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@fides1104: @sugrjangz how was it
@fides1104: @sugrjangz how was it
@fides1104: @sugrjangz how was it

Max looked up from her phone. "Do you have a script or something?"
Faith shrugged. "It's a bot. I coded it while you were arguing with Ed about whether hot chocolate counts as coffee. Thirty second intervals."

@fides1104: @sugrjangz how was it

Minnie rolled her eyes. "Cut it out, Faith."
"I'm the admin! I can delete the bot whenever I want. It's not flooding."
Minnie grumbled something under her breath and reached for another slice of pizza. They'd returned to Hailey's penthouse after spending the afternoon at a café and ordered in.

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Edie elbowed Faith. "Come on, stop messing around." She jerked her chin at the immense screen in front of them. Instead of buying a TV, Hailey's parents had bought her an ultra-modern home theater system. And, since her father's company supplied chips to virtually every single large tech conglomerate of note, it was compatible with almost every single console on the planet. "I want to get as much playtime in as possible before H comes back."
Faith smirked smugly at Minnie. "You heard her." Removing her controller from her lap, she unpaused the game.

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"I'm muting the chat," Max announced.
Some time passed.

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The door slammed open. Hailey stood in the doorway, almost half the height of the opening. (It was a very big door and she was not a tall girl.) The four of them looked up as she stalked in, face bright red. She kicked off her shoes and flopped face-down on the sofa, her quirk making small temporary fist-sized indents in the material. Her kimono was rumpled from where she'd pulled it up to allow herself to run faster. As Edie shut off the game, Faith deactivated her bot. Minnie sat down beside Hailey and glanced at them.
"So," Max began, examining her nails. "How was it?"

-

"- I mean, my patience has limits, right? That idiot." Hailey puffed out her cheeks and poked at her parfait. "So I went to my hairdresser and asked her to deal with it for me. I'm not going to school with my hair in that state. He's on thin ice."
"Was it hard to fix?"
"Uh, no. She's a great hairdresser. Worth every yen." Hailey cast a disdainful look over her shoulder at the closed door behind them. "The Japanese aren't all bad." Turning back, her eyes flicked over Faith, Max and Edie, and then at Minnie, who was looking at them worriedly.

@sugrjangz: theyr actg weird tdy
@not_ur_power_bank: yeah

"Is everything okay?"
Max nodded immediately, but there was still something off. Like there was something on her mind. "Sure. What's his problem, anyway?"
Hailey rolled her eyes. "Hell if I know. Terminal lack of class, maybe." Reaching across the table, she pinched Edie lightly. "Hey. Earth to Ed."
Edie's eyes sharpened and she blinked quickly. "What? Yeah. Of course. What was that for?"

@not_ur_power_bank: suspiciously vehement...

"You were staring into space," Max accused, grinning. "Very disrespectful of you."
"Give me a break."
"Seriously, what's going on?" Minnie demanded, leaning in. "You've been out of it since English. Why'd you skip, anyway?"
"None of your business." Max's eyes darted to the side and she leaned in, pointing accusingly at Faith from where she was staring at her phone, an expression of deep thought on her face. "Why aren't you going at Little Miss Head-in-the-Clouds, anyway? She's acting weirder than me and Ed."
"The very fact that you can say that out loud without her looking up means that she's not going to respond even if you say her name." Minnie stood up halfway and turned to Faith. "Hey!"
No response. Minnie raised an eyebrow. "See?"
This was when Faith burst into tears.

It was like a switch had been flipped. They all stood up at the same time and crowded round her, but Faith waved them off. She didn't cry much, just a brief outburst of emotion, and her makeup was barely smudged by the time she was done. "I'm fine," she said thickly.
"Like hell you are," Hailey snapped. "What's going on? Whose life do I have to ruin?"
"It's nothing."
A dozen spindly bone-white pincers poked out from the neckline of Max's jacket as her quirk warmed up. "I'm coming with you. It has to be a boy, right? From Shiketsu."
"Someone confessed to me," Faith blurted.

The table fell silent.
"So that's who you were having lunch with?" Minnie demanded.
Faith nodded miserably and blew her nose. Her voice came out muffled. "I don't know what to do," she moaned. "He said I was the most amazing girl he'd ever seen."
"That's bullshit," Hailey snapped. "Any guy who talks like that is trying to butter you up."
"Oh, and like Takeda didn't do the same thing to you?"
Hailey glared at Minnie. "I just want Faith to be happy, okay?"
"Was it Inigo Myoga?" Max asked suddenly. She'd narrowed her eyes, and her right hand was rubbing her left wrist, picking at something obscured by the sleeve of her jacket. Hailey didn't miss how Edie looked at her sharply.
Faith was staring at Max too. "How'd you know that?"
"He told me the same thing during English," Max said, and brandished a silver-chain bracelet. "Gave me this."
Edie gasped. "He came onto me in the locker room," she added, pulling out her own replica bracelet. "He's ripped as hell."
"And he had lunch with you?" Minnie prompted.
Faith nodded, looking extremely confused, and pulled out a bracelet.
"Shoddy worksmanship," Hailey sniped, voice cold. "And the fucking nerve of him."
Two small spots of red had appeared on Faith's pale cheeks. Edie drummed her fingers on the table. Max cracked her knuckles.
"I'm going to kill him," Minnie said.