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Survive Your Own Cooking - 3rd period - (11/19)

Today Deadpool was repeating the word 'chimichanga' over and over again. It was a fun word to say. Go on, try it out. Chimichaaaanga.

But, oddly enough, he didn't plan on having the kids make any. Because he didn't think they tasted very good.

"Goooood morning kids! Today we're making a lil' foray into the deliciousness of Mexican food. And no, not the Taco Bell kind. That's like trying to pass the Olive Garden off as Italian. Or Burger King as German. Or Pizza Hut as Italian. I don't know if I can come up with any more examples, but if I do, I'll let you know."

Deadpool cleared his throat and waved his hand toward the tortillas and various meat and protein bits available for them to use. "Today you're making burritos. Be they of the normal beef, pork or chicken variety. Or maybe you like to go crazy and wanna make one with tofu or fish. Or you don't eat anything with eyes and wanna go with refried beans. If it looks unappetizing, my suggestion is to add lots of cheese and the spiciest salsa you can find to mask the horrifying taste of the unholy creation you have brought upon the world." A beat. "Like Damian in food form. I hope you're very happy with yourself people. I hope you're happy."

Oh tangents were just FUN.

"Now shoo! get into groups and try not to burn anything down!"

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Yurika snorted with amusement. "You should have seen Romeo last spring, after that whole incident with the time travel and the alien angels. Talk about skinny! I was almost afraid he'd blow away on me."

"But Toby, Cal, really? He seems sweet enough, but he named his Ewok baby after the ethics teacher, and I don't think he can do up his own shirt buttons. Give my gender some credit, we're not all that shallow."

Cal held up his spatula. "I didn't say he was smart," he clarified. "I was speaking purely on merits of attractiveness, and, no, you're not all that shallow, but don't deny for one second that some of you are."

"Besides," he returned to stirring the meat a little, "as the only other Greek in the school, I felt obligated to include him."

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"Greek pride unite?" she teased, sliding the sliced olives off to the side and starting on the onions. "Don't get me wrong, I'm as capable of being as shallow as the next person. I like pretty. Pretty is good. I'm perfectly willing to admit that. Anyone can be shallow if they put their mind to it."

"It's not always a bad thing either." Yurika grinned at him and took a bite of the cheese. "Being shallow can be a great stress-reliever, and no one ever expects you to be able to think past two-plus-two."

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"Hello, double-standard!" Cal said with a laugh, almost wishing he could comment on maybe he should have gone through with the girl thing. "You don't want guys to think you're shallow, but then you'll use it to your advantage."

"Maybe, but it's an advantage I intend to exploit for a good long time!" Yurika said smugly.

"If it's a choice between being dismissed because I'm a ditz or being ignored as a brainiac, I'll take shallow any day," she answered, tossing her hair. "A princess can get away with things the bookworm can't."

"Yeah, but..." Cal paused for a moment, frowning as he thought. "Doesn't it feel...bad, to know that the only way you can get certain things is to act like something you're really not? I mean, you're smart, you're not an idiot; are you really that okay with people thinking you are?"

Yurika paused, then carefully set her knife down. "Sometimes, it chafes, yeah," she admitted quietly. "But you get used to it, and after awhile it becomes habit, and then it gradually becomes more of you than you'd think."

To that, Cal wasn't sure exactly what to say. At first, he thought maybe he was just being cynical because he'd spent too much of his life already trying to be something he wasn't, but what she said right there was entirely too familiar.

So he just gave a basic, noncommittal "Huh."

Because Dojima was right; it did become habit.

Dojima gave him another one of her lightning grins before tossing another bit of food at him. "And now you've got me gloomy for no reason," she scolded lightly. "Silly is much more fun than serious, and to be honest, I don't give a shit about other people's opinions most of the time. If someone is really that stupid, that they think I'm a complete bit of fluff even after getting to know me? Then they aren't worth my time."

"Ow," Cal said again, although it still didn't hurt, and he looked at Dojima for a moment with a lift of his brow, a fleeting glance to let her know that she was only doing what they were talking about, back to fluff, but, hey, okay, fine, he could play that game. He could respect that. He had his own self that very few were going to see, and since Dojima wasn't exactly on that list, he couldn't hold it against her for hiding hers.

He threw an olive back. "Wouldn't be Gloomcloud if I wasn't gloomy, right?"

Dojima did the mature, responsible, trusting thing. The type of thing friendships were based on.

She stuck her tongue out at him. It was habit.

"Haaaaaaaaaaai. Cal 'Gloom Cloud' Stephanides. Would it kill you to let a ray of sunshine or two in once in awhile?" she complained. "Or are you saving all the glee for when we manage to light up the burrito?"

Cal held up his hands in a gesture of futility, but he smirked. "Took the words right out of my mouth; clearly, you're the better ray of sunshine, so I'm just going to leave it to the experts, Dojima, and let you just be all the bounce in this partnership of flaming food."

"I'll get you to 'bounce' someday," she teased. "I only promised not to badger you to dance, which I am honoring, I might add. I never said anything about not trying to get you to smile more. Or bounce. I bet you'd be hilarious on a sugar high."

"You do eat sugar, right? I know you don't drink, but you better have some vices, or I'm going to be sad again."

"I'm back to smoking like a chimney?" Cal offered, hoping that satiated Dojima at least a little. "And, yes, I eat sugar. There was a whole week of my life where I ate nothing but ice cream sundaes. I wrote a whole damn article about it; read the paper! You can read, can't you?"

Dojima gave him a distinctly frosty glance. "I will have you know I have fluent reading comprehension in two languages," she said primly. "How about you?"

"And I do read the paper. If I didn't, Rikku might beat me up. But just because you ate sugar then doesn't mean you do it now."

"I'm not the fluffy blonde here," Cal retorted simply. "And I mentioned in it that I wrote the article because I was inspired by ice cream I'd had recently, so there."

He stuck out his tongue.

"Totally eat sugar."

"Could have been sugar-free ice cream," Dojima pointed out. "How would I know?"

This meant she had to cross her eyes at him, and make a face. "And what does my hair color have to do with anything?"

"Dumb act's even easier since you're a blonde, isn't it?" Cal asked.

"No, people fall for it easier because I'm pretty," she said simply. "If I were a plain girl with blonde hair, I'd have to work harder to sell it."

"People tend to assume that attractive women are dim. I think it makes us less threatening or something."

"No," Cal shook his head. "I think it's just the blonde, maybe combined with the pretty."

Because he never thought pretty girls were dumb, because he simply had trouble thinking around pretty girls.

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