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[color=seagreen]“You know it’s a party, right?”[/color] 

Tsubomi felt a slight jolt as Rei bumped her soda with her own. By the time the action was processed in her mind, Rei had already said something else. 

[color=seagreen]“-l me you’re scared of the new girl. Just cause she doesn’t transform into normal clothes doesn’t mean she’ll bite.”[/color]

Bite? No. Shoot? Possibly. But if Tsubomi were actually [i]scared[/i], she'd... Oh, she realized it was a joke a moment later. 

[color=seagreen]“-at your partner’s making in there. I can’t recall ever eating anything Suki’s cooked.”[/color]

To that, Tsubomi took a long few gulps of soda. She was tempted to tell the boss that Suki's cooking was quite possibly more dangerous than the Light Girls they'd seen earlier in the night, but... Then she wouldn't learn anything about her green-haired senior. Then again, would she get in trouble for not warning her? In the moments she had thought about this, Mercurial had set up balloons an-

[i]-BANG-[/i]

Tsubomi jolted in her seat. She knew herself well enough to know that she was a bit... slow, physically but more-so mentally, when her guard was down, but getting startled by a party popper was just embarrassing. She cleared her throat and tried to banish the slight blush on her cheeks, speaking a few seconds later. [color=00aeef]"Speaking of partners... Willy's already got the new girl under control, I think..."[/color] She took another swig of soda, only to find that it was the last of the can. She stared at it blankly for about ten seconds before shrugging and setting it aside. [color=00aeef]"So you think that pink hair goes to our school? Sorry I couldn't catch her. But Oros thinks she knows her name, now..."[/color]

She reached back and bent slightly to grab another soda from the cooler. [color=00aeef]"She goes by... 'licorice,' I think she said? And her apparently her real name is either that or, what was it? Homm-ura, I think."[/color] It was about that time that Earthshaker went into the kitchen. Tsubomi's head turned to follow her and stayed looking at her until the door was shut. Her head lazily moved back to look at Nyxia. And after a minute or two, Earthshaker returned outside to sit across from that very girl, saying something about the "food" coming soon. 

This would make for an interesting interaction, so maybe she should transform and harvest some of it? 
...
Nah.