"I was just genuinely curious about the homework assignment and if you two think you can get it done." Vincent answered innocently.
Superhero/romance(ish) role play!! OPEN
Of course, Kelton didn’t catch any of Mari’s response. He did, however, pick up on Vincent’s “innocence”. “Yeah, I think I’ll get it done, it’s not too difficult. English is my best subject, so I always get that stuff done.”
“Easy for you to say,” Mari grumbled, falling back into her usual self as she carefully avoided eye contact with Kelton. “English is my worst subject so it’s gonna take me forever. I wish we had science instead. That would be so much more interesting.”
Vincent sputtered, "But- Mari- English- English is interesting!" A look of complete betrayal spread across is face.
“For you maybe,” Mari shot back. “All that writing stuff just doesn’t make sense to me. Like why do we have to learn it? But things like art and science? Now that’s fun!”
“There is way less use in the real world for math and science than there is for writing. Would you rather know how to use the quadratic formula or to construct a sentence? I for one would choose the latter,” he said matter-of-factly as he chomped on the rest of his pop tart.
Mari opened her mouth to respond, but closed it when she realized she had nothing to argue back with. "You're logic is infuriating," she told Kelton. "Also out of anything you could pick you chose the quadratic formula? The longest, single most annoying equation in all of math? But as for needing to know how to construct a sentence, one, um it's a sentence it's not like it's hard, and two, even if I didn't know that's what the internet is for, love."
“Actually, in my opinion,” he replied offhandedly, “the distance formula is the most painstaking and annoying. The quadratic formula is much more fun. Besides that, you’d be surprised how bad some people are at constructing sentences. And the internet isn’t always correct. Do you know how many people don’t know how to use a semicolon? Or maybe they don’t know the difference between the three theirs and the three yours.”
Vincent nodded, "It must be hard not knowing everything." He said with a straight face.
Kelton rolled his eyes. “You may be book smart, but you still don’t know when to shut up,” he teased.
Vincent grinned, "Oh I do know when I should shut up that doesn't mean I'm going to." He replied.
"You guys," Mari groaned. "All this arguing isn't going to change the fact that I'm going to be up all night doing the stupid English homework. You guys are lucky you're both so good at it."
"Being good at everything isn't always a good thing." Vincent muttered remembering his middle school day's. "Any way, that's why you have us, we don't mind helping you out do we?" Vincent looked over at Kelton questioningly
“Yeah, we don’t mind,” he replied and scooped some ice cream into his mouth. “Actually, it’s proffered. I actually like English homework, and it’ll give me something to do, not to mention it’s helping a friend.” He gave her a toothy smile.
(Will there be friend-zoning involved? And then Vince will be the representation of the ML fandom where he watches in pain)
(Omg like how Adrien goes, “she’s a good friend”?)
(Yes please)
(I'm alright with it)
Mari’s heart dropped at the word friend. She knew he was being his usual nice self, but her heart didn’t like how he said it. Forcing a smile onto her face, she told him, “Though I can’t understand how in the world you actually like English, your help would be amazing. Although,” she added slyly, “if you wanted to you could always just do my homework for me?”
"That goes against my personal code of conduct as the class genius." Vincent said apologetically
"Of course it does," Mari grumbled. "But could you make an exception just this one time? For me? For your best friend who you love very much? Please?"
Kelton raised his hands, as if to say he was taking himself out of the conversation. “Don’t look at me, you know I don’t cheat. I would like to help you though. We could do it now? Together? And get it out of the way?”
Mari liked the way he said "together", though she knew he didn't mean anything by it. She sighed. "I'd like that very much K, thank you."
TIMESKIP: THE NEXT DAY
There had been another attack, that one about half a mile away from the first. The attack was on a Saturday, so the heroes could spend longer together than usual. At the moment, they were on the roof of a building, discussing their thoughts on who was behind it.
“A friend of mine said it was probably the owner of the first building,” Imperium said whole surveying the crime scene from afar.
"That sounds about right," Nova agreed. "But I don't like how close together these attacks were. There seems to be more and more lately, and we haven't done anything about it. I was talking to a couple friends the other day and we were discussing us. I was in civilian form obviously, but we were talking about how we should patrol at night, to make sure nothing attacks while a lot of people have their guard down. We should also try to stop attacks before they happen, like that giant robot a few days ago? That totally could have been prevented if we had been paying attention."
Peri draped his arm around Nova. “Yep, we definitely should patrol. But don’t go blaming yourself again, because what happened wasn’t your fault. Maybe we could try it tonight? We could all sneak out of our houses at around midnight, and patrol together? Really quick, like a few minutes, and no one will ever know we’re gone.”
Snow nodded, "Sounds doable to me, just remember that you guy's may be super human but you're still human, sleep is important got it?"
Peri nodded. “Sure. We should patrol at like 1? That way everybody is for sure asleep but it’s not too early for us to wake back up.”
"Got it." Nova winked at Snow. "Sleep is important. But one sounds good. I'm normally up until then anyway. Now I'll have something to do tonight other than staring at a blank canvas for hours!"
"Great. You know," he began again, arm still around Nova's shoulders, "I wish we knew each other as civilians. We can't really hang out unless we're in superhero form, and that only happens when there's something more important to do."