Biology Fun

[Macy Deltine]

"...and when you put a plant in the dark for some time, what will happen to the rate of photosynthesis?" Professor Truman asked the class of half-sleeping biology students. Macy looked around, waiting for someone to answer the question. When no-one did, she put up her hand.
"Yes, Macy." Prof. Truman said, leaning on his desk.
"It will slow, as you need sunlight for photosynthesis to happen." She said. Macy was the only one in that class that seemed to answer his questions anymore.
"That's right, and what will happen to it if it has no carbon...ahem." He walked over to a boy from Spies, who had begun snoring. The boy woke with a shock. "Am I that boring?" He asked the class, and Macy got a bit annoyed at him not finishing his question.
The class had realised that he was asking them all a question, and some had managed to look like they were actually listening. "Well, since you are all asleep today, I don't think we'll do the experiment that I had planned."
"Aw, no!" Someone said, and the class were now trying to look fully alert.
"Please, professor, we're just tired. An experiment will wake us up." Someone else said.
"Fine, class. Clear your desks, and gather around the front." Professor Truman always had a soft heart. Everyone went over to his desk, while he took out the equipment from the store.
"No, we're testing for starch. Can anyone explain how you do that?"
Macy shot up her hand, going through her answer in her mind.
"Anyone other than Miss Deltine?" He scanned the room. "Oh, come on, people! You had to learn it for homework!" He was starting to get frustrated. "Miss Wright? Any idea?" He asked his other favorite student, Will.

[Will Wright]

Will was nearly asleep and Macy who she was sitting beside seemed to be the only one answering his questions.
"Anyone other than Miss Deltine?" He scanned the room. "Oh, come on, people! You had to learn it for homework!" He was starting to get frustrated. "Miss Wright? Any idea?"
Will who had her head in one hand and her other hand was drumming the table looked up at him.
"Erm, you have to put the leaf in boiling water for about thirty seconds, that will kill it...poor thing, and then you have to but it in a test tube of boiling ethanol which will be in the beaker of boiling water and bunsen won't be lit because ethanol is extremely flammable and this will remove the chlorophyll from it. Then you take it out ad wash it in the water so if becomes soft again and then you put some drops of iodine on it and if it goes black it has starch in it and if it goes yeloow/orange the same colour as the iodine the starch is absent," Will explained.
"Yes, well, at least you and Miss Deltine have been doing your homeworks unlike some of the people in this class," he smiled at her, "You won't have homework for tonight, as for the rest of the class I want you to do question 1-15 and all explained in full detail!" the glass groaned while Will smiled, "Oh, do you want me to give you more questions?"
"No," they chimed together.
"That's what I thought, now everyone get into pairs and I will tell you what leaf you are going to get, Will, Macy, you get the varigated leaf. Charles, Melissa you get the one that's been in light...."
"Wow, I've never seen him like that before!" Will commented as she and Macy went around getting the equipment.

[Macy Deltine]

Macy laughed, while she got out a pair of goggles for Will. She had found that she was able to make a pair of safety goggles for herself using ice, as the other ones would annoy her nose. She went back over and got the test tube, and the enthanol. She arrived abck at the table, and put the bunson burner into the gas tap.
"Will, could you light it, please?" She asked, appreciating the powers of her friend, and not having to stand round for a while, waiting to get a splint to light the burner.

[Will Wright]

"Yes, I will Macy," Will put out her index finger which had a flame on top of it and put it to the bunsen burner. When it was lit she put the beaker of water on top and waited for it to boil. She picked up the leaf and found that it was furry.
"Cool, it's, it's, it's furry adn cute and, and..." Will stroked the leaf.

[Macy Deltine]

Macy snatched the leaf out of Will's hands.
"Stop stroking leaves." She said, setting it on her side of the desk. She moved her books out of the road, and then realised that when she took the leaf from Will, she had made some ice grow on it. "Oh, darn." She said, picking up the leaf again, unfreezing it, and set it down again. "Right, I think that water's boiled, let's take it off the heat." She turned the gas off, and then set the leaf into the boiling water. "This should kill the leaf and stop further reactions." She said out loud, keeping track of everything she was doing. "Do you want to put it on the enthanol, now?" She asked Will. She was slightly reluctent to take the leaf out of the water, as she had a history of freezing it in the process. Btu before Will could respond, Macy stopped them.
"Actually don't, it's flammable..." She said, biting her lip. The last thing she wanted was the school to go up in flames. Macy took it out of teh water, and dropped it into the test tube, also in the water. "You can do the next step, sorry.."

[Will Wright]

Will nudged Macy playfully, "Spoil sport!"
Will watched the chlorophyll fill the test tube and make the ethanol green. She then took it out using tongs and put it back in the water to become floppy again.
"I never knew Biology was this fun," she smiled happily.
"Of course it is Will, why wouldn't it be?" Professor Truman snuck up on her from behind.
"Oh, erm, I don't know..." Will replied guiltily.
"I get bored of it myself sometimes," she muttered quietly to them and walked off.
"Macy your turn,"

[Macy Deltine]

Macy laughed at Will. She had actually seen Prof. Truman some up behind her, but decided not to say anything. She went over to the leaf, took it out of the water, and set it on the tile. She then flattened it out, and got the bottle of iodine. "Will, would you like to do the honors?" She asked, holding out the bottle.

[Will Wright]

"Oh, oh can I?" Will bounced slightly on the spot. She grabbed the vial of iodine and used the sucker to drop the iodine on the leaf. The center went black and the outer edge of the leaf turned the same colour as the solution.
"Ooo, pretty!" Will gazed at it in wonder.

[Macy Deltine]

"Hmm.." Macy said, picking up her notebook and her ballpoint. "So, that shows starch on the outside of it.." She said, scribbling. When she had finished, she set down her notebook and pen, and looked around. "Wow, we did it fast." She commented, watching people still try to take it out of enthanol. She laughed, and shook her head. "We should put away out things." She said, picking up the bunson burner and tripod. Most people wouldn't be able to pick up the tripod, at this stange, but Macy would just freeze it so it didn't burn her. "So..how's life?" She asked Will, while putting the things away.

[Will Wright]

"Fine and dandy, unless you count Madeleine shouting at me for trying to get her a Kira talking again," Will said the last bit forcefully.
She was still raging at Madeleine for telling her of for trying to help.
"You?" she asked as she helped Macy.

[Macy Deltine]

"I don't get what is going on between those two. But I don't pick sides." She said, pushing her hair behind her ear. "My life is fine, I guess. Oh, I think I'm going home at Christmas, by the way." She didn't know if she had told Will this, but she was hearing it anyway. "Which is going to be a bundle of joy." She said, sarcastically.

[Will Wright]

Will stared at her,"Ok....I'm sure it won't be that bad,"
Then again, she could be wrong. It was known to happen to her quite often.
"I might do the same..."

[Macy Deltine]

"Oh, it will be that bad. You don't know her, I'm sure she's gotten another guy tailing her. Seriously, she's unbelievable." She said, scribbling in her notebook. "I hope better for you." She sighed. The rest of the class was now finishing their expirament. Professor Truman had began to pass out worksheets to the class, and Macy took two and gave one to Will, before passing them on to the girl in Warriors, behind them. "And isn't there meant to be a Christmas formal?"

[Will Wright]

"Oh yeah, I'll have to participate in this one," Will shrugged, "I spent the start of year formal by the lake with Anton, haha,"
She started to fill in the worksheet.
"What's number 5 mean? It's worded weirdly." she looked at it perplexed.