"Again with the schooling!" I groaned sliding into a bench.
"Stop complaining! You need to learn this so you can be better in combat!" Sienna snapped back, looking up momentarily from the textbook.
"Why are you reading the textbook? Isn't that for class?" I asked, pointing at the large book.
"It's for studying, ever heard of it?" Sienna answered snarkily.
"Actually, I have." I stated, while looking around for Sadi.
"It was a rhetorical question." Sienna darkly muttered before turning back to the textbook.
"Then why did you ask it?"
Sienna groaned and turned away from me. I jumped up when a book slammed onto the table to the right of me. Looking up, I saw Nadeshiko and immediately scooted down the bench away from him.
"What is wrong with you? It's just Nadeshiko." Sienna asked, giving me a scrutinizing glare.
"Nothing, nothing's wrong with me." I responded, looking away from Nadeshiko.
"Seriously, what's wrong with you?" Sienna slammed both her hands on the table and stood up.
"I'm going to find Sadi." I answered, avoiding the question and immediately leaving the room.
"Something's wrong with her." Was the last thing I heard before the door slammed shut behind me. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and crashed straight into a person. The person wasn't affected very much, but I was; I fell backwards onto my rear end.
"Sorry." I groaned, getting back up.
"It's fine, I wasn't looking where I was going either, but that's okay right? Say, do you like pancakes? I really like pancakes, and sloths, because Ren and I have a super secret code, and well sloths make sounds right? Anyways-" the girl kept talking, while I took in who I just crashed into. There was a girl with orange hair and blue eyes, the most important thing though, was that she was wearing pink. The guy next to her was wearing green, but had a streak of pink in his hair.
"Sorry, I've got to go!" I blurted out before running in the other direction. What is it with all of these people and pink? I ran down the hallway and crashed into another person, this time, a cloud of glitter accompanied my epic fail onto my rear end.
"Tate? Are you alright?" asked a worried voice.
"Oh, it's you. That's a relief, I just crashed into two other people wearing pink!" I wailed.
"And that's bad because…" Sadi gestured for me to continue, considering how the cloud of glitter had fallen to the floor.
"Nothing, it's just that I crashed into two people who I don't know, but they were pretty cool with it, so it's fine!" I smiled.
"Okay then." Sadi slowly nodded.
"Where were you?"
"Oh, well I was talking to Professor Port." She twirled a long strand of brown hair around her fingers.
"Why? Was it something bad?" I immediately asked.
"I was telling him about what happened yesterday, and asked for some advice. It turned into a long-winded story about himself, but he did suggest that I talk to Professor Oobleck about weapons." She answered quietly.
"Wouldn't you talk to Professor Goodwitch? She is the combat specialist."
"Apparently because of Oobleck's vast knowledge, I'd have a better chance of finding a weapon better suited for me."
"How cool!" I grinned, "did they get mad?"
"Just extremely disappointed, and that's probably an all time low for Oobleck." Sadi giggled.
"That's probably true." I agreed, nodding along.
"What are you two doing out here? Why aren't you inside the room discussing battle tactics with us?" Sienna demanded, coming out of practically nowhere.
"Discussing Sadi's new 'classes'." I answered.
"Classes?" Sienna asked dubiously.
"For my lack of grimm handling techniques." Sadi supplied.
"Then you should be discussing it with the rest of us!" Sienna snapped back.
"I was on my way to look for you." Sadi muttered, looking down at the folds of her skirt, "but Tate distracted me."
I gave her a look that said 'are you serious', way to throw me under the bus.
"Tate, you should know by now that when there's an important development you have to tell everyone." Sienna scolded.
"Yeah, yeah, I know." I waved my hand in acknowledgement.
"If you know then why didn't you come to talk with us?" Sienna demanded.
"None of your business." I retorted, no way was I going to tell her that I am afraid of pink.
"We're your teammates! You've gotta trust us!" Sienna cried out.
"Then why don't you trust us?" Nadeshiko turned the question to Sienna, I didn't even notice he was there, so when he spoke up, a small squeak burst out of my mouth.
"It's only been a couple of days, you can't expect me to tell you my entire life story right now." Sienna responded with her head held high, "besides, you're one to talk. You've barely said a thing."
"Live with it." Nadeshiko responded snarkily before stalking down the hall.
"And you," Sienna turned to me, "what is up between you and Nadeshiko?" she placed her hands on her hips and shifted her weight onto her right foot.
"Nothing." I answered.
"Puh-lease." Sienna scoffed, "I've been to a fair share of meetings between many people of high status." Her voice then dropped to take on an icy tone as she leaned down to get in my face from her hips, "I can tell when there's something going on between people."
"Ah!" Sadi gasped excitedly, "do you have a crush on Nadeshiko?"
I choked on my tongue, "no! That's ridiculous!"
"You can't always go on denying it." Sadi teased.
"A crush?" Sienna derided, "that's a petty thing to get yourself worked up about."
"It's not a crush!" I shrieked.
"Keep denying it, it'll get worse." Sienna answered, patting my head. I scowled, I didn't think I was that short, maybe it's because she wears high heels. Seriously though, who wears high heels? Especially when you're fighting grimm?
"Was that supposed to be nice?" I asked.
"Perceive it as you may, I'm going to work on battle tactics, and I don't need your help. I can do it on my own."
"I wasn't going to offer anyway!" I smiled cheerfully while waving at her retreating back.
"Good!" Sienna shot back.
"That was mean." Sadi pouted.
"Oh, me?" I asked in an alarmed fashion.
Sadi nodded, which caused her brown twin tails to bob up and down furiously.
"Oops. Well, it doesn't look like Sienna minded, so it's okay. Right?"
Sadi shrugged, "I guess."