NO!!! I WON'T DO IT! !!! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!!!!!

You'll make SO MUCH PROGRESS AND FRIENDS!

I DON'T WANT FRIENDSHIP! !!!

YOU'LL BE ABLE TO MAKE A DECENT CONVERSATION!!!

Ohhhhhh this is the best idea ever, Nondescript Hobbit and Glenda. Oh, Briar!! 

what are you up to now? i am trying to read.

Read the post above.

...

nooooooooo!!!! don't you dare! i will throw this book at you!!!

Come on! It'll be good for you!

my books are good for me!! come on, i'm just getting to the part with the riddler trapping batman, robin, and batgirl! 

Oh, that's a good part. Did you already read the part where- Hey! No distracting me!! Sign Briar up, if you please!  

Great idea! Serene is altogether too quiet and antisocial. It would do her well to learn about how to make friends.

Are you seriously trying to persuade me to join a CLASS? Can't you just leave me in peace to read? *Nervously polishes glasses with sleeve*

Uh, yes, I am. Come on! Get exited! Maybe you'll make some friends while learning to make friends!

*Smiles knowingly* Oh, of course! And maybe I'll be killed by the Madman!  

EXACTLY!

Oh, wait--

Fine, fine. I'll take the class. But you'll have to buy me three more dictionaries and a thesaurus, alright?

Yeah. Sure. Okay. Fine. 

Greaaaat! There goes another fifty bucks. 

I'll join!

Anna, how about you?

I don't want to. It would take time away from my sailing! And being taught by Glenda... No offense to Glenda, but she seems a bit too peppy for my taste.

You can use the social time, and besides, you shoudn't insult other AEs. Both Sequoia and Anna are signing up!

..... 

*Grey, Doublock and I walk through door dragging a body bag*

Me: Niccolai would love to join the class!

Niccolai (muffled from inside bag): NEVER!!! WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE, I SHALL KILL YOU ALL!!!

Grey: He/she may be a bit troublesome at first...

Doublock: it would be best to keep him/her tied up for the first few classes until he/she calms down.

Me: He/she may be a bit groggy for a while, we had to use a tranquilizer to get him/her in the bag.

Niccolai (thrashes around in bag): IF ANYONE TRIES TO REFORM MY SOCIAL HABITS, I WILL RIP ALL OF THEIR LIMBS OFF!!!

Grey: Good luck Glenda!

Doublock: You will need it.

Me: Better you than me!

*Æs and I run away before Nick gets out of the bag* 

That sounds great!  Sign Estella up!  Estella has been wanting to make new friends.  I think-

Wait what? 

Glenda has decided to make a class on how to make friends, Estella.  I think it's a great idea.  

How to make friends?

Yes, doesn't it sound fun!

I don't need to take a class on how to talk!

It's not talking, it's making friends.

Technically, you have to talk in order to make friends

Is there anything I don't have to force you to do?

I don't know. And you can't force me.  

Of course I can

No, you can't because I've decided to take the class!  See, you didn't force me!  That was my own will!

Great!  I didn't even have to force you

I just realized this backfired on me  

Glenda: welcome everyone, to the first class. Today I would like you to choose an Æ and introduce yourself like so.

*walks up to body bag*

Hello Niccolai, my name is Glenda. 

*hides in a corner* not social interaction *shudders and pulls hood over her face* anything but that...

*Niccolai thrashes around in body bag*

Niccolai: YOU DARE SAY HELLO TO ME?!?!? WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE I SHALL RIP YOU TO SHREDS, BURN THE PIECES, AND THEN LAUNCH THE ASHES INTO OUTER SPACE!!!

*Grey, Doublock and I peek in through window*

Grey: Wow, I have never seen Nick this mad before!

Me: Me neither. AMAZING isn't it?

Doublock: How long do you think until Nick remembers that he/she keeps a knife in her boot?

Grey: Not long at all.

Me: And... there he/she goes.

*Knife suddenly pokes through body bag and is shredded in seconds. Nick jumps to feet, glaring*

Niccolai: When I get my hands on Nebula... I WILL MAKE HER WISH SHE HAD NEVER BEEN BORN!!! SAME GOES FOR DOUBLOCK AND GREY TOO!!!

*Nick turns around and glares straight at us* 

Me: Oh no!

Doublock: He/she sees us!

Grey: RUN!!! 

*Throws book down in disgust* Do I have to?

Fine, fine. I won't act like a seven-year-old.

*Walks up to Secquoia* Hi, Secquoia! My name is Serene. It's funny, actually, but I don't think I've met you before. Do you like reading?

Glenda: Niccolai!! No weapons in class!

*walks up to Niccolai and plucks the knife out of his/her hand and snaps it in half.*

Glenda (in Jedi mind trick voice): you will say hello back to me... 

Warning: Glend has graduated with full marks from Harvard, the Jedi temple, Yale university, luck ugly training, law school, med school, and sky pirate/ninja academy. 

*looks around, and tries to follow Glenda's orders* I cannot wait to be done with this class.  In fact, I think I'm a very social person. *Sees a person hiding in the corner with hood over his face*  *Walks over to help the person become more social*

"Hello, I'm Estella.  Whats your name?," I say.

"Briar," he replies. 

He pulls his hood over his face more so.   

I have no idea what to say next.  Maybe I do need this class to become more social.