Go back to the eavesdropping exercise and the character sketch you did after it; using the same people and setting, write a new conversation for the characters, a conversation that reveals a conflict at the core of their relationship.

Facing each other under the bell tower shortly after eight o’ clock classes had started, the pair stared at each other in recognition.  Deliberately the boy pulled a pen out of his pocket and threw it as intensely and swiftly as a blade aimed for the expanse of forehead between the girl’s eyes.  She darted and spun to the side just in time for the unlikely weapon to wedge itself in the wall that had previously stood directly behind her.  It was a conversation without words, but both knew that they were the two students, opponents pitted against one another to determine which was worthy of the ninja suit.