"Oh come one Ash; it's not as bad you're making it sound," Pan whined. "Pan, I will never help you pick up chicks," Ash growled at him. "Ubububub. Not chicks Ash. I am only trying to pick up a chick. Huge difference right there," Pan said clearly defining what he was talking. "Thanks for the clarification ass, but I am still not going to help you pick up the chick who kicked your ass last week," the irritation was plain on her face, and either Pan was too stupid to see it or was just too in his own world to notice. I look over at Soos, who was currently doing push ups, and he looked over at me and shook his head. I sigh as I think over what had happened this past week. Pan had tried to smooth talk Ran, but she was pissed at the fact that he had thought that she was a he. So she had cup checked him and walked away. It probably didn't help when he had tried to explain himself and had accidently called her "mate" again. On the brighter side of things though, Susanoo had started to hang out with us more. He still is creepily silent. I'm brought out of daydreaming by the sound of Ash cup-checking Pan. I shake my head as he writhes on the ground. He really needs to learn when to take a hint. I gaze over to Soos who has taken his usual place against the wall. "Dude why don't you just use your bed. I can't really imagine that leaning against a wall is all that comfortable," I say. At that he quirks an eyebrow at me. "I am not used to sleeping in a bed. I much prefer this way. It has familiarity to it," he replied with a wistful tone in his voice. "And that sounded extremely cryptic dude. Are you going to explain any part of that?" "Probably not." "Of course," I rub my head, and I can hear Ash giggle at that. Wacky, though she might just be laughing at Pan's continuing misfortune. It is kind of funny. After that all calmed down it was time for us to call it a night. Pan mumbled about how his balls were still in pain, and Ash immediately responded with telling him to stop whining at her.
In the morning I was woken up to a surprise. I had overslept, and this hadn't happened in a long time. When I blinked myself awake, I noticed that most of the team was missing. Only Susanoo was here, and with him he brought a guest. Susanoo was quietly conversing with Banan at our table. They kept their voices low enough that I could barely hear what they were talking about. When I began to get up, they both immediately stopped talking, and Banan got up to leave. "You don't have to leave because of me," I say hoping I didn't interrupt something important. "It's perfectly fine. We had just finished," the albino replied almost immediately. I walked over to the table as he left. When I walked over to the table, something pricked my foot. As I hopped on my other foot, I picked up my wounded foot to see what had caused the damage. It was a white feather, where the hell did a white feather come from. When I looked over to Susanoo, he shook his head at me as he took a drink from his mug. "Any breakfast left?" I question him with a grumble. He pointed over to a plate of cool waffles. I grab the plate and begin my feast. "Where are (gulp) Ash and Pan?" I say between bites. "They have gone down to Pan's families store," he replied. "His family owns a store down in the city?" I ask after I finish off the waffles. "Apparently so," he responds. He then gets up and prepares to head out. "Where you off to?" I ask. He slumps as he responds. "I am off to meet with Rena. She demanded that we spent this day off together." "So just you and your lady love huh," I smirk as I can just feel him scowl at that. And in response to that he just walked out the door. I chuckle to myself as I twirl the feather in my hand. Now what am I going to do? I begin to focus on the feather hoping that it would distract me. Where in the world did a white feather come from.
Any train of thought I had was dashed by my scroll ringing. And imagine my surprise to find that it was none other than my twin sister Whitney. "Sup Whit, how goes the eldest of my younger siblings," when I hear the groan from the other end I smile. "Wasp you have got to stop saying that joke. It wasn't even funny the first time you said it," god it is good to hear from her. "I know I know. How are things on the home front?" it takes her a second before she answers. "Eh things are okay here, everyone still misses you, and dad is still as quiet as ever, " I begin to laugh a little at that. "Good to here that some things will never really change." "Yeah, now how are things on your end bro. Have you finally gotten yourself a girlfriend?" I can hear her maniacal laughter on the other side of the phone. "Ha ha very funny sis. And things are going pretty good at Beacon. I have a pretty good team, though they are all kind of crazy. And to answer your question no I don't have a girlfriend, but there is a girl that has caught my eye," I feel myself blush when I say that last part. "Oh ho is that right brother of mine tell me all about her," I can hear the need for gossip in her voice. "Nah, I'll tell you about her later sis." "Ugh tease." I smirk a little at that, I have missed this. "How goes your studies miss future CEO of Gurren Mining Co Company," I can hear her sigh at that. "They're going alright, though I can feel Dad starting to breathe down my neck. Ever since Schnee has started has started horning in more in Vacuo, we've been losing profit. So yeah, things are going alright." "Oh shit, I'm sorry Whitney I had no idea. Though knowing you and Dad everything will be fine," I think my words cheered her up a little bit. "Yeah I know. Hey does anyone know about the company on your side of the world?" I know what she really meant when she asked. "No one knows, and I am pretty happy about that," I don't want them to know. "You're going to have to tell them eventually Wasp. Your team probably deserves to know." "I know, but one of them has more secrets than just that. I don't need to tell them." I say making up numerous excuses. "Walter," Man I hate when she sounds like Mom. "I know, and don't worry about me. Things will be alright." I can just imagine her smile at that. "I know bro, but I have to go help Mom with something so I will call you later. Stay safe," and with that she hung up. I look sadly at the phone for a solid minute before I gaze out the window. I hate to admit it, but I am just a tad bit homesick.
I quickly shake off the feeling though. No need to dwell on that. And with that distraction out of the way, I need to find something else to do. So I began to walk around the campus, and it was going great. Until I accidently walked into someone and they spilled their hot coffee all over themselves. "What the hell man. This shirt was brand new," came from the pissed off chic chick. Fucking great it's Adel. "Sorry Adel, it was an accident," Personally I don't care that much, but this is Coco we're talking about she cares about her clothes like they were her own family. "That's not going to cut it Gurren," she said glaring at me. "Fine, I will buy you a new one if you get off my back. How much did those rags cost?" God she is making me mad. "RAGS, this shirt cost over six-hundred lien. So pay up drill-head, if you even can," and now she's even madder than I am. "Your damn right I can, in fact I could buy three of them right now," at that we literally started butting heads with each other. While we were glaring at each other, Coco dumped the rest of her coffee onto my shoes, "Goddamn it Adel these shoes cost five-hundred lien," as I reached down to try to clean them off, I felt something tug off, only to realize that she had taken off my scarf. I instantly became even more furious than I should have been. I tackled her to the ground, which in hindsight wasn't the best of ideas in hindsight. We grappled on the ground for a little while, and all the while we were ripping into each others clothing. To anybody walking by we probably looked like quarrelling children. This went on for a good two minutes until Coco's big strong teammate picked us both up, and it was kind of impressive how he held both of us one handedly. He and Velvet were probably walking around nearby, and had caught us in our scuffle. As Velvet was talking with Coco trying to figure out what had happened, I, on the other hand, was in the iron grip of Yatsuhashi. God how buff was this guy, I thought as I tried to wriggle out of his grasp. That went on for about another minute or so until Velvet nodded towards Yatsuhashi. I faceplanted onto the ground when he dropped me, not really a highlight for my pride. "Can you please tell me your side of the story Walter. I want to know what happened," Velvet asked. "It's pretty simple Velvet. I was going on a midday stroll when your leader walked into me, which knocked her coffee into her own shirt. While I tried to be a perfect gentleman about the whole thing, I mean I even offered to replace her tacky shirt-" "TACKY," Coco yelled at me and tried vigorously to swipe at me, which she was thankfully held back by Yatsuhashi. "Now as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted, she then began to argue with me about how bad her shirt was, and how I could totally afford to buy her a new one. And then as we began to butt heads, she aggressively spilled her drink on my designer shoes, which was totally uncalled for. Now I was trying to let it go and so I began to try and clean off my shoes, and then she viciously tore off my scarf like a savage cavewoman with a terrible taste in shoes," I glance over to see Coco fuming at me, and that felt kind of good. "And then you ran into as we got into a squabble, and here we are ten years later." She groaned at that one.
Girls seem to do that a lot when I make a joke these days, Pan's probably rubbing off on me. "Since you said that you would pay for her shirt, how about you do that and then shake hands and make up, okay," Velvet said staring at me with her precious innocent eyes. "Fine, but first I want my scarf back," my neck started to itch without the usual cloth there. "Fine, but why did you tackle me when I took it from you. It doesn't really seem that expensive," Coco said with a raised eyebrow as she peered at the scarf over her sunglasses. "It was a going away present from my mother," I immediately respond. "Neat," she responds as she throws it into my face. She then plucked my wallet out of my hand, and then took out the money she needed for a new shirt. "Tootles Walter," Coco said as she and the rest of her team sauntered off. Velvet waved back as they rounded a corner. Figuring that that was the end of that, I went over to the courtyard where I was surprised to see Susanoo, but not with the person I was expecting. Instead of being with the lovely Renata, he was instead sitting with Professor Port talking about something. Soos seemed to be in a good mood, heck he even had a small smile on his face as he listened to one of the Professors stories. I suddenly felt very out of place there so I began to walk back the dorms, might take a nap. As I stroll back to the dormitory, I hear a familiar laughter. As I turn around, I see Cherry with her team. When I saw her I could feel my stomach drop, god she is beautiful. She looks up from her friends when she notices me and gives me a slight smile and wave. I returned it albeit a little meekly, god she makes me nervous. After that awkward exchange, she looked back to her group and resumed her conversation. So I begin to walk back to what I was originally going for, my dorm room. Hopefully I can just get back there and take a nap before I bump into somebody else. I sigh and I begin to space out a little bit as I continue my journey. Unfortunately it seems that I have angered some sort of god as I ran into Ran. Man that was really weird to think. "Hey, what's up?" I say secretly hoping that she just keeps moving. Unfortunately she did not. "Doing alright. Hey, what's up with your goofy friend. He won't stop pestering me for some reason," I can't tell if this girl is being serious or not, her blank expression doesn't really help me at all. "I think that he's just trying to be friendly," hopefully I can play this smooth and not ruin Pan's chances. "What a weird way to be friendly. Did you know he called me mate five times we last talked and each time he corrected himself. It was kind of weird," I stare at her with most dumbfounded expression I had.
Did Pan even have a chance to actually get with this chick, because from what I just heard he has much of a chance of getting with this girl as the moon has of being whole again. After that we stood together for a few more moments of awkward silence before she finally just meandered away while giving me a small wave. I sigh as I wave back. Today has been a strange day. I wonder how Pan and Ash did in Vale, and how they could stand each other the whole time. Eh questions for later. As I finally got into the dorm room, I was surprised to find Susanoo there looking at a picture of something. When he noticed me, he immediately put the photo away. "What was that?" I asked him, and really hoping for a breakthrough. "A memory of a mistake that was made," he responded with a glimmer of sadness and nostalgia. I don't ask anymore about it, he probably wouldn't answer me anyway. After that awkward conversation, we were saved from more silence by the timely arrival of Ash and Pan, with their arms loaded with goodies from their trip. Soos got up and went over towards the kitchenette. "Did you get what I asked for?" Soos asked Pan. "Yeah mate. Don't really know what you needed cake mix for, but it doesn't compare to what I got," Pan said pulling out two things out of his bag: one he handed to Susanoo, and the other he showed me. "Grimm Puncher 5: The Grimmpocalypse. I've been so psyched to get this Mate," Pan said hugging the game to his chest before a thought struck him. "I wonder if Ran likes video games," He said stroking his chin. Deciding that I didn't want to step into that minefield I went over to Susanoo. I looked over to see if Pan was actually telling the truth about what he had gotten him, and sure enough there was a box of cake mix. "Any reason you needed cake," I ask with real curiosity in my voice. He gave me a quick look before he responded, "The day is arriving soon." Before I could ask for any clarification about what he just said, Pan pulled both me and Ash over to play the game, and I've got to admit that it was pretty good. We played that for a good while until we all just slowly but surely just collapsed onto our beds, except for Soos who leaned against his wall like usual. Today was a good day, are the last words I think before I drift off.
