Strange things happen after Gym tests

We seem to have a lack of blog entries this month, so...

A few days ago in Gym we had the infamous fitness test. For those who don't know, the fitness test is a written test at the conclusion of the fitness unit for which you have to know where all your major muscles are, how to calculate your target heart rate training zone, and other things that are useless in most areas of life.

Being in Mr. P's class, it actually wasn't so bad. On the contrary, it was very easy, as it was pretty much the same thing I had last year. I finished quickly, and so did most of the rest of the class. After turning in our tests, we really didn't have much to do. I considered reading, but instead occupied myself by attempting to communicate with sign language. The problem was, neither I nor Alpha (who I was trying to talk to) knew sign language.

This lulled to a stop after five or so minutes and I sat, doing nothing, until Alpha caught my attention and picked up a "ball" from the floor, throwing the imaginary object in my direction. I realized she was playing the imaginary balls game, a game in which you play catch with balls that don't exist.

I caught the ball and morphed it into a frisbee, throwing it back. Alpha morphed it into a football and threw it to me. I morphed it into a volleyball and threw it to her. We continued this for some time until Beta (who was sitting next to us) and soon Gamma (who was also sitting close by) began to play.

The ball, at the moment resembling one of those giant exercise balls that are really, really big and fun to bounce on, was in my possession when I realized half the class was watching us. I looked around awkwardly, smiled, and quickly tossed the ball to Gamma. She also seemed to notice around this time and made eye contact with one of the people watching, attempting to throw her the ball. She shook her head.

In about five more minutes we had approximately ten players: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, and me. Only the four of us (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and I) were really doing anything, but occasionally I would throw it to Epsilon, or Theta, or sometimes Iota. Zeta and Eta wouldn't take the ball from me, only from Epsilon, Iota, Delta, and each other, and Delta was out of my line of vision, blocked by a taller than normal boy.

At this time let me introduce three more characters: Kappa, Lambda, and Mu. Kappa is a friend of mine who was sitting at the other side of the room. She noticed that everyone else in the room was playing a game, and observed us for a while before picking up on the rules. She then threw an imaginary ball at Lambda, who happened not to be playing and found the entire thing stupid. Lambda gave Kappa a look as if to say "What the hell?" and continued to try to ignore us.

Soon after, I was bored with the ten players, some of whom didn't really play, and I threw the ball to someone new: Mu. Mu stared at me for a second, then processed that 

I had thrown a ball to him. He glanced at me, then the "ball," and then me again. I motioned for Mu to throw it, and he did, then began to ignore us in the same manner Kappa was doing.

~Marianne