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Nodding his head hurriedly, Jake was quick to agree with the professor. He needed all the help he could possibly get. "Okay, sir. Yeah, I'd like that, I really would," he added, voice eager. "I mean... please."
He was getting guidance from a couple of teachers now... if you could call detention with Kazi a method of guidance.
Biting his lip, Jake shrugged, which meant a yes in this case. He nodded, confirming Professor Lawson's summary of the situation. "Maybe," he mumbled. "I suppose I'm just... still kind of in shock that she ain't coming back," Jake admitted, perhaps finally coming to terms with it.
"Good" Marcus nodded. "Tomorrow afternoon in the dueling arena, meet me there and we'll go over some basic stuff." It would be good to give the kid a little confidence, it always worked wonders.
"Well I'm sure she had a very good reason for not returning and if she was a good friend then she won't forget about you." Okay so he had no idea what he was talking about but it was better to say things the kid wanted to hear.
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Meh Reh UGH. This was SO not Karma's way of starting out the school year. She was trying to work things out with Emiliano, when that girl had to show up and ruin it. They weren't even together, and she starts crying, making Karma feel like the slime in the bottom of the potions cauldrons.
She was walking rather heavily for such a small person. It wasn't often that Karma got mad, and she had to keep it under control. True, she wouldn't go full blown out like her grandmother could, but her eyes and mouth...
Shuddering, Karma calmed herself down somehow. That didn't need to happen, not here anyway. Maybe in private, but... No. Not at all, no way. She just needed to walk around, clear her head. It felt as if she could burst into tears at any moment, but that was not Karma, and when you saw her with her eyes watered? Something was definitely wrong.
She ran a hand through her hair, and leaned against the wall with a window looking out and AWAY from the Bamboo Forest. Towards the lake - that was the perfect view. Today, this year so far, just not good.
He glanced out of the corner of his eye to the girl, who was looking out the window. Oh he remembered her, she had spoken to him at the feast. Karma, yeah that was her name and she didn't look particularly happy right now. Meh...it had to be over a boy. Girls only wore that look when they were thinking about a guy. Angst you gotta love it.
Marcus didn't want to interrupt her emotional dilemma, he simply waited for her to look his way and then he would know if she needed a person to talk to.