[You head to the office!] * Kaede walks on ahead, keeping a fairly quick pace up. * Katie walks after him, her book tapping against one hand. * Kaede looks over his shoulder a second to check who's coming, then turns his attention back down the hall. * Katie is coming! He'd better watch out. :P Surprised someone actually decided to come. Really, Kaede. Like I'd give you your peace and quiet every time. Since when do you ever? * Katie grins. "It happens once in a while." * Kaede stops for a second and looks over his shoulder, smiling slightly. Seems to be just us a lot anyhow. * Kaede shrugs slightly. * Katie fans the pages of her book as she catches up with Kaede. "Sometimes, yeah. You're happier when there's less people anyway, right?" That...depends. On what? Sanity? * Kaede chuckles and shakes his head. "When's the last time any of us felt sane, Katie Andrews?" * Katie stops and closes her eyes. * Kaede stops too, looking at the floor slightly. The morning of January 18th. It really hasn't been that long. And even sooner for me...it just seems like a lot has happened... Because a lot does happen. * Kaede smirks slightly. "And you do recognize a rhetorical question when you hear it, don't you?" * Kaede goes over to the office door and knocks. * Katie opens her eyes and looks into the distance, past Kaede. "Yeah. But also meant it. Just when you think things are going to be okay, that they're working out and you can catch your breath, the ground drops from under you." * Katie waits. There's always someone to catch you though... I wish I had someone to catch me... * Katie fixes her gaze on Kaede this time. "What are you talking about?" I mean what I say. I never say anything unless I mean it. It's a waste of time if you do. I didn't say you were lying, did I? [They get to the office! Arisu is not there. But Chikako is. So's Matthias and his goons.] ....No. * Katie looks in and blinks. * Kaede ...stares into the office. He's...not Arisu. * Katie waves for Kaede to be quiet. * Kaede complies. [Chikako's working at her desk. She doesn't seem to mind the goons, or notice the way Goro keeps looking at her. Matthias is going through old papers, and Kaoru is just standing there.] * Katie frowns slightly. Especially at Goro. ( He's a goon. What do you want? :P ) * Kaede just doesn't do much, but keeps an eye on Matthias. (To kick his butt? ^^) (Do a little jig!) * Katie waits a bit longer. [Eventually, Kaoru turns around and notices you.] * Katie waves, walking in. * Kaede pushes up his glasses and nods in acknowledgement, doing a very poor job of looking like Katie's goon. (Shoulda taken Satoshi. Baaaah. :P) (;_; Hey, you're the one who followed HIM!) (Well, I could be *your* goon. How about that?) ( Grr, baby. Grr.) (But you walked in first. Goons don't walk in first ^^;) (;_;) ( Sometimes they walk in to make a path for the boss ) * Kaede clears his throat. "Looking for something in particular?" Goro eyes Kaede. "What the boss does ain't your business, shrimp." * Katie walks up to Chikako and taps her on the shoulder. Chikako looks up and grins. "Katie! Cool!" * Katie grins back. "Hiya." * Kaede looks back at Goro, sighing. "It does when he's on our school yard. The head principal doesn't care for not knowing what's going on in the school." "Hiya!" But actually, we read the paper fairly often, I was thinking we could help. What're these guys doing here, Chikako? Kaoru have turns towards Kaede. "If we need your help, we'll ask for it." Chikako says, "Oh, they wanted to look at the old papers. Isn't that cool?" Yeah, it's cool. I was just wondering. * Kaede sighs and pushes his glasses up. "Just trying to bridge friendly relations between schools. Guess...I was wrong though..." * Katie glances over at Matthias, then looks back to Chikako. "Have you seen Arisu around?" Chikako: "She came by right after class, but left in a hurry. Probably going to find a cool scoop." * Kaede keeps an eye on the three but speaks addressing Chikako. "Any idea where she went?" "Nope!" * Kaede nods and shakes his head. "Thanks for your time...hope you find what you're looking for...." ( Nods and shakes his head? Woah. ) (Kaede's confused!) * Katie nods, eyeing Goro. "Talk to you later tonight, yeah Chikako? Maybe we can go shopping or something." She nods. "That'd be cool!" * Katie grins. "Okay." But no movies. "Aww... * Kaede blinks at Katie. * Katie sticks her tongue out at Chikako. "We saw one a few days ago!" "But it was so cool!" ... It was good, yeah. * Katie considers, then shrugs. "Well. Talk to you later. And good luck with your work." "Cool! Thanks." * Katie grins and waves, then heads out. * Kaede watches the three goons for a bit, then nods to Katie, then takes another look at them before heading out and shutting the door. * Kaede speaks low so the sound won't carry through the door. "They're...unpleasant." * Katie walks along, singsonging softly, "Just here to visit my friend, that's me..." Hmm? Yeah, they are. I'm actually going to talk to Chikako about that. * Kaede follows along behind. "But...papers? Why would they think anything about Judgement would show in the papers? Arcana's kept pretty secret..." There's no reason not to look. Think about it. They think Judgement is in Sakuragaoka, and it's well known that Chikako has the best information network around. * Kaede thinks. "..yeah. The disappearances were reported a while back. Still, unless the reporter was actually Arcana, she wouldn't be able to even hint at what or who Judgement was." Arcana business may be kept pretty secret, but you can see its effects elsewhere. It'd be a wild goose chase... * Katie shrugs. "Aren't we all on wild goose chases?" * Kaede smirks a little. "Honk honk." No, like this. * Katie pinches Kaede's nose twice, and says with a straight face, "Honk honk." She goes back to walking. * Kaede can't help himself and bursts into a fit of chuckles as he approaches the lockers again. * Katie grins.