For some reason, Emily, Rose, and Lilth said they needed to talk about something, and it had to be in private.

  From what I have seen from them, those three are not close in any way. Rose and EMily are nice to each other, but that only happens to spend time with me, since EMily is my girlfriend and Rose is my maid and best friend. But they usually ignore Lilith whenever she talks to me around them.

  Emily even told me to be careful around her, even though I have no clue what she meant about that.

  Still not feeling good though, I headed back to my dorm room.

  I didn’t have anything to do, so I just ended up lying on my bed.

  But after a while, I heard a knock at my door. Not sure who it could be, I walked over to open the door.

  ∴

  Lilith, Rose and Emily walked into the student council room. There was no one else there currently, so the three of them were alone.

  “So, what is it you would like to talk about?” Lilith asked the two of them.

  “It's about Nyx, how she was acting today” Rose said, starting the conversation.

  “What about it? She seemed somewhat normal to me, just a little down” Lilith says, now thinking about her sister.

  “That is it, there should be no reason for her to be down right now. None that we know anyway” Emily said. “Yesterday was great, and she was bubbly and excited. But today, it was the exact opposite.”

  “... what were you doing yesterday?” Lilith asked, now in an accusatory tone.

  “Hmm, we went out on a date together” EMily said, with a tone of superiority.

  “Yes, the two of them went out on a date after Nyx spent the morning hunting in the wilds. She seemed very happy during the day, but this morning and during the day, she was not really present” Rose expined. “I had seen this in the past, and was curious if you had as well”

  “Hmm…” Lilith said, thinking back on their childhood. “I'm not sure if I remember anything like that, but sometimes she was more excited to do things with me, and sometimes more reserved. But she never stopped me from doing anything”

  “So, even if she was like that, you would never have notice” Emily said, in an accusatory tone.

  “What is that supposed to mean?” Lilith asked, energy fring around her for an instant.

  Rose, quickly stepping in front of Emily, starts trying to calm Lilith down. “Ms. Lilith, this is not a good idea, you should calm down”

  “Oh, bite me. The little whore is picking the fight” Lilith yells at them. “If she wants one, I am willing to fight back”

  “If she is hurt, Nyx will most likely never forgive you” Rose said, hoping to appeal to Liliths love for her sister.

  ANd it works, having Lilith calm down for a little.

  “I don’t know what's going on with her, but if it was the same thing from when she was younger, she will bounce back” Lilith said. “And if that is all, you both should leave. The rest of the student council will be here soon.”

  “Thank you for talking with us” Rose said, and led Emily from the room. Since Lilith had exploded on her, she had been terrified. It was a normal reaction to the first time someone saw a truly powerful person or entity.

  Lilith was strong, stronger than a normal student in the 5th year, and much stronger then the first year Emily. And she was faced with this truth for the first time.

  She had no idea how to move forward.

  As she and Rose walked away, she thought about her retionship with Nyx, and how it could be in trouble because of Lilith.

  If she really wanted to, she could force them apart. The only thing stopping her was the idea that Nyx trusted Emily, and would listen to her.

  And that thought terrified her.

  THe two of them were simir, but also very different. And that difference was how much force they would be using to get what they wanted. Where Emily wanted to be in a mutual loving retionship, Lilith would take what she wanted, and not care what that meant.

  And Emily knew that Nyx, in this dynamic, would never stop her.

  ∴

  “So, I have been having trouble learning all of the stuff in css, and was wondering if you could show me your notes?” CHloe asked me after I let her into my dorm.

  She had come by asking for help in css, and since I was the top student, or at least tied for it, I was the best choice.

  I think others tried to ask for help, but I normally don’t talk to new people at school.

  But, there is one massive issue.

  “Um… No” I say, embarrassed at my answer.

  In truth, I have not taken a single note, or even slightly paid attention in any regur css at school.

  I learned all of this stuff when I was a kid, and I still remember all of it.

  So instead, I just doodle in css. My art was getting pretty good because of this.

  “Why not?” Chloe asked, not getting offended like I thought she would.

  “Um, I don’t take notes in css” I tell her, hoping this ends the conversation and we start talking about anything else.

  “Nyx, I sat next to you today, you were definitely doing something in your notebook” she said, in a more accusatory tone.

  “Um, I was…” I start trying to think of a good excuse.

  “What were you doing?”

  “... NOthing”

  “Liar”

  And we just stare at each other, neither of us giving in. But eventually, I had to give in.

  “Sigh, I was drawing in css” I tell her, hoping this will be the end of it.

  “Oh, can I see what you were drawing?” she says, now fully moving onto this instead of school stuff.

  “No”

  “So, we are just going to do the same thing again, but now about showing me your art?”

  “No, I am just not going to show you” I say.

  “So that's a yes” She says. “You should just show me”

  “No”

  “Yes”

  “No”

  “...Yes”

  “It's personal, I don’t like sharing it with people” I tell her, hoping she doesn't continue to push.

  “But I'm guessing that Emily and Rose have seen it”

  “Yes, but… Rose is my best friend and Emily was really pushy before we started dating” I tell her.

  “All I am seeing is more reasons you should show me”

  “...”

  “...”

  And once again, her insurance has pushed me to agree.

  “FIne” I say. “Here you go” I say, handing her the notebook I was drawing today.

  As she flips through it, I think back to what I was working on today. There were a lot of pictures of random things, but Emily was probably the most popur subject of the drawings.

  But today, I switched it up.

  And as she flips through the book, she finds the picture I was trying to hide from her.

  Today, I drew a picture of her.

  “This is a picture of me…” she said, looking at the drawing. “It's really good”

  “Oh, thank you” I said, really embarrassed that I was found out. Emily knew I would draw her during css, since she liked me doing it before school started. But it wasn’t until Chloe came here today that I thought that someone would be unhappy with me doing it without their permission.

  “Can I keep it?” she ended up asking me while she was looking at it.

  “Oh, um, sure. I don’t see why not” I tell her. THis actually made me pretty happy, and probably made me smile a little.

  And her smile looking back at me made me feel weird. Kinda like how I felt with Emily or Rose or Lilith. It was nice to have another friend.

  …

  “Yeah, friend” I say to myself, like I was reassuring a point.

  “There's a smile from you” She said, commenting on it, proving to me it was really there. “And not forced this time, so much better”

  “What… I wasn’t forcing a smile earlier?” I say, confused by her comment.

  “It's okay, Nyx. You don’t always need to be happy and bubbly” she said, putting her hand on my cheek. “But if you want to talk about what's going on, I am here. I know you and Emily are dating…”

  “No… I mean, I know what you're talking about, and I know what's going on” I say, thinking about today as a whole. It made sense. “But I’m fine. There isn’t really anything we can do about it”

  “All right. Just know you have people here for you” She says. THe more I talk with Chloe, the more pretty she is to me. Not in the same way that Emily is to me, or at least I don’t think so. More like an unobtainable pretty, much like celebrities in my past life. “Well, I am going to need to study a little. See you tomorrow, Nyx”

  “See you tomorrow” I say back. After she leaves, I lie back in my bed again. Even with knowing they are here, there isn’t much I can do right now. It is just a consequence of my existence. The Manic High necessitates the depressive low.

  I will probably be better tomorrow.

  ∴

  As CHloe left Nyx’s room, she paced around the hallway for a while waiting for someone to come back to the dorms.

  And as she saw Emily walking back upstairs she stoped her.

  “I’m in” she said, with a smile.

  And then she walked away.