* There's actually a pair of open seats, one across from Ryo and next to Rowan, or one next to Ryo. * Ao-Lang comes walking right up and next to Ryo. She takes that seat. "Hi guys." * Ryo looks up and over and smiles broadly. "Hey, Ao. Feeling better?" * From down the table, Arthur and Tanisha both wave, and Rowan nods, as his hands are full with his fork and knife just now. Ikea is just Ikea. Depends on your definition of 'better'. I think it's best for me to avoid them for a while. * Ao-Lang starts picking at her lunch. Sometimes you gotta let stupid people be stupid. Nobody knows that better than Ryo's teammates. * Arthur snorts and coughs, having apparently got mashed potatoes up his nose. * Ao-Lang snickers. She has some mashed potatoes. "He can't be *that* bad." She eyes Ryo. "Can he?" I try. He succeeds at being stupid an amazing amount of the time. You have to have noticed. * Ao-Lang cuts at her porkchops. "I dunno. He's been pretty thoughtful when it comes to me, and I don't share any classes with him." * Tanisha stabs at her potatoes. "Just wait." * Ao-Lang idly wonders what stabbing at potatoes is going to do, since they're mushy. * Ao-Lang goes back to eating. * MOstly it pushes them around and kills time. Do you know what she's talking about, Ryo? * Ryo does his best to look innocent. "Not a clue!' * Ao-Lang eyes her boyfriend. It's obvious she isn't buying it. "Ryo..." Scout's honor. You were probably never a boy scout. I was, actually! Yeah? How? I didn't know there were boy scouts in Japan. Before he was kicked out for beating up the troop leader. * Ao-Lang laughs. I was in America as an exchange student. But they sent me back. I was angry. Why'd you beat him up? He called me names. That was stupid of him. Yeah. He learned better. And so did I. Really? What'd you learn? Now I get people to attack me, and THEN beat them up. * Arthur snerks, spraying milk through his nose onto his empty plate. * Ao-Lang grins. She leans over and kisses Ryo on the cheek. Arthur, you're making a mess. * Ryo beams. Arthur just cleans milk off his shirt. * Across the table, Rowan rolls his eyes, then stands up and takes his tray to the garbage, leaving as soon as he dumps it. * Ao-Lang watches him go. "What's with him?" She doesn't sound offended, just curious. Dunno. Maybe he's pining for you. Oh. If you guys start with the duels for my honor, make sure you let me know so I can watch. * Ao-Lang eyes the rest of her food, then picks up the dinner roll and starts nibbling on that. He'd lose. * Ao-Lang snerks. "Not gonna argue it." She glances at Tanisha, still nibbling on the roll, to judge her reaction. * Tanisha is chopping the last of her porkchop off its bone, perhaps a tad more forcefully than strictly necessary. * Arthur shakes his head. "I'm gonna go do my homework." * Ao-Lang nods. She goes about eating her roll. * Arthur stands up and takes his tray away. * Ao-Lang idly watches Arthur as she finishes devouring her dinner roll. * Arthur is looking across the cafeteria, towards a dark corner in the middle of the room, before he turns and heads for the garbage. * Ao-Lang glances at that, figures it must be either Karasu or Tulpa, and then swallows. "When's your fight?" Tomorrow. Tulpa's team, right? You guys got a plan? * Ryo gulps. "Yeah. Yeah, we've got a plan. Well, Tanisha has a plan. Everybody else is gonna try to follow it." * Ao-Lang snerks. "The girls are always the brains," she comments. Yeah, but without guys, you'd have no brawn to carry out the plans. * Ryo sticks out his tongue. Hey, I'll have you know we kick plenty of ass! Not as much as me! * Ao-Lang raises an eyebrow. She glances at Tanisha. * Ryo jumps half out of his seat. "OW!" * Ao-Lang snickers. * Ryo glares down at Ao-lang, hurt. * Ao-Lang reaches up to help Ryo sit down. "C'mon, you're not actually hurt." * Ryo pouts cutely. * Ao-Lang laughs. She stands. "Okay." I've gotta do some homework. So do I. Man, I hate lit. You guys doing Great Expectations? Yeah. So boring. I hear ya. I need to work on that, too. You want some help with it? Yeah, I could use some help. That english guy writes funny. I guess translation doesn't help much, either. The translation is okay, I guess. I mean... * Ryo makes a vague gesture to the ceiling. He takes twenty words to say something that should take four. Yeah! * Ao-Lang nods knowingly. "Yeah." It'd be cool if we could go over some Chinese lit. instead of all those European guys. Yeah. Or some Japanese lit. Yeah, really. * Ao-Lang picks up her tray. "I'm done, anyway. See you guys around," she says to Tanisha and Ikea before going to take care of her garbage. * Ryo stands up, grabs his tray, and follows after, even as Tanisha waves and Ikea actually nods, which is totally out of character. [Session... end!]