Katie pushed through the crowd of men who she would be working with in the future. As they got to the castle, the men pushed her aside thinking she was just a little boy.

 It took all of Shiro's calming skills to stop her from picking a fight with the taller men.

" Fine." Katie said, glaring at the group of men, " but that doesn't mean that I'll treat them nicely."

Shiro sighed in relief and continued pulling both his and Katie's suitcase on the path to the castle.

Maids rushed out to greet them when they arrived and took their suitcases and organized them from shapes and height.

The men were told that they would be assigned to a room with a few other people that would be their group for patrol and practice for the rest of the year.

Katie crossed her fingers to be grouped with Shiro but when she walked into the room, she would be staying in, she was met with another familiar face which was not Shiro.

" Oh what a surprise," Lance said, his almost cat-like pupils fixed on her, " It's you!"

Katie was sad that she wasn't in the same group as Shiro but was a bit happy to see a familiar face.

" Where are the other men?" She asked and Lance replied almost immediately with a lazy grin,

" They're in the bedrooms unpacking." 

Without another word, Katie dragged her suitcase with her to see the rooms. There were 3 bedrooms with 2 beds in each.

The 1st bedroom had a muscular man with a dark look and a lively looking man with pale features. They didn't seem to notice Katie peeking in.

The next room had good looking twins with dark auburn hair and bored gray eyes sharing. They both glanced at her as she quickly looked in and passed by.

The last room had just an empty suitcase which Katie figured was Lance's and an available bed on the other side of the room for her.

'Better than nothing.' She thought and started unpacking on her side of the room.

                                                           ***

After she was done unpacking, Lance called her to the living room to be introduced to the other men who she would be grouped with starting tomorrow.

The muscular man pretty much grumbled and growled when he introduced himself as just Hunter and that he was 24.

The lively man introduced himself as Nickolas and included the fact that he was 21.

The twins were 19 and their names, according to them, were Mark and Theo short for Marcus and Theodore.

Lance told his name and age, which was about to be 19, to everyone proudly.

All their eyes turned to Katie at last and she gulped, forcing a smile as she spoke,

" I'm Pidge Gunderson and I'm about to be 17."