Alone

Chapter XLI (41)

-Luis' POV-
"What took you so long? I didn't want to start without you!" Risse's voice held great annoyance but also slight mockery, I looked over to where she was which happened to be my bed with her legs crossed, "Whatever, let's just get this torture over with already." I rolled my eyes and closed my door.

"How about this?" She said while holding up a blue shirt, "Why the fuck is that even in my closet?" I replied after letting out a sigh which led to Risse throwing the shirt at my face, "All you have is black clothes! Come on at least pick an accent colour." She whined as she crossed her arms and stuck out her hip. "Ugh fine... how about um... red? But a dark red." I decided to compromise with her, or I might have ended up without a head by the end of this.

Now that Risse had a colour to work with she got started gathering some shirts and jeans along with some accessories. "Right try this top and... of these black skinny jeans and take this belt." I was standing behind Risse as she chucked clothes over her head assuming I would catch them. "Why are you still in those clothes? Get dressed you little shit." She yelled at me as she turned around again.

"Hey, I'm done you can turn around." I grumbled as I tightened my belt. "Damn you actually look good." She smirked, "Oh fuck you Risse." And I have her the bird, but she was already looking at shoes and some jewellery she had brought over from her room. "Right, chuck on these boots and these rings." This time instead of throwing them at me she passed the rings to me and then kicked over the boots.

As I was putting on the rings, I noticed they were all red or had red gems on them, one that I saw had a wolfs head made of silver and a beautiful ruby behind its head like a bright full moon. "Hey... Risse these look really expensive, are you sure I can just wear them to school?" I asked while looking down at the ring. "It's all good, it means more that you are wearing than just leaving it in a box." She smiled at me once I looked up from my hand, "Now for the last touch..." Risse held out a black fake leather jacket, "Thanks." I gave her a smile after taking the jacket from her. "Now take it all off and put something else on, we can't have you dirtying your new outfit!"

For the rest of the day, we all grouped up again and watched Into The Spider-Verse and then ranted about our favourite parts and who were our top five characters, "Okay but Miles is my number one! I mean his character development is insane and the amount of detail they put into his personality just makes him more loveable." Finch said as they then listed off the other characters they liked. "I have to agree with you, Miles is an awesome character and not just in this movie but the comics too!" Max grinned at Finch and they both started up a conversation about their favourite comic series.

"What about you Ezra?" I asked since he was the only other person who was yet to tell us his favourite character, "Uh well, Spider-Man Noir was pretty cool... he's pretty funny but also really smart in his own way." After he told us he liked Noir, it was my turn. "To be honest I liked all of them... well maybe not the pig, sorry Finn- but I was mostly listening to the music, looking at the details in each character and setting. It's a god damn work of art." I laughed at my little fanboy moment while the others agreed with my statement.

Soon we all settled down and went back to a quiet chatter amongst ourselves, as Nat started to talk about how hot Peter Parker looked, I zoned out of the conversation until I felt a buzz in my back pocket. It was just a text from Ryder saying that dinner is ready and to get the others down to the dining hall. "Dinners ready guys, let's get going." I called out just louder than what everyone was talking at which got them to shut up pretty quick and start to race down the hallway.

Dinner was a simple stake with mashed potatoes and some other vegetables. "Before you are all excused, I would like to talk to you all about tomorrow." Ryder's voice came down from the head of the table his tone serious but still light. "It's the first day so I don't want any drama okay, the people who were there before have all been relocated due to past events. If you need to contact anyone use your phones, the staff will not say anything to you as they have all been hired by me, now you can still have your fun just make sure that people aren't around. Is that understood?" a chorus of 'Yes Sir's' could be heard throughout the hall as we all replied to his command. "You're all excused, have a good night's sleep. Don't forget we'll have a quick meeting before you all leave in the morning."