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Hannah smacked Amanda's legs off the coffee table. "Sit properly, you animal."
Amanda scoffed. "What kind of animal sits on a couch?"
"It would be most appreciated if you would keep your feet on the floor where they belong," Diana said curtly. Her tone implied that she didn't think Amanda belonged in her team's dorm room at all. Her team mates, Akko, and Amanda were meant to be working on their schoolwork together, but a certain someone was making it difficult for the others.
"Quit fooling around, Amanda!" Akko said. "I'm trying to study!" She and Diana sat at the desk with their backs to Amanda, Hannah, and Barbara, though that did little to mitigate the noise.
"I never thought you'd say that," Amanda said, putting her feet back on the table. "Since when have you been such a teacher's pet?"
"Since she got a beautiful teacher to be a pet to," Hannah said slyly. She and Amanda cackled.
"Ignore them," Diana told Akko. "Your concentration would be better invested in your studies."
"But it's so confusing," Akko whined. "How does polar magic even work?"
Diana cleared her throat in preparation for a lecture. "The mechanics of polar magic are dependent on oppositional qualities in inherent magical nature, which—"
Amanda jumped in to save them all "Too long, didn't read: opposites attract."
"Oh!" Akko said perkily. "That makes sense!"
Diana shot an exasperated look at Amanda, followed by a meaningful look at Hannah, who received the message and pushed Amanda's feet off the coffee table again. Barbara suppressed a giggle.
"So opposites attract," Akko said, mulling over how the concept could be applied to polar magic. "Like, night and day?"
"Like vampires and werewolves," Barbara said, ever the Nightfall fan.
"Like high-born ladies and knights-errant," Hannah said dreamily.
"Descendent of one of the Nine Olde Witches and girl from a non-witch family," Amanda said with a smirk.
"I don't follow," Diana said obliviously.
"Yeah, Amanda," Akko said. "That one's confusing."
"Let's hear little miss smarty-pants come up with a better one," Amanda said.
Diana answered almost immediately. "Blondes and brunettes."
Amanda almost fell off the couch. Hannah snorted. Barbara smothered her giggles with her hands.
"I don't understand," Diana said, frowning. "What is so humorous about..." Then she saw her and Akko's reflections in the mirror above the desk. "No! I didn't mean—" Her words devolved into a meaningless babble as her face turned redder and redder.
"So your subconscious came up with that one, you mean?" Hannah's smirk matched Amanda's.
"What are you implying!?" As if Diana didn't already know.
"What's going on?" Akko asked. "What's weird about blondes and brunettes being attracted to each other?"
That time Amanda did fall off the couch. Hannah helped her back up and she put her feet up on the coffee table yet again. "You two really are quite a pair," she said, her voice weak from laughter.
Diana scowled. "Fine. Here's another example of opposites attracting: troublemaker attempted-dropout and aristocratic top student."
"You mean like Amanda and Hannah!" Akko said brightly.
"You got that one!?" Amanda groaned.
"Amanda and I aren't like that," Hannah objected. "I don't get along with her at all." As if to prove her point, Hannah yet again pushed Amanda's legs away from the coffee table.
"Is that so?" Diana smiled. "You seem awfully comfortable touching her legs..."
"B-b-but!" Hannah leaned as far away from Amanda as possible, as if that would undo Diana's comment. "You said yourself she should have her feet off the table!"
"You two have been picking at each other all afternoon," Barbara noted. "Like you're too distracted by each other to study. And Amanda's only here because Hannah invited her..."
Amanda forced a laugh. "Look at the time! I have to go do a thing in a place. See ya later!" She tried to leave, but due to the awkward placement of her feet after Hannah pushed her feet off the table, she fell into a pile on the floor.
Hannah had already gotten up to try to stop Amanda by the time Amanda hit the floor, so naturally she ended up falling onto the floor on top of Amanda, resulting in an even bigger, more embarrassed pile.
"There you go, Akko," Diana said, waving a hand at Amanda and Hannah. "Opposites attract."