Pretty short chapter haha, I'll try to get more time to make longer ones for the remaining of the story. I will be changing POV's in each chapter just so you know.

Mercedes heard her doorbell ring, she opened the door and found that Aran was there with her school bag.

"Good morning Aran."

"Morning, wanna walk to school together?"

"Sure, let me just get my things."

As they walked together to school they saw Freud and Luminous also walking together. Freud noticed Mercedes behind him, he smiled and waved. Mercedes waved back and turned her face away and saw that Aran was grinning at her.

"What?"

"You liiikkeee him don't you?" Aran teased.

"Don't be so dumb!" Mercedes angrily but quietly whispered.

Aran laughed and continued their walk to school.

As Mercedes sat down she saw Freud reading a book at his desk with glasses on, his expression looked so focused. He's so cute like that! Mercedes thought to herself. She saw Luminous walking towards Freud, they talked for a bit and saw Freud nod. He then walked to Mercedes.

"Hey Mercedes, wanna work on the project we were assigned?"

"Um yeah sure, is Aran gonna help too?"

"Yeah, I already asked her."

"But this is a 5 group member project whose gonna be the fifth?"

"Aran said there was some friend of hers that could help."

"I wonder who he could be."

Luminous shrugged. As the school bell rang everyone took their seats and class had begun.

~AFTER CLASS~

Mercedes stretched her arms out and gave a yawn. "Tired eh?" A voice came out. She turned around to discover Freud was behind her and just smiled.

"Want to eat lunch together? Don't worry I brought my own lunch this time," Freud laughed.

Mercedes laughed and accepted. They went to the tree where she and Aran first met Freud.

Mercedes noticed an odd mark on Freud's hand.

"Hey Freud, what's that mark on your hand?"

"Oh um… It just appeared on my hand suddenly like 4 years ago, I never bothered to figure out what it was."

"Oh."

Freud and Mercedes had a long conversation until they heard something. Freud had an alerted face and looked around the yard. Mercedes had did the same and suddenly a figure popped out of the tree from above hanging from a branch.

"BOO!"

Mercedes jumped and wrapped her arms around Freud's left arm. Freud was eventually slowly blushing.

"Aran that's not funny!" he shouted.

The prankster was laughing, still hanging on the branch. She loosened her legs and drop to the floor doing a handstand pose then going to a standing position. Mercedes stood up and started hitting her arm, Aran gave out painful cries.

"Never do that again, or else," Mercedes threatened.

"Y-yeah okay…" Aran agreed with a black eye.

"Uh uh…a-ah so when are we going to meet that fifth guy that's gonna help us with the project?" Freud stuttered thinking of a way to change the subject.

"Probably tomorrow and warning he might steal anything that's appealing to him," Aran said while rubbing her eye.

Mercedes had to wonder…what did he look like? She'll have to find out tomorrow. She looked at Freud who seemed to be daydreaming. Mercedes flicked her fingers at his head. "Ow! Why'd you do that?" Freud angrily asked. Mercedes could only laugh at the reaction. She spotted Aran grinning at her again. Mercedes gave a glare that could scare away an army of cops. "You really want another black eye don't you?"