GOLDEN CHILD!

@wannascream​       /      starter call.

        uma’s not very good at playing nice,     can you blame her,      she’s the daughter of ursula and if that’s not bad enough,     she grew up on the isle,      stripped of all magic and belonging.      but hey      —-       AT      LEAST       SHE’S       TRYING      TO      MAKE       AN      EFFORT.       she doesn’t really have much of a choice anymore,     after all she’s no longer stranded on the isle.         "       so you like basketball,     that’s cool.      “       with a nonchalant roll of the shoulders and a small smile tugging at glossed lips she continues.      “      i prefer to fence,      requires a lot more skill.       “       playing nice sure lasted long.

          𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐍𝐍 𝐄𝐗𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐀 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐋𝐄, 𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐆𝐀𝐙𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄. her eyebrows quickly lifted and lowered, a non-verbal, dryly sarcastic “huh.” “funny how that works,” she mused with a little shrug. “𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐨, 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭? 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲. 𝐛𝐮𝐭 … 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞, 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬.”

“ somehow, i think you might be right about that. ”   he laughs a little, shaking his head and dusting himself off as he clambers up from the dirt.  chad is still better at tourney than jay is, no matter what anyone says or thinks, and he’s got jay at a distant disadvantage with their respective statuses alone.   “ and hey!  nothing really wounded but my pride, right? ” 

( @wannascream didn’t ask for this )

“when’s the BIG GAME?”

“If you want to start doubting yourself, yeah.”

“From my experience, sometimes it’s better to just do instead of think.”

HE WANTS TO THINK THAT  he’ll find a couple clubs to join, but upon looking at the board, he feels a little let-down. maybe glee clubs are a northern thing. mike should’ve known not every school has one, even though it seemed every school around lima had one, and he could ask, but he’s not about to out himself like that, especially with their NATIONALS FLOP circulating around the internet.

        ‘‘ my dad got a new job higher up and they moved him down here. which sucks            for me because, you know, senior year in a new place is going to be rough. i’ll keep            a look-out for those theater sign-ups, though. you guys have a football team, right ?             hope i’m not too late for those try-outs. ’’

        “     ---   oh, man, that’s rough, showing up somewhere new for your last year.      ”      his usual, seemingly permanent grin falls a little, more toward a frown,     &     he turns to face mike.      “     but uh, hey, if you want, come sit with me     &     my friends at lunch today. you’re cool. they’ll like you. won’t be hard to miss us either, we’ll have one of the bigger tables.      ”

      “      but, anyway, theater     &     football huh ? cool, but don’t say it too loud. people hear get kinda crazy with that.      ”     he says it as seriously as he can, though the new smile tugging at his lips probably gives the joke away.     “     darbus should have theater signups in a few weeks, make sure you show up on time for those. with football, i’m not sure what their schedule is like, but our basketball coach is close with the football coach, so if you want, i can ask around for you.     ”