Sex And Candy, Wednesday, Second Period

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

Cindy had left a note on the classroom door telling the students to head up to the Danger Shop. As the students arrived, they would see that it had been programmed to look like a beautiful garden. A closer examination would show that everything in the garden was edible--more than simply edible, even. Much of it was candy. Spun-sugar flowers decorated the path. The bark of the trees might be made of candied peppermint, or peanut brittle, or simple chocolate. Even the 'dirt' was made of crumbled cookie pieces, with gummy worms burrowing through. Colorful rocks were little pieces of hard candy and the weeping willow dangled branches of thin caramel over the path. The apple tree was growing candy apples, of every different variety, and the tiny lemon tree gushed lemonade when the bark was cut.

Today, class was held in a garden full of moddable candy and treats.

A really sharp observer might notice that there was no sign of Cindy.

[Please wait for OCD up]

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Re: 15 Minutes Later...

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

"I'm George Lass," George said, "and I'm gonna be a senior next year, but I don't know if that means I'm a senior now, or what."

She was not up on these things.

"I think my favorite fairy tale is ... one that not a lot of people have heard?" she hazarded. "It's about ... god, lower-case g, giving Toad an urn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Like_Me#Creation) that had Death inside, and then Frog wants to borrow it. Frog nags, Toad caves, and Frog jumps around with it like an asshole and breaks it. So ... now there's death, because Frog was an asshole, and maybe that's exactly why god-lowercase-g gave Toad the urn to begin with, just as a set up. I ... think I like it because it doesn't really have a moral, so much as ... you know. Shit happens, because people suck."

Re: 15 Minutes Later...

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

Cindy gave George a warm smile. "Glad to see you back," she said. George had impressed her with some of their conversations back during the class on symbolism. "That's absolutely a recurring theme in some of the older fairy tales. Life's hard, it's completely unfair, and frequently arbitrary. That's a lesson even children must learn: sometimes bad things happen for no reason. Sometimes bad things happen because people make them happen, out of stupidity or spite or carelessness."

Re: 15 Minutes Later...

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

"And the consequences hit people who had nothing to do with it," George agreed, nodding. "Frog being careless changed the rest of the world. And you can't ever undo it. You can't get the jar back in one piece; some breaks just are."