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The three girls quickly ran off the stage, and as far away from the school as possible. As they ran, the leader clutched her shattered gem close to her chest. The trio didn't know where they were going, but anywhere was better that here. The sounds of booing. The disgruntled, disapproving stares. It had been too much to bear. So, ever further from the school they fled.

They ran until they came to a dark, lonely alley. They stopped to catch their breath, thankful to be out of that mess. As their heavy breathing slowed, the blue-haired girl leaned against the wall and slid down. She hugged her knees close to her chest as she looked at the other two, a worried and defeated look on her face. The leader opened her palms and stared at the gem shards.

"So close…" She whispered, barely audible. "We were so close…" She closed her eyes, and closed her fist around the gem.

"Ugh, that was so embarrassing! Those stupid Rainbooms! We almost had it! If only Sonata hadn't ruined everything!"

"It wasn't my fault, Aria!" The blue-haired one said in protest, hugging her knees tighter. "I swear!"

"You're the worst, Sonata! It had to be you!" Sonata became a bit mad.

"Well, how do you know it wasn't your fault?" Aria gritted her teeth angrily.

"Because you're the worst!"

"How many times are you going to call me that?!"

"When you get it through your thick skull that it's true!"

The leader, who was only a couple feet away from the fight, pinched the bridge of her nose in annoyance and aggravation.

"Shut up and stop bickering, you two!" The two immediately paused mid-fight, and looked at their leader. "Look, it doesn't matter who's at fault, here! We're homeless, we have no food, everyone hates us, and we don't have any more power. There are more important matters at hand here than whose fault it is!" Sonata looked down.

"S-sorry, Adagio…" She said. Adagio sighed.

"It's fine. We just have to get off the streets and find some shelter. We can decide what to do in the morning." Sonata stood up, and Aria rolled her eyes.

"And where, exactly, are we going to find shelter? We can't just charm people into letting us use their homes like before."

"Then we'll have to find an abandoned house, or something."

"Where are we going to find an aband-"

"You mean like that one?" Sonata said as she pointed in a direction. The other two looked, and sure enough, there was an old-looking, small, rundown house (if you could even call it that) in the distance. The leader's eyes widened in surprise at the fact that the ditzy siren was the one who discovered it.

"Yeah, that looks good, actually!" Aria rolled her eyes, angry that Sonata had seen it before her.

"Whatever. It might not even be abandoned..." She said in annoyance.

"That may be so, but we won't know for sure until we go over there, and check it out for ourselves." Adagio began walking towards the house. "Come on."

Aria growled and looked at Sonata, sticking her tongue out at her before following close behind their leader. Even though she had already walked away, Sonata stuck her tongue out at Aria, and then ran up behind them, following them to the house.

They didn't know what would happen once they got there, and what they'd do with themselves afterwards, but sleep beckoned the three of them, and they hoped that the place would indeed be abandoned.