luggage | luck voltia

six

"Hello there.." [Name] waved at the crowd of short boys who'd just walked into the 7-Eleven.

"Looks like you can make a fool of yourself yet again." Noelle snickered.

"Oh, be quiet, will you?" [Name] rolled their eyes, turning their attention back to the three newcomers. "Fancy seeing you here."

"Are you stalking us or something?!" [Name] recognized this kid as the shortest and probably youngest of the three.

"Wait, stalking?!" [Name] scowled at the accusation. "What are you on, kid?!"

"Well, you took Luck's suitcase, and then he saw you the other day while we were downtown, and then here again!"

"Huh, so that's who I saw at that one coffee shop.." [Name] mused. "I guess it's fate."

"Hey! What are you talking about?! That doesn't answer my question!"

"Ugh, for the love of... You don't make any sense! If we were stalking you, why would we be here first?" [Name] felt silly arguing with the young boy, but they couldn't let their pride go like that.

"Well..."

"I'm sure this is a touching reunion, but don't we have places to be?" Noelle interrupted, crossing her arms and glaring at practically everyone in the room.

"It's not like a hotel is gonna take us in this late, your royal highness." Noelle soured at the nickname. "I told you, there'd be traffic, we wouldn't get here before 5, book a hotel ahead of time, but you decided—"

"Don't put this all on me! You're an adult, aren't you?!" Noelle huffed.

"Well, there's always a suspiciously cheap motel we could find." [Name] said, considering the possibilities.

"A..Are you two gonna argue any longer?"

Oops. [Name] forgot that they weren't the only ones here.

"We'll be on our way then. Goodnight, ladies and gentlemen!" [Name] opened the door dramatically, bowing and waving as though they were on some kind of talk show and not like they were walking out of 7-Eleven at almost 3 in the morning.

"So then? What dingy motel are we staying at?" Noelle asked.

"Nono, I was being sarcastic."

"Where do you get these ridiculous nicknames from..?" Noelle huffed. "That's not even creative."

"What do you want me to call you? Darling? No thanks, I'd like to stay off of any watchlist, but I appreciate the offer." [Name] pulled out their phone and checked Google Maps.

"Hmm, there's a place nearby. 3 and a half stars on Yelp. Maybe we won't be caught up in some weird criminal scheme tonight."

"I don't care if we die or not.. Let's just get there and get some sleep!" Rill butted in. The temporary sugar rush from the sludgy drink they'd bought seemed to have worn off.

"Alright, let's go then." [Name] looked at Rill suspiciously, since he'd never been one to ever want to, well, sleep. He hadn't slept since they'd landed though, so it was entirely reasonable for him to be tired.

While they walked, Noelle started bringing up lots of different conversation topics, mostly to keep the group awake.

"Hey, what do you think of the people who we keep bumping into?" Noelle asked, scrunching her face up in thought.

"Oh~? Noelle, I didn't know you were the type to think of boys like that so easily!" [Name] teased, a wide grin spreading on their face.

"That's not what I meant and you know it." Noelle scowled. "I'm going to hit you with your own suitcase."

"Ouch!" [Name] mimed getting hit.

"I mean like, isn't it odd that we keep seeing them around?"

"Well, coincidences happen, don't they?"

"Yeah, but like.. Oh, whatever."

[Name] and Noelle stopped talking once they'd reached a modest motel and rented out a room for two nights, 'just in case' as [Name] put it. Plus, it had free breakfast, so it was a pretty sweet deal.

Once everyone got inside the room, they didn't even change before falling asleep.

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"[Name]."

[Name] groaned into their pillow. "Five more minutes..."

"[Name]!"

A pillow slammed into [Name]'s face as they groggily opened their eyes.

"Ow...! What was that for..?!"

"Wake up!" Rill said, holding a pillow in his hands. "Come on! They have food and stuff downstairs, and Charmy doesn't want to wait any longer!"

"Alright, alright!" [Name] groaned tiredly.

They sat up from their bed and stared at Rill.

"Dude, get out! I'm still in pajamas!"

"Oops! Sorry, sorry!"

Rill rushed out the door and [Name] sat alone in the patchy room.

They went through their suitcase and started thinking about what to wear; the flannel they liked didn't match with any pants they brought before they realized that either way, they had a really bad sense of fashion, so they just threw on a couple stupid clothes together and walked out the door to meet with the others.

"[Name]!" Rill called out.

"Why are you yelling? I'm right here, stupid." [Name] rolled their eyes.

"Wha?! No need to be rude!"

"I'm joking, you idiot."

"You really don't sound like you're joking..." Rill sighed—he really couldn't take any sort of teasing. "Noelle and Charmy are already at the cafeteria place, so come on!"

"Alright, alright, let's go."

Rill led [Name] down corridors and down flights of stairs (to which the latter complained a bunch about being out of shape) until they both made it to where Noelle and Charmy were.

The first thing they noticed when they were there was that the noise level was way too high for normal mornings.

The second thing they noticed was the suitcase thief and company—the noise coming from Noelle picking fights with them.

[Name] crossed their arms.

"Rill, I think we've got a bit of a stalker problem."

(hi, author here~! i try not to put author's notes often since they're a little annoying, and i'm gonna delete this by the next chapter, but i just wanted to say that this book might have slower updates!! all the chapters until this one were pre-written and i've got school and stuff. i hope you still continue to read the book though~! i'm also planning on writing something for yosano from bsd that's much more plot based than this book, so if i get around to it, check it out if you'd like! wjeidjdn this author's note is way longer than i planned for,, ty for understanding! i'll see you in the next chapter! :D)