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Build Your Own Philosophy, Period 2, 3/29/10

The class would find a note on the usual classroom door asking them to meet outside on the basketball court. When they got there, they'd find Tyler in workout clothes and bouncing a basketball. He was cheerfully ignoring any lingering drizzle.

"I figured we all needed some time with fresh air with no monsters around," he said. "So today, this is gym class and we're playing basketball. This group" -- gesture to about half the students -- "is the red team, and the rest of you are blue."

"If you don't know how to play, you want to put the ball through the hoop. The people on the other team don't want to let you. You can't just carry the ball, you have to pass to a teammate or dribble, like this." He demonstrated, and explained a few other rules as he did.

"If you don't like team sports or you're still healing up, sit on the sidelines and find another way to keep busy for the rest of the hour. Or just breathe."

He was into the breathing part, yeah.

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"Well gee," Hayley said. "If everyone was afraid to try things cause they might look silly, nothing'd ever get done." She giggled.

"But I understand. I think I might get hurt if I go out there. I ain't exactly the biggest girl in the room."

"Nor am I," Raven said. She was tall, but slender, though blessed with the improbably bosom that only a comic book character could have. "And to be jostled around so I would find distressing."

"No kidding," Hayley said. "But hey, we can always watch and cheer, right? Or... well, meditate I guess too. If you want."

She shrugged. "Never got that stuff, myself."

"It allows me to center myself," Raven explained. "So that I may strengthen the shielding that keeps the emotions of others from overwhelming me. And also to calm my own emotions."

"...other people's emotions can do that to you?" Hayley asked, tilting her head. "How does that even work?"

"I do not merely sense the emotions of others, I feel them," Raven said. She didn't see any reason not to tell Hayley that. "And if they are too strong, they may overcome me."

"So if people are like... really angry at you, you actually feel it?" Hayley said, thinking that sounded awful. "But... does this mean you've felt it whenever I've come by all sad?"

"I feel it, yes," Raven said, nodding. "But I have learned to protect myself so I am not overwhelmed, as I said. Still, strong emotions can be difficult for me, but I am learning to shield myself better with Professor Skywalker's help."

"I'm sorry if I ever caused you any feelings or anything," Hayley said, feeling a little guilty. "I didn't mean to, I didn't even know."

"Please, Hayley, do not feel guilty," Raven said. "It is merely what I am, part of my gifts. You do not need to worry about that."

"Oh man, if I feel guilty, you feel it too," Hayley said. She winced.

"Waaaaait, what happens if, like..."

She blushed a little and giggled.

Raven tilted her head, studying Hayley. "If what?" she said.

"Well, you know. You're around where two people are mackin' on each other. Fooling around and stuff," Hayley said.

Raven turned bright bright red. "I feel what they are feeling as well," she admitted. Several doors had paid the price.

"...Jeepers," Hayley said, giggling quietly. "Guess it ain't all bad."

"It is when you do not understand such feelings!" Raven said. "The first week I was in the dorms, many people were feeling particularly amorous."

"Heh, amorous," Hayley said. "That's kind of a funny sounding word."

She was going to be stuck on giggling for a bit.

"And it was a very funny feeling," Raven said. But not in a funny ha ha kind of way.

"Guess you had a lot to learn," Hayley said, giving Raven a playful punch in the arm.

"I still do," Raven said, blushing even more. Although she'd learned quite a bit from Chuck.

Hayley waggled her eyebrows. "Well gee, maybe I can teach ya a thing or two."

Eeep. "Thank you, but no," Raven said. "I have a boyfriend now!"

"Which is exactly why you need to learn some things," Hayley said. "I wasn't askin' ya to actually do anything, sheesh!"

She winked. "Though that was flattering."

"Andy and I have not yet reached that stage in our relationship," Raven said. "I do not think I have to learn anything. Yet."

"Well believe me," Hayley said. "When you do have to, I can help." She smiled. "Least I can do for everything you've done for me, right?"

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