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Last time on Academia... Battle between Ante and Carl resulted in Carl winning. Poor Unfezant lost to Pichu. Gen said some strange things to Ayla. Avel missed the battle. Carl asked Releigh on a date.

Friday finally came and it was time for the weekend. It also meant it was time for Ryleigh and Carl's date.

Ryleigh still refused it was a date, though we all knew that it was. She ended up wearing a cute yellow summer dress with her hair pulled back with a cute white headband with matching white sandels.

"He just said hanging out," said Ryleigh.

"Wow, are you that clueless?" I asked.

She gave me a confused look, thus giving me my answer.

"Well, you better get going," I said. "It's 6 and your date starts in a bit. Aren't you meeting him at the cafe in the city?"

PMA was located in the largest city in Latius, Magna. The cafe they were meeting at was about half an hour from the school.

"Yup, on my way now," she paused. "And it isn't a date!"

Taste of your own medicine, Ryleigh.

Just as she left the room, a knocking came from my window. I drew the curtains. Standing outside my window was Ante and Avel.

"What the hell guys?!" I shouted, opening the window.

Ante and Avel climbed through.

"God, am I glad your guys' room is on the first floor," said Ante.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"Well duh," said Ante, like it was obvious. "To spy on Ryleigh and Carl's date."

"Count me out," I said.

Avel sighed.

"I don't want to go either," he said.

Ante's jaw dropped.

"But don't want to know what goes on between those two?" he asked.

Both Avel and I shook our head.

"Ryleigh's your friend, right?" Ante asked.

"Yeah," I answered.

"Well, don't you want to make sure she is safe?" he said.

He has a point...

"Ayla, don't fall into his trap," warned Avel.

"I'm in," I said.

Avel sighed.

"Does anyone listen to me?" he asked himself.

We walked out and got to the cafe just as Ryleigh and Carl met up.

"Hey," greeted Carl.

He was wearing a nice red button t-shirt with a pair of jeans and black shoes. He actually looked pretty

good, though he still didn't brush his hair.

"Hi," Ryleigh greeted back.

They took a seat near the front of the cafe. Ante, Avel, and I got our seats close towards the back, but still in earshot.

"You look good tonight," said Carl.

"Thanks," said Ryleigh. "You do to."

Ante tapped my shoulder.

"I heard around from a few of the other students. Apparently Carl is a bit of a flirt," he said.

"So what if he likes to flirt with girls?" asked Avel. "That doesn't make him a bad guy."

"He has a point, Ante," I agreed.

Dinner went by without a sinch.

"They look like they're having a good time," I pointing out.

They laughed as they talked. Now they were a cute couple.

"This is boring," sighed Ante.

"I think we should get back before they do," said Avel. "I think Ryleigh would be suspicious if Ayla isn't there when she gets back."

"Eh, that girl so out there, I could tell her I was abducted by alien Froslass's and she would believe me," I said.

"Avel's right though," said Ante. "We should get back. This is more boring than I thought. They look like a normal couple."

I shook my head and sighed.

"And that's a bad thing?" I asked.

Ante shrugged.

We waited for them to leave the cafe before we got up. They were going to probably walk a bit around the city before coming back, so we had time to get back to the school before they did.

Once back at the campus, I plopped down on my bed.

"It's almost 9:30, you think they're coming back soon?" asked Ante.
Ante and Avel joined me in my room. Ante sat at the foot of my bed, while Avel sat at my desk's chair.

"Probably," I said as I continued to lay on my bed. "Shouldn't you guys go back to your own room?"

Ante shrugged.

"It's so boring there. Can't we just stay here?" asked Ante.

He fell back on my bed, his legs hanging off the edge. I sat up.

"Get!" I shouted, pushing him off my bed.

"Hey!"

Avel got up and grabbed Ante.

"I'll deal with him," he said with a sigh.

"But I want to stay here," whined Ante as Avel dragged him.

With that Ante and Avel left my room. After a couple minutes had past, Ryleigh entered, back from her date.

"So how did it go?" I asked with a slight chuckled.

I froze when I saw a bruise on her arm.

"What the hell?!" I shouted. "Did Carl do this to you?"

It was on her left forearm and was fresh. It had just happen.

Did Carl hurt her after we left them?

Ryleigh shook her head.

"No," she simply said.

She sat down on her bed across from mine. She sat tall, trying to hide her fear. Though it was obvious she was still shaken up from whatever event gave her that bruise.

"What happened?" I tried to ask in a calm voice, though I feel like I was almost shouting.

I was scared for her.

"Dinner was great," started Ryleigh. "Carl is funny. He was telling a lot of jokes. After dinner, we left to take a little walk around the city. After a while we came across an ice cream cart. Carl had me sit on a nearby bench while he got the ice cream. It was really sweet of him to do. But when he was away, these guys came up to me. They started talking to me and saying some scary, creepy things."

My jaw dropped.

"Like what?" I was afraid to ask.

"Like asking me to come back to their place and that they know how to give me a fun time," answered Ryleigh.

Her head sort of dropped saying this. It obviously made her uncomfortable. Though as soon as she realized I noticed her sadness, she quickly sat back up straight and put a fake smile on her face.

"They continued to bug. Carl came back and quickly told them to leave me alone," she continued. "They started to push Carl. One grabbed me by the arm, while the other two started to push Carl around. I told them to stop, but they didn't."

She paused.

"Carl became angry. He was able to knock one out, but there was two of them against him. The other one was able to pin him," she explained. "I kicked the guy holding me. While he collapsed on to the ground, I tackled the guy holding Carl. He threw me off of him and onto the ground. But it gave Carl enough time to get loose and knocked out the guy."

She sighed.

"I'm tired," she finally said.

I chuckled. Now Ryleigh's staring to go back to the girl I know.

"I bet," I said.

"Carl went back to his room. He is still angry, but he's okay. He wanted me to go to the infirmiry," said Ryleigh as she got changed into her pajamas.

"You might want to before that bruise gets worse," I pointed out.

"No, I'm fine," she insisted, climbing under her covers. "Just tired."

I followed suit and changed into my pajamas. 10:30. Time to get some sleep anyway.

The next day, Ryleigh and I were eating breakfast on the lawn. Ante and Avel were there to of course.

"Hey guys!"

The greeting came from Carl, who was accompanied by Gen. They sat down in our circle, and started eating their breakfast.

As the others started to talk, I was able to get a message to Carl.

"Thank you."

Next time on Academia... Gen battles finally.

Good job, Carl.

Btw, does anyone else hate Fanfiction's new look. I know I do. It's almost as bad as youtube, who keeps changing their look.

-LHBC,

It's fine. Pichu was only used for that battle because he had an advantage against Unfezant. I actually like that Pichu didn't have many attack moves. It just shows how Carl became an Alpha. Anyway, what did you think of Ryleigh and Carl's date?

Storm0Wolf,

Well, they didn't mess up the date...

Crazy Awesome Neko,

What did you think of Ryleigh and Carl's date?