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[shesepankh]

Saturday morning sees Bella with her notebooks about magic all in her knapsack, her medallion safety-pinned by its chain to her bra just in case she trips the wrong way, waiting with Charlie for pickup for the Avalon trip.

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[alicornucopia]

"Maybe I will," says Mike.

[castmyown]

"To asking her about her preferences, rather than treating her like she is not a person, I hope."

[alicornucopia]

"I know perfectly well she's a person, idiot."

[castmyown]

"You have yet to act like it."

[alicornucopia]

"I'm not the one who hoarded her. I gave her space like I thought she wanted and then it turned out it was kind of suspiciously helpful to you."

[castmyown]

Darren rolls his eyes. "There you go. Again. Do you know what the word 'hoarding' has the connotation of? An item to be prized. Stop using it. She is a person, she has preferences, it is impossible to hoard her. If you've exchanged even the briefest of conversations with her you would understand that, because she has some very strong opinions and is not the meek, shy waif you're acting like she is. She would not allow herself to be 'hoarded.'"

[alicornucopia]

"It's not impossible to cut her off from everybody else so she'd go out with you."

The history teacher sure is late, huh.

[castmyown]

Really, really late.

"Yes. It is, actually! Because she is Bella Swan and she would not tolerate someone doing that. Literally none of my actions were so she would go out with me! Oh, wait, there was one - asking her out. That is it!"

[alicornucopia]

"Why would I know that? You were telling everyone to leave her alone and then not leaving her alone! Are you even listening to me?"

[castmyown]

Deep breaths, Darren. Deep breaths. If he wavers in this Savannah will punch Mike and he does not want that.

"Yes, I am. No, you would not know that. But rather than trying to be certain whether what happened is what she wants or not you start trying to get me to back off. Behind her back. Frankly I'm disgusted we're even having this conversation without her present. Do you respect her as a person at all?"

[alicornucopia]

"If I didn't respect her wouldn't I have gone straight to her in spite of the dead mom thing?" asks Mike sarcastically.

[castmyown]

Darren rolls his eyes. "I'm sure telling yourself that and soothing the pathetic excuse you call a conscience is the only way you can sleep at night. No, you are perfectly capable of not respecting her and giving her space. The two are not mutually exclusive."

[alicornucopia]

"And you're perfectly capable of hoarding her and preaching about what an awful thing that would be to do to a person."

[castmyown]

"Actually, if you'd been paying attention, you'd notice that wasn't what I was doing at all. My argument was that you are not treating her with enough respect and that it is literally impossible to hoard her like she's a collectible item. Savannah and I asked her for her preferences, did what she wanted, and moved on from there. If you want to think otherwise, go ask her rather than trying to bludgeon me into submission with bad logic, then you can see exactly how she feels about the subject."

[alicornucopia]

"You're -"

Heeeeeere's the history teacher! Mike falls silent, continuing to glare.

[castmyown]

Darren gives him his very best 'Fuck you' smile.

Then, to work.

[morethanimaginary]

Savannah waits until the teacher's not looking, and then flips Mike the bird.

[alicornucopia]

Mike pushes her chair with his foot.

[morethanimaginary]

Savannah laughs with utter contempt. Come on now, twit, you can do better than that!

[alicornucopia]

Apparently he cannot!

After history class is dismissed he's out the door, possibly looking for Bella.

[morethanimaginary]

Yeah, she thought so. Pathetic.

"I never knew you had claws!" she laughs to Darren when class is over. "Go you!"

[castmyown]

"Mm," he replies, noncommittally. He doesn't like arguments, but he's of the opinion that it was quite justified. "We should find Bella. At least warn her that there is a delusional idiot heading her way."

And then he walks off to go do that.

[morethanimaginary]

His sister follows!

[shesepankh]

Mike found her first.

She has her arms folded and is listening to him make more or less the same argument he made to Darren, although he has toned down the creepy language some for this rendering.

[castmyown]

Of course he did. Damn.

Well. Darren will jump in if she needs him, but he thinks that she can handle this just fine.

(He doesn't feel any sort of pity for Mike.)