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With a glance in Jake's direction, Kiri said, "I don't think that'll be a problem. How about we just, you know... pass the ball back and forth a bit?" She looked around uncertainly. Quite a few of the students were really getting into it now (as evident by Jake's accident), laughing and calling out each other's names as the ran back and forth across the grassy classroom.
Which was something else that had thrown Kiri a bit at first. But the general effect of it was kind of nice, now that she thought about it. Decent piece of magic by Professor Lawson, she had to give him that. The grass looked real.
And now she was going to have to play football on it. "'m Kiri, by the way," she told the girl, then turned around to put a bit of distance between the two of them. How far away should she walk? Kiri turned the ball around in her fingers thoughtfully. A few metres would probably do - too far, and the ball would almost certainly get lost on the way, too close... well, it was probably going to get lost as well, then, behind the girl.
She stopped. Yes , this distance would do. She smiled uncertainly at the girl, then dropped the ball onto the floor.
Then she put her foot on top of it. Rolling it back and forth a little, she tried to get a feel for the ball. With the flats she was wearing, she could curl her feet around the curved surface, but that was probably not a good thing - the heavy leather looked as if it was able to make things... painful.
There was only one way to find out, though. Kiri put her foot behind the ball, then gave it a forceful kick. It spun away in the direction of the girl she'd partnered up with.
Back and forth? That could be good. And un-painful. And no grass stain enducing. Hopefully not grass stains. They were hard to get out of knees. "Shoooooore...." Lorelai nodded a little bit. "You might need protective gear. And to wrap yourself in bubblewrap. This could turn out lethal." For either one of them, that was. GAH. Ball = pain.
"Lorelai." She commented quickly, as she tugged at the end of her denim shorts once and then frowned a little bit. Okay. That distance seemed WAY to far. "Cant we just pass it like thirty centimeters distance?" She piped quickly, but too late. The ball was kind of coming in her direction.
SQUEAK. SQUEAL.
Shielding her face with her arms, Lori put one foot out with the bottom of it facing the ball, just waiting for it to slot in there and probably go THROUGH her foot. Balls went fast at times. She had seen it on her television. SEEN IT. But within moments of thinking that, the ball had safely stopped in her foots path. Unshielding her face she beamed a bit and took her foot off the ball, looking over at Kiri. "I STOPPEEDD ITTT!" Giggle.
Oh, now for the forth bit of the back and forth plan. Closing her eyes quickly, Lori gave a little tap of the ball with her toes and attempted NOT to watch where it went.