Kemonomimi High! Semi-Lit+! [Open and Accepting!]

[Hikari-chan]

Zacharias

"Changing in the bathroom seems like a good idea ..." thought Zach as he suppressed another massive yawn. He walked towards his bed which was the one nearest to the windows on the boys' side. He liked that. Close to the windows meant being able to hear rain and watch snow fall when everyone is asleep, the air is still, and the only sounds in the room are deep, calm breaths. It meant being awake alone, content, safe and warm, and being able to think your thoughts undisturbed -- if you didn't fall asleep too soon.

He rummaged through his suitcase and pulled out a pair of shorts and a sleeveless white shirt, along with an orange toothbrush and some toothpaste, then got up with a sigh and went to the bathroom.

He emerged five minutes later, wearing the clothes he took with him previously and carrying the other ones in his arms. He threw them into the suitcase, closed it, pushed it under the bed and lied down on the bed with a content sigh. He contemplated reading some of the books he brought with him, but he was too tired. There were still some 15 minutes until the little dude came and turned the lights off, but he doubted he could wait that long. Instead, he just muttered 'good night' to whoever happened to be paying attention -- and even if nobody was, that was fine with him -- then pulled the covers over his face and fell asleep almost immediately.

((Poke @ Poofle x3 ... I just got this idea -- what if Ellie and Dan got lost in the castle? It would add some drama ... to feed Brute's beastly appetite. xD It's just a suggestion, though. x3 ))

[ossa di cervo]

Mariah Whiteside

Mariah smiled a little as she heard Todd's voice, relived that someone else spoke out after her. Alex spoke out next with a decent idea but then Clowesia came along and made them all feel like, well, rocks. No wit. No intelligence. Nothing. Mariah's eyes narrowed a little with her temper that rose a tad. Why did she have to come along and say that so.. obviously?

Mariah watched as Clowesia went into the bathroom with her fists clenched a little. Once she was inside, Mariah flopped down and screamed into her pillow a little, then stood up and got her own clothes; tank top and shorts. Sure it was a little more, ah, shower, then everyone else, but it was all she had. Everyone would just have to deal.

She ran into the bathroom, picked a stall and pulled her other clothes on. Once she was done, she looked around at the feet of the stalls, hoping to find Clowesia's feet.. Or even a few clothes that had been left on the ground. She had to do something. Anything. Why would such a perfect little girl leave her belongings on the ground..? But still, Mariah continued to tip-toe around the bathrooms hoping to find something. After a few moments though, she simply gave up and moved out of the bathroom stalls.

Once outside a quick thought hit her. She glanced around quickly before trotting over to her bed with an innocent look. She put her clothing back in her bag, zipped it up, then laid down on her back on the ground and slid under her bed. Hopefully this place was worse off then it looked. Scanning the wiring and springs, Mariah found a few small spiders and plucked them up into a closed palm. When she stood up again, Mariah looked over her own bed. She needed to find a way to get to Clowesia's.

She looked over the blankets she had while humming innocently, then skipped over to Cloweisa's, "Hmm." She looked up at Alex, "Do you have sheets too?" She scanned through Cloweisa's blankets, placing the spiders under the sheets. Hopefully no one saw. She had to pray. Mariah nodded and turned away, "Alright. I just wanted to check. It wouldn't be very fair if I was the only one with sheets."

When Mariah finally got into her bed, she smiled wickedly. She had done it, or at least she had done something. She yawned loudly, stretched her arms over her head, "Night everyone.", and laid on her back, facing the ceiling.

((Sorry about the late post. ))

[Clowesia]

With a huff and a puff, Clowesia quickly got changed. Slipping out of the stall, she easily trotted back into the room; giving a quick glance around the room, it was obvious everyone was bunking down for bed. Looking down to the other end of the room, Clowesia spotted Alex; though it was obvious she was lost in thought. Unable to catch the girls eye and thinking it too rude for her to shout out the Alex's name to gain her attention, she puffed out her cheeks in annoyance. As she tossed her clothing into a small washing hamper beside her bed, she caught Mariah out of the corner of her eye. She gave the bristled girl a short smile before she returned to her bed. She stopped short as she realized the problem facing her. Staring down at the bed with a blank face, she cocked an eyebrow. Dragging her gaze from the top of the bed, to the bottom she tried to evaluate just how short this bed was. 'This aint gonna work.' Clowesia bemoaned in her head, her height, like usual, working against her.

Nether-the-less, Clowesia wasn't one to complain about things like this; so with another puff of her cheeks, she threw back the sheets. "What the fu-?!" She cried as she saw a spider crawling around in her sheets, with a grunt and a look of plain agitation on her face, Clowesia raised her cloven hoof and slammed it down on the eight legged creature. Lifting her hoof up with a grunt, she glanced a quick peek, seeing the black crunched remains on the bottom of her hoof she wiped her hoof on the wooden flooring, scraping the dead spider off. "This place is getting better and better." She mumbled, a look of disdain as she looked down at the smear on the floor. Yanking back the covers, she quickly search around for some more spider. Satisfied she had the killed only one, she slid into bed with a squeak and squeal of springs; she was not the most graceful of creatures all the time. With a grunt and a huff, she looked down to the end of the bed to see her hooves and ankles sticking out over the end of the bed.

'[censored].'

((It's fine, Zmija~ 8D))

[ZephyrWolf]

~Todd~

Todd pulled a shirt and shorts out of his suitcase and proceeded silently to the bathroom, getting dressed in a matter of minutes. He reappeared shortly afterwards and headed straight to his bed, tossing his clothes in the hamper not too far away. Without anymore fuss, he climbed into bed and tried to ignore the racket from the girls' side as he shut his eyes in an attempt to sleep.

~Alexandria~

Alex looked over when she heard Mariah's muffled scream. She raised a curious eyebrow, but said nothing as the agitated girl got up and went through her suitcase. Her eyebrow remained cocked, however, as Mariah pulled out a pair of shorts and a rather revealing tank top for her pajamas. 'Well I guess some of us aren't as conservative...' she thought cynically, rolling her eyes as Mariah ran to the bathroom to change.
After a moment, Mariah reappeared, glancing around quickly before going over to her bed. She disappeared underneath it for a moment, and Alex couldn't help wondering what she was doing. But a moment later, she reappeared with her fist closed around something and Alex just assumed that she had dropped an earring or something of the sort, not thinking that anything was out of the ordinary.
Mariah began to hum and skipped over to Clowesia's bed after analyzing her own sheets. From across the room, she turned to look at Alex, asking her if she had sheets too. "Yeah, I have some" Alex replied, her voice heavy with sleep. Alex noticed Mariah turn back to Clowesia's bed and reach her hand under her sheets, but she thought that she was checking to make sure Clowesia's sheets were all there too, since she had just seemed so concerned about Alex's just a moment ago.
Almost as if to confirm Alex's assumption, Mariah turned away from Clowesia's bed and told Alex that she had just wanted to make sure she wasn't the only one with sheets, since that wouldn't be very fair. "Thanks" she mumbled, stifling a yawn. Alex didn't notice Mariah's wicked smile as the girl got into bed, but she did hear her yawn loudly, causing Alex to do the same. "Good night" Alex called sleepily, ready to get some shut-eye.
A minute later, however, her eyes snapped open as she heard someone cry out, instantly recognizing the lower tone as Clowesia's voice. Alex sat up, startled as the sheep-girl slammed her hoof down on her bed before scuffing it across the floor. 'What was that about!?' Alex wondered, although her eyes were too heavy with sleep to see straight. She heard her friend mumble something sarcastically before she yanked back the covers and got into the bed, causing the springs to squeak and squeal loudly.

[Clowesia]

/Prod@RP./ :T

[Clowesia]

Just an update, I PMed Poofle, she's been very busy lately and she may have to drop out, I'll give her two more days before deleting her character. She wanted me to tell you she was sorry, Hikari-Chan. If in two days she is unable to post and her character is deleted, we'll just have to move on like she wasn't here to begin with. D;

[Hikari-chan]

((Oh I see ... . I hope she can make it. Thanks for telling me ))


Zacharias

Zach mumbled something in his sleep and pulled the covers even higher, so he disappeared beneath them completely. Due to the noise from the girls' side, he almost returned to reality from lalaland, but he was still sleeping ... for the moment, at least.

After a while, he was deeply asleep once again. That was when he began to dream.

Loud screaming jolted him awake and he looked around in confusion. He wasn't in Kemonomimi High anymore. He was back at home, and he recognized his father's voice, shouting at his best friend, Jeff. "You insolent human," shouted his father, "how dare you show up in my house?! You're spreading your human filth everywhere, just by breathing! Get out!"

Zach huffed in rage. But before he could say anything, Jeff responded, obviously trying to make peace. That was Jeff alright -- even when he was being insulted, he was always trying to calm the situation.

"Sorry, Mr. Ayton ... I just wanted to ask Zach if he wanted to come with us to the party. I didn't mean-"

"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU MEANT OR DIDN'T MEAN, BOY! GET OUT!!" screamed Zach's father. That was when Zach had enough. He ran between the two, faced his father and spread out his arms. His father was baffled. "What are you doing, son?" he asked.

Zach gritted his teeth and managed to smile. However, this smile was as different from his usual smiles as the moon is different from the sun. It showed nothing but anger, sadness and shame over his father's behavior. "What's it look like, dad? I'm stopping you from insulting my friends," he answered, his voice shaking with rage. His father's eyes widened, as did Jeff's, and Jeff put a hand on Zach's shoulder, trying to stop him.

"Cool it, Zach," he said, scared because he'd never seen Zach so angry before. "We're leaving. It's ok." Zach looked over his shoulder and shook his head. "No, Jeff, it's not. I'm going with you to the party, right after I settle this."

"OH NO YOU'RE NOT!" shouted Zach's father. "You aren't going to any party with these ... these ... abominations!"

"CUT THAT OUT!" screamed Zach. "You have no right to call my friends -- the people who accept me for who I am, even when nobody else that's human does -- abominations! I forbid you!"

"You ... forbid ... me?" asked his father incredulously. Then his features contorted in rage once again. "What have I done to deserve a son like this? My own son, preferring these human monsters over his own kin!"

Zach's ear twitched, and he moved without thinking. One moment he was standing in between his father and his friend -- and the next moment his horns rammed into his father's chest. Zach didn't even feel the impact, he had so much adrenaline rushing through him. He watched in disbelief as his father fell to the ground, gasping. His eyes met Zach's -- they were wide and seemed not to believe what had just happened. And then he hit the floor and slid a bit before finally coming to a halt and lying completely motionless. There was complete silence in the room for a moment -- Zach only heard the frantic beating of his own heart -- and then his mother screamed and ran to her husband, trying to shake him awake. Zach only watched the scene and thought: "What have I done?"

Zach sat up in his bed, gasping for air. He looked around in alarm, expecting to see his family screaming at him for what he'd done. It took him a few seconds to realize that he was in Kemonomimi High, far away from his family that despised him and his friends that slowly drifted away from him after the incident.

He lied back down slowly and put his hands behind his head. He stared at the ceiling, no trace of laughter left in his features. He'd never felt so ... alone. Not even after his family kicked him out. "Always joking, always grinning, never forming deeper relationships with anyone. Is it really a question as to why you feel so lonely?"

He sighed and turned to face the window. "True, the school year is only just beginning ... we'll see how things turn out."

[ZephyrWolf]

~Alexandria~

Alex didn't know that she had fallen asleep, only that she was now waking up to harsh light shining directly on her face. She groaned, still very tired, but sat up after a moment. "It's too early to be up already" she grumbled unhappily,already rooting through her suitcase for the uniform that had been sent to her house before she left. It wasn't the prettiest thing she'd seen, but it wasn't too bad..for a uniform.
She walked past the other still-sleeping girls and entered the bathroom to change. In a few minutes, she was back out, sporting the new outfit. The only thing that she absolutely couldn't stand was the skirt. Normally, Alex wore jeans or sweatpants...shorts occasionally, but never skirts. And to top it off, this one was so short that she felt as if she was hardly wearing any bottoms at all.

~Todd~

Todd woke up from the sound of someone's footsteps on the floor. He looked around at the beds and saw that their occupants were still all in them, sleeping. It took him a moment to realize that the noise was coming from the other side of the room, past the divider, on the girl's side. 'Sometimes I just wish these ears would let me get some decent sleep' the thought to himself, sighing inwardly. Reluctantly, Todd swung his legs off the edge of the bed and pulled out his uniform from the suitcase his parents had packed for him.

[Hikari-chan]

Daniel

Daniel opened his eyes to see the morning light illuminate the room. He counted to ten, then got up and rubbed his eyes. He sighed as he remembered the dream he had. It was about making friends with a child-like usamimi ... but it was only a dream. He flipped open his trunk and pulled out the uniform, frowning slightly when as he laid his eyes on it. He didn't like it very much, but it was obligatory to wear it, so he didn't really have a choice. He changed quickly, then brushed his teeth and splashed his face with cold water to fully wake up. He sighed again. First day of school. And he had yet to make friends while everyone else knew each-other already.

"This was going to be more difficult than I thought ..."


Zacharias

Zach groaned as he rolled off the side of the bed onto the ground. He opened his eyes and groaned again as he realized it was time to get up anyway. As he was getting up from the floor, he bumped his head on the nightstand and gritted his teeth. He stumbled off into the bathroom and panicked when he saw a bruise beginning to form on the side of his forehead. Not even to mention the circles under his eyes, caused by lack of sleep due to the nightmare and the fact that his long orange hair looked like a bird's nest. "This is not my day," he thought as he stepped into the shower and tried to wash the fatigue away. He came out of the bathroom five minutes later with a towel around his waist, still looking tired but a bit less so than before. His hair was slightly frizzy from drying with a towel, and he considered putting it in a ponytail as he grabbed his uniform and went back to the bathroom to get dressed.

When he emerged, he was wearing the uniform along with the ponytail. However, because the uniform was boring in his opinion, he decided to wear it a bit differently -- by rolling up the sleeves, loosening his tie and draping the vest over his shoulder. He also left a strand of hair loose, so as to cover the bruise on his forehead.

His stomach growled. "Does anyone know when we get breakfast here? I'm starving!" he complained.

[Poofle]

((>_< I feel like I'm being really reeeeally intrusive here, but... I finally got everything sorted out IRL and school ended a few days ago, which basically means YAY I AM NOW HAPPILY SCARILY FREE FOR ONE WHOLE MONTH AT LEAST~ But I see I'm quite late in coming back and you've already taken Ellie off the list. >_< So sorry again but... may I re-join? And... seeing as Hikari-chan hasn't made much progress without Ellie so far... is there any chance that I can be Ellie again? >3< I promise to be active, I do! Once again, sorry for being away so incredibly long. DD: I'll understand if it's not okay, really.))