yet here was Darian gathering her things and walking the long, silent aisle up to the front to turn in her completed exam. 

[color=f49ac2]"Finished already, Darian?"[/color] Mrs. Castro whispered with a smile which Darian promptly nodded to.

[color=darkviolet] "I almost got some of the cell structure mixed up but I remembered my mimetic device."[/color]

[color=f49ac2]"You mean mnemonic device?"[/color]

[color=darkviolet] "Nah, mimetic. Like mimesis. Mimicry, like a newborn rhesus macaque, remember?"[/color]

Darian always seemed to be in a good mood when in the biology lab, and that showed double as she had a whispered, friendly conversation with Mrs. Castro. And of course Mrs. Castro had remembered now that Darian had reminded her, there was an entire lecture devoted to animal classification and a project to go along with it. Darian's animal had been the macaque and her presentation involved footage of a baby monkey copying a man sticking its tongue out. Mimesis. 

[color=darkviolet] "Anyway, see you next year, yeah? Oh...but before I go...could you..write me a letter of recommendation?"[/color]

[color=f49ac2]"For college? You don't have to apply so soon, Darian."[/color]

[color=darkviolet] "No...for...Mr. MacHale suggested I try joining a club next semester, right, and...and I need a teacher's recommendation to run for student council."[/color]

Mrs. Castro was visibly shocked, but still smiled at her star student. 

[color=f49ac2] "That's an uphill battle, Darian. Even for...popular students. But...hey, you've got one supporter already. I'll be sure to submit your name for the candidacy next term. And hey...excellent work this term, Darian. Wish I had a class full of you."[/color]

Darian didn't stop smiling until the next morning.



[b][u]PRESENT DAY[/u][/b]

The cigarette had been in her mouth as soon as she felt the cool air hit her skin and it would've been lit had she not heard what she initially assumed to be the wind. And yet as Darian turned towards the door she had stomped out of, there was Gigi, doing what was probably one of the crazier things the bubbly baker had done. Darian arced an eyebrow as the girl expressed her interest in, quote, spending time, unquote. That caused the darker girl to turn her head. Darian hadn't figured Gigi for the type, in Darian's mind Gigi was the type of person that would get with some overly good boy that studied hard and was in bed by light's out. And yet the only one's who ever approached Darian to 'spend time' were either the ones that wanted to bum a smoke and engage in awkward smoker's talk...or they were the ones that wanted to be taken...behind closed doors.

And Darian was certain Gigi was no smoker.

[color=darkviolet] "You're gonna freeze your ass off out here, Gumdrop,"[/color] Darian spoke as she lit her cigarette and took her first drag. She hadn't planned on moving indoors until at least she had finished her smoke. But plans do have a tendency to change. [color=darkviolet] "Come on, then. You'll do."[/color] Darian said with a sigh, still rather shocked by the bold approach from Gigi, never thinking that her own idea of 'spending time' was radically different than Gigi's. [color=darkviolet] "Normally I'd take you behind the building but you're a damn popsicle. My room ain't far. You wanna do this, let's go."[/color] 

Darian, cigarette burning away, turned towards the dorms and began walking towards them.



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