Searching through my century old Christmas ornaments, I finally found the most perfect one yet. It was a clay model of a panda, one of my favorites. The eyes were staring blankly at me and I smile, handing the ornament to Meilin, as she carefully put it on the freshly cut Christmas tree.

It was all perfect- Winter's tree, the ornaments, the lights, and even that star that always fell! Then-

"A- a- achoo!"

Disaster struck, right at the best moment, when all was perfect. Murphy's Law. And then Winter just had to come in the room. She looked broken. I couldn't blame her; I would of done the exact same thing in her place.

Conor tried on his best innocent face. "Whoops."

"He just sneezed! He was truly innocent! I will prove his absolute innocence! You see, he came in and-"

"Blah, blah, blah. Abeke, if you try defending your so-called innocent boyfriend for knocking down Winter's Christmas tree, we might as well just fall asleep," interrupted Meilin.

"He's not my-"

"Yes, of course he is," I said, smiling. "We all know that."

I just realized Winter was staring at us, like crazy. "I don't care who did what, just clean it up and say sorry to Alicio and I for breaking our ornaments."

"Okay," said Abeke, comepletly ignoring Winter. "To be honest, I don't like Conor. I like Shane."

There was an uncomfortable silence in the room.

Conor looked away, Meilin rolled her eyes, Rollan stared blankly and Winter-

"Who's Shane?"

"Well uh…"

"I'll tell you who he is! He is THE devil, Satin. He never did good and never will! He. Is. The. DEVOURER!" yelled Meilin, on top of her lungs.

Rollan tried to grab Meilin's waist and stop her, but she just kicked him in the stomach. With a muffled 'oof' he backed off from the insane Meilin.

"Meilin, maybe you should-"

"Maybe you should keep your mouth shut!" screamed Meilin, storming out of the room.

"Whoops…"

We all stared at the guilty Abeke, who was surely embarrassed. Even if she was guilty, I couldn't really blame her for liking Shane.

Conor on the other hand, was saying words that I would rather not write over here.

"It's okay, at least you smell a little better than Shane the dumpster. We've all been through this," said Rollan, sarcastically.

"YOU DIDN'T! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO IMPRESS LADY PANDA IS TO LOOK AT HER!" yelled Conor, uncharacteristically. "I'M OUT OF HERE!"

"Wait! You have to clean up this mess!" called Winter. "Don't you dare not come back!"

Abeke shrugged and walked out. "I'm not staying here with bird-brain."

Rollan grumbled and chased after Abeke, probably trying to kill her.

I looked around to see the whole mess Conor made. One thing's for sure, I did NOT want to clean this up. "Well, see ya later! Got to catch up to them!" I ran out of the room and chased after Abeke and Rollan, to make sure they didn't kill each other.

They were doing fine, or should I say not fine? At least they didn't have their weapons.

I ran the opposite direction, towards Meilin and Conor. Conor was crying and Meilin was stomping in circles, trying to curse Abeke for eternality. I knew they weren't going anywhere for a while, so I grabbed both of them by the arm and pulled them to the alien institute.

Yep, yep, yep, finally. I gonna be nice and… three reviews for the next chapter.