Hammel, a History @Lukas

[Ziggy Ida Mistral]

Crap! The bell went for first call five minutes ago. Maybe she should just not go, no being tardy was one thing easily forgiven but being a truant wasn't forgiven so lightly. She slipped into her dunlops and stuffed books and pens into her messenger bag. Misty tied her laces and swung her bag high over her shoulder and blasted her way through her dorm door and frightened the shit out of all the people sitting in the common room. She spoke a rushed apology as she bounded out into the hall way and sprinted down the corridor. She was never late she was always on time. Sleeping in! She never does that.

Ziggy glanced at the clock on the wall as she zoomed passed it, she was now ten minutes late, anxiety rose in her stomach and started to burn her throat, her skin was starting to illuminate in her efforts of running and stressing about being late to her class. Finally she skidded to a stop outside her class. Everyone was there and the lesson had begun. She knew she was going to be late but seeing it had all ready begun made her feel sick. Zig opened the door slowly and slipped into the class and hurried to her seat. She unpacked her bag and tried to carry on like she had been sitting there the whole time. Her skin was still glowing slightly.

[Lukas Miles]

Lukas ran his classroom much like he imagined the army ran their troops. Things were on time, things were done properly, and hell would be bestowed on anyone who did otherwise. That being said, of course, Lukas couldn't always maintain his standards of teaching since that would lead to him being hated (which wasn't bad) and then he'd just end up being ignored. So despite his use of an army simile his classroom wasn't that bad. In the way that he didn't bestow hell on those who broke the rules. They were even given temporary amnesty if there were circumstances, or they were given a swift boot out of his classroom.

At the first warning bell, any student not in their seat was counted tardy. Should the student not appear by the second bell, or even if they appeared after it, Lukas would count them truant. Usually Lukas was already starting the lesson by the time the second bell came around. Today was one of the days when he'd just begun his end of the year lesson and review, and a student showed up late. Forest green eyes turned away from the board he'd been pointing to when the door opened. He continued the lesson as if nothing occurred as the late student took her seat, his eyes not leaving as she unpacked her bag. After the student got herself situated, Lukas stopped his lecture and turned his body to face her.

"Miss Mistral, you are late." He took pride in stating the obvious before continuing. "I would hope you had a pass, but seeing as you attempted to sneak into my classroom it is obvious you do not. I will be speaking with you after class is over so do not bother packing away your things right away." With that he turned back to the board, only pausing long enough to give her one final comment. "I feel you should become aware of the fact your skin is glowing, take a moment in the hallway to collect yourself if needed."

[Ziggy Ida Mistral]

Ziggy's heart sank when her teachers voice entered her ears. She could feel the heat rising in her cheeks and not only was her sink glowing her face was now burning a firey red. She could feel all her peers looking at her, there eyes boring into her like lasers. The thought of being a truant afterall and claimimg that she was unwell was starting to feel as though it would have been a better idea then public humiliation. She opened and closed her mouth a couple of times wanting to say something but couldn't work out how to make her voice box work. Her eyes started to glaze over with tears as he went on to inform her that she was lacking control over her ability and it was presenting itself. She pulled back the sleeve of her jacket and a small whimper left her lips, she was definitely glowing.

Automatically she got to her feet and dashed for the door, sniggers and muffled laughter from her class mates followed her out into the deserted corridor. The door slammed closed behind her. Misty slumped back against the cold hard wall and she slid to the floor. Tears splashed down her face and she scrunched her skeletal-like hands into tight fists. She grunted in frustration at her lack of self control and her ability to even let a teacher bully her seemed to be a difficult task. She closed her eyes tight shut and took a few deep breaths in and out. She told herself that she had to calm down and stop being a baby. Slowly her skin returned to normal and she opened her eyes. Zig wiped her face on her sleeve and pushed herself off the floor. Getting herself as composed at possible she opened the classroom door.

Ziggy entered the class again and walked back to her seat and sat down once again, her eyes staring at the books in front of her. She didnt know if she could bring herself to look up she didnt want to meet anyone's eyes that might looking at her. She just wanted this class to be over already. Her long freaky fingers fumbled to pick up her pen. Alright the show is over, lets get on with it. She thought to herself.

[Lukas Miles]

Lukas watched as the glowing girl left the room, wondering if he'd been too harsh. But, well... There was nothing to be done about it now. Instead he turned his attention back to the snickering class, raising an eyebrow. "I was unaware I had said it was time for break." He said this pointedly before turning back to the board as the whispering died out. He was careful to avoid glancing at the clock or the hallway as he returned to the lecture, acting as though the incident never happened.

In fact his eyes didn't so much as flick back up when his classroom door opened. He'd already upset her once and felt no need to repeat the experience. Sure, he might have been a hard teacher to deal with, but Lukas wasn't entirely unkind. Even he had limits of how far he'd push his students. Humiliating someone once was enough. Anymore and the student wouldn't listen and it would just cause a distraction.

The rest of the class went without any sort of incident, for which Lukas was grateful, and just as he was finishing up the points for next time the bell rang. As the rest of the students filed out, Lukas kept his eyes on Ziggy, carefully watching to make sure she stayed at her desk. The last student walked out of the room before he spoke.

"Would you care to explain why you were late this morning, Miss Mistral?"

[Ziggy Ida Mistral]

Ziggy did her best to pay attention to the class as it went on. The feeling of being looked upon had faded and she felt better knowing she wasnt the center of everyones attention anymore. Zig was a good student always got decent grades and was never late to class, she was rarely ever sick enough to miss a class. Why did she have to be late to this class? Any other class and other teacher would have just let her slide into the class and not a made a huge fuss over the fact she was running a little behind. She frowned at her notes on the desk.

As the bell rang to signal the end of the lesson she cringed as it seemed to pound inside her head. Once the bell ended she sighed as the noise of scraping chairs and moderatly loud coversations filled her ears. She was going to get lectured now and possibly even given a detention. She had never been given a detention...ever! She looked up and watched the last of the students leave the room and the door gave a loud pained click as it shut behind the last student. Silence then filled the room, which was short lived as Mr Miles spoke.

Zig bit the inside of her mouth as he asked her to explain why she was late. She tried to swallow the lump in her throat but it was that dry it was like trying to swallow a handful of sand. She did though manage to find her voice briefly. "Um... I slept in" she said her voice a tiny bit squeaky. She had a feeling he wasn't going to find that reason good enough but its a rare thing for her to actually sleep, so when she did it was kind of hard to wake on time.

[Lukas Miles]

((I AM SO SORRY FOR THIS! REALLY! BUT MY MUSE DIED!))

Lukas wasn't an unreasonable man. Or at least he didn't think he was. He just had high expectations of his students and one of the expectations is that students would be where they needed to be when they needed to be there. So when a student didn't meet those expectations he was greatly disappointed. However Lukas did understand that life could be unpredictable and as such he liked to give his students a chance to explain their tardiness. To earn their chance at amnesty from detention should the explanation be sufficient.

However, Ziggy's weak excuse didn't seem it would fit the bill. He kept his face neutral, though, as he studied Ziggy a few moments longer. "Did your alarm clock die? Or perhaps your roommates unplugged it? Or perhaps you were up all night studying?" He offered these suggests in his still neutral voice, but the disappoint could be read from it if one was familiar with him. Though really the person would have to be a family member to distinguish happy Lukas from nervous Lukas, or angry Lukas from mildly disappointed Lukas. "I would hope you have a better excuse than merely sleeping in, Miss Mistral."

[Ziggy Ida Mistral]

(ooc- dont worry mine is MIA as well)

Ziggy didnt know how he was going to take her reason for being late. It was the complete truth though. She frowned a little annoyed by his first response rattling off all the different reasons as to why she slept in. None of what he was saying even came close to why she had slept in. It wasn't necessary to be that way. He then basically asked her to elaborate on her excuse. She shouldn't be ashamed of why she slept in, for her it was a great accomplishment sleeping at all. Last night had been the first time she had slept in over two weeks. Being a biolumo some times (most of the time for her) caused insomnia. She never spoke about her sleeplessness to anyone but she felt she didnt have a choice in this situation.

Ziggy swallowed the lump in her throat that seemed to have formed there quite alot this morning and spoke. "Last night was the first time I have actually slept in a fortnight" she said looking at her desk the whole time looking at her hands. "Insomnia is my best friend these days" she explained glancing up at her teacher briefly before returning her eyes back to her hands, her skin glowing again slightly as embarrassment took over her.

[Lukas Miles]

Lukas didn't really know what to say about Ziggy's excuses. Really he just didn't understand how someone could be irresponsible enough to have slept in. Granted he rather was making a big deal about it, far more than other teachers might have done, but he wasn't doing it without reason. He was hoping that by being harsh on her, she would remember to set a better alarm next time. Or at least have come up with a better excuse for next time like most students did.

His eyes stayed trained on the softly glowing girl, listening to her words with a growing frown. He mentally tried to think of the reasons why she wouldn't be sleeping before the most obvious answer came to mind. It had been staring him in the face, quite literally. The bell for next class rang out before he finally spoke up. "Miss Mistral, is it safe to assume that you are not sleeping as a side effect of your luminescence?" As he spoke he reached behind himself to grab a small pad of passes and a pen.