Capricorn's POV

I was still laying down on the floor, just playing with a curl on the top of my head.

Leo was still groaning. Complaining about his sore muscles as usual.

"Shut the fuck up!" I tell him.

He sighed and groaned silently this time. It still bothered me, but I guess it's bearable now.

"Scorp, is dinner almost ready?" Cancer asks.

"Yeah, just a few minutes," he says.

Aries came down the stairs after he took his shower. The guy's a show off, so he has sweatpants, socks, and no shirt on.

"Hey, guys," Aries says, sitting on the couch beside Gemini. "Why are we so quiet?"

"Quiet? KingOfTheJungle here is groaning and whining like a baby," Gem says, gesturing a thumb to Leo and rolling her eyes.

"I mean, why is nobody talking," he asks.

Cancer shrugged. "There's only five of us here. Six if you wanna count Scorpio, but it's not like he talks to any of you guys anyway."

"Gem talks to everyone," Aries says looking down at her. "Why are you so quiet?"

Gemini just shrugged. "Lot on my mind," she says.

"Have you been trying to read people's minds again?" I ask her.

She shook her head. "I'm not trying to. It just happens sometimes. I don't know how to get it to stop."

I felt bad for Gemini. I mean, most people would find reading minds to be cool or whatever, but I think it's anything but cool. It's like knowing a secret you don't want to know. She's been quiet ever since the whole mind reading thing which is really unlike her.

"I have an idea!" Leo says, finally stopping his groans.

Aries looked at him an squinted his eyes. Gemini's eyes beamed. "What is it?"

"No," Scorpio says, walking from the kitchen. He leaned against a wall and crossed his arms. "Whatever idea Leo has, don't even consider it."

"You didn't even know what I was gonna say!" Leo defended.

"Let's keep it that way," Scorpio says with a smirk that annoyed Leo.

"Just tell us the idea, Leo," Cancer says. Then she turned to Scorpio. "If anything can help Gemini, we might as well try it. Even if it's dangerous or whatever."

Scorpio rolled his eyes at her and went back to the kitchen.

"Thanks, Goldilocks," Leo winks at her. Cancer only rolled her eyes then blushed after. "So anyway," Leo says. "We should ask Ophiuchus to help her!"

"Ha! Told you it was stupid!" Scorpio says from the kitchen. I laughed with him.

Aries rolled his eyes. "You really are useless," he mumbles. Then he turned to Gemini. "Don't worry. You'll control it," he says in a calm voice to her.

Gemini just remained to frown.

"No, I'm serious!" Leo says.

That's when Libra and Pisces came down the stairs. "Leo? Serious? About what?" Libra says, snickering with Pisces beside her.

"This idiot thinks Ophiuchus should help Gemini with her mind reading. If anyone, shouldn't Lupus be your first choice?" Cancer asks.

Leo shrugged. "Lupus doesn't use her power, so I wouldn't find her reliable," he says.

"That's the first," I chuckle.

"That Lupus isn't my answer?"

"No. That you actually paid attention to what she said," I laugh. Leo rolled his eyes at me.

Pisces went to sit down at the bottom step, and Libra went to lay down on the floor beside me. "Hard to believe he's that stupid," Pisces says.

"I'm not stupid!"

"Yeah, you are," Scorpio says from the kitchen.

Leo crossed his arms and pouted. "You guys are assholes."

"Ophiuchus is the one we want to get away from, dumbass. If Gemini can read minds, she can accidently think something and accidently say it to him. Y'know, like how Lupus cured us from that spell," Pisces says.

"Yeah, that's not worth the risk," Libra says. Pisces nodded in agreement.

"But Lupus told us to act normal around him! He thinks we're his friends now," Leo says.

"Leo, shut up," Cancer says. "You're just embarassing yourself now."

Leo pouted again and slouched in the couch. Scorpio went to come from the kitchen.

"Dinner's ready," he says, waving a spoon at us. "Come eat."

Cancer was the first to jump off the couch to go eat. Aries followed behind her along with Gem, then Leo, then Libra, then Pisces, then me.

"What if he tried poisoning us?" Leo asks Libra.

Libra just shrugged. "I wouldn't be too surprised," she says, grabbing a fork and sitting across from Scorpio.

I went to sit down beside her. I look at all the plates. "Hey, where's Virgo's, Aqua's, Sag's, and Taurus'?" I ask.

Scorpio shrugged. "If they were hungry, they wouldn't have gone to sleep," he says, digging in.

"Virgo's in the shower," Leo reminds him.

Scorpio shrugged again. "Oops," he says, not giving a care in the world.

I roll my eyes at the guy. "Well, thanks anyway," I mumble.

He smirks. "No problem, everyone."

Just before I could take a bit of my food, there was running down the stairs. Everyone turned to see who was making so much noise.

Surprisingly, it was Virgo. She had just come from out of the shower.

"What took you a long time to shower?" Cancer asks.

"No. I was talking to Taurus. Aquarius is upstairs with him in his room-"

"Are they, like, dating?" Libra asks, eyes beaming.

I soon started becoming interested too. "Y-yeah, are they?" I ask.

Virgo shook her head. "No. He doesn't like her like that, and I'm pretty sure she's the same." She went to walk over to the table to not see another plate of food. "Where's my plate?" she asks.

"Scorpio's being a dick because you weren't here," Gemini says.

Scorpio just smirked at Virgo and continued eating his food.

Virgo rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Anyway, about the whole talk with Taurus thing," she says, "we have to make sure Aqua and Sag are safe from Ophiuchus."

"Aren't they already safe? He obviously admires them more than us. Which is weird. Why doesn't he like me? Everybody likes me," Leo says, starting to panic. "Was it because I called him Obeanicus? Ugh, maybe it was because of my hair. He messed up my hair that day! He probably doesn't like messy hair boys! Makes sense why he hates Scorpio so much-"

"Leo. Shut up!" Gemini yells at him while rolling her eyes.

"Yes, please," I say, leaning back in my chair.

"Leo, not everybody likes you. And secondly, we don't know if those two are gonna be his minions or whatever," Virgo says, sitting in a chair beside me.

"Okay, but what does that have to do with anything about you talking to Taurus upstairs?" Cancer asks.

"Taurus is going to hang out with Aquarius as much as possible so she doesn't get too attatched to Ophiuchus. If she does, he might make her turn on us, and we can't let that happen," Virgo says.

Goddamn, she's a genius.

"So I need one of you to hang out with Sagi as much as possible," she says, eyeing everyone else.

Gemini shook her head. "Nope. I don't even know if she likes me anymore."

"Why would you think that?" Cancer asks.

Gemini shrugged. "We barely talked ever since that whole car situation when she left Leo's house that one night."

Aries shrugged. "I don't mind doing it," he says.

"No," Virgo says. "Sag already became friends with Ophiuchus without any of you knowing," she says, eyeing Leo and Aries. "Everything will just slip your transparent minds."

"Not true! I could be a great detective," Leo says.

"Now's not the time to argue with me, Leo. This is serious," she says.

"I'm serious too," he says.

"If me or Leo can't do it, why can't you just do it?" Aries asks.

"Because I'm calling the shots, Aries."

"I guess I can do it," I say.

"No way. You'll be too focused on sucking Libra's face off," Scorpio says. Libra blushed. "Since I don't get distracted being around her, I'll do it," he insists with a small smirk.

Virgo groaned. "Not you either. You hate her, and that'll only make her repel from us."

Scorpio went silent now. His smirk turned into s frown, and he just started to slowly eat.

Pisces shrugged. "I guess I can do it. Considering she doesn't hate me, and we've actually been talking lately," he says.

Virgo nodded. "Okay, yeah. That's great."

"Wait," I say. "Why didn't you let me be the one to be on Aqua duty?"

"Because from what I've seen, Taurus and her are getting closer anyway. No offense to you and your lifelong friendship with her or whatever," Virgo says.

I just nodded my head as if I understood. Which I kind of did. I mean, she has been closer to Taurus lately anyway. It's my own fault for not talking to her like I used to. I just hope I'm not replaced by the guy. I still see her as my number one best friend.

"So, Pisces, make sure she spends as much time with you as possible. More than she can with Ophiuchus," Virgo instructed.

Pisces shook his head. "Yeah, I got it," he says.

Virgo gave him a warm smile. "Good. Now can someone make me something to eat?" she asks, pouting now and rubbing her stomach.

I honestly didn't feel like cooking today. There was no way in hell Scorpio was gonna cook for her either though. I rolled my eyes and was about to give in until I didn't have to.

"You can have mine, Virgin," Leo says, passing his plate to Virgo with a huge smile.

Virgo gave him a death stare. "What did I say about calling me that name?"

"I'm being nice! Stop being mean to me all the time!" Leo says, almost losing it now.

Virgo blushed a bit and snatched the plate of food. "Thanks," she mumbled, trying to lose eye contact with him.

"She so doesn't hate him," Libra whispered to me. I scoffed and chuckled a bit.

Thunder boomed from the outside and Cancer and Gemini jumped at the sound.

Scorpio laughed. "Pussies," he say.

Cancer smacked him which only caused him to laugh more.

Just a second after, there were steps coming down the stairs, and I began to think that it was Taurus, but I was wrong.

It was only Sagittarius.

Her curly brown hair was tied back, and she was wearing grey sweatpants, a white cami top, and black fluffy socks. She looked extremely tired.

"Hey, Sagi," Aries says first.

Sagittarius brought a chair to sit in between Aries and Leo. "Hey," she says, taking Aries' plate of food and eating. "You guys know when it'll stop raining?"

Pisces shook his head. "No. Why? Did the thunder wake you up?"

"No. I was awake just a few minutes before that. And now I'm really hungry," she says, continuing to eat Aries' food. Then she gestured her fork to the food. "Who made this?"

"I did," Scorpio smirked.

Sagittarius put the plate and fork back down and stood up to go to the fridge.

"Where you going?" Virgo asks.

"I'm hungry," Sag repeats, not looking back at us.

"But I already cooked," Scorpio says. His smirk was disappearing.

Sagittarius found whip cream and poured some in her mouth, leaving herself with a white whipped cream mustache and beard.

"Where's Aquarius and Taurus?" Sag asks, ignoring Scorpio.

"Upstairs sleeping," Leo says.

Sag nodded her head as she poured more whipped cream in her mouth, spilling just a bit. That bothered me a bit. Can she at least clean that up?

"I'm so not ready for training tomorrow," Virgo complained. "My arms are still killing me."

"If it makes you feel better, we have Acella, as I must say for the billionth time," Leo sighed.

"If it makes any of you feel better, I'm not going tomorrow," Sag says with a smile. Her whipped cream mustache and beard still bothered me.

"Oh, you're going," Aries says, leaning back in his chair with his arms crossed.

"No, I'm not."

"If I'm gonna be there, you are too," Aries says to her.

"Who says we have to do everything together?" Sagittarius snaps.

"Um, me!" Leo says, pointing to himself.

"Oh yeah," Sag says, remembering. "Then the three of us aren't going."

"Sagittarius, we have to go," Cancer says, almost irritated.

"Why? The whole thing is because she wants us to put Ophi back in hell, and we don't want to do that anymore, right?" she asks.

There was a silence now as she was waiting for us to answer. I wanted to snap so hard on telling her that her little "friend" isn't much of a friend as she thinks he is.

But then Lupus' voice came to mind. We couldn't tell her that because it'll make Ophiuchus more suspicious of us.

I was the first to nod and say something. "Yeah," I say hesitantly.

That killed me right there not being able to tell her off.

"Exactly! So we can just make up an excuse on why we can't be there, and we won't have to practice that ritual to end Ophi," she says, smiling, still having a whipped cream mustache above her lip.

Scorpio groaned. "Nope," he says. "Lupus will-"

"So who's in?" Sag asks, clapping her hands together and cutting off Scorpio. I can tell that pissed him off by the look on his face and his body movement.

No one said anything. Everybody else just looked at each other which made Sagittarius frown. Especially at Aries and Leo.

"Really? Nobody?" Sag asks, disappointed. "If none of you are doing it, I'll just do it by myself anyway."

Virgo shot Pisces a look, reminding him on what he's supposed to do. If Sagittarius were to skip training by herself, it's more than likely she would go with Ophiuchus, which we're not planning to do.

Pisces looked at Virgo and quickly back at Sagittarius. "Okay, I'll skip with you," he says.

Sag smiles at him.

Scorpio gave both of them a look. "I'll do it too," he says.

"So," Sag says, "only me and Pisces?" She looked around to see if anyone else wanted to join, only avoiding Scorpio's presense.

Scorpio started to grow insanely mad now. "I said I'll-"

"I guess so!" Sagittarius says, pouring more whipped cream in her mouth and throwing it back in the fridge.

Scorpio had a tight grip on his spoon now that I could see it bending.

"So what's gonna be the excuse?" Pisces asks.

Sagittarius thought for a while. She was great at improv. Mainly because she speaks before she thinks which surprisingly keeps her up with her story plans. She was walking up to him as she was tapping her chin.

"I got it!" Sag says, excitedly almost louder than the thunder outside. "We can break our legs!"

Pisces eyes widened. "There is no fucking way we're gonna purposely break our legs just so we could get out of training," he says, eyebrows furrowing.

Libra and I howled with laughter which only caused him to death glare us. We didn't care though. Sucks to be him.

"You can't possibly have a better idea," Sagittarius says.

"How about getting in a car accident?" Cancer suggested.

"No," Pisces bluntly says.

"Get hungover?" I ask.

"I'm not getting drunk tonight."

"Ooh! I have one!" Libra says, excitedly. "We can pretend you got Sagittarius pregnant!"

Sagittarius was suddenly ten times intruiged as she was before. "Ooh, do you think she would believe that?"

"No! We're not doing any of those!" Pisces tells them. Sagittarius and Libra frowned.

Scorpio chuckled. "You guys are going for the wrong and overthinked ideas. It's simple. Just tell Lupus you guys were food poisoned or something. She won't let you guys train if you're not feeling well."

Pisces thought for a while. "That's actually not a bad idea," he says.

"Ooh! I know!" Sag says, still having whipped cream above her lip, "we can act like we were food poisoned! There's no way Lupus would let us train if we're not feeling well."

Scorpio whipped his head over to her. "I literally just said-"

"Great idea, Sagi," Aries says, putting a thumbs up for her. She winked at him and turned back to Pisces with a smile.

"Okay, then. I guess you and I aren't training tomorrow," Pisces says, chuckling.

Sagittarius went to sit down on his lap. "We're gonna have so much fun! I felt like I haven't had a free day in, like, forever," she says.

Pisces was still chuckling at her excitedness and possibly because of her whipped cream mustache.

"Then that means Aries and I have to deal with Acella alone," Leo groaned, spreading his legs out under the table, kicking me on accident.

"Watch it, lion," I snap.

He ignored me as I death glared him.

"And me and Scorpio will have Esther to ourselves," Cancer says, gesturing her thumb to Scorpio beside her who was look more upset than he usually was.

"Well, that settles it," Virgo says, standing up with her empty plate now. "But Sagittarius, this is your last time skipping training and us covering for you." She places her plate in the sink now.

"What? It was only my first time," she says, throwing her hands up, almost hitting Pisces' face behind her.

"But still. You shouldn't keep skipping it. We have to make Lupus think we still hate Ophiuchus, remember?" Virgo says, raising an eyebrow and leaning on the counter behind her.

Sagittarius just groaned and actually accidently hit Pisces' face with her curly hair as she threw her head back. He just swat her hair away from his face.

She sat back up again. "Well, dinner was great," she says, walking up to the stairs now.

"You didn't even eat," Scorpio reminds her.

She, of course, ignored him again. I decided to test it out.

"You barely ate," I say to her.

"Whipped cream was good enough," she says, finally licking off her mustache that bothered me for a while. She made her way up the stairs now.

I turn to Scorpio and grinned at him who only rolled his eyes at me. "What the fuck is her deal?" he asks, almost yelling.

I don't know why he was so bothered by her ignoring him. He ignores her all the time and complains about how annoying she is. I would've thought he'd be anything but pissed. Nobody answered his question. They either knew and didn't say anything or didn't know at all. I was one of those people who didn't know at all.

Virgo looked up the stairs to see if Sagittarius was finally gone. She quickly whipped her head over to us now, ready to say something.

"Pisces, make sure she doesn't go anywhere near Ophiuchus while we're out training," she quickly says.

Pisces nodded his head. "G-got it," he stammered.

"And if any of you do break your legs, don't count on me to heal you," Cancer says, cracking her knuckles.

"Wasn't planning on it," Pisces mumbled.

"Well, at least you'll be here and not training," Libra sighs.

"What are you complaining about? We have the hot trainer," Gemini reminds her.

"Yeah, but it's not like I can say that in front of GoatBoy here," Libra says, gesturing her thumb to me.

I whip my head to my girlfriend. "So you think Corvus is hot too?" I ask quickly.

She gestured her whole hand to me now. "See? What did I tell you?"

"What's that s'posed to mean?" I ask, turning my whole body to her now.

"It means you're an obvious jealous type," Leo blurts. Cancer and Aries laugh.

"No, I'm not," I say.

"I wouldn't say jealous, but more like really protective," Libra says, sugarcoating every word.

I squint my eyes at her as she did the same to me. I wasn't that protective. At least I didn't think so.

Libra and I were still staring at each other. I couldn't complain about it because she was so beautiful. This was an excuse for me to just admite her whole figure. Her hazel eyes were gorgeous and complimented her long eyelashes. Her nose was perfectly arched and adorable. And her lips...

"Are you guys gonna make out again?" Virgo asks.

I bit the inside of my cheek. "We just might," I say, still squinting my eyes at Libra who continued doing the same to me.

"Please don't," Leo says. "That's disgusting."

I whip my head to him now. "You're disgusting," I say.

"Ha! I win!" Libra says with a huge smile.

I turn back to her now. "Wait, since when was this a contest?" I ask.

Libra shrugged. "Since I won. Duh," she says, turning her body forward to the table again.

I frown and turn back to the table too. Leo was looking skeptically at us, probably making sure we don't make out in front of him which only made me want to do it to make him complain. I thought it over and thought that his complaining was already annoying.

Scorpio stood up from out of his seat. "Well, I'm going to bed," he grumbles, pushing his chair in.

"Already? It's only 7:30PM," Cancer says.

He groaned in response before he could speak. "So Sagittarius, Taurus, and Aquarius can go to sleep early, but I can't?"

My eyes widened. What the fuck is wrong with him?

Cancer seemed to be as shocked as I was. As everyone was really.

"Night," Cancer bluntly says, looking down at her lap.

Scorpio just ran up the stairs now. I roll my eyes. "What a dick," I mumble under my breath.

Virgo heard me and nodded her head in agreement. She went to sit back down with us at the table.

There was an awkward silence now until Aries burped. Gemini punched hid arm which only caused him to laugh.

"Guys," Libra says, "what does Ophiuchus want with Aquarius?"

That filled the room with more awkward silence which was making me kind of anxious to speak. The only thing was, I didn't know how to answer that.

We all knew why Ophiuchus didn't spell Sagittarius. That was because he actually sees her as his friend as weird as that sounds. Aquarius and Ophiuchus barely know each other.

"I don't know," Leo says, actually sounding serious.

"Yeah," Cancer says. "It makes sense to want Sagittarius, but I don't know what's his deal with Aquarius too."

"From what Ophiuchus was telling me, it was like he was trying to protect both of them... but from us," Gemini stammered.

"It's not like we won't do anything bad to them," I said. "Aqua's my best friend. Shouldn't I be the one protecting her from him?"

"Yeah, that's the weird thing," Libra says, facing me now.

"If I would've thought anything, I would've thought maybe he would go after Sag and Scorpio," Pisces says. "Y'know, since they're both connected to him."

"Yeah, but Ophiuchus hates Scorpio just as much Scorpio hates Ophiuchus. Yet they're connected," Virgo says, looking out into space as if she's solving a math problem.

"Maybe Ophiuchus just have a thing with chicks," Aries joked. He laughed at himself while everyone else, excluding Leo, gave him a mean look.

"I hope you know your best friend is in danger," Pisces reminds him.

He stops laughing at himself, realizing there's no time to joke now. Ophiuchus wants something to do with Aquarius and Sagittarius, and it was driving all of us crazy to find out.

"How about we just ask him," Leo says.

I throw my hand in the air, gesturing to the lion. "And the dumb ideas continue," I say.

"But he thinks we forgive him," Leo says. "If we can try getting him to thinking we're friends, he could probably tell us."

"Leo, that's not a good idea. The guy is smart. He fooled all of us the first time, and we probably wouldn't have noticed it was him if it weren't for Pisces," Virgo says.

"But-"

"No," Virgo says. "I get it, you're the social type or whatever, but this is a life or death situation, and I can't afford to get any of you killed."

Leo became quiet. It surprised most of us. I would've just expected him to say something else to piss Virgo off or joke about it, but he didn't. He just waited for her to talk this time.

She takes a deep breath now. "He's smart. He will know that we're not under a spell sooner or later," she sighed.

My mind was only set on Aqua. I didn't know what the hell this creep wanted her for, and it was driving me crazy. I was her best friend. Virgo chose Taurus to protect her from him and not me. I would do anything to help my best friend at all costs anyway. Ophiuchus' deal with her has been itching my mind the moment we talked about this.

"We'll figure it out soon," Cancer says.

"I don't know," I say. "When we do figure things out, that's when Aqua is involved. She can't be involved in this, remember?"

I could tell Cancer was only holding on to false hope, and I can't blame her. I want to, but I know I can't. It wasn't going to make any of this better.

"Then we'll do it ourselves," Gemini says.

Virgo shook her head. "You have to get your power checked out, Gem. You need to learn how to control it otherwise the information we have will send to someone who doesn't need to know."

Gem pouted. "So this means I'm out too?"

"Only until you learn how to control your mindreading," I say. "It's not safe."

She slouched in her chair. Aries nudged her arm. "It'll be okay. You'll learn how to control it," he tells her. She just gave him a weak smile and instantly frowned.

"So this means Aries, Taurus, Cance, Leo, V, Lib, Scorpio, me, and Pisces are in?" I ask.

Virgo nodded. "I guess so."

"But I don't want to do it," Leo complained.

"We're helping Sagittarius. Are you going to be a bad friend and not help?" Cancer snaps.

"Yeah, but why does Pisces have to be the one keeping her distracted from him. Me and Aries are just gonna feel replaced," he kept complaining.

Virgo groaned. "I already told you why. I have to keep everybody in check which is a big enough job. Taurus is on Aqua duty. Sag probably doesn't like Gem anymore. Her and Cancer aren't even that close. Libra and Cap are just gonna suck each others face off, no doubt. Scorpio hates her which is only gonna make her not be around him, and you and Aries are the most oblivious idiots alive."

Aries whipped his head to her. "I'm not oblivious."

"You didn't realize she was friends with Ophiuchus, and that shows. Pisces was the only one who figured it out, therefore he's on Sagittarius duty. We can't have any distractions, especially with her," Virgo continued.

Which was true. Sagittarius and Gemini were probably the most distracted girls we've ever met. It's nice to know Pisces will be on Sagittarius duty.

"Then what about me?" Gem asks, throwing her hands in the air.

"What about you?" I ask.

"I'm not going to be in any of this. I feel left out," she pouted for the millionth time.

"I'm sorry, Gem, but you have to control your power first. We can't have any risks of you telling anything on accident," Libra says.

That just made Gemini sad again. I kind of feel bad for her. I know she wants to help, but she just can't. It's for all of our safety anyway.

"Fucking stupid power," Gemini mumbled.

"Hey," Pisces nudges her arm. "If it weren't for you, we would've still been under Ophiuchus' spell. Don't feel so sad," he tells her.

She nodded as she was looking down at her lap now. I couldn't tell if she actually believed she was helpful or if she was just tired of everyone telling her she was.

She stood up now, "I'm going to sleep too," she says. "See you guys in the morning."

Everybody waved her goodnight, except for Aries who was squinting his eyes at her slumping her way up the stairs.

"Yeah," he says, standing up, "I'm going to sleep too."

"Since when did you sleep early?" Leo asks.

"Since Sag won't be at training tomorrow which means more torture for you and me," Aries says, running up the stairs now.

I knew that wasn't true. He's probably going upstairs to make sure if Gemini was alright from being left out. I couldn't blame him though. If I were close friends with her, I would do the same.

I said it before, and I was serious. Aries is a really great friend. I mean, he's an asshole and annoying and has the dumbest ideas, but he really is there for people which I respect from the heart.

He tried helping me get Libra even though he went all wrong about it. I'm more grateful that he didn't keep making out Libra knowing that I liked her. If he didn't know that, it's more than likely he would've made out with her and maybe even sleep with her.

That thought made my skin crawl. I don't think I can see Libra with anybody else but me.

Virgo was playing with her fingernails now. Everybody was just being so awkward. It wasn't normal like this. It's not normal anymore. We didn't have jobs anymore. We couldn't visit our parents anymore. We just weren't normal anymore.

We have a crazy man whose only mission is to send us to rot in hell as he did. Fucking powers we don't know how the fuck to control. And on top of that, we're in a new world where everybody understands us.

This is our normal now.

°°°

The next morning, I was taking a shower with Gemini banging on my door as usual. Does this girl ever stop?

"Capricorn! You're gonna take all the hot water!" she yells, banging on the door.

I groan. "Shut up!"

She groaned back, and I could hear something sliding against my door. She was probably sitting beside the door now. There was still more yelling outside the bathroom that I chose to ignore.

I was in the middle of washing my black curly hair now for the fourth time. I mean, it's not like I take really long showers. I just need to make sure I'm 100% clean.

"Capricorn! Get out the shower already, so Gem can shut the fuck up! I'm trying to sleep in!"

"Yeah!" Gemini yells back from the bathroom. "Thanks, Pi," she says.

He didn't say anything. At least I didn't think so. If he did, the shower concealed his voice.

"Be patient!" I yell right back.

Goddamn, they're so annoying.

I quickly rinse my hair now and jumped out and wrapped a white towel around my melanin waist. I looked at the steamy and foggy mirror and wiped a circle to see my face clearly. I look all clean to me!

I opened the door, and Gemini almost fell back since she was sitting by the door. She quickly stood up.

"It's about goddamn tim-"

"Shut up, ShortStuff," I cut her off, walking to my room now.

She instantly jumped in the bathroom since the past few days everyone else stole it before she could.

When I was walking to my room, I could see Pisces and Virgo talking by the stairs. I guess Gemini's yelling really kept him up. There was no sign of Sagittarius which only means that she's still sleeping.

I turn to my right and see that Aquarius and Taurus are talking. I quickly turn my whole body in her direction.

"Hey, Aqua!" I waved.

She smiled and waved back at me. Her and Taurus both walked to me now.

"What's up?" Aqua asks me.

I pointed to my room that was just a few feet away from where I was standing now. "Just about to change. So what's up with you?"

Aquarius shrugged. "Just about to get ready to training, of course."

I nodded. "Oh, yeah. Right," I say.

She smiled. "You okay? You're being kind of weird. Not that that's any different, but you're being weirder than usual."

"What? I'm not being weird. You're being weird," I retorted.

She rolled her eyes. "Yeah, whatever you say," she says, looking around. "Where's Sagittarius?"

"Her and Pisces and skipping training today. If Lupus asks, they're both sick with food poisoning," I tell her and Taurus.

They both nodded as Aquarius laughed also. "Well, go get ready for training. No one wants to look at your dripping abs all day," she says, ruffling my curly hair, getting her hand all wet. She was shorter than me, so of course she had to stand on her tiptoes.

I roll my eyes at her. "Libra would love to," I smirk.

"Libra would love anything you do," she says, rolling her eyes and fake gagging with a finger pointed to her mouth.

I swoon at the thought of my girlfriend. "You're not wrong," I say, tugging my towel tighter around my waist.

"Well, Taurus and I were about to go eat something. Want anything?"

"Just make me cereal," I shrugged.

She was already walking down the stairs, "Of course," she says, running down it now.

Taurus was still facing front of me. It's obvious he wanted to say something.

"So I'm guessing Pi is Sagi's babysitter?" he asks.

I laughed. "Yep. And you're Aqua's," I say, patting him on the shoulder. "Good luck with that."

"Hey!" he says. "It doesn't even feel like I'm babysitting Aqua."

"Yeah, Pisces thinks the same about Sagittarius. She doesn't hate him, and he liked talking to her, so I guess that is a good idea to have him do it," I tell him.

"I would've thought Leo or Aries would do it," Taurus says.

"Yeah, me too, but Virgo said no because they're too immature and oblivious." I click my tounge. "And she's not wrong."

"I hate to say it, but she's never wrong," he pouted. "Don't tell her I said that, though."

"Secret's safe with me," I tell him.

I turn to look at my bedroom door now and back at Taurus who was tempting to say something now.

"Well, I'm about to go eat something," he says.

As usual.

"But make sure you eat enough too. Lupus said we're having a harder day today, and one day with Cygnus is hard enough," he says to me.

I nod and smirk. "Yeah, thanks. See you later," I tell him.

He walked to the door now as I walked to go to my room. When I was there, Libra was already in there, laying down on my bed. It almost scared me since I didn't expect anybody to be there.

The sound of the door opening made Libra jump up. "Hey, Cap!" she says, excitedly and sitting up on my bed now.

I close the door behind me. "Hey," I say, "What are you doing here? And why aren't you dressed."

She had on lavender leggings with a white tank top. She had no socks on, so she was revealing her baby pink toenail polish to match with her fingernails. Her hair was in an adorable messy bun.

"I was thinking that we should skip. Y'know, like Pisces and Sagittarius," she says with a flirtatious smile. Even her eyes looked full of lust.

Hmm, so that's what she's here for.

I shake my head as I was walking to my closet. "Nope," I say. "Two people are already skipping. It'll be too suspicious if we skip too. Lupus is gonna know we're making things up to get out of training."

She pouted and that was the pout that always made me feel guilty. I had to look away from it before I could give in.

"We can just tell her that we're taking care of them. Since they're 'sick,'" she told me, putting air quotes with her fingers.

"Nope," I tell her.

"Cap, please," she says. I can hear the bed creak as she was getting off the bed. I was still looking through my closet as an excuse not to face her. I knew if I did, she would give me a pout that she and I knew I couldn't resist.

"We're not skipping. It's too suspicious," I repeated.

All the sudden I felt a warm hand on the back of my shoulder. "Please," she says, as soft as a whisper. "We can have fun~," she sang.

I swallowed a hard lump in my throat as I forced myself to shake my head. "No, Lib," I tell her.

All of the sudden, Libra was facing me now, inches away from me. Goddamn, she was so beautiful up close.

"Please?" she pouted.

There it is. That pout. That fucking pout I knew I couldn't resist. I only remained to say nothing, so I wouldn't give in to anything.

Libra was getting closer to me slowly. I only waited for what was going to happen next. A few second after, she pressed her lips against mine. They were moving in perfect sync the second they touched. Our kiss was slow and soft, but I already knew it was going to escalate higher than that in the matter of seconds. It always does.

I felt her warm hand press again my dripping chest now, and our kiss deepened. Her hand was moving down from my chest now to my towel which made my body shivver. A whole new level of adrenaline washed over me. She was trying to trick me!

I quickly ended our kiss as her hand was on my white towel around my waist now. She gave me a really seductive look. Her hazel eyes looked directly up at me as her hand was still gripping my towel. I smirk.

"No," I tell her, pecking another kiss on her lips and walking back to my closet.

She frowned and groaned like a little child. Usually, that would annoy me, but when Libra does it, I don't mind.

"Maybe another time," I tell her, pulling a gym T-shirt from my closet and facing her cute pouty face again. "Don't be too sad," I say, pecking yet another kiss on her lips.

She went to go lay back down on my bed now as she kept on groaning.

"I promise," I tell her, pulling the shirt over my head now. "Stop pouting and groaning. It's making me feel guilty."

"Good," Libra says, staring up at the ceiling.

I went to find some underwear and jogging pants or maybe even some gym shorts. I wore the gym shorts instead and threw my towel on Lib's face who quickly threw it off herself. She kept on groaning while she was on my bed.

I walked over and threw myself on the bed right next to her. She was looking at the ceiling, pouting, frowning, and groaning.

"Don't be so sad," I tell her again.

She decided to not say anything.

"So are you ignoring me now?" I ask.

"Yes," she says. "Wait, I mean-" then she covered her mouth.

I laughed. Goddamn, she was adorable.

"Do you hate me now?" I ask her, laying my arm across her waist.

She remained to say nothing now.

"So you're going to stay in my room just to show me how much you hate me?" I ask, actually laughing at her cuteness and stubborness.

She kept ignoring me.

I stand up now. "Well, okay," I say. "Guess I'll just have to find another girlfriend who won't ignore me. The relationship was fun while it lasted," I joke, creeping a small evil smirk on my face.

"No!" Libra says, quickly.

I laugh at her and sit back down, facing her cute pouty face. "Look who stopped ignoring me," I say, laying back on the bed and turning to my side to properly face her. 

She turned to her side to properly face me too just to give me a mean look, knowing that she finally spoke to me again.

"Stop giving me that face," I say, pointing her her face now.

I knew I shouldn't have said that. That was only going to get her to keep doing it, considering that she didn't like being told what to do. Maybe she does it just to mess with me too.

I grab her arm and lean her closer to me and turned both of us over so that she was straddling me. I see a small smile form on her lips. She didn't want me to see it, but I did. She wanted to keep acting like she was mad at me, and we both knew that wasn't it.

I sat up to peck her perfect lips another time, causing her to smile down at me. "Now get ready for training," I tell her with a grin.

Her smile faded, and she groaned again as she got off me. She was standing next to my bed now. "Fine," she says. I could tell there was a slight tone of anger and disappointment in her tone.

She went over to open the door to leave my room.

"I love you, Libby," I smirk, calling her by the nickname Leo always call her. It was funny to me at how much that annoyed her.

She rolled her eyes at me. "I love you too," she says, giving me a last smile and walking out of my room. She closed the door now, and I could hear her footsteps walk towards her room.

I lie back down in my bed, getting my covers wet from my damp hair.

Goddamn, I'm so fucking in love with her.

°°°

During training today, Lupus was more than serious when she said today was going to be harder. Nobody told her about us keeping Sag and Aqua away from Ophiuchus, and I don't think any of us are planning to. It's not like we can do anything about it right now.

Again, it's a rainy day. I didn't know when it'll stop raining, but it didn't mind me. Rain was more of an enemy to the Fire Signs. Or more like the Fire Signs just hate getting wet. Sure, they'll swim or do whatever, but only when they're having fun. They find fun in seriously anything except for rain.

I look over to Aries and Leo shivvering as Acella was yelling at them. Both of them soaken wet and their brown hair dripping raindropd to their eyes.

The Air Signs were listening to Corvus talk. He seems really energetic as he was teaching the three of them. I kind of didn't like him. I knew Libra wasn't checking him out like Aqua and Gem were, but I don't trust that he will most likely find a way to talk to Libra about anything. Not that I'm jealous. Just protective.

Libra has her hands on her hips as she was listening to Corvus speak. Aqua and Gemini were trying their best to listen, but drooling at the movement of his lips. I wanted to laugh.

The Water Signs were sitting on the floor, doing some type of yoga. Since Pisces wasn't there, it seemed like Scorpio needed more help from Esther. I could tell that he liked the way Esther would touch his shoulder.

Don't get me wrong, Scorpio has always been a dick. He just wasn't as... confident than before we moved here. He used to always be so quiet yet sarcastic, and now he won't shut the fuck up with his pessimistic comments here and there. It just expands his personality of being a complete asshole.

Cancer, on the other hand, has always been kind of quiet. The only time she would talk was when she needed to which was why I liked her. She never took shit from anybody, yet would never start an argument with anybody else. Makes me wonder why she's so in love with Scorpio.

"Goat! I said listen!" a deep, raspy voice yelled.

My head quickly whipped to Cygnus standing in front of me. Right in front of me. He was so close to me I could feel the raindrops hitting the top of his head splash onto me. I guess I got distracted. I can hear Taurus laughing a bit.

"You heard what I said?" Cygnus asks me.

I blinked a couple of times. "Y-yeah," I lied.

Cygnus stared at me dead in my eyes. I usually didn't get yelled at when I was training, and that was because I prevent that from happening. It was usally Virgo who would complain or Taurus who just refused to exercise.

"Okay, then," Cygnus says, walking away from me now. "Taurus," he says, facing the bull who finally stopped laughing at me. "You first."

Taurus groaned. "Now? I was thinking that maybe if I could just have a little snack to motivate me first or-"

"Go!" Cygnus yells.

"Okay, okay!!!" Taurus says, shaking his hands then putting them out in front of him.

And this is when the hard part begins.