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A R C A N E

(a). Understood by few; mysterious or secret.

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I woke up after feeling something stirring in bed. My sleepy eyes slowly opened and closed as I let out a yawn; rolling over on my side I came in contact with a warm body.

"Hey sleepy." Ashley's soft voice drawled. A tiny smile formed on my face as I slowly got up.

"You go shower first, I'll make us breakfast, okay?" I said in a groggy tone, sleep still smacking me in the face. She just nodded her head and helped herself to the clothes in my wardrobe.

I ruffled my blonde locks, slowly making my way downstairs as I heard the muffled rapid pitter patter of water, which was obviously Ashley starting up the shower. I looked around and decided on what to make, knowing how much Ash loved pancakes. I grabbed my phone and turned on my morning playlist, which was just the normal Spotify daily mix of random songs.

Suddenly an upbeat song started playing, and I didn't understand any of it as it seemed to be in a different language, yet I found myself singing along to it. "Yolo yolo yolo yah?" I laughed at the lyrics. I poured some of the mix onto the pan.

Not long later, Ashley came downstairs, my blue towel wrapped around her neck as she held the bottom of it and smiled, coming closer to me. "Those smell great!" She giggled, too eager to try the pancakes. I remembered the question I was dying to ask her last night.

"So why were you all shocked about Raven?" I asked, she analysed the curious look on my face.

"She's just, you know. Not the type to show affection." she answered innocently. I felt her back hug me, her arms wrapping around my body as I flipped the pancake.

"So she's quiet?" I continued to ask, and felt her lightly shake her head on my neck as she pulled away from the hug.

"Not necessarily. She's just, I don't know. She keeps her thoughts to herself most of the time. Ray talks but she never really shows anything to do with affection, and we've never gotten a compliment from her before." Ash admitted, and my mouth shaped into an O as I understood what she was talking about. Turning off the cooker, I let the pancake fall onto the plate from the pan, and let Ash pour the syrup on top.

"Does she ever talk? You know, in voice chats?" I asked, tilting my head in more curiosity. "Have you ever heard her voice?"

Ashley thought about it for a second, then shook her head. "She always has her microphone muted."

"How long have you guys known each other?"

More thinking.

"Most of us met at the same time in a public server, around 2 years ago. Sam, me, Emily, Marcus and Troy. Then Zen joined the server a month later, and he was very active in our conversations so became close to us fairly quickly. I'm pretty sure Emily met Rose in a Kpop server, so invited her around a month after." She said, and I thought about everything as we sat down with our plates and started to eat.

"And Raven?" I asked, curiosity still bubbling inside of me.

"I don't know. Sam says Ray was in the server way before I was. But she was never active. She became active like, a week or so after Rose joined?" Ashley nodded to herself as she took a bite from her pancake. "Wow, this is really good." she mumbled in satisfaction as I smiled. My mind wandered around slowly, still curious over the mysterious Raven.