As they approached form Ben looked over his shoulder to see a long dark cape in lined with a red trimming disappear round a corner. He ignored this although puzzled, entered the room. Ami and Mina sat down next to him on the 2nd to end bench while Emily, as normally turned around to the same desk, but on the other side. Still the idea of this dark figure interested him, he only suspected one person, tuxedo mask. But how could this be. He didn't come through the time warp, as he was not present at the battle. Could he be contacting us telepathically? What would he want? Ben was determined to come to the bottom of this. He explained what happened to Ami, Mina and Emily as they walked to Maths, they were also confused but interested at the idea of tuxedo mask being here. Maths was tedious for all of them; this was except for Ami of course. She was, well a whiz at maths, and most other subject. Ben found her quite intriguing. He found her to be mature in her own way, that she was a person whom you could have an intelligent conversation with. This was the sort of person he got on with. Emily could get on with most people who weren't to egotistic or bigheaded. She was quite patient with people she could tolerate and was quite respectable of others beliefs and views. As the math class droned on and finally finished to all there relief they left for the second lesson, which happened to be chemistry. Serena and Lita were in the other class. Out of the window of the science door they could see and hear a small explosion which was later found out to be a flask Serena blew up by mixing the wrong chemicals. They sniggered but got back to work. As Mina looked up from her desk out of the corner of her eye she saw a black cape disappear just as quickly as it appeared in the science lobby. It was gone before she could turn around to tell anyone. Later during break, the friends met up outside the bike sheds near the music rooms. Serena said she also saw, as she said "Mamochan". Anyway nothing could be done now as Serena munched into a packet of crisps. Mina, who was always looking out for others had prepared tea in a flask earlier and they went and sat down in the dining room and drank it to help it warmed them up. It happened to be just before the Xmas hols and they were quite thankful that the cold weather in the early mornings wouldn't have to be bared for long. Most thankful for this was Serena who wasn't exactly the best person at waking up in the mornings. Hotaru was adapting well into her classes. She became good friends with Rosario, a nice person Ben was good friends with. Although she was getting on well, he could not help checking up on her to make sure she was ok. He wasn't quite sure why he liked Hotaru. He knew that she was, well in the anime and was his favourite character but... Well I guess he felt some sort of responsibility for her. He enjoyed spending time with her, talking to her. Him and Emma( his girlfriend) were invited to Michelle and Amara's place for dinner that night. Setsuna had picked them up from school after doing the shopping and went back to their place. Ben enjoyed the décor of both houses. They both had their own unique appearance. The table in the living room was quite large and adequate to fit all the people around for eating. Emma had to leave soon after the dinner, it was getting late, about 10pm, Ben was about to go home but they offered for him to stay that night. He was quite happy to. He stayed at Setsuna's house. They had a spare room there. And the purple, which was his favourite colour was most distinguishable in that room.

As the morning broke they all woke up tired of course. Serena quite unwilling to get up had to be forced out of bed. It took almost all of them to get her out of bed. It ended up having to but cold ice cubes down her back. YEEOOUUUWCCCCHHHH.... That's cold, screamed Serena as loud as possible. Gees, why don't you scream a bit louder the people down the road didn't quite hear, replied Rei. As they reached the bus stop, meeting Emily they were discussing what to do during the weekend. Nobody could quite decide but it was agreed in the end to go clothes shopping. After all thay did have a lot of money now. As the bus pulled up they were able to get out of the cold weather onto a still cold but warmer bus.