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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Edward frowned. "I'm not the kind of smart that people like." He would know. People didn't even like the kind of smart that Lucius was and he was less abrasive than him, based on observation over the years. But he had seen the message she had scribbled and he couldn't help but smile again. Maybe they could be friends. Why not?

"...my friends are Lucius and Oswald. Lucius is smart too." It was an accidental insult to Oswald.
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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oswald is smart in his own way." Edward had to admit that. Oswald was smarter than them in some very important ways too, no doubt. But it was also undeniable that he wasn't intelligent in the way both Lucius and Edward were.

He glanced at her timetable and then nodded, while he got up and packed his book away. "I have English. The teacher is horrid. Dangles participles a lot, makes Lucius really nervous."
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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes, they-- Oh, dear." Edward looked at his friends and tried to think of the best way to handle this. Maybe he could just act as if this wasn't anything unusual? He gave a slight nod to his own thoughts, then walked on over and stopped by Lucius and Oswald. "Hi. This is Lee. Leslie Thompkins."

He smiled, a little awkwardly. "She wants us to walk her to English."
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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Lucius knows about cars." So there. That was one out of three for one topic out of two, but still. Better than nothing. "Boy stuff is mostly just gross." Honestly, if Edward had to judge it. "Oh, arcade. I like talking about that."

He grinned and walked ahead, waving to Lee to come along. Lucius seemed fine and Oswald usually complained anyway, so that was all right. "I told her already. About the English teacher sucking."

She did suck.
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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"It is fun. I like video games." He knew that not everyone did. Oswald, for example. But Oswald did really love to complain, so he didn't pay that too much heed. "You can win tickets, then you exchange them for toys. They do have those claw machines, but they are all doctored. They don't work."

He had analysed it, he knew it wasn't possible to get anything with them. Waste of money. Not that he was exactly making money by exchanging tickets for shitty toys, but still.
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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"She'll make friends with the other girls and avoid us like all of them." Stood to reason. So Edward just shrugged his shoulders and watched Lee idly now, curious where she'd choose to sit. "Why would she want to join our group?"

But he did like her. Not as a girl, of course! But she got riddles and she hadn't made fun of him so far, that was special. "It'd be nice to take her to the arcade. Nicer than taking Oswald."

Well, Oswald was excessively annoying when he wanted to be.
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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ugh-- Yeah." Edward blinked a bit too much, bending down to get his books out and, yes, there were scribbles all over. A couple poems too, embarrassingly enough, but luckily they were hidden between everything else. He hoped. "You could borrow from someone less-- Less me."

He gestured behind him. "Like Oswald. You could sit next to him. We'd be a square."
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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"...it's all fine." It was weird that she was asking him. "Lucius says Edward and Oswald says Ed." Usually, anyway. For some reason bullies had a tendency to go with 'Eddie', he wasn't sure why, but he could deal with that too. Actual name-calling, that was what he couldn't stand.

He glanced at Lucius and Oswald, trying to ask for help with his eyes. What was happening? Why was she so insistent on sitting next to him? Maybe it was a trap.
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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It was making him uncomfortable, honestly. It wasn't as if he enjoyed being an outsider and freak, it just happened to be that he didn't have a choice and he had gotten used to it. But now Lee was there, all normal looking and definitely not from the worst part of town, able to talk to people in a way that made them like her, and she was being nice to him?

She'd stop being nice to him. Then it would burn more again, that he was like this. "...do you like English?" He sounded like an idiot.
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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not really. I love language. I love words." They were so much fun to play with! Edward wondered whether Lee would understand that. "There's a lot of power in it too. The way we talk, it shapes how we're perceived. That's why I wouldn't talk the way I do right now anywhere close to where I live."

Or that's why when he did, he usually ended up being punched a lot. Simple lessons, really. "I like math, science, language, everything. I like to know. I'll learn Portuguese. Can you teach me?"
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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes!" Wait. "...I know it likely won't happen. so you can't make fun of me later for believing it would." There, that should cover that. He never got his hopes up, he didn't have any dreams, so nothing could be dashed. Ed knew how the world worked. Lee didn't seem to, but whatever. Maybe he could learn something before she was too cool for him

"You should stay away from Butch. That's my one advice. He's bad news." Even if he was charming. He didn't want Lee with a gangster kid.
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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. That intellectually challenged gorilla over there." Butch was big for his age, tall for his age and - Edward found - stupid for any age. But he always somehow had a girlfriend and he always flirted with girls and he was popular and really good at beating them up. All things that made him even more repulsive in his eyes. "He's a brute and a bully."

And then Butch turned his head to look in their direction and Edward hastily looked down at his book. Butch smiled and waved, very friendly.
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[personal profile] riddleboy 2020-12-30 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"They wouldn't hurt you anyway. You are a girl." Had to give them that, they really didn't hit girls. Sexist? Probably, but it'd be in Lee's favour. "Everyone here is an enemy to the three of us. It won't be that way for you."

They weren't going to have the same experience. At least Edward highly doubted it. "I can give you a list of who I don't like why, but-- Mostly just avoid befriending actual gangsters. Like Butch. That's dangerous."

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