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"By go y'mean stay, right?" West said to Barth, jabbing an elbow at the sloth demon. He was in a remarkably chipper mood tonight. What had started as a brief journey on the road to failure now had the potential to be a real adventure, possibly with detention. Yay!

He stuck a finger in his ear as Riley's words washed over his mind. Damn mind...talking. "Th'secretary's in there? Why're'n't we then?" It seemed the illithid had gone in after him, but now she was back out here? Why? Why why why?

"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you..." Belladonna added meekly when she first clung to Junko's arm, glad for once The Mistress was keeping her mouth closed. How ever DID Junko sneak around with that extra person on the back of her head? Belladonna bet hide-n-seek was dreadful for the girl as a child. "Tell someone what? That we see Arel sneaking around? What are they going to say besides 'Oh he does that sometimes'. No! We have to investigate this ourselves!!" And with that the witch turned them around and practically marched the poor girl up to Barth, who she knew as well as turning to point to Riley. "See, even Miss No Mouth has the same idea." She then turned to Barth and his collection of people. "Evening all." It was too hard to curtsy attached to her friend, so instead Belladonna inclined her head to the group, consisting of a number of people she didn't know. "So! We're all headed to the forest to see what Mr. Arel is up to, yes?" She didn't wait for a response. "I propose we go together!"

It wasn't necessary to expound on the subject because for once, Belladonna didn't want to. It wasn't that she was necessarily scared, it was only... Oh jacking hell, yeah she was a little. That was only because one too many unfortunate things had occurred since her arrival to Amityville. Though, honestly the bad kind of outweighed the good. She had met so many lovely people... But still better to let that one slip by and just let the group have their say. Assuming they all did want to go as a group and not cast Junko and Belladonna out as the girls who were very cute and could sew. Tch!

The hunchback sighed with relief when Riley reappeared through the trees, setting down his shovelto free a hand to reach out and touch her arm as though making sure it WAS her and not.... the forest playing tricks. One never knew in this town. But she seemed solid enough and he glanced about at the others who all seemed just as baffled as he was as to what was going on. Well... well, no matter. It didn't matter what this secretary was doing, it wasn't any of their business.

Suddenly he realized there really were an AWFUL lot of students gathered around... and he was still holding his sack. Face flushed, he shifted it over his hunch to try to hide it under his arm instead, Mistress... I've been busy since classes ended for the- his thoughts cut short as Amrita wobbled towards them. Not her too! Well... speak of the devil! If they could get someplace alone he could show her what he had for her.

The marid could have -sworn- she saw a certain nergal walking in the direction of Breck's shred through her dorm room window. A veru curious site indeed considering the fact that the demon boil in question was supposed to be on his way to her room. Naturally her curiosity was piqued, and after grabbing one of Sharra's dress shirts off the back of her door, she slipped out of the room and made her way out into the night. Tugging the shirt on as something of a makeshift jacket, the ghoul jogged the shorten the distance between herself and the direction she was sure she'd seen her boilfriend wander.

When she found him though he wasn't alone, far from it in fact. Slowing to a halt as the group came into view, the djinn took a moment to search the crowd. It would seem a very large number of her friends were amassed. Very curious indeed.

Tugging gently at the cuffs of the borrowed shirt, Yaya walked over to the actual owner of the garment, slipping dark arms around his middle from behind. "Sharra, what's going on?" With her cheek resting between his shoulder blades, the water demon watched Junko and Belle talking, along with Riley and Christof, as well as Barth and West.. Why were all her friends out here.

And was.. was that Arel? No... Couldn't have been.

"...like I was saying, the shower thing was not my fault. Why do none of you believe me?"

Renaissance was walking along the edge of the school grounds, fingers linked through Alessa's. He almost seemed to be pouting, a mock forlorn expression on his face as he looked at his ghoulfriend, but he could not maintain it for long. She had a way of making him smile, even when he wasn't trying to or didn't want to.

"Also, no matter what Gabe says," Ren said with an indignant sniff. "I did not shriek like a girl. Besides," he added teasingly, leaning down to peck a kiss to the side of her head. "Even if I did, it's not like he shrieks any less girly. If he says something, I'll just remind him of that kitchen incident."

Stifling a yawn (he had stayed up way too late again), Ren glanced around the grassy school yard, one hand in his pocket as the pair made their way across the lawn. Out for a midday walk (Alessa's idea), they had been on their way to meet LW, but Ren's eyes landed on an odd sight before they could reach her.

"Hey," he said, brows drawing together in mild confusion. "What's going on over there?"

Tugging lightly on the nagual's hand, Ren led her over towards a semi-large group of students that seemed to be gathering on the edge of the Weeping Forest. He caught glimpses of a few familiar students - a flash of red hair and telltale pointed black hat that all but screamed Belladonna, along with a few others he had seen around the school - as well as someone who looked like either a teacher or professor. Or maybe it was an office worker; he seemed vaguely familiar.

"Isn't that the school secretary?"

Junko chuckled at Bella's apology and shook her head, seeming a little bit...off. "It's okay. Anything will startle me right now, I think." She told her friend with a little sigh, rubbing her face a bit. Truth be told the reason She was quiet was because Junko had had the brilliant idea to put her to sleep by slipping something into Her food...what Junko didn't consider was the possibility of that something also putting her to sleep as well. Junko was awake, but she was clearly dazed and not all there. "What if--o-ourselves? Is that such a good idea? Last time wasn't such a good idea..." She mumbled, frowning.

See? What if Jericho was right? What if he went to the human world? "I don't want to go back there. Every other time we've gone in the forest something bad has happened. I don't think we should go in..." Couldn't they do what Riley suggested? Just stay here and wait it out and then bombard Arel with questions when he returned?

"I haven't seen Breck...I don't think I've ever seen Breck." Junko replied to Barth's question, sighing a bit. Tiiiiired. Suddenly she heard a voice she recognized and she perked up a bit, looking around to see...Sharra? But that was Yaya's voice.

Sepheran frowned lightly as he wandered the school grounds unsure of what to do. Liannan hissed in his ear leading him around. He was quite confused. He had decided to apply to be a student after his train adventure. While it was the most horrible thing he had ever been put through he had to admit, it did help him tune his abilities more, so he figured why not apply. He had made a few friends back then too, maybe he'd see them around the school. at least that is what he thought.

Once his application had been admitted he had hurried on over...only nobody was in the office. Where had they gone? He decided to try and find someone that could help him which lead him to his current predicament....he was lost.

Sighing Sepheran was nearly ready to just give up and come back again later when Liannan hissed something about seeing some students in the distance past a shed. Turning his body Sepheran let himself be lead that way instead. Maybe he could finally get some answers.

"Um...excuse me...? Anyone see Mr. Arel or Hellma? Sepheran questioned as he neared the other students wondering if any of the students were ones he would remember from the train during Christmas or not.