Breaking Habits, Fixing Things

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn grumbled a little as she loosened the black tie around her neck to her new school uniform. Just the word uniform made Devyn cringe and she was just thankful the school had been smart and allowed the girls to have a verity other than a shirt. Devyn would end up getting a dentition everyday if she had to wear a stupid skirt. Wearing the black boot, black pants, and white short-sleeve buttoned up shirt was what style of the uniform Devyn had decided to wear. It was not too much different from what she normally would wear if she was going out on a date or something, but she was expected to pretty much wear this around the school at all times except lights out. “A, B, C, D, E, F, G…” Devyn was going through her alphabet as she worked on alphabetizing the books she had been given to put away. After her little library destruction she had to come help clean the place up as part of her punishment.

Putting away the books was the worst of it all. She had not minded cleaning up the debris from the broken tables, chairs, and a bookshelf but putting the books back on the self was a pain in the neck. She only had to do the letters S, T, and V but there were so many damn books with the author having an S name and she had to alphabetize them fully. Meaning she had to go to the next letter in the name and the letter after that until it would be in the right spot. She had already completed her classes for the day and now it was just this task. This painful task. Just as she got a row down, it seemed the shelf had been not screwed in fully; her fault, and could not take the loud of books. Crashing down and spilling the alphabetized books to the ground.

Devyn stood there in silence, feeling a mix between wanting to just throw a child-like fit and just going on yet another rampage. Instead she just let out a long and very slow sigh as he green eyes scanned around. She needed help and she was going to get it, meaning she would have to end up paying whoever she asked to do the task back in some way. A person sitting down by themselves seemed like the perfect target so Devyn moved over towards them and tapped them on the shoulder. “Hey, sorry to bother you, but could you help me out with these books? I can pay you back for the help.” Devyn asked and added in her offer because you had to give something if you were going to ask for something.

[Evangeline Bjorn]

Studying with her pink earbuds in listening to the Wicked soundtrack. She had about every broadway musical soundtrack in her ipod, some even had three or four different versions. When it came to her favorites she had songs in different languages as well. The song "Angel of Music" ranged from Italian to Japanese. This lead her to study different languages so she could understand all the different nuances in different musicals, plays, and even operas.

Evee tapped the purple mechanical pencil against her carefully glossed lips as she read over the chemical processes of photosynthesis. Just as she was getting to the photolysis of the water to produce oxygen when someone tapped on her shoulder. After a few blinks she paused her music then took out an ear bud looking up at the girl expectantly. Oh, she was so polite! Politeness always made her happy, and thus very willing to help.

"Sure! What exactly did you need help with?" Eve took out the other ear bud quickly wrapping the cord around her ipod. She glanced at the books then at the shelf. "Do you have to put them all back?" There seemed to be an awful lot of books for just one person to put back by themselves. Unless that person had a lot of time to put them back, or they were a fast worker.

Smiling she reached out and grabbed a handful of books. "I can help. Not a problem. Don't need to pay me. I like helping. Besides I needed a study break. Yep. One can only read about plants for so long, right?" Evee looked at the spine of the book read the number, title, and name then placed it in the right spot.

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn didn't really seek out the help of anyone specific; it was not like she had purposely asked a pretty girl to help. Sure it was a nice coincidence, but she really just went to the first person that was close by to where she was and looked like they would be smart enough to help her out. What looked smarter than a girl that was sitting at a table and studying a book? A person surrounded by a ton of books and studying, but the main thing was the whole studding fact. This girl was studying, which meant she was smart, which meant she would be able to help Devyn put books away without any real issue. Devyn eyes simply just glanced over what the girl was reading, and regretted it for her brain's sake. Yup, she for sure is a mart one. Devyn thought to herself as she waited for the other girl to remove her earbuds before she spoke.

Devyn of course was polite, because who was a jerk to someone they were trying to get help from? A stupid person, was who. Devyn liked to think that she had at least average intelligence, plus she was more of a flirt first and be nice and then be a jerk after if the person got on her bad side. Devyn smiled when the other girl said she would help, making Devyn feel like she would be able to pull off this task in a decent amount of time. Devyn was about to explain but the girl asked if she needed to put back all of them, and Devyn just nodded in a slightly defeated way. She was not giving up of course because she had to do this for her punishment, but it had still been a hard day. "All of them. Had to put together that whole new self and put all the books back that were not too badly damaged." Devyn answered her question as she moved back over to the shelf and started to make sure all the shelves were snugged tight between the sides of the book shelf so she would not have a repeat accident.

She still had some new tables and chairs that she had to put together in the back to replace the ones that were broken. The library certainly looked a little empty in the section that Devyn was working in, but that did sort of make it look like an idea place to study along. Should I tell her why I have to do this? Nah, she will ask if she is curious, unless she is shy. Devyn thought to herself and smiled all the more when the other girl already started to pick up the books and put them away. "Thanks, it really means a lot. At least let me buy you like a drink and a snack after? A snack break in a way." Devyn asked since she really was the type that didn't like to owe debts and this was a debt in her opinion. "Oh, I'm Devyn by the way." Devyn extended her free hand, holding a stack of books under her other arm and supporting them with her bad hand that was doing much better today.