The following day, the remaining bloodline to the Edwards family awoke as they always did.
7:00 Rebecca's alarm goes off.
7:05 Rebecca got out of bed and gets dressed.
Rebecca was defiantly a morning person. As she climbed out of the bed her and Reba shared she stretched and began to hum a jaunty tune.
7:09 Rebecca helped Madge get ready for school
7:10 Reba's alarm went off. She turned it off and went back to sleep.
7:12 Rebecca attempted to kick Reba out of bed and when she got no response she went to eat breakfast with Madge.
7:20 Rebecca finished breakfast, tried to wake Reba up again and then went to brush her teeth and fix her hair.
7:27 Rebecca shook Reba violently, and then, sighing, walked Madge to school.
Madge's school was technically a daycare, but it worked primarily as a training school for meisters and weapons too young to attend the DWMA. It was run by the young swordsman Mifune, and even thought Rebecca thought he looked a bit severe, he seemed to have a general love for little kids- a fact she found only semi-creepy.
7:35 Reba wakes up and begins to panic.
If Rebecca was a morning person then Reba was defiantly not one. She jumped out of bed and began to run around into doors and walls- like a chicken with its head cut off.
7:40 Rebecca starts walking back from Madge's school. Reba scarfs down some breakfast.
7:45 Reba throws some clothes on, and frantically brushes her teeth and fixes her hair.
7:48 Reba goes to stand in front of their apartment building shifting her weight from foot to foot nervously.
7:49 Rebecca meets with Reba and they hurry to school.
7:59 Reba and Rebecca sprint to class.
8:00 School starts.
And for the rest of the day Reba tries not to fall asleep.
Today however, in the middle of class, the pair received an interesting proposition. And it came in the form of a paper ball bouncing off the back of Reba's head. She blinked sleepily and then slowly uncrumpled the paper. She read it, stared uncomprehendingly, slid it over to Rebecca, and then went back to half listening to Dr. Stein, half focusing on the giant screw in his head. She wondered what would happen if she tried to pull it out.
Rebecca glanced over at the paper and flattened it out.
It read in scratchy capital letters:
DEAR REBA AND REBECCA. WE SHOULD BATTLE. RIGHT HERE. RIGHT NOW.
-BLACKSTAR
Rebecca turned around to see Blackstar posing with one leg on the table, staring at her with determination. He then lifted up a piece of paper that read, "God wills it."
Dr. Stein dutifully ignored him.
She looked back at the note on her desk and noticed how his signature was much larger than the actual message. In fact, it was more just his name in giant letters with some words squeezed in around it. "What a narcissistic guy." She thought exasperatedly.
She quickly scribbled back a much less self-imposing message.
It went a bit like this:
Sorry! Reba's half asleep! Maybe later?
-Rebecca
She looked back up at him- he was still standing in the same position, even though now Tsubaki was tugging at his jacket in an attempt to make him sit down.
Rebecca tapped the desk of the boy who sat behind her to get his attention, and then handed the note to him. "Will you hand this too Blackstar?" The boy nodded and so she turned back around.
A few minutes of note taking went by before the peace was interrupted again.
"WHAT?"
Rebecca winced. Blackstar must have gotten her note.
Dr. Stein swiveled around in his chair. "Something to say to the class Blackstar?" He asked dryly.
The spiky haired boy nodded seriously. "Rebecca just rejected my invitation to do battle! I mean, I understand her fear of going against someone as awesome as me, but she should still do it!" He exclaimed, brandishing the paper.
Rebecca flushed and sunk into her seat. Reba stared at the wall blankly, unaware that she was being made an example out of.
Professor Stein turned back around and went back to writing on the chalkboard once more. "Good for her. She obviously has better things to do. Like writing down notes for class. Like you should be."
Blackstar fell back into his seat fuming. "But it just doesn't make sense!" He grumbled.
†††
It was still no better at lunch.
"Hey, you still sleepy?"
Reba yawned. "Yeah, but now I'm hungry too."
"I can tell, because your face is all like this. " She made her face go emotionless. "Duuuuuuuuur." She intoned.
"Huh? What? I don't do that!"
"Haha, well I'm hungry too, so lets go get some-"
"HEY!"
"Oh, great."
Blackstar sprinted towards them- Tsubaki following unwillingly. He sputtered to a stop. '"Hey! Will you fight my awesome self now?"
Rebecca looked longingly at the cafeteria. "But I'm hungry…"
He crossed his arms. "A true warrior doesn't put his battles on hold for food."
"A true warrior knows that Lunch is the most important meal of the day." Rebecca snapped back.
Reba looked confused. "But… I thought that breakfast was the most important meal of the day."
Rebecca elbowed her.
"Ow! What was-? …Oh sorry."
Blackstar looked triumphant.
Tsubaki smiled at the pair. "We actually just came here to invite you both to lunch with everyone. We all brought some, so there should be enough for everybody."
Reba looked starry eyed and tugged on Rebecca's sleeve, mumbling, "Hey, we should go."
Rebecca sweatdropped. "Oh now your all gung-ho about it." She grinned. "Well heck, I'll never turn down an invitation to eat something. We'll go." She turned to Blackstar. "But that doesn't mean I'm fighting you."
The assassin scowled.
††††
"Hey guys!" Maka called. The group was sitting on a large wool blanket nestled in between two trees. The vastness of the DWMA's school grounds never failed to impress Rebecca. "Glad you could get here before Ragnarok ate all the food."
Chrona gave a large sigh and ducked his head. "I'm sorry. He just won't listen to me."
Ragnarok snorted and gestured at Maka rudely. "You stupid brats, what's the point in waiting for people who might not even show up?" He got bored and started jamming his fingers up Chrona's nose.
Rebecca gave the group an apologetic look as she lowered herself to the ground. "Were you all waiting for us? I'm sorry."
Soul grinned. "Well we weren't sure if you'd actually show up after the scene this moron made in class." He punched Blackstar in the arm playfully. "Thought he might have scared you off."
"I don't scare that easily. Unlike some people." She looked at Reba pointedly.
Reba froze, another forkful of food stopping mid-air on way to her already full mouth. "Wot?" She said stuffily.
As everyone began to laugh she quickly swallowed. "I'm not scared!" Soul bared his sharp teeth at her. "…For the most part at least." She added, suppressing a shudder.
Rebecca chuckled again and glanced up to see Blackstar staring at her unblinkingly. She pointedly looked away. "You have to stop doing that. Your face will end up freezing that way."
She snuck a peek at him. There was no change.
She looked away.
She looked back.
He hadn't looked away, but he had proceeded to begin shoveling down food.
Rebecca shook her head. She had a feeling she would never understand the boy. "What are you doing now?"
"I'm challenging you." He did not stop his breakneck eating pace.
"You're challenging me to an eating competition?"
"Yes."
"What does that prove? The only prize you'll win from that is a stomach ache."
"I'm proving that I'm the bigger star here. That I am mightier in everything I attempt"
"If you say so…"
"I mean look," Blackstar stopped eating to point at Reba dramatically. "You're even trying to steal my family seal!"
Reba looked down at the bright yellow star on her sweatshirt. "Uh, actually…" She began, but Rebecca cut her off with irritation.
"What? Family seal? The only reason Reba has that on her shirt is because it's on the Edwards family crest! Look!" She grabbed Reba's choker necklace and pulled her forward.
"Ow! Hey!" Reba complained, but her cousin ignored her.
"See?" She showed him the pendant dangling from Reba's neck. It was a dark gray stone- the insignia a river of inlaid turquoise. The picture was of a star with roses intertwined around it. Beneath that were two coal black feathers- most likely set from onyx. Blackstar stared at it until Rebecca let go of Reba's neck and she pulled back. "Get it now?" Rebecca scowled.
Blackstar shrugged uncaringly. "Why were the feathers a different color from the rest of it?"
"Let's just say my family isn't a big fan of ravens." She said flatly. "It's sort of a long story but I don't really think you deserve to hear it right now. You know what?" She said,coming to a standing position. "You've been a real pain all day, so I think I'll take you up on that offer you made earlier."
Blackstar's eyes glittered with excitement and he jumped to his feet. "You'll fight me?"
"Yeah, pest, I will."
"Yahoo! I'll make you regret those words!"
Rebecca smirked. "I'm sure." She turned on her heel, her jacket fluttering out after her. "After school, I'm looking forward to it."
Reba grabbed her backpack and quickly stood. "Bye guys! Thank you for lunch!" She then chased after Rebecca, calling, "Hey! Wait up!"
After a pause, Soul grinned. "You really did it this time, idiot."
And yes! The title is sort of hinted at.
...Vaugly.
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