I stir awake after sleeping comfortably on Cardin's arms,
Wait what
"AHH-!" I roll off my bed to see him actually on my bed!
In my bedroom!
At my house!
AND MY CLOTHES ARE STILL ON-
Oh thankfully my clothes are still on-
BUT I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT ELSE WE DID LAST NIGHT-
"ughh...that's one way to wake up I guess..." He groans taking my entire bed space
I glare at him then I pinch his cheek
"Cardin.Winchester.what.else.happened.last.night." I say and he moves my hand off his face
"Calm down, we just kissed a ton and fell asleep...You're the one who fell asleep first." He says and I try to remember
I blush on the memory and burry my face on my bed groaning loudly
My mom wasn't home so I asked him to stay at my house for the night
"GOD IS THIS WHAT I HAVE BECOME!?" I scream out loud smacking him in the gut
As he groans in pain I stand up gripping my clothes then tries to breathe to calm down.
"I-i'll prepare us breakfast so you get ready first okay..." I smile at him as he turns his way to me
I quickly step back before he could snatch me arm
"HAH! I'VE SEEN HOW THE MOVIES DO IT! YOU WANT ME TO STAY IN BED LONGER WITH YOU!" I point at him like a mad man then crosses my arms
"Too bad, WE ARE GOING TO BE PRODUCTIVE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING!" I say then stop when a knock was on my room door
Oh fuck...
"Your said your mom wasnt home!" He loudly whispered and I look at him then the window
"Mathilde Loisel, you better stop him if he plans to escape through the window..." I freeze at the tone of Voice that Miss Peach said
I'm sorry Cardin....
But if I die, I'm bringing you with me...
"W-we'll be down in a minute..." I say then I have Fro tug him before he could jump out my window
"Don't you dare run, be the man." I tell him and he sweats as we both gulped and I slowly open the door
....
Why is she menacingly cheerful...
WHY DOES SHE HAVE A KNIFE?!
"...Did you kids rest well?" She asks and we both nod for our life
"Aha! ...that's good to hear.............." I think my soul left my body when she made the first eye contact to me
"How far did you two go at it.............." WHATS WITH HER LONG PAUSES!?
"W-we didn't do anything....he...he just needed to stay in thats all...yeah..." I tell her and she looks at me more making me sweat
"Hmm...we have 2 guest rooms...and a sofa sleeper...why couldn't he have slept there..."
"D-do you want me to leave or..." Cardin YOU BETTER NOT LEAVE ME HERE YOU WNDNSJFBSJHAAAHHHGGG <TL: She fears confrontation of her emotions
"No no! I was just preparing for Breakfast! And how about you freshen up, both of you have a big day today..." I quickly dash downstairs to help with breakfast forgetting today is still the Festival.
While preparing a small breakfast I noticed that Miss Peach took a while to catch up,
"You didn't kill him did you?" I look at her as she slams the knife on the chopping board
"Now why would I do that........." MOM PLEASE HE'S A GOOD MAN SOMETIMES
"N-nothing...just asking...." I say sweating as I cook some Tamogayaki (rolled egg)
Wait
"Are foods like these even normal..." I whisper to Miss Peach pointing that I've prepped Japanese food
"Hmm, I don't see whats wrong with it...You weren't worried when you first made me Sushi." She says preparing some Miso Soup
"Y-you're right..." I say still having doubts but knowing where she is coming from
"You've brought a boy at home to sleep with you.." I freeze while I cook but not look at her
"You should still act the way you do...these moments will give you an insight of who you might stay with for most of your life..." Miss Peach says and after I placed the egg on the chopping board before making new batches, I look at her
...
"Huh!???! Wait!? I didn't plan that far!? I- I-! We were just really sad and! We wanted to stay for the night together and make out-! MAKE UP! MAKE UP I MEAN!" I say then accidentally spraying too much oil on the pan.
Miss Peach took over in cooking as I sulk in the table sipping my miso soup.
She sighs jokingly then laughs.
I groan even more blowing bubbles on my soup.
"This is the first time I've seen you so confused about something and not throwing a tantrum." Miss Peach says and I sigh looking at my food
"I have...never done this before...I doubt following how my parents did it or anyone would help..." I scratch my head
"Here I was thinking that love was all about the Money scheme and the ones who falls in love with someone that is in lower status shall be exiled from society..." I say
"...Uhmm...I supposed that must have depended on your surroundings... Have you really not had a crush on someone?" Miss Peach asks then I shake my head no
"...it was important for me to get many acquaintances as much as I can especially when I was in college prep year...having a crush and being able to go on dates was only for those who have small ambitions- GOD I SOUND LIKE A ROBOT WAS I LIKE THIS?!" I say holding my head then sulking on the floor
"This is what I have become....I've gone low...I Mathilde Loisel have gone low...." I mutter as Miss Peach have me up then cups my face
Squishing it like a rubber ball.
"Well atleast you're here now...No one was judging you of who you loved right?"
"Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Nora, Phyrra, Ren too I think, the Seniors, You-" I list when she asked but then she cuts me off
"In a bad mouthed way..." She asks so nicely but I'm pretty sure she did bad mouth my choices of men(Cardin) after the dance
"What im trying to say is...You can love who you want...And don't think that it will change anything that you are, Here you can be whoever you want...isn't that nice?" I look down and get up with her and smile
So I'm guessing this is the feeling of Freedom...
I can admit that being on my world was fun,
But not the test and the harsh society that we had to constantly fit in, ran by men who doesn't know better and have an ego against those whonare different than them,
It's like being a child again...where everything was simple...
"I guess I'd just have to live through it and see where it takes me..." I say and hear Cardin coming down
"Breakfast is ready, let's eat so I can get ready then we can go." I say and we sat down on the table waiting for him
Cardin looked awkward sitting down beside me and when he looked at the food on the table he had an amazed expression,
"Looks good." I smile when he says it so simply when I know he's trying to act so proper
You cute weirdo...
"Thanks for the meal." Me and Miss Peach says in unison
"Thanks...for the meal." He follows and we started eating
Thankfully some food are familiar to some at Mistral, if not then he might think that I'm a cooking prodigy.
After I got ready I over hear Miss Peach and Cardin talking so I hide on the corner to listen,
"You can make mistakes, just make sure you don't do them intentionally like before... I mean you love my daughter don't you?" I could hear plates being washed
...
There was silence between them.
"I didn't think she'd love me back...I didn't plan ahead but got ready for a rejection..." he says closing the water
"But I overheard some guy say that being Honest is the way to go...I'm not sure if it works, people around me keeps looking at me funny." He says and I want to come out
" Change is normal...and it's not just you, Mattie had changed quite a bit trying to figure things out with you...it's adorable seeing her act like kids her age..." Miss Peach says
"....About her real Parents-" I had to stop them by making fake footsteps
"Time to hit the festivals! My muscles are ready!" I say and Miss Peach looks at me
"Because you resetted yesterday." She says
"BUT NOT INTENTIONALLY I SWEAR!" I wave my hands and then we got our stuff and she drove us to Beacon first so Cardin could get his stuff ready and then we went to the Arena
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"Oh....that's a thing..." I say looking up at who's fighting next.
"Another battle between! Beacons team and the Kingdoms representatives! What a shocking coincidence!" Professor Port announced
"Ladies and Gentlemen please help me welcome again. Penny Polendina of Atlas and Mathilde Loisel of Beacon! Fighting against Team CRDL leader. Cardin Winchester, and Sky Lark!"
We all step forward as our surroundings are chosen
Beach
Gravitational Platforms
Mountains
And Dessert
This might be interesting...
Cardin is an all out fighter and is quick to adapt but he can be cocky about it.
Lark isn't much of a threat, his grades are lower than passing, but his performance gets him a passing atleast.
But why him tho?
BEGIN!
Lark kneels and aims his gun suddenly releasing a wave of Smoke.
Forcing me and Penny to back off
As we were right that it was a gas making an explosion with just a spark,
This techy ass changed his weapon on the last minute huh.
"OH! MATHILDE LOISEL HAS BEEN PUSHED TO THE GRAVITATIONAL PLATFORMA BY CARDIN WINCHESTER! Could this be a disadvantage to her." I hear as it was announced while I face him
That mace with its explosive power knocked me away clean and with this unstable platform he could just hit me again out.
I make it seem like I am using my scream with the shield but I threw it at him making a run for the other platforms
I stop and clash blades with Lark who came out of nowhere then I change into a shotgun firing it.
Cardin came saving him using my shield then swinging his mace where I had to use Fro to keep me from being blown to pieces live as im thrown to a wall where the gravity changed
Penny later came up, and Cardin and Lark made a run for it from her blades but some of it are pulled to the other platforms
"WHAT A BLOW FROM CARDIN WINCHESTER! MATHILDE'S AURA IS SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES!"
Oh shut up.
We haven't had our yet...
"Penny! Regroup-" I stop when a smoke of wave came at me
Just my queue.
I ran inside it and it exploded
With the dust it can be barely seen that I had died and when the smoke clears
"What the-"
"Boo" I fired my shotgun right at his shoulder then cocking it repeatedly to throw him a generous amount getting his aura down
I love this gun.
"SKY LARK HAS BEEN ELIMINATED WITH LOISEL'S DEFENSIVE USE OF HER SEMBLANCE!"
"Not done yet!" I rolled out of the way but suffering the crater damage following me to fall
As Cardin came to look he quickly went back making me miss my shot fired as Fro caught us intime and now I look like im dangling in the air
"Alright, lets catch him on the other side-" I aim my gun at Adam Taurus infront of me
The corner I am in is a closed one but when the platform is lifted he disappeared
Even Fro saw him so he couldn't be-
"GHK-" A mace came breaking my shoulder and the impact threw me off bounds
I gasp for air feeling my broken arm and ribs that I think punctured my lungs causing internal bleeding,
Yea I'm not built for these fights
When the Medics came they were shocked to see that I was bleeding from my head as I smile at them,
Before they came Fro had to reset me by poking her fingers through my helmet to my brain.
"I'm fine, my semblance heals me so I'm not suffering any major ones..." I tell them as I pretend that I'm atleast sprained
"AND THE VICTORY GOES TO PENNY FROM ATLAS! With that Atlas has gained another solo representative on the finals round!" I hear who was announced and I look through the replay
Penny managed to beam Cardin to the Beach and throw and slam an entire boulder at him
That is got to hurt, I think she may have made him dumber...
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"I think she made have made you dumber..." I smirk at him as I changed into my medic work scrubs and helped tending the fighters
"How are you still so energetic?" He asks me and I finished wrapping his head assisting a nurse
"Because I'm cute, andddd hm, how do I put it...you went easy on me..." I lie pinching his cheek but I think he could feel it with the force I was giving him
"Rest up, maybe tomorrow you can bring me to the carnival at the Fairgrounds!" I say then the nurse clears her throat looking at me
Okay jeez I'll go back to work...
Cardin laughs at me and I gave him a heart finger then walked away to help out more,
Coco and Yatsuhashi were discharged and I waved them goodbye but while I was fixing beds Coco asks for me
"Hey Mattie, saw you frozed on the last minute...what was that?" She asks me and I multi tasked on working and Talking
"...I'm not really sure, someone that I didn't like you could say was there for a minute...even Fro was confused..." I say finishing the first one and moved to the next one
"Something like that happened to our fight too..." Coco says and I look at her sweating
"I honestly can't say that I don't believe you, my semblance and I don't have the same brain, so it was weird for her to react the same way I was when she can act on her own..." I said then throwing the using linens to a container
"Don't you think that is weird? Could someone be using their semblance to rig this battle off? I dont mind losing.....it's just that it isn't fair...you know..." I nod in agreement to what she says
"I'll have this concern brought to the security, maybe they can figure something up about it but the possibility may be low if the semblance is this strong..." I say thinking about it
"We'll...atleast we can get the Headmasters know about it...me and the others will keep a look out." She says then I bow
"Thank you Senior Coco, I'll be sure to give you the updates if there are..." I say then
"I already told you to stop calling me th- nevermind..." she sighs and I raise a brow
"Loisel! The Headmaster of Beacon called and wanted you up on his office!" I hear a Nurse say and see her holding a phone
"Yes, Thank you ma'am! Please excuse me!" I bow and take off my top scrubs and washed my hands