The Two Students Sat Next To Each Other, Awkwardly. Third Day In Of Having Chinese Class Together, And

The two students sat next to each other, awkwardly. Third day in of having Chinese class together, and dispite the teacher giving the whole class 10 minutes to practice the sentence patterns with a partner, the two hadn't spoken a word to each other.

Pepsy, the girl who sat on the right desk, closest to the cabinets, then decided it was time to start a conversation. She opened her mouth to speak, but before a word could escape her tongue, their teacher interrupted "All right, now that you've had enough time to practice, let's have some volunteers try."

The moment was lost, and Pepsy glanced to her left at Shining_Star_404, who's real name was Tsuki Toshira. The two had met online via a gamer chat webside called Disc*rd and became friends due to Pepsy's interest in Japanese language and culture and Toshira's knowledge of Japan from multiple summer vacations to visit grandparents. After months of talking, they found out they not only went to the same school together, but they were both in Mandarin Chinese level 1.

Originally, they were ecstatic to find with a semester schedule change, Pepsy would be in Mandarin 4th hour for the second semester. However, neither of them could have expected to a- be placed in seats right next to each other or b- to have such a hard time talking to the other without the separation of their screens.

"Toshira, is that a volunteer? Alright! Who is your partner?" To Pepsy's absolute horror, Toshira gestured towards Pepsy and stood up.

"Pepsy? Wonderful! Now, please do sentence pattern B, with Toshira being Xiao Mei and Pepsy being Lee Wen Zhong. What in the French fry heaven were the two going to do? Yeah, they practiced via voice chat the patterns last night, but in real life was a totally different scenario!!!!

^-^ thanks for the prompt!

We go to the same school but met online and now we finally have a class together but we can’t seem to speak irl AU

-(anonymous)