[b][i] – Kathy [/i][/b] Apparently her roommate had not been to the house at all. Kathy saw zero signs of any other belongings aside from her own and the second bedroom remained unlocked and empty. [i]‘Maybe I haven’t been assigned a roommate yet?’[/i] She thought. It would certainly explain why she had never seen anyone back in the dormitories of Athalia, though in that case she was rather embarrassed about not noticing it sooner than she had. It would have been nice if she could’ve met a nice a roommate to become friends with, but being along had its own perks after all. [i]‘Though… I guess it’s a little lonely.’[/i] She ended up changing her clothes for the 3rd time that day. In her defense, she didn’t quite feel like walking around in a bikini top at night when the sun was no longer out and the 2nd time she had changed had been because of the training. She put on a [url=http://i.imgur.com/JiKBPaQ.jpg]black tank top and jean shorts[/url] and moved in front of the mirror as she removed the hair elastic to loosen up her ponytail. “Oh, it’s back!” She could see the familiar shade of dark, brown-ish red hair in her reflection. Kathy breathed a small sigh of relief. As interesting as it had been to have different coloured hair for once, in the end she truly liked her own natural hair colour. [i]‘And… So does Crash.’[/i] She thought, then noticing the slight blush that had appeared in her reflected image, she quickly waved the thought away and began to comb her hair out. Without any further plans for the day, she began to contemplate where she wanted to go next. She had already finished organizing all her belongings and didn’t seem like she could socialize with her roommate, so she thought about going to the resort and seeing if anyone had as much free time as she did (which was incredibly likely seeing as they were all on an island vacation). She had just stepped outside when an amplified voice announced: [quote]"CALLING ALL OF ATHALIA. PLEASE REPORT TO THE LOUNGE AREA FOR A MANDATORY MEETING!"[/quote] Kathy frowned. [i]‘Now?’[/i] Instinctively, she looked around and strained her ears for any sign of trouble. But as far as she could tell it was just a peaceful night. [i]‘Then again, the principal didn’t sound all too urgent about the meeting. There’s no real reason to assume every announcement is connected to an emergency I suppose.’[/i] And now that she thought about it, Maria Cross hadn’t even bothered to make an announcement during the demon attack. It had been Crash that went around telling everyone to meet up in the auditorium. [i]‘Where was she then anyway?’[/i] She wondered, frowning again. Whatever it was for, she was not going to skip out on a [i]mandatory[/i] meeting. Reaching the lounge area Kathy made herself comfortable in one of the single lounge sofas. Seeing the relaxed expressions of all the other students that had gathered there, she was fairly convinced that the announcement wasn’t for something requiring immediate and urgent attention. Normally she would have immediately started searching for Crash and Carmen among the crowd, but she felt a little embarrassed about seeing them at the moment. So instead, she relaxed in her comfortable seat and looked around for any other faces that she may have recognized. ------ [b][i] – Leroy[/i][/b] Leroy had, once again, covered everything in his bedroom with newspaper and moved most of his personal belongings over to the living room. He had considered just leaving the bedroom be since it was just a temporary place to stay, but in the end he had decided to go with it. As troublesome as it was, it also gave him a sense of familiarity. Armed with an impressive number of nightlights carried around in a plastic bag, he began to stick one into every outlet he found throughout the house. Save for inside of his roommate’s private bedroom of course. He didn’t care about being made fun of for his fear of the dark at his age. Pride wasn’t going to help him keep calm without proper vision and he already knew that it would be better to be teased about a phobia than the actual reaction he had when he was caught trapped in darkness. For now, all the lights had been turned on in the house seeing as it was nighttime, but just in case his roommate didn’t want to be in a place that was lit 24/7 he had installed nightlights throughout the house. Leroy had just finished putting one of the lights in the bathroom when he heard the door opening. He smiled, knowing it was probably his roommate. [i]‘Let’s see who it is then.’[/i] Done with putting nightlights everywhere, he left the plastic bag on the bathroom counter and stepped out to greet his roommate. To his pleasant surprise, he realized he had already met his roommate before. “Hey! Seven, it’s been a while.” He gave the bakeneko a warm and friendly greeting. “By the way, there was an announcement for a mandatory meeting. Aren’t you going?” --------------- [b][i] – Ara (B)[/i][/b] “Managed to meet most of the people you did.” Ara told A. She had bought a [url=http://www.thefeathergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/301364-Tropical-Feather-Print-Dress-44.50-dELiAs-.jpg]tropical dress[/url] before making her way back to her assigned quarters. Having changed into it, she sat and lounged on the bed while she faced a standing mirror to have a talk with A. Needless to say, A was actually quite surprised by this. Usually they preferred just to ignore each other as much as possible except for the occasional heckling. [i]“Well good for you. Did any of them believe you when you told them who you were? Or did you not bother revealing your identity?”[/i] Ara smirked at his words. “I didn’t really greet too many people, and the group I joined hadn’t met you yet. But one person believed me and another didn’t catch on all too well. Crash thought that you’d sent me, a different girl, to go and tease him in your place.” From beyond the mirror, A was laughing. [i]“So you continued with the teasing? Nice.”[/i] Then frowning she recounted, “Carmen decided to just treat you and me as both being real.” A’s laughter was cut off by this, and immediately replaced by a rather serious expression. Right now A was in a reflected room exactly like the one Ara was in, but as soon as she moved away so no mirror could catch her image he would be left in an empty, pure-white room with random fractions of the real world floating around him like giant shards of glass. The Fractal World was an empty place with nothing but himself and the belongings they threw inside for storage. It was a world without hunger, pain, warmth, or cold. One of them, A or B, would always be in there. And whenever they switched places, they gained the memories of the other, including the thoughts and emotions the ‘doppelganger’ felt while being in the Fractal World. Finally, A narrowed his eyes at the Ara in reality and told her, [i]“One day, I’m going to say goodbye to this god-forsaken world and take my place back in reality for good.”[/i] To this Ara sneered and replied, “How will you do that when you’re dead and gone?” They both knew the pain of being left alone in an empty world with nothing in it and how determined the other half was to escape from it, once and for all. But that was also why they could never forgive the other. Because they both thought that they were the real one and that the other one was the horrid doppelganger that had gotten them into the mess in the first place. The silent and hostile glaring between the two was cut off by a sudden announcement. [quote]"CALLING ALL OF ATHALIA. PLEASE REPORT TO THE LOUNGE AREA FOR A MANDATORY MEETING!"[/quote] “… I’ll be going then.” Getting off the bed, Ara turned back to face the mirror once more before leaving. A nodded. Waving her off she added, [i]“Don’t get too used to it. Those are my friends that you’re going to be socializing with.”[/i] Ara let out a laugh. “Like they would want to be friends with a delusional doppelganger.” And with that, she left for the lounge area to go join this mandatory meeting.