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The sun rose up as it welcomed the day, sun rays shining through the curtains of rooms throughout houses on the street, one of those particular rooms is the room of a flower specialist who works in a flower shop just down town.

As the rays of sun shone through his curtains the soft morning hue highlighting his face, with the sun shining in his closed eyes he was woken by the light, eyes opening as he continually blinks at the ceiling decorated with plastic vines

He turned his head to the side looking at his alarm clock, the time was early it read ‘6:15.am’ on the alarm clock, using his elbow as support he pushed himself into a sitting position, as he covered his mouth with a hand letting out a long yawn.

He threw one side of his blanket to the other side as he slipped into a fluffy pair of bunny slippers and letting his arm stretch as he pushed his chest forward with another yawn to follow, looking at the time again he debated on taking a morning shower or rather going back to sleep again

But then again, he had already gotten out of bed it'll be a hard task to get comfortable once more, Dante looked over to his rack of hanged things, he walked over to the rack shuffling through it as he reached the rough furr like towel, taking it off it's hanger and throwing it over his shoulder as he walked over to the bathroom

He wrapped the towel around his waist tucking the end at the top of the towel, he opened the door to the bathroom as the strong smell of flowery soap spreads through his bedroom, the small drops of water followed him as his walked along the wooden floor to his closet, he pulled one of the door of his closet looking at the neatly folded and stacked clothes

He took out a plain white top with a red pinkish cardigan with black jean pants, he put his choice of clothes on his bed as he put on boxers and an undershirt. He pulled the white shirt through his head and slipping his arms through the sleeves before slipping into his jeans jumping as he pulled it up, he pulled the sleeves of the cardigan onto his arms

Looking in the mirror smiling as he attempts to put his elbow length hair into a small braid. As he successfully put up his hair into a braided bun spinning around as he looked at himself in the mirror before turning his gaze to the alarm clock that rested on his bedside

This time it reads ‘7:24.am’ Dante walked over to his bedside pulling out his charger and the plug on his phone and putting it in the bag he had took from the hanging rack, looking over his stack of clothes he slipped his uniform into his bag as he grabbed the poptart he had put in the toaster earlier while he did his hair

He took a look at the keychain that holds his house keys and the lock to his bike and slipped it into his pocket as he finishes tying his shoe, turning the knob of the door he took out his keys and locked his front door and slipped the keys back into his jeans pocket, with the sun shining bright with a slight orange tint as the morning sun rose further into the sky

He pulled out his bike from his yard jumping on the seat of it as he closed his fence, taking a deep breath and adjusting his bag as he started to paddle the bike and move to the bike lane of the road

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Parking his bike along with the others aligned in the parking lot he locked his bike in place, starting to walk over to the shop as he hummed along to a tune playing in his head, nearing the shop he spotted someone. The figure was tall with white hair, a dark green hoodie tied to his waist with a plain sleeves turtleneck with their hair tied up into a ponytail

He didn't know what got over him, but he started to walk over to the person, “uh hey, are you like new around the street?” Dante asked “huh? Oh no I'm not, I'm actually a co owner of the tattoo shop” they explained with a smile

Dante seemed surprised, he hadn't known the tattoo shop had a co owner, since from what he's heard of the owner was a jerk to everyone so he hadn't thought there would even be a co owner, Dante didn't know what to expect from the co owner, but so far he seemed nice. “Oh I see! Well I'm Dante, I work just down at the flower shop” he said putting a hand out for a handshake

“Travis, nice to meet you Dante” Travis said reaching out to shake Dante's hand with a soft smile “Well it was nice to meet you Dante, I should go check on everyone inside” Dante gave him a smile and a hum in response “well see you around florist” Travis said walking into the parlor

For a moment Dante just stood there stunt at the man he just met, his bright emerald eyes completing his snow White hair and the freckles on his face. Dante smiled as he continued to walk to the flower shop, his face slightly red with a thumping heart, was this the feeling of love?

The bell of the shop rang as Dante entered as he walked over to the back of the shop, taking out his keys he unlocked his locker and pulls out his uniform before putting his bag into the locker, he pulled up his overalls and let his hair escape into a regular braids down to his shoulder

Walking out the back he was greeted by Zane at the counter,
“I thought you had the evening shift?” Dante said approaching Zane “I was supposed to but changed to morning shift since I have somewhere to be in the evening” he explained as he booted up the register

“Really now? Is it a date?” Dante asked with a grind leaning over the counter “no, It's..family business, you could say” Zane said with a lower tone of hesitation”oh! Well, good luck with that, I know family can be hard sometimes” Zane was slightly caught off guard with the comment,

if Dante hadn't known him he'd just thought it was just another one of his cold stare, but the two had been working together for a good while for Dante to know his reaction and how to read his emotions and body language, even if he still get things wrong

The bell jingled as someone stepped in, messy hair black hair down to their upper shoulder with dark cyan eyes with a bag thrown over his shoulder “Gene !” Dante said with a tone that had suddenly shifted to cheary tone waving over to him, his brother's gaze lifted to him with a smile along his face, he walked over and gave him a fist bump

Gene walked over to the back room to change into their work uniform, and with that Dante walked over to the door turning the sign from “close” to “open”

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After they opened it was a normal day like any other, nothing out the ordinary which had always been weird most times since there's either someone yelling at staff or is trying to shoplift but the day went as smoothly as it could, no weird shenanigans no nothing just a normal day

They got off shift and said their goodbyes, and the next staffs started their work hours, it was normal, it has been as if luck had switched to Dante's side despite being a center of bad luck for weeks now

And he questioned if luck did turn to his side, but why now of all times? He remembered Zane mentioning a store of witchcraft just a few blocks away he's heard of it but never seen it for himself when he thought of a witchcraft store he thought of those scams with the most random items

But Zane told him about the place, and he trusted Zane when it came to store choices, and he wasn't complaining so it must've not been a scam right? Well there was only one way for the brunette to find out

He walked down the steep alley to where it's located, the place was quite hidden away for a witchcraft store which is a bit weird and he had considered turning back but, he was already too far into the alley as soon as he crossed the alley, it was. Beautiful, flowers grew everywhere with vines that surrounded the shop with a small pond and a bench

It was a fantasy come true

He walked along the path not knowing what is to come of an overgrown wooden cottage, his hand gripping the door handle as he walked in, being greeted with a warm feeling and the scent of vanilla

At the counter stood a woman, with her long orange hair with fiery red eyes, “Hello, welcome to Crystal fantasy , how many I help you?” the woman greeted, Dante walked over to the counter spotting her name tag it read ‘lucinda’ “Well I was wondering if you know any way to check if you have a spell on you?” Said the blue hair man, Lucinda hummed in response taking a moment to think

“Well, of course but there is a price” she said with a cheery tone. “How much is it?” He asked looking at her nervously “Two I owe yous” she said, and Dante stood there dumb founded “I owe yous?” He repeated trying to proses what the woma Infront of him just said and she nodded “we don't do cash, we do I owe yous or trades” she provided him

“Ah, I see. Well just two I owe yous?” He asked again as Lucinda pulled out a notepad “yup, just write your name here, and sign it I'll add your amount of I owe yous” she said pointing at where he needs to write his name and sign the paper

He took out his everywhere pen and wrote his name down and signed the paper, she turned back the notepad and wrote down his amount, “so just a spell check?” She asked “yea, I've been a bit too lucky today” he stated sitting down on a chair she told him to sit in “really how so?” She asked again grabbing a crystal behind the counter

“well, there wasn't people yelling at staff, no shoplifter, no Karen's and lastly there were no staff mess” he explained and she hummed “I see well, just hold tjis crystal and we'll figure this out. Well I'll figure this out- ugh you get my point” she said slight embarrassed with her way of wording “yea it's fine” he said holding the crystal with both his hands tightly together

Lucinda observed and made some notes, “when did the luck start?” She asked him “I think this morning when I entered my shop” he said fiddling the crystal in his hands “I see, well is it a special day for yoy perhaps?” She asked looking at Dante with her pen rested on her notepad “no, it's not my calendar has nothing planned “ he said looking up from the crystal

She hummed and looked down at her notes, and looked back at him “it's odd, I've never seen a reading like yours, but it's an obvious case of lucky rabbits” she said with hint of curiousity “say, have you ran inro someone in particular that you've never seen or met?” She asked him curiously “well, kinda? I met this guy earlier in the morning on my way to work, I never had ran into him until today” sh hummed in response for the answer

“Well, it may just be him. But it wouldn't explain how and why I've never seen a reading like yours” she added to a statement “What'd you mean?” Dante asked “well, the lucky rabbits has different sizes of luck depending on who cast the luck spell, but you don't have a spell just an aura shift but no spell to be found,and the luck size is something I've never seen, I've never seen something like this, but it can be a rare chance that he just spreads luck without knowing, it's a rare chance but never zero” she explained to Dante

He barely understood the statement but understood it enough that he knows what she means “so what you're saying is that he's basically a walking lucky charm?” He asked hesitatingly “basically yea” and Dante nodded “if may ask, what did they look like?” She asked him

“Oh uh, he had green eyes quite tall, white hair too I don't know dyed or not” he said trying to remember the first interaction he had that day “white hair?” She asked repeating the last part “yea white hair, why?” He aske dquite curious “oh well, White isn't common usually coming from a blood line of ones with white hair from long ago, so if they had white hair..I may have met him before..” she said trying think back to someone she met long ago

“I mean, his name was Travis? He didn't say his last name” Dante said “Oh..then I don't know them” she said in a lower tone of voice, “who did you know with white hair?” Dante asked tilting his head to the side “oh uh, his name was enki, he was like an uncle to me” she said taking the crystal from Dante “Enki..hmm, I think I've heard one of my colleagues mention that name” Dante said trying to remember who it was

“Nah, don't stress it he owned a big lab and opened the grand ancient library wouldn't be surprised if your friends knew him from that” Lucinda said with a smile as Dante stood up brushing of crystal dust on his shirt “That was him?!” Dante shouted in suprise, which made Lucinda giggle slightly “yea it was him” she said turning away from Dante to put away the crystal

“Well thank Enki ! He saved my studies from when I was in highschool!” He said is brighter tone “yea..thank Enki” Lucinda said with smiles aligning her face, Dante looked down at his watch and saw it was late “It's getting late, I’ll see you around, and thanks for the help” he said giving her a quick smile “ofc, it's what I do and be careful on your way home” she said waving him off as the door closed behind him

“Travis..” she mumbled the name, “Travis valkrum son of Terry valkrum” someone said from behind her, turning around she saw her assistant “you know him?” She asked “not entirely, but our father's use to work together and my best friend works in his shop” was all he said while walking to behind the counter with Lucinda “tell her to keep an eye on him..” she said and Aaron nodded, the two walked to the back room ready to close store for the day

As soon as the two closed shop Aaron pulled out his phone and scrolled down a bit to find Aphs contact, he clicked it and typed something as he got out the alley that leads you to the shop

Aaron; I have a favour to ask

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The day had been a generous one, the shop wasn't quite as busy as usual and that sort of made it hang out hours and Travis didn't mind it he had actually joined them in conversations and joined their game from time to time while everything was pretty slow which had surprised many since they all knew that Travis is the owners son and had predicted that they'd be unamusingly similar

But now that they've seen how Travis is, some feels guilty for how they had assumed things about him. The conclusion is Travis is nothing like his father, they look alike and that's that, personality wise? No where near the same circle, which begs the question of their relations with each other

Do they balance each other since they're practically counter opposites in personality, or do they just do business and not talk out of it, many were curious but held back thinking it'd be insensitive to ask such a thing they didn't know what kind of answers they'd get and they don't know if they'd wanna know
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At the end of the day it felt calm, like a hit of luck just touched down on the store which seemed out of place, no one had ever had that much luck in one day but no batted an eye, if luck was on their side then luck was on their side no complaints said

Aphmau walked home that day, her apartment was close enough in walking distance and it's totally not because she broke her bike and now it's in the repair shop. Totally not. She hummed along a tune one familiar but she doesn't remember from where, she walked along the sidewalk with bushes of rose followed the road by the side of it's garden

a notification caught her attention, she was never one to turn off ‘do not disturb’ but she has it ring notifications for certain people, she took out her phone as she stood on the sidewalk looking down at the message it was from Aaron

‘I have a favour to ask’

Hung on her lock screen, she unlocked her phone and read the message again for a moment before clicking it, Aaron was never one to ask for much so it had to be something of importants, she typed out something back and sent it his way

‘what is it?’

She looked down on the message and a text bubble showed up with someone texting on the other end

‘Can you keep an eye on someone you work with?’

Curiosity circled her, she didn't know who he was speaking of but whoever it is, maybe there's something to them she doesn't know, maybe a secret or who knows what if Aaron was asking her of all people to keep an eye out for someone

‘Sure, who is it?’

She sent back waiting patiently for a response of who this mysterious person she's looking over may be, but what she hadn't expected was to see one name

‘Travis Valkrum, the co-owner he came in this morning I believe’

She was rendered confused and speechless she didn't know what to think, maybe she can ask further when Aaron gets home to their shared apartment maybe then she'll get some answers of sorts

‘Sure? But only if I can ask questions later when you come home, okay?’

And the answer was short and simple from Aaron's side

‘ofc’

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Aaron unlocked the door, stepping inside he took off his shoe and put it aside and walked along the hall to the main part of the apartment and met Aphmau on the couch, he took a seat beside her

Silence making of their apartment, Aphmau broke the silence “so, care to share the details?” She asked looking up at him curious, he looked down eyes meeting hers and he sighed

“well in short from what I know, Travis is basically a walking luck charm he most likely doesn't know that but from what Lucinda knows he can be aware that he does give off luck of a rabbit but not likely, I wanted you to keep an eye out for anything weird or suspicious of such” he explained

He was so focused explaining he hadn't even realized that Aphmau had out of nowhere gotten popcorn “I see, so that's why the shop's luck was given a boost, I knew there wasn't a way someone had that much luck for a day!” She exclaimed popcorn slightly spilling her over filled bowl of popcorn

“So he is leading luck, if your place got luck too then that proves he's a lucky rabbit” Aaron said grabbing a bit of the popcorn for himself, theories brewing up in his train of thoughts “but does he know..” Aaron asked himself slightly curious per say

“well,if it's anything to go off of no one's seen him use magic at all, but then again he came from a bloodline of magick ancestors so I don't really know” Aphmau shrugged trying to give an answer, for a moment a sentence looped in Aaron's mind “Magicks ancestors you say..?” Aaron said looking over at Aphmau meeting her eyes “yep, you think that has something to do with the whole lucky rabbits thing?” She asked raising a brow at Aaron unsure of why he asked that

“Maybe.. I'll have to call Lucinda about it, maybe she knows something” he said pulling out his phone “let Lucinda rest, you can ask in the morning, after all she's probably doing her own stuff right now, you know how she is when it comes to things off from work” Aphmau said letting her hand drift to the arm that held the phone, Aaron sighed “I guess it can wait..” he said putting back his phone in his pocket

“Yea, go to bed Aaron” she said, nudging him to his room “what about you?” He asked looking back at her confused “I don't sleep Aaron now shoo” she said gesturing her hand to shoo him away to his room “you have work, you need sleep” Aaron said glaring at her “I'll go to bed in a moment you go on ahead” she said stretching her arms out and yawn

“sure princess” he scoffed walking away, he could feel the daggering glare in his back she was not amused

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Dante sat on his bed in his pajamas, he couldn't stop thinking of the incident from earlier, it felt weird. It felt like he's seen him before, but he doesn't know where he's seen him before but the vivid pain that ached in his mind is now a distant memory but he doesn't remember

What happened? Do they know each other? Surely not Travis would've said something. Right? He's starting to doubt his own judgment, maybe all of this was just in his head, maybe he's just overreacting. Dante does not like when he does not understand things it frustrates him and keeps him up, but now there's a sense of deja vu hitting him out of nowhere.

He wanted to understand and he tried but it doesn't seem to be working. It seems like the universe just hates him. Maybe that's true, maybe that's not who is he to talk for the universe?

Dante hates the gut feeling that lingers has once he fell asleep

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The sun shone through the blinds of Dante's bedroom shining in his eyes as he slowly woke from his sleep. His eyes opening and closing slowly until an obnoxious blaring noise came crashing down to his world as he barely were aware of his surroundings, the noise loudens as the second passes now flaring with a loud ringing sound in his ears

He looks to his side at the source and sits up perhaps too quickly with the empty twisting feeling in his stomach he turns off his alarm. He now stares down at his phone eyeing the volume he himself had set it to the night before, whatever went through his head he hadn't obviously realized he put the volume at full speaker. He sighed and stayed sat on his bed his phone now back on his bedside

He slips into his inside slippers and walked over to the rack of whatever he can put there, he searched for his towel for a moment and throws his towel over his shoulder at the immediate sight of his raggy t fluff towel. He walked over the bathroom rubbing his eyes for a better awareness of what goes on around him while he showers

By the time Dante gets out the shower his awareness for the things around him had already sprouted back and attached to his mind, as such, him being far more awake was not by choice, it was simply the fact this part of the city runs with nothing else then cold water despite the temperature outside. If you wanted hot water you had to boil it yourself in a pot.

he shuffled through his closet looking at what it had to offer despite barely doing weekly laundry. in the end he ended up wearing black overalls with a white shirt underneath it, he grabbed a hair clip from an opened box on his desk, he snapped the clip and snapped it back at his bangs that covered his right ear

Dante walked along the creaky wooden floor as he picked up his bag that hung from his bedside, he peeked inside making sure he had put his uniform in the previous night like he had told himself to do, and sure enough his bag was neatly folded in his bag with his phone in his bag front pocket. Dante for a moment stared at his phone, he doesn’t remember putting his phone into his bag.

he looked at his phone looking down at it now the time flashed in his face realization hit, he was gonna be late once more this month. Dante drew in a sharp breath as he locked his house and dragged his bike out ready to start pedaling, but something made him look at his phone again, he now caught the glimpse of the day. It was a sunday. Dante does not work sundays.

He circled back and stopped dragging his bike so harshly it left faded marks from it’s tires, he rubbed the edges of his eyes rubbing them together, he now left his bike in his yard, Dante went back inside and took another bag of his tossing in his wallet and putting his phone and anything else he may need, he looked at his schedule and saw the note he left days prior that he was supposed to hang out with Sasha at 10;45 the time now was 8;50 am.

He was surprised that Sasha had agreed to hanging out but she had said he was ‘chill’ well, according to her at least, Dante had no idea what she had meant but went along since she had barely had a one to one with Sasha since she worked in the tattoo shop with…Travis huh, maybe he could ask her about Travis when they hang out, but right now all Dante needed was some black coffee

He this time locked his house in no rus, he picked up his bike still dragging it along as he closed the gate to his yard he jumped onto the seat of the bike he started to pedal the bike his legs moving along with muscle memory as he listened to the chirping birds and the smell of the flowers he passes with each garden that led along to his neighborhood cafe, Dante slowed down as the cafe came into view. he parked his bike to the side of the cafe and headed inside

The place had the smell of freshly baked pastries, the scent attracted many to the nice homey like place, it had sitting outside and inside. Dante walked over to the counter as a woman he swore in his mind seemed familiar as she walked over to the counter “Hello! Welcome to lucky cat cafe, today's special is our chocolate croissant and the wishing star coffee with whip cream, marshmallow and chocolate shavings. what can I get for you?” she asked a polite smile plastered on

“Can I get a medium black coffee with a vanilla doughnut?” he said, pulling his wallet. “oh, I’m afraid we haven’t gotten those in stock yet, do you perhaps have anything else?” She said, tuning to the case displayed where all their pastries sat, Dante hummed and looked at what was ready, “I think I’ll take it with a regular croissant.” Dante looked up at the woman just as she nodded “is that all?” she asked him, typing into the register “yep” he nodded “ your total is $ 9.56 will that be cash or card?” She asked “cash” , he said handing over a ten, he put a $ 5 bill into the tip jar as he was given his recite and change “ thank you” he said taking a seat at one of the tables near the counter.

his order doesn’t take long since the place wasn’t busy he looked up at the woman and looked at her name tag “Well, thank you Ms. Aphmau" he said, giving her a light smile . “ Say, do you perhaps work near the local shop streets?’ he asked curious of why the name had rang some bells in his head “ oh, yes i do, I work in the tattoo shop” she said with nervous laughter following her words as it lingers “oh! that’s why your name rang some bells, you work with Garroth right?” Dante asked as if it was common sense “oh, yes that was me! you’ve heard about it?” she asked, tilting her head to the side invested of where this may take her “of course, it was the best work i’ve ever seen from a tattoo shop” he said with a chuckle “ You know Travis Valkrum?” Dante asked this time

“depends, who's asking” she asked now suspicion rising to her mind “co-flower shop owner, I’ve never seen him around before, and yet he brought luck along with him” Dante had mumbled the last part believing that the woman that was in front of him couldn't hear him in such a hushed tone “huh, so you also know his luck situation?” She asked taking a seat in front of him

“Uh, yea, how do you know it?” He asked curious of what kind of information he just stumbled upon “well, I heard it from a friend of mine that worked with Lucinda, they asked me of a favor to keep my eye out for him” she explained looking slightly of ease, Dante hummed at the explanation he didn't question further even though he wanted to know more

Before Dante could ask anything the alarm on his phone blared, he looked at the time before turning off the alarm, he should start heading to the mall now. Dante looked up at the woman and back at his phone taking out a pen he always had on him and a small piece of paper writing down his number and giving it to aphmau

“let's keep in contact, I'd like to talk a bit more and maybe exchange some information” he said standing up Aphmau nodded “well see you around Dante” she said head back to the counter as the front door closes

Dante picks up his bike and takes a deep breath before he looked again at his phone the time now reading ‘09;34.am’ as he turns off his phone putting it in his bag and started to go back into the rhythm of the bike petals

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Dante arrives at the mall at around 10;15 so he wasn't exactly late so he texted Sasha after not being able to find her at the entrance

‘Dante; Hey Sasha are you already at the mall?’

‘Sasha; No I'm heading there rn, my cousin is dropping me off since he was staying over at my place and has to grab something at the mall he won't join us tho’

‘Dante; you have a cousin?’

‘Sasha; yea just found out last year abt him met him 9 months ago’

‘Dante; alr, I'll wait at the entrance then’

‘Sasha; alr, be there in 10 mins’

Dante tapped out the messenger app and looked through his notes looking for his plans, when he finally found it he had spotted white hair. He looked up and spotted Sasha with..Travis? Behind her

Dante jolted back slightly confused, blinking multiple times making sure he wasn't seeing things, and sure enough he wasn't. That was Travis, what were the odds of this happening?

“Hey Dante” Sasha said waving at him, he waved back as Sasha said something to Travis as he went inside and left the two alone “stop staring I know he looks cute I don't need another person saying it” Sasha said sighing “He's your cousin?” Was the first thing Dante said looking at Sasha

“Yea, You met him yesterday right?” Sasha said as they started to walk to the entrance “yea? How'd you know?” Dante asked “I know my information” Sasha said as enter the mall “let's go to the cafeteria we can talk and eat there” she said Dragging Dante to the elevator.

Once they got to the cafeteria and Sasha got her food they both sat down at a booth “shoot” Sasha stated as she ate a handful of french fries “what?” Dante said confused “I know you have questions, everyone whose met Travis does” Sasha said before taking a drink of the cup of lemon tea she ordered

“Well, do you know magicks?” Dante started and Sasha nodded “well..by chance does your family have something to make them lucky?” Sasha thought for a moment, before shaking her head “well, Travis apparently spreads something called Lucky rabbits” Dante said rubbing the back of his neck unsure if Sasha would even believe him “I see.. Don't worry that happens all the time, he doesn't even know he does it”

“Wait..you know?” Dante said tilting his head “of course I did, I knew something was off about him since I first met him” Sasha said taking another handful of the fries “I guess, you do know him longer than me” Dante said fiddling with the fries in his hand before shoving them in his mouth “Honestly I knew way before I met him, I always suspected something of him his family had a history of these kind of things after all” Sasha said taking another sip of the lemon tea

“Really?” Dante asked slightly confused by the statement “yep, Magical ancestors after all it always passes on” she says staring at Dante “huh..he has magical ancestry..Could a luck spell be passed on by spouses?” Dante said slightly still confused with how magic even works “You could say that, luck usually runs in heirloom as long as it's passed down” Sasha said unwrapping her cheeseburger

“Heirloom, does he have one of those?” Dante asked Sasha as he grabbed another handful of fries “Yea, emerald necklace, he talked about how it was a symbolism of luck in his family I'm pretty sure it's the emerald necklace he wears” Sasha says taking a bite of her cheeseburger “Interesting..” was all Dante said as he unwrapped his burrito and the two was left to eat in silence in eachothers company

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“Okay seriously be honest, which earring is better Sasha?” Dante demanded to know as he debated and fought with his own thoughts “okay fine, the black one would look good” Sasha said pulling the black round earrings off the rack and shoves them in Dante's hand as she took the golden star earrings “Ladies first Dante” Sasha said walking over to the alleged Lady that'll be piercing their ears “Which one you picked?” Dante slightly jumped at the voice before turning around

It was Travis

“Oh gee, sorry didn't mean to scare ya there” he said with an apologetic look “Don't worry about it, you just came outta nowhere there” Dante said with a chuckle “I picked- well Sasha picked the black round earrings” Dante said holding the earrings up “they look nice! I got the dangling light bolts one” Travis holding up his choice “Woah, those looks rad!” Dante exclaims “Nice choice” Sasha said which made Dante jump “that was fast” he stated

“I know, your turn moron” Sasha said turning to Dante, Dante sighed as he started to walk away but now before he moved far away he heard Travis ask Sasha if she could put the earrings in for him meaning Travis already had his ear pierced.

It went better than he had thought it would, he didn't cry or scream mostly painless which was weird, people always said getting your ear pierced in Claire's hurt a lot, which seems to be a lie, that or he has high pain tolerance

Dante walked over to the pair of white haired people “-ork like that” Travis said Sasha with a stern stare looking at the girl that in front of him and sighed knowing that Sasha probably wouldn’t budge to leave him alone about it and not over bare him with this whole fiasco “C'mon just admit it” Sasha said

“No, just no” Travis said walking out Claire's “what was that about?” Dante asked approaching Sasha, she just sighed “He's just a little upset is all, he'll be in the car, how about we have lunch first?” She offered as they walked out the Claire's “That sounds nice” Dante said with a cheery tone

The two head to the cafeteria, they got some drinks and food of course, they talked some more and Sasha even offended to give Dante Travis's contact number, at first he refused but obliged eventually with a sigh as Sasha sent Dante Travis's number via text

The two finishes off their food quickly before rushing out and waved their goodbyes to each other

Dante was about to get on his bike when he heard his phone ping, he pulled it out to find someone had texted him

..?
Hey this is aphmau
I just found some stuff on Travis
Text me when you can, I wanna meet up

Dante looked at the notification and didn't fiddle with it, he shoves his phone into his pocket and pulls out his bike. With a heavy sigh he takes out his phone again

Dante
Where were you thinking?