"Finally!" Lulu exclaimed, sprinting through the living room into the sofa. "We made it." She muffled into the cushion.

Poppy walked straight to her room, and a second later a moderate 'bang' was heard.

"At least she is closing it quieter now..." I sighed.

Janna rested her hand on my shoulder for a moment with a gentle smile on her face as to comfort me.

Jinx was the third to enter the room, taking a moment to analyze the design of the place. "Comfy, right guys?" She said. The pets cooed in response.

The place was sort of Japanese traditional, at least that was the opinion of the few people besides the team who had seen it. The living room was shaped like a square, the walls were thin and almost transparent, a sofa and two chairs at each side, in one edge of the room, and in the center of the room there was this little bottom floor, surrounded by two-step stairs on each side, where the table where we usually ate was.
For me, it was a simple and relaxing view, knowing that we were 'home'. Relaxing that is, when Lulu or Poppy weren't thrashing the house, for fun or anger respectively.

"I apologize in name of my teammate" I said turning to Jinx "She gets a little irritated when she misses her sleeping curfew."

"Oh, don't sweat it. I'm pretty sure I'm like that, too." She chuckled.

"Yeah…, you'll find out she tends to be rather short tempered."

"Ha! Like her heig-" Jinx mouth was stopped mid sentence by Lulu's hands, on top of mines.

"Don't, ever, talk about her height!" Lulu screamed in a whisper.

Jinx's eyes looked at both of us, then mumbled something. Taking it as an agreement, we released her.

"Alright, never ever." She winked at Lulu who still had a worried expression on her face. "Anyway, where do you guys sleep? I can see the girl is only minutes from passing out." She pointed at the Lulu slowly stumbling towards the sofa.

Right, it was almost midnight… an hour ago.
I absentmindedly took the panoramic route to the house so Jinx could see some of the city, even if it was in it's sleeping state. The moon shined bright right above us, but I didn't pay any attention to what that meant. I was lost in my own thoughts, with the background sound of Jinx's conversation with Lulu.
Now I realize that the 'pick-up mission' started around 6 at noon, because of my unnacurate instructions and for being too cautious now the girls are exhausted.
That justifies Poppy's behavior, actually…

"Umm..." Jinx snapped me out of my self imposed lecture with a face that showed a tiny bit of awkwardness.

"The house has two wings, one on each side at the end of the room as you can see." Janna signalized after sharing an annoyed/worried glance at me. "You're going in one of the vacant rooms at the right side."

"Oh, thanks." She said looking back at her, then straightening her pose.

What is wrong with me? I've been spacing out all night. Thinking about all that nonsense...
I looked behind the Jinx in front of me, trying to forget my recent Shiro and… Kuro were sleeping on top of Lulu, who had been dozing off in the sofa a while ago, along with Pix.
"Looks like someones find the bed already." Jinx had turned out and was laughing at the same thing I had noticed.

When I was about to talk and call it a night, Jinx turned at me and asked first:
"Oh, yeah. Lu was speaking about this… school that you all go to." She said with expectation.

Right, that was what Lulu and her were talking about. No wonder why she was all excited, in Lulu's eyes Jinx was a new friend that just arrived, an early Christmas present. Sometimes her enthusiasm causes this kind of problems...

"Oh, right, about that… We usually give the newcomers a week to get used to everything. Not only because of them, but because of others. It's a priority to stay undercover, you see. And you still aren't able to detransform." I pointed at her Guardian uniform.

She tried before we departed from the landing zone, though. She failed, needless to say, but the process is kinda complex to be explained at that time so the rest of us did it, and guided a very strange dressed redhead through the city.

"Ah." She looked down at herself "But, what am I gonna do then?"

Until then… It was Thursday, so last school day was tomorrow.

"You're going to stay here, I'm… afraid. You need to wait for us until we return so we can properly show you the city and the school, hopefully."

"Oh..." She sounded dissapointed "Until-"

"Just tomorrow." I interrupted her. "Sorry." I softly apologized not sure if for leaving her alone, or my nervous unintentional rudeness.

"...Okay."

We looked at each other in silence for a couple of seconds, until Janna made a soft cough.

"Oh, uhm, Janna will show you your room. I'm sure you have other questions, but please leave them for tomorrow, we are tired..."

I am tired. And we all are supposed to be in school before 7.

"Right… thanks." She said regaining a little her usual self.

Janna gestured her to follow, and so she did after grabbing both of the sleeping fluff balls on top of Lulu.
She exchanged a couple of glances at me while traveling the small living room, until they left.

Why?

Then I realized I, in fact, slept in that side of the house too. At the farthest room.

Why did she had to sleep there?

I mean, I know why: I chose that side to be alone. Each wing has 3 rooms, the left one were Janna, Poppy and Lulu slept, and the most remote room in the right side were I stayed, selfishly trying to get some privacy, seeing that the walls, in their transparent nature, were almost non-existent.
Now let's hope she didn't choose the room right beside mines…

"And where does she sleep?" I heard Jinx's voice while I approached the corridor.

"That would be here." Answered Janna.

"Then I'll go here, te-he~" She said with a childish tone.

When I finally reached the corridor, I saw both of them standing in front of the sliding door of the middle.

"You have to be kidding me." I mumbled.

"Very well" Said Janna "Although we don't have any particular dorm policy, I ask you to be quiet, for we are tired, along it's late." She sighed before Jinx could answer, and I'm not sure whether of exasperation or relief, and headed towards her room not before giving a proper "Good night."

"S-Sure, 'night." She stammered, following Janna's mildly irritated face.

She lightly whispered "Don't murmur" while walking past me.

Both Jinx and I follow her with our gaze until the snap of the door sliding close ended the trance.

"Uhm" She spoke first "I guess you never should make her angry?"

"Yeah…" I mumbled "I mean, indeed." I turned to her, opened my mouth and hesitated before saying "Goodnight" and frantically rush to my room, leaving a dumbfounded Jinx behind me.

Once inside, I leaned into the door and sighed.

Why?

I took off my clothes and changed into more comfortable ones.

What happened today?

I continued towards my bed, and tumbled on it.

First, she arrived, and it was her face.

I rolled in my sheets and hugged my pillow.

Then, we walked through the city, and it was her voice.

I gave up on my fetal position and stared at the ceiling.

And last but not, ugh, least, we made it here, and I find myself bluntly staring at her for 3 solid seconds!
Why I can't stop thinking about her?!

Truth is, she was the reason why I was spacing every so often. And that would be just fine, if my worries were of a team leader-ish sort

Which they weren't.

I'm acting like a child… Imitating Janna's speech, acting like a 'leader'. I'm not a leader… I'm just the girl with the stupid connection to Prime.

I looked at the ceiling more intensely, eyes wide open with a little guilt.

Sorry, Prime Star… I just… Feel stupid

I frankly didn't know if Prime Star could directly hear me, but I always supposed she did, just to be sure.

I sighed, and closed my eyes, hoping some sleep will delay the problem.

But then the problem came to me.

"Uh, Lux?" I heard Jinx's soft voice from the wall and screamed at the top of my lungs. Mentally, of course.

"...Yeah?"

How come I can hear her? How can she hear me? The walls are that thin?

"Oh, good, you're awake. Uh, sorry, to bother you, but there's..."

"What is it?" I reluctantly sat at the edge of the bed and listened to her words.

"Uhm, see, I was going to sleep but, there's the uniform in the way."

I blinked, and turned towards the wall, which happened to frame her shadow: a slim figure with a noticeable Guardian uniform still on.

"And I guess you haven't figured out how to detransform." I stated annoyed.

"Well, yes. You said you would taught me later, but then again you said me to save the questions for tomorrow, but..."

"Right, sorry… I'm just tired. Okay, do you remember when you arrived? I know it wasn't too long ago, but I'm talking about that sensation just after you woke up, when you were pure Light."

"Uhm, I think I do."

"Okay, great. I'm sure you know we are nothing but light, and so are our uniform, it gets more complicated than that but for now you just need to think about that feeling to detransform, and viceversa."

"Okay..."

There was a short silence, and then a nervous laugh.

"Heh. Uh… Lux?"

"...Yes? Did you did it?" I could still see her uniform in the shadow.

"Uhm, not yet. It's just… It help if I remember the specific moment, right?"

"...If that helps you to recreate the sensation, yes."

"Right. The thing is, the first thing I saw when I woke up was you. Heh, crazy, right?"

Of course…

"So when I try to do this thing I… well, you get it.

I forgot to speak out loud and just said 'But what's the matter?' in my head.

"Uhm, kinda need your permission to think about you everytime I do this." She rushed.

...

I blushed, dumbfounded. But too tired to think about it.

"G-Go ahead."

"Nice."

There was a couple of seconds before a mildly intense bright shined through the wall. And shortly after an uniform-less shadow replaced its place.

Finally…

I didn't bothered to continue the conversation and just laid down in bed again, desperate to run away from…

Her.

But…

"Lux."

"Yes?"

"I think I did it good, but now I'm..."

"What happened?" I once again sat on the bed and stared at the wall.

"Are you supposed to be naked after the transformation? I saw you guys and-"

"No you aren't." I spat a little louder than I intended.

There it was. Effectively, her naked figure framed in the wall.

Her naked figure.

Wait, no.

I turned my head with a whiplash and added more blush to my face.

"That-t's b-because you hadn't any c-cloth when you transformed, because you just arrived, obviously, so, yeah."

"Oh. Then, what do I wear until then?"

"You, I-I'll, We'll have to buy you some clothing, soon."

"Tomorrow, I guess."

"Exactly."

"Kinda need it right now."

"Yes..."

"...Can you lend me some of yours, for tonight?"

"I… guess I can."

I stood up and searched something for her in the wardrobe at the right of my bed, opened the door besides it and stopped at her door.

"Uh… I'll leave the clothes here."

I quietly left the things in the floor in front of her room and entered mine.

I heard her opening the door and changing while I laid in bed staring at the ceiling trying not to look at the wall in front of me.

"This… is not yours." She said with the same tone when I told her she couldn't go to the school with us.

"What?" I asked still looking at the ceiling "Did you finish?"

"The shirt, it's not yours." She said ignoring my question.

"Oh, yeah, it's from a friend."

"Hum. From school?"

"Yeah."

There was another silence, and I almost fell asleep before hearing a flick, and the light from Jinx's room dissapearing.

"Uhm, thanks, for helping me. And sorry for bothering you."

"No problem." I said closing my eyes. "Good night."

"...'Night."

Author's Note:
There are a lot of 'Oh's and redundancy in this one, aren't there?
So, basically I had to wrote this whole thing again because I made the stupid mistake of writing directly in FanFiction's page. The internet went kapoot without me noticing and when I clicked 'submit' well, kill me.
Not liking how the conversation turned out but I hope the characters are on point. Hope you noticed where are we going, and I plan to use Jinx's POV in some chapters too, the next one for instance.
Please review, that helps a lot, and see you the next chapter.
Oh yeah, I update very inconsistently. I hope I will do it in a decent amount of time, eventually...