Fia shyly approached her friend of two years. "Hi, Angel."

The white-haired girl looked up at her timid friend. "Hello, Tsu-chan." Haven gave Fia a questioning look. Usually, the girl was only shy towards other people. She thought they had gotten past this barrier after the first year of knowing each other.

Fia blushed. "I was wondering… I wanted to ask you since we're going to be roommates next year… If you'd mind me putting up glow-in-the-dark stars in the apartment.

"Why are you asking me this?" Haven asked. "We're practically already roommates."

"Yes, but I haven't actually put any of my stuff in your room, and I was hoping the stars could cover the whole ceiling," she explained. "So, what do you think?" Hope was written all over the girl's face.

"I think that stars could be nice," Haven replied with a slight smile.

"Really? I'll get working on them right away!" Fia radiated with happiness as she bounded off in a hurry.

"Did she just say that she would work on them?" Haven inquired.

"I think so," a voice answered from her laptop screen. "Are glow-in-the-dark stars not buyable?"

"They are," Haven said as she tucked her hair behind her ears and turned back to her computer. She shrugged. "Tsu-chan is just being herself. "Now, where were we, Mr. Robo?"


Finishing buttoning up her lab coat and tightening the straps on her goggles, Fia smiled. Her entire mini-lab was set out on the table in front of her. Chemicals bubbled in greeting and water dripped rhythmically, the heartbeat of her entire operation.

"The fundamental science of bioluminescence!" she cheered. "On today's show," she announced to the empty room, "I'll show you kids how to make things bioluminescent!" Fia held up a glow stick like a model might. "That means this can glow in the dark, but I'm not here to show you some elementary highlighter trick - I'm going to show you how animals in the WILD bioluminesce! Now, isn't THAT exciting? Don't worry, though, I only plan to use this on some good, old-fashioned plastic stars," she giggled. "Shall we begin?"

Fia carefully and dutifully began mixing chemicals and creating compounds. Just because she liked to be cautious and because she loved chemistry so much, Fia took an extra amount of time before addressing her 'audience' again. "Oxygen, that is to say O2, will be our reactant. We need to catalyze the ATP-dependent decarboxylation of luciferin - " she began.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. A boy dressed in a blue and brown hoodie with game controllers hanging from around his shoulders turned the doorknob and stuck his head through the door. "Hey, Fia!" he called. "What are you doing?"

Fia frowned. "Ah-ah-ah. Goggles must be worn at all times in the lab - "

"This is your room - "

"The same goes for closed-toes shoes and rolling long sleeves back - "

"Already done, I - "

"And tying back long hair - "

"Does it look like I have that problem?"

"No smelling or touching or consuming any chemicals - "

"Fia - "

"Or catching falling sharp objects, or sticking things into outlets - "

"FIA!"

"S-Sorry," Fia said with nervous laughter. "Did you need something?" She gingerly placed a green beaker on the demonstration table, a.k.a. her desk.

"Nothing much," Benny admitted. He put down his backpack by the door and walked over to see what she was working on. "What's all this?"

Fia smiled. "Oh, just a little something for Haven and I. It's done, and the next time she sees it, I'm going to make it rain down on her!" Fia giggled, imagining how pretty the light would be as it drifted down from the ceiling and diffused throughout their shared bedroom.

"What's it supposed to do?"

"Make her glow~!" Fia winked as she began putting away her chemicals and taking off her lab equipment. As she tidied up, Fia's phone began playing 'O Sole Mio' and she ran over to grab it. "Benny! I'm running late for class - can you put the beaker in the cabinet behind you?" Fia waved as she ran out the door.

He looked to the beaker on the table and grabbed it. Staring at the green liquid, Benny sweat-dropped. Fia wouldn't mind if he borrowed it for a little while, right?


"Haven!"

After typing a few more lines of code, Haven shut her computer. Without needing to look up, she said "Hello, Benny."

Carefully balancing the beaker in his hand, Benny ran up to Haven with a grin. "I have a surprise for you, Haven!"

"What is it?" she asked. "I'm a little busy at the moment."

Benny tried frantically to keep her there. "It'll only take a minute! Ta-da!" he cheered as he brought the beaker to her face. She shot him a questioning look. "I, um, let's see. I think I'm supposed to sprinkle this on you?" Benny dribbled the liquid a little bit over Haven's hair.

She scrunched her face up as the warm chemicals ran through her white hair and down her face in green streaks. "Benny," she warned with a cold voice.

"S-Sorry," he apologized immediately, intimidated by Haven's black-as-coal glare. "I thought Fia's surprise would make you happy."

"Did you say Fia made this…?" Haven asked, her eyes growing wide.

"Yeah?" Benny replied.

"Why do you have FIA'S concoction?!" she exclaimed. "You know how dangerous that is?" Haven held her hand open expectantly.

"BENNY?!"

The brunette turned to see Fia running towards them with a dismayed facial expression. Benny, however, slipped on some of the chemical residue that had dripped from Haven's hair to the floor and fell. Fia tried to stop as quickly as she could but, being as clumsy as she was, she also tripped.

Haven sighed as she surveyed the scene. Benny had somehow ended up with his butt in the air several feet away. Fia, by contrast, was covered with the green goop that had been in the beaker. She looked like she was torn between crying and laughing.

"Are you alright, Tsu-chan?" Haven asked as she helped Fia to her feet.

"Oh, yeah. I'm positively glowing with happiness," Fia said sarcastically.

"What do you mean, Tsu-chan? What was in the beaker?"

It was as Haven turned off the lights to sleep that night that she noticed something. Approaching the mirror attached to the back of her dorm room door, Haven inspected her appearance. As if being completely snow white wasn't bad enough, her hair and face were glowing in long streaks.

"... TSU-CHAN!"

Fia tossed in turned in her bed. She felt as if someone were cursing her and she couldn't sleep, but maybe that was just because her body was shining brighter than the lights in her room ever could. Recalculating the solution strength in her head, Fia rolled over to hug her pillow and began to count glow-in-the-dark sheep as she drifted off to sleep.

Needless to say, Benny felt so guilty that he avoided them both for the next week.


Narrator: So, this is my special treat to you readers for being unable to post as often soon. However, before school really starts to get to me, I'm going to try to post as much as I can over the next few days!