"Mami-san! Mami-san!" The two girls knocked on their blond upperclassman's front door; Madoka swaying on her feet and Sayaka leaning against the rail.
"Wait a moment..." the pinkette starts fearfully, slowly turning to her blue haired companion with a look of utter terror on her face. "You used a formality, didn't you?"
"Oh god I did..."
The fearful conversation was quickly interrupted by the door slamming open and a very irked looking Mami standing in front of them. If the two girls could describe the look on their senior's face at that moment they would simply stammer incoherently.
"Good morning, Sayaka-chan, Madoka-chan. Please, do come inside." The two eighth graders gulped as the blonde grinded out each "chan" to their names. "And please, leave the formalities outside if you don't mind."
The fact that Mami detests formalities with a passion always seems to slip the girls' minds and neither knows why. At school no one refers to her with any added on title unless they were looking for a glare worse than death or a freshly made meal with spices all over it. When asked why she hates them so much she says she's there for everyone, and thusly they don't have to refer to her as though she's just a classmate. Some say she's too trusting but it has yet to backfire on her.
"Kyoko is probably still asleep upstairs, I'll go get her. You two can raid the kitchen if you'd like- and yes I do have ice-cream," the blonde rolls her eyes cheerfully as the two suddenly over excited girls high-five and shoot out to the kitchen.
Knowing Madoka and Sayaka were now occupied enough not to get into much trouble, the blonde slips upstairs and knocks on her house-mate's bedroom door. They had met the girl while on a trip to a neighbouring city, Mami had been running back to the others with fresh takoyaki when she happened across an abandoned church. Aside from some rubble and broken glass, there was a shivering redhead in a tattered hoodie lying in the oddly colored light of the old building. Mami had helped the girl up and gave her some of the aforementioned takoyaki and offered her a place to stay; saying her house was too big and lonely for just one person.
Ever since then the two girls had been living together, and Kyoko had become friends with Madoka and Sayaka as well, in fact the four of them were practically inseparable. Aside from the fact that Kyoko and Sayaka never seemed to stop bickering anyways.
"Kyoko, you awake yet?" she sang cheerily, laughing when he heard the redhead groan and the familiar thump of her falling out of bed.
An angry grumble of "Two more hours..." sounds from the other side of the door and Mami sighs and opens it up, nearly snorting at the sight. Kyoko laid there, somewhat on the floor, her legs still tangled up in blankets and still partly on her bed. She had one arm thrown over her eyes and the other lazily waving Mami away.
"Madoka and Sayaka are here y'know," she clears her throat, regaining her composure only to lose it again and when Kyoko jumps up and falls back down.
"Why didn't you just say so?" she grunts, rubbing the back of her head and carefully untangling herself from her burrow of fluffy fabrics. Within seconds she was up and had her pajamas straightened out (Mami had learned arguing with her over her attire is futile.)
Mami rolled her eyes again as Kyoko hopped onto the stair rail and slid down, jumping off and landing perfectly right in front of the kitchen door.
"Mami you didn't tell us you bought a trampoline!" the two girls freeze at the sound of Sayaka yelling out to them from the backyard.
"Curses," the blonde sighs to herself, attempting to ignore the redheads amused expression. "I was hoping they wouldn't go outside until we were all downstairs."
Madoka and Sayaka however were oblivious to the blonde's slight disappointment, both occupied with clambering onto what was probably the biggest trampoline either of them had ever seen. Grabbing her hand and dancing an incredibly messy waltz full of uneven bouncing, Sayaka laughed as Madoka tried not to slip on the almost too smooth bouncy plastic.
"Kyoko did you know about this?" Madoka shouted out to the two girls hurriedly making their way over to the trampoline. The redhead just shrugged in response and hopped on, grabbing Sayaka's waist and purposely slipping backwards, earning a yelp from the blue haired girl.
The girls continued laughing at each other and enjoying their seconds of anti gravity, only stopping when Madoka called out to them; pointing to the backyard of someone on the street behind them.
The other three all looked over, about to ask what for when a pale girl with two black braids floated into view, desperately trying to keep her big red glasses on her face.
"She looks about our age doesn't she?" the pinkette grinned as the girl fell out of view. "Maybe we should talk to her, she looks lonely!"
"How can you tell Madoka?" the blue haired girl chuckled as she lightly shoed Kyoko away from her, swiftly dodging the redheads next tackle attempt.
"I don't really know, something just seems off about her..." she mumbled as she distractedly watched the girl bounce back into view.