Giggle.

"When's the due date?"

"Six weeks."

"Is it complex enough that you need those weeks?"

"To do the project, no, to come to any sort of consensus on it, probably."

"...maybe you and the non-annoying person could do something yourselves?"

"Maybe, but the professor might check up on the cooperation aspect," she sighs.

"Yeah, that sounds really annoying." Pause. "You could perhaps out-dom the other two."

"For a school project? Eugh, that would be weird. One of them isn't even a dom."

Shrug. "How do you expect either of them to react if you and the other person without preferences both decide to side with one of the options and outnumber the other?"

"Dunno. Might make a fuss with the teacher about us being overbearing, might refuse to do any work, might grumble and go along with it."

"Well... those three require very different approaches," he muses.

"Yep. Group fucking projects."

"Hmm, I don't know, I'd find it interesting to try to juggle them and see if I couldn't make them agree and be happy with it."

"I suppose you could look at it like that but the existence of this fascinating challenge in the first place is frustrating."

"Well, sure, it's not the kind of interesting challenge I'd create in the first place, I think."

"And it's not important in any grand scheme of things. So it's hard or me to work up enthusiasm for solving it. I suppose I'll have to think of something if we get to the point where we need to turn in a research plan and they're still fighting."

"Yeah, I guess."

"How're your classes going?"

"Alright! Pre-calc is fun, the US history teacher said she'd assign us a project to do in pairs next week but was all cryptic and said it'd be something 'fun' so I'm dreading it like the Plague."

"Pairs isn't as bad as groups. ...Sometimes fun means fun."

"Even if it's fun, it's fun with history."

"Not a fan?"

"History's a biased account that makes the future look much more predictable and inevitable than it really is. Everything looks so obvious when there's this linear narrative except people living then had a billion other things to worry about that aren't mentioned in textbooks because they never ended up becoming relevant."

"So you don't like history classes but you might like doing really serious history."