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Cedar and Scarlet spent the entire rest of the day in the hospital wing waiting for Ivory. It had only been a few hours, and Honey found out from Seville that they had to reconstruct her entire hand and hold it together with little bits of metal so that it would heal properly. She would be ready in time for the mission, and she could even go on the trip to the amusement park if she wanted to. Roseanne didn't doubt one bit that their team member would be coming along, since Raven had been convinced by Roseanne to go on the outing. He was feeling down about what happened to Ivory and he put the whole blame on himself as though she hadn't been the one touching him without his permission. Roseanne pointed out to him that it was the last time they would be able to leave the garden because for the next eight years they would be aboard a space ship. 

He was convinced and they decided to all go to the amusement park together as a group. For the incident with Ivory's hand, Instructor Violet had been forced to give Raven a disciplinary warning, which he had to sign and would go on his permanent record. Roseanne was not at all pleased about it, since it had been an accident with his new prosthetic. She was also outraged at the fact that Cedar had gotten off completely free after what happened to Raven on the training grounds. She felt that the consequences had to be the same for everyone, especially considering that Raven was the captain of their team.

The procedure performed on her hand was quick and she was out of the hospital by that night. But that gave the others the opportunity to switch around their room arrangements before Ivory, Cedar, and Scarlet came back. Now Roseanne would be sharing a room with the boy she had been crushing on, the person she trusted most out of everyone else on the team. Ciel was now in the same dorm with Mauve and Seville was staying with Honey. 

The first night in the dorm together, Roseanne found herself nervously looking up at the ceiling. Because of his limitations with his new arm, she offered to help him change into his sleeping clothes. He blushingly assured her that he could manage it on his own and that she didn't need to worry about him. But he was shy. At his twenty two years of age, he was curious about women and thought Roseanne was pretty. But he didn't know how to approach her or make his feelings known to her. Every time he found himself about to confess his feelings, he'd always just back out by teasing her or making some kind of joke to make her laugh. She was a bit older than him and he thought that maybe she just saw him as that little boy that no one wanted to play with back then. She approached him because she pitied him. He was afraid that it was the same idea now. Perhaps she was only close to him because she noticed the other members on the team didn't quite connect with him and she felt bad. They all loved her--all except Ivory. 

Roseanne had left him in the room alone and grabbed her things to change in their private bathroom. It only took a couple of minutes while she changed, brushed her teeth, and washed her face to get ready for bed. When she emerged, she thought he would be finished already, and she walked out into the dorm room. She stopped frozen in her tracks when she saw him there. He had successfully changed into his pants, but that was all he had accomplished while she was in the bathroom. She watched for a moment and then rushed to his aid when she saw him trying to pull his black polo shirt over his head. It was the uniform that gave him the least amount of trouble to change in and out of. 

They had three sets of every day uniform. Two for regular use, and one for special events. Then they had their sleep wear, their two physical training uniforms, and one set of civilian clothes which they could only use in the event that they could leave the garden. Most of them hardly ever used the civilian clothes, even outside the garden because wearing their regular uniforms was just easier. Of the two regular uniforms, they had one with a polo and one with a button up shirt. At the moment, with Raven's limitations, it was much easier for him to just slip the polo over his head than to button up a shirt every morning.