A Heart's Thoughts

Day 1-2

"Thank you again for helping me, both of you," Cecilia flashed Eden- who'd just helped ease the pain- and Matthew a smile, "so, you're Matthew, right?"

He nodded and Cecilia smiled contently, "I didn't know you two knew each other. I must've been lucky to have had the both of you when I needed you."

Anthony's pained voice rang through her mind and she was about to mention it to Eden, but she stopped herself just in time. Just because she knew it wasn't a reason to let everyone else know. Instead, she changed the topic.

"Do you think they're done with training now?"

Matthew was about to answer her, but the large crowd walking towards the cafeteria was enough to answer her question.

"Hey, Cecilia, how about you join us for lunch? Now that this awkward border between males and females has been lifted, you might as well get to know some guys so you could train with them," Eden offered with a small smile, having known her long enough that she wasn't the most social one around.

"Do you guys usually eat in crowded places?"

Eden shook his head and nudged Matthew, "Matthew here is also sensitive to sounds. Or actually, he can sense any kind of waves, and in crowded places that can be a bit... overwhelming."

Matthew looked down and Eden just smiled fondly at him before turning to Cecilia, "just come, I'm pretty sure you're going to like all of us."

Cecilia thought about it for a moment before nodding and following the two to a table outside the cafeteria, where a group of young men was gathered together. Someone wearing a purple shirt noticed the three and started waving.

"Ah Elias, how was training?" Eden asked with a small smile, and Elias beamed, "I was about to tell you, it seems we all found new friends!"

Elias noticed Matthew and let out a triumphant sound, "Oh! Oh! Matthew has met her, too! There was this girl at training and she was pretty cool. It was hard fighting against her because she could see the future."

Cecilia looked up at the mention of seeing the future and let out a surprised yelp, "you befriended Clover?"

Elias looked a bit startled at her and nodded, "yeah, but how do you know her? Wait, who are you actually? Eden?" He looked up at Eden for an explanation, but Cecilia spoke up before he could.

"I'm Cecilia, living in the same dorm as Eden and Jude. Clover is my best friend and she lives in the same apartment as I do."

She said this while trying to look past the wall of guys in front of her, to try to spot Clover. Instead, she spotted someone else. Felicia. For the second time since arriving at that table, Cecilia let out a surprised yelp.

"Felicia! What are you doing here?"

Felicia looked up in shock and looked around until she saw Cecilia and smiled as she started waving at her, "I met Jude during training and he said he's good friends with you and Clover, so I made him my victim for four hours."

Jude stood next to her and chuckled as he looked down at the ground. Cecilia smiled at Jude when she caught sight of a familiar figure in a red shirt pushing her way through the small crowd towards them.

"Annabelle! Did you also catch onto these guys during training?"

She chuckled and shook her head, "nope, Julian and Jack here live in my dorm. I've known them for quite a while already, we just never really hung out together."

She pointed at two men who seemed to be in a heated discussion, but as soon as they noticed the attention was on them, they fell silent. Cecilia chuckled as she caught on to what their discussion was about, and felt the urge to butt in and tell the truth about who'd left the half-eaten apple on the nightstand, but she stopped herself. Instead, she turned her attention to the other guys, "what are all of your powers actually?"