Note from the Author: Thank you for at least beginning to read my story. It's been kicking around in my head for years, and I finally said "y'know what, let's just write it." This is a planned multi-chapter story.
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"Cassie!"
Cassandra Watkins turned from her locker to see a hand peeping out from the top of the mass of bodies slogging through the high school hallway. She smiled as her best friend, Rachel, finally worked her way from the students lazily milling from class to class, stopping to lean against the locker next to hers, gasping for breath.
"What's wrong? What, did you run all the way from gym class?' Cassie eyed Rachel up and down, her eyes lingering on Rachel's bare, toned legs and her short gym shorts. She then realized that Rachel's red hair was tied in the ponytail she put it into for gym. "Wait, seriously, the bell rang less than 20 seconds ago. How'd you get all the way across school?!"
Rachel finally caught her breath and grinned. "My mom just opened the mail today, and I got accepted, too!"
"Oh my gosh, to Rockford?!"
"YES!"
Cassie and Rachel started squealing in delight as they hugged each other. Both of them had been very upset over the idea that they wouldn't be able to go to the same college. Cassandra had always had very good grades, and was very good with interviews, but Rachel tended to be very shy with people she didn't know, and despite Rachel's athletic ability, her shyness could be very crippling. They had spent nearly the last four months resigned to the idea that they would have to go their separate ways.
"This is great! Now I can go in with a roommate!"
"I know!"
"What made them change their mind?"
"Ladies, do you mind explaining what's going on?"
Both Cassie and Rachel's eyes went wide, immediately pulling away from each other, standing alert as Mr. Taylor stood in front of them, a band of boys huddled around. Cassie blushed as she realized what had just happened. Rachel was a very athletic and attractive redhead, but was somehow able to manage having a C cup, and had just been locked in an embrace with a D-cup blonde. She could tell by looking at the group gathered around that quite a few of them had stopped to enjoy the show and engage in some daydreaming, and blushed even harder when she saw that Mr. Taylor had a bemused smirk.
"Everyone, classes, now." Mr. Taylor looked back, and the group of boys disbanded, some grumbling at how he was ruining the fun. The teacher looked back at the two girls.
"Rachel, can you explain to me why you're still in your gym clothes? You're on the far side of the school."
Rachel turned her eyes down, actually toeing the floor. Cassie looked over, and saw that Rachel's shyness was taking her over.
"Mr. Taylor," she said, "Rachel and I were just happy to hear the news that she got into Rockeford, and we got a bit carried away, I'm really sorry, but you understand, right?"
"Really? Well, then congratulations! That is pretty exciting. Okay, well, Cassie, you should get to your class. Rachel, here," he said, handing her a hall pass, "I want you to go back to the gym and change before you come to my study hall. I'll let you being out of dress code slide this time."
Rachel finally looked up, nodding, as Mr. Taylor flashed a smile at her. "And cheer up. This should be exciting. Don't let me rain on the parade, okay?"
He started walking away, and Rachel let out a huge sigh once he was out of breath.
"I hope that I find a guy like him when I get older."
"Don't worry, you will. Hey, so, are we still on for tonight, or does your family have plans to celebrate?"
Rachel shook her head. "My parents have a business dinner they're going to tonight, so we're not going to go celebrate until tomorrow, so I'll still be at Greg's."
"Okay, well, I'll see you later!"
Cassie hurried off to chemistry class, happy that college wasn't going to be as lonely as she was afraid of.
Hearing a knock on the door, Greg stood up from the table, Andy and Robert arguing over whether or not it was possible to create a "Peasant Rail Gun."
"Andy, listen. If you ready an action in-game, when the trigger happens, you do the action with in the same turn of the trigger, right?"
"Yes, but..."
"And a turn is 6 seconds. So, if you line up ten thousand peasants, who all ready an action to pass the spear forward to the next guy once they get it, and each one of them is 5 feet apart, that means, according to the rules, that they would pass the spear from the first guy to the ten thousandth guy within 6 seconds. Meaning they would travel five hundred thousand feet in 6 seconds. That's eighty-three thousand feet per second. A spear would totally kill a dragon at that speed, and on top of that, peasants are proficient with simple weapons, so they'd even get a +1 to the attack roll!"
As Greg finally made it to the door, Andy called after him "Greg, please tell me that what he said isn't legal!"
"It is," Greg said, "but since the spear is going that fast, every peasant would have to make a dexterity check to make sure they pass it to the next guy and don't just impale the one in front of them. And if Rob can roll higher than 12 ten thousand times in a row, he wouldn't be on his fifth character sheet by now."
As he heard the "Oh, burn" from Andy and Robert's muttering, he opened the door, smiling at Cassandra and Rachel.
"On time for once!"
"Oh, shut up, Greg. It's not my fault I got a flat tire last week."