Simon tries to start up conversation with the girl on his left. He decides to go with the obvious. "Hey. bet you ten bucks if I can guess you're favorite color." The girl looks over at him and forces a little smile. "Ten bucks says you'd guess wrong." Simon smiles back, "Oh, so it's not pink then? Could have fooled me." "Yeah, it's for volleyball." she explains. "New members on the team are put through all kinds of shit, this is just one of the more silly ones... though they are really strict about it." "How can you be strict about wearing pink?" Simon asks. The girl just rolls her eyes. "They check everything. and I mean that." Examining her more closely, Simon notices that even the earrings she has in are inset with a cheap looking pink gem, and the bra slightly sticking out of her tank top was also a shade of pink. "Oh. wow. What happens if you forget something?" Simon wonders out loud. The girl gives another forced little smile. "Trust me, you don't want to know."
Simon decides to change the subject. "So... volleyball you said?" "Yeah, I've played since I was young." the woman explains, "Team here is actually pretty good, so I'm really excited to get on it, yanno? Can't wait for practice after this class." Simon scratches his brain for a second, trying to remember things about the volleyball team. Eventually it comes to him. "Oh yeah, they won some college championship last year, right?" he asks. She shakes her head. "Second, actually, but now that they got me on the team, winning this year should be fairly simple." Simon gives off a slight light laugh. "Right. Now that they have you... what's your name?"
"Oh, right." She says, "I'm Candice. You?"
"Simon."
They talk for a while longer, about various things. Simon learns that Candice is an education major, going into mathematics, has a chihuahua named Skipper, but most of all, he learns how much she loves playing volleyball. No matter what they talked about, the subject continued coming back around time and time again.
"Well Simon." Candice eventually says. "Thanks for making this class less of a drag. I thought I was going to die." Shortly after she finishes, students start to get up from their chairs. "Looks like the teacher's letting us out early today. Thank god." Candice smiles. "You seem... well, decent at least. Come watch us practice sometime, maybe try to scare away some of the pervs that always seem to show up to open practices." both of them get up from their seats. Simon notes that she's almost exactly the same height as he is. "I'll consider it." Simon says. "See you around."
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Simon looks at his schedule and finds that he has about an hour to kill before his next class. He decides to...
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