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As she arrived, Lucky couldn't help but be amazed at the sheer scale of the academy.
“The game really doesn't capture it, does it?”
Momo laughed. “As if it ever could”
They entered the gate and immediately took a left to the registration desk where Lucky needed to sign in. After briefly greeting the administrator, Lucky gave them her form, and was given a schedule in exchange. Lucky followed Momo to the library.
“I remember this!” Lucky exclaimed. “The first game started here, right?” Lucky saw a book on the wall and instinctively reached for it.
“NO!” Momo yelled. Lucky flinched back. Momo also seemed to flinch at her own reaction. “Sorry. That's the original book, we have plenty of copies if you want one.”
“Really?” Lucky curiously replied. Momo walked across the room to a bookshelf with a suspicious number of identical books lined up. Lucky correctly guessed they were the copies Momo had mentioned when she brought Lucky the same book from it.
Lucky and Momo found a nice comfy sofa next to a far window and sat down next to each other as Lucky opened the book.
“Here's the hourglass.” Momo mentioned. “I had just learned that a few weeks before the game.”
“You were really good at it though!” Lucky said, making Momo slightly blush. Lucky laid down, her head resting on Momo's lap.
“I'll pay for it, we've got a lot more here for you to see.” Momo told Lucky, trying to stand up.
“Awww, I like it here…”
“Oh, come on!” Momo playfully replied. Momo helped Lucky up, and they walked to the desk, Lucky refusing to let go of Momo’s hand from helping her up from the couch. Momo took Lucky up a flight of stairs to her school's dormitories. Momo’s room looked pretty much exactly how Lucky had expected. Extremely neat. There couldn't have been a single speck of dust in the room.
“I made arrangements, we'll be sharing a room.” Momo explained
“Well, I hope you don't expect it to be THIS spotless anymore, Misses Clean.” Momo gave Lucky a playful nudge as she set down her bags. “Which bunk do you want?”
“I'll go on bottom.”
“Afraid of heights, are we?”
“I've been to space, I don't think so.”
“Whatever you say.”
After making Misses Clean’s room less than spectacular, Momo continued to show Lucky around to her classes.
“Do you want to take the scenic route?” Momo gleefully inquired on the way to the cafeteria.
“Of course!” Lucky obviously replied
Momo took an early left, leading out onto a balcony overseeing the ocean, where a familiar white cat was sitting.
“Sugar!”
“Momo! And… are you new?”
“Yep, staying with this delightful idiot!” Lucky rubbed Momo’s head as they all laughed.
“The sunset is beautiful tonight!” Sugar noted. Lucky wished she had more time to look at it before Momo whisked her and Sugar away to the cafeteria for dinner. It was nothing special, just some spaghetti, but it wasn't awful by any means. They sat down at a table towards the center.
“Just one more, the flying one, what was it called again?” Lucky asked.
“It's… just flying.” Momo bluntly responded.
“Oh…” Lucky replied, flustered.
Momo started to laugh, before remarking, “That'll be in the courtyard upstairs.”
“Can we stop by the balcony again first?”
“I’m going to if you all aren't,” Sugar said.
“I wouldn't mind stopping by.”
After dinner, they walked back up to the balcony to once again look at the sunset that had now nearly faded. Lucky hopped onto the railing and sat over the side, facing the ocean.
“This is nice.” Lucky remarked. “Come on, get over here!”
“Alright, I'll join you.” Momo reluctantly agreed. She hopped over the railing and sat beside Lucky, holding her hand as she sat facing the quickly disappearing sun.
Momo quickly lost track of time.
“It's 8:36!” Momo yelled, shocked.
They doubled past the entrance to the dormitories before taking some stairs up to a giant basketball court.
“It’s indoors?” Lucky asked, surprised.
“What, do you want to fall from the stratosphere?” Momo rhetorically asked.
“Wouldn't be opposed to it…”
“LUCKY!” Momo yelled, as they both burst out laughing. When she finally collected herself, she asked, “Let's get back before we get out the doors in front of the gate instead.”
They had to be somewhat careful, they ended up getting back at 9:03 instead of 9:00, but no one seemed to care that much on the first day. Lucky finished up getting everything situated in Misses Clean’s dumpster fire of a dormitory.
“You know, I wish we had just a bit more time watching the sun.”
“Yeah, me too.”
Lucky laid down and got out the book that Momo had bought for her earlier that day.
“Hey, Momo?”
“Yeah?”
“...”
“Thanks.” Lucky told Momo.
Momo gave Lucky a hug. “No problem.”