I woke up in the morning, my room almost dark because it was around five in the morning. I sat up, stretching. I looked around at my room, a few artifacts of clothing and what-not on the floor. Skye was sprawled out at the foot of the bed, his body much bigger already. His white fur moved up and down as he breathed, his chest rising and then falling.

I reached out and pet him, scratching his belly, he woke up and lifted his head, looking at me. He already resembled an adult, a little smaller, which I was thankful for because I could still manage to pick him up to snuggle him. He stood on the bed, arching his back and yawning, which caused me to yawn, and then he came over and rested his head in my hands.

I looked into his big blue eyes, my thumbs petting his face. It had been a week since I started speaking, and I had found that I liked talking, but I stayed quiet a lot. It was as if I had developed a habit of staying more in the background. The boys had all come to me about two days after I was speaking, and confronted me about the issue. They said that they would like to continue dating me, if it was okay. I had said that I should be the one asking the question, and then we'd gone and gotten ice cream, even though it had been nearly thirty degrees outside.

"Come on, Skye." I said to the dog, and I got out of bed. He jumped out too, his head reaching to about my hip. When had he gotten so big? Huskies grew fast or something? I walked to my closet and pulled out a pair of blue jeans and a belt, sighing. I kind of wished that I could just stay in my pajamas, aka a big t-shirt and my underwear. I pulled the jeans on and fastened the belt, slipping on a pair of socks. I looked through my shirts, glancing at all of them. I reached in and pulled out a long sleeved white one, and pulled it over my head. I looked down at myself and shrugged.

I walked with Skye to the kitchen and opened the fridge, pulling out Skye's food and putting it on the floor. He ate away as I started making my lunch, a simple bento box with rice and extra Indian food from what Tsubaki had brought over when James informed her I wasn't eating very much. It wasn't that I was doing it on purpose, it was just that I forgot, or I was just not hungry, maybe making something, and then just feeding it to Skye as his dinner.

I did eat breakfast and lunch, always small things, but it didn't really matter. I set the lunch bento on the counter and sighed, looking around as Skye finished his food. "Breakfast..." I mumbled to myself, closing my eyes and running a hand on the back of my neck. Skye pawed my leg and I nodded, pulling an orange from the counter and peeled it. I threw the outside away, and started eating the pieces. Skye was sitting, looking up at me, and I peeled a slice off, feeding it to the dog. He chomped it, and I laughed as he chewed, getting him another slice. He'd eat anything.

I went to the door, not bothering to put a leash on Skye. Since my voice had come back, he'd just become more intent on listening to me, and I found that I didn't really need a leash for him anymore. I stuck it in my jackets pocket anyways. There was a crabby old lady who had been yelling at me to put a leash on my dog. I pulled my jacket on, holding onto the ends of my sleeves so they wouldn't roll up in the sleeves of the jacket. The warm fabric of it rested on my shoulders, and I sighed. I leaned down and pulled my converse on, their white material nice.

We walked out of the apartment, no other students awake at this point. I started walking with Skye down the hallway, the two of us almost silent in the quiet of the morning. I always woke up around five in the morning and fed Skye, ate something, made lunch, got dressed, and then spent the rest of the time before school out in death city with Skye.

We got to the front of the school and I shivered a little, the city still almost completely dark. We started walking down the stairs, Skye's white paws going down each step at a time. I wondered how he didn't get dirty all the time, his white coat stark in the mornings darkness. When we got to the bottom of the stairs, I looked at my phone. It was five thirty, the time we always were down the steps. The coffee shops in death city opened early, because of the Academy, and the one that Skye and I usually went to would be open soon.

We walked down the silent streets of Death City. I looked about, seeing no one. I was used to it being silent, and I liked it. We reached the fountain in the middle of one of the parts of the city, and Skye and I sat down. Skye jumped up on the ledge of the fountain, laying down on the large slab on concrete, and I laid my head on his stomach, the big dog working nicely as a pillow. I sighed and closed my eyes.

My phone buzzed with a call a few minutes later, and I sighed, pulling it out of my coats pocket and looking at the screen. It was five forty-five now, and I sighed, answering the call from Kid. "Hello?" I said into the phone.

"(Y/n)!" he said, sounding energetic even though most of our friends practically were falling asleep at this time in the morning, if they were even up yet. "Hey! Where are you? I wanted to get breakfast together." He said.

I looked at the fountain, the water getting colorful as the sun started to rise, filling the completely cloudy sky with color. "I'm at the fountain in the Death Bazar." I said. I shifted a little. "But I already ate." I said.

There was a little sound of disappointment from Kid. "Okay. Well would you like to get coffee?" He asked.

"Sure." I said. "Witches Brew in fifteen minutes?" I asked.

"Sounds good." He said.

I hung up a second later and slid my phone back into my pocket, sighing as I enjoyed the silence again. I sighed, hearing the city starting to wake up. Skye let out a little sigh, sitting up, and I sat up, standing. The fog hopped off the ledge and we starting walking. There was still ten minutes until the coffee shops would open, and I sighed, yawning. I probably shouldn't have stayed up so late last night.

I looked up as we reached a store, and I looked inside, seeing someone moving around inside. It took me a moment to realize what store it was. I tapped on the glass, and Nora opened the door to the pet shop. "(Y/n)!" she said. "You need to stop getting up so early, you silly thing." She said.

I smiled a little. She had been one of the first people I'd told about my voice coming back, and she'd been so excited. "Morning, Nora." I said, hugging her back. She let go of me and bent down to Skye, petting the big dog's face lovingly. I looked about the shop, and then heard her three big Dobermans run out from their spot behind the counter to attack me with kisses and pawing my legs. Even though Skye had gotten quite big, the Dobermans still dwarfed him.

"So anything interesting happen lately?" Nora asked, starting to feed all the pets. She'd moved stores, to one with an apartment above it and now she got up earlier, so sometimes I came and said hello in the mornings.

"Not particularly." I said. "I've been going on a few dates." I said. A few may or may not have been an understatement.

She chuckled lowly at me. "Those three boys?" she asked, and I nodded, jumping up and sitting on the counter next to the cash register. She laughed. "Those three used to come into my shop when they were small and look at the animals." She said. "Kid would complain that the cages weren't symmetrical." She said. "Black Star would wrestle these three." She laughed, nodding at the three Dobermans that were horsing around with Skye. "And Soul would just sit in front of the fish tanks in the back of the old store, looking at all my Oscars." She said. "He said that they were cool, at least sixteen times every time he came."

I smiled. "That sounds like them." I said. I sighed with a smile, running a hand through my hair. "They're all really sweet." I said. She smiled silently and continued dishing out the food into little bowls. I got up and started helping her, starting with the snakes. I lifted one of them, a huge gold one, out of its cage and put him about my shoulder. He wrapped around my neck, his head snuggling up to my warm neck. The snake's name was Nixx, and he was about five feet long, and a few inches in diameter.

After a little while, Skye barking at the snake on my neck that I was using as a kind of scarf, I finished and put the large reptile away and pulled my coat on. "I'll see you soon." I said, giving Nora a side hug as she held a little kitten in her left hand, looking at the tiny black thing. She gave me a kiss on the top of my head, and I left, Skye close on my heels.

We walked through the city, and I looked at my phone. I swore a little under my breath when I saw that it was ten after six. I called Kid, waiting for him to answer. "Sorry Kid!" I said, walking quickly. People were walking to school or to breakfast or work, and Skye followed me as I walked down a few streets. "I'm almost there. I'm sorry." I said.

Kid laughed through the phone, and I could hear the busy café in the background. "You're good, (Y/n)." He said. "I got you a late and I have a table." He said.

"Okay. Thank you." I said, and then saw the café, slowing down to catch my breath as I hung up the phone call and slid my phone into my pocket. I put Skye's leash on him, and then walked into the café. The owner knew me, and like Skye, and let the well-trained dog into the shop.

I looked around, a few people looking at me, the regulars waving and petting Skye when I passed them. I saw Kid sitting at a table with... Soul? And Black Star? I walked over, a little confused as I sat in the empty seat next to Soul. "H-hey guys." I said, my voice stuttering a little.

"Is it cold outside?" Black Star asked. He was in just a t-shirt even though it was an especially chilly day today.

I nodded and adjusted the scarf I was wearing now. Nora had insisted I take it when I left, saying it was supposed to get even colder. "A little." I said. After a moment, where I took my coffee from Kid, who smiled, I spoke again. "Why are all of you here?" I asked, laughing at them a little.

"Because," Soul said. "We all needed to ask you something." He said.

I raised my eyebrows at them. "What?" I asked.

"We all wanted to know who you wanted to go to the dance tomorrow night, Friday, with." Kid said.

My mouth opened, and then closed. My cheek heated up and I laughed awkwardly. "There's a dance tomorrow?" I asked sheepishly. Their faces were blank, and then they busted out laughing. My cheeks were red and I crossed my arms. "Sorry! I've never had to think about this kind of stuff!" I said.

"Well?" Kid asked.

I opened my mouth. "I don't know." I said.

"Hey!" a voice said, and I looked up to see Mari making her way over to us, her cheeks bright with cold, and her shimmery blue eyes melting into black for a moment, and then going back to blue. "(Y/n)'s going to the dance with me." She said. I looked up at her gratefully, she had perfect timing with everything, seeing her smug look as the boys blanched, trying to protest. "I have video proof." She said, pulling out her phone. I remembered none of this as she pulled out a video of me on my phone looking at something, and the other girls around us, and she asking me if I'd go to the dance with her so she could piss the boys off. I nodded absently in the video, mumbling 'yes'.

"See?" Mari said.

"I have no memory of this." I said. "But I have to keep my promise." The boy's mouths hung open in disbelief. I shrugged, laughing a little as Mari pulled a chair up, one of the employees walking over with a coffee already made.

She smiled at us, the guys started to talk, but she cut them off. "Oh you guys can't have (Y/n) all to yourself." She smiled at me, and then sipped her coffee. "You guys have been going on a lot of dates lately anyways." She said.

I blushed deeply, and the guys didn't say anything to argue as they all glanced at me. "Will you at least dance with us?" Black Star asked, his large green eyes looking into mine.

"Yeah?" Soul asked.

"Please?" Kid said.

My heart melted a little as they all gave me pleading looks. I looked at Mari, and she just chuckled lowly. "I wouldn't be too apposed to my date leaving me for a few dances with other people." She said. "Although, there may be a few other guys who wanna dance with (Y/n), too." She said.

I looked at her with wide eyes. "There aren't any other guys who—" I said, but she cut me off with a simple shrug.

"You never know." She said. After a few minutes of her talking with the guys, kind of deciding on what kind of dress I should wear (I had no say what so ever) she looked at her phone. "(Y/n) should get going if she's gonna get Skye back to her apartment." She said.

I looked at my phone, and stood. "Crap!" I said quietly. "I need to leave!" I said.

The three guys started to get up, but Mari shook her head, drinking some of her drink. "I need to ask you three something." She said, her shimmering blue eyes almost getting serious. They glanced at me, and then sat back down. I didn't think much of this. Mari always had her reasons, and they were usually right anyway.

I started jogging to the door of the café, and then turned back to my four friends sitting there, Skye being the good dog that he was already next to me, and smiled. "See you guys soon!" I said, and then Skye and I started running to the school. 

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Hey so I may or may not have gotten really lazy while writing this part and just made it a filler chapter because I'm really tired but i still wanted to give all of you a part so yeah sorry not sorry oops

Ima go be sad now because emotions suck chode.

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