RAVEN ROLLED HER EYES SLIGHTLY whilst throwing her head back as she waited in the long line in the cafeteria. "I think I prefer getting my ass kicked rather than waiting in line for food at school." Raven muttered.

Juanita chuckled softly, "You're so impatient." She stated with a shake of her head.

"Only for food." Raven shrugged as she silently thanked the line to start moving. She picked out her food as Juanita did the same. "Where's Nat?" She asked, taking notice that Natalie wasn't behind them.

"Oh, yeah. Uh, Liz asked her to help her out with some homecoming committee stuff." Juanita shrugged as the both finished getting their food and tried to find an empty table.

"We have a homecoming dance?" Raven asked as she took a seat at a somewhat empty table whilst Juanita took a seat in front of her.

Juanita nodded with a confused look etched on her face, "Uh... Yeah? Every school most likely has a homecoming dance."

"I thought that had already passed." Raven shook her head, "I'm losing track of days." She mumbled before eating a veggie straw.

"Aw, Natalie looks so short next to Liz." Juanita coos, causing Raven to turn around and look at Natalie and Liz's height difference.

Raven scrunched her nose up, "Juanita, your gay is showing." She teases as she turned back around to face her best friend.

Juanita scoffs playfully whilst throwing a veggie straw at her, "Shut up." She smiled.

"I think it's cute." Raven's head tilted slightly with a soft smile.

"Whatcha talking about?" Natalie asked as she sat down next to Juanita, startling them both.

Juanita stuttered with a timid smile, "Nothing really important." She brushed off Natalie's question off.

Natalie's eyes narrowed at her response before slowly nodding, "Okay... well, I have decathlon practice after school." She told them before taking a bite of her sandwich.

"Why do you go to those practices if you don't really need to be there?" Raven asked as she started to eat her sandwich as well.

Natalie shrugged, "It's sort of required, I guess? I mean, like, I know the material like the back of my hand, so I just sit in the corner with MJ."

Juanita nodded, "Don't forget that we have to do some patrolling after school." She said quietly.

"Yeah, I know." Natalie nodded in response.

"Natalie, Liz wants you at our table." MJ said nonchalantly, her eyes glued to the book she was reading.

Natalie inwardly sighed, "Guess that's my cue." She said, throwing away her trash and placing her lunch tray back on one of the portable shelves before she sat at the table where a few of the decathlon team sat at.

"It's a week before nationals, we don't have anyone as strong as you in physics."

"You got Flash."

"Yeah, you got me."

Natalie scoffed lightly, "That's a joke, right? You do know that everyone prefers Peter over you."

"Right." Ned nodded, answering Natalie's rhetorical question as she glanced over at Ned.

"Look, they're not gonna do a physics challenge two years in a row." Peter shook his head toward Liz whilst getting up as she gave him a pleading look to stay. "I gotta go." He apologized as the team started to simultaneously plead out in disbelief whilst Flash threw stuff at him.

Natalie rolled her eyes whilst shaking her head as she watched Liz chase after him. "What's his deal?" She asked MJ as she rested her chin against the palm of her hand.

MJ shrugged, "Not sure, quitting seems to be his thing lately." She answered softly.

Natalie sighed as the bell rang, "Great. Save me a seat?" She stood up, slinging her backpack over her shoulder as she gave MJ a small smile. MJ nodded before Natalie left the cafeteria and made her way to her locker. She stuffed her backpack into her locker, shutting it with a small huff.

Juanita huffed as she sat on the bleachers, taking a sip out of her water bottle. Her eyes narrowed at her surroundings, her gaze now trained on her coach and how he was telling her teammates to pass the ball and stop hogging it for themselves. "Selfish little pricks." She mumbled to herself before going on her phone, noticing a few texts from the Angels' group chat.

GROUP CHAT
"holy trinity"
juanita . . . nani 🦦
natalie . . . nat 👶🏼
raven . . . ray ☀️

nat 👶🏼
guys

nat 👶🏼
gUYS

nat 👶🏼
angels meeting

nat 👶🏼
angels meeting NOW

ray ☀️
what is it now?

nat 👶🏼
JUST MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM IN
FIVE

nat 👶🏼
NANI GET UR ASS OVER HERE

nani 🦦
shit sorry

nani 🦦
i was in the middle of practice, i'll
be there in a few

Juanita shoved her phone in her backpack, heading her way to the bathroom for the secret meeting that Natalie called for. For what reason? No one knows, but Natalie. Once Juanita made it to the girls bathroom, she was met with a frantic Natalie and a slightly annoyed Raven. Juanita's face was scrunched up in utter confusion. "What's going on?"

"Natalie found something out and now she's freaking herself out about it." Raven shrugged, eyeing the dramatic girl who was now pacing back and forth.

"Natalie, look at me." Juanita said softly before dropping her bag on the floor and placed her hands on the bright emerald eyed girl's shoulders. "What's the matter." She asked gently.

Natalie took a deep breath, her eyes looking into Juanita's soft brown ones. "During decathlon practice, uh, we were going over the possible questions that they might ask us y'know," She said, her voice almost shaky. "And uh, before that Peter was talking about quitting the team at lunch. So we all figured that he wasn't gonna show up to practice." She sighed whilst shaking her head as she remembered how it all went down earlier. "But he shows up anyway to talk to Mr. Harrington about how he doesn't have time for decathlon-"

"Okay, but what does that have to do with anything?" Raven spoke up, her arms crossed. "Like, was all this necessary for a 'meeting'?" She asked causing Natalie to roll her eyes and give her a death glare.

"I was getting to the point, Ray." Natalie spat softly before sighing and walking toward the sink, hiking herself up on it. "Anyways, he was telling Mr. Harrington that he doesn't have time to be apart of the decathlon team because he had some sort of internship with Mr. Stark." She said as the other girls gave her a deadpanned look. She rolled her eyes once more, "Don't you guys get it? Peter works for Tony, do you know what that means?" She exasperated.

Juanita and Raven both shared a look, "Not really?" Juanita said apologetically with a timid smile.

Natalie groaned, "What if Tony recruited him? What if he's better than us? What if Tony forgets about us because he favors him more than us?" She listed, her voice dripping with panic and her hands shaking at the thought.

"Hey, hey. That's not gonna happen." Raven spoke up softly squeezing her hand reassuringly, Juanita following suit.

"She's right. Tony loves us and he's too proud of us to give us up." Juanita smiled softly, resting her head on Natalie's shoulder. "If anything, Peter might be doing some sort of engineering things to help Tony make us some more gadgets. You may never know." She shrugged as Raven agreed.

Natalie nodded, letting out a long sigh. "Yeah, you're probably right. We shouldn't worry about him, right?" She asked softly.

"No. It would be a waste of time to worry about nothing." Raven pointed out, motioning Natalie to jump off the sink. She pulled the girls in for a reassuring hug, mostly for Natalie, "Let's go before we get in trouble." She chuckled slightly, pulling away from the hug as they all agreed.

『 LILLS SPEAKS! 』

so that happened . . .
also the meaning behind their nicknames
and emojis -
natalie loves giving people who she cares
about nicknames and she'll only call them
by their nickname.

natalie calls juanita, nani, bc she finds the
name cute and she also finds juanita the
mama bear of the group and super
cuddly so '🦦' fits her very well.

natalie calls raven, ray, bc despite how she
comes off all hard and tough or cold and scary
like an actual raven bird, she's actually a
ray of sunshine to the people closest to her so
'☀️' fits her and raven only lets natalie call
her that.

juanita and raven aren't big on nicknames, but
they call natalie, nat, also they gave her '👶🏼'
bc she's literally the baby of the group and
they'll proctect her and love her at all cost.