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Educating the Victim - Act V, Chapter XLI

Pairing: Yellow Diamond/Yellow Pearl, mentioned Yellow Diamond/White Diamond

Rating: Mature

Warnings/Tags: drugs, mentions of homophobia and transphobia

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CHAPTER 41: Come up

Immediately, regret.

Excitement.

Terror.

The room began to spin, and it felt difficult to breathe. She’d never done drugs. She’d never even smoked. It was the first time she found herself on the brink of possible intoxication in months.

And yet...

She felt exactly the same.

“Oh.”

Perhaps it would kick in momentarily. She looked at her watch and then at her fingers and considered vomiting.

The tab was small, thin and papery. There was likely little point. She found herself slowly sinking to the floor, cross legged.

Everything still felt... normal.

She jumped as she heard a banging on the door. Aurora.

Aurora heard no response, so let herself in and closed the door behind her.

“Marigold?” she said softly. “Are you – I mean – I’m sorry for how I acted earlier – I just saw you come in and I got... are you okay?”

“...Yes.” Marigold looked around shiftily.

Oh Lord in Heaven, am I high? Do I look high? Am I acting high? Is this it? Has it kicked in yet?

“I... I said some inappropriate things for a workplace setting and redact them, if you... can accept that.” She swallowed. “I saw the... festivities downstairs. You... knew?”

Aurora blushed. “Yeah, I did,” she admitted. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you. What do you think?”

“I think...” Marigold said. “I think I need to be left alone.”

“Okay. As you wish. I’ll... I’ll probably go down to join the fun. I can lock the door so you’re not disturbed, if you want.”

Marigold watched her leave and gave an exhale, relieved. It wasn’t long until anxieties returned, however, as her mind processed the fact she’d still swallowed drugs.

She looked around. Nothing seemed different.

Huh. She rubbed her chin, trying to determine if she even felt different. A little giddy. Sick.

That was perhaps her nerves, though. She found her way to her chair and opened up her laptop, eyes vacantly looking at her screen. She had a list of things to do. People to email.

What would she even do about Buck? She’d eaten the evidence.

She swore under her breath. Perhaps she’d call him in and have a strongly worded conversation. The thought alone made her gleefully tap her nails on the table. Yes. She’d put him in his place.

Talk her out of all this name changing nonsense.

She looked outside, frowning. Men weren’t allowed in this school.

Even if... they were a so-called transsexual man, they’d have to leave.

She sighed, folded her hands. Scrolled down the page, not taking in a word. What if this was the other way round? she wondered. If it was a man who wanted to be a woman, would I allow them in the school?

Men weren’t allowed in the school, though.

She wasn’t really sure what to think. She looked at the other tasks she had to do. Quartz’s case – she had no basis for that now. She deleted the task.

Some of those people are really convincing.

She frowned.

What if I just didn’t know? What if there are people like that already here?

On a whim, she decided to open Internet Exporer.

A new version is available. Install now?

“No,” Marigold hissed. She’d not upgraded her system since 2010. And it was going to stay that way.

She typed in the search engine name and proceeded to pause for five minutes in order to formulate a suitable search query. She ended up typing ‘school policy transsexuals’ into the searchbar.

And then proceeded to wait another two minutes as the page loaded.

She scanned the results. It appeared to mostly be articles over restroom issues. Marigold rolled her eyes. Why even bother debating this? It is against the law to go into the incorrect bathroom.

She crolled further down, another query title catching her eye.

‘Don’t call me a transsexual’.

She frowned, clicking on the link. Brows knitting as the page revealed itself to be a blogging platform.

Oh no. I’ve heard about this.

It felt like a trainwreck, though. She couldn’t stop scrolling. Amidst terminology she hadn’t encountered before in all her fifty five years, the argument that despite groups adopting the term - sexuality had little to do with gender.

Marigold could at least agree with that. She hadn’t questioned her womanhood.

Well, despite those few times... But who doesn’t question life with other parts? That doesn’t mean I’m exactly going to identify as something else. It’s imbecilic to pretend. How old is this child?

She scrolled to the bio.

29.

This was an adult. Her eyes scrutinised the icon. Despite the headline of ‘self made man’, there was no indication that the person within the icon wasn’t male.

This was making her head spin.

She frowned yet again, trying to figure it all out. But why would they go on with this charade?

She minimised the page, went to her desktop and clicked the internet explorer icon again. After another five minutes, she finally managed to open a second search query.

Why are people trans-

She paused. Well. The post had at least clarified her of one thing.

Why are people transgender?

Several results came up. An article about the “science” of being transgender. An article that had several words in the title that Marigold would have to look up. (She skipped that one.) Top 10 Myths about Transgender People. The causes of a transgender identity. She clicked that one.

The article talked about possible biological causes. A doctor was quoted. “These people aren’t crazy. They have a medical condition.”

Marigold frowned.

So they’re ill?

The article talked about medically transitioning.

It was... alien, to Marigold. Why would anyone change their bodies because of this?

This article didn’t give her the answers she needed. She opened another window of Internet Exporer.

Three minutes later, she typed in, Do people choose to be transgender?

The result was a little more satisfactory. Marigold read through the Yahoo!Answers and frowned. Interesting. So people just... felt their bodies were wrong. And changed their bodies to be happier.

They’re just trying to be happier.

It made her unwillingness to cooperate with Buck on his name change seem so... petty.

She sighed deeply.

No. This is too delicate of a topic to consider with such an unclear mind. You should think about your body as the gift it is. We were put here like this for a reason.

She hunched over her laptop and rested her head in her palms. Half an hour wasted on the internet. The modern world was simply too full of distractions. Her eyes flitted to her stack of folders, now on the floor from her earlier outburst.

Which also seemed rather petty, now that she really considered it.

Whatever. She needed to find her folder and jot down an assembly idea about the dangers of online addiction and work procrastination.

She picked up a pen and fiddled with it. Wasn’t... that procrastination, though? She had a mountain of tasks to do.

Alright, Marigold. Let’s get to it. What do you need to do first?

She stared blankly at the page. Book venue for prom. Wasn’t that Aurora’s job? ...oh. Aurora wasn’t here, she was enjoying herself at Pride.

The thought made Marigold’s throat swell up uncomfortably. She blinked. No tears. She was angry, darn it, angry that the teachers had gone behind her back, had conspired against her. And for something so silly. There was no pride to be had in being a deviant. It was sinful, it was shameful. And if Marigold had had to suffer for it so badly...

She viciously pushed that thought aside. She was not like that. Only when she was drunk. She blamed the alcohol. It was the alcohol.

Shit. I just took a drug.

“I should go home,” she said, out loud, to no one in particular. “I’m not feeling so well.”

No one replied.

She gave a sigh and slumped onto the desk. Perhaps... perhaps she should get out. Yes. It was time to start looking forward and stop looking back. She spied for her blazer, hung over her chair.

She stared at the chair, trying to suddenly recall the day she had placed it in the office. Approximately ten years ago. Yes. She had assembled it herself. Her thumb grazed her palm, memories of splintering shattering into her mind.

It had been a warm, late summer day. The goverment had for once put in some education budget, and local PTA groups had organised donations of equipment - chairs, tables, desks.

Azure had been there.

In the office, just a few feet away.

“You work too hard in wrong places, Mari.”

Marigold swallowed, her throat felt dry. It was as if she could feel a flash of summer heat in the thickness of the room. Breathing suddenly became all too heavy.

A moment of staircase wit.

At least I work, Azure. We can’t all sit around in our riches.

She shook her head. No. That was petty spite. Azure had worked hard young, peaked early and burnt out atop her empire. An emotional mess.

I’m not like that. I’m not like that. I’m not like that.

The now familiar wetness at her cheeks made her realise that yet again, for the fourth time that day, she was in tears.

She tried to remember what she was supposed to be doing.

I can’t think. Is that the drug kicking in? But really, I feel like this on a daily basis, don’t I?

Being sober was cruel, sometimes.

Azure had been so pretty. Was still pretty, but somewhere along the way, she’d lost the spark in her eye.

Marigold envied Aurora’s sister for spending every day with Azure.

But, like. Not in a gay way.

She grabbed a tissue and sat back down, suddenly a little dizzy. And now that she was thinking about it, she was breathing odd too. Or was that just because she was focusing on her breathing?

It’s okay. It’s okay. Those kids wouldn’t deal anything actually dangerous.

Or would they...?

Marigold had enemies in the school. The evidence was still there, badly painted over. It stung. Principal Diamond must fall. Who wanted her to fall?

Aurora. You know it was her. Aurora.

No, it wasn’t. It wasn’t her, Marigold just thought she saw her because she couldn’t stop thinking about her.

Also, definitely not in a gay way.

She sighed. What am I doing.

Her eyes spied the clock. One hour. One hour since she’d come into the office. She’d wasted an entire hour. She screamed at herself internally.

Get back to work.

But I did also decide to go home.

Azure.

Marigold decided to sit down on the floor again, cross legged. As long as she was breathing, she was fine. As long as she was conscious. She was fine. She sat for a while, watching the clock, eyes locking onto various aspects of the room.

She looked at her desk, focussing on the grain of the wood. The texture seemed... vivid. Her mind scampered over its details. The tree must have grown somewhere, for a while. And somehow, someone had chopped it down, and it had been transported there. And people had driven the trucks that held the tree and those people probably had lives and children and that was sort of beatiful and Marigold found herself wishing above all else for someone to come back home to-

“Stop that,” she hissed.

Her mind was beyond wandering. Her train of thought had somehow travelled to an entirely different continent. Her hands shook, trembling.

All of the sudden, she was very conscious of the fact that tiny trails of light followed the movements of her hands.

“Oh.”

She waved her hand in front of her eyes. Blinked rapidly. Did it again. Waved it slowly, homed in on the trails.

Oh, God. The drug must have taken effect.

Am I even safe?

Well, driving home was definitely out of the question. She wasn’t that kind of suicidal. But was staying here an option?

“I should find Aurora,” she said. Momentarily mesmerised by the way the ceiling lamp reflected off the laptop. “Or maybe sit down some more.”

She jumped when she heard voices coming from the corridor. Could they hear her talk to herself? She had to stop. What if she said something weird? What if people would know she was drugged?

Her reputation was at stake.

What reputation, she thought. Everyone here hates me.

Even Aurora. Especially Aurora.

To her dismay, she found her cheeks wet again.

Why does Aurora hate me? What did I do?

She hugged her knees and came to about fifty conclusions at once. The alcohol, the secrecy, the... the choking. That... probably wasn’t good. But I was drunk.

She scrunched her face up. Her hand scrabbled around for piece of paper on the floor. She began to write.

I knew exactly what I was doing. I took her space. I demanded her time. I... I used her goodwill and love for me to absorb her into my life. I gave her no room to breathe. i might as well have been choking her the entire time. I’m sorry, Aurora.

The pen fell out of her hands. Somehow, her hand felt dizzy.

And yet, as the criticisms poured in, so did the solutions.

I still have time to do things. She loved you for a reason. That might still be around. But she doesn’t owe you her love. Not after the ways you’ve hurt her. You owe her an apology. Thousands of apologies. But she doesn’t owe you the time to hear them.

Aurora would. Aurora would hear them.

Right?

Another memory spun over her eyes as the sun draped through the window in streaks. Marigold’s vision fascinated by the thousands of particles of dust visible.

It had been early spring the first time Claire had shown Marigold her wine farm. Marigold had been twenty two years old and finally completely independent of any parental supervision, and they’d taken a visit to France.

Marigold found herself wearing a goofy smile as she recalled a memory that had burnt her with its sheer embarassment at the time. Her French had always been awful - a problematic element when Claire in her infinite generosity had treated her to a French cafe with menu prices enough to make her weep.

She had, of course, failed spectacularly in her attempt at ordering. So much so that a vast portion of the evening had been spent wallowing in second hand cringe.

Claire had been oblivious until Marigold spilled.

“It’s not that bad, Mari.”

“His face! You looked physically uncomfortable, too.”

“French is hard.”

“Oh God. What if he’s going to tell the others? What if I’m going to become one of those stories those waiters spread around of poor customers?”

Claire had only laughed. Marigold could hear it, crisper than ever. As if somehow, it had been recorded on a vinyl.

“Honestly, Marigold. You seem to think you’re the only person who’s ever embarrassed herself. Once you look past the details, I think you’ll find that suffering is fairly universal.” She’d softly gripped Marigold’s hand at that point. “You’ve been on the side of the waiter, watching someone else make a fool of themselves, just as many times as you’ve been a fool.”

Marigold found herself nodding in present. Her actions were inexcusable. But she could be better. With or without Aurora’s approval, she had to be better. That was the only thing she could do to fix anything.

How can I be better?

Claire’s face was still so clear in her mind. Her beautiful, youthful face and that smile, the one only Marigold ever got.

She found herself clinging to the memory of Claire’s hand in hers. The feeling of Claire’s fingers in her hair.

She’d touched Marigold a lot. More than anyone else.

She reached for another tissue.

Claire had taken her to the theatre several times. Arms linked, wearing fancy clothes. Claire had taken her shopping for those as well. The evenings at Bridge Club where Marigold found herself going back to Claire’s flat. Even before they moved in together, they’d spent so much time together.

Another memory of being pulled from near sleep by a light and Claire standing in the doorway of her room.

“I can’t sleep,” came Claire’s quiet voice. “Can I sit with you for a bit?”

Marigold had pulled herself from sleep. She’d hugged Claire close. It had been after the first day of chemotherapy.

She remembered how Claire laid down with her and Marigold had draped the blanket over her. How Claire had snuggled up to her.

The warmth of another human sleeping next to her, the soft breath on her skin. Claire’s hand holding hers.

They’d just been friends. To Marigold, for all those years, they’d only been friends.

She remembered now that while Roxy and Azure had been seeing others, Claire had never taken a lover while Marigold was there.

The only person Claire ever seemed interested in was...

“Me.” Her voice was barely above a whisper.

The revelation hit her all at once. Little words, suggestions. Claire had always joked that if she could have married Marigold, she would have. Marigold had always assumed it to be hyperbole. Claire making humor about an alternate reality.

But... what if it hadn’t been hyperbole?

Claire had barely ever talked of such matters. But that was because on such personal issues, Claire had never really revealed herself. Claire had always been there for everyone else.

Marigold found herself connecting the dots. She’d always admired that quiet, smart and levelheadedness about Claire. She’d always tried to emulate it. Never show anyone her feelings.

But as memories flashed forwards and backwards, morphing and clipping past her mind’s eye, she realised that was incorrect.

I don’t show my feelings because I’m afraid of them. I don’t want to think they even exist. I don’t want to make myself vulnerable.

Claire had never been afraid. Claire had always just been... preoccupied. Preoccupied by her.

Life could have been so wonderful with her. I loved her. Oh God, I loved her.

Am I... like that?

She sighed. Yes. She’d literally remained celibate outside of Aurora.

She had sex with women.

“I’m a lesbian,” she whispered, a childlike revelation in her voice. “I’m a lesbian. I’m a lesbian!”

“We’re very proud of you!” a voice shouted from outside.

Marigold jumped in her skin, yet again, startled. The window was open. She’d been heard. No. No, she needed to hide.

Why am I hiding, why am I always hiding? It’s pathetic.

Or is it pathetic? Humans hide for a reason. It protects us. Fear keeps us alive. It used to be dangerous for me to like women. It still is. It keeps me safe.

She found herself crawling underneath her desk. The bumps and ridges of the floor demanding her attention as she moved, palms scraping over it. Her body curled, she hugged herself.

It’s okay to be scared. It kept me alive. Has the world changed yet? Can I stop being scared?

Aurora wasn’t, though.

She closed her eyes and exhaled.

“I should have loved her more. I should have been unafraid with her.”

She rested her forehead on her knees. Here, in the dark, everything seemed small and far away. She managed to breathe.

The space underneath the desk was dark and cramped and after a short while, Marigold’s back hurt. She crawled out from underneath the desk (what was she even doing down there?) and her eyes fell on the clock.

She tried to remember what time it was supposed to be, and then realised she’d been alone for nearly three hours.

Three hours? There’s no way it’s been that long!

Her to-do list sat, unattended, on her laptop. Marigold ignored it.

Where’s my phone? I need to... I need to call Aurora.

She really needed to call Aurora. Tell her she loved her-

She remembered the last time she saw Aurora.

I told her I hated her.

The memory was painful. She’s not going to accept this. What if I just... ask her to come to my office? I need her.

Determined, she found her phone. She’d immediately saved Aurora’s number after Aurora had called her.

Her hand shook as she dialed.

> Act V, Chapter XLII

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

Educating the Victim - Act V, Chapter IX

Pairing: hinted Yellow Diamond/White Diamond, hinted Yellow Diamond/Pearl

Rating: Teens and up

Warnings/Tags: none for this chapter

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CHAPTER 9: Worry

The next day, Rose Quartz prepared to teach her final year students.

Dark rings under her eyes spoke of long evenings, because on top of her usual workload, she had to organise the fair. It barely gave her time to think about anything else. She'd barely had time to spend with Greg. She barely had time to worry about Pearl and Principal Diamond.

She set up her classroom. Determined to do great. Diamond would be inspecting her, she assumed, at random intervals. She had to be prepared for anything.

Amethyst felt a knot of unease as the lesson progressed, realising she drew closer to having to speak to Rose. Pearl seemed to be usually lost in her lesson, giving little time to chat. Amy could barely focus, and by the time the bell rang, she almost debated lying to Aurora and saying she'd spoken. But she then looked at Pearl and swallowed. No. Not if her friend was in danger.

"Yo, P, I need to ask Quartz a couple of questions about the mocks. I fucked them up. I'll catch you in English, alright?"

She was met with a confused nod from Pearl, who only seemed to shrug and promise to save her a seat.

Once everyone had left the room, Amy paced to the front of the class and cleared her throat. "Miss Quartz."

Of all the people that Rose expected to stay after class, Amethyst wasn't one of them.

She looked up, surprised. "Amy!" she said. "What can I do for you?"

Amy swallowed and took a look around. "Could we... maybe talk about something?" She rubbed her arm. "About Pearl."

About Pearl. Worry shot through Rose. "Y-yeah," she said, "Sure. What about her?"

"Her and the principal. She sent... a really worrying text to her sister by mistake last night. And like... I know you two are close." An understatement, to say the least. Amy shifted, feeling a pang of envy plaster a flush over her face.

"Oh?" That was, indeed, worrying. Rose clearly remembered Pearl saying that Diamond was hot. She thought of Jasper's allegations. What if...?

"Do you know what exactly happened?"

"I..." Amy swallowed. She might as well tell Rose everything. "I live with her now. Her sister has a little studio pad. And last night I came home from school and... Aurora was kinda freaking out over a text. Apparently Pearl and the Principal had some kind of afterschool sesh, she didn't tell me jack shit about it but.... apparently they did something, yanno... sexual. Maybe. Whatever. Pearl wasn't clear about it and she's not gonna tell either me or Rori anything."

Amy's words sent a surge of alarm through Rose. She straightened up, gripping the pen she was holding with needless force.

"That is indeed worrying," she said. An understatement. She loved Pearl. There was no way she would stand by and let her precious Pearl get destroyed by a force equal to Roxy Dayman.

"Thank you for telling me, Amy," Rose said, her voice carefully controlled. "I'll see what I can do."

Amy felt that despicable envy surge even more through her. She hated the terror in those eyes. She wanted to be bigger. More powerful. A part of her wished nothing more than to be the one protecting Pearl. "You, uh, keep her safe, okay? Or I'm... I'm calling the cops. And that's going to be ugly for everyone." An empty threat, she realised; she was too scared. But Rose didn't know that. "And Diamond has a chance of not getting caught. You don't."

"There's no need to threaten me, Amethyst," Rose said, her voice gentle. Amethyst was just as worried about Pearl as she was. They were on the same side. "I'm not doing anything illegal. And I'll keep you updated, if you wish."

Amethyst swallowed. "Please." The anxiety welling in her stomach made things so much more tense. "For Rori's sake, too. This is... really bad on her."

"I can imagine." Rose lowered her voice. "This stays between us, but I'm trying to get a few people together. So I have allies against Diamond. Let's just say the way she's treating me hasn't gone unnoticed by the rest of the staff. I can't do anything by myself, but if we work together we might have a chance of actually changing things."

Oh. Of course. Amethyst could only give a tiny nod. "It can't be good. She's... not good to anyone, right now. Stay safe, I gotta, uh, head to English."

"Okay. You stay safe too. Keep Pearl safe. I can't do it all the time." Rose gave Amethyst a smile. "I'll let you know if there's any progress."

Amethyst didn't return the smile. "See ya."

She turned and left, her insides completely messy. She hated this. She hated feeling like she wasn't enough.

Rose sighed and watched Amy leave.

She then pulled out her phone and sent a text to Pearl.

Can you come see me later? RQ xx

Pearl's phone buzzed. She gave a quick glance and tilted her head. Oh. Rose. She smiled. That would be nice, she'd barely had any time to talk to her in the lesson. She gave Amy a wave as her friend walked into class, late. The rest of the lesson seemed to go all too fast, and they'd thankfully made it into their lunch period.

"Rose wants to see me." Pearl sighed as Amethyst suggested going out to town for lunch. "I haven't had time to really talk to her since our date, she's been so busy. Apparently Diamond's got her doing some stuff for the career's fair. I'll see you later, okay?"

And with that, they echanged goodbyes and Pearl paced towards Rose's room.

Rose waited, anxiety tying her belly into a knot. She'd tried to talk to Pearl about this before. Hadn't gotten through to her. She had to try again, regardless.

She stayed in her classroom over lunch, expecting Pearl to find her there; and so she did.

Rose greeted her with a warm smile. "Hello, Pearl!" she said. "I hope you've had a good day?"

Pearl gave a little nod. "I'm very well! Missed you, barely had the chance to talk since the weekend. You okay?"

"Yes, just very busy." Rose smiled at Pearl, then went over and closed the door before pulling Pearl into a hug.

"I've missed you too," she muttered.

Pearl closed her eyes and let herself feel the warmth of Rose's arms. "Can we go out for lunch? Like we used to."

Rose's heart ached.

"I'd honestly love to," she said. "But it probably wouldn't be a good idea." Did Pearl know that Diamond had seen them have lunch together that last time?

Pearl frowned. "Yeah. I guess you're right." The Principal's very early comment about how she'd gained weight racked in her mind. "I don't need to eat right now, anyway."

Rose swallowed. That wasn't what she meant.

"Do you not have lunch with you?" she asked.

Pearl had been in hospital. She was supposed to be better. And yet, Rose could still see those patterns so very clearly.

"I do. It's just... something someone said. They'd noticed I'd gained weight. I'm sure she didn't mean anything by it."

"She might have meant it in a positive way," Rose said. "I, for one, happen to think you're gorgeous."

She kissed Pearl's cheek. Wanted to kiss her lips, but remembered why she'd asked Pearl to come here.

"I heard you had some kind of... tutoring session with the Principal," she said carefully.

Pearl blushed. "I've been falling behind in history, that's all."

"Is it?" Rose asked. From what Amethyst had said, it was most certainly not all. "Is she a good teacher, then?"

"Yes. She got me to answer questions, anyway."

"Hmm." Rose wasn't getting very far like this. "What did she teach you about?"

"Oh. Just history."

Rose smiled. "Are you being evasive on purpose?" she asked. "I'm just interested in your life."

Pearl looked a little taken aback. "U-um. No."

Rose frowned.

"I... heard things," she then said. "About the Principal. And you. I was just... wondering."

"Oh." Pearl swallowed. "It was Aurora, wasn't it?"

Rose ignored Pearl's query regarding the identity of her source. "I'm worried something might have happened that I should know about," she said. "Not in my capacity as your teacher, but rather... your partner." It felt... strange, saying it, but oddly right.

"Alright." Pearl swallowed. "I've been getting close to the Principal. I don't understand it, something about her has just drawn me in."

"Hmm." Rose's frown didn't ease up. "Has she indicated... reciprocation?" Because from what Amethyst had said, it had certainly sounded like it.

Pearl paused for a minute. "Yes."

"I thought she was homophobic."

"Didn't we all?" Pearl rubbed her arm, awkwardly. "It's been absolutely nothing explicit. Just.... touches. And then... yesterday, I think I may have accidentally seduced her."

"Seduced," Rose echoed.

Thoughts were racing through her head faster than she could keep up.

"Things just kept getting really intimate, you know. Her tone was different. Her touches. She sat real close next to me." She then closed her eyes. "I think we nearly kissed. I... I liked it."

Of course you did.

Rose sighed heavily. "Is that all?" she asked gently.

"Oh yeah. Definetly. I don't think she'd take it any further. Maybe she just needs some excitement in her life."

Rose relaxed a little.

"Okay," she said. "Thank you for telling me." She cupped Pearl's face and leaned in to kiss her sweetly.

She was still worried. This little anecdote showed the Principal in an entirely different light.

"Do you want it to stop?" Pearl closed her eyes and smiled into the kiss, her voice betraying her sadness.

Rose drew back.

Part of her wanted to tell Pearl yes, but she knew she couldn't.

"We're polyamorous, Pearl," she said. "I have no say in who you do what with, I'd just like to know. I... can't say that your interactions with the Principal don't worry me, though. Just be careful, okay? And let me know if anything else happens."

"Why would they worry you? She's been so kind to me."

"I've known her longer than you," Rose said with a sigh. "And very few of my interactions with her have been as positive as yours. In fact, that's the experience most people have with her." She's borderline abusing your sister. She's outright punishing me for mentoring a student. She got Ruby expelled for being gay. She drove Lars to-

"Just keep in mind that she may not be all she seems," she said.

Pearl took a gentle step back. "Oh. Oh, I see. I think I'll... I should tell her to back off the next time we have a session."

"Be careful," Rose said, yet again. "She's good at manipulating and putting words into your mouth and -" She sighed. "I don't want to bring you up against her, that's not what this is about. But I know what she's like. And I don't want you to get hurt."

She reached out and touched Pearl's cheek.

"I won't. I'm only weak when I'm with you, Rose." She gave a little smile. "Everything's going to be okay. But I'm glad you warned me about her. I guess I'm just going to have to trust you. And I do."

Rose returned the smile, a little less anxious.

She leaned in and kissed Pearl again, letting the kiss linger for several long moments.

Pearl kissed back, brushing a hand across Rose's cheek. This no longer felt like a complete novelty. Or scandalous. Just right. "Do you ever worry what would happen if they caught us like this?"

"All the time," Rose said quietly. "I try my best to make sure we're not caught."

"No one can just walk in then, can they?"

"The door is locked," Rose assured her. "We're all by ourselves."

Pearl couldn't hold in her giggle. "When you say it like that, it makes me think we could really get up to anything." She then waved her hand. "Don't get me wrong, though. Unlike our Principal, I'd rather not orchestrate anything suspect in these rooms. They are filthier than Amy's room."

Rose smiled.

"Never mind the fact that if we went beyond kissing, I would definitely be in the realm of the illegal, no matter where we do it," she said. "But we can definitely kiss."

Pearl could only chuckle. "Kissing is good. Kissing is very good."

Rose had hoped for that answer. "I'm glad," she said. A quick glance at the clock. "We have about twenty minutes left of lunch. You should eat something - but we can have a little bit more time together." And with that, she pulled Pearl close and kissed her again.

Pearl giggled into the kiss, her entire set of emotions alight. She could only kiss back. And then she realised something. "Oh! Coach Jasper said she wanted to meet with me this lunchtime. Something about physio?"

"Oh!" Rose smiled. So her chat with Jasper and Lapis had actually fruited, and not just been talk. "She did mention she wanted to see you more again. Well, there's not that much time left, so why don't you go now?"

"I know that the old school assumption that all teachers are a hive mind has been proven wrong but... you wouldn't know where she is about now, would you?"

Rose chuckled. "She's probably in the gym," she said. "If she said to meet you, that's where she'll be expecting you to go."

"That's true." Pearl nodded. "Alright. We'll hang out some other time, okay?"

"Yeah! Feel free to come see me whenever," Rose said with a smile. She tipped Pearl's chin up gently and kissed her again.

"Have a good day!"

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In 2013, she was featured as a lead actress in the Malayalam movie ‘Geethaanjali’ -her first Malayalam film debut. Her first Tamil film debut was ���Idhu Enna Maayam” in 2015. In 2016, her Telugu debut was Nenu Sailaja (2016, Telugu). Oct 27, 2020 Super Khiladi 3 Actress Name. Super Khiladi 3 Actress Name. Super Khiladi 3 Hindi dubbed Tamil movie known as Nenu Sailaja. Directed by Kishore Tirumala and produced by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore. The movie was released on 1 January 2016 starting with Ram Pothineni and Keertthy Suresh.

Keerthy Suresh is an Indian actress who worked in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. Learn more aboutKeerthy Suresh Wiki Age Husband Family Caste details here.

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School & Career

Favourite Things

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Keerthy Suresh was born on 17th October 1992 (age 26 years) to Malayalam producer Suresh Kumar and actress Menaka.

Keerthy Suresh Childhood Photo

She also has an elder sister named Revathy Suresh, (married) who is a VFX specialist. Keerthy Suresh nickname Keerthana (called by her family members).

Keerthy Suresh with her family

Keerthy Suresh is unmarried and currently building her career in the film industry.

DOB: 17th Oct 1992

Father: Suresh Kumar

Mother: Menka

Sister: Revathy Suresh

Nick Name: Keerthana

Physical Appearance

Keerthy Suresh is 5ft 4inches tall and weighs around 58 Kg (121lbs). Her figure measurement is 33-26-34. She has dark brown eyes with black hair.

Height: 5’4″

Weight: 58Kg

Figure: 33-26-34 (Inches)

Colour: Fair complexion

Caste: Brahmans

Net Worth: $5 million

School & Career

She did her 4th standard schooling from Chennai, Tamil Nadu and then she started studying at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She completed her degree in Fashion Design at Pearl Academy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

She also spent time on an exchange program in Scotland for four months, before completing a two-month internship in London. Despite making a career in acting, she has stated that she was also “seriously considering a career in designing”.

She always wanted to be an actress. She started her career in 2000 as a child artist from the Malayalam movie ‘Pilots’. She also appeared as a child artist in the movies like ‘Achanayikistam’ and ‘Kuberan’.In 2013, she was featured as a lead actress in the Malayalam movie ‘Geethaanjali’ -her first Malayalam film debut. Her first Tamil film debut was “Idhu Enna Maayam” in 2015. In 2016, her Telugu debut was Nenu Sailaja (2016, Telugu).

She has also appeared in the movies like ‘Ring Master’, ‘Thodari’, ‘Bairavaa’, ‘Paambhu Sattai’, ‘Agnyaathavaasi’, ‘Thaanaa Serndha KoottamThaanaa Serndha Koottam’, etc.

Keerthy in Bairavaa Movie

Her Telugu film “Sarkar” with Vijay was released on 6th November 2018.

Keerthy Suresh in Sarkar Movie

Movie List:

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YearFilmRoleLanguage2000PilotsChild ArtistMalayalam2001AchaneyanenikkishtamMalayalam2002KuberanSidharthan’s daughterMalayalam2013GeethaanjaliGeetha, AnjaliMalayalam2014Ring MasterKarthikaMalayalam2015DarboniDeviMalayalamIdhu Enna MaayamMayaTamil2016Nenu SailajaSailajaTeluguRajini MuruganKarthiga DeviTamilThodariSarojaTamilRemoKavyaTamil2017BairavaaMalarvizhiTamilNenu LocalKeerthiTeluguPaambhu SattaiVeniTamil2018AgnyaathavaasiSukumariTeluguThaanaa Serndha KoottamMadhuTamilMahanatiSavitriTeluguNadigaiyar ThilagamTamilSeema RajaKadambavel Raja’s wifeTamilSaamy 2DiyaTamilSandakozhi 2*SembaruthiTamilSarkar*TBATamil

* marked movies will be released soon.

Awards:

Keerthy Suresh won many awards for her fabulous acting skills.

2018 – Asianet Film Awards – Most Popular Tamil Actress

2017 – Radio City Cine Awards – Favorite Heroine (2017)

2017 – Zee Cinemalu Awards Best Debut – Female – Nenu Sailaja (2016)

2016 – 5th South Indian International Movie Awards for Best debut female Tamil – Idhu Enna Maayam (2015)

Keerthy Awards

2015 – Edison Award for Best Female Rising Star

2014 – Asianet Film Award for Best New Face of the Year (Female) – Geethaanjali (2013)

2014 – South Indian International Movie Award for Best Female Debutant Malayalam – Geethaanjali (2013)

2014 – Vayalar Film Award for Best Second Actress – Geethaanjali (2013) and Ring Master (2014)

2014 – Nana Film Awards for Best Female Debutant – Geethaanjali (2013).

Favourite Things

She is a pure Vegetarian.

Keerthy Suresh Photo

Her favorite actors are Suriya and Vijay.

Her favorite actress are Parvathy Thiruvoth Kottuvata and Sridevi.

She loves dogs.

Keerthy love dogs

Her favorite movies includes Queen, Kahaani, Maryan, Moondram Pirai, Manathil Urudhi Vendum.

Her favorite destination is Venezuela and Goa.

She loves Swiming, Travelling, and Shopping.

Controversies:

In 2016, there was a rumor that she is secretly married to comedian Sathish, which she later denied.

Sathish and Keerthy marriage photo(not married-fake)

In 2016, she faced the outburst of Vikram’s fans after the news spread in tinsel town that she had declined to act alongside Vikram in his new film ‘Garuda‘.

Facts

She made her debut as a child artist at the age of eight with the movie “Pilots” (2010) and Kuberan (2002).

She graduated from Pearl Academy, Chennai with a degree in fashion Designing.

Her nickname is Keerthana.

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Execute digital marketing strategy and tactical marketing plans to cultivate growth of the Music Choice digital products, including maintaining website/app consumer messaging with engineering

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Digital and Social Media Producer (CBS Radio - Los Angeles)

Looking for an ambitious, motivated producer who has an eye and ear for digital media and understands how to grow an audience online. You live and breathe MUSIC - with a particular interest in pop music and know how to identify the best moments, viral video or news to post to drive social engagement, web traffic and video views. You know exactly what your audience wants on social media and can provide video, photos and snappy copy for all platforms. You’re a go-getter who can work with radio station jocks, producers and staff to offer best practices for posting on social media, and know how to market content for a digital and national audience. You can roll-up your sleeves, write an article, produce a video and can post it all online.

Sr. Product Marketing Manager (GetRockBot - Oakland, CA)

So what does it mean to work at Rockbot? You will be joining a small, agile team dedicated to working harder, better, faster and stronger - (thanks Daft Punk). We have a lot of fun here, too (you’ll like the occasional happy hours). We offer competitive salary and benefits, a great office location right above Bart in Oakland and a fantastic team of really smart people. We are looking for an experienced product marketing leader who can lead the charge in developing compelling messaging and positioning, and ensure our sales team has all the right materials to effectively sell our products and services.

Coordinator, Marketing Administration (Sony - Nashville)

The Marketing and New Business team at Sony Music Nashville (SMN) develops marketing campaigns that create exposure for our roster of industry-leading artists. We’re looking for someone who relishes behind-the-scenes roles, someone who would enjoy being responsible for administration tasks that keep a department running.

VP Marketing (Cumulus Media - TBD)

Cumulus is currently searching for a superior leaders to join us as a VP-Market Manager.

Focus…

Identify, recruit and develop high-performance sales talent and build a successful team to ensure continued top-line growth

Lead the local and regional sales effort and focus on diversifying the broadcast sales portfolio and penetrate growth business categories

Drive sales, deliver growth, exceed goals and live in the details of the business

Work across departments to proactively support each other’s endeavors and optimize execution

Contribute your talents and time to meeting challenges, solving problems and rising to the opportunities

Ensure that there is a thoughtful game plan to tactfully execute each decision and activity

Responsibility for your teams efforts and outcomes while celebrating successes

Content Marketing Associate (ArtistWorks - Napa, CA)

As our Content Marketing Associate you are ArtistWorks’ “editor-in-chief” and will work with production, technology, and marketing peers to create highly engaging, authoritative content related to the ArtistWorks learning experience. Your primary responsibilities will be increasing high quality organic traffic to the ArtistWorks site, converting those visitors to leads upon visit, and engaging current members.

This position mashes up creative and analytical skills, and requires an agile intellect that can blend customer intelligence, storytelling, data manipulation, and technology to craft world-class original content.

Sr Manager, Entertainment Marketing (T-Mobile - Bellevue, WA)

The Sponsorships and Events team is chartered with providing a single point of accountability for the strategic development, oversight, and execution of brand sponsorships and events. We are seeking a Senior Marketing Manager of Entertainment that will be responsible for overseeing partnership development, management, and execution of T-Mobile’s entertainment portfolio, which includes partnerships such as T-Mobile Arena, Dick Clark Productions and other media sponsorships, festivals, talent partnerships and celebrity influencer program.

The individual should have a passion for entertainment marketing, particularly music, an ability to demonstrate extensive knowledge and experience in building entertainment marketing platforms for brands, and a fundamental understanding of marketing principles. The role will lead the entertainment marketing team in strategic partnership planning and development, execution, communication, and measurement of entertainment marketing partnerships that support T-Mobile’s brand and business strategies. The role will work closely with the Sr. Director of Sponsorships and Events on the overall portfolio strategy and negotiation of key partnerships, and will work cross functionally with multiple internal departments, properties, agencies, and senior-level leadership.

Creative Operations Lead, Ad Creative (Pandora - Oakland, CA)

As a Creative Operations Lead, you will provide senior level project management to drive innovation in new advertising opportunities on Pandora. You will serve as a strategic partner to creative teams across Pandora, as well as leaders in Product, Ad Product Strategy, Sales, and Engineering to create and maintain the highest standards of quality and efficiency for ad products and amplified features. The ideal candidate is an expert project and programming manager who is creative, flexible, insights-driven, strategic, extremely savvy with design and advertising worlds, an expert communicator and collaborator, passionate about problem-solving, and dedicated to excellence.

Interactive advertising enables Pandora to bring advertisers and listeners together with creative that drives engagement and increases time spent listening. Our team specializes in crafting advertising and station experiences that resonate with the Pandora listener and artist through a personal, targeted listening experience, mirroring Pandora’s personalized delivery of music. From strategic rich media solutions to dynamic audio experiences, we take pride in creating content that is innovative, relevant, and effective.

We are looking to develop our strategic operations leadership within Advertising Creative, and your role will be crucial in enabling our multi-disciplined and multi-faceted team to produce new, dynamic advertising experiences. This job is located at our Oakland, CA office.

Choral Club / Print Music Marketing Manager (World Music & Church Resources - Nashville, TN)

Word Music & Church Resources is one of the world’s leading contemporary evangelical church music publishers. Based in Nashville, we are owned by Lorenz, one of the country’s largest publishers, manufacturers, and distributors of printed music for the school and church markets. We are looking for amazing people to join our Word Music & Church Resources (WMCR) team in Nashville, TN.

As a team member of WMCR/Lorenz, you’ll help shape our image and help expedite meaningful products that help our customers succeed. You’ll work closely with your peers in various departments. At WMCR/Lorenz, you can be yourself, work in a casual work environment, and know that you work with people who are dedicated to creativity, growth, teamwork, openness, improvement, and good stewardship.

Senior Music Licensing Manager (Amazon Studios - Santa Monica, CA)

We are seeking a Music Licensing Executive to join the dynamic music team supporting Amazon Video and Amazon Studios. The Director of Music Licensing will work closely with the Head of Music Licensing and will perform an integral part in negotiating global PRO deals for the Amazon Video team. The successful candidate will be highly organized and have experience in music licensing and managing relationships specifically with collective management organizations (Performance Rights Organizations). The role requires a deep understanding of the landscape and network of global PROs. In addition, the candidate will be expected to leverage strong negotiating and interpersonal skills in order to partner effectively across internal divisions and with external partners. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to broaden their entertainment experience at a growing company. Our team culture is goal orientated and fast paced. We are motivated by the challenge and success to produce premium content in the ever-changing digital entertainment business.

WQXR Product & Project Manager (New York Public Radio)

WQXR, the nation’s largest classical radio station, is looking to make a change. After 80 years on the air, we’re asking what classical music can mean to an entirely new generation of listeners, and we’re looking for a product + project manager to help build new experiences to reach them.

Within the year we’ll be launching a channel that marries modern, experimental compositions together with names like Tom Waits, Sigur Rós, and The Pixies. You’ll help us develop a product that doesn’t just stream audio from our station but also facilitates listener engagement—from interactions with the host all the way to joining as a member donating financial support.

We’ll also be researching completely new products and experiences that might speak to our audience. As the leader of the product team, you’ll use tightly iterated explorations to spec functional prototypes, test hypotheses, and eventually launch full fledged products, all the while overseeing the schedule and execution of the rest of the product team members.

Product Manager, Platform (Spotify - NYC)

We are looking for a passionate and seasoned Product Manager that will join the Creator team – a cross functional group dedicated to helping artists thrive. Creator builds features and services that help artists (and the team around them) grow, engage, monetize and understand their fans. Spotify as a company is dedicated to creating a platform for creativity that brings artists and fans closer together. You’ll be at the center of that mission.

Music Scene Expert (Zeeno - Philadelphia)

Zeeno is looking for local Philadelphians who know the music scene here in Philadelphia. If you’re a musician, sound technician, music blogger, or just love to go out to listen to live music, we are looking for your unique perspective. So whether you’re in college or you have lived here for 50 years, everyone has their own spin on Philly and we want to hear it.

Sr. Technical Program Manager, Alexa Music (Amazon - Seattle)

Want to transform the way people enjoy music, radio & books? Come join the team that made Prime Music, Spotify, Pandora, Live radio, Audible books, Kindle books, Podcasts, and more available to Alexa customers. This is an exciting opportunity to change the way customers listen to Music via Alexa. You will do this by leveraging Alexa Science and Language tools, voce modeling and building delightful customer experience. We’re seeking a Sr. Technical Program Manager who will be responsible for scoping and delivering large projects end-to-end. Responsibilities include collection of business and systems requirements from internal and external customers, writing specifications, driving project schedules from design to release, and managing the production launch. You will lead and coordinate design/implementation efforts between internal teams and outside merchants and vendors to develop optimal solutions. You will be expected to make appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional and remote project teams. The right candidate will possess a strong program management background, will have demonstrated experience leading medium to large projects, and will have a well-rounded technical background in current web technologies. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done. As a Sr. TPM, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a timely manner.

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BY RENEE JACQUES AUGUST 30, 2016 Here's a cold hard fact of life: Not everyone ages the same. Of course, anecdotally you know that's true. Just take a look at Jennifer Lopez (and Madonna, Robin Wright, Demi Moore). But now there's some evidence that ethnicity—and not just how much sunscreen we wear or how many cigarettes we smoke in our 20s—could be one factor that predetermines our rate of aging. A recent study conducted by researchers at UCLA and published in Genome Biology found that Latinos age slower than people of other ethnicities. RELATED: The Surprising Differences Between How Men and Women Age Researchers analyzed 6,000 DNA samples from men and women mostly between the ages of 30 and 90 possessing genes from seven different ethnicities: Latinos, Caucasians, two groups of people from central Africa (the Pygmies of the Baka and Batwa populations and the Bantus of the Nzebi, Fang, Bakiga, and Nzime populations), African-Americans, East Asians, and Tsimane, who are indigenous to Bolivia and genetically related to Latinos. After studying the biological age of samples from the blood, brain, and saliva, scientists concluded that not only do women live longer in all ethnicities but that after menopause the biological markers in the blood samples from Latino women were 2.4 years younger than blood samples from postmenopausal women of other ethnicities. Read that sentence again if you need to. Latin women's blood was across the board younger than anyone else's. Steve Horvath, a professor in human genetics and biostatistics at UCLA and the lead researcher of the study, says that while more research is needed to fully determine the cause of this discrepancy, he doesn't think external factors are at play. TRENDING NOW We Tried the Korean Hanacure Mask That Went Viral RELATED: The Anti-Aging Products Allure Editors Really Use "It’s probably not due to anything that people will think about," says Horvath. "For example, it is probably not due to differences in smoking or obesity because we looked into that. It’s also not due to differences in income or education because our analysis adjusted for that. Other people will say that it is due to lower psychological stress levels—and although the biologic aging rate that I used here does have a little bit of a relationship to stress—I just don’t think that would explain this strong effect. I also don’t think that diet could explain it because we have found that diet has only a very weak effect on the epigenetic aging rate in blood." (Epigenetic aging refers to chemical modifications of the DNA molecule—known as DNA methylation—that can influence how our genes function.) Instead, Horvath believes that it's Latinos genetic heritage. He proposes that the shared genetic ancestry with indigenous people such as the Tsimane from Bolivia could provide an explanation. "Latinos share some Native American DNA," he says. "The Tsimane people, who are native to South America, have almost a Stone Age lifestyle. They forage and they grow some crops. But they had the slowest epigenetic aging rate in our study. The Tsimane don’t have many [of the] chronic diseases that afflict people in Western societies—like diabetes and heart disease—even though they have higher levels of inflammation due to infections and parasites." RELATED: The Ultimate Anti-Aging Routine You Can Buy at the Drugstore Of course, that's just one way of saying a lot more research needs to be done. For one, Horvath says he needs to extend the study from blood to other tissues and organs. (Of the 6,000 samples in this study, only 127 were East Asian of Han Chinese descent. Testing larger groups of similarly unique populations would yield a more nuanced and accurate result.) And ultimately, he plans to drill down in his research to determine the exact molecular mechanism that allows Latinos to age slower. As for now? Latinos can just feel #blessed. "I’m not aware of any particular diet or any physical exercise that would slow epigenetic aging effect," he says. "It seems to me that it's very much in our genes. Some people just get lucky." ADVERTISEMENT Latina women may age slower, but all the women everywhere in the world are equally beautiful. 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Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 5/25/18) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 5/25/18) and Your California Privacy Rights. Allure may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Ad Choices 10. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2018/1010/Conflict-exhaustion-or-democracy-renaissance-The-age-of-in-your-face-activism 11. This website uses cookies to improve functionality and performance. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Close About these ads Conflict exhaustion or democracy renaissance? The age of in-your-face activism WHY WE WROTE THIS Democracies aim to turn political passions into protests and activism. Living through such a time, however, draws on civic reservoirs of patience and goodwill. October 10, 2018 TWO WAYS TO READ THE STORY By Jessica Mendoza Staff writer @_jessicamendoza WASHINGTON They showed up at restaurants. They rallied outside senators’ homes. They dogged officials at elevators and airports, they crowded hallways and offices on Capitol Hill, and they broadcast everything in real time on social media. And although in the end Brett Kavanaugh became a Supreme Court justice, the activists who protested for weeks ahead of his confirmation have shown few signs of slowing down or changing their strategy. Already Republicans are accusing them of promoting anarchy by employing “mob tactics” against conservative officials. Activists say they only want to hold those elected to represent the people accountable for their decisions and are using every tool at their disposal to do so. About these ads Somewhere in the middle are the bewildered casualties – like the the D.C. restaurant where protesters confronted Sen. Ted Cruz (R) of Texas last week, or the Virginia community where one restaurateur declined to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Average citizens are finding themselves suddenly caught in the center of pitched partisan battles. Welcome to the new normal: a potent mix of public outrage, political polarization, and broadband-speed publicity combining to create a reactionary and deeply partisan protest culture that is bleeding into every corner of American life. “It feels like a political crisis on a day-to-day basis,” says Diana Mutz, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. In Red Hen aftermath, a community wades through nation's vitriol We’ve seen some of this before. The country is only about 50 years removed from the turmoil and rioting that marked the civil rights movement – a chaotic era that ultimately affirmed fundamental rights for women, African-Americans, and other disenfranchised communities. American democracy was built to allow space for dissident and minority groups to air their grievances. But social media has propagated and intensified what in the 1960s would have been covered almost exclusively by daily newspapers and nightly news programs. It has encouraged the public to participate in politics in new and exciting ways, even as it further drives a partisan wedge between them. The question, political analysts say, is whether the current period of highly-charged political engagement and high-profile protests will result in a stronger democracy – or further undermine the nation’s institutions and split its people apart. “Seeing people be politically involved is a very good thing. Seeing them care enough to do these kinds of things is very positive,” Professor Mutz says. “It’s just unfortunate that the grounds of consensus have become so small … that we’re all experiencing a sense of sheer conflict exhaustion.” 'I don't know what else to do' The Thursday before the Senate voted to confirm Justice Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Alison Turkos took the 6 a.m. train from Brooklyn to Washington. For the next 30 hours, she all but slept on Capitol Hill: One minute, she was at the offices of Sen. Susan Collins (R) of Maine to urge the lawmaker to vote against Kavanaugh; the next she was chanting with fellow protesters on the steps of the Supreme Court. One video shows Ms. Turkos confronting Sen. Joe Manchin (D) of West Virginia – the only Democrat to vote to confirm Kavanaugh – at an elevator, asking him why he was supporting the nominee. “How do you know how I’m going to vote?” he responds before disappearing into the lift. On Friday morning, Turkos sits on a bench at the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building. Her sharp black blazer and bright red lipstick project strength, but Turkos – a rape survivor – admits to feeling broken. She’s devastated that the senators put Kavanaugh on the bench. She questions putting herself through the agony of retelling, and reliving, her own trauma. Jessica Mendoza/Christian Science Monitor Alison Turkos of New York wears a pink button supporting Christine Blasey Ford, the Palo Alto University professor who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in testimony during his confirmation hearings, at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. “But I don’t know what else to do,” Turkos says. “The only option that’s left is for me to come to them.” Her experience, echoed by other activists, is central to the strategies that organizations like the Center for Popular Democracy have been honing for the past year. Their idea is to train people, mostly women, to create situations where they can confront their elected officials about their concerns and broadcast the exchange to the world. Called “bird-dogging,” the tactic draws from civil rights-era civil disobedience strategies and is meant to both hold lawmakers accountable in public spaces and empower individuals to stand up to authority. “What you see is women who are tired of being ignored and using tactics that refuse to allow people in power to make decisions that impact our lives without looking in our eyes and recognizing us as human beings,” says Jennifer Epps-Addison, the center’s co-executive director. From a big-picture perspective, this blend of sit-ins, street marches, and in-your-face confrontations – all amplified by social media – could be a good thing, political observers say. It motivates people, and when people are motivated, they participate in the processes that strengthen a democracy. Some exchanges, like the one between Sen. Jeff Flake (R) of Arizona and a pair of activists at an elevator, even seem to lead to direct change. The senator later agreed to give a “yes” to advancing Kavanaugh to a full vote only on the condition that the FBI conduct an investigation on the sexual assault allegations against the judge. But Senator Flake, who is retiring, is the exception, not the rule. “Most people, if they’re confronted in a way that they don’t expect or in a way that they don’t feel is appropriate, they’re not receptive to the message,” says Laurie Rice, a politics professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. “Their guard goes up. It’s, ‘How dare you do this?’ ” Both sides dig in Minutes before Turkos walks into the Hart Building’s foyer, Laura Murphy wanders in, wearing a navy T-shirt that proclaims, in big block letters, “I stand with Brett.” Her take on the events leading up to the justice’s confirmation? “It’s shameful,” she says. “I see a lot of disrespect for authority. I don't see civil discourse.” She adds that the antagonism from liberal activists has only served to fire up Republicans ahead of November’s elections, when Democrats are expected to turn out in record numbers in a bid to retake the House. Conservatives, Ms. Murphy says, “are going to come out and vote in the midterm elections. They don’t like what they see on the side of the left.” Jessica Mendoza/Christian Science Monitor Laura Murphy shows her support for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh with a shirt and button as she's being interviewed on Oct. 5, 2018, at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington. That surge underscores one short-term consequence of confrontational activism, especially when magnified by social media: Both sides tend to dig in their heels, further shrinking the odds of meaningful conversation or compromise. Some conservatives warn that by harrying public officials, protesters are endangering the very notion of representative government. “The only way that we have any power is if our members of Congress are free to act according to the wishes of their constituents,” writes political historian Jay Cost for the National Review. Lawmakers themselves have spoken out. Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida tweeted in defense of Senator Collins, whose decisive vote in support of Kavanaugh was met with everything from disappointment and derision to vulgar calls and violent threats. Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul’s wife, Kelley, wrote in a CNN op-ed that she now keeps a loaded gun by her bed after violent encounters with protesters, including at a D.C. airport last week. Majority leader Mitch McConnell described Republican senators as being “literally under assault” during the hearings. The Republican response has in turn further enraged the other side. Ms. Epps-Addison, who was among the protesters who confronted Senator Paul at the airport, says it’s not activists’ job to make lawmakers or even fellow citizens feel comfortable. Not when there are people suffering because of the decisions public officials make. “Maybe they do feel attacked,” Turkos says of senators. “But guess what? I feel attacked. And if the worst attack you’re going to feel is me approaching you in an elevator, that’s the greatest thing for you. “I have been kidnapped and raped,” she adds. “You don’t know what that’s like.” 'People don't feel heard at all' As yet, there’s hardly incentive for anyone to back off. With the midterms a month away, candidates and supporters are doubling down on their positions. They’re using social media to boost the us-versus-them mentality, and – because the most extreme, emotional, and moralistic proclamations are often the ones with the biggest payoff – pushing the narrative that democracy itself is at stake. Other observers point to the fact that political participation on the upswing is ultimately strengthening, if painful, for the country. “People are engaging. Wherever you fit on the political spectrum, we’re seeing a renaissance of democracy,” says Dana Fisher, a sociologist at the University of Maryland and author of the coming “American Resistance,” a book on Trump-era activism. “That’s got to be good.” Get the Monitor Stories you care about delivered to your inbox. Your e-mail address By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy. But it’s a political culture that leaves little room for the kind of patience or self-reflection that lead to thoughtful decisions or compromises. The pace of technological development, and therefore political churn, has made it impossible to stop and ask what the standards of our interactions with one another should be, much less set those standards. Which then leads to more shouting, less listening, and more division. “People don’t feel heard at all,” says Deana Rohlinger, a professor of sociology at Florida State University. “’Til [our leaders] can figure out ways in which people they’re representing feel empowered, we can expect a lot more interruptions at dinner and confrontations in the elevator.” About these ads Next up Here are more stories that look at the news with empathy, insight, and hope. In Red Hen aftermath, a community wades through nation's vitriol By Jessica Mendoza The Supreme Court and beyond, how partisan are America's judges? By Henry Gass Supreme Court hearings are broken, both parties say. How they can be fixed. By Henry Gass binoculars LIKE WHAT YOU SEE HERE? Less noise. More insight. 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It is natural to ask about the consequences of handing the office of the presidency to a friendless, joyless, violence-worshipping narcissist. Unfortunately, what we know about the repercussions of this period is vastly outstripped by the disasters to come. For all the many ignominious assaults that the country has endured over the past two years, we have not yet experienced even a fifth of the calamities this man and his misrule will ultimately inflict upon us. But we know a few things. We know that President Trump has, perhaps permanently, transformed the presidency with his malevolence, ineptitude, and divisiveness. Donald Trump is by far the laziest and least informed person ever to inhabit the White House. In two years, he has defined deviance so far down that he may have forever altered the expectations of the office of the presidency itself. As we have learned from a thousand anonymously sourced news analyses, the president's time is largely unstructured, filled mostly with blocks of compulsive Fox News watching, an activity that he telegraphs to the public by live tweeting it. America's voters are constantly being told, by the president of the United States, to watch particular Fox programs and to applaud quotes by right-wing gadflies uttered without any serious pushback from other guests on what is now effectively Republican state television. Aides, despairing of any real hope that Trump will take his job seriously, desperately schedule short blocks of "policy time" for their addled boss, a man so bereft of any lawmaking depth that he has repeatedly sent his congressional enablers scrambling to meet his capricious demands and volte faces. He has lit millions of taxpayer dollars on fire visiting his own gauche resorts, time he might have spent reining in the unprecedented corruption emanating from nearly every executive agency he staffed either with members of his dimwitted entourage or the very "globalists" he continues to hypocritically decry. Every day, this darling of the evangelical movement lives his truth, which happens to line up with every one of the seven deadly sins of sloth, envy, greed, pride, anger and gluttony. Lust, at least, he seems to have left mercifully in his recent past. Heralded as the first post-partisan president, a transactional dealmaker sent to blow up the shriveled gridlock in Washington, Trump has instead governed as the president of the Red States of America. Journalists working outside of the right wing mediasphere are demonized as "enemies of the people" and hounded by his supporters. He rarely visits states that voted for Hillary Clinton unless there's a golf course there, and signs bills designed explicitly to punish voters in Democratic strongholds. While he constantly caterwauls about Democrats obstructing his agenda, he has never once crafted a public message designed to expand his appeal beyond his MAGA base and clearly views his political future as dependent only on the narrow coalition of people who voted for him in 2016. Fueled by a lifetime of resentment against elites, racial minorities, and immigrants, he is incapable even of treating disasters and tragedies in blue states and territories with the gravity they deserve. Texas is a "great state" hit by an unfathomably catastrophic hurricane, while Puerto Ricans "want everything done for them" and California wildfires are the fault of government mismanagement. Here again what was once unthinkable — a president openly despising people who voted against him and punishing them for their supposed thought crimes — has become routine. A complete trainwreck as a policy leader, Trump has also managed to be a miserable failure at the president's ceremonial duties. Instead of comfort to the afflicted, he drags his witlessness and anger into every room with him, teaching victims of calamity that their moral worth depends on who they voted for or which racial caste they were born into. He feuds endlessly with black women, uses the fever-swamp sobriquet "Democrat Party" to describe his opposition, bestows a childish nickname ("Adam Schitt") on each of his multitudinous detractors, and seems to reserve his admiration only for fellow American white nationalists and overseas strongmen. That this dispiriting display of churlishness, petty grievance mongering, and inept blame-wielding has resulted in consistently low approval ratings is little comfort for the future. At least a third of the country has told pollsters over and over again that there is no line the president can cross, no standard of action that he can violate, no indecency incapable of being waved away by pointing to the unemployment rate or manufacturing gains. Millions of Americans — thankfully not yet a majority — are willing to tolerate from our chief executive execrable behavior that no sane person would put up with from their friends, co-workers, or loved ones. He is able to do this because he is the apotheosis of a 40-year-long Republican-led assault on objective truth, expertise, and policy evaluation. Like domestic abusers and cult leaders and con men, the activity that consumes the preponderance of President Trump's time is relentlessly hammering away at our self-worth and our sense of objective reality. His war on truth operates on multiple fronts and never rests. Arrayed against him are journalists, and at The Washington Post and Politifact they employ a truth-value spectrum, where the number of 'Pinocchios' or a four-category schematic lends a sort of nuance to the kind of nonsense claims politicians clobber each other with in staged debates or campaign ads. Was Barack Obama 'lying' when he said, "If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor?" I guess, but the real problem there was the inability to be straight with voters, to able to say something like, "A small number of you may be forced to change insurance plans, for the greater good of your fellow citizens." Donald Trump's lies are not like this. He fills up the public record with things that are not just artful rearrangements of things that are basically real, but rather outlandishly, transparently, undeniably untrue. I'm not here to recount this litany of lies for you. Set aside for a moment the running count of the total number of lies that he has told — the content of each is irrelevant. The point is for you to forget what it is like to have the president try to tell the truth, to disorient you, to get you to make a false confession. This is our truth, he wants us to say. That's why the president of the United States gets up every morning, uncaps a bottomless flask filled with lies and magnificently ill-informed opinions, and spends entire days and evenings pouring it out over all of us. It is working. We have become inured. We are told that to point out the president's preposterous, outrageous lies is to play directly into a game whose rules only he sets and understands. This is how you got Trump, we are told over and over again by our abusers and their apologists. In the haze of this unending sensory and rhetorical assault, President Trump has also, loosely, governed the United States as the leader of the most disinterested and unproductive unified government in American history. Has the president delivered on the promises he made? His economic policies, it should be obvious, have been radically different than what you might have gathered from his rally bluster. The man who campaigned on behalf of ruined factory towns and raw-dealed blue collar workers immediately appointed a gallery of sniveling economic con artists to his Cabinet. Together, they have mildly tweaked American trade policy but have tripled down on Reagan-era economic orthodoxy, blowing a long-term hole in the deficit with reckless tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. Fleeting manufacturing gains have not been married to any coherent reorientation of American economic policy that will survive the next recession. He has ruined the lives of many people — workers in Ford manufacturing plants and soybean farmers in the Midwest, for instance — that he explicitly promised to rescue. Sign up for our free email newsletters ENTER EMAIL Thus far there has been no 2008-style disaster so obvious that it penetrates the epistemic closure of even the most fervent diehards. The stock market is up. Unemployment is down. Trump's overseas misadventures, for all of their gobsmacking foolishness, have not yet begun to even approach anything on the scale of the Iraq disaster. For many Americans, that is enough. If you tuned the dude out on Twitter (and you don't work for or depend on the shuttered federal government) you might be able to convince yourself that nothing all that important is amiss. But it is in the realm of policy where we are likely to experience the worst aftershocks, untraceable to the fault line of origin, for many years hence. President Trump's open dismantling of the country's diplomatic apparatus and soft power capital is likely to haunt us in future dealings with other countries. When future presidents find it impossible to negotiate agreements and treaties with allies and adversaries, because all trust in American policy continuity has been broken and because an entire generation of foreign policy talent has been vaporized, they can thank President Trump. Presidents and prime ministers know that Trump is temporary, that Trumpism might be fleeting. But they now regard America's voters themselves with wariness. When will they next erupt in a petulant display of shortsightedness? Who will be the next rogue elevated to the presidency? The transition to a post-American global system, multipolar and more complex, was inevitable. But we did not have to gratuitously piss away a century's worth of accumulated goodwill in the process. Republicans since the turn of this century have been bent on dismantling the very international institutions that could help ease the shift to a world in which America is no longer its most powerful country. But it is Trump who has finished the job of blowing apart the post-World War II international order, a loss that while currently a kind of abstraction will be deeply felt during the next serious crisis. For all the many faults of the Pax Americana, one led by China, hampered by an untrusted, isolated United States and reeling from crisis to crisis inflicted by a warming planet, will be worse in ways we can scarcely yet imagine. The Trump administration's blinkered economic policies, so far the only thing where voters broadly give him some credit, are setting us up for a future meltdown that we will be very poorly equipped to manage. The decade-long Republican assault on the public sector is driving new workers away from civil service, and will leave every important agency within the federal government scrambling for properly trained talent when the time finally comes to either hire them or depend on them in a crisis. Who wants to work for an employer who threatens either to furlough you or drag you into work without pay every time Congress and the president can't agree on a budget? The destruction of these institutions, constructed painstakingly over decades, may cripple a theoretical Democratic administration trying to expand Medicare or reform the systemic graft in our financial system. Just holding together what we now still have may become an impossible task. America is also deliberately, as a matter of official Republican policy, hemorrhaging money during a long economic expansion. If Trump is in charge when the economy crashes, he will surely listen to the Randian ideologues in his coterie, who will tell him to cut spending, which will make it all incomprehensibly worse. Millions will suffer needlessly. If Republicans manage to slip out of office before the reckoning, the next Democratic administration will be forced to run unthinkable, politically toxic deficits in order to pull us out of the economic spiral. Everything that the leaders of the Democratic primary field want to do will be made more challenging by the wreckage they will first be compelled to wade through. Heads they win, tails we lose. A Trumpist minority that, during these relatively good economic times seems bent on cruelty to minorities and immigrants, will turn darker and more sadistic when the good times come to an end, or when their status as a numerical minority is finally reflected in our politics. They will not go quietly and they almost certainly will go violently. They will add social mayhem to the economic wreckage. It will not be pretty. And yet we do not know, cannot know, the precise shape of the horrors to come. What we know is that over the past two years, we have cheapened and embarrassed ourselves. Even if this man and his enablers are removed from their offices next year, or even if the latest bombshell leads to Trump's impeachment, we will be like a teenager slinking back home at midnight, stinking of booze, promising that we only had one beer and that we'll never do it again. The moment of release will be poisoned by the memory of what has already transpired. Something about America, as an idea, has been obliterated. If there is some silver lining to be found, it is that Trump's opponents have rediscovered the importance of institutions that they long took for granted. Normal people are talking about regulations at the Department of Justice, the separation of powers, and the Emoluments Clause. A new generation of young people is engaged in the political process and determined to seize power from the Baby Boomers who have destroyed their futures. The hot blog of the administration is a geekfest called Lawfare. Far from destroying his media tormentors, President Trump has instead sent people scrambling for subscriptions and stories. And millions of people have realized the ways that our democracy is deficient, from the suppression of voter rights via Voter ID laws and felony disenfranchisement procedures to the unequal representation in the Senate suffered by so many Americans. Whether that encouraging fervor is sufficient to rescue American democracy from the grip of kakistocrats, white nationalists, grifters, and traitors remains to be seen. 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Illustrated | Delpixart/iStock, jessicahyde/iStock January 2, 2019 As Americans emerge from their blissful holiday cocoons this week, they are greeted by the longest government shutdown since 2013, a presidency in crisis, and the prospect of a horizon-less stalemate between the Democratic House and the Republican-held Senate and White House. With President Trump and soon-to-be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi entrenched in their irreconcilable positions about the president's fanciful border wall, no one knows who or what will break the logjam and restore American government to its previous minimally functional status. Beyond the new cycle optics, this might be a good time to ask ourselves about the deeper problems with our system of government and what we might do about them. From a purely political standpoint, Democrats are clearly "winning" the shutdown, although that's a little bit like triumphing in a competition of punching yourself in the face. When the president blundered into taking full responsibility for a shutdown in his Dec. 11 meeting with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in full view of the cameras he invited into the room, he made it impossible to change the narrative. The president is playing a trash hand poorly. Not only do voters decisively oppose construction of a border wall, but they also don't believe that the government should be shuttered over it and blame Republicans for the impasse. By a margin of 47 percent to 33 percent, voters hold the president rather than Democrats responsible for the ugly mess in Washington, and if you throw in the 7 percent who blame congressional Republicans, the GOP is 21 points under water with the current strategy. ADVERTISEMENT Yet the president, egged on by the 10 or so oblivious pundits who have his ear on this issue, is curiously all in here and doesn't see the need for a strategic retreat. The bottom line is that President Trump and his coterie of immigration hardliners seem to be the last people in D.C. not to understand that America will not be building a 1,900-mile wall along its southern border any time soon. They have hijacked an empty plane and are issuing demands like it's full of women and children. The stupidity is staggering. Take a step back from the extra-loud shouting, finger-pointing, and poll-driven analysis for a moment though, and behold the dismal failure of the American system of government. These endless budget standoffs have dominated national debate and policymaking for eight years and running with no resolution in sight. The inability of the country's national legislature, in conjunction with its executive branch, to perform the most basic task of funding the operations of the government — not just once but over and over again, bringing us to the brink of this crisis seemingly every month since 2011 — really should make us ponder yet again some of the most problematic design features of the American constitutional order. In political science terms, we operate a "presidential democracy," whose distinguishing feature is that the executive is elected separately from the legislature. That basic structure creates the possibility of what we have in the United States today — divided government, where the presidency and one or more branches of Congress are controlled by different parties. As the late political scientist Juan Linz wrote, when warring parties under divided government can't compromise, "there is no democratic principle" that can resolve the impasse. This built-in conflict and the potential it creates for the collapse of democracy is what led him to endorse a parliamentary system — in which the executive is chosen by the majority party or coalition in a single legislature, thereby mostly eliminating the kind of gridlock we see in the U.S. — as the safer form of government. "The superior historical performance of parliamentary democracies is no accident," according to Linz. To that basic institutional design flaw, the United States has added its absurd, 60-vote requirement in the Senate in the form of the filibuster, making it difficult even for duly constituted unified governments to act authoritatively and exacerbating the country's long-term policy paralysis. This critique of the American system was popularized a few years ago by Vox writer Matthew Yglesias, who leaned heavily on Linz's ideas to claim in a widely read essay that our democracy is "doomed." Yglesias, like Linz, was focused mostly on the potential for presidential democracies to backslide into authoritarianism, whether suddenly, as with the 1973 military putsch in Chile, or gradually, as is happening in Brazil. But scholars have also looked at whether parliamentarism is simply a better operating system across a wide range of variables, beyond the durability of democracy. And as much as Trumpism threatens the survival of the American democratic experiment, the sclerosis produced by our peculiar form of presidentialism long predates and almost certainly will survive the president. Linz's contention that parliamentary systems are broadly superior appears to be backed up by the data. As social scientists John Gerring, Strom Thacker, and Carola Moreno recently argued, "It appears that parliamentary systems hold distinct advantages over presidential ones across a wide range of indicators of political, economic and human development." Countries with parliamentary systems feature greater levels of human development, lower corruption, and more robust economic development. The authors theorize that due to their greater capacity for decisive and flexible policymaking, parliamentary systems are better "coordination devices." In other words, they're better at doing the things that governments are meant to — providing public goods in the form of freely available services, protecting common assets, and ensuring that all citizens contribute to the endeavor. Importantly, they are much better positioned than fragmented presidential systems at reorienting the ship of state to avert disaster or tackle pressing problems. That brings us back to America in 2019. The United States is not exactly mid-collapse Easter Island, but it's also beset by a variety of serious crises that call for sustained, concerted and thoughtful action. Tens of millions of people are uninsured, nearly every city that isn't a burned-out crater features an affordable housing crisis, real wages have been mostly stagnant for two generations, runaway inequality threatens to break trust in the basic fairness of our society, and broad swathes of our coastal areas are in the process of becoming dangerous and uninhabitable due to climate change. Our airports would be embarrassing everywhere except in the least developed countries, we are rocking a rail system that was out of date 50 years ago and has received basically no attention whatsoever from the national government, and the rest of the infrastructure we erected after World War II from our once-in-a-millennium perch atop the economic world needs trillions of dollars in updates that political leaders have been too selfish and short-sighted to even begin to address. Historians will ultimately view the first 20 years of the 21st century as lost decades, when the United States failed to seize opportunity after opportunity to avoid disaster with clever, informed policymaking. Unfortunately, transforming America into a better-functioning parliamentary democracy is about as realistic as abolishing the Senate, so we're going to have to learn to work within the confines of the institutions we have. But even given those limitations, it's long past time to start thinking about how we might at least, avoid the kind of ugly, destructive budget battles that have characterized the past decade. For years, Republicans have been pressing a balanced budget amendment. A number of states have passed resolutions calling for an Article V convention to amend the Constitution, although such legislation has failed to gain any traction in Congress. But rather than arbitrarily limiting the spending power of the state, what Congress and the states really ought to do is to devise a mechanism to resolve disagreements between the branches over baseline government spending — call it a Continuing Budget Amendment. Rather than descending into chaos every time Congress and the president can't agree on funding levels, we could embed a resolution into the constitutional order, either a mechanism that automatically renews existing funding levels for some set period of time (3 or 6 or 9 months, for instance) or even mandates spending increases indexed to inflation for the duration of the standoff. While it wouldn't avoid long-term O.K.-Corralling over big-picture disagreements, such an amendment would eliminate the hostage-taking incentive that leads hardliners in both parties to refuse any form of compromise. Beyond such a fix, it is really up to the voters to stop dividing the government, a task made harder by the way the electoral system frequently mistranslates popular sentiment into minority rule. But the voters must keep trying. While the checks-and-balances model may have fit mid-century America, with parties that are now sharply divided over policy and voters who increasingly despise one another, what the country really needs is to be able to choose a direction and stick with it. Perhaps another two years of policy drift and political trench warfare will finally convince voters to adjust the rudder accordingly. In the meantime, as you await deliverance into a functional governance Valhalla, I hope you don't need to use the restroom at a national park. 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BBC Worldwide, the British broadcaster’s commercial division, says it has sold more than 3,000 hours of drama around the world in the past three months. The announcement came on the eve of BBC Worldwide Showcase, the four-day TV market beginning Monday in Liverpool, England, at which scripted shows take center stage.

In Western Europe, where more than 200 hours of drama were sold, two of Germany’s major broadcasters bought a number of new and classic titles. RTL Pay purchased “SS-GB” and “Rillington Place,” and ZDF bought “Death in Paradise” (seasons 5-6) as well as “Spooks” (seasons 6-10), among other titles. In Italy, Rai Cinema acquired “Doctor Foster” (season 1) as part of a drama package.

There is also strong demand for British drama in Central and Eastern Europe, with 600 hours of content sold across the region. In Russia, “War and Peace” (2015) will now be available on subscription VOD platform IVI, and in Ukraine, Digital Screens will have “Dickensian” (season 1) among other drama series. ETV in Estonia acquired “Father Brown” (seasons 1-5), LTV in Latvia picked up “DCI Banks” (seasons 1-3) and Lithuania has “Sherlock” (season 4).

In Northern Europe, around 350 hours of drama have been sold across the territories with “Maigret” (episodes 1-2) licensed to VRT in Belgium, and “Happy Valley” (season 2) to NPO in Holland. “Call the Midwife” (season 6) has been sold to SVT in Sweden, “The Durrells” to TV2 in Denmark and “The Collection” (season 1) to RUV in Iceland.

There have been a number of deals with platforms across Sub-Saharan Africa and Kenya, where series including “Ripper Street” (seasons 1-4), “Luther” (seasons 1-4) and “Top of the Lake” (season 1) are now available.

In the Middle East, audiences in Israel will now be able to watch “The Honorable Woman” on Vubiquity and “Unforgotten” (seasons 1-2) on the broadcaster Yes.

Nearly 400 hours of drama have been sold across Latin America with “War and Peace” (2015) licensed to Brazilian free-to-air channel Globo. “Ripper Street” (season 2) will be available on Filmin Latino (SVOD/FVOD) as well as Pramer (seasons 2-3). In addition, Vubiquity has acquired seasons 1-10 of “Doctor Who.”

Finally, in Asia, nearly 950 hours of drama content was acquired between Korea, Japan, Greater China and India with titles such as “New Tricks” (season 12), “Citizen Khan” (season 5) and “The Paradise” (seasons 1-2) proving popular. Clients included KBS in Korea, AXN Mystery in Japan, Youku in Greater China and FX in India.

Paul Dempsey, president global markets, BBC Worldwide, said: “The demand for British drama continues to rise as global audiences are captivated by both the range and quality of our writing, acting and production.”

More than 700 buyers are attending BBC Worldwide Showcase to watch more than 3,000 hours of programs during event. They’ll also get to hear from the producers and creatives of a wide range of new shows. Among the creatives attending are writers Mark Gatiss (“Doctor Who,” “Sherlock”), Hossein Amini (“McMafia”), Misha Glenny (“McMafia”), Mike Bartlett (“Doctor Foster”) and Jimmy McGovern (“Broken”).

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Nigeria, Drug Cartels And Xenophobia In South Africa. THE FACTS.

I have a lot of problem with the authenticity and accuracy of these stories , I’m a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, now University of Johannesburg, I am married to a South African, I worked for the African union from inception until 2009, when I decided to relocate, so, from 1996-2009, that would be 13 years of living in South Africa, by virtue of having studied and worked in South Africa and speak Zulu fluently. Also, due to the nature of the work, it afforded me the opportunity to travel extensively within South Africa and Africa generally. So I can conveniently and confidently say that, I know South Africa and its people, very well.

Now, the issues raised in this write up concerning drugs is untrue, yes, some Nigerians are involved in drugs, but they didn’t start it nor are they even in the majority, neither are they the kingpins of drugs, but the thing is Nigerians in South Africa are like the children of the Third Reich, damned for what they are and damned for what they’re not.

Encapsulating the drug business in South Africa and prostitution, it would be wise to recognise that drug business was going on before the earliest Nigerians settled in SA, in Cape town, gang wars started in Cape flats amongst the colored people long before Nigerians got there, in Durban, there was drug trade by Indians from Pine town to the Promenade long before Nigerians saw the Indian Ocean in Kwazulu Natal,( note Durban is not a capital city like JHB. Pietermaritzburg is the capital city)

Now, in JHB, drug business by Nigerians are heavily situated in places like, Hillbrow, Berea, Yeovil, Orange grove, Ellis park, Rossettenville. These are areas heavily populated by foreigners of diverse origin.

Let me also shine some light on Prostitution before I conclude. Prostitution is a right of passage of 90% of South Africans, white, black, Indian, colored, the remaining 10% are Khoisan. An average South African girl of 15 years already has a child before the family will now aid her to move from the locations to JHB, Durban, Port Elisabeth, East London, Cape town or Tswane, which is by the way, the real name of Pretoria. Native South Africans are extremely poor and as as a result crime and prostitution thrive in the Locations ( informal settlements) like Soweto, Alexandra, Tembisa, Lenasia and Eldorado park in Gauteng province, with JHB as capital city. Lamontville, port Shepstone, Umlazi, Umtata, Bluff, and other locations spread out in the Zululand, feed the crime and whore needs of Durban KZN. While in the Cape town is fed by, Gugulethu, Kylitsha, cape flats and neighbouring East London and Port Elizabeth.

The other provinces, like Bloemfontein, Limpopo and basically all of the former Northern Transvaal, Boputhatswana, flock to JHB, supported by migrating prostitutes from Namibian, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi and a smattering handful from Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho and Angola, not forgetting assassins from Mozambique and Zimbabwe. These completes the Violent crimes and Prostitution ring in South Africa. Looking at drugs holistically, Nigerians, Tanzanians, Indians, Pakistanis’ Italians and the Boer South Africans are indictable here, but in different categories.

The drug business are in three categories:-

Importers, ( drugs are not indigenous to South Africa) so they are imported from South America, Asia and Europe to SA. You might be wondering Europe? Yes, Europe,drugs is not restricted to Cocaine and Opium, inclusive also are, Fentanyl, Mandrax,Ecstasy, Acid paper e.t.c these come from Europe, they all find their way to South Africa and somebody brought them into the country and just about 10% of importers are Nigerians, are you now wondering who is then responsible for the remaining 90%? South African whites/Boers, yes most drug imports come from Holland which is the Boers original home. Have you ever wondered why there haven’t been and major drug bust in the Airports or anywhere else in South Africa? Simple, its a Cartel, run by Indigenes, the Police, immigration and Customs.

These are the middle men, who now buy 50-60-70grammes, break it into 5gs and in turn sell to the third and final group in the drug dealing chain, called ” Ndi-Atuke” .

Now, the third and final group who take the major risk in the business are the ones who may buy 5 or 10g and cook a part to sell as rocks and the other as powder, this group are the street urchins who market in small scale to whoever can afford it and this group are individuals that cannot afford to be cartels as they are constantly harassed by the Police and the Mafia, to pay protection money.

This third group, some of them team up with pristitutes to bring their customers ( mainly whites) to buy from them. So the prostitutes are already addicts, who are no longer accepted as residents in strip clubs like Summit club, Dorchester and other such clubs that dot the cities of South Africa like a reminder of its immediate gory past, they are the prostitutes and all Pinch sellers are guilty of such association and its not restricted to Nigerians.

Now to the reason why Nigerians are targets for this Xenophobic attacks are two tiered.

Once upon a time on Etv South Africa, there was a Talk show named “Third Degree” hosted by an Indian lady who was trying to divert attention of criminal acts from her stock to Nigerians, first of such shows was a Masacre that took place in a gay club called little Caesars, in the ensuing documentary, she blamed it on Nigerians and drugs, but when the case was finally busted, no Nigerian was involved. It was dobe by whites and Indians who hated Homosexuality.

The second documentary of note was the Moodly killing, Moodly, an Indian then a student in the University, reported his white girlfriend missing, and Mrs Pillay of Third degree concocted a story that Nigerians abducted her because of debt from drugs. At the conclusion of the investigation, when the body was found, autopsy indicated that the girl was not a drug user and that Moodley himself strangled and dumped her body before reporting her missing, again, no Nigerian involved.

2.. The second and most probable reason ( which even irritates me) Nigerian drug dealers in Hillbrow are lousy, Infact, if you see them misbehaving in South Africa, you’d think they’re in the village and drug sale is a legal business. Others nationals more involved and richer are absolutely living non-descript lives, but their Nigerian counterparts in the lower rung are living flamboyantly with no obvious source of income.

So, in conclusion, Nigerians are not as was described in that write up, but they have simply constituted themselves into a “nuisance” in South Africa by their show-off. If they were the biggest drug dealers in South Africa, they would all be in prison by now. The biggest barons are big South Africans and are known to the government, that’s why they are untouchables. Don’t regard all their blame-shifting

There are lots of Nigerian professionals living and working in South Africa, even the face of Vodacom the largest telecom service provider is a Nigerian. Many small and medium scale businesses in South Africa are established and run by Nigerians. They create several jobs for South Africans.

There are so many Nigerian Doctors, lecturers, business men , Engineers holding places of pride in the economy and society. These are areas where the citizens don’t even have the capacity to cover.

Finally, xenophobia has nothing to do with drugs, but lots to do with envy. They came to loot and kill. Do you fight crime with another crime? [Written by @Ifeanyi Amadi]

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Cape Town TV is a community television channel that broadcasts in Cape Town, South Africa. It launched in September 2008 with a one-year, "temporary" license and thereafter won another such license in September 2009. It is a non-profit organisation that is licensed as a community broadcaster in terms of South Africa's Electronic Communications Act.

CTV is a free-to-air channel that broadcasts on an analogue transmission. The channel transmits from a single low-power transmitter located on Tygerberg hill, to the north of Cape Town. This site provides the widest possible coverage of the Cape Town metropolitan region, although it is only licensed (by ICASA) for low-power transmission. The channel is broadcast on the frequency 607.25 MHz (channel 38) on the UHF band.[1]

Viewers can pick up the channel if they are in line-of-sight of Tygerberg mountain and their television aerials are oriented towards this site. Automatic or manual tuning of the television set should pick up the channel between the signals of SABC3 and eTV [1].

The signal will vary in strength depending on how far distant the viewer is from the Tygerberg site. In order for the channel to gain a stronger signal and increased coverage of the region, additional transmitters will be needed, some of which will be of a considerably higher power. However, each transmitter is licensed to transmit particular frequencies and there is at present a shortage of available frequency spectrum (in South Africa generally, but particularly in Cape Town). Not only will CTV require considerably more funding to acquire such transmitters, but ICASA will also have to license additional frequencies for the channel. This is unlikely to happen before frequency spectrum is 'freed up' by the migration from analogue to digital television transmission, which was scheduled to be completed in 2012.[2]

Cape Town TV (known by the acronym CTV) was founded by community media activists in 2004, following the release of regulations governing the community television sector in South Africa by the broadcasting regulator, ICASA (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa). These activists formed the Cape Town Community Television Collective (CTCTC), which consisted of a grouping of organisations working in the field of community media.[3]

The Collective engaged in a process of ongoing discussions aimed at creating a community television channel for Cape Town, based on principles of social development, democracy, justice and human rights. Consultations were held with other civil society organisations and the wider public, which resulted in the organisation being formally launched at its first annual general meeting (AGM) in September 2006. This was attended by over 100 representatives from civil society organisations in Cape Town.[4]

The organisation first approached the national public service broadcaster, the SABC, for a programming 'window' which would be viewed only in the Western Cape region. This approach was rejected by the SABC and the organisation then decided to stage its own broadcast. Up to this time, the only community TV broadcasts which had been allowed in South Africa were temporary broadcasts of up to four weeks in duration, which were linked to "special event" licenses.

ICASA began issuing longer "temporary" licenses of up to one year in 2007, when it licensed Soweto TV in Johannesburg for a 12-month period in July of that year. Consequently, the CTCTC decided to also pursue a one-year license because this would provide a firmer foundation for a permanent community television channel. Application for such a license was made and this was granted by ICASA in July 2008, although the channel was only able to launch on 1 September 2008.

The channel began broadcasting with one hour of programming, which was repeated throughout the day for a two-week period. Thereafter programme hours were steadily increased until the channel was broadcasting 24 hours per day, although many programmes are repeated due to a shortage of available content. The channel does not have a budget for content acquisition, so all programmes are acquired free of charge from individuals, production houses, organisations and government agencies.

CTV's operational model is based on partnerships with various civil society organisations and tertiary education institutions. The channel is housed at AFDA, the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, located in the suburb of Observatory in Cape Town. AFDA provides CTV with office space, a Final Control Centre room located in the institution's television studio building, access to the production facilities of the television studio and student operators on production equipment. In return, CTV provides AFDA students with on-the-job training and experience in a real broadcast environment, broadcast of student productions and lectures by professional staff.

CTV also has relationships with other tertiary education institutions in the city, including the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the University of Cape Town (UCT), City Varsity and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). These institutions provide production facilities and student operators for certain television productions as well as their own student short films, PSA's (Public Service Advertisements) and documentaries.

The station is run by a non-profit organisation that has other NGOs as its members. The membership base includes organisations in the fields of labour, education, sport, arts & culture and other development-oriented community organisations. Membership is currently free of charge.

CTV has a range of programming that includes content that is acquired from various sources (such as independent producers, community members, production houses, organisations, educational institutions and government agencies) and programmes that are produced either 'in-house' or by programme partners using studio facilities located at AFDA, UWC or UCT.

Programmes are mainly of a documentary nature, covering topics such as NGOs, health, spirituality, religion, human rights, democracy, environment and world affairs. The channel has made a name for itself by broadcasting programmes that would never be shown on conventional television stations. These include controversial issues such as 'conspiracy theories' (e.g. Illuminati, the 9-11 attacks, etc.), animal rights/anti-cruelty, UFOs, the Mayan Calendar and socialism.

Other content includes short films, music programmes, talk shows, actuality programmes and lectures. CTV produces a limited number of programmes 'in-house'; these are mainly studio-based talk shows that have included a current affairs show called Currents and a public access show called Open Studio where members of the public and some radio DJs can host their own talk shows. CTV now has an 'arts desk' which produces short videos on arts, cultural and sports events in the city. Some programmes, such as Currents and the arts desk have a training component, where young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are mentored in video production and video journalism skills.

Programme partners include the Community Media Trust (CMT) which produces the HIV/AIDS awareness show Siyayinqoba: Beat It! and Workers World Media Productions, which produces The Labour Show. Other local content providers produce shows including What's On in Cape Town (local events), Street Talk (topical issues)Talent in Action (amateur performers), Talk Dini and The Friday Sermon (Muslim religious issues). As of 2011, CTV broadcast Girls Talk TV, a US-based network of 4 cable TV shows geared towards the empowerment of young women.[5]

CTV has done a number of live broadcasts from the AFDA studio. The first of these was the station's official launch party in April 2009, episodes of Siyayinqoba: Beat It! and a fundraising telethon with local entertainers and celebrities in September 2009.

CTV includes the Keiser Report, Breaking the Set with Abby Martin, Documentaries from RT and Al Jazeera (English) international news in its programming line-up. Al Jazeera is located in Doha and provides an alternative viewpoint on global events, with in-depth news and current affairs coverage. CTV re-broadcasts Al Jazeera live from 13H00-14H00 in the afternoons and from 20H00-21H00 in the evenings.

CTV, like other community television stations in South Africa, faces a number of challenges. These include funding, availability of broadcast frequencies and the migration from analogue to digital broadcasting.

In October 2009 CTV was taken off air for ten days by the national signal provider, Sentech, due to cash flow difficulties that prevented it from maintaining payments for signal distribution. Consequently, the channel has embarked on a programme of action aimed at either reducing the fees charged by Sentech to community broadcasters, or incepting a government subsidy for these costs.

This programme of action resulted in a public march on Parliament in November 2009, where the station presented a list of demands to the South African government.[6] These demands included the following:

1. That CTV is not switched off when ICASA licenses a new cell phone TV operator next year but that a frequency is allocated to carry the channel.

2. The creation of an interim support fund for existing community TV stations, in addition to the speedy implementation of the Public Broadcasting Fund.

3. That Sentech provides CTV with a good quality signal and transmission for free or at a significantly reduced rate.

4. That community TV is protected during and after the migration to digital terrestrial television.

The process of migration from analogue to digital television broadcasting that is happening in South Africa poses a significant threat to the channel. The frequency that CTV has been allocated for broadcasting by ICASA has been earmarked for mobile broadcasting, i.e. digital broadcasting to cell phones. This means that when a mobile broadcaster is licensed (which is likely to happen in mid-2010), CTV will no longer have a frequency on which to broadcast.[7]

Consequently, the channel is challenging ICASA to provide an alternative frequency; the alternative would be for the channel to migrate to a digital broadcasting multiplex, but since very few people in South Africa will have the necessary equipment to receive such a signal prior to the switch-off of all analogue television broadcasting (planned for 2012), it means that the station would lose its audience and hence would be unsustainable. ICASA has stated that it will address this issue when it finalises digital broadcasting regulations.[8]

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Pairing: Pearl/Rose, Pearl/Amethyst, Yellow Diamond/Yellow Pearl

Rating: Mature

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CHAPTER 39: Breathe

  After the meeting was over and visitors gently began to slink away, Pearl found herself lagging behind despite the discomfort she still held with staying at Rose's home. But... there was a problem. She had skived yet again to get to Rose's, and this time she was sure her parents would know.

She found herself pacing between asking those who hadn't yet left, and ending up facing Amy.

"Hey. Is... Rori still here?"

 Amy looked up.

"Yeah, I think she's just gone to the bathroom or something," she said. "She wouldn't leave without me, I mean, she's got the car."

Her words were confirmed when Aurora stepped out of the bathroom, giving Amy a shaky smile. "Shall we?" she asked. "Oh, hi, Pearl."

 "Hey." Pearl swallowed. "Uh. Weird... request. Can I, maybe... um. Stay at yours?"

 Aurora didn't need to be told any more. "Of course," she said. "Are you okay?"

 "Skived school. I'm pretty sure office saw me since the security is up and probably called home. They did the last time I skipped class."

 "Well, as much as I don't appreciate you skiving, I'm sure you had a good reason." Aurora glanced at the door to the living room, where Rose was. "We can head off anytime. Thanks for having us, Rose."

 "Oh. I need to get my bag, I think I left it in the living room." Pearl blinked. "I'll be right back. You own the... yellow Mini outside, right?"

 "Yeah, that's the one."

"I'll wait for you," Amy offered.

In the living room, Rose was cleaning up. She looked up when Pearl came in.

"Are you off then?" she asked gently.

 "Yeah. I've been repairing my relationship with Aurora, too, and she's okay with taking me back to hers. " Pearl picked up her bag. "Thanks for... being so nice. I appreciate it a lot."

 "I appreciate all you did today, too, Pearl." Rose smiled, then held her arms out for a hug.

   Pearl stepped back a little. "Maybe not right now." She looked at Rose's arms. "But thanks. I'll see you around. Hopefully... at school, soon."

 "Okay." Rose did not let her disappointment show. "See you soon."

"Yo, P, what's taking so long?" Amy called from the door.

 "I'm coming!" Pearl yelled back, turning around and leaving the room. "Sorry. Just wanted to say bye to Rose."

 "Sounds like you're all chummy again," Amethyst said. "Is she not mad at you for, I dunno, getting her fired? I mean, technically you didn't, and you did what you could to fix that, but I wouldn't have thought she'd forgive you this easily."

 "That's between her and I, Amy," Pearl replied, looking away. "I am grateful she's even talking to me, though."

 "Yeah, okay. Forget I said anything." Amy held the door open for Pearl and then went to the mini parked out front. "Let's go," she said.

 "Oh, yes. I've admired it from afar. Aurora...." Pearl looked the car up and down. "May I ask what exactly you were smoking when you decided to swap cars."

 "Heartbreak, mostly," Aurora said, "but also probably some weed. Marigold got me the old one, so I decided it wasn't the right car for me."

 "I can understand that." Pearl replied, buckling herself in. "Can I possibly steal dinner with you guys? I'll pay you back when... I'm rich and famous?"

 "Don't worry about it," Aurora said. "I can set up the couch for you. Unless...?" She shot a look at Amethyst.

Amy blushed. "Up to you," she told Pearl.

 "I don't mind. What's the comfiest option?"

 "In my bed," Amy said. "Duh. I don't even necessarily have to share it with you."

 Pearl rolled her eyes. "Why don't we play it by ear and see how it goes?"

 "Sounds good." A joint would probably decide that situation for them. Not that Amy was really opposed to that. Technically.

"What's for dinner, Rori?"

 "Leftovers," Aurora said. "If you want something else, feel free to make something. Though I'm not too sure what we have." She took a moment to compose herself before starting the car. She was thoroughly exhausted from the day.

 "I'm good with leftovers. Aurora knows how to cook well." Pearl smiled, before watching the view from the window. She scarcely went to this part of town nowadays - par meeting Amy.

   Once they were home, Amethyst went to the kitchen to retrieve the food, leaving Pearl and Aurora alone.

Aurora was very aware of that. Suddenly, the room was all too warm.

"Sorry you had to find out this way," she said softly. "I was going to tell you before - about Marigold."

 Pearl grew stiff, taking a moment to breathe before replying. "I take it that... it was what you were going to tell me about when you caught me the other morning."

 "Yeah. It's... you gave me the option not to tell you, and it was the easy way out at the time," Aurora said. "It's still... not something I'm used to, actually talking about it."

 "It doesn't seem like an easy thing to bring up. It must've been difficult to stand up like that." Pearl sounded gentle. "I'm sorry if I ever unknowingly gave you a hard time about it. I should've... realised you were hurting. Is all this why... you didn't come to visit me in hospital? When I... had the leg accident. Not my eating disorder..."

 "Yeah," Aurora said bitterly. "She wouldn't let me leave. I mean... I don't know if she did it intentionally. But anytime I planned to see you, something would come up. That she needed me for, urgently. To the point where it can't have been just a coincidence. I... should have tried harder. But if there's someone who has that much power over you..."

She let the sentence trail off. Sighed. "I'm sorry."

 "I didnt know there was someone controlling you like that. I'm sorry for lashing out," Pearl replied, shuffling as she sat down on a chair.

 "Nobody knew. She made sure of that. I told Blue, but other than that I wasn't allowed to tell anyone. To protect Marigold, ostensibly. But that isolated me, too." Aurora sighed. "I don't know what would have happened if she hadn't given up drinking."

 "I'm surprised you haven't called the authorities on her." Pearl then groaned. "Sorry. That's. Insensitive. You probably had your reasons."

 "I probably should have, back when it first started," Aurora said. "But... I'm sure you can understand being completely infatuated with someone, to the point of being blind to all their flaws."

 "Yeah." Pearl laughed bitterly. "Do you think that's genetic?"

 Aurora chuckled, but grew serious again quickly. "Probably. As is the liking for, ah, slightly more mature partners. It's a good thing Blue has Azure or I'd give up hope on any of us ever having a functional relationship."

 "I can't believe we're all fucking gay. Do you know how insecure I was about that until... basically this year? Geeze."

 Aurora sighed. "I can't believe Blue never told you. But then, you've not been on the best of terms for a while, have you? And I just... never thought about it. I was so used to keeping everything secret that revealing anything would have felt like saying too much."

 "I guess I can understand that. I really am sorry for making everything so awkward when you were going through such a rough time. The last thing you needed to deal with was my eating disorder." Pearl sighed and offered her arms out for a hug. "But you did."

 Aurora accepted the hug. "I had to," she said. "Who else would have looked out for you? Not mom and dad, that's for sure."

 Pearl grew uneasy and wriggled away at the mention of her parents. "Yeah. They sure... wouldn't have done anything."

 "Are you... safe there at the moment?" Aurora asked, alarmed by Pearls sudden shift in demeanour. She feared she already knew the answer.

 "There's a reason I'm here." Pearl looked away. "It's alright. I'm moving out of home in a few months anyway if I get into university."

 "Well, until then, you can crash here whenever you need to," Aurora said. "I'm sure Amethyst won't have any problem with it."

"You talkin' about me?" Amy called from the kitchen.

 "We sure are." Pearl yelled back. "We'll be there in a sec!"

 Aurora smiled at Pearl. "Shall we, then? Let's not keep her waiting."

 "Alright." Pearl returned with a little beam.

For the first time in a while, she found she could breathe properly again.

> Act V, Chapter XL

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Educating the Victim - Act V, Chapter XL

Pairing: Yellow Diamond/Yellow Pearl

Rating: Mature

Warnings/Tags: mentions of drugs, homophobia and transphobia

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CHAPTER 40: Pride

  Marigold Diamond woke up uneasy that particular early March day.

Being a fairly proactive person, she immediately shoved the mere notion of negativity aside and poured herself a double espresso. She sipped it while examining the grey of the sky, her car stuck in traffic.

She hated traffic. But not as much as Marigold Diamond utterly loathed being late.

Which she was, at least to her usual standard, by approximately ten minutes. Students were already beginning to file in.

Marigold frowned. Too many students. Way too early.

Suspicious. She couldn’t recall any trips. Perhaps a homework assignment had been due for several classes at once. But even then, gaggles of girls stood by the gates.

Tentatively, she locked her car door. An odd anxiety boiling in her belly as she approached the front office entrance.

   Girls stood outside the door, flocked together, whispering. Eyes darted towards Marigold, and as she approached, they fell silent.

   Marigold swallowed. They’d looked at her in that unpleasant way.

It made her insides feel chill, her throat seizing. She found her fists in small balls.

Despite being decades their senior, experience, and her authority, she was truly scared shitless by teenagers sometimes.

She scowled a little, wondering whether to exert her dominance. Call them out for staring. Detention? No, she couldn’t find a reason to justify it.

They deserve to be punished for looking at me like that.

She swallowed.

This was dumb. People looked at one another. That was typical human nature. She couldn’t control that. Marigold tried to inhale as she attempted to mentally retrace her steps. The traffic. The coffee. The anxiety. It was just making her antsy.

The girls weren’t worth her time. Heck, it was likely that they weren’t even really watching her.

I’m making it up. I’m causing a big fuss because my office was broken into. Don’t look back. You’re going to make a spectacle of yourself, you dumb goose.

 Inside, there seemed to be even more students. Unusual, for a time like this, and they didn’t seem like they were worried, or studying – no, instead they seemed excited.

More glances came Marigold’s way. A small group of teenage girls openly followed her with their eyes and then, as soon as she’d passed them, burst into laughter.

 This was enough to make Marigold finally turn around. No. That wasn’t a coincidence. They were laughing at her. Her breaths turning a smidgeon more erratic, she observed her clothes. Her fly wasn’t down. Her shirt was tucked in. Not a speck on her blazer.

She even spied herself in the reflection of a window, terrified of possible menstrual bleed-through.

Jesus, Marigold. You’re literally done with your menopause.

And yet, her terror remained. She quickly stripped off her blazer, mid stride, checking it for stains. Even her route to the office shifted, trying to avoid more students.

It was perhaps by the fact that she was desperately evading that she came across others trying to evade sight, too. Primarily, Buck Dewey standing beside another sixth former who galloped away at the mere sight of the Principal in the locker area.

Buck Dewey was not nearly as fortunate.

“And a good morning to you, Beatrice.” The Principal curled a lip. “What are you up to?”

 “O-oh, hi, Principal,” he said. “And it’s – it’s Buck now, actually. Uh.” He desperately tried to slip whatever he was holding back into his bag. Subtly. He failed. “Weather’s nice, huh?” he said loudly. “So nice to have the sun come out again.”

 “Whatever it is, I won’t hear it until I see some proper identification.” Marigold waved a hand dismissively, but then pried into Buck’s body language. “What are you hiding, young woman? Show your bag to me.”

 Buck visibly flinched when Marigold called him a ‘woman’. “Nothing. It’s all just, er, regular stuff.” He shuffled in front of his bag, shielding it from Marigold’s glare.

 “Give it here.” It wasn’t a request. She stared him down.

It appeared she’d stumbled upon some form of transaction.

 Buck handed over his bag, unwilling to meet Diamond’s eyes. “There’s, uh, a bottle of water in there,” he said, “very dangerous. You wouldn’t be able to fly with that.”

 Marigold remained unsmiling. She opened the bag and glanced in. It appeared pretty much the regular contents of a student bag until her eyes focused on a tiny square inside a sealable plastic bag. The square wasn’t much bigger than her fingernail, and appeared to have a tiny picture of a cartoon character printed on it.

She picked it out, dangling it in front of Buck. “My, my. And what have we here?”

   “Breathmint.” Buck held her gaze steadily, sweating.

 “Oh? And should I eat it?” She called his bluff straight away. “Haven’t had a breath mint with... what is that, Adventure Time....? Characters on it.”

 “I-if you want, Principal. Can I have my bag back, please?”

 She returned the bag. It was time to get to the office and finally escape further... voyeurism from the students. Besides, judging from the line of sweat on Buck’s face, she figured she’d had her fun. “You’ll be hearing from me later.”

 Buck took his chance and legged it.

Several more students were practically lying in wait around the Principal’s office. As soon as they saw Marigold, phones were taken out. Whispering ensued, and then, as Diamond passed, silence.

“Don’t you have anywhere better to be? This area is off limits.” It wasn’t. ”Shoo.” She huffed, slamming the door as she finally found herself with some privacy.

Something was most certainly going on. Too many stares. Too little fear. What sort of conspiracy even was this? Was it related to the break-in? She’d still found herself empty handed on the pursuit of that, too.

She made eye contact with Aurora as she stepped in the room, and once again her memory spun to that awful night. Not much of it remained in her mind past a familiar set of near golden eyes she found herself staring at.

Aurora did not break into your office.

Or, at least, she found herself repeatedly affirming that in her head. Loose thoughts scattering and further spilling into the reservoir of paranoia. Why was she working so hard to believe it wasn’t Aurora?

Aurora was too sweet. Aurora wouldn’t. She couldn’t. Her mind had likely made the vision up.

She bitterly grunted to herself. Perhaps she’d seen Aurora for a split second that night because... Aurora was what she had wanted to see.

That’s disgusting. I’m disgusting. She found her palm quivering a little. No. You’re not like that.

“Aurora, would you turn the kettle on? I need a tea after this morning.”

 “Sure, Principal.” Aurora got up and busied herself in their little kitchen area. “Did something happen?”

 “Just the usual grievances.” Marigold attempted to roll her eyes. Anything to mask her torment. “Although... I must say, I do feel something odd must be happening in the student body. There’s so many of them for such an early hour. And so many near the office - did you see them? It’s like we’re feeding stray cats tuna. Almost as if they’re... eager to come in.”

 Aurora didn’t meet her eyes.

“I hadn’t noticed, Principal.” She took out two mugs – habit – and teabags. “We’re nearly out of milk.”

 “I’ll pick up a new thing of it. What alternative do you want this time?” Oh. Aurora was being... tactile, for once. Or, at the very least, quiet and obedient. Too quiet. Marigold didn’t know if she liked it or not. “I’ve been eyeing up the oatmilk.”

 “I don’t mind. I’ve heard coconut is good.” The kettle boiled. Aurora poured two mugs. She knew how Marigold took her tea.

She set the mug down in front of Marigold. “Is there anything else I can help you with, Principal?”

 Marigold remained frowning. “You... really didn’t notice the abnormal amount of students at eight am? I don’t recall anything going on today at all.”

Aurora can’t be in on it. She wouldn’t be.

Marigold stiffened, all paranoid thoughts returning at full force.

If I can’t trust her... who can I trust?

She glanced at Aurora with suspicion, her cheeks beginning to burn. No. She paid Aurora to work here. She had authority in this school. It was her sanctuary.

The thought of some form of mutiny made her insides chill again. No. She stared at Aurora. “There’s nothing happening, yes?”

 Aurora drew in a quiet breath. She forced herself to look at the Principal, and put on an innocent smile. “Not to my knowledge, Principal. Why would you think that?”

 Marigold grew stiller.

Before taking a sharp inhale, her face crumpling as if she were about to cry.

She then took another breath and her face had transformed itself into a stony expression. Her voice was cold. Quiet. “I don’t know, Aurora. Could it perhaps be the fact that my office was literally broken into? That my things were stolen? Broken?” She found her voice raising, the noises she made were becoming ever more shrill by the syllable. “Could it be the fact that for the past few days, I have received nothing but stares, only for them to get worse today?”

Her breathing had turned ragged. Her entire body shaking as she took looming steps towards Aurora. “Could it be the fact that my secretary decided to abandon my friendship with her on a whim? With no choice or explaination? Could it be the fact that despite that, I still have to talk to you? I still have to pay you? Aurora Jaune,”  She was close enough to Aurora to perhaps begin a tango. Seething. “I hate you. Leave this office. Now.”

 Aurora didn’t move. Tears were gathering in the corners of her eyes from just how much it hurt, hearing Marigold say that.

Even though she knew it wasn’t true.

She stood her ground,

“Well,” she said, her voice thick. “It wasn’t me who poured all your alcohol down a drain while you had to watch. You threw this relationship away, not me. I was only ever a victim. Principal.”

 “Is that what you’re so trifled with? Heavens, I don’t even remember that evening!” A red hot fury bore over her mind. “But what I can remember is you begging, pleading me to stop.” She took another step forward, forcing Aurora to back into the wall. “We didn’t have a relationship. I was chasing temptation, and now I’m not. You were the one to abandon me. You... you changed your number when I needed you. When I was sobering up, like you asked.”

Marigold felt her cheeks wet. She hadn’t realised she was crying. This was enough to make her back away. “Go. Leave. Get our of my sight.” Her voice registered as shaky now.

 Aurora couldn’t hold back the tears. Just like Marigold. “I never asked you to abandon me. I never asked you to quit cold turkey. I’m not the one who ruined our relationship, Marigold, I was the only reason it kept going as long as it did! I – I –“ She broke down. Grabbed a tissue from her desk and blew her nose. “I loved you and you won’t even admit we had a relationship.”

 This was enough. She didn’t want Aurora to watch her cry. She didn’t want to watch Aurora cry. “I thought I told you to get out!”

 Aurora stared her down, tears still flowing. “You don’t have that kind of power over me anymore, Marigold. I’m not scared of you.”

 Marigold turned around and left the room, wordless. Head pounding. A part of her felt tempted to just run. Run, quit and never return.

However, Marigold had indeed mastered ignoring temptation.

She’d taken to patrolling when angry. If it was war the student body wanted, then it was war it would get.

 Pearl noticed Marigold angrily pacing as she came into the school.

Today was already going to be... interesting.

As she approached the Principal, she thought that Diamond’s eyeliner wasn’t quite as astute as usual.

“Principal,” she said with in sweetest tone she could muster, “I have another letter for you. You know, the same one as the one I gave you yesterday? I heard you lost that one, so I got you a replacement.” She waved the papers in Marigold’s face.

 Marigold snatched them, stared Pearl down, and tore the stack in two before crumpling the shreds into a ball and throwing them onto the floor. “Leave me ALONE!”  She yelled into Pearls’s face and strode off, boiling.

Before long, though, she found her face growing wet again.

Oh.

Crying in front of Aurora was already despicable enough for her. Doing so in front of any students seemed to be social suicide. Her salvation came in the form of the staff restrooms, to which she strode into and immediately sprinted into a cubicle to calm down.

 Peridot saw her disappear, and decided to follow her. Just to... watch her. And potentially lead her in the right direction.

She washed her hands, initially to kill time, but as she thought about the situation more, the motions became more nervous.

 Marigold, now slightly more composed, quickly grew suspicious of the sound of water for a solid five minutes. “Is... is someone out there?”

 Peridot jumped. “Just m-me, Principal,” she said quickly. “Peridot. Uh. I’m just... washing my hands.”

 “Oh.” She wiped off her eyeliner, now utterly smudged, off with a wipe from her pocket. “Seems an awfully long time to... Be doing that.”

 Peridot panicked. “I – uh – I get sensory overload a lot!” she blurted. “I’m not here to keep tabs on you! Why would I do that!” And with that, she turned off the faucet and scampered outside, where she leaned against the wall, trying not to freak out.

 Marigold found herself chasing the young teacher down. Her face felt barren. She managed to just pluck Peridot by her shoulder. “So. You were keeping tabs on me?”

 “N-no I wasn’t! Okay maybe a little but only because we weren’t sure if you’d seen it yet!” stammered Peridot, looking up at Diamond fearfully.

 Marigold frowned. Was this it? “Seen... what?”

 Peridot slumped, hung her head. “I’ll show you,” she said, defeated. “It’s – it’s really nothing bad.”

 Marigold softened a little as she followed, finding herself in the direction of the gym. “At least you’re not denying that there’s something going on. What is it, then? Some sort of student affair I wasn’t informed about?”

 “In a sense,” Peridot said cautiously, “but... several members of staff are involved as well.” She made her way to the gym in the comforting knowledge that Lapis and Jasper would protect her.

“We’re here,” she said, holding the door open for Marigold.

 Marigold stepped in, her eyes widening. The gym had been set up as if it was some sort of party - streamers, balloons and posters hugged the walls and ceilings. Several stands had also set up.

And absolutely everything was covered in rainbows.

“What on Earth....” she whispered, craning her neck forward. Her voice suddenly turned cold. “Who is responsible for this?”

 “It’s Pride,” Peridot said, her voice small. “We thought the students needed something to keep morale up for the exams... and we have a large number of queer staff and students... and we just wanted to show people, that it’s okay, and good and that you can celebrate it, and you’re... more than welcome to join, Principal.” She spotted Jasper at the other end of the gym, staring at the Principal wide-eyed before seeing Peridot and jogging over.

 Marigold spent another second taking in the excited students; some of them had taken to painting flags on their faces. The stalls looked... almost interesting.

All looked happy.

Par Marigold.

Jasper had no time to speak to her as she swiftly turned on her heel and stomped away. She needed to get out. She was losing control. Of the school. Of the student body, the teachers. She found herself crying again.

Stop that. Stop that right now. You’ve done that twice now. You look pathetic. Stop.

Girls were looking at her as she passed them by. It was nearly nine, the school filling in. Some had turned up in rainbow themed clothes. Marigold tried to outrun her urge to scream at them, to tell them to get back into uniform.

But... for the first time, she found herself surrounded. Overpowered. Outmanned. She had no power to stop this. The students. That cursed pride event. Her own breakdown.

Aurora was still in the front area to the office, but Marigold barely registered her at this point.

They should be hating themselves. Those girls shouldn’t be happy. They shouldn’t be allowed to be happy. They’re sick. They’re sick, Marigold. Get a hold of yourself and go out there and bring a stop to it.

She was finally in her office. Alone. She slammed the door into her inner cubicle with enough force to regret it after one of the hinges rattled a little dangerously. Her desperate, frantic thoughts begged for an outlet. She wanted to hurt something, someone.

She wanted to do nothing more in this precise second than to drink. Drink until her throat burnt. Drink until she was sick.

Drink until it all just ended.

“Whatever!” she screamed, stomping into the now near cleaned office. She found herself rummaging her desk cupboards, all the places she used to store alcohol. Fine. That was it. Screw sobriety. She didn’t want to be sober.

No one showed her affection when sober. No one loved her while she was sober.

But, of course. No alcohol remained. It had been the case for months.

She gave a loud, painful scream and proceeded to angrily open her drawers and throw papers onto the floor, all while continuously both sobbing and yelling, frustrated.

She only stopped as her fingers reached Claire’s will, still in its stash.

Her eyes narrowed. The thin layer of dust bore fingerprints.

She hadn’t touched it in years.

Bizarre. This was all surreal. The day. The argument. The stares. She placed the will back into the drawer and slid her hands in her pockets, determined to lock the papers away from prying eyes.

However, as her hand reached for the desk key, she found herself pulling out the small square she’d confiscated from Buck.

Marigold Diamond knew very little about drugs. She’d confiscated enough of them in her time, of course, to know the potent smells and obvious effects of nonalcoholic intoxication. Azure had once upon a time gone through a phase, back when they’d both still played Bridge, of following Roxy to clubs and bars in their youth and filled Marigold in with stories of trips and sensations alcohol could never even begin to bring.

She inspected the small square. What even was it? It had no smell. It barely existed. What sort of dosage even was it?

Why are you even wondering about this? This is a waste of time. You have things to do.

Executive dysfunction held her in place like a stuck marionette.

It’s obviously some form of drug. Heroin? No, I don’t think that’s what... what do children even consume nowadays? What did they do in the clubs. Oh. Ecstasy? Yes, that must be it.

Despite her soaked face, she found herself smiling for a brief second. Ecstasy seemed preferable to this disarray of broken and burning emotions.

Don’t. This is incredibly silly. You really shouldn’t even be touching it. You should go and call the police department, right now. Tell them that you found a student with drugs.

She looked at the telephone, and then at the tab.

The police will come in. They’ll sort this out.

She began to walk towards the phone before pausing.

And what then?

It would take a while for the police to arrive.

That doesn’t matter. Just call.

She’d have Buck apprehended.

And then I’ll go back to this.

Back to this.

Back to this...

Marigold looked around the room and swallowed the tablet.

> Act V, Chapter XLI

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Educating the Victim - Act V, Chapter XXXVI

Pairing: -

Rating: Mature

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CHAPTER 36: Bailing

 The aftermath of what would later become known only as “The Heist” kept Amethyst up for the better part of the night. The events kept replaying in her head with a mixture of pride, shame and triumph, and Aurora and Blue had gone to sleep – which left very little for Amethyst to do.

Around four in the morning, she got the brilliant idea to text Pearl. Pearl was probably asleep too, so she wouldn’t get an answer til the morning – but at least she wouldn’t have to wait.

yo pearl guess what we did!! it was so cool ill have to tell you all about it when you wake up.

   And yet... Pearl replied almost instantly. Oh, hey I’m awake. What’s up? :o

 Amethyst frowned. didnt expect you to be up! u ok?

  Kinda? Can’t sleep. But tell me about the thing you did. You seem excited.

  oh yeah! we broke into the school. you didnt hear that from me, though, we never did that. but also yes we totally did and it was awesome!

  Oh my goodness. Amethyst! That’s so dangerous. You two could have been arrested!!!!!

A few seconds later, there was another reply. What did you do at the school?

  just some fun stuff. youll see when we get back tomorrow!! big d’s gonna have a heart attack :D

  Jesus. Well. Sit tight just in case the police do find you. You should go to sleep soon though.

  cant sleep. how about you? why arent you asleep?

  Like I said. Can’t sleep. Just been thinking about something I might do soon. Tomorrow, if itll upset our common enemy.

  oh? that sounds interesting, wanna talk about it?

 It took a few moments for Pearl to reply.

Okay, well... I guess I’m about to really... really embarass myself. I’ve been thinking about Rose a lot at therapy and I’ve kind of had to come to terms with the fact that I did something kind of awful. And then excused it by saying I was ‘defending’ people. I don’t think Rose is a predator.

 well thats a change of direction, Amy texted back. Then hesitated, and added, a good one, tho. so what are you gonna do?

 You’ll find out tomorrow ;p, Pearl replied. But for real. I’ve managed to talk to my therapist about it and she’s been really helpful about it. I’ll show you tomorrow. But... thanks for at least talking to me about it. I was a little uncertain before but I think writing it down helped to cement that its something I should do.

 --

 The Principal’s office was in ruins; papers missing or destroyed, her computer in pieces on the floor, and that... abhorrent graffiti on her wall.

And in the middle, wearing a stony mask that hid just how close she was to tears, Marigold Diamond tried to make sense of it all.

Aurora had come in this morning, offering her sympathies and playing up the shock of seeing Diamond’s office in this state. Marigold tried to convince herself that Aurora had nothing to do with it. She didn’t, Marigold just thought she’d seen her face because... because Marigold was a weak, sentimental sinner and could not let go.

Aurora had nothing to do with it, she was sure.

And yet she didn’t miss that Aurora didn’t even ask if she could help. No trace of that sweet, diligent girl remained. It added to the hurt and confusion.

She already knew she’d get nothing done today. If she was lucky, she’d tidy up a little bit.

 Pearl had arrived about an hour early that day, letter in hand. She made her way up from reception, every step towards the principal's office feeling heavier than the last.

By the time she came to Aurora's cubicle, she already felt drained enough to go home. Of course, she vetoed the thought.

It was time to do the right thing.

"Hi Rori. Amy said you had a nice party last night. You guys must be tired."

   “Oh, I’m just fine. It was a good evening, though.” Aurora smiled at her innocently. “How can I help you?”

 "Is the Principal available to talk?" Pearl forced a nervous smile. Perhaps she could just hand the letter over and escape the fallout of the impact.

 “Probably. She’s definitely there. You might have to talk to her out here, though, her office is a bit of a mess. Surely you heard what happened? A breakin. Disastrous. She’s absolutely distraught. You didn’t hear it from me.”

 "What... a shame." Pearl swallowed and then gave a nod, and with a wink began to walk towards Marigold's door. "I hope they catch the ones responsible for it soon."

She knocked, her heart thundering. "Principal Diamond?"

 A few heavy steps could be heard from the other side. The door opened.

Principal Diamond stood behind it, frowning, visibly in a bad mood.

“Pearl,” she said icily. “What is it?”

 "I, uh. Have something." Pearl waved the letter and handed it over. "I'll be going. Bye!"

 “Not so fast.” Marigold stepped outside and closed the door behind her. “You’ll stay until I’ve read this.”

   "Are you sure? I mean, I have classes... I really should be going."

 “Unless something has drastically changed without me noticing, classes don’t start for another...” Marigold checked her wrist watch. “Forty-five minutes, at least. Now take a seat.”

 Pearl gave a gentle look upon Aurora, as if it were her last, before sitting down next to the office. "I guess this is how I die," she murmured.

 Marigold frowned at Pearl for a long moment before drawing her attention back to the letter Pearl had given her.

She started to read.

“‘I hereby redact any and all statements that I have ever made concerning my relationship with a certain member of staff, the currently suspended Rose Quartz. I was suffering from a mental breakdown when I made those allegations and I would like to assure you that none of them are true. With this in mind, I would kindly ask that you drop all proceedings against the aforementioned Ms Quartz and restore her to her position. Sincerely, Pearl Morgan.’”

 Pearl laughed nervously. "Hah, um, the second letter is that from my psychologist. It, uh, it should function as an official doctor's note to further support the letter."

 Diamond looked up, a thunderstorm brewing fast behind her eyes. “I don’t believe you,” she snapped. “You’re lying to appease your own guilt over what you did. Well, guess what. It won’t work. This letter, this note, it means nothing to me, and I will certainly not drop anything. Quartz remains suspended. Now get out of my sight before I suspend you too.”

 Pearl wanted to leave. Her fingers twitched and her gaze never left the ground. "Then I'll just have to get my psychiatrist to write another one. And another one. That's legal evidence you're choosing to shove aside because of your own issues."

 “Shut your mouth. You will not speak to me in that tone, you insolent child. I am the headmaster of this school and I was personally attacked last night and if you give me one more reason to ruin your future forever, I will. Get. Out.”

 Pearl held her ground. "I'll be back tomorrow with another letter. I won't give up."

 “Yes, you will.” And with that, Marigold turned and disappeared into her office, slamming the door shut behind her.

 "Oof, and I got away with it Scott-free." Pearl raised her eyebrows and looked over at Aurora. "Is she always like this? Like, does she even possess the ability to turn off whatever bitch mode she's stuck on?"

 Aurora didn’t smile. “Surprisingly enough, yes,” she said. “That was a gutsy move, Pearl. I’m proud of you.”

 "Yeah, well. Getting Rose on suspension wasn't my call to make in the first place. And acting like a victim just made me even more shitty." Pearl shuffled her backpack on. "But I wasn't kidding. You'll make sure my letters get to her, right?"

 “Absolutely. Is this why you got here so early?”

 "Yeah." Pearl nodded. "You get some coffee in you, Rori. You look dead. I'll see you around."

 Aurora sighed. Pearl was probably right. “You have a good day, and don’t get into too much trouble,” she told Pearl with a warm smile.

After the door closed behind Pearl, Aurora let out a deep sigh. She’d been dreading this moment all morning: the moment in which she found herself feeling like she should check up on Marigold.

She knocked on the door, hesitantly. “Principal? It’s... me.”

 Marigold's voice seemed oddly tender when she replied, despite her thunder only a minute ago. Her voice cracked with exhaustion. "Come in, Aurora."

   Aurora stepped inside. She closed the door behind her and didn’t approach Marigold.

“Are you... okay?” she said softly.

 "No." Marigold’s tone grew cold again. "I didn't need this, Aurora! I didn't need to have my school broken into... I didn't need the documents I have on Quartz that I was planning to send off today go missing. I don't need your sister suddenly bailing a case on a predator."

 Aurora fell silent.

“Oh,” she just said in response. The graffiti Amethyst had left during the night was clearly visible right next to the window.

“Is there... anything I can do?”

 Marigold looked at her. As if recalling a memory, just out of her grasp. She then sighed. "No. I'm fine. This is all fine. I've hired the cleaning crew to fix this. They'll be here in twenty minutes or so, when school starts." She turned away. "I'll go and patrol to take my mind of it. Hold the ship."

 Aurora swallowed. “Okay.”

She lingered in the office for several seconds longer than she should. Eventually, she sighed and stepped outside towards her desk.

 Marigold stepped out about five minutes later, her uniform a little more fixed than the stern expression draped on her features. "I'm going to find out which one of these little brats wants me to 'fall'."

 “Are you... sure going out right now is a good idea, Ma- Principal?” Aurora swallowed. Cursed herself internally for the slip up. “Students won’t be in for a... while.”

 "There'll be some," Marigold replied, marching to the door.

> Act V, Chapter XXXVII