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“I think Chester’s got somethin’ stuck up his ass t’day.”
Penny fiddles a soggy fry between her paint stained fingers, and Emz inwardly cringes when she whips out a can of spraypaint and goes to town on her fries before gobbling them up. “Mmm, paint always tastes so good."
Beside them, Fang’s wings flare as he recoils. “Uh, gross, man. And about Chester, say that again?” He fruitlessly gestures, forgetting his arms are unfortunately bound in his gold restraints. Emz chooses to swallow her disgust and twirls her hair, leaning forward already eager to hear the tea. “Oh my god, is it cus of Mandy? It totalllyyy is. He's head over heels for that witchy gal! You know, Colette told me that she was in Possession class the other day, and while possessing Edgar, she saw them hold hands.”
“Nah, he’s been with me the whole day, y’know, us steampunk students have separate classes from yall. Mandielth was probably away from him the whole day taking her enchantment lessons and allat fancy stuff witches do. Ion’ know her that well.”
“That is true…” Amber offers on the side while trying to eat Penny’s lethal fries for some reason, “mostly saw her with professor Barry the whole day.” The potions lecturer seemed to despise his job intensely, only landing himself into employment because of his research on herbs to lift his calvary curse. “Exams are coming up anyways— wait, you guys have earlier semesters and exams because your ores and subjects depend on the seasons, right? How’d you guys do?”
Collectively, all the other three at the table groan in unison. “Really, evil fire devil? We’re telling tea, not sharing our Great And Fulfilling School Day!” Emz barely prevents herself from slamming her head into the cafeteria’s mysterious mash. Amber puffs up, the purple flare on her staff growing as she rushes to defend herself . “Well fuck me for giving a crap! Dang amigos, yall suck.” “Well, you suck more!”
Before Fang and Amber start to burn the school cafeteria a third time this year and Maisie punts them all with her cloud god powers, Penny cuts in. “Wait actually, Chester did kind of go batshit after seeing our results. You should've seen him, he screamed and ripped his paper in half! I've never seen him this angry ever since someone other than him pranked Mandy! And then he just disappeared after the fourth period. His dumb parasite hat kept side eyeing me throughout the lesson after he got his paper back.”
Emz rolls her eyes. “When did that doofus care about scores? All he does is hang around you all day.” (“Hey!”)
Fang and Amber, who have both mostly cooled down by now, exchange glances. “I mean, maybe he’s scared that his parents will whoop his butt, or he’ll drop from the school and lose time with his favourite enchantress.” Fang snickers, and Emz ooooohs in the background.
“Oh my god, wait. What if he’s with Mandy right now!” Amber chimes in, her plate of food long charred from her excited blaze. Penny shifts a little bit further from the fire demon. “Wouldn’t that be sooo cute!” Emz perks up, joining into the tirade.
“You’re literally so real for that, what if they’re having like, those deep heartfelt talks like in the dramas? And their heart skips a beat, and they lean closer and then they—“
“Ooookay this is weird.” Penny hops off her seat, retucking her elf ears back under her helmet. “I have walls to vandalize—- I mean, err, decorate, so I’ll seeya.”
Of course, after bidding her goodbye, the three others continue to exchange their enthusiastic fantasies of their ship.
They have no idea how right they are.