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Renji walked over to the pile of pillows. "We'll be borrowing these" Renji mumbled to himself. While looking at the pillows, Renji realized that he had never slept with anything so shabby before. He was used to his warm and comfy bed that was way to large for himself. He often questioned his mother about the size of his bed when he was little, but would always get an answer like "it's necessary" or "you deserve it." Deserve what? I haven't done anything to deserve it. Renji quickly grabbed the well-made bunch out of the many pillows that were there. "Alright, I'm done here, did you find any blankets?"

Celia found one two quilts, but that was it. She picked up the folded quilts and placed them to the side. Then there were a few knitted blankets. She piled those on too. She grabbed the big bundle and looked over to Renji. She laughed, "Ready..." He looked funny, carrying all the pillows and she realized she must look funny holding all those blankets. "Let's head upstairs before anyone notices..." she said heading out of the room and to the stairs again.

Ray winced a bit when he heard Lucy's voice. He didn't want to run into her either, for two reasons- she was horrible to Kiyoko and his cousin's reputation was down the tube. "Hey Lucy..." he said casually. "You taking care of yourself, make sure you eat." he said, trying to sound like he regularly would. "No, just getting some food and using the buddy system so I don't get lost." he said with a light laugh.

Renji carried his load of pillows back to the room. It looked like none of the other students have migrated over to this section of the school. The atmosphere was extremely silent, hearing only the footsteps of Celia and his own. Come to think about it, I've been feeling a weird tension in this school from the moment I set foot inside. What's the deal? It's like no one notices it but me, that, or no one wants to talk about it. I'm probably just over thinking this and worrying for nothing, but I just have a feeling... ah, nevermind. He opened the door to the room, and tossed the pillows on a nearby mattress. "There we go, we have pillows!" Renji smiled as the pillows bounced off of the mattress. "Uh, it doesn't look like we have enough blankets though, we might have to share."

Renji was still feeling unsettled, the cat from before had followed everyone back to the room and made a home in the corner. "Well, I'm gonna go take a walk" Renji said as he began to leave the room. "Save some food for me!"

Celia nodded, "We have about five blankets. I think it'll be enough, but we might have to share anyways." she said with a shrug. "Alright, I'll make sure too save some." she said as he left. She laughed as Al jumped. "Sorry..." she said and set down the blankets. All the mattresses were layed out to cover the floor. She arranged the pillows on one side and left the blankets folded. She took a folded mat and set it off in the other corner for them to have something to eat on. She plugged in the television and took another mat and set it a couple of feet away as a couch back. She smiled. "Now it's like our little school here." She plopped down on the mattresses and leaned back on her arms. She looked up at the ceiling. She let out a content sigh.

Ray noticed her hand relax, but he didn't notice it tense up because he was tense too. "Bye, babe..." he said with a charming smile, just so she didn't think that things were too off. He let out a deep breath and looked at Kiyoko. "I'm sorry about her. I can't afford to get on her bad side right now." he said, looking down at the floor. "But I promise you, I won't let her hurt you again..." he said, looking up at her again. He picked up her hand and kissed it. He looked at the line in front of them. There were a lot of people.

"C'mon..." he said and pushed ahead of the people. "Hey guys..." he said to a group of guys who were ahead in the line. They greeted him and then noticed that he was with Kiyoko. "What you doing man?" one asked. "Nothing..." he shrugged. They talked for a little bit and then the line moved up. They could reach some food. "What do you want?" he asked her softly, but loud enough to hear him.

Renji walked along the top floor of the school, there weren't any students here cause of lunch. He looked out the window and noticed the rain was pouring harder than before -- the wind was also starting to pick up. So this is a hurricane... He noticed a room with it's door open, but seemed vacant; it was the music room. Many chairs lined up in an arc like an orchestra or band would normally be arranged. In the far side near the front, a piano was brightly lit, it looked like it had been recently played. Bzzzz...

"Ah..." Renji twitched as he felt his cellphone turn on in his pocket. "Hello? This is Renji."
"Renji!"
"Ah, mother, why are you calling me?"
"I heard about the storm! I was worried, we shouldn't have sent you over in this season."
"I'll be fine, I hope. Don't worry about it, shouldn't you be worrying about work?"
"Y-yes, but still..."
"Don't worry, I'll be fine."
"Your father wants to speak to you."
"I don't-"

"Renji."
"What do you want?"
"Renji, when the storm's over, you're coming home."
"Already?"
"Of course! I can't have you dying."
"Oh really? I don't feel like coming home."
"Renji, you have no choice!"
"I like it here, you're not around. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to come get me?"
"Renji, don't make me angry. I'll force you to come home, even if I have to come myself!"
"Oh really? Aren't you too busy with the company to come get me? The best thing you'd do is send one of your bodyguards to come. Let's get this straight father, I'm not one of your products. I'm not coming home."

Renji hung up the phone afterwards. He clenched his fist and almost slammed it into the piano. Halfway through his swing, his arm stopped an inch from the piano's glossy wood surface. He sat down, closed his eyes and began playing.

Kiyoko listened above the noise as Ray asked for her suggestion. "That sounds good; one of each of the main choices should work, plus various sides. Even if they aren't hungry or don't eat it for some reason or another, they'll still have that extra food later when they're hungry." she reasoned.

So the next orders were:
1 sandwhich, Lays original chips, and red Jello
1 hotdog, salad, and green Jello
1 cheeseburger, fruit, and vanilla pudding

The lady put all the food in 2 "To-go" bags. "It'll be hard getting through the crowds without dropping stuff; that happened to quite a few people." she explained as each one took a bag. "What are you all gonna drink?" Kiyoko and Ray answered with various answers. She put the drinks in another smaller bag and handed it to Ray.

"Have a nice day!" she told them. Kiyoko politely returned the comment with "you too!" as they both weaved through the crowds, hoping to get out alive. The air was very stuffy in there as they got to the small area filled with untensils, dressings, ketchup, mustard, and all that stuff. Grabbing a bit of each, they made their way out of the cafeteria.

Kiyoko had tried to go for carrying a bag, but Ray had beaten her to....all of them? Before she could ask if he needed help, they had then made their way to the small table (mentioned before). As soon as she put various little items within the bags, she felt him put his hand on her waist. Before she had any chance to protest such an flirtatious action, she felt herself being the guide of getting through the crowds, as if she were a giant bulldozer moving various bits of dirt aside. She managed to get out of his grasp as they entered a more spacy area, as Kiyoko felt a tad uncomfortable from the heat she was previously in, but was happy to be out of that zoo-like place.

As they made their way back, she took one of the bags from him. "You're not carrying all of that by yourself." she had reasoned. The rain continued to pour strongly as they made it to the staircase. She could hear voices and tell that the others had returned. Before she could think past that, the strange feeling came again as Ray wrapped an arm around her waist. Either she was an complete chicken, or just not used to this. Either way, it was a bit unsettling.

"Same here." she said, trying not to look down at the arm she knew would be there. "It's like a zoo full of crazy animals." She slipped out of his grip kindly, but using the excuse to open the door, and she held it open as he went in first. "We're back!" she greeted the others, as if nothing was wrong. "And we have FOOD!" she added happily as she shut the door, and found a clean matt to seat the bags on. "Hey, where'd Renji go? He knew we were coming back!" she realized.