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"I'mfine.. j.. just fine.. " Jewels looked flustered and embarrassed. Shooting one final "sorry." to Harry before grabbing Tori's arm with both large hands and guiding her AWAY from the situation.

Once they were a suitable distance she looked to both Sally and Tori.

"Oh my ghoul couldthatbeanymore humiliating!"

The snowball slid, then fell off of Rory's face, hitting the ground with a splashy 'plop.'

"Aaah." Rory's eyes were bugged out about as wide as they could get without popping out of his head.

"AAAH." His hands flailed around like he had no idea what to do with them. Nathair looked sidelong at Perry, who shrugged.

"AAAAAAH! MY FACE!" Rory cried out and covered his face with his hands. "IT'S GONE! IT'S BEEN SHATTERED INTO A BILLION PIECES!"

Glen gave Nathair and Perry a smirk and lightly pulled them back from Rory.

"Don't worry about it, he's fine. This had to happen sooner or later." He hexplained his cousin's freakout. "He's had kind of a...protected upbringing. To be honest, he's nowhere near as fragile as he thinks he is."

"I'm going to be the only boo at school who's missing a face!" Rory lamented through his fingers. "Underclassmen will stare! Marceline will have to break up with me because we can't kiss anymore!"

"Rory." Glen tapped his cousin on the shoulder. Rory spun around, his hands still on his face.

"Glen! Help me find all the pieces! And some glue!"

"Rory."

"Or a blowtorch! Or some tape! Shiny duct tape!"

"Rory, look!" Glen held up his iCoffin in selfie mode and shoved it into Rory's hands. "Your face is still there. Didn't you notice that you're TALKING THROUGH IT?"

Rory looked at his own reflection on the screen. His face....WAS still there. And no more fractured than usual. It was a little bit wet from the snowball.

"Oh, uh...oh. Okay." Rory wiped the water off his face. "It....all seems to be there..."

"Yes, it is."

"Do you think that maybe this one fracture is a little bit longer than it was before?"

Glen looked at Perry and Nathair, who both shook their heads vigorously.

"Nope! You look great!"

"Just as handsome as before!"

"The wet snowball look is very becoming on you!"

"Ye'll be a fashion sensation!" They quickly and enthusiastically informed Rory, who pensively nodded and gave Glen his iCoffin back.

"Tell ye what." Nathair clamped one of his arms down hard on Rory's shoulder. "After school, ye come on outside and I'll give ye one free shot at me as recompense, what d'ye say?"

"One free...like, throw one of these hurtling deathshard iceballs at you?"

"Er...yeh." Nathair raised an eyebrow at Perry, who was too busy trying not to laugh. "One shot, free n' clear."

"I don't know if-"

"Good! Then it's settled. See ye after class!" Nathair slapped Rory on the back a couple more times, nearly knocking him over, and slithered down the hallway. "Just 'member....it's only ONE free shot!"

Rory watched him slither away. He turned to Glen.

"What did I just get myself into?"

Brother and sister parted their ways, and Falconnie tried to look for her little 'group.' Well... If she really had one. Her only 'friends' were Marceline and maybe Draconia, nobody else really paid her any mind. She didn't mind this however, she got really shy aroung meeting new monsters.

"Oh my ghoul couldthatbeanymore humiliating!" She heard off in the distance, and she immediately knew who it was. She walked towards the chattering ghouls until she reached the group, but all of their backs were turned to her.

"Um... h-hi.."

Meme shot Ronan a curious glance, "What did you get up to?" She squinted suspiciously at him. It wasn't like him to be secretive, or at least not around her.

Ascreama uncoiled their arms and the clowns sighed in relief; the pink ghoul was very cold and the clinging was testing Meme's patience. Ascreama smiled as she dug a thick gloved hand into her satchel and brought out a small sack of cookies.
"I'm going to try and find some more coughie or snot chocolate," She thoughtfully munched a biscuit and waved goodbye to the couple.

"So..?" Meme quizzed again, impatient and nosy as ever, as she turned to Ronan.

Ronan waved cheerfully to Ascreama and turned back to Meme's piercing, quizical stare.
He squirmed a little.

"uh... What? "

"What happened over fangsgiving?" Meme asked again.

Ronan smiled oddly. "Oh.. well there was a dinner at the school, which was interesting. Sally and Dashner had a date but they both claim it wasn't a date, i'm not sure why." He frowned a little. "It's all very confusing. I mean, Dashner was all nervous and pacing the room, he spent a good hour preening! He spends a lot of time preening but you know, he was interferring with my game with all that fussing. He's not usually so distracting or irritating."

Meme quirked an eyebrow.

"Um... Then there was bleak... friday? Which was awful. Dashner dragged me along shopping and it was crowded and there were monsters fighting over terrible clothing and anything that was cheap. Do these monsters just not have money or something? Why buy things you don't need simply because it's cheap? It was crazy." He shuddered at the memory. "Then Rory showed up and I asked him to get me away from the crowds. You know I hate crowds right?"

Oh yes, Meme remembered him clinging in terror to her during after the last football match.

"So then I ended up in New Gorleans which was unexpected. We picked apples." He nodded, reasoning that anything that happened prior to the actual broad trip was fair to talk about.

"So.. how did you get back then?"

"Oh, well Nero, Kai, Gryff and I all drove back."

Meme was still staring at him with an irritated sort of look on her face, he felt he should elaborate.

"Nero said I wasn't allowed to talk about it. I don't know what he'll do but... he made me sign something! It was just a scrap of paper with Bro code written on it but even so, he seemed convinced great catastrophy would befall us all if any of us spoke of what happened."

a colorful blur of snow and ghoul flew towards the school. The form became larger and larger as it approached the grounds where the students were assembling

"PEGGY! SLOW DOWWWNN" Heimdal screeched from her backpack.

"NEEEVVVAAHHHHH" she shouted before looking up and realizing the the school steps were fast approaching. Rocket skiing was super fun, but you did tend to come up on things a little more quickly than intended at times.

"whoops" she gripped the ski poles and sunk them into the snow as she shifted her skiis to the side to stop herself but with all the force and speed she was carrying, it ended in a loud WOOSH and a wall of snow that covered the front of the school.

"I have arrived!" she beamed. Heimdal peeked his head out of the backpack, looking a little dizzy from the hexperience.

Admittedly when Harry had given her his one-armed embrace, Layla froze for the briefest of seconds. As the first born heir to the Lamia throne, Layla was simply unused to such simple showings of physical affection. Okay, it was true that Kai and Nero were forever stealing hugs -- especially Nero -- but they were different. She knew them. Heck! She was engaged to Kai once for a very brief period of time, thanks to her mother.

Still, it was pleasant that this new boo felt such ease being around her, although he probably did not know yet she was actually royalty, much like Cleo and Nefera de Nile. She could even recall when her own tour of the school was given to her and her mother by that funny little witch boo, Glen. Why, he had not shown the slightest hint of far toward her mother. He even took her hand, her HAND, to escort her around the school!

"Ohh, thank you!" She exclaimed softly as she looked down at the, what did he call it? 'Hack-ee-sack? "Kai wasss telling me sssomething of thisss game but I've never..."

But her words were cut off completely as the tidal wave of snow washed over Kai, Harry, and herself, thanks much to Peggy's arrival! After a few seconds, and following Kai's escape, Layla used hr tail to whip the snow off, removing it from herself and Harry, and the poor lamia princess looked absolutely miserable.

"Okay! I'm afraid I have to draw the line at bathing in snow!" She shuddered uncontrollably, wrapping her arms around herself and grasping the 'hack-ee-sack in her claws. "Classses will be starting sssoon ssso I ssshould hurry up and help Harry find hisss locker and firssst classs!"

She gave Kai a friendly squeeze of his upper arm and then nodded politely to Peggy, "It wasss nice to meet you. Pleassse do enjoy your firssst day here at Monster High!" She then turned to Harry and held a hand out invitingly toward the school's front door. "Ssshall we?"