Battle high: not your average high school

After Battle thirty-nine

Clothes shopping hell

Harmony walked over to the living room rubbing her eyes and ended up sitting next to Alex and fell asleep on his shoulder. She didn't care who she was using as her pillow at the moment she just wanted more sleep and did just that.

Harmony just curled up on the couch next to him and stayed asleep, very comfy where she was at the moment. At the same moment Alex opened his eyes and looked around and saw Harmony had used him as a pillow.

"Uhh..."

Cloud smiled in amusement and Prism only laughed.

"Well. He's still tired," Cloud said. He turned and nearly ran into Kirai who was coming out of the kitchen. He narrowed his eyes at the slightly taller teen. "You made that noise didn't you?"

"No, those falling cups did."

Alex blinked a few times before he tried to wiggle free and lay her down on the couch and placed his jacket on her.

"There, thats better than using me as a pillow, I'm not that comfy am I?," he wondered, he remembered when Sora used him as a pillow at the base once. "You woke me up," Cloud said blankly, still glaring at Kirai.

Kirai looked back at him calmly. "Technically the noise is what woke you up."

"Jesus Christ shut up!"

"Don't start!" Prism warned. She glared at the two with icy eyes. "Cloud step away from the Kirai. Kirai if you go near Cloud I will stab you. Got it?"

The two gave each other one last look. "Fine."

"If you attack Cloud I'll kick your ass, if you attack Kirai I'll go Shooter on all three of your asses," Alex said as he looked at them reminding them the Shooters were still there no matter what.

"Now..before we tempt Green Rock, where is Sora?," he asked them changing the subject and making sure he made a flash of green fire. Prism laughed when she saw the flame appear. "Quit showing off your fancy government powers," she teased.

"She's in her room."

"When did she even get in here?" Cloud asked, looking around like she would be right next to him.

"Last night. You guys were too busy talking about your love life to notice her."

"Showing off? Oh my dear, that was only your one warning, if this arguing doesn't stop, you will all be seeing nothing but green," said Alex in a warning tone.

"Well if she's in her room why is there a note on the table?"

"Mmmmhmm. Sure," Prism said sarcastically. She knew he was being serious; she just wanted to see how he would react to her teasing antics.

Cloud blinked at him and went to go look at this mysterious message.

"Huh! Whaddaya know. She did leave. To the store, apparently," he announced, holding up the note she'd left. Alex gave her a look before turning to look at the note.

"Oh well...but we need to take Harmony shopping before we go get registered, she needs some actual clothes that fit her, those clothes don't work for her," said Alex. He couldn't believe he almost forgot about it.

"Oh yeah I forgot about that." Cloud sighed. "I guess he's gonna be a girl for a while huh.."

"Awh. Was someone looking forward to-"

"NO. Anyway is Primrose even still here?" Cloud cut off his sister. No taunting would be tolerated today. "I expected her to have wandered down here by now.."

"Well lets go get ready and take her to the store, school starts in a few hours which leaves us time to get ready and to take Harmony shopping and Primrose should be coming down soon," said Alex. He walked over to the bread and put it in the toaster.

"And Lilly should be back any minute too, she knows better now."

"Oh god we have to go to school the same day that we register?!" Prism asked, surprised. She groaned in annoyance and pulled on her hair, an old habit.

"They don't allow knives in school do they.." Cloud asked absentmindedly.

"No," Kirai answered.

Primrose came down at that moment, shaking her head to get the stray strands of hair out of her eyes. "Hi."

She looked around and was slightly confused as to why everyone was looking at her. "..what?"

"Nothing." Alex looked over at Cloud, Prism, and Kirai and couldn't believe they weren't even about to say anything, so he continued the conversation just the way they were talking a few seconds ago.

"Now since Harmony is here with us at the moment, she'll be here a while and need some clothes since she forgot hers and she's going to the same school. And we need to get her clothes before we get registered. Sora told us she would be there to register us anyways so come on, I'll go wake up Harmony," said Alex. Primrose didn't even notice her sleeping on the couch. She tilted her head at this 'Harmony' person, but didn't ask any questions. If it was important she'd find out later.

"Awh we have to go into the city? Someone always gets lost," Primrose said with a pout. She wasn't looking forward to school either. "And I really don't wanna go to school.. we'll all be so behind.."

"At least you'll probably fit in," Prism grumbled. "Shut up, and get dressed we all have to go," said Alex as he woke up Harmony who was yawning.

"Come on, you need to wake up for school..oh and Primrose I need to speak to you later," said Alex as he helped Harmony to the kitchen to sit her down and eat some toast. She stared at her plate for a few moments before picking a piece of toast up and nibbling on it. Primrose looked up from trying to untangle her hair. Why did that sound so scary. "I'm not in trouble am I?" she half-joked.

Cloud was rather surprised that she didn't ask about Harmony, but wasn't about to bring it up. He patted Prism on the head, knowing she was worried. "We'll be fine."

"No, you're not in trouble, it's about Artemis actually, if you were in trouble I wouldn't be the one talking to you," reminded Alex calmly. He made sure to glance at Harmony to check if she was still nibbling slightly at the bread which she was.

"I'll talk to you about it on our way to get Harmony some clothes."

Primrose froze and looked at him with a now worried expression. That sounded entirely too mysterious. "Is he okay?"

Cloud sighed. In his head he was yelling at himself, not knowing what to do about this whole situation. He also had Artemis to take into account. What would happen to Primrose? Would he even-

"Hey, stop," Prism whispered to him. "Worry about it when it comes along."

He only nodded. Sometimes having a twin who could practically read your thoughts could be a good thing. "He's fine, it's just last night he had to leave really quickly to get my sister Harmony, but then said he was going to be out for town for a while and wasn't sure when he would be home. But he said not to worry and he'll be back as soon as he can," Alex explained calmly.

He glanced up at the other two making sure neither of them would blow the cover, "So while he's gone Harmony will be with us," Alex finished off.

At the same moment Lilly came into the kitchen as her person self and said nothing to them and ignored everyone. She did though flick Harmony on the back of the head. "Oh.." Primrose looked off to the side, processing what he'd explained and thinking about why he would have to be out of town. She hoped he'd be okay. "Alright," she said quietly.

Now she would be extremely alone with everyone else around here.

Cloud looked over at Lilly and tried to catch her attention but to no avail. Maybe that was for the best at this current moment, what with Primrose standing right there; it might be a bad idea to get into things that involved Artemis at all. "He said he would send you a latter as soon as possible," Alex added carefully.

Harmony looked back to Lilly with confusion; she then went back to eating her toast.

After a half hour went by they were all ready and started to head to the store, "Which store first?"

Cloud looked at Alex. It couldn't exactly be called a glare yet, but it was getting close. "You mean we have to go to more than one?" he asked, his tone sounding rather annoyed. Alex turned back to him, "Well yeah...we have to if we want Harmony to have some clothes she actually likes to wear," said Alex with a confused tone. He thought Cloud would at least understand how a girl's mind kind of worked.

"Awh man..," Cloud said with a sigh. His parents had always bought clothes for Prism and himself, seeing as they couldn't leave the hospital they were in. They hadn't had the luxury of going to multiple stores. "Don't complain, if you want her to go to school in those boy clothes then I won't let you anywhere near her..hell I won't let anyone near her at all," said Alex.

Cloud looked over at Alex with an amused expression. "Someone got defensive. Either way I never said I wanted her to go in that.. I just don't feel like traveling to a billion stores with all of you."

"Yeah walking around with you is no joy either," Kirai remarked quietly.

Prism flicked him on the back of the head and glared at Cloud before he could retort. "No."

Alex glared at Cloud," Well I have to be defensive about my sister after it's my job as her brother remember?," said Alex, he smirked at Cloud.

Harmony shook her head and slightly hit them both on the head so that Primrose wouldn't notice.

"Well I don't like the idea either of spending time in a billion stores either but we have to," growled Alex. Cloud gave Alex a blank look. He'd completely forgotten that he was supposed to be Harmony's "brother". Now feeling like an idiot, he simply rolled his eyes and walked slightly faster. Prism matched his pace so they could carry on a whispered conversation.

"That was smooth."

"Aaahaha shut up."

"Aw, calm down. Everyone loses every once in a while."

"I don't. I'm Cloud."

"Not today you aren't, cause you just proved that you are also stupid like "the rest of us", as you would say," Prism looked at him, smiling at how hard he was glaring at the ground. "You're not actually upset about that are you?"

"No. Why would I be upset about something as trivial as that? I'm debating shit in my head, shut up," Cloud grumbled to her, almost tripping over a rock in his concentration. Alex shook his head and patted Harmony on the head.

"You do know I'll need help right?," said Harmony.

"Ask Lilly or Prism," said Alex.

"What if Primrose finds out?, "asked Harmony with slight concern in her voice.

"She won't notice she thinks your my sister now don't give yourself away Harmony," warned Alex. Prism gasped when she cooked up a plan. Cloud gave her a skeptical look but simply shook his head and went back to thinking.

"Raiiiincloud," she interrupted him. "What's your favorite color?"

"You know my favorite color, Prism," Cloud sighed, annoyed at this. Now he knew how Kirai felt when he annoyed the shit out of him.

"I can't remember it."

"Unlikely. Blue you forgetful fuckwit."

"Heh. Thanks~"

"Do I want to know what you're planning?"

Prism shook her head.

Cloud sighed again. "Of course I don't.."