"Ah...!" Hikari snags her wayward pencil, with a little help from Jessica.  The now rather happy student looks up from the ground for the first time since she started her chase...  right at the other girl's thigh.  There's a moment where she can just blink in confusion, and then her eyes widen a bit and her cheeks redden a<em>lot</em>, and she tries to jerk upright hastily.  The first thing she does is bump her head on the bottom of the other student's desk, but after a soft hiss and a muttered, "Owowowieow!" she manages to slip out from underneath and right herself.<br/><br/>As she returns to her feet, she holds up the pencil proudly in hopes it will explain her behavior to the American girl, giggling nervously.  "Ha, ha...  hontou arigatou, Jeshika-chan!"  By this point most of the class is staring at her, so she rubs the back of her neck sheepishly and pivots on her heel to face the other direction, holding out the pencil.  "Ah..  g-gomen nasai!  Everything is okay!"<br/><br/>Red-faced but grinning, she returns to her seat.  Not the way she wanted to start class today, certainly...