Monster || among us

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The following afternoon, Roseanne didn't see the other members of her group, not even Scarlet who had left the dorm early in the morning. Roseanne thought nothing of it and still went about her day, getting ready to go to the carnival with her friends at around five in the afternoon. It was six by the time she heard a knock on her door and she was just finishing up getting ready. Since they didn't have any civilian clothes to wear--they only received school uniforms for their classes, as well as two sets of training uniforms, one set for the cold and one for the hot weather. Every six months they got a new one. Just before taking off for the mission they would be fitted into their space suits. 

As she opened it, she saw her crew mate Raven standing outside awkwardly. With a nervous tone to his voice, he told her. "You said we were meeting at six, but you never said where. So I thought I would pick you up so we could go together."

Roseanne felt a blush tinge her cheeks. She glanced down at her feet for a moment before looking up at him and smiling. She then gave a nod of her head. Scarlet still wasn't back since that morning, and she hadn't even seen Mauve, Ciel, or Seville at either breakfast or lunch. As she stepped out into the hallway next to him and closed her dorm room door behind herself, she got her holo phone out of her blazer pocket. She sent a message to Scarlet, asking if she was ready or if they were going to meet up anywhere specific. 

She then walked with Raven to the dining room so that they could wait for Scarlet's response. They were sat there for an entire hour, talking about random little things here and there. That was when Roseanne turned in her seat at the table next to Raven to face him. She said to him, "You should give me your holo phone ID number so we can text if we need anything from each other." She got her pink holo phone out and unlocked it. She saw him nod in agreement and slowly pull his black holo phone from his pocket. She looked up at him, her pink eyes studying him as she waited for him to speak.

"Its BLK06272998G." She jotted the number down, typing it into the search bar for the data base so that she could pull up his profile. The identification sequence was essentially his color, his date of birth, and a G for garden. People in The Garden had a G attached to their number, whereas people in the provinces had a P at the end, the ones who could afford holo phones anyway. Similarly, Roseanne's number was PNK04302994G. It was like a special bar code they wore on metal bracelets too which allowed them access to certain rooms in the garden, or denied  them access to certain things, like leaving the facility. 

When it came up in the search results, it showed his name, which showed up as Raven Black. Her name on there was Roseanne Pink. Then it had the option to add, send message, or block. She went with the add option and upon his acceptance it would open up to show her his full profile or whatever information he had available for the public . But she immediately broke out into a giggle when she saw his avatar. One could either put up a picture of themselves or customize an avatar. Most people just went with the avatar.

When he saw her giggling, his eyebrows furrowed into a look of confusion. 

"What is it?" He asked her.

She smiled bright at him as she turned her screen his direction for him to see. "Your holo phone avatar looks nothing like you." The hair and the eyes were accurate in color. But most of the other features and the skin tone were off by just a bit. It was similar to what he looked like, but not quite what she would have gone with. 

He thought that she had been laughing at his expense, and he let out a sigh of relief when he realized otherwise. "It looks normal to me." He told her with a tiny hint of amusement and a shrug of his shoulders. Offering his holo phone to her, he added in a bit of a teasing tone. "If you think you can do better, please show me."