Ren
Ren was the first to get up the next morning. When he had gone to bed he forgot to close the curtains in the living room, so the light of the sun woke him up. He looked up at the wall-mounted clock above the T.V. and noticed they had fourty-five minutes before school started.
"That's right, today's the last day of school," Ren said to himself. Thanks to all the chaos they've been through these past few days they hadn't been able to get to school. He figured the teachers wouldn't be too hard on them for missing a few days. After all it was the last week of school, most of the students were skipping anyway. He was somewhat glad this whole mess started so close to the end of the school year. Unfortunately it meant their summer vacation would be spent helping the Necessarius find this new orb, as well has take back the one that was stolen from them while everyone else was free to party and go to the beach. But at least it meant they wouldn't have to worry about keeping track of two schedules at once, putting their lives on the line for these orbs while still trying to find time to do homework.
Ren let out a groan when he realised they would still have to do homework regardless. On the last day of school their homeroom teachers give them a huge assignment that they have to finish over the summer and have ready for the first day of school next year. Last year Ren had to do a twenty-page report on the methods used to develop esper abilities, and he had to compare the pros and cons of every one. He had been smart and got started on it on the first day of summer vacation, but it still ended up taking two weeks out of his life. Having to deal with Necessarius and homework at the same time meant the only spare time he could get would be spent sleeping.
No point in worrying about it now, Ren thought. I'll find a way to deal with it when I'm actually given the work. He got off the couch and stretched for a moment before going over to Cait's room. He knocked on the door and asked, "Cait, are you awake?" The girl answered with a tired moan. He opened the door and entered her dark room. She let out a groan of protest when he opened her curtains. "We need to get ready for school, Cait," he said.
She pulled her blanket up over her head. "Do we have to? It's the last day, no one's going to care if we show up."
"Our teachers will be assigning our summer homework today, we need to show up or we'll get in trouble. Once school is finished today we can come back and you can go back to sleep."
"All right, I'm getting up," Cait said with an exasperated huff as she sat upright. They spent the next few minutes getting ready and grabbing a quick bite to eat. They stopped by Ren's dorm to pick up his school stuff before heading to the bus stop.
When they arrived the bus had just shown up at the stop. They managed to get on with Taki just before it left. "Where's Lena?" Ren asked as the three of them found a place to sit.
Takeo shrugged. "I dunno, I guess she must have slept in or something." He motioned them to move closer before whispering, "I think I've found the second orb."
Both Ren and Cait's eyes went wide. "You did? Where is it?" Ren asked, surprised that they had found it so quickly.
He nodded his head toward the back of the bus. "Bianca and that other girl were talking about it before the bus got here. I got a chance to look at it and it looks like it's the Virgo stone."
Don't forget, Takeo has to go in and explain why he missed his re-test.)
