Emma's Victorian Cosplay Store [[ALWAYS OPEN]]

Looking towards Juuri as she had came out of the dressing room and walked towards Emma, she still replied to Ai “Ah.. Well it’s good to know I’m not the only one.” She smiled warmly before it slightly faded as she looked back over at Juuri.

Her ears pinning back as she listen to them “Juuri seems so much more serious then before..” Raven really didn’t think it would matter where they talked, though it made sense to her that she didn’t want people to hear what they were talking about, and it would really irritate her if people interrupted when she would ask a question.

Leaving them to debate on where to go, Raven glanced out the window of the store, placing her right hand upon her collar bone once again, watching the short and small snow flakes fall. “What’s going on?” raven thought, as she’d then look back at Ai and Juuri.

Juuri let a small smile grace her lips as she looked at her fighter. "Of course we can go to my house. If it's okay with Raven though." As she turned to the smaller girl to receive a reply, the images of dirty dishes piled in the sink, clothes laying around the bathroom and bedroom floors, and an unswept living room and kitchen swam to the front of her mind. She slapped herself lightly on the head and sighed loudly. "We can't talk tonight though. If you walk in my house right now, I may never find you." Juuri rolled her eyes as she thought abut having to clean up the unnatural and definitely not routine mess. "Plus, I'm completely wiped after making a fool of myself. How about I get your number, Raven, and I can let you guys know tomorrow when you can head over? If you're not busy then, that is." the sacrifice smiled sheepishly and bounced the fluffy dress (now in a wonderful clear plastic garment bag) back up to where it would sit comfortably in her arm.

"Let me ask you one thing first." Juuri looked Raven dead in the eye, willing her subconsciously to take the question very seriously, and asked "Have you ever had something very random show up on you before? A word of some sort, perhaps?"

[[WOW. Short post. >_<]]

Raven nodded towards Juuri “It’s fine with me, I’m sure my older brother will approve of it.” Raven understood the situation softly laughing at her comment, though nodded again, shifting the small bag she had gotten with the clothes in it to the other side, she’d went to reach inside of her pocket to pull out her cell phone. Not really using it much, so she really didn’t have a purpose of giving the number out a lot. “That’s fine, I don’t mind.” Raven grinned.

As the girl brought out her maroon colored cell phone with a dangling charm of her favorite anime character “L“, also flipping it open as she did so; the girl stopped dead in her tracks, glancing down at her phone, holding it tightly in her left hand the screen blurring as she glares at it, she’d slowly look up at Juuri. Feeling her eyes grow wide, and her body numb and freezing. Gulping hard, Raven lowered her phone her right hand pulling back up to her collar bone.

Still Gazing at the woman, she didn’t take notice of anything else around her, wondering why she even took notice of Juuri being in front of her, “Sleepless” She spoke slowly knowing her voice was very low and quiet, barely loud enough for even herself to have thought it was just something she was thinking. Everything around her came back as she’d look at Ai and at Juuri both. “I don’t get it... What does it mean..!?” her eyes began to water, but almost instantly the small tears disappeared as she questioned the existence of the word and the two in front of her.

Juuri felt as though she could have kissed the girl. Not only had the name Sleepless relieved the sacrifice wonderfully of trying to figure out how to attempt covering up her slip, but it also cut the chances of Ritsu sending attack dogs after them in half. She laughed, the relief apparent on her face, and slid her left sleeve up again. "We're definitely getting together tomorrow. There's a lot of explaining to do." her scrunchy eyed grin returned as she took the girl's number and entered it in her own black phone.

Turning back to Ai, she smiled widely and whispered "Thank God. That just saved us."

Speaking silently to herself, Juuri pondered Raven more closely than before. 'Obviously she's not a fighter. Ai would have noticed right away, even if Raven herself didn't. So she's a sacrifice like me. I wonder if she's found her fighter, but doesn't know it yet... And that name, Sleepless. I'll have to think about it a bit later.' She rubbed her temples slowly in small circles, a dull ache coming back.

Raven blinked and after Juuri had took her number, instead of putting it away, raven simply flipped it back closed, and held it tightly. Her neko ears pilled back under her hat as she continued to try to understand. “Alright, I’d like to hear what you have to say.” In the end Raven gave a smile after all.

Watching Juuri turn back to Ai, she trailed off to her own thoughts as they raced into her mind “I’m sure they can explain the tattoo on my chest.. I hope they can.. I don’t care what the answers are, or what they say, I just want to know..” Raven mentally put in the last puzzle piece to her puzzle, stepping back she glanced down at the puzzle as it looked like her tattoo shinning back at her in a mirror.

Ai let her ears and tail flick back and forth in amusement and happiness. The brunette girl pulled out her cell phone and looked at Juuri then at Raven. "That's great. And just let me enter your number in here and then you can have mine; if you want that is." The girl couldn't help the excitement that made itself apparent in her voice. However excitement wasn't the only thing the girl felt.

She was beginning to get nervous with all the fighter/sacrifice units showing up. The girl instinctively knew that it was only a matter of time before she would be challenged to a spell battle. She wasn't all that concerned with her own health as much as she was about Juuri's. After all the sacrifice takes the damage and is most likely to get injured. Even though Ai had only known Juuri for a short time the silver haired girl was like Ai's sister and it terrified her to imagine her getting hurt.

Shaking the thoughts away Ai turned to study Raven and her statement about her name. 'Sleepless, huh. That's pretty cool. And it's obvious the poor girl knows nothing about what's going on. So that in turn must mean she hasn't met her other half yet.' Ai felt kind of bad for the girl, but she also knew that it was only a matter of time until the younger girl met him/her. This made Ai smile lightly.

'You really don't have any idea about what you're getting into.'

Raven gave a smile towards Ai, her ears perking slightly; she’d exchange phone numbers with her as well. “Gomennasai if I don’t answer my phone right away. I’m not use to contacting a lot of people.” Raven smiled at Ai and Juuri slightly, before glancing down at her phone, apparent to almost everyone that their numbers were the first besides her house phone and her brother’s.

Raven held onto her phone gazing upon it, feeling happy that she had entered numbers that were from people outside her family. Though once she thought about it, she felt kind of pathetic having a phone and rarely using it. Sighing to herself she shrugged it off.

Now looking at the two, wondering whom was the sacrifice and the fighter in this relationship. Then again she thought it would be rude just to assume. “Tomorrow.. I know I’ll find out tomorrow.” Raven gave a smile as she clutched her phone tightly in her hands. “Do you know around what time you might be contacting me?” Raven glanced at Juuri, knowing for a fact she normally sleeps in till about noon. “I don’t want to wake up and say something stupid.. That’s be soo~ embarrassing!” Raven pictured herself as she thought this. “I want to be prepared for anything tomorrow..”

Juuri brought her hand up once again to scratch awkwardly behind her head. "Heh heh... Yeah... My house is a serious MESS right now, and with what time I normally wake up, it might be the day after tomorrow. I'll bust my butt though!" the sacrifice smiled sheepishly at the two girls. She was SOOO lazy, and it was SOOO unbecoming. "If I do get it done tomorrow, it'll be sometime around the evening." a frown settled on her features and her hand dropped back to her side.

"Oh, don't worry about not answering your phone right away. I'll just call you back." Juuri winked at the younger girl, but turned back to her fighter. "Can you make sure she gets home tonight? I'm gonna go ahead and run home so I can be done picking everything up as soon as possible." She scrunched up her eyes and stuck her tongue out, trying to express her disdain at having to clean the mess she herself made, and waved at the girls one last time before lugging her very heavy new purchase out the glass door. It had been a LONG day, and the next would just be even longer, she knew.

[Juuri has left CITY CENTRE and is heading HOME.]

Ai laughed silently as she watched her friend leave. She then turned to Raven and smiled. "I guess I'll be escorting you home; if you want or need that is." Again smiling the girl let her ears twitch around in slight nervousness and anticipation. She couldn't wait to tell the girl about Juuri and her little secret. She glanced back at the place where Juuri had stood moments before and let her thoughts run wild.

'It will be so nice to have more people in the loop. And friends too. God knows Juuri and Suki and a few other random people are the only numbers in my phone.' She winced internallly at her lack of a life. She really needed to get out more. Shaking the thoughts away she returned her gaze to Raven and silently waited for the younger girl's reply.



[Forgive the shortness. I kind of don't know what to write other than that.]

Raven smiled at Ai, knowing that she didn’t have to do it, but she didn’t mind going home with someone. “Alright then.” Raven turned to push open the door of the store. Glancing back at Ai, who just stood there for a moment. Waiting for Ai to look back up at her, she simply smile and walked out of the store, looking up at sky, she’d softly sigh.

“I don’t live too far from here, so I’m sure you don’t have to walk me all the way home unless you want to.” Raven smiled warmly at Ai, as she started walking down the sidewalk. Looking down at her phone, she’d start a text message informing her older brother that she was heading home.

[ Raven has left CITY CENTRE and heads HOME ]

Ai smiled lightly and followed Raven from the store. She glanced at her phone and saw that she had no new calls. This made her happy because it probably meant that her grandparents weren't freaking out, yet. She didn't mind walking the girl home because she really didn't want anything to happen to her. Humming slightly to herself she paced up beside the girl as they left to Raven's home.


[Ai has left the CITY CENTRE and is heading to RAVEN'S HOME.]