[LOG] CLUB FAIR AT LUNCH

[clintocallowhat]

Who: EVERYONE
What: Lunch + Club Fair
When: End of the 2nd week of School
Where: Lunchroom and Courtyard

It's now a couple of weeks into school and it's about time for a real club fair hosted by the Student Council! Tables are set up around the lunchroom giving students a chance to talk to the different club presidents and members about joining. Lunch has been extended to an hour and a half today with a few of the teachers and students grilling up hot dogs and hamburgers for the student body. You were even given one of those little cards where you have to get signatures from 4 different club presidents proving you participated for credit!

Comments

BASKETBALL

[numberonecoolguy]

Thanks to the football team snatching up almost every single person over six foot that even went to this school, the basketball coach had sought out the one tall person who had refused to join every time, Toivo. The team was so awful as it was that it didn't even matter that Toivo hated the sport, or was mediocre at best. He just had to be tall. And he was.

He didn't even have to set up the table, he was just forced to stay at it when he wasn't eating lunch. So. He kind of just sat behind the table. Glaring.

Seriously, fuck basketball.

Re: BASKETBALL

[accidentalpirate]

Elliot reeeeaaallly didn't want to be in an after school activity. He didn't want to be at the school longer than need be. He had shit to do.
I mean, not really, but being at school wasn't really the best part of his day. He didn't want to be there when he had to be, let alone after he had to be.

All the other sports seemed...pretty intense. Football had Clint's mom as the coach and granted Elliot didn't know much but he knew well enough not to screw around with her...so that was out. He'd honestly never heard shit about the basketball team. They were probably bad. And wouldn't have practice a lot?? (( Really that's not the best logic there, Elliot...being bad means more practice, but ok....))

" Heeeyyyy, soo, basketball, huh. " Elliot leaned on the table a little. Shit he didn't know Toivo's name at all.

Re: BASKETBALL

[numberonecoolguy]

Toivo looked over to Elliot, and raised his eyebrows. This short kid wanted to join the basketball team? Toivo sat up a little straighter in his chair, and, well, this kid didn't look too bad. Maybe if he joined the team Toivo wouldn't hate it so much? And if this guy was an asshole, then he can spend his time hating whoever this was rather than hating basketball.

"Are you interested in joining? The basketball team could use someone quick on their feet," Toivo said, trying to sound at least a little bit flattering.

Re: BASKETBALL

[accidentalpirate]

Elliot was a little eager to compliment himself, " I'm fast, " Really he didn't want to be fast in this situation. He didn't want to be a real asset to this team.

But I mean if this nerd looking kid was on the team, even with Elliot, they wouldn't be a good team.

Re: BASKETBALL

[numberonecoolguy]

"Well, that's good. Uh. Here, let me get you the sign up sheet," Toivo said. He grabbed a few items from around the table and stood up to hand the papers to Elliot.

Oh, wow. This kid was even shorter than he thought. Seriously, this kid was at least a foot shorter than him. "If you sign up, we can send you information on tryouts and when practice is."

Re: BASKETBALL

[accidentalpirate]

Elliot looked up at him. Oh ok so thats why he was on the team. Shit, he was so much taller than Elliot.


He stood up a little straighter, so he wasn't leaning on the table. It didn't really give him that much more height.
" Do you have a lotta practices?? "

Re: BASKETBALL

[numberonecoolguy]

Toivo made a face at the question. "Uh. I mean... There's... practice Monday through Friday after school... But sometimes you get to leave class early on game days!" Toivo hated leaving class early. How did he get conned into this sport? He'd rather stay in class.

He pushed the paper closer to Elliot, holding the pen out to him. "You should sign up."

Re: BASKETBALL

[accidentalpirate]

Damn. Every day. Hm. He shifted from foot to foot.

" Hooowww.....long are the practices. "

Re: BASKETBALL

[numberonecoolguy]

Toivo shrugged a little. "I dunno, they usually go until five. It's just kind of a lot of running and shooting baskets and pretending you know what you're doing."

"But, everyone who's on the team is pretty nice. It's a good way to meet people and make friends." Toivo smiled a little, hoping to convince the Elliot to sign the goddamn papers. He was now pressing the paper and pen against the back of Elliot's hands.

Re: BASKETBALL

[accidentalpirate]

Oh right. Elliot looked down at the papers and took them, glancing over them. Hm.
Hmmmmm.


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....



He scrawled his name (which honestly looked like shit. ) on one of the lines, before sliding the paper back over.

"I mean, i can quit if it's not up my alley right. "

Re: BASKETBALL

[numberonecoolguy]

Toivo winced a little. He had tried multiple times to quit, but he had been guilted back into it each time he tried. "...Suuuuuuuure. Yeah. But you do need to have an after school activity, or you'll be forced into something," Toivo explained as he read over Elliot's name.

"What does this say? I can't read this."

Re: BASKETBALL

[accidentalpirate]

Elliot frowned, snatching the paper and writing a little more carefully. Honestly, it doesn't look any better. His handwriting his awful and doesn't look like it's gotten any better from 5th grade.

" Daevin. " He huffed a little, " But I go by Elliot, but you need my """real""" name. "

Re: BASKETBALL

[numberonecoolguy]

"Oh, okay. Well, Elliot, I'm Toivo. The information on where practices will be will probably be sent out later this week, so keep an eye out for the information," Toivo responded with a smile. He took the sheet back and looked it over, able to decipher what Elliot had written down this time.

"I'll see you at practice then. And probably around school." He sounded honestly grateful that Elliot had signed up, and smiled widely.

Re: BASKETBALL

[xstreetxsweetx]

Gemi was sytematically making her way through the tables, determined to complete her self given quest to steal candy and trinkets of getting a signature from every. single. one.

Even that surly looking guy sitting by himself.
Especially that surly looking guy sitting by himself.
Because leaving him alone would require minding her own business.
And that's just not in her nature.

"You look mad." She said. It comes out sort of garbled, seeing as her mouth was stuffed with ill-gotten sweets.

Re: BASKETBALL

[numberonecoolguy]

Toivo looked up, surprised that someone would try to talk to him while he was burning a hole into the ground with his eyes. "Oh. Hi. Sorry, I didn't see you," Toivo said, eyeing the girl in front of him. She was cute, but short. Really short. Holy shit, this girl was over a foot shorter than him.

He didn't often get told that he looked mad. More often it was 'you look afraid' or 'you look nervous' or 'we were trying to steal your roommate's desk, not yours!' He tried to relax a little. "Sorry, I just don't really want to be manning the table. Were you interested in joining basketball?"

Re: BASKETBALL

[xstreetxsweetx]

Gemi reached up to mush her cheeks and roll around the mass of sugar in her mouth to make it easier to talk.
"Issit because you're cooped up behind a table? Cause that's boring. I wouldn't want to either. I don't like being bored."
Speaking of boring, there didn't look like there was anything interesting to take from this table.
But signaturrressss.

"I've never played before! Everyone always said that I was-" She reached up and pat the top of her own head, emphasizing each of the next syllables, "Too. Short." She smiled and giggled a bit, not understanding that it was usually not a friendly comment when said to her by the local kids on the neighborhood court.

Re: BASKETBALL

[numberonecoolguy]

Well, she was right. She was a bit short to play basketball. But the team was so desperate to get players that they'd take just about anyone at this point. They got Toivo, didn't they?

"As long as you can shoot a ball, it doesn't matter how tall you are," Toivo said. He grimaced a little bit at how much candy was shoved in her mouth. That was pretty gross.

"You know, you're going to get cavities if you keep eating candy like that."

Re: BASKETBALL

[xstreetxsweetx]

"It hasn't happened yet!" She answered happily. Sure, one day her good luck when it came to dental care would run out. However, right now she was 100% confident it would not be soon.

"Well let's find out then! It'd be exciting to try." Gemi half bends to pluck her signature card out of her shoe (she's keeping it tucked under the laces now, because of how often she needs to get it out), and looked around expectantly for the sign-up sheet.

Re: BASKETBALL

[numberonecoolguy]

Toivo pushed the sign-up sheet towards the girl and placed a pen on top of it. "By the way, what's your name? And why are you interested in joining basketball?" Might as well run the table the way he's supposed to.

Re: BASKETBALL

[xstreetxsweetx]

She did a quick scribble and held up the sheet to show him. "My name is Gemi!" She beamed. "What's yours?"

"I like doing stuff! Like I said, being bored is boring." She conveniently didn't mention that the more things she had to do, the less time she had to spend alone or at home with her family. "Do you really think they'd take me if I've never played before?"

Re: BASKETBALL

[numberonecoolguy]

"I'm Toivo. It's nice to meet you," He said, extending pleasantries as best he could. She was a bit hyperactive for him.

He snorted a little at her last question and looked away. "They took me," he muttered under his breath. Then he looked back at her and smiled a little. "I'm sure you'll do just fine."

Re: BASKETBALL

[xstreetxsweetx]

Toivo. She sounded it out in her head. Toooivooo~. "That's a neat name! I like it." She decides, simultaneously having said it out loud.

"Okay! Does it have tryouts like the swim team? When are those gonna be?" She asked, sliding the sign up sheet and her signature card toward him.

Re: BASKETBALL

[numberonecoolguy]

She said it wrong. "There's a 'v' in it. It's not 'toy boat'. T-O-I-V-O. A soft 'v'. It's Finnish," He explained, wincing a little. Most people got his wrong name the first couple times.

"Yeah, you have to try out, but chances are that you'll get in. Tryouts are at the end of the week, at 8." Toivo wrote his name on the signature form and then wrote the time and location of the tryouts. "Here. So you can remember."

LOL she'd totally call him toy boat

[xstreetxsweetx]

"Oh, okay!" She tried again. "Toivo. Toivo. ToiVo. Am I getting it yet?"

She took back the card and read the information he had written on it before tucking it back into the laces of her shoe.
"Wow! Thanks a lot!" That's super helpful! This Toivo boy is so nice.

it took ages for me to get people to pronounce it right

[numberonecoolguy]

"That's better." He smiled at her a little, though she was still kind of getting a 'b' sound in there. It was close enough.

"And it's not a problem. Just come by if you feel like it. I'm sure you'll be able to get on the team," Toivo said. And if she got on the team and was better than him, then maybe there was enough people where he could just quit.