It was some weeks and Esme was doing a lot better in ninja training. She was now used to the early mornings, more or less. She was also getting better at fighting, there was just one thing.
"Guys this ninja suite doesn't fit me." Esme looked down at the way too big gi.
"Yeah….I guess Sensei didn't give much thought to the green ninja being a girl." Jay rubbed the back of his head.
"He did think Nya could be the green ninja once, but she turned it down." Kai thought back on that.
"Perhaps it could be altered." Zane looks on as if calculating how to fix it.
"I think it needs to be changed completely." They all turned to see Nya walk in and frowns at the gi "Even if you changed the suite to fit her the style and armor wouldn't really work for her."
"Yeah, it's way too heavy." Esme sighed.
"Okay so how would you make it sis?" Kai raises a brow.
"I wouldn't go with a gi for one." Nya frowns and then says "Maybe something more fitted to your body and that you can move easily in." Nya smiles as she starts to get ideas.
"Oh, can I help you design it. I always loved making up outfits." Esme got excited.
"Sure, come on let's get an idea of what you want and then I'll fix it up for you." Nya smiles and she led Esme out.
"Well that's going to be interesting. Wonder what they'll make?" Jay says curios.
"Who knows, better leave them to it. Time to train." Cole flexes his muscles.
They all roll their eyes and shove him at that, but it didn't really affect him as he was so large so he just laughed.
A while later…..
Esme walked to the deck happily as she had finally finished helping Nay design her ninja suite. Though Nya said it would take some time to make.
Esme didn't mind, she could just wear her gym cloths for now. She was just so excited to wear something she had made, so much so that she almost didn't realize where she was going.
She suddenly stopped saying "OH! Sorry Lloyd, my mind was somewhere else." She smiled sheepishly.
"That's okay. You stopped in time. I'm just heading to training. You?" Lloyd smiled.
"Same. How have you been anyway?" Esme smiled.
"I've been okay. You?" Lloyd shrugged.
"Doing good. Nya's going to make me my own ninja suit." She smiles.
"What about the one uncle has?" Lloyd looked confused.
"It doesn't really fit." Esme sighs.
"Yeah I guess it is kind of big." Lloyd remembers one time he snuck in to wear it and, he barley could get his arms and legs out of the thing.
They soon made it to the deck, but what Esme saw made her eyes widen and get red up to her ears.
The guys were training as usual, but this time they were shirtless and sweaty.
Cole was lifting, Jay was working on some balance beams, Kai was taking out dummies, and Zane was doing some jumps and flips.
"Uh Esme are you okay?" Lloyd asked.
At that Esme ran back into the bounty, slamming the door shut behind her.
The guys noticed this and looked over to where Lloyd stared at the door confused.
"Um, Lloyd what just happened?" Asked Cole, trying to wipe off the sweat from his brow.
"I don't know, Esme and I just came out and suddenly she got all red and ran off like something was chasing her." Lloyd shrugged.
The guys eyes widened at this and they freaked "She saw us like this!" Jay panicked.
"What's wrong with that, it's not any different than seeing you guys at the beach." Even though they've never gone to the beach before.
"There's a big difference kiddo." Kai shook his head.
"Like what?" Lloyd tilted his head.
The guys looked panicked till "I believe that is something for Sensei to answer." Zane said, completely red up to his ears.
"Fine I will." Lloyd huffs and heads in. Once gone they guys all sigh.
"Oh man I totally forgot about Esme. Nya never comes out at this time, so we've never had this problem." Kai face palms.
"She also knows our training schedule, so she doesn't come out when we start training this hard." Jay flushes at the thought of his girlfriend seeing him shirtless 'Kai would kill me.' He gulps.
"I am feeling an overwhelming sense of shame." Zane sits ,somewhat shrinking into himself.
"Hey, hey, man there's nothing to be ashamed about. It's just a bit awkward to have a girl see us like this is all." Cole tries to calm Zane down.
"Yeah man it's natural. It just feels weird having a girl on board that's not Nya." Kai frowns. 'It really is weird having a girl around that's not my sister.'
"Do you believe she is angry with us?" Zane looks up confused.
"No I think she was just shocked, I mean who wouldn't with all this muscle." Coles flexes and the guys all throw practice tools at him "Okay I get it I'll stop."
"Please like we believe that." Jay scuffs.
'Why do I feel so strange about her seeing me like this, it is a natural part of my body and nothing inappropriate but….I feel so strange that she saw me in this state.' Zane flushes more.
"Zane buddy, stop thinking so much on it. Or is there something else to it?" Kai raises a brow.
"Does someone maybe have a crush?" Jay smirks.
"A crush? Oh you mean…I do not think that would be appropriate." Zane frowns, standing up as he put on his shirt, the others fallowing.
"Oh come on Zane. What's keeping you back this time, an don't say it's being a nindroid?" Cole frowns arms crossed.
"For one Esme is the green ninja and we are her protectors, and second she is part of the team. Would not a relationship within our team dynamic cause trouble." Zane looks on confused.
"PFFF, Nya and I have a relationship and it doesn't affect the team." Jay chuckles.
"Nya is not exactly part of the team, she is the samurai, not a ninja. So, your relationship does not affect the team dynamic." Zane concludes.
"Okay I guess that does make some sense." Cole looks on blinking. 'Never really thought of it that way.'
"Okay let's forget about that for now, how about we focus on trying to make things not awkward. If the team dynamic is so important, we can't have Esme feel awkward around us or the other way around." Kai speaks up.
"Yeah that wouldn't be good, but how?" Jay thinks on this.
"Perhaps a causal activity would help. Sensei did say she is finally able to take on serpentine, so that would mean she can leave the bounty." Zane speaks up.
"Hey great idea, how about the mall? It's pretty low key, we look around, buy some stuff, get some food." Cole smiles.
"Perfect, lets' go find Esme then." Kai smiles, but then…..
"BOYS!" they heard Sensei yell and they knew they were in trouble. They forgot about Lloyd.
Meanwhile….
Esme was in her room under her sheets trying to calm down.
Nya came in for a few things and saw the lump in the bed "Esme are you okay?"
Esme whined something under her sheets so Nya came closer and when she finally heard, her eyes popped "Oh, yeah that must of been embarrassing." Nya frowned, worried for her.
"They, they, they were so hot!" Esme curled up, embarrassed to admit that.
Nya smiled "Is that it, what's the problem?"
"It's kind of hard to look at them now." Esme sat up flushed.
"Oh, that might be a problem. Just let yourself cool down, that might work." Nya tried to calm her.
"But every time I close my eyes all I see is those big muscles of theirs. Arg!" Esme screamed into her pillow.
Nya flushed "Where Jay's pretty big or…"
"Nya!" Esme exclaimed.
"Sorry I can't help but wonder. I am his girlfriend." Nya waves.
"No, I'm sorry I'm just not used to seeing guys like that. It's just really awkward for me is all." Esme flushes still.
"How about you talk to them. Maybe that will help." Nya sits next to her.
"Sigh, thanks Nya, even though I'm older you always seem to be way more mature." Esme smiles.
"You get that way living with Kai." Nya smirks, the two laughing it up after that.
Meanwhile….
The guys walked shamefully out of Sensei Wu's room.
"It's not like this wasn't going to happen." Jay groaned.
"Yeah, and he is his uncle it's his job to tell the kid not ours." Cole grumbles.
"Just be glad he was more concerned about Esme and not trying to make us explain to Lloyd about the bird and the bees." Kai shivers.
"I believe he is just traumatized at the idea of Lloyd growing up." Zane explains.
"At least he let us go ahead with our idea. Now we can catch a break." Jay sighs happily.
"Good idea, but first let's get cleaned up. I don't think Esme wants to walk around with a bunch of smelly guys." Cole frowned at the body odor that was starting to fill the air.
"Dido. I got first dibs! Seconds!" The guys called as they headed to their room to change.
A little while later the guys found Esme playing some sort of farming game on the council in the living room. Kai came up saying "Hey Esme, the guys and I were wondering if you wanted to head to the mall?"
Esme looked up and flushed a bit, her mind going back to before but 'The mall? That would be fun and we can try to get things back to normal, probably.'
"Yeah, the mall would be fun. Just let me save." She saves and closes her game and as they start heading out she said "Um sorry about before, I was just not expecting all that."
"You don't need to apologize, we probably should have warned you." Cole rubbed the back of his head.
"Please accept our apologies. Besides Nya, we are not used to a woman being on board." Zane nods.
"I guess I understand that. Besides Nya, who pretty much has her own space for her stuff, this place is basically a bachelor pad." Esme chuckles.
At that the guys all freeze and think 'She's right.' Oh, they were going to have to do a lot of changes if this was going to work.
"You guys okay?" Esme looked back confused.
"Yeah we're fine. Just thinking." Jay panics.
"We should head out now." Kai smirks and they do so.
They ended up parking the bounty some ways away and walked most of the way to the mall. "This is the only bad thing about having a flying ship." Kai sighs.
"You rather be mobbed." Cole frowned.
Kai was about to say yes, but saw Esme looking expectantly and sighed "No."
'Something tells me that's not what he really thinks.' Esme shakes her head.
As they entered the mall they looked on excitedly at what they wanted to do. Jay totally wanted to check out the video game store, Cole was really looking forward to the athletics store, Kai wanted to check out some music, and Zane was curious to see what they had in the cooking department. As for Esme, she kind of wanted to look through the bookstore.
"Okay so we'll all go by what's closest and take a snack break midway, deal?" Jay smirks.
They all nodded, finding that fair.
The first place they found was the athletics department, Cole was looking for a new set of weights that could help him keep up with his strength "Um aren't you afraid all those will break the bounty?" Esme looked on worried at the giant waits Cole was ordering.
"Don't worry. We had the bounty reinforced to take on Nya's mech suit, so these babies are no problem." Cole pats them before they're carted off to be delivered. Esme still felt nervous hoping the extra wait wouldn't make them fall or start leaning.
As they waited for Cole's stuff to be done, they looked around the store a bit, climbing gear, basket balls, and other sports equipment was available.
Esme seemed to be the most interested in the baseball stuff.
Cole came up and said "Really, baseball?"
"I got a mean arm throw." Esme smirks.
"Really, show us sometime?" Cole smiles.
She nodded and explained how she always wanted to join the baseball team, but the coaches never let her cause she was a girl "That's so not cool. But why not try out for softball if not baseball?" Cole looked curios.
"You can't throw the same way and the balls allot harder to grasp." Esme growled.
"Yeah, that probably takes the fun out of it." Cole frowns.
Next it was the music store.
Kai was looking for a few rock bands he used to like listening to as a kid.
"So, what kind of bands do you like anyway Kai?" Esme looked curios.
"Well let's see, I've always kind of liked Nickleback." Kai shrugs.
"Really I love their songs." Esme jumped.
"Really, didn't take you as the type." Kai looks happily surprised.
"Yeah I like the song 'Goatta be somebody' and 'Far away.'" Esme smiles.
"Really, any other band you're into?" Kai asks curious.
"I like Coldplay, but usually I don't go for many band songs." Esme thinks on this.
The two talk about music for a while, recommending what they like and saying what they can't stand.
At this point they all decided to take a lunch break. As they sat everyone grabbed their own thing. Turns out Esme liked flavor on her food as she put a lot of ketchup on her bacon cheese burger.
"Wough, got enough there?" Cole jokes.
"I don't like my food dry." Esme shrugs.
"Do burgers even taste good?" Zane raises a brow.
"Oh yeah, really good. But you have to be careful not to eat so many or so frequent or you get sick." Esme shivers.
"Yeah they always put way too much grease." Kai takes a bite of his pizza.
"That's how they hook you." Esme shrugs.
After that they headed to the bookstore. Esme walked about calmly looking at several genres, mostly going for things with animals, or sci-fi, even fantasy.
"Have you found anything you like yet?" Zane asked as he came over with a book he had found on Ninjago myths and legends.
"I think so. It's a fairytale book where you can change several aspects to it. It sound like a fun thing to do in spare time." Esme smiles.
"It does sound quite interesting, do you mind if I join you at times." Zane smiles.
"Sure. I wonder what kind of stories we can come up with." Esme jumps excitedly as they headed to find the rest of the guys in the magazine section.
"We're done." Esme called.
"Cool, Jay you're turn." Kai told him.
Jay jumped cheering "Yes video games!" Everyone in the bookstore turned and glared at him. He chuckled nervously and walked off head down as the others chuckled at this.
Once at the video game store Jay was in a world all his own. Looking for the newest and best games. Kai and Cole reminding him they had a budget.
Zane chuckled lightly at this as Jay tried to convince them of getting the newest cube master. As this happened Zane noticed Esme wasn't with them. He looked over to see her looking at a different section all together.
He came up and found that the games Esme were looking at where a lot more passive then the type his brothers usually got "What type of game are you searching for?" Zane asks curiously.
"Something fun to pass the time but a little challenging maybe, oh they have the new wolfsim game." Esme picked it up excitedly.
"Wolf sim?" Zane looked curios.
"It's a game that's depicts the accurate lifestyle of a wolf. You get to create your own character and try to survive from pup and into your adult years." Esme looked on excited.
"It sounds educational and fascinating. Is there a multiplayer function?" Zane looks curios.
"Let me check….Yes! It just got added. I am so getting it." Esme squeals.
"I would like to donate to it, I feel I will be taking up many hours of this game as well." Zane smiles.
"Really, you don't mind?" Esme looks surprised.
"Why would I mind if it is something I also wish to get?" Zane shrugs.
Esme smiled and they headed over to buy it, the others noticed this and Jay ran up "Oh come on Zane we thought you be chipping in with us."
"We never decided on that." Zane raised a brow.
"I guess we just got used to us all chipping in for video games. So, what you two find?" Kai looks on curios.
Esme got excited and explained the game again. They all looked on curios and shrugged, Cole saying "Sounds cool, better then cube."
"Hey, though I do have to agree it does sound cool." Jay looks excited.
"Playing as a wolf. Okay that I got to try." Kai smirked.
So they all decided to chip in on it. Esme was shocked, but excited, glad they were able to save up so much this way.
They were all heading to the cooking store now but suddenly "Esme you're bleeding!" Jay panicked.
At that Esme eyes widened 'Oh shoot.' and rushed to the bathroom.
The guys fallowed but stopped outside looking on worried.
"Is she okay, was she injured?" Zane looked worried.
"No Zane I think she just forgot it was her time." Kai flushed.
"Time?" Zane looked confused.
"You know, how once a month a girl….acts off. Like Nya when she suddenly threatens to throw a wrench at us for disturbing her work." Jay explains.
Zane takes this in and that's when he realized "Ah yes the sign that shows that she is not with child."
They guys all face palmed at that.
"That about covers it." Esme says as she walks out, her jacket tied around her pants to hide the stain.
"Sorry about that, I just panicked and forgot." Jay flushes.
"Yeah, next time don't blurt it out so loud. But I'm glad I at least got it covered." Esme sighed.
"We should get home." Kai says a bit embarrassed.
"But Zane hasn't been able to go to the kitchen stuff. I can just buy some new stuff." Esme flushes.
"Are you sure?" Cole looks uncertain.
"Yeah the money I saved on the game helped and this stuff is going to be useless now anyway." Esme sighed.
So, they headed to a girls cloths store to buy some stuff for Esme.
"Well look at that, are those her brothers, no they all look way too different to be related. I guess their friends. Maybe ones her boyfriend. Well it's sweet they're all being so protective of her." People chat as they see how close the guys are to Esme, trying to make sure no one saw the stain, even if it was covered.
Though they did step back when Esme had to grab some unmentionables. She soon paid for the stuff and got into the dressing room. The guys keeping an eye out for snakes, just in case. This would be a really bad time for them to show up.
"Okay I'm ready." Esme sighed as she came out.
"You sure?" Kai asked worried.
"Are you not in pain?" Zane was the same.
"Don't worry I took some pain meds in the bathroom. I always carry some around near this time." Esme sighed as she decided to head off.
The boys all shrugged but decided to trust her on this. They were soon at the cooking store.
As they looked about, Kai looked bored, Cole looked at cooking magazines to improve his abilities in the kitchen, and Jay was trying to figure out how to make some of the appliances into robots.
Meanwhile, Zane was looking at some new appliances to help him with cooking for several people on the ship.
'I usually don't have a problem but with more mouths to feed it might take me longer to cook. Perhaps some devices that will help speed up the cooking process might help.' Zane looks on curios.
Then he looked over to see Esme staring at something somewhat excitedly. He came over and saw what it was 'Hard boil egg cooker.'
"Do you like hard boil eggs?" Zane's asks.
Esme jumped, not expecting for someone to say something but then "Oh yeah I do. They're really good, I also love hash browns and biscuits, and basically, I love breakfast foods. I don't know why, guess cause their so filling." Esme smiles at that.
"I suppose that is a good reason to like them." Zane looks at the hard boil egg maker and grabs it "I believe this would be useful."
"What? No Zane you don't have too." Esme looks embarrassed.
"It is okay, I was looking for a way to make cooking a bit easier now that we have an extra person onboard." Zane smiles.
"Oh yeah I guess that would make cooking a bit harder." Esme looks on realizing.
"Do you have any other ideas I could try making for my meals. I believe the others are getting tired of my roast duck. And a few others of my more current meals." Zane chuckles.
"I don't know how anyone can get tired of that, it's so good." Esme sighs in delight at the thought of that meal.
"I appreciate that, but I also want to expand my culinary skills." Zane looks on hopeful.
"Oh well in that case. How about pastas, maybe steaks, French pastries are always good." She thinks on this.
Zane takes that in and says "Those do sound like interesting things to try. I wonder if there is a cook book on such things?"
"We can check." Esme smiles and they head to the books section and find what they need.
Once done the others come over and Cole asks "Hey Zane what's with all the books?"
"Yeah, I thought you be getting cooking tools?" Kai looks confused.
"Only one for now, as for the rest, I am eager to try and learn new recipes." Zane showed them the pastry book and the guys looked excited.
Esme had to chuckle at this, but she had to admit she was also excited.
As they were heading back to the bounty though…..
"Hey, look it's the ninja." A constricti calls.
"And the green ones with them." A fangpire adds.
"If we catch her maybe Garmadon will grant us a wish!" A venomari exclaimed.
"One problem, how do we get her away from the other ninja." The constricti asks.
The venomari hissed happily, licking his lips with his poison.
As the ninja talked about what they wanted to do when they got home, the venomari jumped out and said "Have fun ninja." And spat at them making them all exclaim in pain.
As they rubbed their eyes they were all in shock, seeing things that didn't make sense and scared them.
Esme was in a panic as she saw giant snakes coming at her, yeah she hated snakes that much, though these looked a lot more deformed then the ones she knew. Kind of in a Medusa form.
"Ah! Get away from me, snakes!" Esme shouted in fear.
"What, what snakes? It's just…. Elves!" Kai looked around confused as did the others then panicked at their fear.
Zane was in a state of panic as he saw giant vegetables coming at him for revenge.
"NO! I'm sorry I cooked you!" Zane panicked as he backed up with arms up.
"What are they talking about?" The fangpire asked.
"Who knows, the venom makes them all loopy. Now grab her." The venomari pointed at Esme, who yelled and ran in panic, but fell from the dizzying affect.
The constricti laughed as he said "This should be fun…." As they came closer to Esme though.
"No bad kitties!" Jay hit the top of the snakes with his bag and yelled.
"What's wrong with him!" The fangpire asked.
"I told you they act loopy…." The venomori tried to explain but Kai suddenly tackled it.
"Stay away elf. We don't want no presents!" Kai wrestled with the snakes.
Cole helped him by ranting something about evil laundry, and how it won't get him today.
The constricti sneaked off to grab at Esme, who was now standing up and held her tight, she was about to yell when the snakes gagged her "Oh well more reward for me." He chuckles.
"Stop, she doesn't even eat vegetables!" Zane starts to grab at the contriscti who yelled "Get off!"
At this Esme bit the snakes and yelled "Ew, I hate snakes!" and suddenly a burst of power come out knocking them all down.
The snakes groaned and where about to pounce again, when Nya in her mech suite laned and glared "Get away from them!" and tied them up with a net.
At that she saw the aw and fear in her friends eyes and she sighed 'This is going to be annoying.' She picked them up as they all yelled in confusion. Kai ranting on about his fear of Santa 'And he's tried so hard to keep that secret.' Nya sighed.
Jay yelling about evil kittens 'What?' Nya thought, Cole the same, but with laundry. 'Okay.' Esme on snakes 'I guess that's understandable.'
And Zane saying something about vegetables out for revenge. 'That's a new one.'
Once back at the bounty she was able to use a cure she manage to replicate for this type of poison.
Once they were all back to normal, they were very flushed, and very embarrassed.
Wu came up and said "Are you all alright?"
They all just nodded, not saying a word but all thought 'I can't believe they heard all that.'
Wu sighed and said "I know what happened today must of been embarrassing, but you are a team. Letting each other know your strengths and weaknesses will help you to not only know each other better but help to encourage each other to be better."
Wu started walking out when "Take that in and then decide what you wish to do." Then he finally left the monitor room.
Once he was gone ,they all looked at each there, uncertain.
Then "Okay I'm afraid of snakes, I've never been embarrassed to emit it. I hate them, despise them, they make my skin crawl. Okay, I just felt weird letting you all see how bad I could get because of them. Especially now that I'm supposed to be this supper important ninja. I got scared of them cause my brother decided to watch the animal channel when we were eating, and I was grossed out for life." Esme sighs.
They guys all looked surprised.
"Are you kidding, at least your fear makes sense. I mean who's afraid of kittens." Jay flushes.
"Depending on what happened." Kai shivers at his own memories.
"I think the Santa thing is something most kids are afraid of at a young age. But what exactly caused it to go into your adult years." Esme looked sorry for him, but curios.
Kai sighed but decided to spill it "It was our first Christmas since our parents disappeared and when we got presents from a neighbor who pretended to be Santa for the village…..Well he thought it be a nice gesture to come dressed up at our house and say how sorry he was about our parents. I sort of misunderstood him and let's just say I beat the guys up and told him to give me back my parents." Kai shrugged sheepishly.
The others laughed as Cole said "Dude that actually makes a lot of sense, trauma." Cole shivers.
"Wait is that why…?" Jay looked shocked.
"After my mom passed my dad only concentrated on his singing and dancing and left me to do all the chores. I was still really small and well I was trying to get my dad's basket of dirty clothes, and it all fell on me, and it was so heavy I was stuck under there for a while." Cole shivers at the memory.
They all shivered at that "That is not right." Zane sighed with his pale face paling more.
"Dud I don't know if there's therapy for that." Kai looks on sick.
"I will never pick on you for your obsession with keeping our cloths of the floor again!" Jay cried.
"Um Jay what exactly caused your fear of well, small felines?" Zane frowned.
Jay shivered "I was at home playing around, when I found a cluster of kittens under some junk. I tried to go under to get a closer look when the little monsters jumped me and one of them gave me this scar on my eyebrow." Jay shivered.
"Okay that would definably cause you to hate cats." Esme frowns.
"Yikes what a story." Kai looked on wide eyed.
"I suppose I must now tell you all why I am afraid of mutated vegetables." Zane sighs.
"You don't have to man, we're just trying to clear the air." Cole pats his shoulder.
"You have all confessed, it is only right I do the same." Zane sighed.
Then he took a breath and said "I acquired this fear early on when I started learning how to cook. I was learning to chop vegetables when a group of other young adults tried to be nice to me and invited me to see a movie. It turned out to be a very old movie about mutated vegetables that ate people. When we were watching they talked about how in high school they had learned that plants where living things and how this could probably happen."
Zane sighed "One of them continued by joking 'Yeah they probably take their revenge on all the chefs for chopping them up.' They all laughed but I instead became frozen with fear as a scene with a chef being eaten happened. I fell into the fetal position after, calling out sorry to the vegetables I had cut up. Let us just say I was never invited to other events again, and swore off horror movies as well." Zane flushed madly.
They all looked on stunned at this.
"At least it doesn't stop you from cooking." Esme tried to point out.
"Except for peppers. That was the main vegetable in the movie." Zane shuddered.
"Tough break man." Cole patted his back.
"Yeah those guys where jerks." Kai scuffed.
"Yeah, the rest of us at least weren't surrounded by other people our age when that happened." Jay shivers.
"Yeah, that's mentally scarring." Esme sighs.
As they all looked at each other, finally understanding their fears, they all had to laugh.
"I can't believe how stupid this is!" Kai laughed.
"I know. We're afraid of the dumbest things because of the dumbest situations. What's wrong with us?" Jay laughed on the floor none stop.
"Where human what do you expect! Nothing we do makes sense." Esme started calming down.
"Or we're all just crazy." Cole smirks.
"In this team I suppose we all do have a slight case of insanity installed in us." Zane sits up and smiles.
"Oh, Zane joke!" Kai laughed.
"That was great man!" Jay laughed up again.
"That was actually really good Zane. You definably don't need a switch for a sense of humor. Yours is just very unique." Esme smiles, still smirking at the joke.
Zane smiles and felt something warm from hearing those words.
"Well, we should get to bed." Cole gets ups and stretches.
They all got up and did the same, saying how it was a long day and they needed to train tomorrow. But at least they had learned new things about each other, more than they expected and it would make them stronger for it.