A/N

Hey, I'm alive don't panic ahaha. I've been super duper busy with assignments and I'm working every weekend so it seems the only time I get to write this is on my bus trip to and from school… D: Righto sorry guys here it is :)

'Hello? Keidra? Lyra? You guys in there?' Lyra opened one eye from her spot on the couch quickly closing it again, blocking out the light. Someone knocked on the door again and Lyra pulled her blanket up over her head.

'Go away! No-one's home!' Lyra yelled at the door. She heard quick steps coming down the hall and Keidra appeared still pulling one shoe on.

'Lyra, get up!' she hissed. 'It's your own fault for staying up so late.'

'What are you? My mother?' Lyra scoffed rolling over.

'No but I can be just as bad. Now get up,' Keidra pulled her blankets off her exposing her to the cold morning air. She then walked over and opened the door where Ryou was standing with a smirk on his face.

'What're smiling about?' Keidra snapped at him and his smile immediately dropped. She stalked back down the hall to pack her school bag.

Ryou walked over to Lyra who was now sitting up. 'What did you DO?' he asked looking in the direction where a pissed off Keidra just went.

'Nothing! I swear. It's usually me who gets pissed off in the mornings,' Lyra said also shocked at Keidra's bad mood. 'I don't think I've ever seen her like this. She's always happy to some degree.'

'Something must've happened to annoy her this much,' Ryou put his bag down on the ground beside him.

'Don't look at me like that. She was bright and bubbly still from her date,' Lyra wiggled her eyebrows at Ryou who immediately turned red, 'with you before she went to bed. I don't think its cause she's tired either. We were only up till 12:30…'

'Only. Not everyone can go on four hours sleep a night and then just sleep it off on the weekend like you,' he reminded her. 'Maybe I should go talk to her?'

'Sure. You two are dating now and once she's chewed you out I'll swoop in and be the amazing best friend I am,' Lyra yawned.

'You're unbelievable. How are we even friends?' Ryou muttered, 'and we're not dating…I think.'

'What you say lover boy.'

Ryou made his way to the hall and down to where he could hear Keidra rummaging around in her room. He looked in and saw her bent over her bag, back facing him. He stood in the doorway not wanting to intrude into Keidra's room without her permission.

'Ryou?' she whispered the aggression from earlier still in her voice. She didn't turn to face him but kept looking down at her bag.

'Yeah. Is something the matter?' he asked still standing in the doorway. He saw her move a hand to her face.

'No,' he heard her growl.

'Sure, and Lyra's normal.'

'I HEARD THAT!' Ryou gave a small laugh and so did Keidra.

'Do you want to tell me about?' he asked walking over to her.

~Earlier that night~

Keidra felt her consciousness slip away as she fell into sleep but instead of her world of dreams a familiar door greeted her. The sandy colour and strange engravings were there as usual as she pushed against it sliding it open easily despite its look of rigidness.

'Mira?' she yelled out and spied the spirit sitting on a low stone edging which lined the walls. The Millennium anklet's soul room would take the form of whatever Almira wanted which was typically a room with chairs and books.

'I need to talk to you about something important,' Almira patted a space next to her gesturing for Keidra to sit down. Keidra moved towards her and took the uncomfortable seat beside her.

'What is it?' she asked puzzled. Keidra almost never came into Mira's soul room. She felt it was an invasion of her privacy.

'Now don't get angry just listen to me and you will see my point eventually,' the serious tone of her voice made Keidra worried.

'Just tell me.' Almira looked Keidra in the eyes making sure the girl would understand she noticed though that something was off about her eyes. They looked to be a dark, almost black, brown, completely different form Keidra's natural green colour. Must just be the light, Almira thought and continued on with what she had to say.

'I want you, us, to move back home. Back to Canada,' Almira waited for the message to sink in and prepared herself for the outburst. Keidra looked at the spirit waiting for her to say 'just kidding!' or 'got you didn't I?' but she didn't.

'WHAT? Why would I do that? I love it here! I have a possible career doing what I love here! I have two of the best friends I have ever had here! Everything I've ever wanted is here!' Keidra had jumped up from where she was sitting and was yelling at her yami.

'Keidra calm down. You have to understand. There have been things-' Almira started.

'I understand all right. You're jealous! Jealous of my life, and me' Keidra knew she was acting like a spoilt brat but she didn't care. She didn't want to sit and be a good girl and do everything Almira told her. 'You had your chance and somewhere along the line you messed up! Well that's not my fault!'

'You think I like being like this?' Almira murmured her head hanging low. 'You think I like being the spectator of a teenager's dramatic life?' Almira started yelling back standing up giving each other the same steely look.

'Oh course I'm jealous! I was alive at one point also! You don't understand how difficult it is for me not knowing what I was like when I was alive!'

'No! I don't know!' Keidra didn't know where all this anger and rage was coming from but the words just kept coming, 'but that's not my problem, it's yours! How dare you even think you can control my life? You do nothing for me! All you do is sit around and moan about how you can't remember your past. Well I don't care!' Keidra felt it before she saw it. Almira had reached out and slapped her across the face.

'You stupid girl! Everything I do is for YOU!'

Keidra felt the angry tears come to her eyes, her cheek beginning to sting.

'I HATE YOU!' she ran away from Almira out of the spirit room back to her own body.

'Not really,' Keidra mumbled.

Ryou looked at her unsure if he should pursue the matter. 'Listen, if you need to talk…' He moved forward so he was standing behind her. She seemed to be distracted with something in her hands, which she kept playing with.

Ryou caught glimpses of gold in between her fingers before she quickly stuffed it into the desk drawer beside her.

'I'm fine.' Keidra picked up her bag; 'I'm going to walk to school by myself-'

'Keidra-'

'Ryou this has nothing to do with you. Don't worry I just need some time to think. Don't forget to lock the door on the way out,' she gave him a small smile and left the room. Ryou heard the door shut and stood trying to figure out what was bugging her so much. Was he pressuring her too much? Maybe she didn't actually like him and was too nice to say no? Should he have waited longer? Well he was going to wait but Thief had asked her for him-

'I don't see why you didn't just kiss her and make things better,' Lyra huffed standing in the doorway tying up her hair into a bun, pulling Ryou from his thoughts.

'Can't just do that. She's pissed off about something that's made her upset.'

'Well it's not my fault. I swear she was fine when I last saw her,' Lyra looked at Ryou's troubled face reading his expression easily. 'It's nothing to do with you either. She was the happiest I've seen her the whole time I've known her.'

'But what if it is something to do with me?' Ryou sat down on the bed putting his heads between his hands.

'You're such a downer-' Lyra made a face, 'I'm not very good at this support stuff am I?'

'Not at all,' Ryou gave a small smile looking up at her. 'Thanks for trying.'

'All I can do is try. Now if you don't mind I have a date with Keidra's fridge,' Lyra winked and left the room leaving Ryou alone.

It was then that he finally realised he was in Keidra's room. He had only been in once or twice but never long enough to get a good look at things. He looked at the pictures of family and friends she had on the walls.

There were pictures of Keidra and her friends back home but there were also recent additions of Lyra and Ryou were mixed amongst them. A thought suddenly occurred to Ryou, what if she's homesick? Maybe had a fight with a friend back home? The calling times were different so a call could've come through late at night.

This assumption made the most sense to Ryou and he was about to leave the room when he remembered the thing Keidra had been playing with before she left. He looked at the top drawer imagining what the gold item could've been.

She obviously didn't want me to see it. Plus it's an invasion of privacy.

Ryou turned to leave but his hand moved to the handle of the drawer not by his command.

'Thief,' Ryou hissed trying to pull his arm back.

What? I want to see the big mystery; Thief gave a small chuckle and pulled the drawer open. Oh? What's this?

Ryou had been trying not to look but his curiosity got the better of him and he turned his head towards the drawer his eyes immediately falling onto a gold piece of jewellery.

'That's… that's got the same eye symbol as my ring. Could it be-?' Ryou asked as the hand in Thief's control picked up the jewellery piece noticing the strange eye he knew appeared on the millennium items.

No. The ring would've detected it. It must be a replica or something. Thief chucked the anklet back into the drawer and closed it. He released control of Ryou's hand letting it fall to his side.

Almira listened from inside the anklet confused by the conversation Ryou had just had with himself. How does he know about the Millennium items?

Lyra slowly opened the door and looked to where the teacher was standing back turned writing something on the board. Lyra let the door close quietly and tip-toed to the back of the class where her usually seat next to Keidra was.

'Hey. You in a better mood?' Lyra asked Keidra dumping her stuff on the ground and opened her book to a random page.

'Yeah I'm fine it was just a little tantrum,' she said copying down from the board. Her annoyed tone from earlier, Lyra noted, had vanished and was back to normal.

'You sure? You seemed pretty pissed earlier. If you want to tell me you can-'

'Lyra! I was going to let you coming into my class late slide, but you are now distracting another student and stopping her from learning. Stop or it will be a formal detention.' The teacher hissed narrowing her eyes at Lyra.

'Yes Miss,' the brown haired teenager muttered picking up a pen and scribbling what was written on the board messily.

'Was it something I did?' Lyra whispered quietly head down writing quickly.

'No.'

'Ryou?'

No.'

'Family?'

'No.'

'Friend back home?' She guessed again reciting Ryou's ideas.

'No.'

'I'm going to keep annoying you until you tell me.'

'I know.'

'Tell me?'

'No. Now shut it. You're going to get us both in trouble-'

'Keidra and Lyra! You will both report to the detention room for the last two periods of today! Lyra I do believe this is your final detention. One more after this and it will lead to a suspension.'

Lyra rolled her eyes and slouched back in her chair. 'What ever.'

'But I have dance lessons then! I can't miss it,' Keidra complained.

'You should have thought of that before you interrupted my class.'

'You too 'eh Ryou?' Lyra said smiling brightly as she walked into the detention room spotting Ryou at one of the desks. Keidra meekly followed behind her. It was a plain classroom with no decoration except a black board at the front. About ten desks and chairs were set up in aisles

'No talking in detention,' Mr Saint growled from his position at the front of the room. 'You will remain here until the finally bell rings for end of day. You will think about what you have done wrong and will make sure not to do it again.' He then walked out the door locking it behind him.

'That's it? No lines? No yelling? Just sit here and be good?' Keidra said surprised.

'Yep. Mr Saint is usually too lazy to give any work to do,' Lyra got up from her chair and walked over to the lone window which looked out on the school grounds from the second floor.

'Why are you in here Ryou?' Keidra asked moving form her chair to the desk next to Ryou.

'Teacher caught me coming in late. Unfortunately he was in a bad mood,' he explained sighing. 'It's Lyra's fault we were late today any way.'

'Was not! A troll stole my shoe. Not my fault.'

'So we just have to sit here? That doesn't seem ver- and of course you can't do that,' Keidra gave a dis-believing look to Lyra who had one leg out the window.

'What? I'm not staying here.'

'We're on the second story!' Ryou got up from his chair and walked over to Lyra.

'Yeah so? You want to go to your dance practise right Keidra? I want to see you dance and I'm sure your new lover boy does too,' Keidra and Ryou blushed bright red. Neither of them had talked about what was going to happen next in their relationship but they had given themselves both the 'dating' status.

'But all my dance things are in my locker.' Keidra said watching Lyra as she carefully lowered herself onto the roof just below the window.

'Did I ever tell you I was secretly a ninja?'

'Okay no one's coming,' the trio moved along the hall quickly. Lyra held her phone in front of her the screen full of footage she was streaming from the school's security cameras

'Who knew having Lyra around would come in handy,' Keidra teased as they ducked around another corner.

'Oh hardy-ha-ha.' They had climbed out the second floor window, much to Ryou and Keidra's protests, and snuck back into the school undetected all using the cameras.

'Of course I would. Use the cameras all the time to sneak around. Sure fire way not to get caught. Okay quickly get your stuff,' Lyra pushed Keidra towards her locker keeping one eye on her phone. Ryou nervously looking around behind Lyra he was meant to be keeping an eye on the bathrooms, as that was the camera's blind spot.

'Hurry!' Lyra hissed, 'Teacher's going to come around that corner soon.' Keidra tugged at her lock opening it and pulling the locker door open. She grabbed her duffle bag that contained her dance clothes and shoes quickly and looked back to Lyra who was making frantic moments with her hands.

'Hide!' she hissed and Keidra frantically looked around for somewhere to hide but the hall was lined with lockers with nowhere to hide. There were bathrooms halfway along the hall where Lyra and Ryou were standing but she wouldn't be able to make it. She bit her lip she could hear the tapping of the teacher's shoes echoing towards her.

'Son of a-' Keidra pulled her locker door open wider and pushed her books and bag out of the way squeezing herself inside the tall locker.

'Smart,' Lyra commented as she watched her friend shut her locker door on herself.

'What about us?' Ryou asked tapping Lyra on the shoulder.

'In here,' she pushed Ryou into the bathroom door letting them both in. Lyra opened the door a crack and peeked out watching as the teacher round the hall corner.

'Umm… Lyra? Why are we both in the guy's bathroom?'

'Because she might've been going to the girl's bathrooms,' Lyra made a disgusted face, 'Ugh it stinks in here!'

'It's not that bad.'

'You're probably just use to it,' Lyra said grabbing her nose with one hand trying to block out the stench. They waited until the teacher came out of the bathroom and was well gone until they came out back into the hall.

Lyra walked over the Keidra's locker and pulled it open books and pens spilling all over the floor.

'That was a close one.' Keidra sighed as she piled her stuff back into her locker. She grabbed her bag once again and locked her door. 'Okay let's roll.'
The group were almost at the exit when Lyra felt a hand grab her wrist.

'They've got me!' Lyra cried out dramatically. 'You guys must gone on without m- Wait you're not a teacher.'

'Brilliant deduction,' the black haired boy holding onto her wrist said sarcastically. 'You're Lyra right?'

'Yes? Wait. Aren't you Demi's boyfriend? Duken-'

'Duke.'

'Duke, Duken. Same difference,' she shrugged.

'Lyra?' Keidra asked walking back to her friend.

'Can I talk to you for a moment?' Duke said looking at Lyra.

'Umm… Sure? I guess?' Lyra looked to where Ryou and Keidra were standing side by side. 'I'll catch up with you guys in a sec.'

'Okay?' Keidra said confused at why Demi's boyfriend would want to talk to Lyra of all people. She watched as Duke pulled Lyra off in the other direction.

A/N

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