⬆️Ashley Masse as Tatiana

It's a double update!

As soon as he had said all of that, they had all looked at one another, then at him again.

"You're scared of going?" Reminisce had repeated.

Josiah nodded.

Hopefully this was a good enough reason to bring them here.

He had been feeling this way since he had gotten accepted into the university in the first place, and he couldn't have shared his problems with anyone.

His brother was too young to understand, his sister was hardly around and his parents had work.

Sighing, he had listened to them talk to each other for a while and they nodded.

They were scared too and they were grateful that he had brought them here, for them to talk about their problems together.

They may not have liked each other at the start but they were slowly starting to like each other now.

"Dude, I thought you'd never say that." Kaiden commented. "I genuinely thought I was the only person feeling this way. But I wasn't trying to say anything."

"Yeah, I know I act pretty tough and all, but I've been insecure about this since the start," Khalifa had agreed. "What's expected of us at the best creative arts school in all of Greece? Do they expect our grades to be really high all the time or something? 'Cause can't lie, they're not always the best."

That was why all five of them had to stick together, hence why Josiah had deliberately called all of them here.

But at least they had felt the same way as him, and this whole thing wasn't for no reason.

He was even shocked that the boys had shared their insecurities and not the girls. It was normally the other way around, from past experiences in Josiah's life anyway.

"Let's all put our hands in the middle and from on now, we start hanging out," Savannah had suggested. "Besides, isn't there an induction today at like 7 or something? We can all go there together."

Yes there was an induction at the school itself, and it had only taken them thirty minutes to get into said art school from this neighbourhood.

They could have taken the bus and walked there via Google Maps.

Everyone had listened to her though, and they had put their hands in.

When their hands were in the middle, they were unanimously discussing what to say when they had counted down from three to zero.

It was agreed that Santorini was going to be said, and it was - when it had hit zero, they had lifted their hands, shouted Santorini.

But their happiness didn't last long as there was an eavesdropper around, who wasn't originally in the house. Or lived there either.

Savannah was the last person to enter the house and unfortunately for her she didn't really close the door properly.

The person that had walked in right now was Tatiana, who had also gone to the same school as them and lived in their same neighbourhood.

All of them had seen her as a threat.

She was the most annoying person in the world.

Pretty clingy, she didn't know when to give people their personal space. She could tell people didn't like her but she didn't really care.

She was just minding her own business to be honest, until she had heard the word Santorini.

As far as she was concerned, no one had mentioned the place Santorini in this neighbourhood unless they wanted to go there, they had gotten accepted into Santorini State of the Arts or they wish they did.

It was kind of a "sacred" word like that.

"Hold up. Did y'all just say Santorini?"

The five of them didn't know that she was there, that was until they had turned around to look at her and they groaned.

"Tatiana, you can't just go round people's houses without being invited to them first," Kaiden reminded her, rolling his eyes. "Besides, how did you even get here? The door is locked."

She had just explained that someone didn't close the door properly, with everyone pretty much looking at Savannah at this point as she was the last person to leave the house.

Apologising on her behalf, she had shrugged, with Tatiana asking them the same question.

"Don't tell me y'all just said Santorini," she had repeated again, gasping when she realised something. "No way! Did you guys get accepted into Santorini State of the Arts?"

Yes, that was why they were all here right now.

Was what no one told her, as it didn't even concern her in the first place.

"Yeah, maybe, but why does that concern you?" Khalifa frowned. "We don't like you. Get out."

She didn't get out, she had just screamed in jubilance when she had heard that, not saying anything else.

Savannah had stupidly asked her the question of if she currently went there.

Everyone had a go at her for that, in her defence though, she actually didn't find Tatiana that bad.

She was a pretty good friend.

She was just misunderstood.

"No I don't currently go there but I'm going there! My sister Skylar and her friend Tiffany are graduating from there this month."

"What made you choose it?" Savannah wanted to know curiously.

Reminisce had whispered to her that she should have stopped asking her questions that nobody wanted to know the answer to, but it was too late as Tatiana had already started going off on a tangent about it.

Right in the middle of the room.

Girl, it's hype! Don't even get me started!

The teachers are bomb. The places there are bomb. The lectures are bomb! Hell, you could even throw a bomb there and nothing bad will happen!

And mannnn, I've heard the parties there are so lit! She was in the middle of the sofa now, the one between Khalifa and Kaiden.

They groaned when she sat in the middle of them uninvitedly.

You can go in a group of three. Even a group of two.. and you'll always have something to do!

She had then realised that she wasn't really talking about her course much, more so the leisure activities that the school had to offer instead.

"But yeah no. That's not why my sister went there. Or why I'm going there. It's genuinely good for my course."

"Yeah right, you're probably going there just because we are," Josiah scoffed.

She had laughed her head off at that, not saying anything else.

"No, it was just a coincidence! Y'all, we should totally hang out all the time when we're there!"

They had all shouted no really loudly, except from Savannah who didn't say anything.

This was the problem when she liked someone that everybody else in a group didn't.

She frowned.

"Dang. Y'all so high maintenance. Tough crowd to please. Anyway, I can finally tell I'm not wanted here so I'll see you guys later."

They had all said bye and other things related to that as she had headed out, with Josiah making sure that the door was closed properly when she had gone.

His parents didn't know about the meeting, but they too didn't like Tatiana.

He was glad that was over though, even if he didn't go back to them yet.

"We need to get her away from us," Josiah announced. "And if she's coming with us then I'm definitely scared of going Santorini State of the Arts now."

"Before she came, I have to admit that this meeting wasn't that bad," Reminisce had admitted truthfully, with the rest of them nodding minis Savannah. "Why don't we come here again in about an hour or so so that we can all go to the induction together?"

They had agreed to that and they had done it.

A bus had taken them there directly, and they were just in time to make it.

They were twenty minutes early, with there being a long line.

Santorini State of the Arts had looked like this:

But it was just approaching sunset.

It was a small school as only the best of the best people had gone in there and graduated there yearly.

They were early but the line was long so if they knew what was best for them, then they definitely had to get moving.

All of them had done so anyway, that was aside from Kaiden who had been hiding behind a wall the entire time.

No one had even realised this, until Savannah had done a head count, noticing that someone was missing and it was Kaiden.

She had eventually found him hiding there, with the rest of them following her.

"What the heck do you think you're doing, Kaiden?" Josiah had frowned at him. "If you're scared, we've already talked about this."

He wasn't scared.

He was just...

They had all looked at him blankly, wanting to know what he was going to say.

He had felt as though he wasn't the best dressed. He felt underdressed.

The rest of them had looked like they had just come from a glamour movie shoot or something, and Kaiden couldn't compare with them as almost all of his good clothes were too small for him.

"Nobody cares what you're wearing. It's almost sunset anyway. Who cares what people think? Especially strangers?"

He had looked like he had just come from a funeral. Then again, it was his fault for deciding to wear all black. That was on him.

"I care what people think, Khalifa!" He had unintentionally yelled at him. "Which... which is a flaw I need to work on, but for now- I can't help it!"

No wonder his father had said that he was so high maintenance. He was.

Tatiana had even confirmed it.

But then she was talking about everyone. Not just Kaiden. Kaiden was the most high maintenance person in the group it had seemed.

"What do you expect us to do? The line is long," Savannah had jogged his memory. "We're probably going to miss the induction."

There was apparently a shop he had seen nearby that he wanted to go to to buy some things.

He didn't think wearing black would have bothered him until some random stranger had told him he had looked like he had just risen from the dead and he took it to heart.

"Wow, so because a random stranger criticised you, you take it to heart? You were fine before we got the bus!" From Reminisce.

"Look- can we please just go there before it's too late?" Kaiden had interrupted, intentionally avoiding what Reminisce had asked him. "Two of you can come with me and two of you can stay here."

They barely had time.

It was too risky even doing this but it didn't seem as though he was taking no for answer.

Reminisce wanted to go with him, as long as Khalifa didn't.

She had had enough of him for the day- he may not have done anything to her explicitly on the bus but his music was so loud that she had wondered how he wasn't deaf yet.

Plus she was still mad at him.

It was agreed that Josiah and Reminisce would have gone to the shop with Kaiden whilst savannah and Khalifa would have stayed there and kept them updated.

Savannah had liked Khalifa romantically for a long time - she didn't know when to tell him.

Now had seemed like the perfect chance to.

And it was.

Or so she thought anyway.

That's the end y'all! I need to go to bed. Hope you enjoyed. Don't know when the next one would be but I'll try and make it as soon as possible! Don't worry

Sereniity xoxo