"Orion? What the fuck are you doing in my room?"

Damien had finally gotten home after a long Saturday spent in detention. Again.

Orion sat down on Damien's bed, tossing his bag on the carpet. "Oh, well, I just figured we could watch a movie or something. You know, like Die Hard or Top Gun."

"Whyyy are you wanting to watch a movie?" Damien drew out the y. "Why didn't you just text me?"

"I did. Your phone was probably confiscated, anyway." Orion shrugged. "Plus, I figured I should surprise you."

Damien sighed, but when Orion patted the bed next to him, he sat down next to his best friend. They drew out their laptop and opened it to reveal their half-finished college admissions essay.

Orion glanced at the computer screen, then looked closer. "Dude, is that your college admissions essay?" Damien nodded, closing the tab and typing in the web address of a free movie site.

"So you're going to college after all?" Orion asked as Damien clicked "enter".

"Yeah, I guess. My mom really wants me to go. You know, the whole 'make yourself a better future' thing."

"I think you should go," Orion said. "What do you want to major in?"

"I don't even know. I was thinking business? Like sales?"

Orion's eyes lit up. "Yes! You'd be great at that!"

"You think so?"

"You organized a whole prank group. I think you could be convincing enough to do sales. Maybe even become a CEO or something."

Damien shook their head. "I'm not even the leader of the group anymore."

"So? You still did it."

There was a beat of silence. Orion cursed himself silently for bringing up the prank group.

"Let's start the movie," he resolved. Damien clicked "play", and Bruce Willis' name flashed across the screen.

Before the movie got even five minutes in, Damien's door burst open.

Damien groaned when they saw Lilith in all her sweat-shirted, wet-haired glory. "Really? Another person?"

Lilith crossed her arms, tossing her long, wet hair. "And here I thought I was your friend."

"You are," Orion said before Damien could embarrass himself by saying something insulting. "Come, sit." He pat the bed next to him.

Lilith plopped down on the bed, then rolled her eyes when she saw the movie title. "Really? Die Hard again?"

Damien threw their hands up. "Come on! It's a classic!" Lilith just rolled her eyes again, so Damien scowled at her and clicked the computer button so aggressively that it bounced on his bed.

Orion shook his head, smiling at his friends.

"Anybody got popcorn?" Lilith asked.

Orion immediately reached into his bag and retrieved a small bucket of caramel popcorn, making her squeal in delight. "You're lucky I come so prepared," he said.

"Thanks, Oxy," Lili says, shoving a handful of popcorn into her mouth. Damien reaches over and attempts to wrangle the bucket out of Lilith's hand, and, of course, Lilith holds on as tight as she can to the food, resulting in heaps of popcorn spilling all over the bed. And Orion.

The trio pauses, then burst out laughing.

Bruce Willis' movie ends up unwatched, and the three end up with hardly any sleep that night.

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roshan

next meeting tuesday afterschool

see you there ;)

"Damien, please tell me you check your messages," Roshan says after Damien practically collapses into his seat in French class.

"Huh? Mostly, yeah. What about it?"

"...you got the message about the meeting today, right?" faun sets fauns phone down on the desk, screen side down.

"What message?" they say, playing innocent. Yes, of course he got the message. They just want to see how much they can piss Roshan off about it.

He might still be a little bitter about the Great Prank Group Dethroning.

Roshan puts fauns head in fauns hands, looking like faun's trying not to die. Or kill Damien. Or both.

"The message about how the next meeting is tomorrow. Tuesday. After school," faun says through gritted teeth.

"Oh, right, that message. The message about the prank group meeting. The message about the prank group meeting that I'm no longer in charge of because someone had to win over my peers. That message," Damien smirks. "Yeah, I didn't see it. Too many notifications crowding my phone. You know how it is."

"Damien?"

"Yes?" They bat their eyes innocently.

"Kindly, ferme le trappe."

"What?"

"That's Québécois French for shut your mouth."

"Oh."

Alanna leans in from the desk behind the two. "By the way, while you two were... talking, Mrs. Ilise announced our unit test on Thursday. Oh, and also said what the homework was tonight."

Roshan looked ashamed of faunself while Damien snickered at fauns expression.

"I don't suppose you could catch me up, Alanna?" Roshan asks, with a pointed glare at Damien.

Alanna shrugs, sitting back in her seat. "Sure."

Those two have... something going on, she thinks. A stupid rivalry, it seems. And I thought pranksters were supposed to stick together.

—raven speaks !

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hey ! sorry i took me so long to write this, but here it is !

i imagine orion, damien and lilith to have these little surprise sleepovers to cheer damien up. you know, cause damien's the most dramatic person, even more than the theater kids lol

also ig i like the idea of roshan, alanna, and damien all have french class together ?? lilith also seems like the type to take french but she doesn't have the same class as them :(( orion, meg, and pelo seem like they would maybe take spanish and asryn, and jj seem like they would take japanese maybe and fitz would like german.

idk why i did such a deep analysis of what language each character would take but here you go...

anyway, lilith, orion, and damien's friendship >>>

love you !