Worried
The next morning, Adryn woke up at exactly 7 am when her internal alarm went off. Her eyes shot open and she sat up in bed. She wasn't sure of much, due to her just being awake, but she was sure that she was hungry. So, she got ready for the day and headed downstairs to the kitchen. She groggily realized that there was another human in the kitchen, in the form of Reiji. As Adryn's eyes adjusted to the brightness of the kitchen, she realized that the cubs were there as well.
"Good morning, Reiji, and girls." Reiji must not have noticed Adryn enter the room, because he jumped in his seat and nearly began choking on the cereal he was eating. "Oh, my bad, you okay?" Adryn questioned as Reiji began to cough. After a concerning moment, Reiji nodded his head.
"Good morning," Reiji responded as he set down the spoon in his hand. The cubs took a moment to look back at Reiji before they headed over to where Adryn was.
"Hey girls. I hope you didn't break anything last night." Adryn reached down to pet the growing cubs causing them to nudge against her hand and rub against her legs. "So, how did you sleep in an unfamiliar bed?"
"I slept just fine. I was out as soon as my head hit the pillow." Reiji replied with a smile. "Why not sit down so we can talk a little about our first song?"
"Alright." Adryn agreed as she patted the cubs' heads and made her way past them. Reiji was seated at the island where there were 3 seats. So, Adryn took the one furthest from the man.
"So, I think I'd want our song to be an upbeat and happy sounding song." Reiji finally spoke up after a few moments so munching on cereal.
"Hmm. Well, I'd prefer a slower song that's definitely emotional." Adryn retorted as she frowned.
"What types of songs do you usually write?"
"I usually write about heartbreak or something dark and depressing, with a hint of happiness thrown in there as well." Adryn then thought about it for a moment before speaking again. "I love songs with a story to them and I always try to get some message across through my music, the lyrics, or the actual music that goes along with them."
"Oh, do you play an instrument?" Reiji was now curious about the girl, causing her to feel a little shy.
"Uh, yeah. I know how to play the guitar and sometimes do our songs. I have a few in my room."
"That's cool, can I see them?"
"Oh, um, sure. Finish up eating and I'll get a drink, then we can go to my room." Adryn hopped down from the seat she was on and made her way to the refrigerator to pour a glass of milk before pouring in some chocolate mix to turn it into chocolate milk. The two then finished up their breakfasts in silence before leaving the kitchen. Adryn led Reiji to her room and then hesitantly opened the door. This would be the first guy in her room, and it made Adryn a little nervous. She just hoped that she didn't have anything out in the open that she didn't want anyone to see.
"Oh cool, you have them hanging on your wall." Reiji walked into her room without a care in the world. He made his way to the first guitar, an electric guitar, specifically a Fender Player Stratocaster – Tidepool. The second one was an Epiphone Limited Edition SG Special-I Electric Guitar Pelham Blue. The final one was an Epiphone PRO-1 Ultra Acoustic-Electric Guitar Transparent Blue.
"I want others, but I can't decide which ones I want," Adryn admitted as she walked over to Reiji. He was admiring them but then looked paused to look around Adryn's room.
"You must really love blue, right?" Hearing Reiji's question that caused Adryn to chuckle.
"Yeah, blue is one of my favorite colors. Along with green, black, red, white, and gold." Adryn explained simply with a smile on her face. Reiji nodded his head as he looked around her room. The walls and ceilings were all painted a dark blue with stars and planets painted around the room. The stars were mostly blue with some red, white, and gold while the planets were the actual planets in the solar system.
"I also can assume that you love wolves?" Reiji looked to Adryn's bed and saw that there was a blanket on it of a white wolf howling at the moon. The background was all black and magical looking with sparkles and such.
"I love wolves and cats, but mostly cats as I grew up with a bunch of cats and have loved them my whole life." Before Reiji could open his mouth to respond, Adryn's door flew open. There stood a confused but smirking Shiori.
"Oh wow, this is the first time I've ever heard you talk about yourself or your past. You never talk about yourself or your past, not even in interviews. So, what are your cats' names from your childhood, I want to know, okay?" Shiori was still smirking and it was audible in her voice. She was feeling very arrogant for some reason, and it only served to annoy Adryn.
"Why are you in my room?" Adryn responded, completely ignoring the other girl's questions.
"I heard voices and wanted to make sure that nothing weird was going on." Shiori then looked around Adryn's room and her smirk widened. "Your room is so childish."
"Get out," Adryn demanded instantly. Adryn then shooed Shiori out of her room and closed the door, very literally in Shiori's face. Shiori's muffled swearing could be heard from the other side of the door, but Adryn ignored it. "I'm sorry about her interrupting."
"Why don't you talk about yourself or your past?" Reiji questioned as he walked over to the girl.
"I don't talk about my past, no matter who asks because I don't like to be reminded of it all. I don't like to think about all that I left behind or all that happened before I left America for Korea." Adryn then sighed and looked down at her feet before looking back to Reiji. "I also only talk about my past issues with Eclipse or Nova. Since they already know about everything, but don't get me wrong, I would tell someone if they became an irreplaceable person in my life, but that hasn't happened yet, so I haven't told anyone else."
"I completely understand your reasons, as I have had some things in my past that I also don't wish to speak about," Reiji replied simply as he nodded his head. Adryn was tempted to ask but ultimately chose not to. Surprisingly, they were interrupted by scratching on the door. So, Adryn opened the door to see her cub, Serenity out there looking up at her hopefully.
"Oh, it looks like the others are waking up as well. We should probably head down to the kitchen where everyone else is probably going to be."
"Alright, sounds good." Reiji then followed Adryn down the stairs and into the right wing, but Adryn paused to tell Reiji that she was going to feed Serenity and Precious, so he could go ahead to the kitchen without her. He agreed and they parted ways. So, Adryn headed into the cubs' room only to see Eclipse standing there feeding Precious.
"Good morning, Adryn, Serenity," Eclipse spoke up when she heard her best friend enter the room.
"Hey. I didn't expect to see you up already." Adryn responded simply as she went to feed Serenity, who was at Adryn's feet begging for food, even though she wasn't actually hungry.
"I heard you and Reiji talking in your room and it interested me, so I woke up fully."
"Oh really?" Adryn couldn't help but laugh at her friend's reasoning.
"I wasn't able to hear everything you two spoke of, soo, tell me what went on."
"Nothing went on. He wanted to see my guitars, so I showed him them. We also talked about what my favorite colors were and how I liked cats and wolves. Then Shiori interrupted us followed by Serenity interrupting us." Adryn explained in the simplest way sh could.
"Why were you so willing to show Reiji your room, what about all of the QUARTET NIGHT stuff you have?"
"I took down all the posters and hid everything else. I did all that when we were told they were coming to live with us. You know, just in case any of them saw my room when the door was opened or something." Hearing Adryn's explanation, Eclipse couldn't help but chuckle at her friend. Adryn smiled back at Eclipse, only for it to fall into a frown as she grabbed at her head.
"You alright?" Eclipse was nervous suddenly, as she approached the redhead.
"I'm fine. I'll just go take something for this headache that just suddenly came on." Adryn replied simply as she finished up her feeding of Serenity. She then left the room while Eclipse headed to the kitchen. Adryn had special headache pills in her room to take whenever she got a headache.
Once Adryn was done taking her headache pills, she made her way back down to the right wing, specifically the kitchen. As soon as she was in the kitchen, Adryn saw the cooks, Reiji, Camus, Shiori, and Nova all cooking. Eclipse was setting the table while Ranmaru and Ai were just chilling at the table. They were moving the plates around every so often to get them where Eclipse tells them to put them, so they were doing something. So, Adryn decided to head to the counter to watch the cooks make the food.
"This silence is weird, we should talk about something," Nova suggested from her place at the stove.
"Let's talk about our hobbies." Eclipse replied, causing Nova to nod her head enthusiastically. "I'll start." With no one complaining, Eclipse began. "I am an artist. I draw people and outfits that I'd like to make one day. Sometimes, when inspiration hits, I write my stories."
"I am a painter of landscapes and I'm thinking about moving to people as well. I also write songs, music and lyrics." Nova spoke up right after her sister.
"Oh, I totally forgot that I write songs as well, both the music and lyrics like Nova and Adryn," Eclipse mentioned before the next person could talk.
"Oh, that's cool," Reiji responded as he paused to take in what the two girls had said.
"My turn. I like to take photos, mostly of my surroundings." Shiori stated proudly as if it was some accomplishment or
something.
"You mean that you take photos of yourself," Adryn smirked at the blonde, who instantly paused in what she was doing to glare at Adryn.
"Piss off, redhead." Shiori's words were harsh and final, but Adryn just ignored her and began to talk about herself.
"I'm a writer of stories and songs like Eclipse mentioned. I love to watch anime and read manga most of all though."
"You're an otaku freak, you know that right?" Shiori snapped instantly, but she didn't get the reaction she thought she would. Adryn just smiled at her and nodded her head.
"Damn right I am, and I'm proud to be an 'otaku freak'." Hearing Adryn feel so proud of her weirdness, Reiji couldn't help but smile.
"I guess it's my turn now." Reiji began with a smile still on his face. "My hobby is driving my car around, especially when the weather is nice out." When none of his group-mates spoke up next, he looked to Ai.
"My hobbies are people watching and gathering data on things I don't quite understand." Ai finally spoke up due to a look that Reiji had given him.
"Ran-Ran?"
"My hobby is napping, especially when it's rainy out. The rain is soothing." Ranmaru explained simply. He didn't want to participate honestly. Reiji nodded his head and then looked to Camus. The man sighed and began to speak.
"My hobby is riding my horse." Camus reluctantly stated. That for some reason caused Shiori to burst into laughter. Everyone began to look at her in question and she finally spoke up after a moment of recollecting herself.
"That makes you sound so pretentious." To Shiori's words, Camus frowned and glared at her. However, it was Adryn who spoke up next.
"Stop trying to pick a fight with Camus. You're being obnoxious." Adryn snapped at the blonde girl. Shiori was taken aback for a moment before she responded.
"Mind your own damn business!"
"This is literally my home, and these are my guests. Whatever happens in my home to my guests is most definitely my business, and trying to start a fight with one of my guests is obviously not going over well with me."
"Shiori, you are the one out of line and you need to stop," Eclipse spoke up as Shiori was gearing up to say something else to Adryn.
"Piss of, Eclipse." Shiori snapped immediately, which caused Precious, who'd entered a little bit ago to start to growl at the blonde girl.
"Now, now. Everyone should get along and not fight with each other." Reiji spoke up, bringing himself into the conversation.
"How about you mind your own business?" Shiori responded in a bitchy way. That instantly re-triggered Adryn. "I won't get along with Adryn for as long as I live."
"Then die." Adryn's harsh and angry words cut through everyone and caused silence to fall upon the group. Shiori was clearly shocked at that, but she slowly grew angry and then finally responded.
"Do everyone a favor, and succumb to your mental illness and kill yourself." Shiori's words to Adryn infuriated the redhead. So, Adryn hopped down from the seat she was on and made a move towards the blonde, but before she could get anywhere, Eclipse and Nova stepped in front of the two girls. As Shiori was now approaching Adryn as well.
"Nothing gives you the right to tell another person, no matter who it is, to kill themselves." Eclipse snapped at Shiori as she protectively stood in front of Adryn. The redhead then suddenly got an overwhelming sense of nausea. Which caused Adryn to put a hand to her mouth as she held back the sickness. Before anyone could say anything, Adryn was out of the room and heading elsewhere.
"What just happened?" Shiori questioned curiously as she watched Eclipse run out of the room after the redhead. The guys in the room as well were wondering what just happened. "Was she that upset that I told her to kill herself?"
"It isn't any of your business." Nova instantly stated to the other girl. Nova then sighed and began to go back to what she was doing before the fight went down. This seemed to confuse the members of QUARTET NIGHT.
"Is Adryn going to be alright?" Reiji questioned, as he looked towards the door that the redhead and the pink-haired girl had run out of.
"Um... Adryn will be alright." The tone of voice Nova used seemed to make the situation worse. She didn't sound too confident in her own words. Even so, Reiji didn't say anything else. He just looked to his group mates and frowned at them. He could see on their faces that they were just as confused as Reiji was, but no one decided to say anything more about it. "Look Reiji, it's alright, so let's just get back to cooking, and whatever the others were doing."
"Alright, sure." Reiji was back to smiling, even though he was a little hesitant to do so. He didn't show it, but the words that Shiori had said to Adryn had upset him as well.
Eventually, the food was done and Nova had called to Eclipse and Adryn on the intercom of the house. They took their time returning to the kitchen, but soon, Eclipse entered the room.
"Where is Adryn?" Shiori questioned as she set the food down on the table that was now set and ready for the group.
"She will eat later." Eclipse simply explained as she sat down next to Ai.
"Is she alright?" Reiji voiced his concern once again. Eclipse just smiled at him as she responded.
"Don't worry, she just has a migraine and isn't feeling too well. She's laying down in her room with Serenity." Reiji had to take Eclipse's words as truth and said no more. He sat down at the table then, followed by the others who weren't already seated. It seemed like nothing was wrong with the others, but for some reason, Reiji was greatly worried about Adryn. He had a lot of questions that he wanted to be answered, but he knew that he'd have to wait to get those answers until later. He just hoped that when he asked his questions, Adryn would be forthcoming and honest with him. He wanted to be her friend and wanted her to know that he would be there for her.
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