[hr][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/KzmdUGG.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/MzIHaGw.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/C4njhfP.png[/img] [/center] [b][code]Grand Ridge Academy - Conference Room.[/code][/b][hr] "Wow, you must be [i]great[/i] at parties, Mosshead," Justin rolled his eyes up into his head as he nearly felt the urge to call Rien stupid. Probably all that alcohol fucked with his... her... head. "I'd lay off the bottles, mosshead. If pulling bats out of your ass - or paper, whatever you wanna call it - is 'just another crazy thing' then I think you need to reevaluate some of your choices." Justin laughed off Rien as he turned to Britney. Though, Min had a great question. Just parroting what Britney said! [i]Putting that genius level dick you got to good use, eh Min?[/i] Justin thought to himself as he leaned forward a bit. Britney was about to answer the question that Min presented when Penny decided to speak up and voice her obvious displeasure at herself and Claire. As Penny dug into her... Britney tried her best to stay composed as she stared at Penny dead on. Her nails digging into the table as she counted to ten in her head, and sighed. Praying that somebody would step in and tell this bitch to get the hell away from here. That was when Andrea stepped in... clearly rattled, but clearly a lot more logical than Britney herself was being, admittedly. She shook her head as she listened to Andrea speak. She took the words out of her mouth. "Yeah... how's about we listen to Blondie - I mean Andrea," Justin immediately hopped to his feet. He didn't understand the obvious bad blood between the two parties - he was more inclined to stand with Claire and Britney than Penny, of course - but he also didn't think now was a great time to kill each other. He wasn't a great meditation - he followed his heart and did what was right. "We're all long past highschool - we're better than trying to kill each other over stupid drama." He briefly glanced over at Min... and realized he was maybe being hypocritical. But, that was something he was going to settle personally. "It doesn't have to end this way." [i]So now we gonna sing kumbaya after all this nasty shit's been said?[/i] Claire thought to herself as Andrea seemed to have Justin and the others rallying behind her. Her aura had appeared the moment that Penny had started talkin' shit, and remained a violent, bright-red, color the whole time. She wanted to shove her head so far up her own ass that it was going to get lost... but even she couldn't realize how stupid it'd be to act like that. Especially since she's getting over the embarrassment of what she did yesterday... and she couldn't help but cringe... Britney sighed as she calmed herself down. She was going to back Andrea on this, because it was stupid getting all emotional and anger and for what? To prove Penny's rationale right? There was no winning that way, so she had to concede. "I'll be the first to apologize and say I'm sorry if it seemed like I was taking sides. I didn't mean to..." Britney trailed off as she looked to the rest of the group. "And to everyone else, I'm " "... besides we're not buddy-buddy like you say," Claire rolled her eyes up into her head. God, Lawson drove her up the wall by having her head shoved up her own ass. She merely shrugged as she realized the red aura was still around her. "I'm not apologizing because I meant [i]every[/i] word that I sai-" She was interrupted when she felt something poke her hard in the leg. She looked down and saw a wooden root quickly retracting in the direction of Britney. [i]"Not helping, Claire."[/i] Britney said, as she sighed and decided to bite the bullet. She didn't want to reveal too much, but perhaps there was an explanation needed here. Or else they'd be going in circles, and [i]not[/i] in the direction that she wanted them to be heading in. She turned her head towards Min, and said, "Now, to answer your question, Min, you remember that dream we all had?" Britney started off with the question. "The part where the robed people said that they were an Awakened - that's what we all are. Awakened." "... and the fuck is that?" Claire asked with a raised eyebrow. "Someone who has Awakened, in short, has unlocked a magical ability within them," Britney said, "For example... what our good blue-haired friend has just did, or Justin's fire." He said. "Oh yeah!" "And to unlock that magical ability, you have to be in some kind of traumatic incident..." She trailed off, and left it in the air. Everybody here is old enough to piece everything else together.