Monster || among us

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With three and a half more weeks before their mission in space, the administration of the garden allowed team 12191 to have a beach trip. There was a beach in the Garden, but the crew never got to go because they were always training. Raven and Roseanne had gone to their instructors for permission, and since all their training was finished, they thought there would not be any harm for the students to take a trip out to the ocean. It was a half hour drive and their instructor Violet was to drive them there in a white van from the Garden facility. She was to leave them there and pick them up at six in the afternoon. Since they got up at eight and were on the road by ten, they would have six hours to enjoy the ocean.

Honey seemed a bit paranoid about going to the ocean. The van had three rows of seats, not including the driver's seat, and the front passenger seat next to the driver. Scarlet had claimed the first chair, next to the driver. Indy, Mauve, and Ciel sat in the first row of seats since they were the taller boys in the group and Ivory and Scarlet pointed out with smart little snickers that they'd never fit in the back seat. In the second row were Honey, Seville, and Cedar. Roseanne wasn't surprised when she had climbed into the van first, going right for the last row corner seat. Raven sat next to her, taking the middle seat, and Ivory practically clawed her way to get the last seat in the back row. 

From the second row, Roseanne heard their youngest member saying to Seville with worry. "I've seen rivers and lakes in my province, since we use them to water the crops. But not the ocean. I read in the library that there are these things called tsunamis that have these really big tidal waves." 

Seville placed a hand over hers on her lap to reassure her. "I'm pretty sure there won't be any of those."

At least, Roseanne thought to herself, he was so nice and gentle when it came to Honey. He always protected her from everything, which was so unlike his personality. If it had been anyone else making a comment like that, he'd have instantly made fun of them for being a coward. But perhaps, he really liked Honey enough to change the way that he acted when he was around her. Roseanne wondered if she subconsciously changed the way that she acted whenever she was around Raven. Or if he, by chance, changed any aspects of his personality whenever he was around her. 

The drive held some chatter between the team members and when they got there, Instructor Violet had the boys get all the bags out of the trunk, as well as a grill and a cooler with food for the team. Since Scarlet was from Province of Livestock and Indy was from Province of Ocean, the two were in charge of cooking the food. They had been around those things their whole lives. As they stepped out of the van one by one, Roseanne had been the last one and Ivory grinned mischievously. She slammed the door in her face before she could step out onto the concrete parking lot. Roseanne rolled her eyes, used to this kind of treatment and behavior from her. Whenever Ivory White wasn't messing with Raven, she was being mean and petty to Roseanne. 

With a sigh, Raven looked at the girl who only giggled and skipped away to go poke Indy and Mauve for a bit. He opened the door for Roseanne and offered his hand to help her out. 

The moment they left the van, Indy looked out at the ocean with sparkling dark blue eyes and took a big whiff of the salt water nearby. It was what he knew from back home and it brought back nice memories. It was mostly hazy, since he only lived there for four years of his life. But no matter, he knew that the amount of time he spent there did not matter. What mattered was that it was his home and he missed it.