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after school

Another day of the usual passed, the group going about their days as usual, which has brought them to their free period of training to hone their skills before the group's first ever party together, a first for them as before meeting Asta they hadn't really hung out with each other outside of school.

"Nice keep your hands up when you step in", Leo called for his cousin to have a higher guard as she was in the middle of a stand-up exchange with Sol. "Kind of hard when-", she tried to respond to him with a lot of annoyance, but was interrupted by Sol getting a hold of her legs once again, getting her to the ground, "Sorry, but high hands means no take down defense", Sol snorted at Mimosa as she began to pass her guard, "TRAP HER BACK LEG", Finral shouted some basic ground defense for the boxer to follow. To which she did as best she could, getting both of her legs wrapped around Sol's back leg to stop her from getting to side control, "Now shrimp off", Mimosa looked over Sol's shoulder at Finral with a look of annoyance since, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS", she yelled and him while pushing on Sol's head to try and get her off from top position. Sol using her lack of knowledge on the ground against, pushing her flat on her back before slipping her leg out of Mimosasa defense attempt. Soon after Sol had gotten side control and slowly began to work on getting control of one of her arms to secure a lock, not without some resistance though, Mimosa began to just punch her in the side of the head while all of this was going on, Sol pinned the punching arm down with her shin before locking it with both of her legs, leaving her completely open to a submission. Not letting her moment slip passed her, Sol got Mimosa into a very light straight armbar, with no way out Mimosa tapped, and Sol let go standing up before hopping out of the ring.

"Damn it", Mimosa sighed while she fell over to look at the lights of the gym, rubbing her arm, "Ah come on it wasn't that bad, at least you didn't get done like Sekke over here", Yuno pointed at the boy with his thumb, "I CAN HEAR YOU", Sekke shouted at him which got some laughs from the other students. "Yeah, guess you're right", the girl cracked a slight smile, watching as Yuno got into the ring so that he could help her to her feet, "Ok who's going next?", Sol smirked at the others, feeling pretty confident. "Me", Asta raised his hand, wearing 6oz MMA training gloves, "Hmm", Sol cracked a little laugh before nodding her head, "Fine, just don't complain like last time", she wiped some sweat from her forehead, "YEAH RIGHT, THIS TIME I'VE GOT YOU", he jumped the ropes as she stepped into the ring, the two getting ready to start their round. "Guy just never gives up huh?", Finral raised an eyebrow with a smile, "Nope, he's the type to throw himself headfirst into a wall if he can't climb it", Yuno answered, leaning on the ropes to watch them start, "Dangerous mindset", Finral responded with a shake of his head, not understanding why he wouldn't just let things be. "It can be, but it can also make him a danger as well", he turned his head to look at Yuno, not sure what he meant, "What?" "It's like an animal that does all it can to combat a predator, doing everything in its power to survive, with a mindset like that you don't know what they'll do next", turning his head back to watch the two go at it.

The bell rang letting Sol and Asta know that it was go time, "Remember, no complaining when I get you", Sol mocked him, getting a bit of a teeth grit in response, "Whatever", Asta responded, beginning to circle the center of the ring. Both of them did a little bit of fainting to try and see what they would react to, "She's gonna shoot in soon", Asta took note that Sol had her hands very high up, leaving her legs open for some kicks. Yet, he didn't try to take advantage of this opening, opting to wait for him to go in, "Hm guess he's aware of what I'm doing", Sol smiled, knowing that his lack of action meant that she could get her striking going *Bang bang* *Smack* she threw a very sloppy jab jab straight combo, Asta shelling up and covering his head to defend it, "There we go", she then used his moment of defense to try and shoot for his legs *Crack* her attempt was stopped by Asta throwing up a knee, "Oh shit", Finral raised his eyebrows that he actually managed to do it after constantly missing it when he tried earlier. *Pow* Asta chopped a low kick to her lead leg, Sol tried to grab his leg but had reacted too late to get it, "Damn", she then took a step back to recover *Pop* her step back gave Asta another opening to work with, using it to land a kick to the body. Again, she tried to grab his leg, but her step back had made it so that Asta was just out of her reach, "got yah", Asta pointed with a smile, "Grrr", his confidence kind of pissed her off, feeling like it was not earned as she had choked him two times before this. So, she began to engage with him, going in with a little bit of boxing to try and set up another take down *Pow* Asta kicked her leg and circled away, it annoyed Sol, getting her to chase him. For her part, Sol began to faint level changes to try and get Asta to remain still for her to work her offense, but Asta kept moving away and circling, "Come on man, where's that go forward style you always tout", she tried to gloat him into going first, "Scared that I'll get my hands on you?", her taunting did nothing to change his mind, Asta tapping her leg every now and again. As the round went on for about a minute, she noticed that he maintained the same rhythm when he threw kicks, it seemed like he was on a bit of auto pilot, so when he threw low kick, she found her timing, latching onto his leg and circling around to try and get him to the floor. Asta managed to stick his hand out, using it as a post to stop Sol from getting him down immediately, but being the grappler she was, he couldn't stop it forever and decided to try and bet everything on not getting taken down. Asta threw himself headfirst at the ground, "What an idiot", Finral shook his head immediately at what he found a stupid move. Asta ended up rolling forward, getting both of his legs free and quickly getting back up to his feet, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH HIM", Sol couldn't believe that he had risked just falling on his head in sparring. She tried to follow him, but she got caught with a knee *Smack* Asta followed up with a hook that put Sol on her back, using this Sol expected him to try and follow her to the ground *POW* instead he just kicked her grounded leg *POW* another one *POW* and another, soon Sol could feel like her legs were killing her, so she rolled back, leaving her torso unguarded by her legs. Asta saw his moment and pounced, getting to her side to start throwing punches at her *BRRRRRR* after a few ground shots, the bell went off, signaling the last round of sparring for the day.

Sol brought her hands down from her head, not needing to shield it from strike for the moment, before rolling over, "Well fuck", her chest slowly went up and down. Much like Mimosa the round before, she had been left to look at the lights after getting thrashed, "Shouldn't have been gloating like then, should you?", Asta stuck out his tongue at her using it to remind her that she was indeed not a high-level striker, hell she wasn't even a low level one she just had good offensive grappling that made people who could strike hyper afraid of her takedowns, allowing her a lot of freedom when standing up. "Cool man I get it", her disappointed tone made it through to Asta, him feeling bad for mocking her, "Ah its ok, just got train that striking up", he patted her on the back before exiting the ring. "Told yah", Yuno shot Finral a little bit of a smug, "Whatever", Finral just waved him off, dropping from the apron. 

Afterwards when everyone had gotten ready to leave, the group had gathered to discuss the night ahead of them, Fragils start to the year rager, a party that everyone and I mean everyone attends. "So, what's the plan, who's going with who?", Leo asked as the group had gathered in a sit-down circle to plan out their arrival, "I can bring like two or three of you guys with me, but that's it", Asta answer, taking his wraps off and placing them in his bag, "What? Why?", Sol asked, clearly trying to hitch a ride with him, "I decided to use my plus ones to bring Vanica and a couple of her friends, sorry", he shrugged. However, the notion that he was bringing Vanica, and her friends had gotten the groups interest far more, "Wait, she has other friends?", Mimosa raised an eyebrow, surprised that she did, "Ummm yes? Did you really think that I was the only person she hung out with before she met you guys?", looking Asta found every either looking away to avoid his gaze or a couple of them whistling as if they didn't hear his question. "Who's Vanica?", Finral raised his hand, feeling that he had missed something amongst the group, "Oh right you weren't here to train for any of that", Mimosa used his question as an opportunity to divert away from Asta's question, "What?", Finral shook his head, "Asta's coach brought in some outside people to train with us", she explained which got him to slightly tilt his head, "Woah seriously?", looking around to see everyone nodding their heads, "What were they like? Like were they good?", continuing with a follow up set of questions, Finral had noticed that Asta had a big smile on his face, "Oh they're not bad, in fact Vanica mashed those two up in boxing", the boy pointed at the Vermillion's getting a surprised eyebrow raise from Finral, "Really?", the two just looked away in embarrassment,  "Wow she must be a pretty damn good boxer then, huh?", he nudged Yuno, only getting a 'cut it' hand gesture from him, "What?", he looked around to see that Sol was shaking her head and Sekke just tried to look away, "Well she's actually a Shotokan Karate specialist", Asta's answer once again garnered a surprised look from him.

"Seriously?", his eyebrow lift was met with Sol face palming, "Why did you say that?", Finral just decided to stop asking questions about the subject, seeing that Mimosa and Leo and just started moping at the ground.  "Know what guys, let's just get back to talking the party", Sol clapped to try and bring the group back, "Right, guess we should just sort out driving plan", Asta looked around to see who would be riding with him, "So I'm bringing Vanica, two of her friends, Magna, and Luck who can stay in the back meaning I can bring two of you", he waited for the two who would to come forward. "I can drive myself", Mimosa raised her hand, taking her out of the equation, "I already got my ride figured out", Yuno answered, getting a weird smile from Asta, "What?" "Nothing, anyway who else", Leo and Sol raised their hands, "We can ride with you", Leo answered, "Cool you two take the metro with me after we get out of here and we head back to my place, pick up Vanica and her friends, then we head to Magna's place", the three nodded in agreement of their plan, "Wait what about Sekke", Leo spoke up, surprising Finral. "I'm having Jack drop me off", Sekke assured the group, "Really? Guess we'll see you there then", having one final look around to see if everyone understood, the day had concluded and the time to party prep had come.

*RIIIIIIIIIING* the school bell let out students all over the academy, all of which were of one mind and subject, the party. Most wished they could attend but either weren't invited or had other rich kid things to tend to. For one silver haired, pigtail wearing girl and her two closest friends from school, they emerged from their final shared class talking about their own plans to arrive to the event, "Noelle are you really sure you want to go as a surprise rather than together", Grey asked her, "Of course I mean who wouldn't?", she subconsciously flicked her pigtails with her answer, "Still don't get what the point is", Charmy rolled her eyes at her friends strange roundabout way of doing things. "The point is for a nice surprise so that me and my boyfriend could enjoy a great party", Noelle lifted her chin above their line, trying to assert some sort of authority over the two, "Besides, none of you have boyfriends so how would you know", the two girls looked at each other, deciding to just ignore it. "Whatever let's just go", they walked down the hall seeing as students were crowding the place, most of them talking about the party, a few even passing to ask the three about it and if they were going. Charmy and Grey would obviously say that they were, while Noelle would just say that she wasn't going or that she was still grounded. Going through the halls, the three saw that the combat sports students had gathered around Noelle's locker, talking, shoving, and laughing with each other. "Oh, wow the fight nerds", Charmy sarcastically waved her hands, seemingly trying to make fun of them, but Grey just made a slight wincing face before she spoke, "No offense Charmy, but like.......you wouldn't say that to Sol or Mimosa's face", Charmy turned her head to look at Grey, giving her a bit of a glare, "I'm sorry?", Charmy raised an eyebrow at Grey, genuinely offended by what she said, "I mean, no offense but couldn't they just you know beat you up?", Charmy opened her mouth to try and refute her claim. However, Grey was right, it just never really crossed Charmy's mind since she always kind of seen the combat sports students as just another nerd club, "I...I-" "Just move on", Noelle rolled her eyes this time, going on ahead so that she could talk to her cousins and other friends. 

"So, you know the other two or what?", Sol asked Asta, getting a confused funny face from the shorty, "What? Of course I do, I've known Vanica since I was like seven how would it be possible to have never met them", he shook his head, putting whatever books he had in his bag back into his locker, "Jeez sorrrrrry I just thought that it was weird she never talked about them", Sol shrugged while also shoving her stuff into her locker, "I agree, she talks kind of a lot yet she's never mentioned having other friends", Mimosa sided with Sol on the matter, feeling like with how much Vanica liked to talk, she would have at least referenced having them. Noelle moved her mouth to side, seeing that the group was having a good conversation without her, "Hey guys whatcha talking about?", she decided to make her presence known to the other students, "Oh sup", Asta responded with a head nod as the ones who had their back to her peered over their shoulders to look at her, "Not much, we just got out of class and were getting ready to leave", Noelle pointed over her shoulder at Grey and Charmy, "Hey Grey", Asta waved at her, getting a silent albeit slightly embarrassed wave back from her. The reaction got both Noelle and Charmy to give Grey a weird stare, "O....k, anyway, what uh about you guys, what do you got going on?", not wanting to stay on it, Noelle pushed on through to the next subject having felt a bit weird at Grey's reaction, "Nah we're just going over party arrival plans", Mimosa gave the answer, "So you are going after all huh?", the silver haired girl looked at Asta with a smile as she leaned over with her hands on her hips, "Yeah, I also decided to invite Vanica and some of the others, y'know bring some of my friends to top with me", he rubbed the back of his head with a small chuckle, "You're bringing friends from your home town?", Charmy asked, raising one of her eyebrows. "Of course, why wouldn't he?", Sol folded her arms in her answer, seeing that Charmy was getting ready for some sort of snide remark. To her surprise though, she just opened her mouth for a couple of seconds before closing it, "Whatever", Mimosa raised her eyebrows, surprised that Charmy didn't go down her usual stand-offish route.

Asta closed his locker so that the group would know it was time leave, not wanting to just tell them to cut it out, "Babe", the group could hear Noelle's boyfriends approaching, "And that's our cue to get out of here", Mimosa smiled, trying to leave as soon as possible, "You said it", Sol quickly whipped around to leave, "Wait leaving so soon?", Noelle asked, wanting them to stay around for at least a few minutes, "Sorry Noelle, but we gotta catch the metro and Mimosa doesn't want to be around your friends", Asta pointed his thumb behind him at the orange haired girl, getting his friends to face palm, "Oh...I see", she frowned upon hearing the response, Asta just blankly staring on at her, "Welp see yah", he gave the three a two fingered salute. Charmy just stood there with an annoyed look, Grey had a slight giggle as she had spent time around Asta and the others, finding his very blunt attitude rather funny, Noelle kept on frowning as the group walked away, all of them talking and laughing with each other, "What a bitch", Charmy scrunched up her nose when the group had gotten out of sight, "Ah come on Charmy they aren't that bad", Grey said, drawing a bit of a look from Charmy, who hadn't forgot the you wouldn't say it to her face comment, "He literally said that Mimosa doesn't want to be around us, what do you mean they aren't that bad", shrugging Grey decided not to argue with her. Noelle had opted out of the two's argument once again, frowning that Asta didn't stick around, "Babe", but her disappointment didn't last forever, feeling Kiato wrap his arms around her waist before the two shared a quick kiss. "What brings you here?", Noelle jokingly asked him, "Nothing, just seeing how my amazing girlfriend is doing today", Kiato answered before planting another kiss on her cheek, "Well I'm doing absolutely amazingly now that you're here", she responded to his question with a love-struck grin, "Speaking of you being here, did you talk to your mom yet? You still not coming to the party tonight?", his question made Noelle pucker her lips before looking over to her friends, who had known of her plan and were opposed to it but ultimately left it up to her as to if she wanted to go through with it. "I...", she looked at him for a moment, preparing her answer, "Can't I'm so sorry babe", she made a fake sad face. Kiato had a slight frown on his face, seemingly disappointed that his girlfriend would not be able to make it, "Awww man seriously?", furthering another question at her, "Yeah sorrrry", Noelle tried to mimic his frown, "Damn, then the next party?" "Of course", Noelle assured him that they would be able to go together next time, "Yo Kiato come on man, Davids driving and he said we're leaving as soon as he's done in the restroom", a member of the football team passed by, calling for Kiato to join them, "I'll hold you to that", he held his lips out for a kiss, to which Noelle took him up on it, "I'll see you later", he waved as he got on with his football teammates, "See yah", Noelle waved before turning to her friends with an excited face, "Oh...my...god he actually bought it", she squealed with excitement, having felt that he master plan had actually worked. "Y'know I still don't know why you're even doing all of this, like it would've been easier to just go together", Charmy just rolled her eyes, "Yeah Noelle, I'm pretty sure it was unnecessary", Grey agreed. However, Noelle just frowned and brushed them off, "Maybe when you guys get stable boyfriends you'll understand, but for now just leave it up to me", she proudly proclaimed with her hand on her chest, the other two just rolling with it as to move on with their days.

The combat sports students all left the school, gathering one more time on the curb to finalize their plan, they talked for a little while, "So Leo and Sol are going with me, Mimosa is going alone, Yuno is having his mom drop her star baby off, and Sekke is having Jack drop him off, is all that right?", Asta raised his hand, trying to see if he had gotten any of the plan wrong. "Sounds about right", Yuno himself decided to give a look around, locking eyes with Mimosa before a the two shared a slight nod, Asta was seemingly the only one who had caught on to the small exchange, cracking a slight smile. "Cool, so now that we're clear let's get going", Sol held her hand out to the others to garner high fives before she, Leo, and Asta would depart, "See you guys there", the trio waved and began to walk away. "So, when's the line that takes us to your place getting here?", Sol asked, prompting Asta to take his phone out so that he could check, "Usually it's around five thirty, but sometimes its late so we should be good", Asta checked the metro app, to see if there were any delays or early arrivals, "What's it say?", Leo asked before seeing that Asta's eyes had gone wide, "NEVERMIND WE GOTTA GET GOING NOW, THE METRO IS ABOUT TO BE HERE IN FIVE MINUTES", Asta quickly booked it ahead of the two, "WAIT UP", Leo followed soon, "I WILL KILL BOTH OF YOU", Sol ended up getting left behind having to chase the two shorter boys. The trio ran through the streets as fast as they could, through bits of traffic, not waiting for walking signs to give them to the ok to go, "HURRY UP GUYS", Asta made it to the main street that went from the station to the school, "SLOW DOWN", Sol called as she could feel the leg that Asta kicked tense up the moment she tried to book it with them, almost getting hit by a car because of it, "SORRY", she waved only getting a middle finger in return. Seeing Leo had gotten right on Asta's tail and decided to just empty the tank and make a full-blown sprint to catch up, "GUYS WAIT UP", she called one more time, slowly getting close to them. When the three made it to the front of the station, Sol watched the two make a quick turn into the entrance, almost blasting past it and when she did a little back tracking, she saw that the two hopped over the pay guard rail, "WAIT", she once again called thinking that it would be pointless, but the two boys had snapped their heads around to see she had greatly slowed down, "Oh sorry", they shouted back at her, opening the exit door so that she could get through, "Jeez, you two...are fast", Sol heaved out in between labored breathing, "Sorry about that, we just needed to get here faster", she nodded her head in understanding while catching her breathe before the three made their way to their line. Upon presenting their school IDs with Sol and Leo paying for their respective rides, they boarded their line, "That was fun", Asta looked over at Leo and Sol, both of them turning their heads to him, seeing that he was smiling, "Know what...it was pretty fun", Sol leaned her head against the window, looking at the ceiling, "Sure was", Leo did the same before Asta copied their positions, the trio getting on their way.

Yuno, Mimosa, and Sekke watched as the three walked out of sight, standing and talking to each other about various things, training, the last event, what they were going to do better especially Sekke, and the one topic that seemed to be every at school, Fragils party. "So, what's your plan man, you just going to have Jack drop you off", Yuno asked him, Sekke just doing a little sarcastic frown, "Yeah", the other took note of his response, wondering why he seemed bummed about it, "What's up? I thought you and Jack were really close", Yuno levied another question at him, "Nah he's doing because I asked my parents and they said that it was a waste of their time", the boy did air quotes and the waste of time part. "Guess they're really business oriented huh?", Yuno had a small nasal exhale, knowing what Sekke had just descried had felt really familiar, "You have no idea", Sekke slicked his hair back with both hands, feeling the annoyance mount a bit, "Oh trust me dude, I do", Yuno nodded and smirked, trying to get across that he in fact did know, "Anyway, what about you man, I mean I know that you said you had your ride figured out but are you saying that to be a stoic weirdo or because you don't want us to worry", Sekke shot a smirk look of his own, giving Mimosa and Yuno a nice little laugh, "Yes I do have a ride for real, so there's no need to worry", he did a few lower down motions with his hands to and demonstrate he had the situation under control, "Ok whatever you say man", he responded by putting his hands up in a false surrender. The three went back to more general conversation circling back to the training that they had today, more in particular how Asta had managed to nearly finish Sol during the last round of sparing, "I mean Asta got pretty damn close to getting her", Sekke nodded his head, acknowledging that he was a rather adaptable fighter, "Dude if the timer didn't go off, he would have", Yuno tried to hype Asta up a bit, "I don't know, I mean Sol probably would've figured something out", Mimosa though offered up some different thoughts on the sparring match, "Seriously? Asta was literally going to punch her head into the canvas", Sekke shook his head, "Yeah, she did it before, so maybe if the timer went over a bit, then she could scramble something to get him off of her", the two boys decided to give it a little thought before responding and came to two different conclusions. "I guess, but when getting hit in the face could she really have thrown up a submission from turtle that would've caught him, like Asta was knelt right next to her and if she began to move around again, he could've just got up and backed away", Sekke offered up his own analysis of the possibility, but after thinking a bit longer Yuno actually agreed with Mimosa to some extent, "Sure, but like can you imagine Asta being smart enough to do that, if he thinks has a finish he's probably going to try and bum rush it, so I could see Sol just randomly throwing up an awkward submission and getting him", the three stroked their chins to try and envision the scene. "I could see that", they said in unison upon further thought, letting them share a small laugh. That was until they could see a car slowly pulling up to the side of the curb and when the passenger side window rolled down, Jack was waving his arm, "Sekke come on kid, we still have to go and pay my car note", Sekke chuckled while shaking his head, "Ok then, see you guys at the party", he threw up his arm as he hopped into Jacks car, the two driving off.

When they were left alone, Yuno and Mimosa stared in silence at each other for a minute before speaking again, "So... see you at the party?", Yuno asked, Mimosa giggling in response nodded her head, "I mean unless you don't want me there", a slight joking tone came with her response, getting Yuno nervous, "No of course I want you there, I-", once again she giggled, "Don't worry, I'll be there", finding his reaction to her sarcastic comment funny. "Oh ok", Yuno nodded, clearly still a little bit nervous, "Now that we've got that out the way, you still want me to pick you up?", Mimosa's question made Yuno's cheeks burn up slightly, the embarrassment of her proposal not being unfelt by the young man, "Or you know, you could have your mom drop off her star baby",  Mimosa teased him, his face going from slight pink to a full blown embarrassed red, knowing that if he went with his mom, she would more than likely embarrass him, "I uh, could you?", Yuno placed a hand over his eyes when asking, "Would love to", Mimosa answered, a slightly smug smirk being formed on her face as she had found his reaction cute. And after some talking, said mother had arrived to pick up her star baby, "YUNO COME ON- OH MY GOD IS THAT YOUR GIRLFRIEND", his mother stuck her head out of her window the same way she had when she had met Asta, "MOM", Yuno shouted, his face going back to the glowing red as Mimosa just chuckled, "HELLO I'M YUNO'S MOM-", she tried to introduce herself from the car, "Mom stop", Yuno quickly speed walked over to the car and getting into the passenger seat, "YOU'RE VERY PRETTY", Yuno's mom kept dotting on Mimosa, who at this point was laughing a lot, "Mom just go", he held his head in one hand, trying to cover his face as the car began to drive off, leaving the flower girl smiling from ear to ear before she herself went on her way to prepare for the night ahead.

For Noelle and company, she also wore a similar smile to her best friend, excited to surprise everyone with her appearance at tonight's big party. But her friends still thought that it was a really dumb idea, wondering why she wanted to make her arrival so round about when she could've just gone with her boyfriend. But for the moment they decided to just leave it as is since she seemed to have her mind made up pretty clearly, finishing up their business at the locker and talking to some people before making their way through the halls and to the exit doors talking about something that was sort of related, "Some guy asked if I would go to the party with him earlier", Charmy said while taking slight nibbles out of a cafeteria cupcake, "And? What did you tell him?", Noelle raised an eyebrow, rather curious about who and when this happened, "Told him no of course", Noelle and grey raised their eyebrows together considering Charmy hadn't talked to a guy in what felt like forever at least for her standards. "Seriously", Grey decided to be the one to question her, "Uh duh, we had literally never spoken to each other before so how could I say yes", her explanation was still unsatisfactory for the two girls as Charmy had gone on dates before, not so much to get to know whoever she was on them with but more or less just to get free food or go to restaurant her parents couldn't bribe their way into. "Riiiiiiiight", Noelle just nodded her head in a mock understanding of her reasoning, "Charmy again, I don't want to offend you or anything, but when has this ever stopped you before", Grey's question elicited a head turn from Charmy, "What?" "It's just that, it's never stopped you before so why now?", her brow twitched with closed eyes, "Nothing I just-" "Is this about the graffiti tagger guy you keep seeing out and about?", Noelle asked. Her question had Charmy make a face, "Oh my god", Noelle immediately regretted asking, looking over at Grey to see if she had something to say as to divert from the subject, but instead just got a head shake. "Well...I mean...I don't know....kind of...maybe...I don't know", Charmy placed her hand on her forehead, pushing her hair back a little, "I guess, but the problem is...", the other two motioned with their hands for her to get it out, "We've never talked", the two made wincing faces without actually making the sound, "I know it's dumb and I know that it's super weird, but I just kind of have this feeling that if we were to talk or meet, that we'd really get along", she tried to rationalize it, but Noelle and Grey simply stared, trying themselves to do the same, "Let's just hope you're right", the trio walked out of the school for the party.

A few hours later

After Asta and the other two had arrived from their stop, they walked along the streets that led to his house, having been through there a few times since meeting Asta to hang out over in Hage. "I gotta say this place kind of reminds me of the neighborhood me and my mom lived in when I was younger", a warm smile of familiarity spread across her face, seeing kids going back to their homes as the sky had begun to turn orange, "Really where'd you stay?", Asta asked her, genuinely very curious since Sol was the only other student he's met who was from similar circumstances as him, "I don't remember it too well, because mom never really let me leave the house, but it was something like Sussy or something", she shrugged as Asta just moved his mouth to side in disappointment of her answer. Continuing the usual route before eventually getting to Asta's street, walking along the road without a sidewalk leading up to his door and when they made it there the door flung open revealing Vanica who bounced up and down in excitement, "OH MY GOD YOU GUYS ARE FINALLY HERE", she shouted, getting a couple of chuckles from Leo and Sol, watching Asta slowly peel himself off of the ground after getting hit by the door swinging open, "Thanks...I'm fine", the boy grumbled, looking back at the other two who were giving slight snickers, "SORRY I'M JUST SO EXCITED", Vanica apologized with a smile bursting through her attempts to contain herself. "Whatever", Asta dusted himself off and walking passed her, "Come on in guys", he motioned for the other two to join him. Upon entering the Staria house, they were greeted by two girls sitting on the couch, one with brownish hair and funny swirly glasses and the other a girl with white hair that was tied up into pigtails with more normal glasses, adoring strange make up patterns on her face, "Where's everyone else?", Asta asked, "Dante and Lichita went out and Liebe went with Zenon to go see a movie", Vanica answered, "Cool, well I'm gonna go get changed and we can go", he left the two with the others in an awkward silence coupled with the four just looking at each other , "Who uh...who are you guys?", Sol decided to break it as she pointed at the girl with swirly glasses. Her question caused Vanica darted by, "Wellllll, these guys are my friends", the eyepatch wearer held her arm out as if she was presenting some sort of achievement, "Cool, very cool, but......who are they?", Leo asked, "Oh right, this is Loropechka we've been friends for a pretty long time" "Hello", the one with the funny glasses waved at the while the white haired one nodded at them Loropechka gave another wave at them, "And that is Megi, her and I met in Karate, also a longtime friend", Leo and Sol continued to stare at the girl and her strange get up, "What?", she asked them, having some idea of why they were staring. "Nothing you look absolutely stunning", Sol clapped her hands together, closing her eyes as not to feel the cringe of the moment, Leo giving two thumbs up behind her in support. "Uh huh", Megi just squinted her eyes, skeptical of her compliment, "Come on Megi, everyone knows that you're bea-u-ti-ful", Vanica wrapped an arm around her with huge smile, getting her to laugh, "Yeah yeah", she pushed Vanica's head away from her, having delt with the girl's strange habit of invading one's personal space for a pretty amount of time. The group had a bit of light conversation, with the only sound being Vanica humming some random song, which to Megi sounded like the first opening to an anime she was watching called White spade.

With Asta not in the room and Vanica doing as she did, being in her own world while humming, Leo and Sol weren't all too sure what to do to try and get passed having inadvertently insulting Megi in their first meeting. So, the two tried to think of a few topics to see if they could make the silence a little less awkward, "So, ummmm what do you guys like to do?", Sol asked, looking over at Loropechka and Megi. In return, Lolo and Megi stared at each other for a few seconds, possibly preparing a mock answer, "I like to read", Lolo spoke which immediately got Megi to jab her in the side lightly, "What the hell Lolo I thought we were on the same page", Megi withdrew her hand from her, "What page was that? Cause I thought that we were just looking at each other", she rubbed the side that got jabbed, "And stop doing that, last time you did it really hard it left that weird spirally bruise", Megi rolled her eyes at the response, folding her arms with a slightly frustrated face. Sol and Leo just looked at each other, feeling as if they had just made the awkwardness even worse than before, but for one last attempt to make the moment not feel bad, Sol decided to ask about the one thing that they had in common, martial arts. "So, uh you met Vanica in karate?", her question got a slow head turn from Megi, "Umm yeah?", she was confused as to why she was still trying to talk to her, "She's pretty good", Sol pointed at her, sitting across from them with a book in hand. Megi smiled, thinking back to when the two met, "Oh yeah she's always been really good", Lolo giggled as the first day that the two had met, Vanica had randomly stopped her and asked if she wanted see cool karate moves, "Don't remind me", Megi face palmed, annoyed upon reliving the moment that the two had met, "Don't remind you of what?", Leo asked. Megi raised her head to look at the two with a funny smirk on her face, "The first time I ever had a karate class with her the instructor had to keep stopping her because she wouldn't stop doing a wheel kick", her and Lolo shared a chuckle, getting their eye patch wearing friends attention, "Ooooo Are you guys talking about little old me", she slithered from the chair she was sitting on and over to the couch with the others. "Yes, we're talking about how you wouldn't stop doing Acier's wheel kick after you learned how to do it", Megi did a frowny smile, getting Vanica to laugh, "I mean come on, it's a super awesome move", she explained before Lolo joined in on ragging on her, "Or like when we first met you asked me if I wanted to see something cool and you did it then", Vanica's face began to get a little red, "Well I- I- I", she tried to come up with a good retort, instead falling short to do so. The other's erupted in laughter together as Vanica tried to think of a way to get them however, seeing that they were getting along they decided that it was going to be better for them to find her a little weird together than just be passive aggressive to each other separately. 

The four continued to talk about various topics that ranged from stuff they liked to watch, their favorite foods, and the one that came up the most, martial arts. "Alright guys I'm ready", Sol and Leo immediately perched their heads up at the sound of Asta's voice, letting them know it was time to go. And when Asta entered the living room once again, pulling a killer's shirt over his head, "OK LET'S GO", Vanica shot up, blasting out of the front door, "Man that girl never waits", Sol shook her head, "Oh trust me we know", Megi walked past with a chuckle while she moved her head to signal for the others to follow, "Guess that's our ok to go", Asta looked at his classmates, "Then let's not keep the party waiting", Sol laughed, the three older kids leaving the house for their first ever mega party.

At the Grinberryal Estate

Back at Yuno's place, he had just gotten done getting dressed for the party and was currently on the phone with Klaus, the two discussing their plans for the event that was quickly approaching. The main topic of discussion would be how they would each be spending their time there, "So, when do you think everyone else is going to show up?", Klaus asked while looking at their group chat. Yuno didn't respond as he was looking through his texts with Mimosa for the moment, reading her messages as they came, "Yuno?", Klaus called his name in an attempt to get his attention, "Oh sorry, what's up man?", Yuno answered him with a question since he hadn't really been listening to what he was saying for a few minutes, "Everyone else, when are they showing up? I asked in the group chat, but no one has answered yet". Yuno swiped off of his messages with Mimosa, turning to group one

Klaus: Hey guys what's the plan for when we get there?

Magna: Idk

Luck: idk

Asta: well see when we get there

Sol: dude shut up

Leo: iDk

Yuno moved his mouth to the side, seeing that his friends were clearly not all too concerned with putting a plan together for their first party together, "You know, sometimes I wonder how they can always find time to plan for their hang outs, but whenever we go with them, they just end up doing whatever comes first to their minds", Klaus complained as he rummaged through some of his things, looking for an outfit that would fit the occasion. "I don't know man, it's not that bad we already know that we're going to hang out together, we just figure it out from there", Yuno said, wanting him to just get off of it and try to look forward to the night that was awaiting them. "I suppose you're right, but I just wish they would take other things as seriously as they take fighting", Klaus semi agreed with him, stretching a button up shirt to see if it would go well with the rest of his outfit. Yuno took a moment to think about what Klaus said, feeling as if for the most part it wasn't true, Mimosa and Sol were pretty much model students, early homework, A's and B's, and to top it all off Mimosa was Student Council Vice president, so obviously that couldn't be true. However, remembering that the three other boys in there with them were......Average students at best, Leo constantly copying off of his cousins homework, Asta more often then not copying Sol's followed by Sekke trying to get his answers that he got from her, "You can say that again", he laughed, hearing Klaus gasp as if he had finally found what he had been looking for, "What is it", he asked his friend, "Perfect shirt to go with the rest of my suit", Klaus answered which caused a slip of air to leave Yuno's mouth in a failed attempt to stop himself from laughin. "What?", Klaus lifted a singular eyebrow, "I don't know how to tell you this in an easy way, so I'm just going to burst your bubble her.......", Klaus waited for him to finish, "It's a dress casual event dude, it always has been, like have you never heard our other class mates talk about it before?", Yuno's question was followed by a few seconds of silence, "Ok well, I'll talk to you later, I have to find something else to wear", the two shared a laugh before Klaus hung up, leaving Yuno to his own thoughts.

And those thoughts centered around one particular girl, Mimosa. He skimmed through their messages, looking at the memes, random middle of the night texts of him asking her what she's doing, stuff of that nature. But for the time being he decided to shoot her a text to see how close or far she was to his place

Me: How far are you?

Read 8:22 PM

Yuno sent her the text, seeing that she read it but didn't even begin to type a response, "Hm", he moved his mouth to the side, "She's probably driving right now", he put his phone back into his pocket before turning into his restroom to look himself in the mirror to look for any sort of flaws in his hair or face, "YUNO HONEY", he could hear his mom's voice echo from the other side of the house, "Yeah mom?", he respond by calling out into the hall way, "What the hell am I thinking their room is like a million miles away", he rolled his eyes before leaving his room to walk to his parents. Yuno walked along the halls of his house, room's that never really had people in them aside from the people that they either had clean them or decorate them, "Sometimes I wonder why they bought this place", he passed more and more empty rooms, "They don't have any friends, I've never even met my grandparents, so what did they think they were going to do with this place", he continued through, every now and again peering into a room that either had a bedroom like layout, some having an almost living room layout and all of them were devoid of any human activity. In a weird way, it's kind of a representation of their lives since Yuno could remember, not too many people had been in his life growing up aside from Klaus. That was until meeting Asta though, I mean since they met, he's been able to become friends with quite a few people, Leo, Magna, Vanica, Luck, hell even Sol was a pretty good friend, and all that is not even to mention Mimosa. All things considered, this school seemed like it was going to be pretty awesome and tonight would help kick start that. After some more absent-minded wandering around his family's massive house, he made it to the stairs in the entrance.

To his horror, his mom was talking to Mimosa and to make it worse, his mom was showing her a phone as the two laughed together, "MOM", he called out, making a break down the stairs towards them. "Hi baby, I was just talking to your lady friend", she giggled at the sight of her son being so frantic as opposed to his usual cool demeanor. Yuno quickly walked over to the two, his face a red as a tomato, "Ok cool, see you guys later, we're going now", he tried to get the two of them out of there as soon as possible. "HAVE A GOOD TIME SWEETY", Loyce forced the door open from the inside as Yuno then closed it, "Jesus man", a slight tisk came from him which made Mimosa giggle. "Oh, come on Yuno, she's not that bad", she tried to assure him that his mom was quite cool, "Try saying that when she spent embarrassing you almost every time you met someone new, you wouldn't be keeping that same energy", Yuno just shook his head, a little slide show in his mind of her embarrassing moments played back to him. "Nah, my mom's done some embarrassing things, but I don't think I've ever really cared when she did", Mimosa tried to defend Loyce, but Yuno still seemed rather unconvinced. "Maybe you didn't, but I do", his response made her frown a little, "Well you should, you don't know when your moms not going to be well, so you should appreciate her while she can do these things", Yuno lifted his head to look over at her. Mimosa looked sad, and honestly a little irritated, "Yeah.........Maybe you're right", the two walked over to her car, getting in to go to Fragils.

At the Silva estate

Noelle looked in the mirror, admiring her outfit as she put on the last touches of her hair, two ties that put up her signature pigtails, and behind her was Nebra sitting on her bed with a smile, happy to see that her sister was excited. "Gotta say, haven't seen you this excited for a party in pretty long time", Nebra leaned her chin into her palm as she watched Noelle pat her face down with some make up, "Which makes me want to ask why's this one so special?", her question had Noelle turn to face her whilst trying to contain her smile, "I don't know, I just have a feeling that it's going to be better than any of the parties before", she answered her sisters question. Nebra nodded her head with a look of approval, "So who's going to take? Mimosa? Charmy?", her question got Noelle to slowly turn around once again to face her, "Yeaaaaaaah...so about that, I was wondering if you could be the one to take me", she clasped her hands together, putting them near her nervous looking face. Nebra chuckled, shaking her head, not because she wasn't going to or didn't want to, but because she could remember having a very similar conversation with Nozel about a party she went to when she was a sophomore in high school, "Is that a no?", her sister popped the question, "Don't worry, I'll take you, just had a moment of deja vu", she laughed, placing her hand in front of her mouth to cover it up. "Oh, thank god because I didn't really have much of a plan if you weren't going to do it", Noelle quicky let her lack of planning out of the bag which elicited a bigger laugh from her sister, "What?", she raised an eyebrow at her reaction since she didn't find it quite as funny, "Nothing, nothing it's just that I swear that you and I are so alike that its crazy", Nebra wiped a tear of laughter away before standing up, "Anyway, I'm going to go get changed and you can just ring me when you're ready to get going", she waved at her, showing herself out of her room, "Will do", Noelle turned back around to again look herself in the mirror at her seemingly perfect outfit. Although she had felt that her attire was lacking with it, the skirt was perfect, the shirt was perfect, and her hair seemed basically perfect, yet there was a weird feeling that something was missing. She scanned her room to see if she could find that something, and then she did, on her desk chair was draped a jacket with a slightly popped collar, "Oh why hello there", prancing over it, she lifted it into the air to give herself a full view of the garment, "Where did I get you", slowly placing the jacket onto herself, feeling it up, turning around to give it a full view on how it looked on her. To the jacket's credit, it made her look really good, "oooo", her little sound of amusement had sealed the deal, it was the final piece to complete her look. 

Before she could ring her sister to tell her that she was ready to go though, her own phone rang and on the call display, was her boyfriend's name. Feeling excited to talk to him, Noelle immediately swiped to talk to him, "Hello", she opened the call by greeting him. "Hey babe", his voice still made her feel butterflies in her stomach, "What's up?", her excitement could almost be felt through the phone, "Nah, I was just calling to see what you were doing", Noelle held one of her hands over her heart, "Awwwww, babe", her moment of fawning gave way to some laughter from her boyfriend that was just barely audible. "So, what are you doing right now?", Kiato repeated his question which got a smile from Noelle, "Oh nothing, just laying down in bed", she quickly went from standing to sitting and then to laying down, "And you?", Kiato didn't answer for a second, then he spoke, "I just got dressed and wanted to talk to you before I went to the party", Kiato's answer made Noelle smirk freely as there was no consequence of her letting it keep going. "How nice", she replied, holding her free hand near her heart, "You know me, I just love you so much", her boyfriend responded in a similar tone before asking her another question, "I also wanted to see if you still weren't coming", Noelle noticed a slight change in tone, but decided to just ignore it, "Yeah, sorry babe but mom said that I was still in trouble".  A little more silence followed her answer before a sigh from Kiato's end of the call buzzed through, "Damn", she could hear another sigh and if she was being perfectly honest, it did make her happy. Not because he was disappointed, but because he cared enough about her to be as well as the fact that it wouldn't last since she would be showing up to make sure that he wouldn't feel that way for long. "Hey, Kiato, are you ready to go?", the two's conversation was interrupted by the sound of his little sister coming to see if they were leaving, "Sure, just give me a second, sorry Kahono's trying to get there as soon as possible", Noelle giggled, finding their interaction funny. That was until a memory from yesterday hit her, "I was just asking Asta if he was going to be at Fragil's party", the girls answer to her question had stuck around in her head a bit, "WAIT, can I have your number?" "Noelle has it", then the memory of her dumping a fake number onto her for....... no reason she supposed, also came back and it left her feeling a tad bit weird in the stomach, "Wait" "What?" "Did Kahono ever tell you about yesterday?" "What? No, what happened yesterday?", Kiato asked, making Noelle feel a bit nervous falling silent to respond, "Hello?", her boyfriend's voice came through the other end after a minute of her silence, "Oh yeah sorry", she shook her head to bring herself back down to earth, "What's up?" "Kahono, you said that something happened with her yesterday" "Right, well......Not much she just asked me for a friend's number, said that she wanted to ask him some questions or something", Noelle decided to just brush it off as smaller than it was, "Really? That's what happened?" "I mean yes, it was trivial enough that she didn't tell you", Kiato took a moment to think about it, "Guess you're right" "KIATO COME ON ARE YOU JUST GOING TO TAKE FOREVER", Noelle heard the girl they were talking about in the back, "Sorry babe, but I guess I gotta go" "No worries you wouldn't want to keep the princess of the ocean waiting", she giggled as Kiato's line hung up went dead. Noelle stayed on her bed, looking at the ceiling of her room in anticipation of the night ahead, "Man......I just have a great feeling about tonight", she rolled around a little in a bit of excitement, her knees and arms tucked into the cradle position before she stopped in the center of her bed sprawled out so that she could return to looking at the ceiling. "I'm going to be there with Mimosa, Charmy, Grey.........Asta....", her mind wandered to the young man, the two having trained the night prior before, him teaching her how to throw her mother's signature combination. 

A jab straight jab into a spinning wheel kick landed on the bag, Noelle overshooting it and catching most of it with her calf and the back of her knee, knocking her over as she made contact with the bag, "Hahaha", he laughed at her falling over after she hit the bag with the worst spinning kick ever, "What? I'm new", Noelle giggled before Asta helped her up, "No no, it was a great kick", he replied, clearly trying to hold in his laughter, "Well, trust me pretty soon I'll get the hang of it", she weakly kicked Asta in the leg. However, Asta didn't really respond to that tid bit, just showing her the combo again, and it didn't go unnoticed by Noelle who watched him do it again *Bang* *Smack* *Bang* *POOOOOOOOOOOW* the sound rung out, "Hey I said something", she shook her head, "And?" "What do you mean and? You have nothing to say about it?", the two quickly made eye contact, before Asta pulled his gaze away, "What?" "Nothing", Noelle could see that he had sucked his lower teeth into his mouth, "Come on you can tell me", Asta sighed while rubbing the back of his neck, "It's just that.......I can't really imagine you doing this", his answer made Noelle feel weird in her stomach, "What does that mean?", some nervous laughter came with her question, "It's just that you don't train, you don't come in consistently, and it's kind of clear that you don't really have a passion for fighting", Noelle began to tighten her fists inside the gloves she was wearing, "Uh huh" "And without any of that, how are you going to get better at something that requires more than just training once in a blue moon?". The two stopped talking for a few minutes, "Look I'm sorry I-" "No it's fine, I know, I'm just some loser who can't sing, can't act, can't dance, can't set fashion trends, and can't fight I get it", Asta moved his mouth to the side, feeling like the two had done this before, "Noelle I didn't mean it like that-" "No of course not, cause if my own mom didn't think I could do it, then why would you", Asta noticed that the gloves were contracting and closing up. It hit him, they had done this before, the first time they had to clean for detention together, "Noelle, relax I'm not saying that you can't I'm saying that at the rate you're going you just won't" "Oh yeah and what rate is that?", a quick snappy reply followed. Asta just frowned as he thought of a way to redirect the mood, but he couldn't, his words clearly hurt her, "Hey" "What?" "How about we do some sparring?", Asta asked, getting Noelle to shake her head, "I'm sorry......what?", lifting an eyebrow with an open mouth she looked up at him, "Sparring? Ever heard of it?" "No, I know what that is, just why now?" "Well, if I'm right and you have no passion for it then you won't, but if I'm wrong......and your moms wrong then you will", Noelle bit her lip, wanting the two to be wrong, but also being rather scared since she had seen him face plant a top fighter not too long ago, "I mean I would but I just don't want to get beat on-" "Why? Mimosa did", she bit her lip even harder, "I.....I" "See what I mean?", Asta said, but he didn't say it normally, there was an unusual amount of snark, "NO", she shot up, "Oh so you want to?" "Whatever will get you to shut up", Noelle approached him rather quickly, getting a smile from him. And right out of the gate Noelle began to swing wildly at him *WOOSH WOOSH WOOSH* winging sloppy hook after sloppy hook, "I WISH PEOPLE LIKE YOU WOULD JUST SHUT UP", Noelle yelled after missing it, *SWISH* Asta ducked out the way of a cross pivoting off of her center line and sliding away, "MOM TOLD ME THAT I COULDN'T DO IT, THE TEACHERS, MEREO, FUEGO, THEY ALL SAID THAT I COULDN'T FIGHT SOMEONE LIKE YOU", a smile formed on his face as he stood still as he weaved out of the way of Noelle's flurry's, "AND TO MAKE IT WORSE NOT EVEN GREY OR CHARMY THINK THAT I COULD" *WOOSH SWISH WOOSH* An upper cut all the way from Noelle's hip missed Asta making eye contact with her for a split moment before he circled all the way to Noelle's back, "EVEN YOU DON'T THINK THAT I COULD", she spun around with a really terrible back fist *SMACK* a moment of clarity that hit her as she thought that she connected on Asta. But when her head turned all the way around, Asta had blocked the punch, "You done?", A smug smile wore across his face, "Huh?", Noelle heaved out, "Your tantrum you done?", once again she was about to explode. That was until a moment of Deja Vu hit her, "Have...have we done this before?", her question was met with Asta letting out a chuckle, "Yep, the day that we first had detention together", his answer immediately caused her to cringe, "Oh right", her breaths were clearly heard as her chest went up and down, "Breathing heavy?" "You...have...no idea" "Good, because now I know?" "Know what?" "Know that you do have it in you to fight, even when there isn't much hope of winning", Noelle cracked a smile, his praise made her really happy for some reason. "I guess...I guess you're right". Asta pushed arm causing Noelle to spin around, "HEY", she ended up tripping and falling over, "WHAT WAS THAT FOR", she looked over her shoulder to see Asta holding his hand out, "Nothing, just thought it was funny" "You jerk" "Call me whatever so long as it keeps you motivated, now come on we still got some time to train", Noelle looked at his hand, "Right", she took it, getting pulled back up to her feet so they could continue.

Noelle smiled, thinking about the fun the two had training together, "I was right about you", she turned to her side as she lifted her phone to her face. The first thing that she saw was her text's with Asta, the two talking about what she needed to work on in learning how to fight along with a video he took of her swinging at him with the message "Look back to this video when youre an actual fighter  so that you can laugh at how bad you were" she giggled, "You're a pretty great guy after all", Noelle put her phone down, just catching a glimpse at the time, "One hour and then we're going", she closed her eyes, deciding to take a beauty nap before the big party.

As for Kiato, right after he hung up on his girlfriend Kahono had immediately comeback to pester him, "KIATO COME ON COME ON, WE HAVE TO GET THERE SOON", she began to throw some light punches over head at her brother, eliciting a slight laugh from him as he lifted his forearm over his head to protect himself from some of the blows, "I know, don't worry we'll get there in no time", Kiato gently pushed her out of the way, "Just give me a little more time to call a friend", he picked up his phone, "Who're you calling?" "Rebecca" "The red-haired girl?", Kiato nodded his which got a little frown from his sister, "What?" "Nothing, I just think that she a little too friendly with you, I mean does she not know that you have a girlfriend", her answer made Kiato suck his teeth a bit, "Of course she does, I'm just helping her through a bad break up", Kahono's face got even more sour, "See, like that's so weird, she doesn't have any girl friends to lean on, I mean if I was going through a bad break up I would talk to my friends, not some guy that I met not too long ago", he rolled his eyes at the response, "Whatever, just go down stairs while I make a call", he ushered his sister out of his room, "Fine", Kahono obeyed and left, leaving him to make a call. He waited as he could hear the ring of the phone go...and go...and go, and when it seemed like she was not going to be picking up, "Hello?", her voice came through, "Hey Becca how're you doing?", he asked hearing her sigh, "Just got off of work, shit day", her answer got Kiato nodding his head, "That sucks to hear, but I have a way to make it suck less" "And what's that?" "Y'know Fragils party?" "Oh right, that was today", the sound of her car turning off and her exiting made it to his end of the call, "Noelle isn't coming after all?" "Nope, we're free to go together" "Won't people there get suspicious?" "Nah, told people I would bring two people, and you can be that third", Rebecca stayed quiet for a moment, "Who's two?" "Kahono", more silence ensued, Rebecca remembering the text that she received from his sister the other day, "Know what, sure I'll go", she remembered that Kahono was asking if Asta was going to be there, which might get in the way of her plan to break things off, "Great to hear, I'll pick you up in a bit" "Sure" "Love you", Rebecca moved her tongue around her mouth before responding, "Love you too", she hung up, "Not".

Before Fragils party 

Asta drove on through his part of the city, getting on with his mission to pick up his other friends on the way to fragils place. At the moment though, Vanica and her friends were loudly singing whatever song that came through Asta's playlist, from rock or punk to pop and every random in between the song of the moment, "AND THEY COME UNSTUCK, LADY GOING DOWN TO THE RIPTIDE TAKING AWAY TO THE DARK SIDE", the trio of younger girls all sung along to the sound of riptide by Vance Joy, "COME ON GUYS JOIN IN", Vanica called for the others to sing along and since they had done this a few times since meeting Asta their first hang out and the one at the skatepark coming to mind before Sol and Leo cracked and began to sing with them. "I WANNA BE YOUR LEFT HAND MAN, I LOVE YOU WHEN YOU WHEN YOU'RE SINGING THAT SONG AND I GOT LUMP IN THROAT CAUSE YOUR GONNA SING THE WORDS WRONG", the group sang together, going and going until it had finished which gave Asta a moment to turn the music off to see double check when they would likely be arriving to the party, "Hey what gives turn the tunes back up", Vanica grabbed the shoulders of the driver seat and shook it, "Sorry I'll put the music back on in a second I'm just trying to see when we should be getting there", Asta brushed her hands off to prevent any further shaking. He swiped and pressed on his phone, scrolling to the maps app to do as he told Vanica he was, "Says it's going to be 25 minutes, after we go get Magna and Luck". 

"ALRIGHT", Vanica, Megi, and Lolo shouted together, tugging, pulling and shoving each other. Sol cracked a smirk, it was nice to see that they seemed excited to hang out with them, more in particular that the other two seemed to warm up to her and Leo. "NOW PUT THE MUSIC BACK ON", Megi screamed at the top of her lungs, making Leo and Sol cover their ears, "Geez, Asta's effected them more than they even know", Sol smirked, "Tell me about it", Leo agreed, the two looking back the trio as the music once again began to play. "AM I MORE THAN YOU BARGAINED FOR YET?", they began singing once again, Megi and Vanica seemingly quite a bit more into it than Lolo was. Sol took note and decided to ask the girl why that was, "Hey", she tapped her on the shoulder to get her attention since the music plus Vanica and Megi was too loud to hear normally, "What do you need?", Lolo asked, looking over her shoulder as she did. "Nothing, just noticed that you weren't singing as loud as the other two", Sol nodded her head to point at them which got Lolo to giggle, "LIE IN THE GRASS NEXT TO THE MOSILIUM", a smile formed on her face before she turned over to make it easier for Sol to hear, "I'm not as big a rock or alt music fan as they are, but they love it so I tend to partake whenever they do". "LOLO COME ON SING WITH US", Vanica interrupted their conversation to get them to join back into the singing. Lolo giggled again, giving a funny roll of the eyes before getting back in on it, "DROP A HEART BREAK A NAME, WE'RE ALWAYS SLEEPING IN AND SLEEPING FOR THE WRONG TEAM", the eyepatch wearer looked to Sol and Leo to get them to join the Chorus. Feeling the infectious energy from her, they complied with her unverbalized demand and sang along with them, "WE'RE GOING DOWN, DOWN IN AN EARLIER ROUND. AND SUGAR WE'RE GOING DOWN SWINGING I'LL BE YOUR NUMBER ONE A LOADED GOD COMPLEX COCK IT AND PULL IT". The groups singing made Asta feel good, knowing that everyone else was having a good time, it was almost like a good sign of the night to come. Hopefully Magna and Luck wouldn't kick up dust or start trouble to ruin it though.

After some music filled driving, the group arrived at Luck's place, where he lived with his mom and adoptive sister, Vanessa. It also served as a bit of a hub to hang out since it was the closest to the skate park, an actually walkable distance to Yami's auto shop, and the only place aside from Fanzel's gym that the gang could train together, since Luck's mom allowed them to turn the garage into a small training area. For right now though, they just needed to pick up the duo that always seemed to be at each other's throats. And for what it was worth, they made it so that no two hangouts were ever the same nor boring, "Ok, let me call Luck", Asta grabbed his phone from the holder. However, he got stopped by Vanessa calling out to him, "Hey kid, don't worry he's coming", Asta looked up to see the pink haired girl leaning in the frame of the front door, "Hey Vanessa", Sol stuck her head out of the very back windows while waving at her. Vanessa waved back at her before Luck came bolting out behind her, "SEE YOU LATER", he quickly told her, darting towards the driver's side window, "OPEN UP OPEN UP OPEN UP", the boy bounced up and down occasionally looking over his shoulder. Which could only mean one thing, "LUCK", Magna blazed behind him, obviously mad about something, "NO", Luck laughed as he ran around the car, "God damn it", Asta rolled his eyes, getting out of the car to try and settle whatever was going on between the two. Upon exiting the car, he could see Luck bouncing left and right, obviously trying to get Magna to trip so that he could get in, "What the hell happened between you two?", Asta stopped them, getting both to look at him, "Luck took my glasses if you haven't noticed", Magna pointed at his eyes which yeah, his glasses weren't there. "AND I SAID COME GET THEM", Luck had a large smile strewn across his face. Asta sighed, "Dude just give it back before we're late to the party" "Or what?" "Or we don't take you with us", Asta told him, trying to get him to back off with as little resistance as possible, "Fine", and it worked since Luck reached into his back pocket to give the glasses back to Magna, "Good, but I'm not sitting next to this guy for the ride", Magna put them back on after he rubbed the lens of whatever smudges that Luck got on them. "Uhhhhh", Asta groaned because that meant he would need to use more brain power to solve the problem. Rubbing his temples, he began to think of what to do, "How about we just separate them", Vanica poked her head out of her window. "That could work, but that would mean one of you guys would have to give up your seat", he looked back at the car, too which Megi, Vanica, and Lolo whistled as if they didn't just hear what he said, "That's what I thought", he turned his attention back to the two, "Well, I'm not sitting next to him", Magna remained firm on his stance, getting an annoyed sigh from Asta. Not that he didn't get it, Luck could be really rumbunctious sometimes......... a lot of the time, but right now it was getting in the way of tonight's plan, "I can give up my seat", Leo raised his hand. A big wave of relief washed over Asta who clapped his hands, "Cool magna you can sit in the back with Sol and Luck you're in the trunk with Leo, that good?", he raised an eyebrow. But before the two could have any hint of disagreeing, Asta hit them with a look that would kill a mere mortal, "Sure sounds great", Magna walked over to the car, "Yep", Luck followed behind.

Because of the Luck and Magna's argument, the whole group had to get out of the car so that they could re seat themselves, Magna went into the back seat with Sol while Luck and Leo had to crawl in the further back part. Lastly, Megi and Lolo took the seats that they had prior, "Ah finally someone who isn't going to constantly berate me", Magna sighed, "I don't know about that", Sol smirked, joking around with the wrestler, "Oh really? You have the capacity to punch or kick me?", Magna sarcastically raised an eyebrow. As much as Sol hated to admit it, he did indeed get her, she had almost zero striking proficiency, "No, but I could try tossing you around back her", an attempt at making a snide comeback was made, "Just like when I kept double legging and suplexing you when we were training for your guy's tournament thingy?", but Yami bringing in other students to help them train bit her in the ass, "Damn, you got me", She unfortunately had to admit defeat, at least for right now. As for Leo and Luck, the two were talking about striking, more in particular the boxing aspect of it, "You had really good hands man", Luck complimented him, having boxed a couple times with Leo before Theresa had decided that his boxing wasn't going to be of much help to the boy. "Thanks, your boxing wasn't anything to scough at either", Leo reciprocated, with the feel he got from him being good, "I'm not as good as Asta though", Leo shook his head, since in his mind both of them were kick boxers, "What? Aren't you both kick boxers?", Leo asked, getting a chuckle in return. "We are, but different forms of it" "And that means?" "Well, I do Sanda, which has a lot of focus on spinning elbows and kicks, and he's a Dutch fighter and most Dutch strikers have good boxing to help with their traditional combos", Leo nodded his head, making sense of it, since now that he thought about it, Him, Vanica, and Asta had wildly different approaches to their boxing. "WELL THEN ASTA LET'S BE ON OUR WAY", Vanica threw light, weak punches at him, wanting to get going as soon as possible. "Yeah, yeah I know we're going now", Asta placed his phone back in the hold as he started the car back up.

With Mimosa and Yuno

As for Yuno and Mimosa, they're ride was going way more smoothly, maybe because it was just them two. But it would be a lie to say that there was absolutely no tension, since even though they were conversing nicely, there still laid a bit of bothered energy that came from Mimosa. And Yuno suspected that it had something to do with their interactions with his mom, since she seemed to be pretty upset at how he talked about her. For right now though, the two were getting on fine, talking about various topics like music, school, fighting, stuff that they had in come and even things that they didn't. Both trying to learn about each other and taking a genuine interest in the other. Currently they were talking about the music Mimosa had chosen to play "Jenny was a friend of mine" by the Killers, which from what Yuno has gathered so far, they were her favorite band. She had played a few songs from them and by a few he meant a lot, and Yuno thought it was fine, it seemed like the type of music that you would listen to, to get over a heart break or something. For example, she played a song called Mr. Brightside, and not to say he didn't like it, it just didn't seem like it was for him. "So, you're a big fan of rock and stuff?", he popped the question to her, "Oh my god, I love rock", Mimosa looked excited to talk about it. "Going to be really honest, you don't really seem like the type to listen to it", Yuno chuckled, "I think Asta told me the same thing a while ago", Yuno turned his head to her. "When did you guys talk about music?", he asked, with a slight shake of his head. "We talked about it a while ago, probably in the first few days he got here, just saw that he had one of their albums as a wallpaper", Yuno nodded his head in silence. Mimosa took a little note, "What? You jealous?", her question made Yuno turn a slight shade of red. "Awwww you are", she teased the boy, who looked away, "No I'm not", Yuno tried to wave the notion away. But it was already set in stone, from an outside perspective, he did seem like he was a little jealous, I mean there was that one time that she kind of joked that her and Asta was a thing the first time they hung out, but that didn't mean anything. Oh no, he was jealous, but only a little.

"Don't worry, it's not and won't ever be like that", she assured him, giving the boy a moment of relief. "And besides, I have way more to be jealous of with you than you do me", Mimosa said, gripping her steering wheel a slight bit harder than normal. For Yuno though, what she said literally made no sense, he hadn't talked to too many people prior to meeting Asta and the one person he did talk to, Klaus, was also a bit of a loner. As for Mimosa, she was genuinely really surprised that he had no clue how popular he was amongst the girls at their school, "Are you serious?", Yuno shook his head at the question, wanting her to further elaborate on what she meant. "He really doesn't know", Mimosa shook her head, "I guess if you have to know, when you were captain of the football team, quite a few girls talked about you", an eyebrow raise followed her statement and he didn't really know what to do. If he acknowledged it, it might upset Mimosa and if he didn't it might seem like he's trying too hard to ignore it. "Hm", that was most definitely not the correct response, "Hm, that's all you have to say?", Mimosa smirked, stopping the car at a light to look at him, "I mean what do you want me to say? I never knew that was a thing", he shrugged his shoulders to try and get past the subject.

"Besides, even if before now I did, I'm pretty sure that my mom would just get in the way", he leaned his chin into the palm of his hand, looking out of the window. Then it was there again, that bit of awkward air that he could feel emanating from Mimosa the last time they talked about his mom. "I don't your mom seems like a sweet lady, I don't know why you're so sour on her", Mimosa frowned, as the green of the stop light made its way into her car, which let her know it was time to drive on. Yuno collected his thoughts for a moment, trying to put it into words because it's not like he didn't love his mom, of course he did. It was just that she had huge tendency to embarrass him whenever he would meet new people, like some of the people who were on the football team when he was captain, the first time that they went to his place, she immediately started telling them about embarrassing stories about himself when he was a kid. Then in middle school, he brought over a female friend so that they could work on a class project they got assigned, and when he got up to use the restroom, she had come in asking the girl questions. Really embarrassing ones at that, like if the two were dating, if she thought that her little star baby was attractive, stuff like that. He finally had a way to explain why he acted that way with his mom, "Look I love my mom, it's just that she can do or say stuff that is really embarrassing, and it just has been a thing that's gotten in the way of my social life", Yuno gave his explanation, which still seemed to bother Mimosa. "Why though? I mean if people weren't going to hang out with you cause your mom was embarrassing, that just means you probably weren't friends to begin with", and fair, it was hard to argue with that. Seeing that she was right, Yuno had to concede, "Yeah, guess that is true", hearing him agree made her happy that she was getting through to him, but she said one more thing to seal it, "And besides, Asta's met your mom, I've met your mom, and it's not like we suddenly want to not hang out with you", Mimosa gave a little side eye with a smile. Again, she had made a point that Yuno couldn't really refute, "Hm you're right, maybe I've been a little harsh on my mom", after all, when he was a kid anytime something bad happened to him, she took him for ice cream, or something that would cheer him up. She never disappeared into her work, unlike his father, "Glad you're seeing things the way they are", Mimosa held her head up in smug victory. Yuno chuckled at her response, but after all the pushback he got on his mom, it did make him curious about hers.

"What's your mom like?", his question came at the same time as another stop light, the red from the crossing leaking into the car. He sat in silence for what felt like forever, waiting for her to respond, "She's great", and when it finally came it was a two-word answer before she started driving again. "That's weird", Yuno took a mental note of her response and not wanting to make things awkward or make it feel like he was pushing for some sort of answer, he just changed the subject so that the rest of the car ride wouldn't just be silence when it was going so well before hand, "That's good to hear", he ended the subject and the two got on like before and drove to Fragils place.

With Sekke

For one Sekke Bronazza, he had to get a ride from the one guy that he could comfortably rely on in his life, Jack Ripper, and trust before you comment on the name, he thought that his name was incredibly strange as well. Aside all that though, Jack was a reliable guy and Sekke did look up to him. He had been the guy who trained him since he got into high school, and for the most part he was the only person he felt like he good go to for anything. And since neither his mom nor dad wanted to take him to this party, Jack offered to take him. "You know I'm glad that you're doing this kid", Jack looked over at Sekke, who was checking his phone, likely for the group chat that the others had let him into, "Really?", Sekke shook his head. For as long as he has known him, Jack always promoted this sort of safe go approach, so he didn't really go to too many parties. Or it's more like he didn't get invited to too many therefore he never had the chance to go, "Of course, you're young you should be able to go and do the things you want with your friends", Sekke smiled a little, he had never seen Jack so excited. When he looked back at Jack, his face seemed to be quite somber in contrast to what he just told him, "And you gotta do it before you get too old to", Sekke could hear that his tone had gone down quite a bit, another strange contrast to how he said it before. It made Sekke think about him, Yami, and Ms. Roselei. I mean, in his mind, at some point they had to have drifted apart, considering how they reacted when they saw each other again. "Is...is that what happened with Yami?", Jack looked over at Sekke, seeing that he looked kind of sad. "Yes, but kid that's just life, things happen, pulls you into other stuff to do and bam, you're here and you don't even know how or why", Sekke looked ahead, watching as Jack drove on, not even sure what to say to his answer. Jack could feel that, so he offered up words of comfort, "But for you kid, it doesn't have to be that way", he looked over to his student who seemed to be confused, "You literally just said that's life though?" "For me that was, but I don't have all the things that you have", Sekke shook his head which did make Jack laugh, "What do you mean?" "Well, you're training with people who are chasing world championship status, and there's nothing that's going to stop them from trying to get there" "And?" "And that means that they'll shove as much time as possible there, and if you haven't noticed you guys have already built a team together in the short time that you've been hanging out, if you keep this up all you'll have to do is be there with them in pursuit of that dream", Sekke's eyes widened. Jack was right, life pulled him, Charlotte, and Yami in wildly different directions, meaning that whatever dreams of being fighters they had went with them. But he still had a chance to chase the dream of being world class with them, "TRIUMPH TRIUMPH TRIUMPH", the others cheering that before their fall event came to mind. "So, don't go wasting your time, because before you know it, you'll have no time to waste". Sekke nodded his head, finally understanding what Jack's been trying to push him towards since they met, "I won't", the shared a smile before Jack ruffled his hair, "Now go and have a great time" "I WILL", the two had finally made it to Fragils house, Jack stopping just short of the gate. Watching Sekke get out, he got ready to leave, "Jack, thanks a lot for doing this". Jack didn't have kids of his own, but Sekke was the closest thing he was going to get, "No problem kiddo", he waved back before leaving his student to enjoy the night.

After Sekke got out of the car and waved his teacher goodbye, other cars had started to pull up to the gate, and soon enough he could see Asta's van coming down the street. Followed by a myriad of other cars, "Looks like we're all here", Sekke waved to Asta as he pulled in and parked. At the same time another car pulled up closer to him, when the occupants of that car exited, he saw that it was Kiato and his little sister. "Oh, brother this guy", Sekke shook his head, seeing as a few girls came up to him and started to dot on him, "Hey kiato where's your girlfriend" "Yeah where's the super star herself?", he watched them all ask question after question while he tried to get out of his car. And if he was being completely honest with himself, there was a bit of himself that kind of wanted that, something about people really wanting to know who you are and wanting to get close to you is a thing he's wanted for a long time. But casting those thoughts away he turned back around to see that the whole crew was making their way towards him, "Hey guys", Sekke waved and began to try and meet them halfway, "Sup", Sol nodded her head, "Yo", Leo waved back with the others doing mostly the same, "Hope the trip wasn't too bad with those two", Sekke laughed, watching as Magna approached with his hands in his pockets and Luck tailing with a smirk, "Oh my god tell me about it, thw]rey were fighting in the back the whole time", Asta rolled his eyes, meeting Sekke with a high five. Sekke chuckled again, before seeing Vanica with two other people, "Oh you guys are new", he shook his head, "We're friends of Vanica's", the girl with funny glasses spoke up, "What she said", the girl with odd make up followed, "Cool", Sekke nodded his and turned around to start approaching Fragil's gate. 

As they talked, Yuno and Mimosa saw them gathered at the back of the crowd that had gathered, "Looks like we're the last ones here", Mimosa joked, looking over to see Yuno smiling back at her, "Guess so", the pair shared a nod, parking the car, "Shouldn't keep them waiting now should we?", Yuno teased, "Read my mind", Mimosa responded, getting out of the car. The two began to walk towards the crowd, the voices of their friend group being less and less faint as they got closer, "Fragil hasn't opened the place up yet?", Mimosa popped a question to get their attention, "She still has five minutes to do it", Leo said, looking back at his cousin. Asta turned around with him, watching Yuno and her walk towards them. When they got to them, Asta walked up to Yuno with a super smug face, "So.... you came with her huh?", he nudged Yuno with his elbow a couple of times before Yuno pushed him away, "Cut it out man", he laughed, "But yeah I hitched a ride with Mimosa", Asta nodded his head, "Ok ok I see", the two laughed which got everyone else's attention, "Oh sup guys", Sol waved at them, Vanica ran up to Mimosa and got in her face, "HEY MIMO, EXCITED FOR THE PARTY? I AM I'M REALLY EXCITED", Mimosa started to giggle while Lolo and Megi pulled her away from her, "Sorry", Lolo bowed her head a few times at her, "No don't worry, I'm used to it, she does it all the time whenever she comes to train with us", Mimosa waved her hands, wanting them to know it wasn't any trouble. Magna came from behind and put his arms around Sol and Leo, "Still, shouldn't be sticking your head in peoples faces Vanica, its why you have two friends your own age", he joked, Vanica flailing her arms, "Sorry I just get excited to do cool things and meet new people and fight and-" "Ok we get it girl calm down", Megi patted her on the back, trying to get her to shut up, "Nothing wrong with that", Luck laughed and did the same. Looking at the group all act together as one, Sekke smiled to see that he was a part of it, "Yeah, sometimes getting to be friends with new people is exciting", he chimed in, getting a few stares from the group, "Of course you'd say that you're the one who was known as a failed play boy", Leo laughed as he walked up to him and wrapped an arm around him, "Hey I got a few numbers", Sekke pushed him off, "A few fake ones", Sol playfully shoved him, "Yeah yeah I get it", he rolled his eyes, watching Asta laugh along. "Meeting you.... man did that hook wake me up", Sekke began to jab and prod and poke along with everyone else.

And they continued on like that, joking as one before Fragil's voice rang out into the crowd that was waiting to be let in, "HELLO EVERYONE THANKS FOR WAITING", the sirens that stood atop one of the gate posts began to blare her voice out to them, "This usually how it goes?", Yuno raised an eyebrow, "From what I've been told from Noelle, yes", Mimosa answered, everyone looking at the siren, "WITHOUT FURTHER ADO YOU WILL NOW BE ALLOWED ENTRY TO THE KILLER START TO THE YEAR PARTY, SO ENJOY", the crowd roared as the gates slowly began to open, "Oh man this is so exciting", Vanica bounced up and down, waiting for the crowd to finally get through so that they could follow. "I'd say I'm not, but that would be a lie, I've never seen a place this big that wasn't on T.V", Megi nodded her head, agreeing with her friend as Lolo did the same. Soon the large crowd in front of the group had begun funneling into the place, "Wah hey watch it", the crowd had begun to engulf the group, "HEY GUYS WAIT", Mimosa raised her hand, trying to signal where she was, "OVER HERE", Sol called to the others, being a little taller than the others meant that she could sort of see the top of everyone's head, but the more and more that the crowd pushed the further and further they had got. And after a couple of minutes, she couldn't see any of them anymore, the whole group having been split up, "Damn it", she groaned, the crowd constantly pushing her more and more. So, she began to push past them, trying to find a place that wasn't absolutely filled to the brim with other people, something that was harder than expected since apparently everyone to have ever lived was there. "Oh my god", she kept pushing and pushing, eventually finding herself in a small garden off to the side, "Fuck where is everyone?", she peered over the crowd by standing on a bench, but the crowd seemed to blend everyone together into one brown, black, and blonde school of heads. "Oh great, what a phenomenal start", throwing her arms over her head, Sol got back into the sea of people to go and start her search for everyone else.

Meanwhile with Vanica and Megi

As the crowd swallowed the group, Vanica had grabbed onto the hands of two people, assuming that they were both indeed the friends that she had brought with her. And she was half right, since after the two had got inside and the crowd began to disperse and her, Megi, and who she assumed to be Lolo had stopped being crushed, she found that she had grabbed Megi and some random girl with a really long ponytail. "Uhhhhh", she stared at the girl who seemed to have also looked rather confused, "Who are you?", Megi broke the lack of real words by asking the girl the question. But before she answered her head had been titled a little, obviously surprised at the two, "My names Kahono", the girl answered them, giving the two a look as if to signal what was their names. Instead of giving her a direct answer, the two looked at each other, "Helloooooo?", Kahono waved her hand in front of the two to get their attention again, "Oh sorry, I'm Megicula and she's Vanica", Megi pointed at her with her thumb, Vanica nodding and shaking her head, "Cool, now what does that have to do with dragging me along here? I was supposed to be with my brother and his friend", she looked around at the crowd, Kiato nor Rebecca anywhere to be seen, "Well.....I kind of just grab the people around me cause I thought you were one of my friends", Vanica awkwardly rubbed the back of her head. Kahono nodded, trying to figure out if yelling at her or just letting it slide would be the best option, but before she could make that choice, Vanica spoke, "Hey I know how about you help us look for our friend?", her cheery demeanor was oddly warming considering she had just gotten dragged by the arm by her, "Sorry, but I have to go and look for my brother", she started to turn to leave before she felt someone's hand on her shoulder, "OH I KNOW", Vanica had raised her voice in excitement, "We help each other, you help us find our friend and we help you find your brother", raising her eyebrow, Kahono stopped to think about her offer for a moment. "Besides it's a party, no? Shouldn't we get to know new people?", she made a valid point, going to a party to just not do anything but stick to your older brother is a tad bit lame, "You know what? Sure, I'll help you look for your friend", she agreed, Vanica beginning to hug her, "OH BOY THAT'S TIGHT", feeling like her eyes were going to pop out of her head, "Vanica let up", Megi giggled as she pulled her off, "Sorry, she's a bit touchy", Kahono took a few breaths, "No...no worries I'm fine", she waved her hands, the trio getting on their way to look for Lolo.

The three started looking, walking around the massive mansion, seeing other people talking, drinking, or playing party games all while they looked for Lolo, "I probably should've asked this earlier, but what does this Lolo person even look like?", Kahono asked. It was a good question, she had just agreed to search for this girl with them but wasn't even sure what exactly it is she should be looking out for. No major trait that would pop in a sea of people, "Oh right, sorry...", Vanica began to tap her chin, thinking of how she would describe her friend, "Wellllll, she has long brown hair" "Ok", Kahono did a slight face palm as there were a lot of people with that colour hair, "And she has these funny swirly glasses", Kahono shook her head, "Why?" "She thought they looked cool", Megi answered with a head shake of her own, "Alright, well I guess the glasses should be the ultimate tell since, I can't imagine many other people would wear something like that", she lightly slammed her fist into her palm, "Yep, can't miss them. they stand out like a sore thumb", Vanica began to march ahead of the two. "Hey so, what year are you guys?", Kahono decided to try and learn a little bit more about the two during their search, "We're freshmen", Megi answered, her hands behind her head as they kept walking, "Oh really? Same here", she was happy to meet other girls her own age, "What program are you guys apart of?". Megi raised an eyebrow, "What?" "Like what program are you attending the academy for? Music? Sports? Academics?", Megi still had a confused look on her face, but then it clicked, "Oh no we don't go to CKA", Kahono was surprised to hear that, then again, she hadn't even seen the two before tonight, "Oh....then how did you guys get here", to have gone to the party, Fragil would've had to have known you and if the two didn't attend how would they have met, "Well, Vanica's.......Friend? Brother-in-law? Honestly its weird, anyway he attends the school for combat sports", Jahono scrunched her face up, not sure who it could've been, "Who? I might know them" "He was on T.V a bit ago, his names Asta", the name had obviously gotten her attention. She did ask him to go with her to this party after all, "Really?" "Yeah, why? Why you know him?", Kahono's face turned a little red, embarrassed to say how she knew him, "Yes, his name has been all over the school recently", Megi chuckled. "Assume it's because of his T.V appearance?", she asked with Kahono nodding in response, "That guy always finds a way for people to notice him, weird really", Megi laughed as she began to walk ahead of Kahono to help Vanica with her search for Lolo. "Hey, wait up", Kahono immediately followed behind.

Vanica went up to group after group, asking if they had seen a girl with funny looking glasses, each of them either shrugging, telling her no, or laughing at her. It didn't bother Vanica, nor did it bother Megi since they were pretty used to getting that reaction, but for Kahono she did find it a little upsetting how rude or mean some of them were, a few commenting on Vanica's eye patch or the makeup that Megi was wearing. "Were the students here always this rude?", she thought to herself as she watched yet another group of students laughed at the two, "Well thanks anyway", Vania waved at them before walking off at them, Kahono walked behind them, gritting her teeth a bit. Going up to another few students Vanica asked the same question, but instead of laughing her off, one of them pointed at the eye patch, "Hey....hey, what's wha what's that for?", Vanica just smiled and answered rather politely, "My eye got removed there, but have you seen my friend?" "Woah like it's completely gone? That must suck", the guy slurred out clearly intoxicated, "Yep now can you answer my question?" "Oh, sorry no", Vanica shrugged and walked away with Megi in tow. Kahono ran up next to them, "How can you just let him talk to you like that?", she asked Vanica who was still smiling, "Who cares?" "Who cares? But-" "Look man, if we spent every moment here worrying about how some random people we don't even go to school with thought we'd never find Lolo or we'd be miserable, so just get over it", Megi stopped her from making it a bigger issue. Kahono moved her mouth around, trying not to speak out against the two, "Don't worry about it Kahono, we're gonna find Lolo and have a good time without them so jsut relax", Vanica draped her arm over her shoulders and pulled her into a side hug. Kahono was about to respond before someone interrupted them, "Vanica, Megi?", she heard a voice come from behind them, "LOLO", Vanica moved her arm from Kahono and booked it to her, hugging Lolo, "OOOOOO", she squeezed her like she did Kahono. Megi and her turned around as well to see them, "So that's Lolo?" "Yep", Megi began to walk over to Vanica and her with Kahono staying where she was. "Dude, I was looking all over for you two and wouldn't you know it dduring my search I heard people say that two strange girls came up to them asking about a girl wearing funny glasses", Megi shook her head, "Sorry, it was the only way we were gonna get people to think of you", Lolo jokingly frowned, "I thought you guys like my glasses?", Vanica laughed, "Of course we do Lolo". The three kept on conversating without Kahono, so she felt it was time to go and started to walk away without a word, "Hey where are you going?", she heard Vanica call her, "Oh well we found your friend so-" "UH uh uh, we said we were going to have a good time and find your brother after, so let's go have fun", Vanica ran up to her while dragging Lolo and Megi by the wrists, "I-" "NOPE YOU'RE COMING", she pulled everyone into a group hug. Thinking about it, Kahono smiled, "Ok then let's go have a good time", she agreed the four going on with the rest of the party.

With Mimosa and Yuno

The moment that the crowd had taken Mimosa; Yuno grabbed onto her wrist so that he wouldn't lose her in the sea of people, following wherever she was going, "Mimosa", he called out to her, Mimosa turning her head to see him through a couple of heads, "Yuno", she smiled, trying to get free from everyone. Yuno did the same pulling away from whoever he could. After a good struggle the two managed to get free, being sent to the left side of the lawn, leaving them alone together. Looking around to see if anyone had made it along with them, they quickly found the answer to that, seeing that it was indeed just them. "Damn, guess it's just us", Yuno awkwardly laughed, trying to gauge her reaction to the situation. Luckily for him, Mimosa giggled and made a few weird steps back and forth, her body language letting him know that it didn't bother her that much. They stayed like that for a few seconds, both waiting for the other to say something, but when they would start a sentence the other would speak up thinking that they needed to start. "So, I-" We could-", they stared at each other with smiles, "Maybe-" "How about-", it happened again, "Let's" "Then-", and again, making the two laugh together. "Ok ok ok, how about I go first and then you can tell me what you think of my plan, that sound good?", Mimosa giggled as she spoke, finding their interaction rather funny, "Sounds like a plan", Yuno nodded his head. "So, we can go check out the inside after the crowd goes, but in the meantime, we see what's up with the outside", Yuno gave himself an internal high five, excited that he'd get to be alone with her, "Sounds great", he agreed, waiting on her to do or say something else. Mimosa looked around seeing what the place had to offer in terms of the front lawn, and safe to say nothing really was there, just people who had a similar idea to what them. Waiting around the lawn for the line going inside to end, "Maybe we should check other stuff out" "Like?" "Heard around school her backyard is cool, we can go check that out", Yuno nodded again, motioning for her to lead the way.

Mimosa led Yuno around the sides, going onto a path that went to the backyard.  As the they followed it, they looked around the bushes that aligned the trail along with the lights that were in the gaps between the bushes, "You know, this place is pretty nice", Yuno ran his hands through some leaves, "Well if you think this is nice, apparently there's a like a brush maze in her backyard and the center is a garden that's stunning", she expanded on the whispers she told him about, grabbing his hand before picking up her pace. The sudden grab of his hand made Yuno blush a bit, the colour of pink being oh so barely visible on his cheeks and nose as Mimosa kept leading him around the side of the house. Soon, they found themselves going around the corner, seeing a large circle patch of gravel and stone steps that went to the maze Mimosa spoke of, "You know for how much money my parents have, having someone plant and raise a bush maze in the backyard is never something that they've ever thought about doing", Yuno laughed, him and Mimosa slowly making their way over to the mazes entrance, "I mean, my mom has a garden that's pretty big out in the back, hell she has a couple of green houses that have exotic flowers", Mimosa said, lowering her heads and gaze to the floor a little. Yuno looked at her, seeing the face she made, he started thinking of a way to get her mind off of it, "Hey" "What's up?", Yuno cracked a slight smile, "Race to the garden?", Mimosa's eyes widened, shaking her head, "We don't even know-" "Ah looks like you're too scared to do it huh?", Mimosa giggled, "No I'm not just saying that, I'm saying that going into a maze without a map isn't smart", she shook her head, Yuno nodding his in response, "Well...LAST ONE TO THE GARDEN WASHES THE MATS FOR A WEEK", he took a play out of Asta's book and made the maze a bit of a game. "HEY", Mimosa went in after chasing him down. Yuno was ahead of her, looking back to see her behind him, "WAIT UP", she called. Yuno laughed, not letting up from the challenge that he had placed, getting ahead of her by a decent margin until he turned a corner to wait for her. When she had turned the corner, "BOO" "AHHH", he gave her a little bit of a scare. Mimosa playfully hit him in the shoulder, "Oh my god you jerk", she giggled as Yuno laughed with his hands on his stomach, "Hey sorry, I was just trying to make this maze thing interesting", Mimosa nodded her head, "Consider it a success" "Thanks", the two stood around before saying something, "We should probably keep looking for this garden thing or we'll be here till we die", Yuno laughed, "Sure".

Finally, the two made it to the center of the maze, finding an enormous garden with many beautiful flowers with there being a ring trail of gravel that went around a pond with a waterfall, "Wooah", Mimosa looked around, lightning bugs beginning to swirl around them, "You said it", Yuno looked around, kneeling over the pond which was filled with a few different types of fish, a few small turtles, and some lily pads that housed frogs. "This place is amazing", Mimosa held her hands out, feeling the little tingles of lightning bugs landing on them, "Yeah", Yuno had lowered his hand to the ponds surface, watching as some of the fish gather to see what was hovering above their home. Mimosa walked around the garden some more, touching and smelling the flowers, "My mom would love this place", she said, leaning into a pink one with a yellow center. Hearing the mention of her mom, Yuno looked over his shoulder at her, Mimosa still trained on the same flower. Thinking back to the car ride and the face she made when talking about her mother's own garden, it was something that he just couldn't shake, so he popped the question that had been on his mind since the night started, "Hey Mimosa", he called to get her attention, "Yeah?", she broke her gaze and looked back at him, "You've brought up your mom a few times tonight", Mimosa lifted one of her eyebrows wondering where he was going with this, "And?", Yuno rubbed the back of his neck, remembering how quickly she got off the subject when he asked about her in the car, "I was just wondering, what she's like, like what does she do or what does like?", he asked, going from kneeling to sitting on the ground. Mimosa moved her mouth around, figuring out what she was and wasn't going to say, "She's...Amazing, I've wanted to be like her since I was a kid", she began to walk over to Yuno, taking a seat across from him. "Kind, loves her family and she was an insanely hard worker, wasn't a day I saw her now training", Mimosa looked at her lap while Yuno thought back to the first time the gang went to Asta's house, thinking back to the poster of Tetia Vermillion on his wall, "Asta, he had a poster of a woman named Tetia in his room, it was even signed, that her?", Mimosa nodded, "Yeah that's her", Yuno moved his mouth the side, "And she was pretty damn good, got ahold of ISKA, WAKO and K-1, she was so good, almost the best of her time, but she was always just a step behind", Yuno nodded his head lightly, looking at her, "And why is that?", his question got Mimosa's eye's to glisten, "Because, Acier was around". Mimosa's answer seemed to have a little bit of frustration mixed in with it, "She would go on runs, six fight win streaks only to meet Acier and lose and what made it worse is that she's always take record strikes". Yuno looked at Mimosa, her eyes still glistening, "And because of those hard-fought wars, she had to leave the sport, no undisputed to her name, not even once", looking at her, one more question came to mind, "Why'd she have to leave?", Mimosa's eye's started to water hearing him ask, "Taking all that damage over a long career, it catches up to you and before her last fight, doctors said that there was a chance she'd leave with unrepairable damage......Low and behold, they were right, she suffered permanent neurological damage". Tears had begun to fall from Mimosa's face, her hands scrunching up as she tried to hold it in. "Woah please don't cry", Yuno moved over to wipe some of her tears from her cheeks, getting her to look up at him, "I...", the two locked eyes, Mimosa's vision a little blurry from the tears. After looking at each other for a few seconds, the both of them leaned in, lips locking for a kiss.  A moment later and they both pulled away, staring at each other, "I...", Yuno was about to say something, "No it's fine", Mimosa nodded, maintaining the eye contact. "We should...uh.... Maybe head inside now, everyone's uh looking for us probaly", Yuno stood up stammering his words after what just happened, "No not that's a good idea, can't keep everyone waiting", Mimosa did the same, face burning red. The two nodded stood around a bit and headed back towards the house.

With Sekke and Asta

Sekke grabbed onto someone's back, using them as a guide as to what to do, not wanting to get trampled he began to push through the crowd with whoever it was he was pushing. "HEY MAN LET ME GO", Asta had spun around to get free from Sekke's grip, "Sorry", Sekke put his hands up. "Damn it where even are we?", Asta looked around, seeing that the crowd had carried them inside the house, in some random hall. "I don't know I just grabbed onto the first person I could", Sekke explained as Asta was nodding his head, trying to use what he could of his brain to put together a plan. However, even with the crazy thinking he came up short, "Ah whatever we'll run into everyone else sooner or later", he shrugged, looking around to see what there was to do. All around there was people doing various things, some were grouped together drinks in hand and some were playing party games amongst each other, all of which were a bit difficult to try and force your way into. However, Asta didn't really care and walked up to one of the groups to see what they were doing, "Asta", Sekke whispered not wanting to suffer the embarrassment of having people turn the two down. Asta shrugged him off and tapped a girl on the shoulder, "Huh?", she turned around to look at him, "Hey what are you guys doing?", he asked with a smile, the girl chuckling in response. Her reaction made Sekke nervous, wondering if she was about to either make fun of them or just keep laughing, "We're playing a drinking game", she gave a chill answer, stepping to the side to let Asta into the circle. Upon getting into the circle, he waved for Sekke to join which he reluctantly did, stepping next to Asta in the circle, "What's the game?", Asta asked her, "SO it's truth or drink, basically someone askes you a question and you have to tell the truth or you take a drink but every time the you choose to drink the next time you skip you have to drink more", the girl explained to them, both nodding along as she did. "Want in?", she asked to which they both looked at each other and nodded, getting the girl to snap her fingers, "Hey can you guys get these two something to drink?", a two people at the other side of the circle noddd their heads leaving for a quick moment before returning with the drinks, handing them to Asta and Sekke. 

When they took them, the girl asked them a question, "So what's your guy's names?" "Asta" "Sekke", they quickly answered before asking the same questions themselves, "And you are?" "Karna, Karna Freese", she answered, flicking her hair away from her eye. "Well nice to meet you Karna", Asta said as he nodded his head, "Nice to meet you too, uh what's your guy's names?". "Asta" "Sekke", both answered at the same time, "OOOOOH WAIT I KNOW YOU GUYS", Karna tilted her head slightly chuckling, "Huh?" "Yeah, you guys are combat sports students, right?", the duo raised their eyebrows, "We are yeah", Sekke nodded his head, "Riiiight yeah I saw you on TV", she pointed at Asta, "Hehehe yep", he nodded his head, "Dude that knock out was sick", her praise had gotten Asta to rub the back of his head, feeling like he was going to blush from it all. Karna leaned a little bit to look over Asta's shoulder at Sekke, "And what about you?", her question made Sekke nodded his head, fumbling on his words, "I uh it's just a little bit ehh", he made circles with his hands, trying to figure out a way to say how his event went without telling her directly that he got knocked out. "He made it to the finals, but he ended up losing", Asta decided to speak for him, "ASTA", Sekke shook his head annoyed, "Oh shit you made it to the finals? That's awesome, you must be pretty damn good", Karna nodded her head pretty impressed by what Asta told her. "Wait really?", Sekke was surprised that she didn't think that him losing was a bad thing, "Of course, dude I can't fight so I'd probably get my ass handed to me in like ten seconds to a lot of people who aren't even fighters, so I don't think it would be my place to say whether or not your like bad", cracking a slight smile, Sekke rubbed the back of his neck, "Oh cool...Thanks". Karna chuckled a little, thinking that his reaction a bit cute, "No problem, dude", she turned back to the circle as the next round of the game had begun. About seven people had then picked between truth or drink before the circle had reached Karna, "Karna truth or drink?", a girl across the way asked, "Ummm I'll gooooo truth" "Ok, why did things end between you and david?", she asked getting a big 'oooooo' from the circle, "He was just... I guess... UH can I change my answer?", Karna asked, giggling along as she did, "No you said truth". Karna nodded her head, "Fine, things ended because he was just a bit of blow off, wouldn't come on time or would never come at all, and I had the last of it when he didn't show up for our one year to go hang out with the football team at a party during the summer, so I dumped him", Karna told them which got another big 'ooooo'. Her answering that it was Asta's turn which also meant that it was Sekke's soon after, "So... Asta was it?" "Yep" "Truth or drink?", Asta nodded, thinking about what he wanted to go with, "Truth" "Ok...Ummmmm how did you end up in Clover Academy?", she asked, "Got scouted because I was fighting in the underground, and uhhh just ended up getting in", the circle nodded their heads with a woah, "Woah underground fighter, cool", Karna raised an eyebrow since she had found his truth interesting. "Ok and you're?" "Sekke" "Ok Sekke, truth or drink?", Sekke looked around for a bit, seeing that there were people who seemed very interested in his answer. However, some bit of him didn't want to risk sharing an insecurity, be it conscious or not, "Drink", the crowd seemed disappointed, but ultimately just moved on. This is how the game went for a while, Asta would drink periodically, but shared more than he opted out while Sekke had exclusively drank for about an hour. "Dude, are you ok?", Karna asked him, seeing that he was wobbling in place with a face red as could be, "I'm *hic* fiine", Sekke tried to look over at her but in the process turned and stumbled into Asta, spilling his drink on his shirt, "SEKKE", Asta pulled him off, looking down at the orangish stain on his shirt, "So-so-sorry *hic*", he apologized, "Fuck I just bought this shirt", Asta looked around before someone handed him a napkin to try and wipe it off. Which for obvious reasons didn't work, "Fuck", Karna looked at the stain, "Ummm towards the back when you enter, if you continue till like the end that should be where the kitchen is, you can try and clean it off there", Karna explained, getting a nod from Asta, "Thanks", he walked off not saying anything else. "Man I *hic* didn't mean for that to happen", Sekke kept stumbling, "Come on dude, you gotta sit down", Karna took one of his arms over her shoulder, "Sorry guys you're gonna have to continue without me", the circle groaned before letting her go. 

"OOOOO boy", Asta made his way to the kitchen to go and clean off his shirt, "Fuck moms gonna kill me", he placed his cup of spiked juice onto the counter and grabbed some paper towels to try and get the stain off of his shirt. Of course this was to no avail, as paper towels are meant to clean stains off of counters and hard tops and not clothes. "Damn it", he looked down to see that he had just made the problem worse, "Oh boy, now she's gonna know that there was alcohol here", Asta shook his head, trying to plan a way to bull shit his way out of whatever his mom was going to do later while he leaned onto the counter, looking out the window into the massive backyard, "Asta?", he heard a voice call to him, and it was one that he wasn't sure if he wanted to hear again. He closed his eyes, taking a deep breath before turning around to look at her, "Rebecca", the two stared at each other, silently observing the other. "Wh-wh-what are you doing here?", he shook his head, not knowing how she could've ended up at a party like this in such a high part of Clover. "I came with a friend", Rebecca explained, nodding awkwardly while she did. "Oh that's uh cool", Asta gulped a little, trying to try and keep his voice down, "Yeah, guess so", he watched her put her hair behind her ear and giggle, something that when they were together would drive him crazy. Not wanting to stay but also not wanting to be rude he tried to conjure up a reason to leave, "Sorry, uh but I told my friend that I was going to bring him a drink, I'll see you around though", he picked up his cup, offering her a polite smile and started to walk past her, "I stop seeing that guy", Rebecca spoke, not looking at him. "Fuck", Asta thought, feeling his throat begin to close up, "I broke things off with him" "Oh really?", he nodded, trying not to look back at her. "Yeah, so I'll be free to hang out in a little bit", Rebecca had turned around to look at her Ex who was still not facing her, "You wanna talk?". This is something Asta had thought about a lot, meeting Rebecca again, but he had hoped it was going to happen when he was fully over her, "Sure", but he was weak, wanting to talk to her like they used to. "I saw your big debut on T.V", Asta nodded his head, "Really?" "Yeah, caught the pre-fight show before heading to work, my brother was watching it", Asta stared at her, kind of missing when he'd go over to her place and hanging out with her siblings, "Really?" "Yep, I called off work the next day to watch it", Asta raised his eyebrows, surprised she would do something like that since she had always worked to help her mom out with bills, food, and stuff for her siblings. "Wow" "I gotta say you were pretty amazing", he felt his heart do something weird, it wasn't romance, but it wasn't hurt, "Asta does this dream go anywhere?", he thought about what she said to him that night. "Are you doing this because of that?", his question clearly had caught her off guard as she widened her eyes a little, "What?" "Are you talking to me again because fighting might work out after all", Rebecca shook her head, "No of course not, it's just", Asta looked at her, waiting for her explanation. "I met a guy who valued me really early, and I was too dumb to see that", Asta still felt that weird feeling in his heart, "I hurt you I know, and I'm sorry". For some reason, Asta just couldn't feel the same about it, "Becca, I" "All you can do is value the time you spent with them" Yami's advice came to him, "But I-" "Wait, before you answer please just give it some thought and then I'll take any answer you give me". Again, he stared at her, thinking about it and to be honest he wanted to take it, but what Yami said was true, it was probably best to move on. "Alright I will", but yet again he was weak to her, still a piece of him wanted what they had before, "Thank you", Rebecca bowed her head before taking out her phone, "Well my friends calling me I'll see you later", she waved and walked out of the kitchen. Alone Asta leaned on the sink thinking about the conversation.

Back with Sol

Sol waited out the large sea of people, not wanting to get swept up in the crowd and be stomped on. When they did eventually dissipate, and the insane sized front yard was more or less clear, with the spread of the groups throughout it, she began to make her way inside. Upon entering the place, it was huge, a fountain in the entrance room, which was already massive, she looked around to try and see if anyone in the group was apparent. "LUCK GET BACK HERE", Sol sighed, knowing who that was, "Guess it's better than nothing", she shrugged and started walking in the direction she had heard Magna's yelling come from. As she was walking towards the sound, she could see a short blonde person quickly approaching, "Of course", Sol shook her head, watching them get closer and closer. When she could finally see luck's full face, she held her arm out, catching him trying to speed past her, "HEY", Luck yelled looking back to see Magna tailing him, "Uh uh man, none of that here, especially because everything here is probably worth more than your house stacked with your life", Sol tightened her grip on him, trying to get the point across. Luck struggled a little, attempting to break free from her grasp but couldn't do it in time for Magna to get there, "GIVE ME THAT", he swiped his glasses back from Luck before putting them back on, "And thanks for catching him", Magna patted Sol on the back, "No worries, don't want you guys to break anything that you can't afford to replace", Magna chuckled, knowing what she said was true. "AWWW YOU GUYS ARE NO FUN", Luck pouted flailing his arms a little, "Come on Luck it's not that bad, just hang out and enjoy your time here, ok?", Sol said with a stern tone, "Ok ok I get, I won't do that again" "Good, now have you guys seen the others? Been looking for a little and I haven't seen them", Magna and Luck both shook their heads, "I mean I've heard around that a girl with weird makeup and a girl that has an eyepatch asking around for a girl with funny glasses, fit's Vanica and her friends to a T", Sol nodded her head, "Cool then we start there, find them and then everyone else", she looked at the two quite sternly, not wanting anymore funny business, to which they both nodded not wanting to be thrown around by her.

Starting at the left side of the entrance on, the three had begun to follow the chit chat of the two strange girls asking around for their friend, a few people laughing as they talked about it. It did make for a convenient trail to follow, a girl with the face of Megi was never going to just fade into the back of someone's mind and Vanica is a very unforgettable kid. So, they kept going, following the whispers of the girls, "Did you see the short one?" "Tell me about it. Like who wears that kind of make up?" "I know it's ridiculous, coming to a party like this looking like that", the trail of ridicule that Vanica and Megi had left in their search for Lolo was evident to Sol, Magna, and Luck. And it bothered them to say the least, Magna gritted his teeth, looking at one of the guys who were mocking them, "Dude chill, just ignore them", Sol grabbed him by the shoulder and started to drag him along, "No I agree with Magna, how are we supposed to just let them talk about them they that?", Sol rolled her eyes, "You get used to it-", Magna pulled away from her, "Used to it? Man, that's the problem with people like you, you get so used to shit talking and getting shit talked that you just ignore it and throw money at your problem" "Money?" "Yeah, Money", Magna pushed his head into her face, "I'll have you know, that MY mom isn't rich like the rest of these ass holes" "Huh? But you go-" "She's a teacher, and the only reason I'm not at Foresaken High is because she works here, she doesn't have insane amounts of money to throw at my fuck ups so I can't be like you where you have nothing to throw at yours so you can start random worthless fights over people who don't know you", Magna growled a little bit at her, the two making it feel like they were gonna scrap. Luck watched with a bit of excitement, wanting to see where this was going, "Oh hey guys", but that was interrupted by a familiar bubbly voice. Turning to them, Vanica, Megi, Lolo, and another girl had started to walk towards them, "We found a new friend", the three stared at them dragging a girl with a long ponytail behind, "Who's that?", Magna pointed at her. Vanica smiled, seemingly excited to answer the question, "Wellllllll we made a new friend", she pushed Kahono forward, "Hello", she waved while looking at them, only recognizing Sol a little bit from having heard about her on Atlas and seeing her around a little. Sol raised her eyebrows with a bit of surprise, realising that she was Kiato's younger sister, "You're-" "Kiato's younger sister, yes", she nodded clearly a little bit nervous. From what she gathered about the students in the combat sports program were exactly fond of her older brother, "Hmmm", Sol jut hummed and looked back at the trio, "You guys seen anyone else?", her question got a head shake for. Pinching the bridge of her nose Sol, sighed, "Fine, let's just go look", she walked back towards the entrance, everyone just following as to not irritate her more.

The group followed a decent distance behind her, talking amongst themselves, "What happened to her?", Vanica asked Magna, "Nothing", he gave a quick answer so that it wouldn't further the problem. "He told Sol that she was basically a bitch because she has money, but it turns out she doesn't", Luck spoke up to correct him, "Dude shut up, seriously", Magna shook his head. Sol could hear them talking, feeling a bit like the night had gone to shit with the only thing that could make it better being that they find everyone else and push the prior events behind them, "Well that is what happened", Luck frowned, getting Megi and Lolo to look at each other. As for newcomer Kahono, she observed quietly as the group quietly argued, a stark difference from how Vanica and her friends were acting earlier, "Vanica", she made an attempt to get her attention, "Yeah?" "Is it...is it always like this?", her question prompted her to think a little, "Well...it can be, we argue a lot", Kahono frowned, rather unhappy with her answer. "However, I thinks it's because we're close that we can", her follow up answer left Kahono confused this time she asked another question, "What does that mean?", Vanica moved her mouth around to try and figure out the words to describe what she meant so that she could understand, "I think...we argue because we're comfortable enough to do it, because at the end of the day when the arguing is all done we're not just gonna stop talking to each other so we get our issues with each other out so that we can get back to having a good time", her explanation made sense, arguging being a sign of closeness is something she had heard about before, but never gave much mind prior to tonight. "Well...I suppose arguing is good then", she giggled and began to match her new friend's pace as the group started.

While walking back the way that they had come, the tension had slowly began to wither away as Vanica Megi lolo and Kahono had started to talk more freely with each other. As for Sol, Magna, and Luck, the two boys had started to creep up on her and for her part, Sol had noticed a bit ago, but didn't want to point it out. But she didn't even need to, since Magna had gone to her side to talk, "Hey, I uh... I just wanted to say...sorry for what I said before", he awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck. Sol smiled a little at his apology, "No worries, I probably shouldn't have responded to you the way I did, I know what money problems are like and throwing that at you wasn't cool", she mirrored his movements, rubbing the back of her neck. Luck hopped up and hugged the two, "We're good now?" "We're good", the two laughed as they pushed away from luck, laughing as they did. And just like that, they had gone back to an upbeat vibe together, "Hey since this IS a party, how about we go and get something to drink?", Magna raised a single eyebrow, letting them know that the wasn't just talking about punch or juice. Sol nodded her head, impressed that he was actually willing do act the way he pretended he was, "If you insist than sure", she shrugged trying to get ahead of him, "LAST ONE TO THE DRINK TABLES IS THE WORST FIGHTER", Luck blurted out before blitzing ahead of them, "HEY", both Sol and Magna followed with Vanica and her friends looking confused as they did.

The trio raced on, tracking back through the path they followed to find Vanica with Luck having a sizeable lead on them, "AHHH" Magna tried to hype himself up, getting Sol to laugh, "That is NOT going to help", she started to pick up the pace. Or at least until she felt the leg that Asta had kicked to bits tense really hard, "AHHHH", Sol stopped to rub it, "HA YOU'RE THE WORST", Magna blew his tongue out at her, almost catching up to Luck. Until *CRASH* the two had bumped into one of the drink tables, causing a one of the bowls to spill onto someone's shirt. When Sol had caught up, she had seen that the person who the drinks spilled on was Charmy, "Oh boy".

Charmy looked down at her shirt, seeing the stain that Magna and Luck had caused, "Oh shit I'm so sorry", Magna apologized, but Charmy still looked really angry, "Sorry? You think that sorry is gonna fix this?", she asked, her face portraying a great amount of anger. Magna looked around at the others, all of them shrugging and not knowing what to do exactly, "This shirt was a thousand fucking dollars you idiot", she got in his face, looking like a bigger explosion was about to take place. Luck spoke up, "He said he was sorry, and it was my fault too", Charmy's brow twitched, "Yeah I can tell dumbass", hearing her insult his friend Magna spoke back, "Hey don't talk to him like that", he got in her face, "Oh yeah, what are you going to do about it?", Magna clenched his fist, trying to control himself and not go absolutely crazy on her, "Ooooh that's right, you're from some shit heap school and a sticks fucking city, so you can't do the same stupid, irresponsible, dumb shit, that your friend can cause you're probably a bigger idiot than he is", Charmy had begun to lay into him, thinking how similar he was to Asta, "Which means you aren't going o do anything about this" *Smack* Charmy had laid her hand across his face, barely being able to turn his head with it. Magna gritted his teeth, seeing everyone whisper amongst themselves about what had just happened, Vanica and Megi looking like they were ready to step in. Before they could though *SMACK* Sol had slapped Charmy upside her head, sending it jerking forward, "Don't put your hands on people who aren't gonna put theirs back on you", she told her, Chamry holding the spot she slapped with her hands, "You...", she grunted, feeling angrier than before, "What? You're not going to do anything about it", Sol leaned in, "Because I'd actually hit you back", Charmy bawled her fists, "Yeah, but.... couldn't she just beat you up?", Grey's little dispute about her attitude had hit her right back in the face. Sol continued to stare at her, almost inviting her to hit her back, but some part of her brain was telling her it's a bad idea, "There you have it then, not gonna throw at someone who can and will beat you ass", Sol began to walk away, "Come on guys let's just go find the others and leave, these guys are a waste of time", the kids from Hage nodded their heads and started to follow her.

Seeing Sol walk away, uncontested by her started to scratch the back of Charmy's head, an annoyed fact that Grey was right had poked her almost as much as the fact that Mimosa and Sol likely would've been able to do the same thing to her. "HEY, DON'T WALK AWAY FROM ME", and stupidly, she went out on her own shield, running up to Sol and trying to grab her. But because she had annouced herself, Sol grabbed her by the arm and flipped her over, "OWWWW", she could feel her back collide with the hard ground before Sol twisted her arm, "I GIVE I GIVE I GIVE", she began to claw at the hand that gripped her elbow, "Say you're sorry", she twisted her harder, making Charmy yelp, "FINE IM SORRY", she apologized, Sol letting go after she did, "Good, now guys come on", she beckoned for the to go, "Well sorry we couldn't stay longer, keep in touch", Vanica poked Kahono's nose and waved before her, Lolo, Megi, Luck, and Magna had started to leave. Charmy looked as everyone was snickering a little bit, some looking like they felt bad for her, but she got up and took a seat at the bottom of the stairs, thinking about what Grey said to her, "Damn", she felt more relaxed after having her ass kicked, "Grey and Noelle were right", she looked behind her seeing Grey apologizing to Sol on her behalf.

Outside of Fragils place

Noelle gave a little squeal of excitement as Nebra pulled in front of Fragils gate, not wanting to wait to hang out with her friends and boyfriend. Nebra just watched her sister, thinking back to her time in high school, how events like this would seem like the whole world, and when they went wrong it felt like that world she built was crumbling. "I just hope that you have a good time", Nebra smiled, stopping at the open gates, of which still held a group of people who were scattered about the enormous lawn, most having cups of something, a detail that Nebra had picked up on, "So, I assume you're going to, you know", she gave Noelle a bit of a smug look, knowing for a fact that she wouldn't admit to drinking anything, much like herself when she was her age, "NO, I'm not I'm just here to have a good time with my friends", Noelle immediately tried to shut it down, but Nebra kept on persisting, "And would drinking not entail a good time?", she raised an eyebrow to show her smugness, getting Noelle to shake her head, "No-" "Look, it's fine, me, solid, and Nozel were your age once, we get that kids your age...tend to try and act more grown up than they are", she gave her sister an assured smile, wanting her to feel like she could trust her more, "I...yeah, thanks for taking me", Noelle returned that smile, getting ready to get out of the car, "And Noelle?" "Yeah?" "Please.... even if tonight doesn't work out, make it a night you won't forget" "Promise", Noelle opened the passenger side door and giving her sister a goodbye wave, watching as she drove her car out of view, "Cool now time for me to see what's up with this place", Noelle began to make her way inside.

Upon entering, Noelle had seen the entrance filled with people drinking, a few people doing some crazy stunt. However, she didn't want to waste any time and began to ask around for Kiato and the others, "Hey have you guys seen Kiato?", she walked up to a small group of people, who turned their heads to her, all of which having a weird smirk on their faces, "Oh yeah he uh, he went with a friend to the second floor", from Noelle's view, it seemed like they were trying not to laugh at her. It was weird, but when a song from the killers came on, Noelle just ignored the groups odd demeanor, "Oh I love this song", the opening cords to Mr. Bright side began to play.

Coming out of my cage, and I've been doing just fine

Noelle thanked the girl that had told her where her boyfriend was and started to make her way to the restroom, making her way through the crowd of people on the first floor of the house. "Yo Noelle you're really here", a few girls had cheered at her arrival, surprised to see the schools queen bee appear after being told she wouldn't. She smiled and waved at them, scanning the place for Kiato.

Gotta, gotta be down because I want it all

Asta leaned on the kitchen sink, thinking about what his conversation with Rebecca, "Damn it", he gripped it as hard as he could cause he knew that while Yami was right, he couldn't deny what his heart wanted. So, he left the kitchen and started to look around for Rebecca. "Asta *Hic* where have you been man?", Sekke asked as Karna rubbed his back, "Hey have you seen a girl with really red hair by here?", he didn't even answer and just asked his own question. "Ummm I think I saw someone with hair like that, they passed by a little bit ago and went up the stairs", Karna answered his question, "Thanks", he quickly sped walk past them and to the stairs.

started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?

Noelle bumped into Charmy who was looking quite rough, her hair a mess, "Wow what happened to you?", she asked, worried for her friend, "Noelle, you're right, I should be more chill", she didn't even look at her, "Seriously? Why?" "Cause it happened, I ran my mouth to the wrong person, and she kicked my ass", Noelle nodded, "Well sorry that happened" "Don't worry, just go look for your boyfriend of whatever" "I will", Noelle walked past her

It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss

As Noelle went up the stairs, she saw Grey and Sol talking, "Huh?", she raised her eyebrow, knowing that while Grey had been spending a lot of time in the gym recently, she thought it was because she was interested in Gauche, "Sorry about Charmy really, I don't know why she did that", Grey was apologizing on Charmy's behalf? "Don't worry about it, you're not the one who went at me huh?". So that's why Charmy looked rough. She just waved at the two and walked on.

Now I'm falling asleep, and she's calling a cab

Asta started to sped step up the stairs, getting stopped by Sol, "Woah there dude, what's with the face", Sol asked him, laughing while she did, "What?", Asta asked her, confused on what she meant, "You look really really focused", she explained to him. Asta just shook his head, "Sorry, I'm looking for someone", Sol raised an eyebrow, "Who?" "Don't worry about it I just have to go", Asta sped walked past her, "Ok, uh hope you find them", Sol slowly turned her head back to talk to Grey

While he's having a smoke, and she's taking a drag

Kiato walked along with Rebecca near, "What is this about?", Rebecca asked, seeing Kiato smile, "Hey it's our last night together right? Why not enjoy it?", Rebecca moved her mouth to the side, thinking about it. "Fine, but nothing serious, ok? I'm done being your side thing or whatever" "Thats ok". Kiato took her by the hand and started to lead her around.

Now they're going to bed, and my stomach is sick

Asta saw a faint glimpse of Rebecca's hair turning a corner, "Becca", he called out getting nothing but other people looking at him in confusion. So, he made his way to the corner he thought he had saw her go behind, "Hey Becca", he turned around the corner to just find some random girl with bright red hair, "Oh sorry", he moved past her to keep looking for Rebecca.

And it's all in my head, but she's touching his chest now

Noelle turned a corner to see people whispering, "Huh?", she looked to see that a lot of people were looking at her now, "Hey Noelle, have you seen your boyfriend?", a girl asked, with a weird smile on her face. "No why?", she raised an eyebrow to see that a few girls were giggling, "Well he went that way", they pointed. "Uh thanks I guess", Noelle shrugged and followed into the direction that they pointed.

He takes off her dress now, let me go

Kiato and Rebecca had just got done talking to two people, Kiato doing most of the talking while Rebecca looked around, seeing if Asta was around. But then something quite odd had caught her attention. She saw Vanica and Kiato's little sister walking around together, with Lolo and Megi in toll, "Shit", she turned her head back to try and focus on the conversation. Noticing that they were quickly approaching she made a rash decision. Grabbing him by the arm, "Hey sorry, we have to go", she dragged him away, just barely missing Vanica and the others, "Hey what was that for?", Kiato asked, "Don't worry about it?", she responded, getting a smirk in return, "I know" "What?" "You want one last good time before we're not together" "What no-" "Hey don't worry just follow me".

I just can't look, it's killing me

Noelle had seen a crowd gathered around what she was thinking was the restroom, she walked up to the crowd, slowly making her way past them, "What the...", she peered past them to see two people kissing inside of a broom closet, "Gross", she turned away to try go back to looking for her boyfriend.

And taking control

Asta walked around some more on the second floor, asking people around if they had seen a girl with bright red hair, "Hey sorry have you seen a girl with bright red hair?", he asked a group of girls who giggled at his question, "Yeah she and Kiato were going somewhere", Asta shook his head, confused as to why they thought his question was so funny, "Thanks I guess", he walked away from them, going on to ask more and more people where Rebecca was.

Jealousy, turning saints into the sea

Noelle had seen a new flood of people in a hallway, all seemingly whispering about something, "Huh?", she began to make her way through this sea of people, "Hey sorry, oops, sorry", she kept pushing through the crowd to see what they were all looking at.

Swimming through sick lullabies, choking on your alibis

Asta had seen a group of people far larger than the ones he had been going around and asking for Rebecca, "Maybe she's here", he started to make his way through the crowd, focused as all hell to find her.

But it's just the price I pay, destiny is calling me

As Noelle and Asta began to reach the door everyone was waiting at, they noticed someone trying to open it, "HEY YOU'VE BEEN IN THERE FOR MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES, GET THE HELL OUT", they watched Leo tug the handle of the door, laughing before seeing each other in the crowd. Giving each other a friendly wave, they were getting ready to leave as they hadn't found Rebecca or Kiato there. That was until Leo had managed to open the door, revealing Kiato kissing Rebecca on the neck, and for what felt like years, time stood still, and both Noelle and Asta just looked on before the two noticed.

Open up my eager eyes, 'cause I'm Mr. Brightside

Noelle stood in the clearing of people in front of the restroom, seeing her boyfriend put his lips on the neck of another girl. "Kiato", she called his name, getting his attention. Asta had come from behind to see what was going on, but then he saw Rebecca on the sink counter, her hands on Kiato's shoulders. "Becca", he could feel his heart break, thinking he was an idiot for believing that they could get back together. Kiato took his hands off of Rebecca and ran over to Noelle but, "No don't touch me", she pushed him away, "Noelle I can explain-", Noelle again pushed him away from her, "DON'T FUCKING TOUCH ME", tears had started to flow down her face, her makeup getting ruined. "Noelle, I promise it was a mistake I-" "MISTAKE? MISTAKE? THAT WAS A FUCKING MISTAKE, GETTING ALL OVER THE GIRL THAT I WAS WORRIED ABOUT WHEN I MET HER AND YOU GOT UPSET? YOU CALL THAT A MISTAKE", Kiato looked around to see people whispering and some snickering, "I know, I know, but please just give me a moment to explain and I promise it could make sense" "Could? Like how fast you can find a way to bull shit me?", Leo looked on at his cousins break down, "Oh boy". Noelle's mouth began to quiver and Kiato could tell that she was likely going to start wailing and was yelling at him so that she wouldn't, "Please just-" *SMACK* Kiato's head had jerked away, Noelle had smacked him across the face, "DON'T EVER FUCKING TALK TO ME AGAIN, YOU FUCKING ASS HOLE", she whipped around and stormed away from the crowd, wanting to leave the party as soon as possible, leaving Kiato to be stared at by the crowd. As for Asta he looked at Rebecca, not saying anything, "Asta", Rebecca reached out her hand, seeing that he seemed really out of it, "I-", she started to walk over to him. But something more important to him at the moment had taken over him, Noelle. He had watched her run off, still seeing the split of the crowd that had made way for her to go, and knowing that feeling really well, "Noelle wait", he ran after her.

Asta followed the clear path through the crowd and started to pick up his pace to make sure he could reach her, "Noelle", he called her name, pushing past the crowds of people, eventually running into Vanica, "Asta hey-", Asta cut her off, "Vanica sorry, but have you seen Noelle?", his tone had conveyed to Vanica that it was something kind of serious, "She went that way", she pointed behind herself, worried about why, "Did something happen?", she asked, "Vanica, I really hate to do this, but do you think you might be able to catch a ride with Mimosa?", Vanica was about to respond, however, she nodded her head, "Thank you", Asta had blown past her and to the stair way where Sol and Grey were talking, "Yo Asta-" "Sol, I told Vanica this, and I know you're going to be mad but is there any chance that you can catch a ride with Mimosa?", Sol raised an eyebrow, "Uhhh doesn't she have like three other seats? If we do that how are Megi and Lolo going to get home", shit she was right. Asta internally face palmed, having completely forgotten about them, "Shit", Grey raised her finger to into the air, "I drove here with Charmy we can drive Sol and Leo home", letting out a sigh of relief, Asta gave her suggestion a thumbs up and started going down the stairs. It was then that he got stopped by Charmy, "Hey" "Huh?", Asta stopped for another moment, "What the hell happened up there?", she asked him, "Wellllll" "Well what spit it out", Charmy looked annoyed, "Kiato, kind of was on another girl", Charmy's eyes went wide, "HE WHAT?" "Hey, don't yell at me-" "yeah cool, I've got a bigger problem now", she walked past him, "Cool", Asta just nodded and began to make his way to the front door. But yet again he got stopped, this time by Mimosa and Yuno, "Hey man we're about to get going so-", Asta quickly ran up to Mimosa, "Mimosa, can you please take Vanica, Lolo, and Megi home?", Mimosa raised her eyebrows, finding his request odd, "i mean sure, but what happened?", Asta nodded a few times before answering, "Kiato cheated on Noelle", Mimosa's eyes went insanely wide, "HE WHAT?" "I know and she ran off and I'm trying to find her", Mimosa shook her head, "I can help look-" "Mimosa, please just trust me?", her face seemed unsure, something like this needed someone who understood Noelle. But then again, Asta had a weird way of connecting with people, "Fine, but promise me you won't snap at her? When she gets sad, she tends to respond in a bit of anger", Asta nodded his head and left the mansion.

Outside

Asta had finally made it out, seeing Noelle at the very end of the huge driveway, walking alone. "God damn it", he sighed before he started to book it as fast as he could to Noelle, "NOELLE WAIT", he called out to her a few times, getting no response, maybe because he was too far or maybe because she thought it was Kiato just trying to come and make it up to her or explain what happened. It wasn't until Asta was about fifty feet away that she had turned to look over her shoulder, "NOELLE WAIT", she watched him run to about six feet away from her, huffing and puffing with his hands on his knees, "Wait", he stood there for a bit to catch his breath. Noelle stared at him, tears still streaming down her face, "What?", she finally responded to him, with the same snappy tone Asta had heard a few times, "Noelle, please just listen" "To?" "Look I know it sucks, but running from it isn't going to solve it", Noelle's brow twitched, and her mouth had formed into a bit of a disgusted anger, "How the hell would know what I'm going through?", she lifted her twitching eyebrow, her arms, folded and her foot tapping the ground. But all she got from Asta was a very sarcastic look, "What?", again she snapped at him. Yet again, he remained silent, and it started to piss her off, "Ok what did you even come out here to do? Just tell me that running from my problems won't solve anything?", Asta shook his head, "I know that it sucks to hear, but it's something that genuinely helped me when I was in your position-" "What do you know about my position? You have so many people around you that love you, that are there every day, day in and day out, no matter how much of a fucking idiot you are. You have fighting to fall back on I school doesn't work out, and you're good at it. I don't, everyone's always out, Nebra is the closest thing I have to that, and even then, she doesn't always get, and the one person I thought could love some failure like me, turns out he doesn't so tell me what is it that makes you think that you know anything about being in my position huh?", she exploded on him, obviously very angry at what he was saying, "Cause the girl that Kiato was with, is my Ex", Noelle's eyes had widened, "She-", then it clicked, the night she hung out with them, Luck had mentioned something about Re something. "I-" "Don't worry about it, you needed to blow off steam and I get that more than anyone", Noelle's anger started to turn into sadness again and because she had nothing to throw it at, she just started to cry again. Falling to her knees, she let out a very ugly cry, but Asta knelt down and patted her on the back, "I know man" "IT FUCKING HURTS SO MUCH", she continued to cry, "Yep it happens", Asta tried his best to comfort her, only being able to just remain near her as she cried, "Hey come on, we can't stay here forever", Asta looked up to see that more people to come outside. Noelle looked up to see everyone looking at her cry, so she nodded her head and let Asta help her up, the two making it to his car and then leaving

In Asta's car

"I'm coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine", an all too familiar song to the two played on the radio, "Turn it off", Noelle shut it down immediately, probably not wanting to hear a song that hits far too close to home at the moment, "Ok", Asta turned it off, leaving the two in silence. As they drove, Asta took periodic glances at Noelle, seeing that she kept her arms crossed and kept her gaze forward, "Hey uh, are you doing, ok?", he asked. Noelle gave him a side eye, remaining silent, "Sorry I shouldn't have asked", Asta nodded his head, feeling really dumb for asking her that. Noelle kept looking at him through the side eyes, seeing that he looked quite bothered himself, "What about you?", Asta raised his eyebrows, surprised that he got anything out of her considering what had happened before, "I.......feel like shit", he drove on shaking his head. Noelle bit her lip, "You and I both", Asta laughed at her response, thinking it was more lighthearted than the situation called for. But Noelle turned her head over at him with a look of disbelief, "Sorry", he nodded. A sigh left her mouth, feeling a little guilty for snapping at him, "It's whatever", but she couldn't bring herself to apologize. Asta just nodded his head, "Don't worry, I get it". Asta's response to her apology seemed quite strange, usually he'd be a little hot headed back at her but right now he seemed to keep his cool, "Really?", Asta nodded almost choking up, "I do, you feel so sad that it turns into anger and then back to sadness" "He really does". Noelle looked ahead at the road, the rain covering and being wiped away by the windshield wipers, "Then how did you deal with it", Asta bit his bottom lip. Cause if he was being honest, tonight showed him that he didn't, at least not in the way he would've wanted to. "I'm not entirely sure if I did, but I did get some words from a person I look up to a lot and it definitely has helped". Noelle lowered her head, slightly disappointed with his answer, since she thought if he couldn't get over it then how could she ever hope to. Asta noticed that her hearing his answer definitely made her feel worse, so he tried to think of anything that might make her feel better. He had noticed that Noelle had started to wrap her arms around herself, her eyes once again tearing up. He tried to think of what to say to her but ultimately came to the conclusion that leaving her was probably the best option, at least for now. With his decision came a long and silent thirty-minute car ride, no music, no talking, just the sounds of the car and the road. 

A few blocks away Asta could feel the sadness coming off of Noelle, trying to think of any way to not part on a sour note. "We're almost there", Asta tried to lighten up the mood with a really awkward laugh, but Noelle wasn't receptive to it, ignoring what he just said completely. He looked over at her, eyes red and arms still wrapped around herself. The two just kept driving until he had reached the front of her house. When the did, Asta made a full stop at the gate, "Ok, we're here", he looked over at Noelle, who had opened the door and immediately left. Frowning, Asta got ready to drive off, but something inside of him told him to at least give it one more try, so he rolled down the passenger side window, "Hey you going to be ok?", he watched Noelle wait for the gate to open, "Yeah", she gave a short answer. "So, see you on Monday?", he gave her a smile and waited in silence for a few seconds. She didn't answer so he began to drive away, but just as the gate opened, "Sure", Noelle gave him a quick glance over the shoulder. There was some hope after all but not wanting to overstay he drove off.

Noelle kept looking over her shoulder, watching Asta leave. She waited until his car was no longer in view before she walked through the gates, making her way back to her front door with a very slow stride. All she could think about was Kiato, how could he do that to her, they'd been together for so long and she thought that he was the one. Guess not huh? She hugged herself tightly as she felt her eyes start to water again, "How could he do that?", her breath started to hitch, and she had to cover her mouth before she would start full on wailing in the middle of her drive through. "Noelle? You're back really early", she looked up to see Nebra waiting in the front door, "Are you ok?", she asked, Noelle tried to respond but hiccupped in the middle, "I'm fine", she nodded. Nebra could tell that she wasn't, her eyes were puffy and red, and she had one of her arms wrapped around herself. "Are you sure?", Nebra prodded a little bit more, however Noelle had snapped back at her, "I'm fine ok, so just leave me alone", she sped walked past Nebra pushing her with her shoulder. Nebra bit her bottom lip a little bit frustrated at her response, "Hey just because you had a bad night don't-" "Just shut the fuck up, ok? I wanna be alone", Noelle stormed off, her stomping footsteps still audible for a bit after she had left Nebra's sight. Not really knowing what else to do she went back to the living room to watch T.V.

Meanwhile, Noelle had stormed off, her tears finally hitting a free fall, as she did. Thoughts of the two's relationship started to flood back to her, and it hurt, the drive in where he told her that she was the dream girl in every 60's movie, the kind that every guy would kill for. That was a lie because he had his hands and lips all over Rebecca. He wanted them to dance on the floor for real someday, but that couldn't be true cause Rebecca was clearly better for that. All of these thoughts took their toll on Noelle's already broken heart, she made it to her room, flung the door open and slammed it, getting into her bed and wrapping herself in her blankets. "Fuck", she fell over and shut her eyes, wanting to just go to sleep so that she could forget about the whole night, so that at least she could skip her feelings at the moment and deal with them later. She got her wish, and after closing her very swollen eyes it only really took about ten minutes before, she was out. Safe to say, this was a night she wouldn't forget.

On the next episode of "You clinched my heart"

Asta walked through the halls of the school, his hand emptily resting on his backpack strap, still very much hurt by what happened at the party. But when he could hear the whispers of people talking about a certain pigtail wearing girl, "Did you hear that the two broke up?" "Are you serious?" "Really?", the shocked whispers, quiet gasps, and general gossiping had passed the news around the school in record time, getting Asta to grip his strap in a little bit of anger. Noticing this, Yuno tried to try and lighten his friend's mood which had obviously been off since the party, "Word gets around here fast huh?", he nudged Asta with a smile, only getting a silent look in return, "Right?", trying to get him to give a verbal response he nudged him again. And it worked, "I guess so", the two continued to walk down the hall, seeing that Kiato was waiting near he and Noelle's locker.

And

 For a week Noelle laid on her side, wrapped in a blanket while she munched on a tub of ice cream blasting music. The track at the moment "Misery business" by Paramore had its sound bleed through the walls of her room to the halls of her mansion as she rotted in bed, having not showered for a few days, "Noelle, when are you going to leave your room?", Nebra knocked, talking to her sister in quite a bit of worry, "When I die, SO LEAVE ME ALONE", she yelled back, wanting to just be left to her own. Nebra frowned at her volatile response, but ultimately sided on leaving her be, having gone through what she was feeling a few times herself at that age, "Ok, I will, but if you ever want to talk...I'm here", she lifted her ear to the door so that she could listen for a response. Yet, nothing besides the music came through the door and with a frown, Nebra walked down the hall, sad that she couldn't be of more help to her sister.