The following Tuesday morning at Monster High before classes started, Purrsephone was about to go was taking Meowlody over to Cleo, Frankie, Draculara, Clawdeen and Ghoulia to go over the new arrangement. The white-haired werecat had returned from Canada last night and Purrsephone had told her about what had happened in her absence.
"Hello Meowlody," Draculara said. "I take that Purrsephone told you the way things are now?" Meowoldy nodded yes. "I know this must seem strange to you."
"Strange doesn't quite cover it," Meowlody said. "I've been gone for less than a week and when I come back, it's like the world has gone upside down. Still, these changes seem like they'll be very good ones and anything beats getting kicked by one of uncle Jerry's emus hard enough to make me think my spleen and appendix switched places."
The other ghouls gasped in shock at this.
"Fortunately," Meowlody continued, "Since we were in Canada, I was able to get a free MRI and found out that the damage wasn't that bad. Seriously, why does this country not have universal healthcare?"
"Because democracy is overrated," Cleo said, and was then met with disdainful looks from the others. "What? There is a reason you won't see anything in the history books about the pharaohs of Egypt having their opinions influenced by campaign contributions from special interest groups."
"We'll save that for another time," Draculara said, looking to change the subject and looked at Meowlody. "You're well enough to go to school after an injury like that?"
"Mostly," Meowlody said. "I have to take pills for the pain couple of hours. And these are good pills: the kind movie stars O.D. on."
I'll have to ask her for some of those, Purrsephone thought.
"But there's one thing Purrsephone didn't fill me on," Meowlody continued as she looked at Cleo. "What happened when your dad found out about you having your sister duct taped to a chair?"
"Fortunately for me," Cleo began, "Spectra had recorded the whole 'Nefera pulled out a knife first' thing and what lead up to that. I showed dad the recording and he was not happy with Nefera about how she felt that, and I'm quoting here 'a minor offense from Cleo and a few rudely worded statements of fact were enough to make you pull out a knife'. Dad decided that since Nefera has so much time on her hands and hasn't been doing anything while waiting for her modeling career to bounce back, Nefera is going to be sent to an out of state college for the foreseeable future."
There was an awkward silence for a few seconds.
"Let me get this straight," Meowlody said. "Nefera is being punished by going to college?" Cleo nodded yes. "Your family doesn't really live in the same world as the rest of us, do they?"
"We sure don't," Cleo said with a smile of pride.
"Out of curiosity," Clawdeen said, "what would it take to piss off your dad enough for him to pay my way through college?"
"I don't know," Cleo said. "And I don't think it would be a good idea to ask him."
The bell rang signaling them that they needed to get to class soon rang and they went their separate ways. Purrsephone was very proud of herself for pulling this off and bringing forth an era of peace between Cleo, Toralei and their respective friends. Even better, in a few day she was going to tell Jackson how she felt and they would most likely get together.
Life is good, she thought to herself.
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Author's notes: there is going to a short story to serve as a follow-up. It's going to more pairing based than this one, which is why I'm making it another story.