Spirits of Emotion - LWA - Constanze x Jasminka x Amanda

Chapter 6

After a few days, when Amanda was fully healed, she sat up, stretching from a good rest. Her back cracked harshly, and she winced, immediately recoiling and holding her shoulder. No matter how much she was healed, there was still a scar from the shot Diana made. She turned her head to Constanze, who was still asleep, holding onto her Stanbot. She smiled as she stood up, putting her hand on Constanze's forehead, and slowly pushing her hair out of the way. Constanze slowly opened her eyes and looked up, seeing Amanda, before giving her a smile back. She sat up, looking up at Amanda while Amanda kept her hand on Constanze's head, keeping her bangs pulled up. Amanda leaned forward and kissed Constanze's forehead. Constanze pushed her back a bit, before rubbing her eyes and shaking her head. Amanda chuckled, knowing Constanze was still not super used to the affection. Every now and again she tries to wake up Cons like that, since when she's tired she doesn't have such harsh reactions. She turned and looked up to Jasminka, who was still asleep. As Constanze stood up, Amanda smirked in a devious manner. "Hey~" she said in a swoony voice, clearly much better with the girls than she used to be, not as easily flustered now. She had a few days to work on that, but she isn't invincible to such emotions. Jasminka rolled in her sleep, causing Amanda to raise an eyebrow, not sure if Jasminka heard her. She climbed up, before patting Jasminka on the shoulder. Jas rolled over and gave Amanda a tired smile, "You're up early..." Amanda nodded, "Well I feel better, mostly." She said this as she looked to her shoulder, before her eyes looked back to Jasminka. "But I wanted to do more stuff with you guys today. After all, we are getting into the middle of the year, so things are going to become really busy." Jasminka smiled, before sitting up, she looked down to see Amanda climbing down the ladder, and Constanze fitting the bow onto herself. Amanda hopped off the ladder and put her hands through her hair to fix it some. "Do you girls want to get some breakfast before class?" Jasminka began to climb down the ladder and snickered, "So that's why you woke us up hm? Early enough to get some food." Amanda turned to her, "Out of everyone I thought you would be the happiest about that." Jasminka smiled as she began to go over to the wardrobe to grab her school outfit. "I didn't say I wasn't happy about it, it is charming." Amanda looked away, crossing her arms, "I am just being nice, don't overthink it." Constanze looked up at Jasminka with some confusion, but Jasminka just shook her head.

As the girls made it to the cafeteria, it wasn't very full. Amanda still had some shivers when it was empty-ish due to that night she seemed to go crazy. Constanze wasn't used to seeing the cafeteria so empty, she usually came through whenever most of everyone was eating dinner, and she rarely came down for breakfast. The girls got their food, and sat down. As they did, Constanze began to fidget with her food, she wasn't really enjoying the food that they had that morning. She was eating her eggs, but she would keep passing her sausage to Jasminka, trying to be sneaky as she did it. Amanda noticed, but she didn't say anything immediately. Jasminka didn't seem to notice though, enjoying the food. After the girls finished eating, Constanze began to take a drink from her little milk carton, then scooted her chair back. Amanda and Jasminka raised their eyebrows, before Cons looked over to them. "Going to class already?" Constanze looked to the two of them, before looking down in thought. She didn't know if she should leave yet or not, she didn't want to make them mad, but she was used to being rather early to class when she could manage it. So she looked back to them and nodded. She hopped off her chair, and looked down to the Stanbot that was with her. It raised its arms up into the air, and she picked it up like a small child, before lifting it up to her head for it to ride on top of her. She grabbed her bag, and began to walk out of the cafeteria to class. Amanda looked to Jasminka with a worried expression, wondering if they did anything to Constanze. Only to end up being hushed and calmed by Jasminka putting a small cinnamon bun against Amandas mouth. Jasminka smiled lightly, "She is new to this whole thing, so its not that out there for her to still be in her old schedule. Besides, this is new to her, and all three of us. Forcing her to stay and hang out with us might not do well for her, it could stress her out." Amanda bit down on the cinnamon bun as she raised her hand up to hold it herself. As she chewed she pondered, before swallowing with a sigh. "I suppose you are right, it does make sense after all."

As Constanze walked down the hall, she began to bob her head, holding her books against her and smiling with her eyes closed. She hummed, or well, tried to. She was being quiet as she often was, and only occasionally could a single note, or a shrill off-key note be audible from her. Sarah and Avery looked to Constanze, Avery didn't seem to pay much mind, and with seeing Sarah become distracted by Constanze, she looked away. Sarah watched Constanze with curiosity as she waited for the teacher by the door. Constanze tilted on her heels, leaning back and raising her feet up, before swinging forward, and lifting her heels. In a way, she was humming gently and rocking herself, hugging her books tightly. Her face slowly got redder as she closed her eyes and smiled. Finnelan walked towards Constanze, before putting her hands on her hips. "Constanze! What are you doing?" Constanze jumped, her hair standing on end before she took a step back. Finnelan examined her, before standing tall. It was unclear what the issue was, but she seemed to be fine for now. Finnelan entered her classroom, and Constanze followed suite. Sooner than later, the other girls also showed up. Amanda looked towards Constanze with curiosity, before realizing that she was already writing notes, though also kicking her feet a little. Not to any extremely noticeable amount, but a minor sway none the less. Amanda nudged Jasminka for her to see, causing a quiet "eee" in adoration of Constanze's happy interaction here. Constanze looked to them, and crossed her legs, seeming flushed as she went back to her booklet, writing more notes down. Every now and again, she would have a small pause, scribbling a little bit in her notebook. Amanda would occasionally take a look, but she keeps her eyes on her own book and notes. However, she couldn't help but feel a little suspicious of what Constanze was doing.

Later, after the morning classes where done, they went to lunch. Constanze was sitting with Stanbot on her lap, seeming to be having Stanbot hold a clipboard so she could write on it with her dominant hand, and eat her sandwich in her other hand. Amanda raised an eyebrow before looking to Jasminka. "I know she is rather studious, but I don't think she's usually this much." Jasminka just puts a finger up to her lips as she looks at Amanda. "Let her be..." Amanda crossed her arms and looked away, seeming annoyed by Jasminka's attitude here. She felt that Constanze should be interacting with them more, and not doing so much school stuff currently. Constanze carefully took the board from the Stanbot, and looked it over, before turning it, not letting the girls see, before putting it in her backpack by her chair. She then went back to eating, keeping the Stanbot sitting on her lap. Amanda looked to Constanze with a sly expression, it was clear to anyone who was looking at her what was going through her mind. "Hey Cons~" she said in a flirtatious tone, causing Constanze to look up, still chewing the bite she just took. "What's got you so busy?" Jasminka flicked Amanda in the cheek for trying to antagonize Constanze, which caused Amanda to rub her cheek and glare at Jasminka annoyed. Constanze shook her head and looked down to her plate. The Stanbot pressed his hands down and stood up, pointing at Amanda. "It is a surprise!" Constanze looked down and slapped the Stanbot on the top of the head, causing it to hold its head and look up to her confused. She shook her head and groaned a little. To say this peaked Amandas interest was putting it lightly, however.

Constanze kept fussing with stuff on her clipboard, showing small drawings and diagrams. Over the day, Amanda only got bored of it, and decided to mess with Jasminka instead. To Jasminka's minor annoyance, though Jasminka got her own share of fun out of it. While the other girls where asleep, Constanze kept drawing using the moonlight to guide her. That, and some new modifications to Stanbot, which allowed the little 'eyes' that it had to glow to allow her to see. As she sketched, she quickly lost track of time. She yawned, almost dropping her pen, only for her Stanbot, who was running out of battery, to secure it for her. She had bags under her eyes a little, and her movements where becoming a little stiff. It wasn't long before she ended up falling asleep sitting up. When she woke up, she was glad that today didn't have many classes, since it was a teacher in service day for meetings with the teachers and the other staff of the school. She stretched, before being a little startled. The other girls had left, but she saw that she had a blanket wrapped up around her, with Stanbot placed on his charger. She smiled briefly, before snuggling up in the blankets a little and rubbing her face into them, sitting there for a few seconds before ushering it off of her. She looked happily down to her clipboard, which luckily wasn't tampered with. Likely, the girls just didn't seem too interested based on what was on the front page. She got off her bed, still in her pajamas, taking the clipboard to the table. It wasn't long before she began to get into a few books doing some curious research, though, it wasn't exactly that long before she got herself stuck. Being impressively powerful in magitech, she wasn't exactly the best in conventional magics. A lot of the artifacts and magic types she was reading up on didn't really make much sense to her. She began to become stubborn, before slamming her fist down on the table, and dropping her head down onto it. She stared down in anger and disappointment, only to hear Stanbot waking up from his charger. Her eyes turned to look at him, and she turned her head ever so slightly. When he walked over to see what she was looking at, he glanced at her with some minor confusion. It wasn't long before she sat up, as if she just had a conversation with him and he gave her a marvelous idea, she knew exactly what to do.

It wasn't long before she was running out the door, holding Stanbot close to her in a hug, and a backpack full of books. As she ran, many people looked at her with curiosity and surprise. Usually Constanze wasn't one to rush, outside of when she was excited or something was urgent. But this didn't seem much like an urgent pace. She reached the library and slid to a stop, just before she would have hit the door, a perfect calculation. She opened the door gently as to not intrude too much, and looked around for one person in particular. She nodded and walked in, before walking carefully around the carpeted room. Her jaw dropped a bit as she glanced across the room, so many books, and so many shelves. A never ending wealth of knowledge residing right within the walls of Luna Nova. She seemed so curious of what she could find out here, but she shook her head, being dead set on a mission. It didn't take much time for her to find who she was looking for. She looked across the table to Diana, who of course didn't test patience and got straight to the point. She put her book down, and looked up at Constanze with a courageous yet vicious glance, as if she was just interrupted during the best part of her book, or during her study. Constanze took a minor step back and held Stanbot tighter, before seeing Diana stand up. "Do you need me?" She asked, raising an eyebrow, and teleporting her bookmark into place, before closing her book. Constanze nodded, before sitting her bookbag down onto a chair, and opening it.

As she pulled out some books of which she had around her dorm, likely belonging to Amanda or Jasminka, since Constanze didn't come to the library all too often. She also pulled out her clipboard and took the papers off of it, showing a ton of diagrams about astrology, which she was able to conclude using her own mechanisms in her lab. Diana began to look them over, before placing her finger on one of the books that Constanze had put down, looking at her with some confusion. "A book about flame mages? Why would you bring this?" Constanze looked towards the pages she had on her clipboard, before pointing at her findings. The lunar eclipse which had happened recently seems to have connections to some parts of the book. She grabbed her wand and swirled it, making the book open to the exact page that she was getting at. Diana looked closely, and picked up the book. As she began to read, her eyes slowly got wider, and her eyebrows curved in a worried expression or manner. Constanze tilted her head a little, before Diana put the book down. "Please tell me that Amanda hasn't done anything with you two yet."