Akko stood silently next to Diana while the headmistress of Luna Nova spoke, she wasn't necessarily listening, mostly because her mind was buzzing at the thought that her lifelong dream to become a witch was finally coming true. She looked around and took in the appearance of all the other girls around her, their multicolored sashes, the pointed hats upon their heads, and then she looked down at her own clothing, her robe, the blue sash that wrapped around her waist, and a glance upwards confirmed a hat like the others' sat upon her head, a blue band, the same color as her sash, wrapped around it. A massive smile bubbled its way onto Akko's face as it once more dawned on her that she was going to be a witch. After calming slightly, she glanced to her right, and saw Diana, her nearest and dearest friend, the blonde wore exactly the same uniform Akko had, blue and all, as, per special request, (and a pushover staff), Diana and Akko were on the same team, which meant they were bunked together. Gazing just past her childhood friend she saw the other girl they would be sharing a room with, she had short ginger hair, and large circular glasses. Akko can't remember if she even heard the girl's name, but was certain that Diana would know it, and could tell her later.
Eventually the headmistress finished her speech and began to pack up and head out, Akko realized she hadn't listened to a word of it, and turned to Diana as she, and the other girls began to shuffle out of the auditorium.
"Soo... Did she say anything important?" The brunette questioned her friend. Diana's eyes gave away her feelings as they rolled ever so slightly.
"Akko..." The blonde sighed while pinching the bridge of her nose, before straightening up with a deep breath. "Other than her hopes and good wishes for our class, no, not really."
"Okay good, 'cause I didn't catch a word of it." Akko stated than smiled cheekily at Diana, who couldn't help but smile slightly and roll her eyes playfully.
"Come on," Diana began, "Our room's this way." The blonde then took a couple of longer strides in order to have a position of guidance for the group of three as they silently made their way to their dorm room.
Akko watched as Diana unlocked and opened the door to the room, the blonde witch entered first, while pulling out her wand. As the other two girls, Akko and the ginger, walked in, Akko could hear Diana cast a spell in a hushed whisper and watched as the room lit itself up. The room was rather spacious, in fact, it was far more spacious than Akko thought a dorm room should ever have been.
"Whoa! If the dorms look like this, I can't wait to see the classrooms!" Akko breathed out.
"They'll just be normal classrooms, and this isn't quite what all the dorms in Luna Nova look like." Diana explained.
"What'd'ya mean?" Akko asked.
"Well, even though I tried to decline it, the headmistress insisted that I, 'as the heir to the Cavendish family should stay in only the most prestigious of dorms Luna Nova had to offer.'" Diana explained, "They almost gave me this entire room to myself, until I got an actual compromise out of them." Diana finished.
"That's stupid!" Akko began, "Even though I feel bad that we get special treatment over the other students, I guess I can't necessarily complain. 'Don't look at a Christmas-mule's teeth' they say."
"D-Don't you mean 'don't look a gift-horse in the mouth?" The ginger timidly piped up, correcting Akko, while Diana gazed thankfully at her, saving the blonde from having to explain.
"You're right!" Akko stated, before turning to the ginger. "My names Akko by the way, what's your's?"
"Ah," The ginger began, twirling her fingers together for a moment, "My name's Lotte..." She mumbled after a second. Diana turned and smiled at Lotte.
"Nice to meet you Lotte, my name is Diana." The blonde reached out a hand to shake and the ginger timidly took it, then Lotte turned to Akko and offered the same hand, to which Akko enthusiastically shook with both of her own.
Akko woke to the smell of fresh tea, and knew that Diana must be up, sitting up and stretching, Akko looked around the unfamiliar room. As confusion started to set in, she looked to her bedside, and saw a witch hat with a blue band upon it, and the memories of the day before flooded back to her, and a flutter set through her heart. With a large smile plastered on her face, Akko followed the scent of tea and found that Diana was sitting on the L-shaped couch with her back turned to the two beds behind her. Akko's large smile turned from one of childlike giddiness, to that of a demon, with an ominous glint in her eye, Akko slid out from under the covers as silently as possible, using the soft clatter of the spoon Diana was using to stir her tea as cover, the brunette slunk from the side of her bed to the back of the couch, and, while knowing her cover wasn't blown, decided to strike. The moment Diana set her teacup down, Akko bent over the back of the couch, and wrapped her arms around Diana, startling the blonde.
"A-Akko!" Diana yelped, before remembering their other teammate, and quieting down. "W-What are you doing?"
"What?" Akko began, "Can't I give my best friend a hug from now and then?" She asked innocently, the devilish glint remaining in her eyes.
"Well... I-I mean..." Diana struggled to find the right words. Suddenly Akko pulled away from Diana, the blonde then turned to Akko, "Why did you..." She stopped, she blushed nearly the same shade of red as Akko's eyes, and turned back to her tea.
Akko stood stiff as a board, a blush strewn across her face, as she watched her ginger teammate stretch and reach for her glasses, the brunette waited for any accusing words to come from her, but none came. Lotte grabbed her glasses off the nightstand beside her bed, and put them on before turning to Akko.
"Is it morning already?" Lotte questioned, her voice slightly grainy from sleep.
"Ah," Akko began, while glancing at the clock that hung above the room's closet. "It's only about 4:30, you should get some rest before class."
"4:30? Why are you guys up so early?" Lotte asked, while taking her glasses off, and laying back down. "Wake me when you're done getting ready, or 7:00 by the latest." With that, she covered herself up to her chin, and seemingly went straight back to sleep.
Akko, walked around the shorter end of the couch and, took a seat adjacent to Diana, before pouring her own cup of tea, Akko added three cubes of sugar and a decent amount of cream. The two drank in silence, before Akko pushed herself to her feet, and threw a pair of sweatpants over her shorts, and put on some sneakers. Looking at the time, she saw that it was now 5:00, and with a small wave to Diana, Akko headed for the door, and left the room. Technically students weren't to leave their dorms until 6:30, but Akko was able to clear it with the teachers that she could get out and have her early morning jog, being adopted into the Cavendish family gave her an abundance of perks that she'd gladly take advantage of if the perk was only something minor, and a morning jog, that is the definition of minor. Why couldn't everyone just be allowed the morning to jog? Akko jogged for a decent amount of minutes before she saw a couple of figures up ahead. Speeding up to join them, Akko couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief at the sight of more joggers. Wait a minute, students can't go out running... When Akko caught up to the pair of joggers, they turned to see who joined them.
"A student?" The bluenette jogger questioned, "You shouldn't be out yet, students can't leave their dorms 'til-"
"Hey! It's that Kagari kid!" The shorter of the two women cut in with a bellowed greeting, while slowing enough to pat Akko on her back. "Glad to see you out and about, not just using the jogging time to sneak into town or what have ya." She laughed loudly and seemingly decided to keep the same pace as Akko.
"Wait a minute... Nelson, you know this student?" The bluenette asked.
"Know her? Nah, not at all, but she came into the office before the semester even began with Cavendish, and they both laid out some requests and got them accepted." Nelson explained, "This one here was raised in the Cavendish household, and is, in almost every sense of the word, a Cavendish herself!"
"Oh!" The bluenette started before slightly bowing as she ran, "I'm so sorry, I didn't know you were giv-" She was cut off abruptly as she tripped, and face-planted into the ground.
"Are you alright!?" Akko asked loudly, due to the shock of seeing someone fall as quickly as the professor did.
"Ursula here's had worse." Nelson said nonchalantly, hands resting behind her head, as she lazily kicked at the ground, waiting for the aforementioned bluenette to collect herself.
"Really?" Akko questioned, just then Ursula started climbing to her feet.
"It's okay, I'm fine." Ursula assured.
"It's about time we headed back anyways." Nelson commented, after pulling out a pocket watch.
The three walked together back toward the school, once arriving, Akko separated from the group, and headed for her dorm. The brunette opened the door, grabbed her uniform from the closet as well as a fresh towel, and headed for the dorm's bathroom to get ready.
Akko and Diana had aligned their schedules to make certain they shared every class, and it just so happened that Lotte's classes roughly lined up too, what with two oddities, but lunchtime eventually came around, and the three were to sit together to enjoy their meals. When Akko had grabbed her lunch she had to take a slight moment to recollect herself, as she wasn't quite expecting a plate of only various forms of potatoes. She did, however, thank the lunch faeries for the meal, before heading to her team.
"I didn't think lunches here would be anything like back at the manor, but c'mon!" Akko complained, before stuffing a large quantity of mashed potatoes into her mouth, then she lifted her hand to cover the view of her mouth before continuing, "Four servings of potatoes, four!" The brunette slightly rolled her head along with her eyes in an exaggerated movement, before moving her spoon in to get another bite, "At least they're all prepared differently."
Diana, who was sitting to the seat to the left of Akko, smiled slightly at her friends antics, while at a relaxed pace she scooped up her own spoonful of mashed potatoes. Lotte, who sat to Diana's left, and, to her displeasure, straight across from Akko, ate at the subdued pace Diana was, and watched on in morbid curiosity at Akko. The three sat around their table and made idle chatter as the lunch period went on, once finished eating the three headed for their dorm in order to grab their afternoon classes' materials, and the conversation died away. Diana and Akko split off from Lotte on their way to fourth period, as Lotte had chosen a different elective. Fourth period came and went, then the two made their way to their fifth period class, they passed by many groups of girls talking about their after school plans, as having a second elective was fully optional, and eventually the two finished up with their last class, and were free to do as they wished.
"Hey Diana?" Akko began, as the two made their way back to their dorm, she got a short hum of acknowledgement from the blonde in response, "When we study tonight can we have some tea?" The brunette asked hopefully.
"Akko, you know we can't bring tea into the library-" Diana began before Akko cut in energetically.
"Ah c'mon! You're a Cavendish, and I was raised along side you, what can they even do, punish us? Pssh, they wouldn't even try!" The brunette reasoned, to which diana pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed.
"Akko. No." The blonde stated plainly, then lifted her finger as Akko opened her mouth to retort, "Just because we have the ability to do something without repercussion, doesn't mean we should. Do you want to tarnish the Cavendish name any more than it has been already?" The question struck Akko, and she looked down dejectedly.
"No..." She muttered.
"Then don't suggest tossing rules aside just because we can." The blonde angrily suggested.
"Sorry." Akko apologized, then perked up as they neared the room, "But that doesn't mean we can't have some tea before we study." Diana seemed to relax a little, and couldn't help but smile softly at her friend's deduction.
"You're right, we'll have some tea, then head to the library." The blonde conceded.
"Hell yeah!" Akko cheered, pumping a fist in the air, to which Diana face palmed.
"Language!" The blonde chided, as the pair made it to their dorm, and headed inside.