And some days it was ...<br/><br/>"No mom, I did not get sent to the principal's office!"<br/><br/>It was exasperating, but at least Absinthe's mother didn't come down heavy-handed on her and make her wear boring 'normal' clothes.  Granted both she and dad said within a couple months the 'phase' would be over, but Absinthe had a new outlook on things.<br/><br/>Today she wore thick, clunky looking platform shoes, black jeans, and a black t-shirt that had an anime-esquie figure with a Harlequin face and wearing a dark, somber looking sailor-suit school uniform.  The caption read "Magical Girl Suicide Squad."<br/><br/>Her makeup was also more natural. Gone was the thick white-paste face makeup, though she still looked quite pale.  Especially with the blood-red lipstick she had selected.  And of course she wore very thick eye-liner.  For variation she had made a mock-Egyptian curly-que at the outer corner of her left eye and a mascara tear descending from the inner corner of her right eye.  Her hair remained light green in color.<br/><br/>One study-hall she had sat beside one of the Goth guys in school, whom she had a major crush on (as apparently did all the other Goth girls in the school, and note a few of the Goth guys too) and he had spoken to her quite seriously about what Goth was.<br/><br/>"Fuck the jock," he said quite bluntly, "don't let him, or anyone else, tell you how to be you."<br/><br/>He also indicated there wasn't any issue with her hanging out with Spazz.  Granted this was between some rather heavy flirting, and a warning or two from the teacher monitoring the study period, but it made Absinthe look forward to seeing Spazz again.<br/><br/>As Spazz waited, in fact, the Goth guy passed by her, accompanied by a Goth girl dressed to the nines in a black 19th century dress, pony-tails tied off with black and pink ribbons, and no makeup except for intense mascara around her eyes.<br/><br/>"Hey Spazz," the guy said in a friendly voice.  The girl also nodded to her with the slightest of smiles.<br/><br/>Absinthe arrived about that time, and both of the two Goths hugged her and talked to her for a few minutes, though Spazz wouldn't have heard what they said.  As they went on their way, going off to homeroom, Absinthe trotted over to Spazz with a big grin on her face, and plopped down beside her.<br/><br/>"Spazz, hey there.  Ready for another day of serious education?"<br/><br/>She stuck her tongue out at Spazz playfully.