Kamen Rider Dullahan

Chapter 3 Mission Control

Lunchtime, the 2nd most looked forward to time of day for students right behind the end of the day. The cafeteria and the courtyard near it were where students gathered to talk about the classes and how they sucked or if they actually enjoyed them for once and made plans for after school. At least that's what Colin thought they did, he usually spends his lunch period in the Theater's tech room away from other people. They're often illogical, unpredictable, and emotional none of which Colin was good at dealing with. He much preferred the logical, predictable and nonemotional world of computer code which he worked with while munching on his lunch.

Yet today he was caught in a bit of a bind, he couldn't eat in the Henshin Academy's Theater Tech Room because it was closed down and he wasn't going to assume he could do the same in the Zordon Academy Theater. So he picked a corner in the courtyard outside and curled up, resting his laptop on his legs and his bag to his side. After his meeting with the Academy Heads, Colin and Hunter split up as he went to his correct classes and his lunch period was after Colin's so he was all alone. Just the way he liked it.

He plugged in his earbuds and pulled up a messenger app he created a few years back in college before he came to Henshin. He brought up a pm with 'Jill Skellington' and shot off a message "Hey, how's it going?" He took a bite of his sandwich and waited for a response. A triplet of dots bounced in the corner as Jill typed back.

Jill Skelington: "Things are alright, me and the others are meeting with our mission control person."

Colin: "Sounds fun I'll be meeting mine next period, how're your classes so far?"

Jill Skelington: "Well the three I was able to go to were fine, Gym was annoying and exhausting, Comp 3 is probably just going to be a bunch of papers and algebra is there but the teacher seems weird."

Colin: "What level algebra?"

Jill Skelington: "College."

Colin: "That's not that bad. :P"

Jill Skelington: "-_- for you."

Colin: "It's just simple logic, it'll be fine. ;)"

Jill Skelington: "You're helping me."

Colin: "Oh I'm sure I will be."

Jill Skelington: "-_- I've got to go."

Colin: "Can we meet after school?"

Jill Skelington: "Of course, come by the apartment whenever." The green dot turned red and Jill left the conversation. She and Colin had been dating for a few years now, they met each other in High School and bonded over a shared interest of classic movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Beetlejuice as well as working the Sound Crew for the theater. They were a perfect pair, two introverts, one who couldn't care less about the world around him till it affected him or a dear friend and the other who felt for everyone and often overlooked herself because of it. There was a ding and a speech bubble from 'Big Buck' popped on screen.

Big Buck: "Hey dude how's lunch going"

Colin: "It's fine? It's lunch, nothing happens during lunch."

Big Buck:"Just asking this class is boring af."

Colin: "What is it?"

Big Buck:"Chem. We're just talking about the syllabus, I've heard this same speech three times already. Y they do dis? Y we gotta listen to the same thing like 6 different times from 6 different people."