fandomhigh | Drama, Monday, Period 4

"Good afternoon!" Lito said to his students, once they were all assembled in the front row of the auditorium, because seriously, this was drama, what did they need a regular classroom for? "I am Mr. Rodriguez, and I will be your teacher. I'm afraid I am a bit new at this, so please bear with me. Now, drama is an art form, yes? It's about making people believe something is real that isn't. It's about...well, it's about lying. So that is what you're going to do this week. You're going to lie to me. It's an improvisation exercise. Introduce yourselves. Give me your real name, because I need to check you off on this roster, but anything else that comes out of your mouth should not be true, and it should be convincing. I, for example, am a pharmacist from Barcelona who was recently working in San Francisco, before I discovered my passion for the stage." He sounded very convincing, and stood one hundred percent prepared, with some assistance, to convince them this was true. Or they could Google him on their phones. "Now, you," he said, picking a student at random. "Who are you?"

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"Daydream."

"But then your homework doesn't get done."

And she daydreamed plenty! Just...responsibly.

"Sure it does." Mostly. Sometimes. "Just not because I'm bored."

"Well, no, of course not. You don't just do homework because you're bored. It's an important responsibility. But if I'm bored and I have responsibilities, doesn't it just make sense to kill two birds with one stone?"

Kathy frowned. "That is such a morbid saying."

"Haven't you ever just not done anything?"

"All the time!" Kathy said, pouting at her. "I read comics, I play video games, I take naps. I do nothing all the time!"

"No, you just listed three things that you do a lot. That's not doing nothing."

"Okay, what do you consider doing nothing?" Kathy asked.

"Staring into space and letting your mind wander."

"Okay, yeah," Kathy admitted, tucking her hair behind her ear. "I don't do that a whole lot. My parents never really approved of wool-gathering. I guess I never got good at it?"

"Then we'll work on that," Raven decided. "It gets easier with practice."

"But...why?" Kathy was not picking up what you were putting down, Raven. "I mean, I daydream every now and again, but it's better to stay focused."

"Have you ever figured out the answer to something you were working on while you were just standing in the shower?" Raven asked.

"And you're saying that it's because I let my mind wander and then had the thought bubble up from my subconscious, because I'd stopped thinking about it," Kathy said, seeing where this was going.

"I'm saying minds need more breaks than just sleeping," Raven said. "And my brother's a telepath, so I should know."

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