Chapter 2: Spa.Bubbles.Food.Fuzzy Blue-ness? The girls got out of the van, and quickly agreed to meet in the spa in about 10 minutes. Around 7 p.m. all 7 girls assembled in the spa, each bearing food, and began to talk about the day. Renata then asked: "Hey guys, I know this is random, but I had THE weirdest dream a coupla months ago. Care to interpret it for me? I mean, since Leena wants to be a psychologist and all." Renata proceeded to describe her random dream. It dealt with the Middle Ages, and Belgium, and Lord knows what else. When she was done, the girls gave her odd looks but began to think about the possible meanings of her dream. At a pause in the discussion of the dream, the freshman randomly said: "Nata...go get some more food...not chips cause they're gross but I want the watermelon...Please?" Renata got out of the pool and walked over to the table where everyone placed some food. She dried her hands with her towel, forgetting about her watch. Sherry, jumping out of her revere, looked at Renata. There was something different about her... definitely something different about her. She could not quite place it. "Uhm... Renata, are you okay?" Sabrina looked at Nata and sunk even lower than she already was, sitting in the spa. Her face wore a confused expression, and she looked about ready to faint. Cassie looked up from the bubbles. As usual she was fazing in and out of the convo. She looked up at the mention of more food, then at the person getting the food. Only the person getting the food was fuzzy. "I think I had one too many cokes." She blinked a few times, looked again, yet the person was still fuzzy. "What the shit? Why are people getting fuzzy?!" she pondered if maybe it was the voices, playing tricks on her, then decided she didn't care because the food was there. Leena stopped psychoanalyzing for the moment at the mention of a psychosis. "There are no fuzzy people. What are you talking about?" she looked up, stared, blinked, and her jaw dropped like a rock. "Close your mouth Leen, your catching flies," Nik retorted. She grinned, looking at Cassie for some sort of dirty response, but none was forthcoming. "What are you guys all st--- woah! Fuzzy!" and Nik promptly fell over in the pool Krista was still thinking about possible reasons for stuff in the dream. She was drawing a blank, and decided to ask Nata for some food as well, since she was up. She looked up, opened her mouth for a request, saw the fuzziness... and returned back to analyzing the dream Renata turned and looked at Sherry to respond to her question. "Yes I'm feeli--" She drifted off when she saw the stricken expressions in her friend's faces. Oh NO! She thought. Please not here, not here. She looked down at her hand and saw it was blue and fuzzy. Oh my Lord! She thought. This can't be happening. Now that they know the real me.it's over. She racked her mind for things to do. Maybe if she ported, yes, that could work. No, it would leave them asking questions. She started to climb up a wall. Maybe if she blended in enough with the shadows, everyone would conclude that it was the psychosis. Renata was halfway up the hotel wall and pretty well hidden when Sabrina ran up to the wall. "Nata...come down" she called...erm...half whispered in fear of getting in trouble. "It's OK really...Look!" she continued and proceeded to phase her arm through the solid wall of the hotel. Renata looked down in awe at Sabrina. She climbed down and look at Sabrina. "So, it doesn't bother you that erm, I look like this? I mean, I have a TAIL for pete's sake!" She swished her tail at Sabrina. "No, actually it doesn't bother me at all. I have a relative that has horns for crying out loud. An image inducer I assume?" Sabrina told Renata. "Yeah, a holographic inducer. That's why I didn't shake the ally's hand. He woulda felt the fuzziness of my hand. So...you guys really don't care?" Renata still felt unsure about her appearance. "Not at all...I mean...look what I can do," said Sabrina as she phased through Nata. "HEY! You're invading my personal space!" It finally dawned on Sherry. "Ah! Yes! That's what's wrong with this picture! Renata is blue and fuzzy... odd as it may seem, it's rather cool." "Ok, we have one blue fuzzy one, one creepy freshman... and I still have no food! There's something wrong with this picture, isn't there?" She looked to Sherry for affirmation that it was indeed unjust not having food. Renata felt bad for leaving Cassie hanging, so she picked up some food and ported to her in the spa. "Quick enough for you Cas?" Cassie stared, blinked, then ate the food. "Food is food, whether transported by fuzzy person or no..." and she was appeased for the moment.