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phantomphangphucker · 2 years

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DannyMay Day 3: College Days - Scientific Peculiarity - Chap.1: It’s Such A Delight!

Typically, university/college wasn’t much of an interest or in the cards for Danny. But when the kid’s actually REALLY FUCKING GOOD with ghost hunter gear and tech plus super creative, and then you add in Vlad’s deep DEEP pockets… Meanwhile, Tadashi and co. think the new face is a little… strange. Hiro’s friend or not.

“Wait, you mean you’re going to be coming down here!?! SICK!”.

“Yup! Vlad wrangled me in, I’m not asking how but I’m in! I’m honestly really excited even if it means being outside of Amity for a while. Though… getting away from my folks is probably for the best”.

“Yeah”, he winces, he knew that Danny’s parents weren’t the greatest. Hiro might be ‘a fourteen-year-old kid’ but he’s not stupid. Someone can only mention their parents forgetting to feed them so many times before it’s obvious that it’s a habit. And their lab safety sounded really sad. Hiro had enjoyed bugging his brother by randomly mentioning whatever latest thing Danny’s parents had done, leaving his big brother practically ranting about lab safety.

And now Danny was coming here. To San Fransokyo Institute of Technology. To work on lame nerd stuff but still. Maybe Hiro’ll actually go to the labs there, like Tadashi’s always wanted him to, just to watch Danny harass everyone with his goblin energy and Fenton style ‘lab safety’.

“I’m honestly just surprised that I got approval to work with ecto and all that”.

Hiro chuckles, “yeah, you always make that stuff sound super dangerous”, smirking, “and fun”. Aka really cool in Hiro’s opinion. Even if he’s not… entirely sold on the whole ghost thing. But it would be really neat! And the possibility of seeing the dead again… yeah, he’d like that.

“Oh it is. All the chaos. Speaking of dangerous and fun, win any bot fights lately?”.

Now that, that gets Hiro grinning, “you know it! Tadashi was mad and totally got thrown in jail”.

“HA! Nice! Gotta stick it to those overbearing siblings sometimes! When I get there and finally meet that brother of yours I’m going to immediately ask when we goin’ bot fighting and when he tries to ask if I’m into robotics to try and steer the conversation away from illegal activities, I’ll tell him that ‘nope! Interdimensional travel to the land of the dead’s my thing!’ and he will cry ”.

Hiro is actively laughing hard enough to be tearing up a little, “he actually might!”. His big brother was probably the most anti-things-that-haven’t-been-proven-by-science guy he knows! And Hiro’s pretty sure that if someone tried to argue if leprechauns were real just to be silly, Danny would respond with ‘oh I don’t know, probably?’. You could say you rode a unicorn and he’d just judge you for not having pictures. Just the same, Danny was the only one who didn’t go all mother-hen on him about the bot fighting.

“Anyways, I gotta finish packing this mess. Before my dad offers to help”; Danny’s cringe is very noticeable.

“Cool, bye”. Hiro smiling down at his phone. Oh he hopes Danny’s lab space or whatever gets put in with Tadashi’s!

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Danny lounges, feet up on the dashboard of Vlad’s expensive ass car. Hands behind his head, “Ancients this is gonna be so awesome”.

“I’m glad you’re excited”, Vlad side-eyeing Danny, “and that you let yourself go”. Making Danny shrug, “eh, I’m on good terms with a lot of ghosts now so I know they won’t do any serious damage, any others Val’s tough enough to handle and she can call me if she needs help”, smirking at the older man, “you know I’m a fast-flying motherfucker”.

“Language”.

“Boo to you. Boo”.

Vlad rolls his eyes as they finally pull into the university’s parking lot, “well now you can get out and stop scuffing up my dashboard”. Danny smirking and making a point to just scuff it up more as he opens the door and gets out. Vlad gets him back by managing to make the back door open just right to smack Danny in the face. Danny sticking his tongue out at the man while Vlad smirks. Vlad rolling down his driver's side window, “got everything?”.

“Yup! You can so totally go back to your silly mayor duties”.

“And I will. Just remember, ghosts might be an open secret, but they’re not ‘having a ghostly sparring match in broad daylight in the middle of San Fransokyo’ levels of an open secret”.

Danny waving the man off with a piece of luggage, “pffft I know, I know; old man. Geez. But if, say, Cujo decides to haul ass through whatever lab or one of the probably evil head professors decides to do shit; who knows”.

Vlad quirks an eyebrow, “‘probably evil’?”.

“Callaghan seems super sketchy”.

Vlad sighs, “well he is the one who let you in to work on ghost tech. So that would line up with your very unlucky track record”.

Danny laughing and beginning to walk off, “yup! Evil therapists! Evil doctors! Evil carnival! Evil mayor!”.

Vlad just rolls his eyes with a chuckle before smoothly backing out and driving off.

Danny lets out a long breath when he gets inside, smiling. This was gonna be nice! Sure he was the only sixteen-year-old here probably and was probably going to get that ‘child prodigy’ treatment/label, but fuck it. First! To find his dorm! Which he thankfully doesn’t have a roommate for due to ‘health concerns’ regarding ectoplasm and probably the school or whatever looked into what happened to the last person who played roommate to any Fenton. Aka, Vlad getting hospitalised for seven years. Jazz just got her own apartment too; which Vlad also paid for. Their parents had set up college/university funds but not very big ones, most of their money went to their work, not his or Jazz’s futures; though Jazz got all the money from the fund, since they didn’t think Danny would ever go. But pretty much entirely thanks to Vlad being the decent but kinda crazy uncle he was, Danny was fucking HERE. At basically one of the best tech schools out there so that he could work on ghost tech that was all his own. Was Phantom Grade.

Pausing his walking and staring a little, holy crap there was a bar attached to the building. Too bad he can’t legally drink… in the living realm anyways. Either may he chuckles over the little not-so-hidden find, before hauling ass again.

His dorm room… is tiny. Oh well. It’s just for one person so it’s probably the smallest in the building. Shrugging and stuffing things away before being smart and putting some (invisible) ecto-proofing spray all over basically everything. It would be really bad form if he contaminated the place too horribly or ecto-burnt a hole into the carpet or accidentally brought his dresser to life.

And now… Lucky Cat Café! To let Hiro know that the problem has arrived! And was late! Like usual.

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Hiro, and Tadashi for the first time in a while, were currently helping Aunt Cass out with the workload at the café, when Danny basically kicks in the front door. Him sauntering in like he’s trying to cause problems, rough blue steel-toed doc martins, patch-covered beat-up crust-pants, a leather jacket with dick-shaped studs on the collar; in short, he looked like trouble. Him throwing up his hands and shouting, “Hiro!”.

Hiro throwing up his hands too, “Danny!”, dropping his hands, “dude, did you put on makeup to make your scar more obvious?”, and laughs. Danny grins stupidly, putting his hands in his pockets as he walks over, “hey now, I had to look like the definition of a ‘bad influence friend’ for meeting your family for the first time”, and snickers before waving at a curious-looking Aunt Cass and cautious-looking Tadashi.

“You’re such a Problem”.

“Why thank you dearly for the compliment. Also!”, Danny sticking up a finger while also pulling out a little paper, “since Tadashi goes to SFIT, he can tell me where my lab space is”.

Tadashi blinks, frowning a little, “you’re going to SFIT?”, he sounds both impressed and less than impressed.

“Yup! Richest man on the planet paid my way! That, and being on the cover of genius magazine and being raised by tech geniuses probably helped. Even if I am, like, four years younger than you”, waving him off, “my sister went to Yale. Lame, I know. Pioneering some new branch of psychology or something”, and shrugs.

Tadashi looking to Hiro with a fond quirked eyebrow, “now when did you go befriending a child genius?”. Aunt Cass adding in more judgingly, “and why have we never met before?”, her looking to Danny, “how do you like your coffee?”.

Danny smirking, “as caffeinated as you’re willing to make it, legal or otherwise”, sticking up a finger at her while Tadashi does actually take the lab assignments paper from him, “I’m from Illinois, Amity Park specifically”. She nods acceptingly and quickly goes to make him something real quick.

Hiro blushes a little awkwardly while Danny turns his attention on Tadashi, grinning devilishly, “and we met over battle bots”, and looks very very smug when Tadashi practically gives him a death glare. Tadashi sighing after a beat, “well I’m glad you’re doing more with your intellect than just that”, quickly giving Hiro a look, which the teen rolls his eyes over, before looking back to Danny, “and I take it you’re into robotics then?”. Making Hiro facepalm, since Tadashi just walked right into this like Danny said he would.

Danny, somehow, looks even more smug, “oh no, I’m working on ghost hunting tech and interdimensional death portals”.

Aunt Cass blinks, handing Danny off a ludicrously strong coffee, “well that’s certainly intresting”. While Hiro bends over laughing at Tadashi looking like he just bit a lemon.

Danny waving Tadashi off with a smirk, “both my parents are ghost hunters, Jazz is doing work on ghost psychology and ghost envy, there’s even a few witch hunters in the family tree”, and grins open-mouthed. Knowing full well Tadashi officially hates his guts.

After a bit… “tell me that’s a joke”.

Hiro starts laughing, hard, again. While Danny just snickers, “I don’t know, guess you’ll just have to find out”.

Tadashi hands back the paper politely at least, “well you’re in the same lab as me”; everyone can feel the ‘unfortunately’ tacked on the end there. Danny saluting with his cup, “well I guess lll go wander around the lab area until you come and lead me there like a lost little puppy”, gives him a mocking pout and walks out.

Tadashi blinks, looking back to Hiro, “ghost hunters? Really? Really”. Hiro shrugs, “he’s admitted himself that his parents are crazy”.

“Oh thank god”.

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Danny wasn’t kidding, he did actually just… wander around aimlessly. Unnerving a lot of people. Tadashi shaking his head before waving Danny to follow him; smiling slightly at the excitable first year… even if he was a little strange.

Which the teen proceeds to prove as soon they get into the lab by sticking out his hands and shouting, “I AM HERE TO SAY HELLO TO MY COLLEGE YEARS! HA HA!”. Everyone pausing what they’re doing to look at them.

Tadashi resisting sighing purely to avoid discouraging the teenager. Absently realising that this was that friend with parents that had truly horrible lab safety tendencies, that Hiro had mentioned more than once. Watching the teenager walk off to the only open lab area and slam his hands down hard enough to make

everything on it bounce. Alright, he’s not entirely sure how he feels about this.

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murphy-kitt · 2 years

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hourglass of lies - Day 2/3 Dannymay

Time is running out.

Danny can’t help the dread in his stomach that grows deeper as the end of high school draws near. The fact that he might not even graduate with how awful his grades are barely even scratches the surface.

It’s college.

Away from Amity, his haunt. Who’ll protect the city from ghost invasions if he’s not there? His parents, as much as he loves them, are better at creating the weapons than actually using them. Valerie? Too trigger friendly with a gun. One wrong shot and it’s over.

Away from everyone he knows, loves. Who he was once close to before the portal accident shattered everything.

Once college begins, he’ll most likely never see them again. Why would Sam and Tucker want to remain in contact when he’s done nothing but given them hapless excuses in the past three years?

“Well…this is it.” He takes a deep breath, hovering awkwardly outside the classroom which Sam and Tucker normally inhabit every lunchtime. Even though the corridors are vacant of prying eyes, Danny still feels embarrassment rise in his stomach.

Come on, Fenton. You can do it.

“I can totally do this.” Danny chants in some attempt at reassurance, grasping the door handle, “I can totally tell my friends my biggest secret that I’ve never told anyone else.”

Because that’s the only option he really has — if he wants to save this friendship.

With another resigned breath, he tugs at the door, winging it wide open. On the other side, Sam and Tucker whip around, faces cast with shock before they drop in awkward grimaces.

“Mind if I join you?” He trails off awkwardly, arms hugging his chest at Sam’s disapproving expression.

He can’t blame her. Three years of silence and now he wants to talk.

“Yes.” she says, voice like ice.

Tucker shifts uncomfortably beside him as Danny sits down across from the two and fumbles with his hands awkwardly.

"I'm--"

"Sorry? Danny, just--don’t. You've apologised enough over the years. But you never told us why." Sam sighs, placing her arms on her lap.

His former friends' expressions read enough. They’re fed up.

So am I.

“And then you started drifting…and we didn’t know why. Was it us? Are you in something bad?” questions Tucker, although his expression reads as if he’s not expecting an actual answer. Another bunch of lies.

“No! No!” Danny shakes his head, “It was never you guys. Always me.”

“If it’s not us, then what is it?”

Sam pushes, gaze hardening.

Danny flinches beneath the scrutiny. All the boundaries he's built over the years, they'll all be gone. The first people to know who he truly is.

"Depending how you look at it...I did get into something bad. When we were fourteen." He stutters, choosing to look at the table instead of their wary gazes.

"What-what do you mean?" responds Sam, a sliver of concern seeping into her tone. Her eyes narrow, "Something bad? What was it?"

"Remember when my parents built the--they built the ghost portal?"

"What?! Dude, you're terrified of the things!" outbursts Tucker, confusion scrawling on his face as he intertwines his fingers, "I--I don't get how those two relate."

Of course. They’ve both fallen for the pitiful facade of him being scared of ghosts. Ironic, in a way.

Silence fills the tension as Danny wonders how to even explain. How does he even begin to explain that he’s moonlighting as the town's ghostly hero? And, yknow, died.

“It’s gonna be over soon… high school. Everyone’s going away.” The teenager mumbles, ignoring the clearly confused looks on his former friend's faces.

“Is this what it’s always been about…the future?” Sam considers, tilting her head.

He only shrugs.

“Well once college starts…I just hope Amity can stay safe.”

“We’ll have Phantom, though.” remarks Tucker, pushing his glasses up his face.

I wish. If only I could stay.

“Phantom...” Danny drifts off, deep in a haze of thought, “I wonder what’ll happen if I stay from Amity for too long.”

His core feels heavy in his chest, like it already knows the answer. But he can’t just stay cooped up here forever, no matter how much the ghost side might want too. Ectoplasm zaps through his veins at the slightest indication of his obsession.

“Danny?” Sam hesitates, her voice funny.

He snaps out of the trance.

Oh, right.

“Yeah?” He stares at his friends, unable to miss the way their faces blanch with what…horror? Quickly, Danny checks his hands, making sure he hasn’t accidentally transformed.

Still the same pallid, cold human skin.

Then what is it?

“What’s the weird stare for?” He licks his lips, feeling strangely vulnerable under their suspicious looks. Three years ago, it never would’ve been like this.

Suddenly, Sam’s hands clamp to his shoulders, tugging him forward as he suppresses a yelp.

Terror jolts inside him. They’ve figured it out haven’t they? Even without the transformation after all this time, they’ve figured it out. Or maybe they knew the whole time and never got the chance to say.

Either way, what’ll follow won’t be pretty.

“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you—“

“Get out of our friend!—“ Sam cuts him off furiously, her voice fiery as she rattled his skinny frame, “You say you’re a good ghost— and this whole time you’ve been overshadowing Danny. Three. Whole. Years! No wonder he’s never been himself.”

“Get out of him—” grits Tucker, in the angriest tone he’s ever heard as he displays his PDA, “—or I won’t be afraid to ship you off to the Fenton’s.”

Some sort of weird pride bubbles in Danny’s chest. Even after all this..mess..they’re still willing to stand up for him, to fight for him.

It’d be great…if they weren’t currently thinking he was overshadowed by himself.

I do wonder what made them suddenly snap, though?

“You don’t get it!” He stammers, trying to wrestle out of Sam’s iron like grip as she glares at him. The goth doesn’t say anything, just simply stares at her. Revolt scarred upon her face, such a deep hatred buried in her eyes.

He imagines it upon her face when she finds out the truth. Who he really is.

“What – we don’t get how you’ve been using our friend as a human meat puppet for the last three years?!” snaps Tucker as he frowns and point towards his eyes, “We’ve caught you. You thought you could get away with it, didn’t you? But no. Danny’s eyes are blue. Not green. ”

“You really have to wonder how the Fentons missed it. Ghost hunters. Their own son, controlled by—“ Sam speaks, addressing Tucker before staring icily back at Danny, “—a parasite.”

“Trust me, I wonder that too.” He quips automatically, unable to stop the words flowing back. If Danny was able to, he’d facepalm.

Seconds pass, the grip on his shoulders tighten. Tucker begins typing a combination of numbers on his PDA — a familiar number. The Fenton’s.

“No!”

“What? Desperate now that you’ve been caught, Phantom?” Sam spits.

Danny shakes his head. Anxiety piles on his chest as the secrets prepare to uncoil. There’s no choice — this is it.

Three years.

“I’m Phantom!” He blurts, ignoring the ‘ duh ’ expressions from the other teens, “I’m Danny, too! I’m the same! Danny Fenton — Danny Phantom. Don’t you see?”

From the way Sam releases his shoulders on how Tucker gapes like a goldfish, Danny doubts they’ve ever seen the similarities between the two names. Or rather, they’re more shocked at the confession. Or both.

Silence overcasts the room, Sam full of tension, as if she expects something ghostly to happen at any given point. Tucker simply remains subdued, his eyes misty.

Finally, he speaks.

“You’re—you’re dead.”

“Uh…” Danny hesitates, hand coming to rest at the nape of his neck. Lies upon lies torrent in his mind, a familiar routine to barricade himself away from prying eyes.

“The truth.” Sam’s eyes narrow as Tucker subsequently nods.

Sighing, Danny only nods in response, bracing as the halo of light appears around his waist. There’s an instinct to run and hide, after all, he’s never transformed in front of anyone before.

“I’m sorry that I never told you. But I had to – before I lost you guys forever in college.” He swallows nervously, not oblivious to the shocked gasps as the rings wash up the rest of his body.

“The—you.” Tucker rambles, before quieting, “You died.”

He winces, “Yup. Noted, thanks.”

“God, Danny.” Sam reached forward and places a hesitant on his shoulder, as if he’s not real, “When? What? How?”

”When I was fourteen. Electrocution.” he states, but doesn’t clarify. Thankfully, Sam and Tucker don’t ask him to elaborate— a relieving contrast to the amount of citizens who demand to know how he died.

“The whole time we pushed and pushed you to tell us, it was because you’d fucking died. Why’d—why’d you let us Danny? Why? You shouldve said something. We could've helped.” hiccups Sam, her eyes misty with guilt.

She regrets snapping at me. But Danny can’t blame her for past actions. He’d never told them and deliberately avoided them time and time again. A ticking time bomb before it finally ended and both his best friends ended up sitting in a separate classroom to eat lunch.

“Well…I’ve told you now. No going back on that.” He shakes his head, a small smile his face despite their upset ones, “And I’m glad I did. It’s not your fault. You didn’t know — and I was too scared to say anything.”

”But the whole…dead thing.” Tucker lisps, apparently having not processed it yet, “Your parents— they hunt you! Dude you died and didn’t say anything.”

”Well technically I’m only half dead.” shrugs Danny, as if it’s the most casual thing on the planet. Another set of shocked looks from Sam and Tucker follow.

”Half? How only half?” exclaims Tucker, “Dude! I mean it’s better then being fully dead…but still.”

”And he’s right.” inputs Sam, “Your parents hunt you, Danny.”

”Well see, that’s what I was going to do next.” Danny hesitates, looking down at his feet. Telling his parents will be another hurdle, but this time he’ll have his friends with him.

”But I don’t think I can do it by myself.”

”We’ll be there.” affirms Sam, a smile on her face, “So much has happened already, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start again.”

”We’ll be there.” smiles Tucker, “And if they do reject you, then you know we’ll be having none of it.”

Smiling, Danny chuckles.

”Thanks guys. I don’t know how I did it without you.”

A tiny nagging echoes in his head. What couldve happened if he’d told them, way back when? How would things have been different?

But he shouldn't dwell on what could've been, on decision that’ve already been made in the past.

Because now there’s a new future to look forward to — with both best friends by his side.

#danny phantom #dannymay 2022 #dannymay2022 #sam manson #tucker foley #no one knows au #college days #identity reveal

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noizchild · 6 months

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Autumn ASMR Story #2

Carol made it down to her university library. She had a big project that she had to get started on. Her roommates were too obsessed with their boyfriends and partying to stay quiet. Carol found herself at her wit’s end. She clenched her teeth. Something had to change. Time for a trip to the library. Despite it being autumn, it felt unusually warm that afternoon. Carol began regretting wearing a…

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#ASMR #autumn #college days #fall #Library #original works #project #university #Writing

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brydollasign · 1 year

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1985 Morehouse College Homecoming featuring Newark, NJ’s Whitney Houston

#morehouse #morehouse college #spelman college #spelman #hbcu #hbcupride #homecoming #hbcuhomecoming #spelhouse #Spelhouse homecoming #whitney houston #black culture #college days #school days

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okaywhatabouthades · 7 months

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Am I making the right decisions?

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the-fandom-is-now-my-life · 1 year

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Hi! Request for 300 followers event. Genshin AU.🌸

It so happened that y/n birthday falls on a school day and she can't celebrate it with her family, which makes her very upset. But her friends decide to make a surprise and organize a cozy holiday together. As it turned out, the guy has romantic feelings for y/n and gently shows it. Even her roommate noticed it, but her doesn't notice it. And at the end of the celebration, he still directly confesses his feelings.

As one friends and roommate I see Xinyan and guy is maybe Thoma or Tartaglia. As an additional factor due to which y/n cannot celebrate her birthday with her family, it may be that she is a foreigner.

I'm bad with English and gender-neutral pronouns, so forgive me. Although I wrote about y / n in the fem, it would be nice if she was gn.

Love you😘

First ask for the event!

Wc: 2.3k

The snow is thicker up the mountain than back home, usually you would have complained to Dan that it was unfair that the students up there could get to see such beautiful sights as a freshly fallen snow on grass or the small icicles that formed on the roofs. Now, being one living in the so wished place you can't help but kick your younger self, it's beautiful indeed but you got seven comforters and it's still freezing cold

" YN!" A familiar voice whines over you as her hands try to rip you off your blanket cocoon " it's a Sunday night! And tomorrow our earliest class is at 9! Let's go to the practice room! Or even watch a movie or something!!" Even if she should keep her voice down and try not to be seen as to not get kicked out of your dorm intro her own xinyan still isn't shy about your 'illegal' sleepover 'everyone did it once! Xingqiu sleep four nights a week at chongyun's room. it's okay' she always insists

Looking to the side you see the clock, 12:07 am " today's class you would want to say"

" Same difference! We got nine hours, we can stand to watch a movie for an hour or so!" Quickly ripping a blanket out of your cocoon she whines at the many layers she would have to take off before you are out

" Give me this birthday gift, mkay? It's really cold and I really want to sleep. Pleeeeaase?"

Her body stiffens over you " aaah? It's your birthday?? OMG! Why didn't you tell me? I wanted to plan something for you!" She hugs you and kisses your head " happy birthday bestie!"

Hugging her back you answer " I'm just a bit homesick from having to spend my first birthday without my family and so" you try to detangle your hair with one hand

" Bestie, at least you should have told me, we could have gone out to shop for clothes or eat at xiangling's restaurant "

" Oh well, for next year then."

" Huff. Whatever "

The next morning the clock strikes at 8:30 and the mattress on the floor is empty and cold. Did xinyan really get so angry at you that she left early? The thought makes your chest ache

Putting on your uniform you walk to school to eat breakfast at the canteen. Maybe you could eat something sweet like the dango milk and Sakura mochi you saw last week at the Inazuma stand. Or maybe something savory like a kebab or a fisherman's toast? Choices choices choices.

By the time you arrive you have to make do with what was left, you did get to grab a bottle of dango milk but there were no mochi or taiyaki so you grab a rice ball. Hopefully the class won't last that long

Two hours hearing a teacher bicker about theater and make up for each character could have been interesting had curiosity not been in your head. Why did xinyan leave so early? You don't think the internships at the school band were until next month. Oh well, you can survive a class without your friend.

As soon as the clock ticked everyone stormed off the room. That means it should be around 11. Thankfully next class' teacher is absent so that leaves you free until 1pm. Maybe you could go to a cat Cafe for brunch? If you showed your student ID maybe you could get a birthday discount or something. But touching around your neck you don't feel the familiar fabric around it. You must have forgotten to put it on when you woke up, it should be in your nightstand

If you run, maybe you could get there by 12 and order a lemon key pie or a tres leches cake and some coffee or tea.

Running down the main stairs to your dorm you see a head peek out of a tree. Is that xiangling's hair? Before you approach someone grabs your hand. It's Thoma.

" YN!" His smile is bright and contagious enough that you match his energy in seconds " where are you going? Shouldn't you be in class?"

" Oh? My teacher is absent for next class so I have two hours free" you answer

" Really?" He exclaims before lamenting " it never happened to me before, at best we could get out early but we never lost a class in the middle of the day"

Softly you laugh " is there anything you wanted?"

" Oh, yeah!" He exclaims "as you don't have anything to do, will you come with me? I have to go run some errands and I would prefer to have someone to chat with!' His smile is wide and bright as the sun, it also serves the purpose of warming your heart a little.

" I was going to the cat Cafe but I can tag along with you" you follow him walking the commercial zone " what do you need to do?"

He vaguely answers " oh I just got to pick up a few things. Ayaka wanted some sweets and ayato's order arrived so I'm picking everything up "

" Okay, let 's go!"

The variety store is the closest one to the school, they sell everything from pens and paper to jewels and fabric. Looking around the shop while Thoma speaks with the employee you see so many kind of things, from violet gems that gave a tiny electric shock to a stand with different types of pearls right next to a feathery fabric.

Running your fingers up and down the material you feel the tiny feathers follow your movement. So soft and comfy

" Know i charged extra given the express delivery fee" the voice of the male employee sounds fed up, dragging every word

" Oh, yeah, don't worry, special occasion" looking to the side he asks " can i add something else?"

" Yes"

" Can I buy 3 meters of that fabric over there?" He points towards you playing with it

" Okay. Just let me cut it"

" Oh! I will come back for the fabric just ring it in and I'll come back later" sighting the cashier nods

" Okay, that will be 1500 mora plus the fabric " he mumbles some numbers

" Here, thanks " he leaves a bag with coins and grabs the bag " yn we are leaving"

The cafes and restaurants are closer to the exit, seemingly it's because students coming in will be starving and students leaving already ate at the school. You see xiangling's dad frying some rice and meat, you would greet him but you wouldn't want to break his focus.

The cafe that Thoma leads you to is an Inazuma specialty shop. Seemingly there has been an influx of Inazuman students after their borders opened a few years ago.

" Is Ayaka really keen on sweets?" It sounds obvious to Thoma but he knows you have yet to know her

" Of course" he accentuates those words " she has a liking for raindrop cake specially, but it's hard to get so she is happy with having mochi"

" Do you like sweets? I see you grabbing dango when I go to the cafeteria"

" Oh I'm not that much of a fan" he turns left on one of the corners " i like savory better. Do you like sweets?"

" I LOVE sweet things" he looks towards you, seemingly surprised from the emotion in your voice" the lemon cake that the cat's tail serves is identical to my aunt's. So nostalgic" you fake cleaning a tear

Thoma laughs " my, oh my. Didn't know you liked sweets that much " he enters a building and you follow along

The conversation with the girl was short but you couldn't understand a word. The Inazuman language is really different to the one spoken in your town. Quickly the girl goes behind to the kitchen and leaves you alone for a few minutes

" I have never heard Inazuman language before. It really is different from mondstrat's" you tell him

" It really is" he smiles lightly " it took me weeks to understand the locals. More so answer! It was so embarrassing. Once I asked for a box of tomatoes but got slapped because I asked the girl if she was pregnant!" He laughs. You truly hope it was a joke.

"No way!"

" I SWEAR! I was so embarrassed I couldn't go to her shop for a month. I'm so happy there is at least one shop that reminds me of home"

" Inazuman sounds so nice, tell me something in it "

Thoma thinks for a second before smiling "月が綺麗ですね"

You look at him in awe, admiring how each sounds " that sounds so beautiful! What does it mean?"

Has it gotten colder? You don't feel so but Thoma's cheeks have gotten redder. " it means 'The moon is beautiful, isn't it?' it is from a book written a long time ago"

The shopkeeper returns, but now, rather than her stern face from before she is wearing a small smile and handing Thoma a sealed box

Leaving the store you grab Thoma's unoccupied hand " your cheeks seem red so you must be cold!" Thoma's cheeks get warmer than before. It must be freezing.

Walking back to the academy the thought of checking the hour crossed your mind, looking at the clock next to the window of a shop you see it marks 12:40. 20 minutes until the next class. Shit! Turning to Thoma you excuse yourself

" I'm so so sorry! I really have to leave" kissing his cheek goodbye you start running to your next class.

The classes of art history, regional literature and dramatic reading go by and end at 7:30 pm the sun is almost completely down radiating a golden hue in its leave. Wrapping a scarf around your neck you plan to grab dinner at the cafeteria and maybe watch today's opera or play in the school theater. Maybe it's Yun Jin play, you heard they are very good.

Leaving the classroom you feel someone hug you " bestie!" It is xinyan " follow me! I got something for you"

" If it's about me missing my birthday, don't worry about it. Truly, I'm not upset"

" Don't be like that. Follow me" she runs to the exit and to the forest dividing the anemo and Geo dorms " quick, slowpoke!"

Jumping over a cut tree you catch up to her " ha! Caught you" you hug her around the waist so she can't escape. Either way she wouldn't be able, given the way she is laughing non stop.

" Happy birthday bestie" xinyan pats your head affectionately

"Surprise!" Chongyun, Xingqiu, xiangling and Thoma pop out of the trees yelling

" Now, tell me you didn't expect it. At least humor me" she begs

" Well, actually, i didn't"

" This could all be done because of Thoma'' she signals to him who only lets a soft 'hi'

"he took you around while we set this all up. He even managed to get some info" she pushes your shoulders towards him " and all that last second. Isn't he so reliable?" Her words are suspiciously honeyed

" Yes, i guess" you brush her off

" Now, c'mon the food is going to get cold, they can kiss later " xiangling yaps while everyone was talking " i didn't cook seven different dishes for you all to

" Xiangling don't say things like that!" Xinyan berates her slapping her shoulder softly

" It 's true. I didn't even add garlic as you as-" xinyan covered her mouth before she finished talking. Luckily you were too busy talking with the boys

" My auntie went to the city to buy you this" says chongyun while giving you small box

" Mine should come in a week or so. I asked for one those foreign novels, supposedly they are funny" xingqui exclaims " if only you had told us before"

" Who hung those lights?" You look around the top of the trees and see a wire with little lights around

" Oh, supposedly the hydro residence is going to use it for the new year party so i volunteer to untangle them if I can lend them for today" xingqui " they are supposedly new technology in fontaine"

" Do you want shrimp?" Chongyun offers one of the golden shrimps

" Xiangling!" Xingqiu cries out holding a dumplin " there are carrots in here!"

" I'M SORRY!!"

Watching them bicker about nonsense made you happy. Those were your friends.

" I got you a gift too" Thoma says in a whisper

" Oh, you didn't have to" you look at him, his face as red as when you kissed him goodbye

He takes a deep breath " no, i insist. Please come with me"

You two walk further inside the forest, until you couldn't hear your friends anymore

" So?" You sit in a tree stump " what gift deserves so much secrecy?" It's humorous really, how embarrassed he seems over one silly gift. He is so cute.

That is your line of thought until he kisses you. A kiss a bit too stiff, nervous and short for your liking. When you look at him you see him playing with tye hem of his uniform

" The gift of my… heart" that last part was a bit hard to spit, seemingly trying to get stuck to his throat " or my love. However it sounds Best" it seems that your friends helped him. Those are sentences only xingqiu could think of " so if you want my gift please tell me tomorrow or Friday, that way I can make you a coat that you will be able to wear this winter if you don't want the first thing" the sentences were long but quickly said. Thoma almost ran out of air

There is a second of silence where you two looked at each other and you give yourself a moment to admire him, his blond hair slightly messy, his jaw clenching, his chest rising up and down, his eyes blown wide with adrenaline.

" Uh, so, enjoy your party, i bought the cake you said you liked" he left running towards his dorm

Did he just kiss you, confess his love and now he is running away?? The audacity.

Some sounds come from bushes a few meters away.

" Did he chicken out?"

" We missed the kiss??"

" Yesss, finally"

" Are we going to be uncles?"

" yunyun, shut up"

That is why xiangling didn't use garlic in her stew then.

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