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Maria's POV

Class already ended and so it would also mean that hell is going to start for me. Being that British bastard's lackey isn't funny. It is NEVER a funny thing.

~•~•~•~•~•~•

FLASHBACK:

After I got from the European building, Mei and Lien came to me. (Well, Mei actually dragged Lien towards me… But you get the idea. ^___^")

"Why did the president called for you?" Mei excitedly asked.

"H-huh? W-well…"

"Come on! Tell us!"

I sighed. "I received my punishment. That's all, okay?" I explained.

Mei eyed me suspiciously. "Are you sure?"

I nodded in response. Then she just laughed.

"What's so funny?!" I asked.

"Say, what punishment did he give you?" Lien was the one who asked now.

I hesitated at first, but then I thought, "What's the point of hiding it…? I guess there's no harm for that matter, right?"

"He made me his and the whole student council body's 'lackey'." I pouted.

Mei's laughter became hysterical. That made me mad. "What's SO FUNNY??!!" I asked, my voice now getting higher.

Lien just sighed. "Don't mind that nutshell. She's just probably losing her screws."

I laughed at Lien's statement. She did chuckle a bit, too.

Suddenly, Mei's laughter decreased and pouted at us. "Mou, what did Lien say?"

We kept laughing softly, while Mei kept sulking and sulking. So cute. "Tell me!" she demanded.

"It's a secret." Both Lien and I said at the same time. I bet Mei's fuming deep inside now.

I bade goodbye to Lien and Mei who headed first back to the dormitory. I walked the other direction, towards the European Class building.

Many students were already exiting the building; then again, just like what happened during lunch, they kept staring at me. I even caught a word of what they were saying.
"It's that girl again."

What did they mean by that!? If they'll just keep back stabbing me, isn't it better if they'll just tell what's on their mind to my face? It's really getting annoying.

"Ah! Maria, over here!" I heard Elizaveta shout from inside the building, causing more eyes to look at me.

I walked over to her and to my surprise, she's with a boy. He had glasses on and a mole near his mouth. He seems aristocratic, too.

"Hey. I want you to meet Roderich." She smiled sweetly.

"I'm Roderich Edelstein. Pleased to meet you." He stretched out his hand to me and I did the same.

"Maria Clara Carriedo Dela Cruz. Nice to meet you."

"Maria….?" He seemed confused.

Yeah. My name's THAT complicated. I know.

"You can just call me Maria." I flashed a smile.

"Ah. Alright." He smiled back.

"He's my childhood friend. We've been friends since like, forever!" she grinned.

"Ohh. Well, I hope we'll also be good friends, Mr. Roderich."

"Oh, don't call him that. It makes him sound like as if he's SOO OLD, although, he IS a year ahead of you." Elizaveta laughed. Roderich just sighed.

"Well, Kuya Roderich, then?"

They both gave me a puzzling look.

"Oh. Kuya in our country means, 'Big Brother' But if you don't like being called that then…"

"No. It's okay."

I smiled. Although he does looks classy, he seems nice.

"Oh yeah, since I'm already done with my SCO duties, I'm off to the dorm now." Elizaveta notified.

"The same goes for Francis. He said he had to go somewhere. Tsk. I don't even wanna know." She raised a frying pan and made a scary face. Seriously, where did that frying pan come from?!

"Err.. O-okay.." I stepped back a little sweat dropping.

"Alfred's not there yet. So Arthur's the one left behind. Anyways, see 'ya. I gotta go." She gave me a smile which seemed to have a hidden meaning to it as she dragged Roderich to the other direction I came from.

I wonder what her smile meant. Thinking about it, I just sighed. It's probably just nothing.

~•~•~•~•~•~•

I went up the stairs and passed down the hallway where the SCO room stood. There were no people around anymore. Not a very busy hallway, now is it?

BUMP!

"Ow!" I screamed as I fell on my butt on the floor.

"S-Sorry! I really am!" a faint feminine voice came from the opposite direction as I was.

No, it was a boy. Around my age…. probably younger.

He held out to me his free hand, since his other hand was holding a stuffed bear.

"A-Are you okay?" he asked.

As he helped me stood up, I realized he was taller than me. And he had the same face as Alfred's! The only difference is, he has violet eyes! Deep violet-colored eyes. They were mesmerizing.

"Uhh.. Miss?..." he asked. That made me flinch. I didn't realize I was staring at him!

"S-Sorry! Umm. It's just that uhh… y-your eyes… they're… p-pretty." I was steaming up!

Suddenly, the door to the student council room opened up.

"Hey. What are you guys doing over there? Aren't you coming in?" Arthur popped out.

"Oh, afternoon, Arthur." The boy smiled.

Arthur stared at him for second. "If you're here, it only means that Alfred's not coming, right?"

The boy sweat dropped. "Err.. Yeah."

Arthur just sighed and scratched the back of his head. "Fine. Come in." The boy released my hand and came walking towards the door.

"Hey."

I looked where the voice was coming from. Oh, it was Arthur.

"What?"

"Are you coming in or what?"

I stuck out my tongue. "Yeah, coming, eyebrows." I chuckled.

He just glared at my direction. Oh, if he could only see his face, it was flushing up! Hahaha!

~•~•~•~•~•~•

It was already 5:30pm in the afternoon and I was still inside the student council room. The sun was already setting up, but Arthur strictly gave me orders not to go home until its 6pm and finish my 'duties'.

Well, that 'so-called' duties of his was just cleaning up the whole room, and making his 'perfect' tea! This bastard… I shot his direction a 'I'm gonna strangle him sooner or later…" look and veins popped at my head.

But I can barely do anything about it. And that's the FRUSTRATING PART!

"Umm… M-Miss…?"

"WHAAT?"

The boy flinched. Oh gosh. Why'd I released my frustration to this cute boy? 'I'm so mean…'

"I-I was just going to ask you if you're finished with your duties... So maybe, we can go home together... since it's getting dark..." he explained softly.

"Umm.. I still have things to do.. so I can't." I apologetically gave him a smile.

"Oh. Is that so? Well, Is it okay if I wait for you then?"

"I don't think that's necessary, Matthew." Arthur said while reading his book.

"Excuse me?"

"I mean, she won't be finished by then since she's working very slowly. She might just be a burden to you. You can go back to your dorm now, if you want to." he said, now looking at our direction.

WHAAA? What does he meant by 'working very slowly..?! I'm working my butt off here as fast as I can, but it doesn't seem like there's no end to this mess. And he's accusing me of being SLOW?!

"O-okay then. Uhh.. By the way, I'm Matthew Williams." he smiled at me. Aw. He looks so cute~♥

"I'm Maria Clara Carriedo Dela Cruz. Maria for short." I shot him back a smile.

"Pleased to meet you, Maria. Well, I think I should be on my way now. See you."

I heard a big sigh. I looked behind me, and it was Arthur. Oh yeah. DUH. We're the only ones left here. Tsk.

"Make me some tea." he ordered.

I glared daggers at him, but he didn't seem bothered by it.

Since I'm his 'lackey' I have no choice but to follow his demand. Annoying.
I went into the kitchen, (Yes, their student council room has a kitchen on it. O.O) and made his gawd damn tea.

"How do you make this stuff? I mean, you can make tea with just tea bags, right? Where are those freakin' tea bags?!" I thought to myself.

"Oh, there's cake here." I muttered. It was a light brown colored cake. It looks delicious. Although, I wonder what's it called. European cuisine has a lot of varieties of cakes as far as I know. Cakes originated from Europe, so that's why... is it?

RUMMMBLEEEE

Oh crap. Skipping lunch was a BAD IDEA. I swear, if anyone heard that loud grumble of my stomach, I'm going to dug up a hole and bury myself! That was downright embarrassing!

Then out of the blue, I heard a soft laugh.

I turned around to see who it was and found myself regretting facing the other direction.

"Hungry?" he said with a soft laugh.

I pouted. Of all the people, why was he the one stuck here with me!? I felt like digging my own grave now. Oh, Please take me away!

"N-no I'm not! A-anyway, why are you HERE? Isn't the 'master' supposed to be on his seat waiting for his 'tea' to come?" I mocked, as I copied off his British accent.

He just shrugged. "Figured you don't know how to make tea."

This jerk! Of course I don't know anything about your stupid tea making -hobbies or any of that sort! I'm not British!

I glared at him even more. He just smirked.

"Since it's your first try, I'm here to assist you. But other than that, you're on your own. I don't want my tea tasting like garbage or any of the sort." he commented.

"So you mean, my tea tastes like garbage?! You haven't even tasted any tea that I might make! This Eyebrow bastard's really getting on my nerves." I hypocritically thought while giving him a forced smile. "I-is that so...?"

"Now, let's get that over with so I can go back to my dorm." he went beside me and started preparing to boil some water. He took some leaves out form one compartment and placed them one by one on a plate. I just stared at him with awe.

Then he noticed me staring at him. "What?" he asked.
"N-nothing.." I turned my face away and stared back to the cake. Wait, why the cake?!

A few minutes passed and finally, he was done with boiling the water. He placed the leaves on a teapot and poured the hot water on it. "Hmm. So that's how it's done... I thought to myself.

After he poured hot water on the teapot, he sat down on a chair, grabbed a book and began reading.

"So much for teaching me the steps.." I sighed.

Minutes passed and he stood up again and went to the sink. He checked up on the teapot, he grabbed a teacup and poured the tea onto it. "Here's how you make tea. Do you get it now?" he turned to face me while holding up his teacup.

I just nodded in response. But seriously, he didn't actually 'assist' me as how he put it earlier, but rather, it was more like.. 'watch me make tea and be astounded.. '

"You can put milk and cream on it, but I prefer it more natural." he added, as he walked away with the tea and the cake, too.

He went back into the room and sat back down on his seat. "Now what?" I thought.

I looked at my watch, and surprisingly, it was already 6:00pm! I didn't even notice how dark it had been outside. I have to go back now, or else, I might not have any more spare time to review for our Chemistry test tomorrow!

I hurried back in to the room and confronted Arthur. "Hey, umm.. you see.. I have this test tomorrow... and-" before I was able to finish up my sentence, he beat me to it.

"..you need to go back now to study for it.. am I right?" he looked at me. Again, with those beautiful emerald eyes; meeting up with my average brown ones. It made me stiff a little.

"Y-Yeah..."

He sighed. "Fine. But you'll have twice the work starting tomorrow."

I just nodded. Twice the work as today? Is he freakin' serious?

I fixed up my things and headed out the door.

"Is he still going to stay there? It's getting late." I muttered to myself.

~•~•~•~•~•~•

"GOOSH! Am I hungry!" I exclaimed as I ate 2 seconds of rice and my favorite Filipino dish, adobo.

"Slow down, pig." Lei (Hong Kong) commented while he was eating his dumplings.

"SHUDDUP YO BUMPLENG BASHTARD!" I glared at him.

"Aren't you taught not to talk while your mouth is full, pighead?" he taunted.

"SHUDDUP DUMPLING HEADED FREAK!" I kicked his leg under the table.

"Ow! Damn it! What's up with you, pighead!?" he shouted back.

"You wanna fight?!"

"Hey! Both of you, just EAT, will you!?" Yao shouted. Both of us immediately sat down and ate quietly. No one wants to see Yao mad. No ONE.

"Geez. You guys are always fighting ever since the both of you came here 2 weeks ago." Mei muttered.

Lien just sat there reading her book, while Kiku was playing with some cats whom he secretly adopted inside the dorm since pets are not allowed here.

Ahhh. Another typical night on the East Asia dorm.

"Oh yeah. About what you said about RAVEN earlier in geometry class, what was it about again?" I asked Mei.

She giggled. "I knew you would ask that." she leaned closer to me. "But let's talk about that one privately." she winked.

Oh gosh. What's she on about this time? I just sweat dropped.

~•~•~•~•~•~•

"Now, about RAVEN's concert..." with just hearing his name, both Mei and I just squealed.

"Quiet down, guys will you? I'm trying to study. And by the way, aren't you supposed to study, too?" Lien grunted.

"Ohh we can study later. Besides, this is even MORE important." Mei reassured Lien.

"Suit yourselves."

"So, about RAVEN-" SQUEEEAAAAL

"Just get on with it." Lien kicked the top bunker where Mei and I were sitting at.

"Anyways, like I said, he's going to have a concert in this town on Saturday night." she explained.

"AND...?"

"Guess what, I HAVE TICKETS!"

We SQUEALED together loudly. Lien just grunted.

"That's AWESOME! One problem though..." I trailed off.

"Huh? What? We've got tickets, right? What's the problem?" she quizzically asked.

"It's a lot more complicated than that."

"What? Spit it out."

"How are we going to attend the concert if were not allowed to leave the school premises?"

Description
Maria's POV

Class already ended and so it would also mean that hell is going to start for me. Being that British bastard's lackey isn't funny. It is NEVER a funny thing.

~•~•~•~•~•~•

FLASHBACK:

After I got from the European building, Mei and Lien came to me. (Well, Mei actually dragged Lien towards me… But you get the idea. ^___^")

"Why did the president called for you?" Mei excitedly asked.

"H-huh? W-well…"

"Come on! Tell us!"

I sighed. "I received my punishment. That's all, okay?" I explained.

Mei eyed me suspiciously. "Are you sure?"

I nodded in response. Then she just laughed.

"What's so funny?!" I asked.

"Say, what punishment did he give you?" Lien was the one who asked now.

I hesitated at first, but then I thought, "What's the point of hiding it…? I guess there's no harm for that matter, right?"

"He made me his and the whole student council body's 'lackey'." I pouted.

Mei's laughter became hysterical. That made me mad. "What's SO FUNNY??!!" I asked, my voice now getting higher.

Lien just sighed. "Don't mind that nutshell. She's just probably losing her screws."

I laughed at Lien's statement. She did chuckle a bit, too.

Suddenly, Mei's laughter decreased and pouted at us. "Mou, what did Lien say?"

We kept laughing softly, while Mei kept sulking and sulking. So cute. "Tell me!" she demanded.

"It's a secret." Both Lien and I said at the same time. I bet Mei's fuming deep inside now.

I bade goodbye to Lien and Mei who headed first back to the dormitory. I walked the other direction, towards the European Class building.

Many students were already exiting the building; then again, just like what happened during lunch, they kept staring at me. I even caught a word of what they were saying.
"It's that girl again."

What did they mean by that!? If they'll just keep back stabbing me, isn't it better if they'll just tell what's on their mind to my face? It's really getting annoying.

"Ah! Maria, over here!" I heard Elizaveta shout from inside the building, causing more eyes to look at me.

I walked over to her and to my surprise, she's with a boy. He had glasses on and a mole near his mouth. He seems aristocratic, too.

"Hey. I want you to meet Roderich." She smiled sweetly.

"I'm Roderich Edelstein. Pleased to meet you." He stretched out his hand to me and I did the same.

"Maria Clara Carriedo Dela Cruz. Nice to meet you."

"Maria….?" He seemed confused.

Yeah. My name's THAT complicated. I know.

"You can just call me Maria." I flashed a smile.

"Ah. Alright." He smiled back.

"He's my childhood friend. We've been friends since like, forever!" she grinned.

"Ohh. Well, I hope we'll also be good friends, Mr. Roderich."

"Oh, don't call him that. It makes him sound like as if he's SOO OLD, although, he IS a year ahead of you." Elizaveta laughed. Roderich just sighed.

"Well, Kuya Roderich, then?"

They both gave me a puzzling look.

"Oh. Kuya in our country means, 'Big Brother' But if you don't like being called that then…"

"No. It's okay."

I smiled. Although he does looks classy, he seems nice.

"Oh yeah, since I'm already done with my SCO duties, I'm off to the dorm now." Elizaveta notified.

"The same goes for Francis. He said he had to go somewhere. Tsk. I don't even wanna know." She raised a frying pan and made a scary face. Seriously, where did that frying pan come from?!

"Err.. O-okay.." I stepped back a little sweat dropping.

"Alfred's not there yet. So Arthur's the one left behind. Anyways, see 'ya. I gotta go." She gave me a smile which seemed to have a hidden meaning to it as she dragged Roderich to the other direction I came from.

I wonder what her smile meant. Thinking about it, I just sighed. It's probably just nothing.

~•~•~•~•~•~•

I went up the stairs and passed down the hallway where the SCO room stood. There were no people around anymore. Not a very busy hallway, now is it?

BUMP!

"Ow!" I screamed as I fell on my butt on the floor.

"S-Sorry! I really am!" a faint feminine voice came from the opposite direction as I was.

No, it was a boy. Around my age…. probably younger.

He held out to me his free hand, since his other hand was holding a stuffed bear.

"A-Are you okay?" he asked.

As he helped me stood up, I realized he was taller than me. And he had the same face as Alfred's! The only difference is, he has violet eyes! Deep violet-colored eyes. They were mesmerizing.

"Uhh.. Miss?..." he asked. That made me flinch. I didn't realize I was staring at him!

"S-Sorry! Umm. It's just that uhh… y-your eyes… they're… p-pretty." I was steaming up!

Suddenly, the door to the student council room opened up.

"Hey. What are you guys doing over there? Aren't you coming in?" Arthur popped out.

"Oh, afternoon, Arthur." The boy smiled.

Arthur stared at him for second. "If you're here, it only means that Alfred's not coming, right?"

The boy sweat dropped. "Err.. Yeah."

Arthur just sighed and scratched the back of his head. "Fine. Come in." The boy released my hand and came walking towards the door.

"Hey."

I looked where the voice was coming from. Oh, it was Arthur.

"What?"

"Are you coming in or what?"

I stuck out my tongue. "Yeah, coming, eyebrows." I chuckled.

He just glared at my direction. Oh, if he could only see his face, it was flushing up! Hahaha!

~•~•~•~•~•~•

It was already 5:30pm in the afternoon and I was still inside the student council room. The sun was already setting up, but Arthur strictly gave me orders not to go home until its 6pm and finish my 'duties'.

Well, that 'so-called' duties of his was just cleaning up the whole room, and making his 'perfect' tea! This bastard… I shot his direction a 'I'm gonna strangle him sooner or later…" look and veins popped at my head.

But I can barely do anything about it. And that's the FRUSTRATING PART!

"Umm… M-Miss…?"

"WHAAT?"

The boy flinched. Oh gosh. Why'd I released my frustration to this cute boy? 'I'm so mean…'

"I-I was just going to ask you if you're finished with your duties... So maybe, we can go home together... since it's getting dark..." he explained softly.

"Umm.. I still have things to do.. so I can't." I apologetically gave him a smile.

"Oh. Is that so? Well, Is it okay if I wait for you then?"

"I don't think that's necessary, Matthew." Arthur said while reading his book.

"Excuse me?"

"I mean, she won't be finished by then since she's working very slowly. She might just be a burden to you. You can go back to your dorm now, if you want to." he said, now looking at our direction.

WHAAA? What does he meant by 'working very slowly..?! I'm working my butt off here as fast as I can, but it doesn't seem like there's no end to this mess. And he's accusing me of being SLOW?!

"O-okay then. Uhh.. By the way, I'm Matthew Williams." he smiled at me. Aw. He looks so cute~♥

"I'm Maria Clara Carriedo Dela Cruz. Maria for short." I shot him back a smile.

"Pleased to meet you, Maria. Well, I think I should be on my way now. See you."

I heard a big sigh. I looked behind me, and it was Arthur. Oh yeah. DUH. We're the only ones left here. Tsk.

"Make me some tea." he ordered.

I glared daggers at him, but he didn't seem bothered by it.

Since I'm his 'lackey' I have no choice but to follow his demand. Annoying.
I went into the kitchen, (Yes, their student council room has a kitchen on it. O.O) and made his gawd damn tea.

"How do you make this stuff? I mean, you can make tea with just tea bags, right? Where are those freakin' tea bags?!" I thought to myself.

"Oh, there's cake here." I muttered. It was a light brown colored cake. It looks delicious. Although, I wonder what's it called. European cuisine has a lot of varieties of cakes as far as I know. Cakes originated from Europe, so that's why... is it?

RUMMMBLEEEE

Oh crap. Skipping lunch was a BAD IDEA. I swear, if anyone heard that loud grumble of my stomach, I'm going to dug up a hole and bury myself! That was downright embarrassing!

Then out of the blue, I heard a soft laugh.

I turned around to see who it was and found myself regretting facing the other direction.

"Hungry?" he said with a soft laugh.

I pouted. Of all the people, why was he the one stuck here with me!? I felt like digging my own grave now. Oh, Please take me away!

"N-no I'm not! A-anyway, why are you HERE? Isn't the 'master' supposed to be on his seat waiting for his 'tea' to come?" I mocked, as I copied off his British accent.

He just shrugged. "Figured you don't know how to make tea."

This jerk! Of course I don't know anything about your stupid tea making -hobbies or any of that sort! I'm not British!

I glared at him even more. He just smirked.

"Since it's your first try, I'm here to assist you. But other than that, you're on your own. I don't want my tea tasting like garbage or any of the sort." he commented.

"So you mean, my tea tastes like garbage?! You haven't even tasted any tea that I might make! This Eyebrow bastard's really getting on my nerves." I hypocritically thought while giving him a forced smile. "I-is that so...?"

"Now, let's get that over with so I can go back to my dorm." he went beside me and started preparing to boil some water. He took some leaves out form one compartment and placed them one by one on a plate. I just stared at him with awe.

Then he noticed me staring at him. "What?" he asked.
"N-nothing.." I turned my face away and stared back to the cake. Wait, why the cake?!

A few minutes passed and finally, he was done with boiling the water. He placed the leaves on a teapot and poured the hot water on it. "Hmm. So that's how it's done... I thought to myself.

After he poured hot water on the teapot, he sat down on a chair, grabbed a book and began reading.

"So much for teaching me the steps.." I sighed.

Minutes passed and he stood up again and went to the sink. He checked up on the teapot, he grabbed a teacup and poured the tea onto it. "Here's how you make tea. Do you get it now?" he turned to face me while holding up his teacup.

I just nodded in response. But seriously, he didn't actually 'assist' me as how he put it earlier, but rather, it was more like.. 'watch me make tea and be astounded.. '

"You can put milk and cream on it, but I prefer it more natural." he added, as he walked away with the tea and the cake, too.

He went back into the room and sat back down on his seat. "Now what?" I thought.

I looked at my watch, and surprisingly, it was already 6:00pm! I didn't even notice how dark it had been outside. I have to go back now, or else, I might not have any more spare time to review for our Chemistry test tomorrow!

I hurried back in to the room and confronted Arthur. "Hey, umm.. you see.. I have this test tomorrow... and-" before I was able to finish up my sentence, he beat me to it.

"..you need to go back now to study for it.. am I right?" he looked at me. Again, with those beautiful emerald eyes; meeting up with my average brown ones. It made me stiff a little.

"Y-Yeah..."

He sighed. "Fine. But you'll have twice the work starting tomorrow."

I just nodded. Twice the work as today? Is he freakin' serious?

I fixed up my things and headed out the door.

"Is he still going to stay there? It's getting late." I muttered to myself.

~•~•~•~•~•~•

"GOOSH! Am I hungry!" I exclaimed as I ate 2 seconds of rice and my favorite Filipino dish, adobo.

"Slow down, pig." Lei (Hong Kong) commented while he was eating his dumplings.

"SHUDDUP YO BUMPLENG BASHTARD!" I glared at him.

"Aren't you taught not to talk while your mouth is full, pighead?" he taunted.

"SHUDDUP DUMPLING HEADED FREAK!" I kicked his leg under the table.

"Ow! Damn it! What's up with you, pighead!?" he shouted back.

"You wanna fight?!"

"Hey! Both of you, just EAT, will you!?" Yao shouted. Both of us immediately sat down and ate quietly. No one wants to see Yao mad. No ONE.

"Geez. You guys are always fighting ever since the both of you came here 2 weeks ago." Mei muttered.

Lien just sat there reading her book, while Kiku was playing with some cats whom he secretly adopted inside the dorm since pets are not allowed here.

Ahhh. Another typical night on the East Asia dorm.

"Oh yeah. About what you said about RAVEN earlier in geometry class, what was it about again?" I asked Mei.

She giggled. "I knew you would ask that." she leaned closer to me. "But let's talk about that one privately." she winked.

Oh gosh. What's she on about this time? I just sweat dropped.

~•~•~•~•~•~•

"Now, about RAVEN's concert..." with just hearing his name, both Mei and I just squealed.

"Quiet down, guys will you? I'm trying to study. And by the way, aren't you supposed to study, too?" Lien grunted.

"Ohh we can study later. Besides, this is even MORE important." Mei reassured Lien.

"Suit yourselves."

"So, about RAVEN-" SQUEEEAAAAL

"Just get on with it." Lien kicked the top bunker where Mei and I were sitting at.

"Anyways, like I said, he's going to have a concert in this town on Saturday night." she explained.

"AND...?"

"Guess what, I HAVE TICKETS!"

We SQUEALED together loudly. Lien just grunted.

"That's AWESOME! One problem though..." I trailed off.

"Huh? What? We've got tickets, right? What's the problem?" she quizzically asked.

"It's a lot more complicated than that."

"What? Spit it out."

"How are we going to attend the concert if were not allowed to leave the school premises?"