A homework assignment for a professor - OTA

[aquawayfinder]

Who: Aqua and anyone who wanders into the open lounge
What: Aqua has been tasked to watch Romcoms. Thank you, Emma Frost.
Where: An open public lounge, since she has no clue how to work the DVD player on her computer.
When: Backdated - Middle of the day, April 7th
Warnings: Will add if needed.


Having been assigned by Emma to watch romantic comedies in order to potentially understand the point in having a date when she chaparones prom, Aqua has done what she has always done when facing a task at this school. She went to the library and took out research material.

Armed with every Romcom the school library had in stock, and wondering why the librarian had looked quite so amused, she found a lounge that no one was using and put in the first DVD. She turned on the player, and sat down to watch.

This... lasted a whole minute before she was up and pacing. She really didn't like sitting still. But... she reminded herself, this was a task, a challenge set before her. A skill to learn and master.

So she sat back down and worked on mastery as she watched, focusing both on the movie and the restraint to stay sitting.

Anyone want to come laugh at the confused look on her face?

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[aquawayfinder]

"This... is not..." she tried to find the word, "inspiring me," she said, hoping she had the proper phrase, "to try anything like what I am seeing in the movie."

She sighed. "Until I have something figured out, I should probably keep watching." Not a prospect she looked forward to.

"Do you want to join me?"

Maybe it would be less miserable... if she wasn't alone...

[shiningscales]

"Maybe you just haven't found one for you yet? I think most of them are kind of cheesy and hackneyed, but some are probably better than others."

Probably.

At her question, though, he shrugged, as if to say, "why not?" "If you think it'll help you sit through them, I guess it wouldn't hurt to sit through one."

[aquawayfinder]

"Thank you, I very much appreciate the" sacrifice "gesture. Maybe it will be easier just having someone with me."

And because she is Aqua, and thus always thinking... "You.. do not think that perhaps that was the point she was trying for? That the job of being a chaperone would be easier if I had someone with me, and the whole... romance aspect was just... to get me to that point? That I had been focused on the wrong thing?"

[shiningscales]

"Most people don't see them as such an odious trial," he laughed. "But really, I can't say. I don't know her as well as some people."

[aquawayfinder]

"If I thought that might be the answer, I would ask you if you wanted to work together, and attend together, that way the assignment would be fulfilled and we could better serve the students."

"...If that were the answer." She seemed pensive.

Clearly, the most romantic invite to the prom in history. Of course, she still did not get the romance aspect, and thought now that it might have just been a dodge to get her to find the point of teamwork on her own.

Of course, she now felt a bit dim for not seeing that before, since teamwork had been one of the fundamental building blocks of her training since childhood.

[shiningscales]

He chuckled, somewhat sheepishly, and tucked a lock of hair behind his ear. "Unfortunately, I already have a date. But if you'd like me to keep an eye out for you while we're there, that can be arranged." If only so she didn't feel like she didn't have someone to call on for assistance, date or no date.

[aquawayfinder]

"Much appreciated." she sighed at the movies. "Should we get to it, then?"