+plucking strings from the shadows+

"You're the mermaid, right?"

Reika is the master of odd conversation starters, and when he sees the actor from last month's "A Play in the Waves" sitting at the sophomore's hang out, he takes it as divine providence and marches on over to him.

The sophomore, who'd played a mermaid princess, is understandably confused.

"- - What."

"You. You're the mermaid- princess, as I recall it. I wanted to say 'Hi'." Reika replies easily, as if his behavior was anything but absurd.

"Why." The sophomore was still dumbfounded.

"Because you're pretty. Should I say handsome? Haha, it's fine, you can be offended at me, but I just wanted to say so- -" A voice leveled with reason interrupts Reika's ramblings.

"Reika, stop traumatizing the underclassmen."

He glances over his shoulder at another bespectacled student, before looking back at the sophomore and grinning.

"I'll see you again, soon, mermaid princess~"

And with that, he leaves.

Because writing Paurris is fun.

--

Paul wonders what Ferris would look like with longer hair.

A cute little horse tail, or maybe a mullet- he refrains from sighing dreamily, in case the hair dresser asked him about his problems and he began to blubber like a school girl (the last time he did it he got charged extra because the hair dresser laughed so hard she accidentally bumped into someone under the dryer).

Or maybe, if he dyed his hair- - but then Paul liked the sleek blackness of Ferris' hair, and thinks that blonde wouldn't suit his face at all.

He wonders what he'd look like with a goatee- and he has to stifle a little sigh at the thought of an older Ferris, frowning severely at his laptop as he tugged at the fine hairs on his chin. So chic, so modern.

Speaking of- what about something retro? Ferris already had sideburns, what if his hair had more volume, like in those 80's movies?