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[center][color=fff79a]"Oh boy."[/color][/center]

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[color=fff79a]"Y-you don't have to lie, really,"[/color] Haruna insisted. [color=fff79a]"You can tell them to assume I accepted until I or you tell them otherwise, alright? And I'll text you when I'm good for pancakes."[/color] After exchanging her own farewell with Saundra, and listening to the line go dead, Haruna sighed and slipped her phone back into her pockets. Suddenly, it seemed like her night of sleep wasn't that great, after all. 

Or, you know, that one night of functional sleep wasn't actually enough to make up for the chronic sleep deprivation the light girl was stubbornly pretending didn't exist. She felt a small pang of. . . guilt? at the thought. [color=fff79a][i]Maybe I should listen to them more.[/i][/color] Her new friends had told her to take it easy a few times by now. It was hard, though. Maeda Haruna had time for sleep, homework, track, and clubs, and Hizuki the Daybreak had time to watch over Hibusa and the Detention Club, but both of them were the same entity, trying to cram their activities into the same schedule. [i]Something[/i] had to give.

Lost in thought as she was, she nearly collided with another student on her way into class. Haruna got most of the way into an apologetic bow before it clicked who she'd bumped into. Mainly because she hadn't been moving as if immersed in molasses. [color=fff79a]". . . Tsubomi?"[/color]