Cutting Ahead (Karlee/Crystal)

[crystal]

Outside the Gardens
Third Period

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Crystal was never going to get her paperwork in before her meeting with the freshman's parents. One thing she couldn't stand was dealing with the parental units, they all believed their child was the most perfect creation on the face of the earth. That would be fine and dandy if their students hadn't ended up in detention or the likes, but breaking to parents that their students were troublemakers was about as much fun as banging her head against her desk for an hour.

Especially this student who was related to a lawyer. That was just painful and she needed one more file from her apartment before she was able to prove to this parent once and for all that she was not lying about the incident with her child.

She was so wrapped up with what she was doing that she almost passed right by the high school student who was not in class. Now she had seen this student around, Kaylee... no Karlee, that was her name. It was hard to forget that hair, it just screamed insecurity, she had only met one or two young adults with that style hair who were not trying to fit in.

Of course some people were different, but usually the hairstyle looked fake and cheep. She understood why kids felt the need to do that to themselves but she knew she wouldn't ever think that was the style for her. Crystal had never understood the need to dress up to impress people - hence her flattering jeans and blouse. Never overtly fancy but neither was she badly put together.

She sighed and prepared to give some punishment for the girl ditching class, "Shouldn't you be in class?" It was her job to keep students on the strait and narrow, or rather it was the job she had taken upon herself as their overqualified councilor. So instead of letting the girl go with a smile and a slap on the wrist like many of her teachers had given her years before she sighed, put a hand on her hip, then gave her the "you-just-had-to-go-there" look.

She sighed disappointingly and glanced at the girl, "Well it looks like your coming to my office with me." Crystal would never be a fan of discipline, she liked being the good guy in most situations.

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[karlee]

Karlee wasn't ever the type of student to actually go to class. She was sure she would pass this year, since she had her grades up, but actually going to class seemed like a lot more work than it was worth. She hated sitting through pointless lectures. She fell asleep half the time, so why not just save the teacher the trouble and not show up anyways? So this effort to ditch class was taking place out on the grounds. Rarely did teachers come out here during class hours, so she wasn't too worried. She hated her third period anyways, and what teachers would be around the gardens? Very few, she figured. And most had given up on her anyways.

She was laying down on a bench outside the gardens with her knee's bent, staring up at the sky. A sigh passed through her lips as she put her hands behind her head. It was actually relaxing out here. Much more relaxing than being in class. She didn't have any cigarettes, and despite the fact she kept saying she was going to quit, the raging need for nicotine was coursing through her veins. Which, in turn, was putting her in kind of a pissy mood. She was unsocial a lot of the time and this so happened to be one of those times. The blonde really hated authority of all kinds as well, and she knew most people knew not to mess with her. She had the attitude of a fire and she showed it.

And then she heard a voice, which made her jolt up, her eyes narrowed slightly as she saw who the voice was coming from. The Guidance councellor. She hadn't expected her to be out here either. She clenched her jaw for a moment, not wanting to say anything, but moving so that she was sitting properly on the bench, not taking her eyes off the woman. "Who says I have to be in class?" She said, the sarcasm in her tone quite evident. "If they miss me that much I'm sure my teacher would come looking for me." Her tone wasn't the friendliest, but she hadn't gone into full on bitch mode next. She cocked her head to the side slightly, crossed her legs and smirked a little bit. " Sorry, but I think I'm okay here."

WORDS! too lazy to check
TAGS! Crystal~
NOTES! Karlee's a little bitch.
CREDITS! template © Haze,
lyrics © Lying is the Most Fun... by Panic! at the Disco

[crystal]

Crystal raised her eyebrows at the girl. She most definitely had authority issues to say the least. Nothing that Crystal hadn't worked with many times before at a school like this and today of all days she didn't have time to work through things calmly with the girl. Though it was probably what she needed so she moved the files under her arm and mentally prepped herself to deal with another unruly teenager. "Well if we're talking about who wants you in school, it's mandated by law for you to go to school, so Canada itself is who says you should be in class."

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Crystal moved so she was at least sitting down on the edge of the bench and not towering over Karlee like an all powerful big brother figure. Crystal found as a general rule being on the same level as whom she was talking with was always important so no one got the subconscious impression that they were inferior then the other. She did the same thing when talking with children although she was usually a lot less subtle when she crouched down to talk to a five-year-old, although she wasn't usually trying to get five-year-old's in trouble like she was with the girl in front of her. If only talking to adults and teens was like talking to a child, most children didn't think themselves superior then the rest of the world. Arrogance just made life difficult.

So she wanted to sit right here and not go to class, "Alright then, you don't want to leave this bench. Right Karlee?"[/i] At least she remembered Karlee from when she had been dragged to her office sometime during the year, it gave her a little more weight when it came to working with the girl. "So how about we sit here and you talk with me for the rest of the period -without you lying to me, I'll know- and I don't suspend you for ditching." Crystal raised an eyebrow at the girl and hoped she accepted the compromise. It was also nice to have suspension as a threat rather then detention, she knew for a fact that Karlee had been caught ditching class at least once before so she would have ample reason to suspend the fire student, and that would mean bringing parents into the fold and a whole mess of stuff that would not make for a fun while. There was also a lot of stuff that could be missed in class that she wouldn't be able to make up.[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]