For Po'e, who requested this story. Happy Birthday, ya prat!!!
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Shades of Grey: Genius
by Icka! M. Chif
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Hakuba sighed. "No one respects my genius." Really, what was the point
of being one of the smartest people in the class if everyone simply snickered
whenever you answered the questions in class correctly?
It wasn't necessarily his fault that he knew that condoms were inflated six times their size to pass inspection.
... although how the subject veered to that was a question beyond him...
Kuroba gave him a wide-eyed look before blinked and covering his mouth as if to hide a chortle. Hakuba raised an eyebrow in question, but Kuroba glanced away, his lips twitching in muffled mirth.
What?
Koizumi glanced his direction, a slight small mischievous smile on her face. Hakuba had just enough time to repress a small nervous shiver of impending doom before she opened her mouth, her soft voice echoing clearly in the room. "No body respects your penis?"
Silence descended in the room, as everyone went very very still. It was as if a very large purple pachyderm had just walked in, covered in sparkles and confetti and no one was about to comment on it.
Then suddenly, it was everywhere, an echo suddenly reverberating everywhere, like in a sound laden canyon. "-respects Hakuba's PENIS?!"
Kuroba put his head down on his desk, covering it with his arms, shoulders shaking slightly.
Hakuba just stared, aware his jaw was wide open, probably catching flies, but found himself unable to move, much less protest with the sickening bone-deep knowledge that whatever he said was futile in the tenth degree.
"Don't worry, Hakuba." Aoko turned and smiled sweetly at him with that innocent way of hers. "I'll still respect your penis."
Hakuba groaned, his head slowly migrating to the cool smooth surface of the desk.
Doomed. He was utterly doomed.
-fin-
This actually happened to Ysabet under different circumstances.
To this day, she still swears she said 'Genius'.
To this day, the rest of us still swear she said 'Penis'. ^___^
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