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Self-Expression- Monday- 4th period

Today the Danger Shop looked a little like the inside of a very plain room. What the students might really notice, though, were the sledgehammers and various tools on the floor.

"Well, I had other ideas in mind for today's class, but then I spent the weekend as a crazy person," Kitty began. "So I decided to take Fandom weirdness as a good way to teach about expressing yourself when you have feelings to deal with. Sometimes stuff happens, and it sucks or it's weird or you're left dealing with something you don't want to deal with. There's the option to talk about it, of course. Probably the best option. You could bottle it up or try to repress, but that doesn't do you much good in the long run. Or you could find some other outlet for it, even if it's just finding a room where you can just scream or cry for a minute or two. Or, you can do something physical. I advise taking a look at the gym if you haven't yet.

"But today, we're gonna get a little destructive, because sometimes that's fun. I want you to take a section of wall, and just destroy it. Really picture something that makes you sad or angry or frustrated and just go to town. It's the Danger Shop, so you can't get hurt, just don't use anything on other students. Also there are markers so if you want to draw or write something on the drywall to help you visualize whatever you're going to wreck, you go ahead and do that."

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Like you get to wreck some stuff!

Jim Kirk

Karina Lyle

Will West

Eleanor Lamb

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Or be embarrassed about the weekend, if you'd like.

Maybe Eleanor could hide under her desk. No. That would make it too obvious.

Maybe Eleanor could claim she didn't speak English.

Cosette had managed to escape the entire thing by dint of spending the weekend with her father, and judging from people's general demeanor today, she wasn't sure whether she wanted to know what she'd missed.

Cecil wasn't really sure why ignoring bad things was a problem, but whatever - breaking things could be fun, too!

He'd kind of had a fun weekend, but he never minded a bit of mayhem for a good cause.

Grab a ~~moddable~~ tool and break down a wall. You can talk, just don't smack each other with sledgehammers.

Kitty was the best. The best because even Jim felt a little weird and pissy after the weekend. He grabbed a sledgehammer and started going to town on one wall.

It hadn't been bad but he just knew he was going to have to face up to some of the stuff he'd done with Emma (again) and he wasn't looking forward to that.

Karina grabbed a hammer and... half-heartedly hit a wall with it.

Look, she just didn't have much energy to put towards destroying things when her weekend had been perfectly fine. Probably because she'd been off-island. But that was just details.

Besides, random destruction was more Sparkle's thing than hers. Even if this wasn't real.

After another not trying very hard swing at the wall, she looked around, set the hammer down, and grabbed a few markers instead.

Will was going to do a lot of smashing, yes. It beat thinking about what happened and trying to figure out if he even knew the guy that had carried him around and pledged undying friendship to and hugged.

He wasn't even thinking about the whole evil twin thing. Just no.

Eleanor grabbed the spray paint, but had no idea what to spray on the wall. She settled for making a large angry scribble. The scribble would symbolize her entire weekend. There.

And then she went to town with the sledgehammer.

That felt amazing.

Raven was good at this kind of thing. She'd even taken a whole class on it.

She shouldered a sledgehammer -- one that looked rather longer and heavier than a girl her size should be able to handle -- hefted it once or twice, then swung away. There might have been a bit of yelling involved.

She wasn't even that weirded out by what she'd done this weekend. It was just fun to take a sledgehammer to a wall.

Cecil grabbed a nice, big hammer himself, and took up a position not too far from Raven. He had a fairly important question.

"You're not really a priest or rabbi or high priestess or anything, right?" He wasn't really upset, just curious.

Raven shook her head. "Nope. I'm pretty sure I wasn't one this weekend, either. Just a wedding planner willing to fake it."

"You were great!" Cecil grinned and bashed the wall. "That's good, though. Otherwise we were going to have to go to Vegas to get a divorce. Now we can just go to Vegas for fun. Wanna come?"

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Well . . . all right then?

Cosette hadn't ever really considered hitting things with hammers as a way to vent her feelings about anything, but after picking up a sledgehammer and taking a few careful, experimental swings, she could see the appeal.

She's around. Though she did have to send a text when she wasn't keeping an eye on students with tools.

Okay, Clint was pretty sure Kitty was joking, but he wasn't entirely sure, so he went to her class with a wary expression. "Uh, hey. How are you doing today?" he asked. The students destroying things--well, he wasn't sure what kind of sign that was.

"Better than yesterday," Kitty smiled. "Did you get my text?"

"I did," Clint said, looking relieved for a moment before pouting. "Does that mean the wedding's off? Man, I'm never going to be a prince at this rate."