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"Games, check. Blankets, check. Movies, check. Food, check" said a soft small childlike voice from Ai as she checked off a few items on the list. Her hands gripping on the paper tightly as she walked around her room once again, just checking if everything was in place. She was wearing a long pink nightgown with white lace on the sleeves. Her room is organised and clean, you can almost see sparkles shining around the room. She had posters on her walls, mostly broadway musicals like Wicked or Lion King, she had her bed, but she's going to sleep on the floor with all the girls. It would be rude if she slept on a bed while everyone else slept on the floor. She's not a meanie.

"The're nothing missing.. I guess" she said to herself as she rubbed the back of her neck as she looked around again. It seemed that she was rather nervous, she's always nervous, but when it comes to stuff like sleepovers makes her really nervous. She has a hard time intorducing herself sometimes, she remembered her last sleepover.. and well.. she kind of.. ruined it. She was kind of hiding from certain enemy's, and now she has a repretation as the 'Angel in Ria.' Which, she would rather be known as Ai.

"Onee-chan! Onee-chan! Where is the list?" cried a french-like voice as he peeked his head around the door, he had messy black hair and ocean-like eyes, his name you ask? His name is Oliver, some say that he's too young to be at Ria, but he's really fifteen, almost sixteen. He just hasn't grown yet, almost like Ai but different situation. Almost everyone loves him, he even has his own fanclub who kind of follows him around! But, in life, when you have lovers and friends, you're always going to have an enemy. Oliver enemy or rather rival is Butch. A wannabe-hotshot-macho guy that blamed Oliver for steeling all his girls.

"Stupid. You left it in the lobby" said a cold-like voice, she had piercing red eyes and long natural straight black hair. She was tall and very slender, she was sitting on her own bed, which she was going to sleep in for the night. But, she's not going to attend the sleepover, since she's assigned the watcher duty. Where, she has to make sure no boys try to sneak in. She was told not to hold back and hurt the boys as much as she wants if they do try. Same with Ai's older brother, Hiro. He kind of has that badass look, but is really aloof like Ai. He has short messy white hair, his ears pierced, and blue eyes. Hiro is already in position to watch his half of the dorm house to make sure no one sneaks in.

"Merci Beaucoup!" Oliver said with a bright smile as she left to go down to the lobby to get the list of the girls names in Ria. Feena rolled her eyes and grabbed her black coat and left Ai's room without saying anything else.

"... I do hope this pulls off" Ai whispered to herself as she looked outside her window. In a few hours, her sleepover would begin.

Ai turned around away from the window when she heard someone knocking and saying her name, but with a polite name attached to her name. Ai-sempai. Ever since the new students came to Ria, the've been calling her sempai or onee-chan because she is an upperclassman, or actually a junior. To Ai, she didn't feel that great, but she hasn't said anything. Sometimes Makie-san called Ai onee-chan.

".. ye-" she was cutt off short when a rather tall but young girl came in, she had a pair of small black dragon wings, almost like Ai's small purple angel wings. Except, right now, Ai's wings were no where in sight. Only a tattoo of a angel wings on her back to indicate that she has wings. Thats when Ai heard a 'thump!' And down goes the girl.

"Are you-" she was cutt off again, when the girl stoof back up, her wings going poof, as a bandaid mysterious appeared on her forehead. Ai chuckled a little bit, she found this whole thing funny, how this girl wanted her grand entrance but ends up falling down. That reminds Ai of when she tripp on her shoelaces at the Lucky food event in front of her crush. She was embaressed!

The girl, from what Ai heard, acted tomboyish, but from what Ai see's, she looks nice than a tomboy, but, Ai doesn't know, does she? Ai accepts everyone for who they are, the most valuable lesson Ai learned from her mom is to never judge a book by its cover. What was her name again? Ai talked to her over the phone, even al the girls live in the same dorm house. (xD) Oh! It was Rivera. What a pretty name, Ai wished she had a cool name, a name she can live up to. Who would want the name Ai? When it means 'love' in japanese?

"Ah, thank you!" she said, finally finishing one sentence since Rivera came, Ai took the CD gracefully and placed it ontop of her small boombox. Ai then looked over at Rivera and blinked after she asked a question.

"Uh, I guess you're early. I think people just like to be fasionably late." she said as she rubbed the back of her neck. Thats when she asked Rivera a question. "How do you like Ria so far?" as a smile came across Ai's face, it was very friendly smile. But what do you expect from an angel.

"Ria's pretty cool." Rivera smiled childishly, "But for some reason, I've been going crazy and trying to kill people again... oh well, won't happen during this sleepover. There aren't any boys!" She laughed, then stopped abruptly. "I think someone else is here." Rivera jumped to her feet. For a teenager, even a younger teen, she was completely kindergarten.

"Alyssa-sempai!" Rivera half tackled, half hugged her. There were the sounds of clattering soda cans and cracking bones. "Oops... gomenasai sweatdrop " The girl stepped backwards and bowed apologetically. "I did not mean to choke you like that... whee Please accept my apologies... Ooh, that's a pretty shirt ^^" Rivera did not believe in wearing her sleeping things before bedtime, nor did she wear them outside. Besides, hers weren't so normal as Alyssa's. She thought Alyssa was very pretty, just like Ai. She herself wasn't cut out to be their type of beauty. She wasn't haunting and dark, or mysterious benevolence. Rivera was the river, ever shifting and strange.

Emily walked slowly up to Ai's door as she contemplated how she should act...perky? Polite and shy? She wasn't sure. Polite for sure, but she wasn't so sure about perky. Happy to be there, yes, but perky was a totally different story. She shrugged deciding to just go with the flow and find out just how she should act once she got there.

Emily knocked lightly on the door as she heard voices for the inside, her green eyes glowing with curiousity. So many girls lived at Ria, and here was she, getting a chance to meet them all...or at least whoever came to the sleepover.

The door opened and Emily walked quickly into the room, sidestepping the door and standing against the wall looking around. She had a baby blue backpack slung over her shoulder, some junk food in her left hand, and a pack of pop in the other. Emily looked at the other girls, then at her own outfit. She was wearing blue flowy pajama shorts that had pink trim and green frogs on it, her shirt was a back tank-top, that, as strange as it sounds, looked really good with the froggy bottoms.

She pushed a strand of golden hair out of her eyes and smiled at the girls. "Hi." She said using a polite, but still sounding abit confident voice. "How's everyone doing?" She asked as she gently dropped her backpack on the floor next to her as she looked for girl to girl, wondering who she would be spending the night hanging out with.

Tomoro smiled lightly as she looked at the strange neko girl, green pigtails flying. She certainly was.... well built, that was for sure. She looks confident in herself... Tomoro then shifted her gaze over to the girl head to toe in black, examining her clothing. "That's... a bit see through..." she mumbled to herself, as she looked around the room.

There were quite a few girls running amok; pillow fights about to occur, gossip, this was so stereotypical. Tomoro opened her sleeping bag, and slid into it; her pajamas were in the bottom. Quietly, she slipped her dress off, and with a bit of ruffling around, she managed to put on her PJs.

Tomoro stepped out of the bag, her new outfit dark and a bit dreary. She had on a loose T-shirt, with sleeves that covered her arms, and short shorts which certainly showed off her legs. It was completely charcoal black, except for the silver designs that ran all around her arms and stomach. The designs were in the shapes of petunias and pansies, something that most people wouldn't expect from such a seemingly dark girl. Tomoro pushed her sleeves up, slipping her shoes off and sticking them in a corner.

Soda lay on a table, cups scattered, and Tomoro pushed up her black ribbon, grabbing a plastic cup. Her rings seemed to clack against it, and she took a bottle of Orange soda, opening it up and letting the cool orange liquid flow into it.

"Come on Come on, this way!!!"

A perky blonde girl skipped along the hallway of the dorms, humming a little song. A darker haired girl was right behind her, but she didnt seem as excited.
"Why, are we here?"
The darker haired girl asked in discouragement.
"Oh come on! You know Ai has the best sleepovers!! Besides, It will be a great time to make new friends!!!"
Tiffany's eyes started to shimmer as she thought of all the fun and exciting games they were about to play. Tiffany loved sleepovers, she thought it was a great event for making new friends, or getting to know old friends better. Kiyowa on the other hand found sleepovers to be pointless and boring.

Tiffany wore her famous prized Panda printed P.J.'s to the sleepover. She had worn the same exact ones last time at Ai's party. Her flowing blonde hair was up in a cute ponytail, with a cute pink ribbon holding her ponytail up in place. Kiyowa wore a black tank top with a picture of a skull on it. She also wore black tight shorts that could almost be labeled 'underpants'. Kiyowa's hair was braided into a ponytail, which Tiff braided herself.

Getting ever so closer to Ai's room, Kiyowa noticed Tiff was carrying a bag of some sort. She perked her eyebrows up and looked at Tiff suspiciously.
"Hey, Tiff, whats in the bag!"
Tiff twirled around like she was some fairy. She faced Kiyowa and started to smile.
"Well duh, all the essential's for having a sleepover! I made cookies, brownies, and cupcakes, I brought music so we can all dance, Extra pillows for a pillow fight, my bunny plushie, finger nail polish...just in case, and a camera to remember this wonderful event!!"

Kiyowa just rolled her eyes at Tiff. She started to think why she agreed to come. All of a sudden she was caught off guard when Tiff just suddenly shouted something.
"Look, We are here!!!"

Rivera's whisper rose again, slightly more confidently. She was cold, still, a figurine of ice and darkness, laced with water and lightning, backed by a curtain of thunder and fog. Her eyes grew lighter, more green than blue, more water than ice. "Watashino Rivencaira Capella'acque desu. Yoroshikune, Tomoro-sempai..." Her eyes bore in to hers slowly but surely, the warrior's blood in her veins shot through her quickly, forcing her into a state of mild paranoia, yet strange ecstasy. Rivera's voice remained calm. "Orewa iu Rivera, oa Kurotori ...eh... black bird." It was strange speaking English in a Japanese accent, or 'Eengurisu' as they pronounced it, but she did it often. It make her sound funny though... 'rifenkaera Kaperaku' certainly sounded strange. So did 'Rifera' and 'bulaku barudo'. It cheered her up, at least.