A/N: Hey guys :) Thanks to my usual reviewers and my new ones :D As usual you guys make my day ;) I've started replying to your reviews because my A/N would be waay too long if I said everything I wanted to say to you guys :)

I made some slight vocab/grammar mistakes in the last chapter, and I've fixed them :D

Sorry for not updating in forever, I've been totally busy and I'm also developing some new fanfics. I'm going to discontinue some of them now, though, so I'll have more time to write on this one. And tada!~ A new chapter! Hope you enjoy! ;) (Crystal's looks are loosely based on my pretty friend :D)

"Look!"

Col, Connie, Rat and Jane immediately looked in the direction of where Anneena was pointing. A girl leaned on the fence, staring into space, obviously deep in thought. Her brown hair had been swept to lie on her right shoulder. Even from far away, her long eyelashes framed her sparkling mismatched eyes. She was slightly bouncing on her feet, looking anxious and eager.

"Crystal?"

She looked older and more mature, somehow. But the sparkle in her eyes betrayed her, showing the excitable bubbly girl she seemed to be when they first met.

"You know her?" Anneena asked Col, flabbergasted.

"She's in the Society," Connie explained. "She just moved here, though."

"It must be really tough for her, then, having to start all over," Jane nodded sympathetically.

"So where's she going to school at?" Anneena asked curiously.

"I dunno," Col shrugged. "Probably here? But she'll probably come later, you know, to adjust in her home and all that."

"Hi!" Crystal had just noticed them. "Col! Connie!"

She bounced up to them and waved enthusiastically. Then she smiled, slightly uncertainly, at the rest, waving and introducing herself.

"Rat," Rat grinned, giving her a high-five.

"I'm Anneena, and this is Jane," Anneena introduced, curiously gazing at Crystal, trying to determine her character. Then, deciding she liked her, Anneena beamed. "There's a lot to know about school and our little town. We should get together one day, and I'll fill you in!"

"Well…" Crystal began uncertainly as Anneena started babbling on. "I came here to ask Col something."

"What?" Anneena's gaze suddenly sharpened, staring at Crystal doubtfully, then giving Connie a rather odd look, which made her feel very uncomfortable.

"I need training lessons," Crystal explained, now directing her attention to Col as well, "for Cloudless, since Col's really good on his, erm, horse."

Anneena looked slightly confused, but seemed less suspicious.

"You've got a horse, too?" Jane asked, smiling.

"Kind of," Crystal replied, cocking her head to her right. "I kind of have to borrow Cloudless, but she's just as good as mine, practically."

"Pegasus?" Rat whispered to Connie, and she nodded in reply. Col frowned slightly when he saw Rat leaning towards Connie, but went back to normal when Rat stopped whispering in her ear.

"Sure," Col nodded. "Why not? We could meet one day after school or something. Sunday would be good."

"Is Connie coming too?" Anneena asked, an eyebrow raised as she looked at Col and Crystal skeptically.

"Why not?" Crystal grinned. "Do you want to come, Connie?"

"I'm not sure I can come," Connie said hesitantly. "I have to meet the Trus- I mean, the Society leaders."

"Oh," Anneena said, looking deflated. "Then would you guys mind me or Jane coming along?" she asked, brightening up.

Col, Connie, Rat and Crystal exchanged looks.

"Can't, Anneena," Jane told her. Then she blushed.

"Oh yeah, you have that daaaate with Mr Photography," Anneena teased, momentarily forgetting to be suspicious.

"I'll come," Rat volunteered. "Anneena, you have to write some weird thing for the news, don't you?"

Anneena looked confused, but she seemed to be satisfied that Rat was going. She shrugged and flicked her hair over her shoulder.

"I think so… But I have to go now. Bye!"

Anneena waved goodbye and walked off, carrying her things. Jane went off soon after.

"See ya then?" Rat called after Col and Crystal as Col started to walk home with Connie and Crystal and Rat went off their own ways.

"Yeah," they called back.

Connie felt weird- she felt slightly left out, though she knew she shouldn't be. But there was something else, too… what was it?

Jealousy.

A/N: That was a pretty long chapter :) Maybe not very long, but… yeah. I hope it made up for the long time I took to update :D

Rat felt a little OOC :/

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