Boredom Strikes Again(Mikey)

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Temperance was laying sprawled out across the courtyard table, her arms held behind her head and her eyes focused on the white clouds passing by in the blue sky.  She shifted anxiously, and crossed her foot over her knee.  Still was uncomfortable.  She put it down again.

"Having trouble?" Charity prodded her sister needlessly.

"Shut it," Temperance snapped back.  It wasn't just the positioning that was getting on her nerves. She rolled onto her side and lazily looked over her sister's shoulder, who was sitting on the wooden bench of the table. She hid her mouth behind the flab of her forearm.  "How long do you plan on playing that stupid game?"  It wasn't so stupid, Temp liked it too, but idleness was aggravating.

"Until I catch a Shiny Ponyta," Charity said simply, not taking her eyes from the screen of her 3DS.

"You're never going to get one," Temp warned with a scoff."Besides, it's not like you can use them for tournaments."

"But I want one..."

Temp sighed. She wanted one too, so she didn't say anything more.

But she was still bored. Entertainment by proxy wasn't all that satisfying. She rolled over again while Charity continued grinding through the Pokemon game and rested her head on her arm. That's when her eye caught something interesting. Or rather, someone who had proved fun in the past. "Char, put that thing away, you can work on it later," she urged her sister. Charity did so without much resistance with a sly smile on her pink lips and turned with the same glint in her eyes. "Shall we?"

"We shall."

Both girls got up in unison and headed over to the short little boy they'd been having so much fun with lately.

[Michael Jones]

It certainly was a nice day out. He normally stayed inside, because a lot of people went outside on the nicer days, but there was a smaller little area where not too many people hung out. A couple trees were scattered around the courtyard, and he’d found pretty much the best tree there because no one else used it. He left a pencil there once and he came back and it was still there, which likely meant that there weren’t as many people traveling in that area.

He sighed and settled down in his spot. This was at least going to be relaxing.

He pulled out his notebook and started to read through the notes he’d taken in class. He didn’t have much to entertain himself, and so he focused on his books and on his studying. Maybe there was a part of him that was really excited about the idea that his parents might pay more attention to him if he got very good grades. He frowned at one part and grabbed his pencil, scribbling down the rest of the note. Maybe he hadn’t been really paying attention in the class, or perhaps he had started to fall asleep when it came to the notes that they were taking in the class, but whatever the reason was, he figured that he had to go through all the notes now to be sure that they weren’t all that horrible. If they were, he would definitely have a lot more to deal with in terms of fixing his notes.

Michael bit his lip and erased a part that he didn’t really want to deal with, and then he continued on. He understood most of it at least.

The boy stopped for a moment. Had he erased something important? He didn’t want to be that kind of person, to erase all the important notes and leave behind the stupid stuff. This was important to him!

Nah, it was just his imagination.

He turned the page in his notes and found that that was the end of his science notes and his math notes began pretty much right after it. The math he was learning this time wasn’t extremely complicated but he still needed to work as hard as he could on the information in front of him so that he knew he had all the information memorized. If it was memorized then it stuck in his brain and he didn’t have to get rid of it. If he spent enough time working on the information, things would definitely improve in his grades, and his parents might actually start writing to him or they might at least say that he was doing enough to still be away from home.

It was then that he decided to look up and saw something that could have likely given him a heart attack if he wasn’t more in control of his emotions.

Those twins were back. He felt a frown grow on his face and he closed his notebook quickly, starting to shove it in his bag.

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Temperance smiled when her eyes met those of little Michael. Charity's lips too twisted into a more pursed grin. The kid had learned quickly that this was not a pair to be taken lightly. Though it was almost adorable how quickly he seemed to be rushing to get his things together and escape before the girls arrived.

They didn't run, they didn't rush. They didn't need to. Even at their current pace, they would get there before he left. And even if they didn't, Temperance could be quite persuasive.

"Going somewhere, Little Mikey?" The more brash of the two called out to him with a forcefulness that could shock a rodent in place."How terribly rude, to leave just as we're coming in to say hello. Aren't we friends, Mikey?"

"Best friends, I thought."

Temp shook her head, clearly saddened by his behavior towards them. "I'd be hurt if you said we wasn't."

"Painfully so."

The girls encircled the boy like a couple of wolves on the hunt, looking over their prey to keep it from running away. Temperance kneeled down in front of the explosive boy. "Are we friends?" She smiled, batting her fine lashes. "Sweetie?