Aries' pov

I think it was around two-ish when I woke up another time – all due to a certain person having the annoying habit to sleep talk during my rest. It took me a moment to realize it most likely was Taurus through that damn hole, because let's be honest, even Gemini can't sleep talk that loud.

'Ugh, I want to punch him so bad right now,' I muttered to myself and rolled over to the other side of my covers, which unfortunately didn't help to muffle the sounds coming from the other room. I decided that falling asleep would be almost impossible, and since I was now fully awake I pushed myself up and slowly made my way over to the kitchen, to get some of the left food Gem had stolen from the neighbors some days ago.

When I returned to my room with some pudding combined with chocolate sprinkles, I noticed the soft talking about clocks and more pizzetthi had stopped, and it was awfully silent as I sat down on my bed, leaned back and took a spoon full of my strawberry pudding – although, it was silent until the next thing he said.

'Aries.'

I tried to swallow the pink mush as quiet as possible, and I slowly stood up. 'Yeah?' Nothing but silence came as an answer. I frowned to myself and carefully sat down in front of the slightly bigger hole. 'Dude, you just said my name at night. Tell me your problem or I'll go back to sleep again.'

'Aries...'

My eyebrows furrowed themselves again, while I leaned almost into the hole, trying to look through it, when realization hit me. 'Oh, gosh... this better not be what I think it is,' I mumbled to myself, and as I tried to ignore my thoughts, I got up and kicked the wall just above the already created hole. A crack appeared, followed by another crack, before a small piece of wall came down and formed an even bigger hole – almost big enough for a normal person to crawl through. Boy, was I glad I was even smaller than a normal person.

I put my arms through the hole, feeling around for any possible furniture. I reached down to put both my hands on Taurus' floor – or at least, it was a piece of clothing on the floor. I quickly threw it away before I could realize what it was.

My arms pulled the rest of my body further through the small hole and when one of my legs got stuck for a moment, I thought I might have underestimated my height, but, luckily for me, I was still tiny as ever, and soon I was laying on the cold floor on the other side of the wall.

I heard Taurus mutter another soft "Aries" followed by a giggle. It made me cringe, and I groaned. 'You're disgusting, you giant piece of shit. Time to wake you up, to my opinion.'

I waited a few seconds before I got up from the floor – my eyes had gotten used to the darkness quickly and I could now slightly see the contours of his bed – and as soon as I stood on my two legs again, I kicked the side of his bed.

Taurus jolted up and frantically started looking around, and as soon as his eyes caught onto me, he frowned and immediately pulled up the covers, covering up his bare torso. 'W-What the actual fudge? W-What are you doing in my room? A-Am I still dreaming?'

'Well, I highly doubt anything in your dream will come true now,' I stated, at which his frown only turned bigger. 'What –' 'You're a sleep talker, mate. I could hear you in my room, try to be some more silent during your sleep, so I won't have to guess what dream you're having.'

'Shit,' Taurus stated and rubbed his hands over his eyes. 'Just when I thought Sag was the only one who had sleeping problems.' 'Looks like you're a pretty messed up family,' I said, and we both chuckled at that. 'Yeah... but, seriously though,' he went on. 'How did you get in my room?'

I made a vague gesture over to the hole, reminding me of something else. 'So, hey... you were acting pretty weird about the hole thingy last night. Do you... know something?' I asked him, but I only got a simple shrug back.

'Perhaps I do. Why do you care?'

'Because there's a freaking hole in my wall and I wanna know the cause of it, you... giant,' I snapped back, and Taurus frowned again, though this time, it was a bit of a playful frown. 'Oh, we're calling me giant now? Really?'

'Actually, it's just me calling you that, but if you feel like you should introduce yourself that way too –' I started, but he interrupted me by shaking his head. 'Nah. You know what; why don't you call me a normal curse word, then you can crawl back to your side of this wall, I'll put up a poster or something to cover it and we can both have a good night?'

'Or,' I reacted, making Taurus sigh, but I went on anyway: 'or, why don't you just admit you kicked that damn wall, so that I can pull the reason why out of you and make you feel guilty for doing it?' 'Believe me, it would be so much better if we did the first thing, so how about you start by calling me a real curse word,' he disagreed, and sat up a bit more.

I rolled back my eyes – always a bad sign, as it meant I was getting pretty annoyed – and shook my head. 'I'm not gonna curse you, I think the word "giant" suits you quite right.' He narrowed his eyes, but in a good way (if you know what I mean – if not, I'm sorry, I can't really explain it. Just complain in the comments and I'll get back to it to you). 'What's going on?' he asked me, and now it was my turn to frown.

'Excuse me?'

'I already told you twice to call me a curse, and you didn't do it. Now, I may not live here for too long, but I do believe there's something going on when you don't call someone a curse word when you get the chance,' said Taurus, with a weird gleam in his eyes.

It was as if I just realized the same – why hadn't I called him differently? I could easily call him a jerk, or an asshole, or a... clod?

But somewhere inside of me, I very well knew why I didn't do that.

I quickly shook my head and let my messy, long hair be all over the place for a few seconds. 'Alright, you're changing the subject. Can we just get back to the phase where I was asking you if you knew something about the freaking hole?' 'You really have a thing for the word freaking, don't you?' Taurus stated, but I wasn't falling for that. Not again.

'You're ignoring my question,' I pointed him at, at which he retreated with: 'Perhaps that is because I don't know the answer to it.'

'I'm very positive you do know, so tell me.'

'Hey, I'm just telling you what I know about it.'

'No, you're not. Just tell me the damn answer already.'

'I told you, I don't know.'

'Yes, you do!'

'I don't!'

'You do!'

'I don't!'

'You very well do!' I yelled. I couldn't care if anyone would wake at my words, in fact, that was my least problem right now. 'I know you know, and, you know what? I also know that you won't tell me because you're too afraid to; because you're too scared to see anyone's reaction to the reason that's behind the cause of the hole, and you just want to keep it hidden until I eventually find out and tell everyone and –'

'Alright! It was me, okay? Can you stop being such a bloodhound about this?' Taurus shouted, sitting up completely which made him still a bit taller than I was, even though I was standing.

We were both silenced down by it, until my curiosity got the better of me.

'Why?'

It didn't change the silence in the room, neither did it change the expression on Taurus' face; it was just a regular expression, which perhaps frightened me more than anything right now. Perhaps it was because we both knew that I already knew the reason. I didn't want to admit it, but I knew the reason behind the hole.

And I was guilty of the same reason.

Taurus gazed away from me and I noticed his eyes narrowed in the same good way they did some minutes ago. 'I'd think you were a fool if you didn't know.'

I wanted to say something, to break the silence, to do something to make it less uncomfortable, but someone else broke the silence before I could.

'Aries?'

We both froze for a couple of seconds. My sister's voice called me again, and after a minute or so, I slowly turned around. 'I'm... I'm here, Gemini.' I gazed back over at Taurus one more time, but he looked away and so, I kneeled down and crawled back to my own room, where Gemini was staring at me with a weird, almost worried looking expression. 'Are you okay? You said my full name instead of Gem,' she stated, and I quickly nodded. 'Yeah...'

My thoughts went back to a few seconds ago as my heart flustered up, while I told my sister another lie. '...I'm fine.'

     Leo's pov

Aquarius' problem with Libra had been upsetting me ever since we had the conversation about it. Now, she was ignoring me and every time I wanted to go over to her place, I noticed the door was locked and when I knocked on it, Capricorn opened and bored me with the story of how his sister was being a whiny bitch.

Luckily, it was Aqua. She wasn't capable of being mad, or upset, or sad, without apologizing to me for it. Just as today; it was around lunch time and I was about to try to talk to her again, when she came up to my apartment.

'Lee? Are you –'

'Yes, I'm in here,' I recalled, and before she even could come over into the living room, I walked into the hallway to see her standing there, a bit hesitating to herself. I smiled softly and hugged her tightly, which she slowly returned. 'Oh, Aqua, darling,' I muttered softly. 'I'm sorry I was being so much of myself, last time.'

'No, it's okay,' she responded and pulled away. 'I... I should have told you.' I smiled again and turned over to the door. 'Well, let's just accept that we were both kind of wrong about things and get some fresh coffee from Virgo, alright?'

'We still have to do something about the fact that he's the only one with a coffee machine,' Aqua said as we walked into the hallway and I was just about to make a smart comment – never mind, scratch the "smart" – but Aqua suddenly stiffed and grabbed my arm to stop me. I soon noticed why this was, as we were now both looking at the new boy, leaning over the railing in the hallway, in front of apartment 23.

Aqua and I exchanged glances before I smiled brightly and walked over to him. He looked up and slightly narrowed his eyes when I stopped in front of him. 'May I introduce myself?' I offered, and knowing very well I'd get a sarcastic response, I quickly continued: 'My name's Leo, and from the things I heard you must be Scorpio, am I correct?'

'Perhaps,' he stated, and narrowed his eyes a bit further. I knew that look; he was trying to find a weak point in my introduction. Luckily, I was known to this, and I calmly went on. 'I'll have to find out, then. I suppose you've met with some other people around here?' 'If you're talking about that extremely tiny, sarcastic leprechaun, then I must inform you that she has failed in trying to make a good introduction. And if you're intending to do the same, let me just warn you; that won't end just well,' he said and turned back to looking out at the view.

I smiled softly to myself. This was just going amazing for me already.

'Ah, I see you're just the next one to hate on miss Tiny Dwarf, although, I wouldn't say she's a miss, more like... well, a dwarf, as I stated,' I simply said, and he turned away back to me after a second or so. 'Does this mean you're not a big group of annoying people who claim to be all friends with each other, only to end up fooling just themselves?' he asked, and I nodded slightly. 'Believe me, you should know. But, for now...'

I had to suppress a grin as it only got better for me. '...I'd like to welcome you over to the better side of this place, and that side exists from me and Aquarius over there.' Aqua hesitatingly waved over to the boy, who I assumed was indeed called Scorpio, but he didn't pay any attention to her and just focused on me. 'Is this "better side" completely against the tiny people I've met already? Because if so...'

He smiled, a soft yet cunning seeming smile, that assured me of him agreeing on my quest. '...if so, count me in on your side.'

I smiled back, trying to form it the same way his lips were curled, but soon enough, he stopped it and started talking again. 'In this case, I'll spill to you; my name indeed is Scorpio. But, I have to go now. A lot of things will have to happen in this disastrous place before I can even call it an apartment. Goodbye, Leo.'

Scorpio gave me a last bit of a smile, before turning around as he disappeared back into apartment 23. Now, I could fully let my grin unleash and I turned back to Aqua, who was smiling too. 'I see what you did there,' she said when I walked back to her. 'Putting up the new boy against the Aries-group. Smart.'

'Oh, yes,' I said and smiled another time. 'Because, I tell you, Aqua my dear, this place will be even better once Aries gets more and more pissed about this Scorpio. And I'm pretty sure he's going to get that just about done.'