First beat

[toocoolforthis]

Well, I can't say I've ever been this late to school before.
Unfortunately, I can't claim to be awesome enough to have played hooky for half a year.
Maybe next year.
In the meantime, I'm back.
I'm sure you're all either completely ecstatic or completely disgusted, so please, contain your looks of horror and/or joy.
A simple "Sup, Dirk" will suffice.

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[toocoolforthis]

[And Dirk steps aside, though he doesn't lift a hand to ward Jake off.]

Not even once.

Damn. I'll have to train in the art of avoiding bear hugs all over again. There goes all my free time.

[shitknickers]

[He'd never actually, since glasses are sort of an important thing and he understands that, even if there is a bit of a difference between prescription and sunglasses. Though for all he knows Dirk's are prescription sunglasses.]

Luckily you have me to train with, and I'm simply the best there is at bear hugs.

[toocoolforthis]

[Dirk will be perfectly fine with that. It's not even that he minds his eye color all that much, really, but he's still not about to take off his shades.]

I'm the most fortunate. I have the champion bear-hugger to help me.

[shitknickers]

[He lifts his arms in a triumphant pose for a moment, making a silly face.]

So, tell me all about your time away?

[toocoolforthis]

[Jake stop showing off before he gets an anime nosebleed.]

What's there to tell? I was studying. It just wasn't here.

[shitknickers]

[Swoon.]

Oh come off it. Surely something interesting happened? [He drops his arms from their stance and pointedly swings one around Dirk's shoulders.]

[toocoolforthis]

[The charm of Jake English is too strong for him to escape that arm. It is simply a law of the universe.]

If something interesting had happened I'm sure Bro would have made me come back to the castle sooner.

[shitknickers]

Well good lord then why did you stay away so long? That's complete horseshit. [He squeezes Dirk's shoulders a bit.] But no matter! That only means that we'll have to make up for lost time.

[toocoolforthis]

Because I wanted to see this thing through to the end, why the hell else would I? I don't give up once I've started.

[shitknickers]

You never have. [A sideways grin.]