I'M BAAAAAACK! Just kidding. Anyway, little overview on the chapter here, Hotel's gonna fuck around with Echo. Quite a bit of corny shit around the end, but oh well, you guys love me anyway. Enjoy!

"Hotel."

"What's up?"

"Why did you drag me along?"

Hotel looked back at me and replied, "Because you're his cousin."

I'm his cousin this. I'm his cousin that. Whatever.

Letting out an annoyed sigh, I quickly took notice of a younger girl running past me, clearly distressed. I looked on after her, raising an eyebrow in confusion, turning back to face forward as I quickly locked onto Echo, who was also clearly distressed. I watched as he let out a sigh, then looked back up to see Hotel and I, flinching a little as my teammate walked up to him.

"…How're you doing?"

"I feel like shit…," Echo replied, leaning up against a wall. I was about to walk up to him until Hotel did, standing in front of him. Echo looked up, meeting his eyes with Hotel's as the latter said, "…you're truly terrible, aren't you?"

"Excuse me?"

"You. You just sleep around and treat relationships like a joke, don't you?"

"God dammit, stop rubbing it in my face," Echo replied. Hotel, however, had different ideas. He shot me a look that caused me to shiver as he turned back to my cousin.

"You like sleeping around," he stated, "In fact, you really just wanted to sleep with Sierra and dump her like you did back at our old school, didn't you?"

Echo looked back up, about to argue before Hotel cut him off.

"You don't want to settle with one girl. You'd much rather sleep with several. You use girls for you own pleasure."

"No…," Echo said, slowly pushing himself against the wall. I flinched as electricity crackled around his being. Hotel remained poker faced as he continued with his psychological warfare.

"You don't love Sierra. You never did. She was just another viable target for you. You saw her as open game."

"That's not true…!"

"She had the perfect body that you'd target, too," Hotel continued, "You only target girls like her."

"No, that's not-!"

"Face it Echo," Hotel finally said, "You don't love her, you'll never love her, and you will NOT get anywhere near our leader."

"STOP!"

Hotel finally stopped talking as Echo stated, "I love her, okay!? I love her with all my heart! I…I couldn't help it, okay!? Being surrounded by all of this…it's hard, alright? I want to…be with her…okay…?"

Echo then slumped down, putting his face in his hands.

"I just…I…fucking A…."

I looked at Hotel, surprised as he let out a sigh.

Nice job, Hotel.

"C'mon, let's go," Hotel stated. I made to follow him, looking back briefly at Echo, then back to follow my teammate.

Sierra laid in bed, staring up at the ceiling as the door opened up. Delta's voice quickly filled the room as he began questioning Hotel on his tactics of psychological warfare. Much different from herself; she'd rather make a point, via violence or whatever it took.

With a sigh, she rolled off of her bed and began walking towards the door.

"Sierra?"

"I'm heading out," she stated, leaving the room.

With a sigh, she leaned against the wall on the opposite end of the hall, looking back up at the ceiling. She could feel her chest burning again as she thought of Delta. His similarities to Echo. Her heart throbbed at the thought of her now ex-boyfriend.

"Dammit…," she whimpered out, feeling her eyes watering again. Closing her eyes, she began to reminisce about her feelings towards the latter.

She loved Echo.

She loved him with all her heart.

"Sierra…."

Sierra opened her eyes, turning to face said man, who looked like he had just gotten beaten up, but without the bruises. Her deep cobalt irises met Echo's violet irises as she immediately took notice of the hint of red. She blinked as he walked up to her and asked, "Can…can we…talk…?"

Looking at him suspiciously, Sierra turned her back on him, causing him to furrow his brow, then look down. Echo figured that with her personality, once he screwed up, he was done. However, he wasn't expecting to hear her say, "…you coming or not…?"

Closing the door to the roof, Sierra turned around, opening her mouth to scold Echo. However, she was cut off by Echo nearly tackling her into a hug, causing her eyes to widen as he immediately tightened his grip on her. Gasping for air, she attempted to push him off of her, only to fail as he nuzzled his face into the crook of her neck.

"E-Echo-!?"

"I'm sorry…!"

"Huh!?"

"I'm sorry…! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

"Echo, what're you-!?"

"I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry!"

Blinking in confusion, Sierra soon felt the shirt she was wearing grow wet as he began sobbing. Relaxing a bit, she returned the embrace that he held on her as she nuzzled her cheek against his hair. Stroking his head, she asked, "…regretting it now, playboy?"

"Y…yeah…!"

"Well, there are going to be consequences if you're gonna go out with me," Sierra continued, "I've been giving you too much leeway."

"Huh?"

"As stated before, I knew you were sleeping around in our relationship. I just didn't say anything cuz I thought you'd figure it out on your own. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case."

Sierra pulled away from him slightly. Echo blinked as she turned her back to him, watching her as she took a look up to the sky. Sierra sighed, feeling a light breeze flow through her hair as she couldn't help but smile. Echo continued watching her, captivated at the sight of her hair flowing in the breeze as she turned around.

"Hey, pretty boy."

Echo snapped out of his trance as Sierra looped her arms around his neck, delivering a kiss on his lips. Blinking, he slowly processed the information as Sierra pulled away and grinned. She giggled a bit as he slowly reached up to touch his lips, nearly not believing what she had just done. His face began to heat up as she turned her back to him again, hiding the guilty smile that was on her face as she said, "…that's for not going further than you did, pretty boy."

"Oh," he replied, "So now my name's 'Pretty Boy?'"

"What," she asked back, "You want it to be 'Playboy?'"

Echo shivered and replied, "Hell no."

"Then 'Pretty Boy' it is," Sierra stated, turning around as she kissed him again.

This time, however, Echo looped an arm around her waist, twirling her in the air several times.

"I…," Echo stated, putting her down, "I…really love you, Sierra…."

"Prove it," she replied.

"I'd strip you down and fuck you right now," he said.

"…," Sierra looked up at him, unimpressed. Echo began wondering if he said something wrong before she touched his lips and said, "…not 'fuck…'make love, love…."

Sierra then pulled him into a gentle kiss. Echo returned the gesture, but slowly began to deepen it, slowly pressing his tongue against her lips. Sierra opened her eyes a crack, but then closed them again, welcoming it as she opened her own lips slightly. Suddenly, she found herself up against a nearby wall as his tongue explored her mouth. Hooking a leg around his waist, she tightened her grip on him, but then felt a red flag as he began hiking her skirt up.

Pulling away, she immediately pushed him off, breathing hard from the make out session as she said, "Not…not…right now…."

"Why?"

"Because," she continued, "Now's not…the right time."

"Aww…," Echo sighed, getting off of her. Sierra chuckled, walking back up to him, kissing him yet again and catching him by surprise. Pulling away, she stated, "Now then, there's something else I need to do, love…."

Echo then felt a searing pain in his groin area. His scream would then echo into the air around them as he rolled on the ground in pain.

I flinched, hearing Echo scream in pain. I then shivered, turning around to see Sierra, who was fondling a knife.

"What did you do-?"

"Something to keep him away from the girls," she stated, putting the knife away.

"You didn't cut him, did you?"

"Hell no," Sierra continued, "I want kids in the future to, D."

"Touché," I replied, falling back first into my bed.

Well, spoiler alert. Per request, I'm gonna have next chapter dedicated to SwordXWeiss. See y'all later!