As they walked along the packed hallway, Emilia got distracted from Lann by the sudden smug look on Daniels face and scowled at him, but her friend completely avoided looking at her, a skill he'd perfected over the years. She heard Lanns answer and realized she must seem disinterested and seemingly not listening to him and that after being the one to having wanted him to ask away. She turned back towards him with an apologetic smile. "Ah, yeah, I guess that would seem a little confusing if you're not used to Mr.Collins. It's basically his way of telling us to be thourough, write coherently and put some effort into our essays..." she was about to go on when Daniel seemingly abruptly changed directions towards the stairs leading up instead of down. 

"Aren't we going down Daniel?" Lann asked and Daniel just looked all the more smug answering: "Let's change spots. Hang out on the rooftop for a change. It's better there! Race you guys there!" and off he went, taking two steps at a time and in a matter of seconds he was out of sight. Soon enough his thundering footsteps got lost in the general break-noise as well.

Emilia sighed, shaking her head to herself. "I knew it!" she murmured, her suspicions had been right. "Should we go and follow him up the stairs? Or should we just be downstairs and wait unitl Daniel comes back?" Lann asked and she hesitated for a second. "He's just going up there because his buddies from the swimming-team hang around there most of the time. The teacher that usually checks on the rooftop is their coach so he tends to overlook it as long as they keep calm. We don't have to follow him, he's aware that I don't exactly like hanging out with a bunch of guys, especially without Kat. The three of us have been friends since Kindergarten so I'm used to him being an idiot sometimes." She gave an affectionate laugh and went on. "So lets just go down and get ourselves a nice place, Kat might join us in a bit, if Mr.Collins is having a good day that is." she told him, and lead the way to the stairs going down, looking back at him to make sure he was following.