#* interact.

with @infmaddox / location: some random classroom for detention.

mai is no stranger to detentions. it’s only inevitable with the amount of trespassing and sneaking out she does. not to mention how often she talks back to teachers whenever she’s called out for zoning out in class. but she doesn’t consider it to be zoning out. she is focusing on something instead of just spacing out, it’s just that it isn’t related to her class whatsoever.

though, she’s sure she can find some way to link everything with the stuff she learns in her psychology class.

she waves at the detention monitor in charge of overseeing the detention, who doesn’t seem amused by her gesture, and isn’t surprised to see that she’s the only student in the classroom - so far. she takes her seat by the window, waiting for the next few hours to be over with. when the door opens a few minutes later, she looks up and raises a brow at the unexpected guest.

well, this is a first.

eventually, a teacher comes in and the detention monitor leaves along with the teacher, leaving them to their own devices for a while. she casts a glance at her friend, then reaches into her bag to pull out a bag of crisps. there isn’t an ounce of embarrassment in mai’s system when the sound from opening the bag fills the classroom, louder than usual when she struggles to open it for a a brief moment.

she turns to face him, extending the bag towards him.

with @infeuiin / location: the ‘haunted’ corridor.

it’s well past dinnertime with an hour to spare before they have to leave the main building and there’s something about walking around the school at night that sends chills down her spine. it is, without a doubt, a lot more eerie when light doesn’t shine in through the windows.

mai likes to consider these ‘outings’ as field trips, even if they’re within campus and the institute doesn’t consider the psic to be a legitimate club. she’s pretty sure the other clubs don’t get field trips as cool as this, running around campus to investigate the paranormal. today, it’s for documenting purposes. 

today, they’re gonna try to get updated photos for the archive - some of them with a surprise guest, hopefully. sure, creatures can get caught on camera, but what about spirits?

“it’s just down that hallway.”

she's a few steps ahead of euiin when she stops in her tracks to turn around, about to tell him to get his camera ready. but her words get caught in her throat when she notices his demeanour, so she offers him a small, comforting smile. “you scared? don’t worry, i’ll protect you.” there’s a teasing lilt in her tone, knowing that the younger student is still prone to getting creeped out by these things.

but out of the goodness of her heart, mai sticks out her hand.

with @infrina / location: the back of the school field by the forest.

“there’s no way you haven’t tried this before.”

mai walks at a faster pace than usual, turning to walk backwards so she can face her friend. drying grass tickle her ankles as she does so. the weather has a gloomy feel to it as amji would have it, the sky a light grey with the sun barely peeking out from behind the clouds. but she doesn’t mind it.

it adds to the ambience of things.

what rina and mai have is strange, but not as strange as the occurrences in the institute. it’s not like she blames the other girl for not really wanting to be associated with her. that sorta comes with the whole reputation of being some deluded paranormal fanatic. plus, she’s also a tier lower than the alpha, which she guesses is more of a reason to not associate with her.

still, somehow the friendship is maintained. despite being a firm believer, she does enjoy the skeptic’s company in general. even if rina could get a tad bit snobby sometimes. besides, the secrecy does make it interesting.

a ritual that remained unspoken ; she'd sit, he'd serve -- she would grin, he would melt. so, it only resided in normality for a hormone-driven blue elmore to anticipate her arrival-- and, let it be known, blue winston lacked the sex-drive a kid his age should maintain. -- and his eyes are sparkling at her arrival, because, what a magnificent girl she was !!!

                  “ bella ragazza, ”

he's basically fawning over her-- enzo insisted blue pick up some italian to, draw in the ladies, blue deemed the teaching pointless, but, voiced-it nonetheless-- she's waiting to be seated, and they're staring at one another, and blue hopes he can get off work a bit early and take her out and -----