-Persona-(Neo L. Collins FF)

Chapter 3

Neo stared at the sleeping girl that was lying down beside him. Her ash brown hair was sprawled messily on the mattress as she kept tossing and turning. He hadn't thought that they would meet so early in the current timeline, though he can't say he regretted it, he had missed her a lot, seeing as she was the closest friend he had even in the past timeline.

A knock interrupted his thoughts, and he sighed before looking up to see Mana.
"Mind if I come in?" She asks while holding a glass of what looks to be juice.

"You're already in why bother asking?"

Mama huffs and goes inside,
"It's common courtesy. Can you stop nitpicking what everyone around you is doing?"

" If you weren't doing anything wrong, I wouldn't need to nitpick"

"You always have some sort of comeback, don't you? Whatever," she extended her hand while holding the juice.
" That purple-haired lady told me to give you this since she couldn't find Astraea" Mana tells him, her eyes going towards the sleeping girl.

"C supplement or whatever. That's all we have, for now, she said"

Neo turns his head away from her.
" Don't need it."

"Just take it! If you drink it or not, it's not my problem. I'm not your babysitter"
She says in frustration, placing the glass on his hand. Her expression turned shocked when she felt that his hand was cold.

"Your hand is cold! Are you really sick?" She exclaims

" I'm faking it. Is that what you wanted me to say?" He taunts.

" How could you get sick? You're supposed to be strong"

" That's a good question. Why don't you tell me, oh know-it-all prophet"

" You're such an uncooperative arsehole"
Mana complains, her arms crossed.
" I can't believe I was worried about you..."

She then looks towards the window, her gaze settling on the pouring black rain.
" Are you sick from the rain too? Your symptom doesn't seem similar to the others."

Neo shrugs, " Who knows."

" Ugh, it's impossible to talk to you. How come whenever you talk to Astraea you're not like this?"

" Just get straight to the point," Neo says ignoring her question. " Why did you come here?"

"..I saw something unpleasant. There was blood everywhere... And people screaming"

" That's a vague vision. Where is it going to be? When is it going to be?"

"What ?!"

" If you aren't able to answer these questions then you're just wasting my time"

" W-why does it matter? It'll happen eventually! We all know my vision will come true" Mana defended herself in her flustered state.

"How're you so sure what you see is the actual future?" The two teens snap their heads toward the supposed to be an asleep girl. Astraea rubbed her eyes with a small yawn.