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Jericho realized what was happening to him all at once - he was being [i]punished.[/i]

All that shit. All those years of lies. [color=9e0b0f][i]You would be wasted spending your life at my back. Live for yourself. Make your own fate. Only you are worthy of being at my side.[/i][/color]

[color=9e0b0f][i]I go and do it, and what does he do? He starts screwing with me as soon as I'm out of the country![/i][/color]

That two-faced, passive-aggressive, needy, emotionally insecure, vainglorious...[i]man-child.[/i] This would have never happened if Jer hadn't stopped the rest of his friends from killing him in that nightclub putsch like he deserved.

[color=9e0b0f][i]Make no mistake, [b]Rich.[/b] I stopped that. Bekah had an elephant gun in the sound booth waiting for you.[/i][/color]

Jer couldn't go back now, not without being told he was a flake, unworthy of his kingship, unworthy of his higher status as a knight. Was this Rich's way of telling him that he was a fool for ever having left? He couldn't remember mentioning Bianca--wait, had he mentioned Bianca in the AAR? Was this a [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foaLW5DGhpI][i][b]jealousy[/b][/i][/url] thing!? Jealous of [i]what!?[/i] 

[color=9e0b0f][i]Looks like I picked the wrong week to swing both ways...[/i][/color]

Speaking of both ways, the other boy and the girl in the dorm were both staring at their new captain expectantly.

...

[color=9e0b0f][h3][b][i]Fine.[/i][/b][/h3][/color]

He would be the best [i]captain[/i] - not king, [i]captain[/i] - ever. Like Troy Piper was.

Rich would be begging for his knight back by the end of the Vytal Festival. Begging for someone who could pillage doughnut parlours half as well as he could, someone who could get them into clubs, someone who could prepare breakfast without consulting a twenty minute CCT video...

[color=9e0b0f][i]I [b]am[/b] irreplaceable, you helpless goddamn [u][b]queen.[/b][/u][/i][/color]
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[right][color=fff79a]"Ah-choo. Sister, bring forth the royal Puffs with Facial Lotion."[/color]

[color=fff200]"What? No!"[/color]

[color=fff79a]"Very well. Bright, bring forth one of my wretched sister's t-shirts. One of those rags will suffice."[/color]

[color=fff200]"[i]Ewwwwwwww![/i] Eww eww eww--!"[/color][/right]
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Jericho Piper had never been more serious. He looked at Luke and Bianca with new eyes, ready to address this cobbled-together unit of hated foreigners as their captain for the first time. He needed to make an address - one that would seal their status as his second team for life.

[color=9e0b0f]"I guess."[/color]