Kennedy

I walk over to Sans's stand while the other girls go to talk to the monsters.

"Hey Sans," I greet.

"hey buddy," he greets. "what's up?"

I point up. "The overworld."

Sans smiles. "well played, kiddo. well, while you're here, wanna buy a hot dog? it's only 30G."

I shrug. "Why not? Can't do any harm. Oh! But do you have ketchup?"

Sans nods. "i think so."

"Put some ketchup on," I say.

And so, Sans does so and I get the hot dog and put it in my inventory.

I go over to the girls and tell them I'm ready.

We head off again.

We go through multiple puzzles that Alphys helps us with a bit.

We finally reach a save point.

As Lily saves, Annaka asks, "Wait, did anyone bring a watch?"

Emily nods and looks at the watch on her wrist, then up, her eyes widened.

"What?!" Annaka exclaims. "Oh god, what is it?!"

Emily swallows hard then says, "Six thirty a.m."

Everyone is frozen for a minute.

Then, Annaka yells, "We have to go! Did you save Lily?!"

Lily nods. "Y-yes. I did."

Anyone who doesn't have powers partners with someone who does.

But I don't have anyone.

I make the portal and jump in, hoping no one is awake yet.

Annaka

I open my eyes to see something covering me.

I pull whatever is on me off and realize it is my blanket.

I stay silent and listen for anything-ANYTHING-symbolizing someone is awake.

I hear the tv on on the second floor.

Crud!

I jump up from my bed and to the third floor stairs, which overlooks the loft where the tv is.

I see Holly, laying on the couch and watching tv.

"Holly," I whisper.

Holly looks up and smiles at me. "Hi Annaka. Where were you? I didn't see you in your bed."

I bite the inside of my cheek. "I...um...fell asleep up here!"

Holly cocks her head. "What were you doing up there?"

I feel sweat roll down the back of my neck. "Uhhh..."

Geez, for a seven year old, she sure does ask a lot of questions.

"I-I was watching tv," I reply.

Holly shrugs. "Ok."

I shake my head and get back to what I need from her. "Are Mom and Dad awake yet?"

Holly shakes her head. "No. You know how they are on the weekends. Sleeping in."

I nod and let out a sigh of relief.

I climb down the stairs and back to my room, where I shut the door and flop down on my bed, my face on the blankets.

That was close...

I suddenly hear a ringing noise.

I jolt up and look around to see my phone buzzing from someone calling.

I answer.

"Hello?" I ask.

"Hey, you awake?" I hear a familiar voice ask.

Nya.

I rub my eyes. "Am now. What's up?"

"We're meeting at my house in an hour," she says. "Aaliyah has a soccer game and my parents are taking her so we'll have a while."

I nod. "Ok. Hey, how's Aaliyah doing in soccer?"

"Pretty good," Nya answers. "She's actually really good for a third grader."

I yawn. "That's nice. Well, I'll be over soon."

"Bye," Nya says.

"Bye."

.

The birds chirp a soothing melody as I walk past trees on the sidewalk. I watch as few cars pass on the street and the sun starts to come up a bit more. I adjust the red backpack on my shoulders and continue to walk.

As I walk, I think back to when I left...

"Where are you going?" Holly had asked.

"Nya's house," I replied, while scribbling a note for my parents on a sticky note.

Holly had groaned. "You always hang out with your friends."

I finished the note and stuck it onto the microwave. Then, I had turned around and smiled kindly at her.

"This is important, Holly," I had explained to her. "You wouldn't understand. Now, go continue watching tv. I'll be back soon."

Then, I had walked to the door and left the house. I had looked down at the small puddle on the floor.

Then, splashed into it with my boots. Even though my boots are not rain boots.

I am back on the sidewalk, walking with the same boots that I had splashed into the puddle with.

I finally reach Nya's house and knock on the door.

Nya's dad(or Mr. Rice)answers the door.

I smile at him. "Good morning, Mr. Rice."

Mr. Rice smiles at me. "Good morning, Annaka. Nya's in her room."

I step inside and down the small hallway into Nya and Aaliyah's shared bedroom.

Nya is laying down on her bed, reading a manga.

Kennedy, Kealani, Mimi, Elizabeth, and Lily are also there.

Kennedy is on the bed too, earbuds in and watching something.

Kealani and Lily are sitting in a corner of a room, watching something on a tablet with a little thing that can connect two earbuds.

Kealani pumps her fist in the air and yells, "Yes! You show him!"

Lily puts her hands on Kealani's arm.

"Calm down, Kealani," she says quietly.

"How can I calm down," Kealani yells. "when Natsu is so destructive?! It's so AMAZING!"

Watching Fairy Tail? Classic.

Mimi and Elizabeth are sitting down in another corner, talking among themselves.

I set my backpack down near the door.

No one seems to notice I am here.

I sit down on the bed next to Nya.

She looks up and smiles. "Yannaka!"

I hug Nya and she does the same.

"Hi Nyny!" I exclaim.

We let go and I point to her manga.

"Well, you can go back to reading," I say.

Nya nods and turns her attention back to the book, but says, "Just make yourself comfortable."

I nod and lean back on her bed, next to Kennedy.

She pauses whatever she is watching and looks at me, exhaustion washed over her face.

I smile at her. "You tired?"

Kennedy nods. "When am I not tired?"

I shake my head. "True."

I giggle. Then say, "Hey. Who do you think the other people that have the power could be?"

"By the way!" a voice calls.

I look over to see Lily as the one that said that.

"Alphys told me the 'power' is called Soul Power," she says, then goes back to watching Fairy Tail with Kealani.

I sigh and shake my head. "Well, then who else do you think has soul power?"

Kennedy shrugs. "No clue. I think we gathered here to talk about it."

Nya turns around. "We did." Then, she goes back to her manga.

"Also, why we have Soul Power?" I ask.

"Who cares?!"

I look over to see Kealani walking over towards us as the person who said that.

"It's AWESOME!" she exclaims. "That's all that matters!"

Kealani jumps onto the bed, causing it to jolt.

I grasp onto the blanket until it settles.

Lily joins us on the bed, sitting down gently next to me. "Actually, it does matter. We are special in the way of having this special power. I mean, who would've guessed we would have this power? The probability of us guessing would be..." Lily stares into space, gears turning within her head. She then says, ".000000000000000000000000000-"

She is cut off by and pillow in her face. She quickly pulls it off, her glasses dropping onto the bed.

She squints and searches with her hand for her glasses.

I grab her glasses and hand them to Lily.

She puts them on, then glares. "Who did that?"

Everyone seems innocent, but Elizabeth.

Elizabeth just shrugs. "What? Someone was bound to do it. Even if it is the 'brilliant Doctor Lily,'" she says, a mocking voice towards the end.

Lily crosses her arms and turns her back.

Nya-who put her manga away for now-puts an arm around Lily's shoulders.

"Come on, Lily," she says. "You can just ignore the big bad Elizabeth."

"Hey!" Elizabeth exclaims. Then, strikes a pose. "Big, bad, and beautiful, darling!"

Nya grabs a pillow and throws it at Elizabeth's face, which interrupts her pose.

She yanks the pillow in her grasp, her face fuming.

"Oh, it is on!" she exclaims.

Elizabeth's about to chuck the pillow when the door opens to reveal Nya's mom-Mrs. Rice.

"Nya, we're leaving," she says.

Nya gets up, making a taunting face to Elizabeth out of her mom's view.

Then, she turns to her mom and hugs her.

"Bye, Mama," Nya says.

"Bye Nya," Mrs. Rice says, kissing Nya's head. Then, she turns to all of us. "And bye girls!"

"Bye!" we all cheer in sync.

Mrs. Rice closes the door.

We listen till we hear them exit the house, then Elizabeth chucks the pillow at the still standing Nya.

Nya grabs the pillow with a swift hand motion, then chucks it right back.

Elizabeth ducks and the pillow hits Mimi.

Mimi is now fuming. She throws the pillow at Nya, who is now standing on the bed.

Nya ducks and the pillow hits Kealani.

Kealani throws the pillow at Mimi.

Soon enough, we all have pillows in our hands, except for Kennedy, who's eye is glowing blue and is using her magic to throw pillows.

We are all fighting with the pillows and soon enough, all the girls are there, pillow fighting.

I laugh as I throw a pillow in the direction of Alyssa and it hits the side of her face.

She gets so mad at me that she chucks a pillow at me with all her might.

Even though the pillow hits me in the face, I continue to laugh, for even though we are all different-yet the same-, we stay a group.

The sight of a great chain of friendship fills you with DETERMINATION

(Stay-extra-determined!)