Thea.
Thea was taken off guard when the old coot spoke up, glancing to Kami to see his reaction before back to the professor. With a heavy sight the delinquent slipped out of her chair and ruffled Kami's hair. "Be good Marshamllow." She uttered as she kicked her chair back under the table and stalked across the room. A pair of boys were sat together, talking quietly but making no major moves yet and she stopped in front of their table. They both looked studious but not nerdy, which was good. Shooting a look to one she uttered, "I'm partnering with you."
"Who says?" The boy responded, getting a raised brow from her. His partner was a bit quicker on the draw and lightly nudged his arm.
"Just do as she says, Evan." He uttered with a glance to her jacket.
"Yeah Evan do as I say." She echoed with a mock grin on her face.
"...Fine." Evan finally replied. Thea then turned her attention to the partner, "I promise he won't be harmed...now, go over to the scruffy haired kid I was sitting with and partner with him." The boy nodded with a sort of disappointed come annoyed look on his face, as he got up Thea grabbed his arm and slipped him, rather surreptitiously, a bag of butterscotch candies from her pocket, "Don't give him a nickname, don't touch him unless he says its okay and if he gets out of hand give him one of these. It'll calm him right down and make him real placid like...Thanks." With that she patted the guy on the back, his name unknown since she hadn't asked, and plopped down in his warm, vacant seat.
"I'm Thea by the way."
"Evan." Grumbled Evan.
"Nice to meet ya." She said, leaning back to squint at the old man and the paper he was attempting to read. "I'm the meister, in case you were wondering. You?"
"Same."
"We got a whole class together Evan and I am curbing my bad language and generally violent nature right now for your sake. Wanna at least try and be civil?" He looked at her and she offered a serpentine smirk followed by a wink. "I ain't all that bad when you get to know me and it's only for this class."
Yumi.
Yumi looked mortified when the professor finally spoke up, she blinked slowly, once, twice and then a third time and he still hadn't spoken any different. He wanted them to...what? She briefly glanced to Gil and Lucifer but after having been ignored earlier she was a little reluctant to go over to them again and ask for advice or to pair with one of them. They probably didn't want to associate with people like her which was understandable as they seemed pretty knowledgeable. Then she looked back to Arnaud, she strongly doubted Arnaud would pair with any one else willingly but then ti was a superior saying too and he'd always been very good at doing what a superior told him too. "I...I will move...I gu-guess I'll see you later." She offered her warm smile but all the same she couldn't hide her anxiety.
When she was younger her bubbly, happy personality had gotten her into a lot of trouble at school, kids had even picked on her calling her slow or stupid, especially since she hung around Arnaud a lot. While it had never stopped her smiling or her kindness to other people it had made her a little more careful and perhaps a little insecure. She couldn't understand the cruelty in people, despite her attempts at doing so, it seemed as impossible to her as breathing under water and that made her nervous. She wasn't sure how a happy person could make another desire to be cruel and she was unwilling to put herself, or another through that where she was able to. It was though her first lesson and the first request of the first lesson.
Carefully she got up, lifting her stuff and draping it over an arm before shuffling out from behind Arnaud and into the gangway of the tables. She glanced around the room and looked quite lost. People were pairing up quickly, splitting up and rearranging themselves and she was unsure where she would fit in, if anywhere. Fidgeting between feet she continued to look for someone who seemed 'open' to the idea of partnering with her for the duration of the lesson.
