Nom nom. I'm a cat.

/= [DAY 89] =/

The snow falling meant that everyone was happy. The first day of the snow, Yong Soo and Alfred were attacking everyone with snowballs. Charice and Rizal were able to duck over a few more before seeing one smack Feliciano over the head. The both of them watched as Ludwig went to his aid and saw the Italian laugh cutely, causing him to hug his boyfriend with something that made Charice squeak in delight. She didn't notice it, but Rizal had quickly left afterwards.

Figuring that he went to class early, she headed into the lobby and noticed that Matthew was standing quietly in the corner holding Kumajiro and blushing (a side effect of standing around in the cold). Life? Maybe. Life is embarrassing. Especially when half your guy friends are…well, for lack of a better word: mentally challenged.

"You need something?"

"No…" He answered. "I'm just…waiting for someone."

"Alfred?"

"No."

"Then I'm out."

"More people know me now, Charice…"

"I know…but most of them are worth avoiding because they're creepy."

"Yeah…" Matthew laughed. "That's true…but still, you have to admit that they are all quite animated."

"It's the snow. Apparently that makes half these people a third of their age." She looked back outside. "Even Ludwig."

"Germany?"

"Yeah. He's been living with Gilbert, you know. Something up there has to be tainted…speaking of which, you were raised by Francis right?"

"A-are you saying that I obtained…something from him?"

"I'm just checking…"

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The both of them walked quietly in the hallways as they went to their photography class. Kumajiro seemed snug in his arms despite the fact that he seemed pretty big, and they weren't talking about much (usually Charice was complaining about someone groping her…not Yong Soo). When they went through the door, the teacher smiled.

"Nice to see that you actually arrived."

"Hah?" She looked at the clock. "Wait a minute, how in the world is my watch five minutes late? Crap, we're late!"

"I-I should've known too…it's my fault, really…"

"Well, it doesn't matter. You two are going to be partners for this next project anyway-"

"YES! I WORK WITH A MAN THIS TIME!"

Matthew, not surprisingly, feared for his life.

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"What's the project?"

"I'm not sure." She looked at the paper. "Light and shadow?"

"I think it's nothing more than the image of something with a dramatic shadow."

"Huh…let's test it." She went to one of the columns. "Take a few shots of me."

Matthew nodded as he put Kumajiro down and took the camera, seeing her take a lot of dramatic poses from jumping like High School Musical to trying to run up a wall. Despite having a Persona and having a slightly advanced physical status, she failed that one horribly.

"You OK?" He panicked.

"All's good, all's good." She stood up. "It's the snow. Cushions a lot of things~!"

"Except pain?"

"Except pain."

"Geez, what are you unawesome people doing?"

The both of them looked up and saw that Gilbert was standing there with an interested look on his face (why the heck was he out of class?). Around that point, Charice had cleaned off all the snow off her uniform and had stopped shivered from the cold…for a few minutes.

"Doing a photography project." She answered. "Dynamic pictures~!"

"Anything dynamic has awesome attached to it!" Gilbert posed. "You want a good grade? I'm the best subject you got!"

"Okaaaay~!" Charice clapped her hands. "I pose him! Matthew, you take the pictures!"

Matthew nodded as he started taking pictures of them with their crazier poses. Halfway through the photo shoot, Gilbert's poses stopped being crazy and started being…well, dramatic. He started leaning on columns, look dynamically into the sky, and even stole his glasses to give himself a better look as he snapped his jacket open.

That's when he…saw something.

The way he snapped his jacket open seemed to stop the air around them. The world moved in slow motion, and Matthew was utterly fixated at the image. Before he knew it, Matthew had silently pulled out his phone and took a picture of him in his glory. He stared at it before noticing that someone was talking to him.

"Huh?"

"I said did you get it on the camera?"

"W-well, it turned off on me when I did it…w-we'll have to do it again."

"That's fine." Gilbert winked. "Awesomeness that is me can't be caught once!"

That was true, Matthew thought as he held up the camera. That was true.

/= [DAY 90] =/

Charice couldn't help but hear the music club working on their Christmas segment as she passed by during her lunch break. Her bento box was getting cold, but nonetheless she had to see this one. She took a peek inside and was instantly grabbed on the shoulder, causing her to scream bloody murder.

"You really have to, like, be a lot more careful!"

"I am, Feliks…geez." She was still holding her bento box. "I was just looking inside."

"Well, you should, like, totally hear this! You're going to totally love it!"

"Please control yourself, Feliks." Roderich sighed. "We barely started with the second song."

"Come on, you have to enjoy it just a little bit." A voice rang out. It was Seyel, her ears told her.

"I do…but we can do this a lot better. Now if Feliks can please return to his seat, we can get this started."

Feliks sighed as he went back to his seat, allowing Charice to take a lean on the doorway and watch them play 'Jingle Bells' with an acoustic guitar- wait, what?

"Did Gilbert invade this place?" She couldn't help but remark.

"…maybe…" A voice drifted from the back. It was Greece…Heracles, right?

"No he didn't." Irunya blinked in confusion. "You just bumped into him."

"…oh." He sighed, leaning back. "That makes sense…"

Was this guy high?

"Let's just take a break now." Roderich sighed. "No one's focusing."

"At least we can have lunch." Eduard grinned. "I brought a lot of it."

Charice sat down between Irunya and Roderich as she brought out her bento box to eat out Kiku's created lunch. He was a really good cook, her tongue told her. God bless the rice. God bless the fried rice and the soy sauce packet that was next to it. And of course, she had Spam with it. God bless Spam as well.

"Hey, Roderich. Are you going to eat anything?" Someone asked that.

"I just drink coffee during these times." He answered quietly.

Oh yeah…the coffee that he showed me…the really sweet one. She almost got a sugar high just by thinking about it.

"You should eat something." Irunya laughed. "You can't be starving yourself like that."

"…Greek yogurt?"

"How about some Spam?" Charice laughed. "You eat meat, right?"

"Really, I'm not that hungry today." He sighed.

"…you want cake, don't you."

He said nothing.

"Ce que…perhaps you would like some French yogurt?"

"BACK OFF, FRANCIS!"

And destruction occurred. Fortunately, Charice sat next to Heracles and hence her food wasn't splattered across the floor.

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GUESS WHICH PAIRING I HINTED HERE~? ;D