the gauntlet discussion

Each room has 4 lofted beds, 4 dressers/closets, 4 desks, and a lockable cabinet for personal items.

Room Occupants
A - Lyca Delacroix
B - Joelle Bronte
C - Artemis Lennox
D - Juliet Donovan

Since earlier all Lyca had done is throw her bags onto her bed and book it, she decided to come back after eating lunch with Dan. She can handle anything Jo said to her. Everything that happened between them was so long ago, she wasn't going to get trapped back into Joelle like she had been before. She was not going to give her parents any reason to yank her from the Academy (she wasn't even sure they were allowed to by the school conduct) but hell, she'd bet they would try. And she could handle this, it was literally just one year. 365 days... in the same room... as Joelle. It was going to be fine though, she could focus on the Gauntlet, that is what she came here to prove. And then she could live whatever life she wanted.

I can handle this. she thought, starting to unpack her things and make her bed. She wondered what her parents would do if they even knew Joelle was in the same room as her. She knew that Nate wouldn't even know to tell them, since he had no idea who Joelle was. The only people that knew were her parents, her oldest brother, and whichever one of their snake friends that had been there that night and had told her tattle of a brother in the first place. Lyca sighed loudly, grabbing a handful of her underwear to throw it in the top drawer of her dresser -- whens she turned Jo was standing there behind her looking flawless as ever with a few duffle bags over her shoulder.

"Jesus christ! Make a noise, could you?" she greeted her, clenching the underwear to her chest (where her heart was nearly beating out of her body).

The idea that Jo wouldn't even have realized who Lyca was did not cross her mind at all -- she had been thinking the entire time that Jo might be dreading coming just as much as she was, nervous to be rooming with someone she shared such a history with. But obviously that wasn't the case at all, Lyca could see the visible change on Jo's face when she turned around. She wasn't nervous or anxious about moving in with Lyca, she was pissed because she hated her. She could read it very plainly in her features, she wanted nothing to do with Lyca. And that was before she barreled through her to get to her own bed and dresser.

Lyca stood there in front of her speechless, dropping her hand to her side -- she was shook as hell. She wasn't sure what kind of reception she had been expecting from Joelle, but this most certainly wasn't it at all. "I'm sorry, are you implying that I'm a liar? What have I said to you in the last five seconds that I could have possible lied about?" she asked, shocked to her core. She was hurt too, incredibly so. Sure, they had kissed and Lyca had disappeared for a week, but that didn't make her a liar, at most to Jo it would make her seem like a bitch. It had been years, was she honestly still pissed?

Lyca didn't have a magical little necklace like Jo, and she most certainly wasn't the type to just block other people out and enter her own little bubble that no one else in the world could penetrate. She put away her things, sure, but in the exact opposite way that Jo did. She threw them in drawers, making her dresser about as organized as her chaotic life -- tossing whatever fit where, just so she could escape this room as fast as possible. She thought that if she made it clear she was staying, and if she put away all of her things, Jo would know that she wasn't running out of the room to get away from her (uhm yes, she was), she just had better things to do.

So, rest assured, when Jo finally decided Lyca was worth talking to again, Lyca was still just as annoyed as she had been 15 minutes ago. What did it matter if Lyca never told her a legitimate last name? Her family literally had nothing to do with her, like at all. She wanted no association to her family whatsoever, because they had made it more than clear she did not belong, and that was something she had come to terms with a long time ago. Jo couldn't expect her to actually align herself with those people. "You're pissed because I introduced myself as Lyca Dellacie? Okay, big deal, switch out a couple of letters I'm a Delacroix. Didn't know that the Delacroix's had a daughter? It's because they don't, Jo. Get over it. It's a name, not a personality, which is something I have never lied about."

"Be pissed at me all you want, just because you think your name made you who you are, doesn't mean I feel the same way. I am what I am despite of my name." she replied, but at a lower volume and with less sass. Lyca understood what she was saying, and she didn't really want to fight either, but really... Jo kind of just brought that out in her. Lyca just felt like everything was more intense around Jo -- it was just a slight annoyance, it was pure rage... it wasn't just little butterflies, she felt like her stomach was turning so fast she might actually vomit. Romantic, right?

Lyca looked over at Jo, meeting her eyes with what probably read as defeat on her features. So much for Jo being that little girl with a crush that Lyca could steer with a well placed smile... she wasn't that little teenager anymore, the one that was love-struck and willing to do almost anything Lyca asked her too. Jo was not the kind of girl that could be wooed anymore, that was for damn sure. She was grown. She was tall, blonde, and had even grown into her chest. Totally different girl. Lyca looked away, knowing her olive skin tone wouldn't betray any kind of embarrassment for having stared too long. "I'm not trying to kill you, but I'm not trying to start over either. I haven't forgotten anything."

I understand completely what kind of bullshit was that? Lyca mocked Joelle's words in her head, repeating them over and over and different voices to make herself feel better. It didn't work. She didn't understand anything, like at all. Jo could just be cool with it all, and understanding, and go with the flow. Must be nice? Lyca glanced her way, trying to gouge if she was actually being serious. But to her surprise, Jo's expression was unreadable... which was a new development, just like her cup size. Since when did Jo not betray her every emotion to Lyca? The girl had always wore her heart on her sleeve when around Lyca, but not anymore.

Lyca whipped around when Jo called her Ly, ready to throw something at her for even beginning to think that was an okay thing to say, but the door was already closed. "Stupid fucking stupid-ughhhh" she threw the tennis shoes she'd been unpacking, whipping them by the laces onto her bed. But you know, the lace caught on her finger and they rebounded back into her stomach. "Mother fu-" she dropped to her knees, feeling even more stupid now than she had five seconds ago when Jo had been looking at her like she was batshit.

Well wasn't Kaneki just the cutest thing in the world? he certainly seemed to think so, putting his arm around her waist and walking her to her room before squeezing her butt and then running away like this was middle school.

Most embarrassing of all was the tiniest squeak that had left her when he did it, because it was Kaneki and never in a million years did she expect him to squeeze her butt. Not without a comment about her butt looking fat or something. She hadn't even argued with him about how she was going to the infirmary to take a nap rather than going to her room, but now that she was here, and Artemis wasn't? She figured it was probably safe to take a nap.

Of course that's when she noticed that Lyca had been in the room, sitting at her desk and was currently looking over at Juliet with quite the expression. To which Juliet's brows immediately pulled together in a furrow and she closed the door behind her with a clear of her throat. "Were you hoping for someone else to show up?" Like maybe a dirty blonde someone with miles of legs and a look that was on 'kill on sight' all the time?

So what if Lyca couldn't control her facial expressions -- she wasn't the one who had just busted through the door laughing with a boy right behind her. A pretty attractive boy. Lyca had a hard time not making a comment at the two of them, giggling around each other like one would at a middle school crush. She wasn't bothered by their attitude, she just found it kind of comical. Up until this moment, Lyca hadn't seen Juliet smile once, yet the second this boy was around she lit up like a Christmas tree?

She saw the boy duck out from under the doorframe with a smile, probably heading back towards his room, and her eyes followed him with a smirk. "I wasn't hoping for anyone, I just didn't think someone squealing down the hall would find themselves coming into this room is all. Pretty sure we were voted most tense, and least desirable-living-situation in the student poll." she replied, looking back down to the book she had been reading. Of course she could have left it there, but that wasn't really Lyca's style... she was the teasing-kind.

Lyca turned in her chair, leaning back to throw one food on top of her desk. "That kid had quite the ass, what's his name? You guys a thing, Jules? I think he likes you."

Squealing? Jeez, Lyca made it sound like Juliet had been some sort of middle school girl squealing while her crush chased her around. So naturally Juliet rolled her eyes, already sliding back into that tense state of being that she usually carried around in this room. "Maybe you heard someone else squealing down the hall. Definitely doesn't sound like anyone that would live here. Pretty sure we were all put in this room cause we're 80% temper and 20% sarcasm. Doesn't leave any room for fun." She was already walking over to her closet, pulling off her shoes and tossing them into the the little shelf space she designated for her shoes.

Hmmmm shoes. Maybe she should mess with Artemis' shoes- Barbie would probably hate that.

But her head snapped up at Lyca's comment about Kaneki's ass. What a snob, looking at her book all casually pretending like she wasn't saying things that could get under someone's skin. Nope, she was just sitting there acting like they were talking about the weather. "Kaneki Cudrow. Should I hook you up?" Hopefully that question answered the whole being a thing question. "He's got a thing for brunettes who are 60% legs and have big brown eyes." Shame that Lyca had green eyes, not unlike Juliet's. "And trust me, he doesn't like me."

She scoffed at the very notion, peeling off her shirt and rummaging in the closet for a pajama shirt- already she had decided she was going to just spend the day sleeping. Especially since her head was kind of hurting.

Lyca didn't believe for one second that it hadn't been her squealing, because she didn't hear it anymore, and look who was standing in front of her all embarrassed and quiet? She was surprised, however, that Juliet humored her joke. Like what? The girl had a sense of humor? Who knew? The only time Lyca had ever even seen her around the room, she'd had a permanently scowl and cast a number of glares at the other girl -- Aphrodite or something? It was pretentious, she had remembered that much. "I'm at least 73% sarcasm, I don't know where you're pulling these numbers from." she replied, proving her point.

If Juliet was trying to pretend that she didn't like Kaneki, maybe she should learn to control her face when someone said his name. Lyca was at least 60% legs, if not more, but she wasn't interested in Kaneki, she was interested in Juliet's expression. "Trust me, he does." she quipped, dropping her feet from the desk with the thud. "So what if you don't have brown eyes, you're still the apple of his." Ha!

She looked away when Juliet stripped, just out of courtesy. "And you like him, so what's so complicated about that?"

Juliet would go to her grave swearing that she wasn't the source of that squealing, because talk about embarrassing. She rolled her eyes though at Lyca's correction with a slight smirk tugging at her lips, "Wow, my bad, I'll correct the statistics for the chart to post outside," Because obviously their room needed some kind of warning system for those poor innocent souls outside. Or probably not, since Juliet was pretty sure that the tension between all of them in room 001 was so heavy and demanding that everyone in the hall probably felt it at some points during the day. It wasn't like any of the girls in the room were anything close to subtle. Not in the slightest.

Oh God.

What was that?

A joke?

Juliet turned her attention over to Lyca sharply, wrinkling her nose at that corny line. "The apple of his....jeez Lyca I really was wrong. You're 73% sarcasm and 27% corny jokes and bad humor," Oh look at that, Juliet could be friendly, she could even joke around, and she smiled the smallest of smiles just to prove it to Lyca, of course when she tugged her clean shirt on she rolled her eyes at the other girls comment about his interest. "Oh? And what about you and Jo, huh? Cause I doubt that little squabble between you two is purely platonic. Not with that soulful puppy dog gaze you're always throwing her way when she's not looking. And then she's always looking over at you when you're not looking. So what's so complicated about that?"

Yeah, Juliet had avoided answering the question by instead turning the situation on Lyca. Hmmm? What was going on there homegirl.

Lyca could have jokes, she was a funny gal. Well, she was funny until she told someone that's what she was. It wasn't her fault she hadn't gotten to show her true colors in this room, just look at it! Lyca wasn't surprised by how shocked Juliet seemed to be by this conversation, since Lyca was pretty in disbelief herself. Juliet could be sarcastic? And smile? What? "See, that was a smile, he definitely puts you in a better mood. So even if you don't think he likes you, you definitely like him -- note that I'm completely disregarding the whole he's-not-interested-in-me-thing because I saw the way he looked at you. You're not the apple of his eye, you're more like -" she paused, searching for the best simile, "The sun to his entire existence."

Losing some of her grin and most of her good attitude, Lyca's eyebrows lifted considerably when Juliet mentioned Jo's name. Lyca could usually take what she dished out, but this was kind of different. Well, to her it was, because Juliet didn't understand how complicated it was... not that she did either, but really, she was too selfish to see how that might work both ways. "Puppy dog gaze, really?" she rolled her eyes, flipping back open her book. "That's a straight up lie, that's nothing more than a broken friendship. She's a girl, I'm a Delacroix, you do the math."

"Wow Lyca, I didn't think you were a romantic. Keep adding all these traits and your percentage is going to get way too complicated to chart," Seriously, the sun of his existence? Talk about corny. And untrue. Juliet was more like.....the moon? Just there for support and stuff, but not nearly as important as his sun- who was obviously Althea. Not that Lyca had a clue about any of this, the situation was so complicated that it would be hard to explain. Besides, Kaneki probably didn't want a lot of people here at the academy knowing about his accident or convoluted past, so Juliet intended to keep it that way. It was his past to share, not hers.

Woah. Talk about an attitude change though. It was pretty clear from the way Lyca's whole demeanor changed that Jo was not just a broken friendship thing. "What does that matter? You're at Ainsley the same school that farm boys and glorified future nursemaids also got into," Ughh seriously though, what were the chances all of Juliet's roommates were going to be rich snobby 'Guardians of the future' kids? "And from the way you two skirt around each other there's a lot more than just some rivalry. I'm just saying, maybe you should look at your own feelings before trying to psycho-analyze someone else's. Not that I have any. Towards Kaneki. Cause I don't."

Just to you know....clarify.

She wasn't romantic, she just had eyes -- there was a difference. KC was easier to read than a children's book, just because Juliet wasn't willing to see it, didn't mean everyone else could be in denial. Lyca just thought it was her obligation to tell Juliet, and tease her about it, because if the girl really didn't know... well, those were the kind of things you wanted to sort out before you were offed in the race, ya' know? Like unrequited love in these kind of situations was just another stressful thing to deal with -- especially if you died never knowing. ahah. Not that it was something the was stressing her out, of course.

So what if Lyca got all salty all of the sudden, it didn't have anything to do with Jo. Or that Juliet knew, and that was another thing for Lyca to stress about. Maybe next time Artemis tried rubbing poison oak on Juliet's pillow, Lyca would give her the green light instead of tell her to stop. "Very convincing, Julie." she laughed, closing the book again. Mood swings much. Lyca grabbed her favorite knife from her ankle holster, beginning to twiddle it without much thought. "If you tell Jo, or anyone else, what you think you know -- but clearly do not, I'm going straight to Kaneki to rat you out though, just so you know."

Oh? They were at the nickname stage then? "Kaneki would never believe you anyway," Or worse, he would and then he'd stop talking to her about things and start being awkward with her because 'oh great Juliet is just like all these other girls and has feelings for me'. So yes, she may have been willing to call out Lyca's bluff but after a second she wrinkled her nose, scrunching up her face with a frown before shaking her head and holding up her hands in a gesture of surrender. "Fine. Fine. I give. I won't say anything and you don't say anything. But you know, Lycie, you and Jo are both pretty big targets here and people do die at Ainsley,"

Yeah, it wasn't just the academy that was dangerous. "If I was in your shoes....I'd at least want to be on good terms with Jo in case something did happen." Another reason to ignore the whole Kaneki thing. After all, what chances did she really have of winning here? Slim to none. Her focus was on just surviving. But if even that didn't work out? Well...it would be for the best that way. As long as Kaneki was happy, Juliet could be happy. That's what real friendship was, right? Just wanting the other person to be happy? She turned towards her bed then, climbing up the rungs and stretching out on the mattress.

Not that Lyca had to worry about Juliet saying anything.

The last thing that Juliet needed was another roommate with a vendetta against her- this time one who liked to play with knives.

Lyca felt a fair amount of panic when Juliet wasn't buying her threat -- what was she going to do if the word got out? She shouldn't have even threatened Juliet in the first place, then she wouldn't know it was something worth telling people. Too late for that then? But then Juliet finally agreed, and Lyca felt the pressure in her chest release. One less thing she had to deal with, honestly. And it wasn't like she would ever even told Kaneki, because she probably would just be doing Juliet a favor. Not that she needed to know that.

She looked up sharply, narrowing her eyes. Ok, chill, Lyca. That wasn't a threat. Was it? "And what do you mean by that? People die in this place, do you think I don't know that? I'm not going to be one of them, and neither is Jo." she replied, unsure at what Juliet was getting at. Lyca truly believed that neither of them were going to die, they were both too good. They were born for this shit, raised for it, even. Especially Jo.

Twisting her knife between her fingers, Lyca turned it towards her textbook to lightly drag it over the cover -- not enough to cause any damage, it was just a distraction for her hands as she thought about Juliet's words. "We're on good terms, it's definitely not as bad as it could be. And what about you? Are you just going to potentially let him die without letting him know how you feel?"

Oh. well Juliet realized far too late how that could come across as a threat, "Look, all I'm saying is shit happens sometimes. Unexpectedly. Not a dig against you or Jo. I know you both are more than competent," Like hold up, please, she definitely knew that her two roommates were more than skilled and had spent their whole lives training for this. "All i meant was shit happens. You never know when it could happen," After all Matt had been killed in a training accident. A sparring match under a trainer's supervision gone wrong. Kaneki had gotten into that freak accident....there was just so much that could happen. No one knew when shit could go down.

But her whole body stiffened at Lyca's words, fighting the urge to sit up and narrow her eyes at Lyca. Lyca was at her desk anyway, there was a wall between them now, and she couldn't even glare at the other girl. But the hard edge to her tone was probably enough to make it clear that wasn't anything Juliet wanted to talk about or even consider. "Kaneki is not going to die." No one ever said Juliet could hide her emotions very well- or at all. She was pretty much a constant open book, even strangers could tell what she was thinking. "He's not a threat so no one is going to hurt him....he's going to be fine."

She was convincing herself more of that fact than Lyca. Truthfully? Juliet wasn't sure she could handle losing another person. The fear she had felt when she thought she had lost Kaneki had been enough terror to last for at least the next five years. Please and thank you. Besides, Kaneki wasn't in top ten. He wasn't a threat. He would just...he'd be safe. He just had to keep being cautious. And maybe if she was really lucky him and Althea would figure everything out before the end of the year and he'd drop out of Ainsley and go home. Live his life with Althea. Safe and happy.

Far from the dangers here. "And please. You two are not on good terms. Not unless you consider Artemis and I to be on good terms too." Seriously Lyca needed to fix her definition of 'good terms'.

Shit happening was not something that Lyca needed explained to her -- two of her brothers had died running the race, so she wasn't new to tragedy, or the price of the Gauntlet on families. She just knew it wasn't going to happen to her, and it wasn't going to happen to Jo, it just couldn't. It wasn't going to happen to Dan either. All of them had been training for this since forever -- well, so had her brothers. Lyca just wasn't going to think about it, because this whole thing was just stupid. None of them were going to die -- they couldn't.

Lyca's knife dug into the cover of her book, and she stood up from her desk in annoyance, leaving it there.

She went to stand in the walkway, moving so she could see Juliet. "He's not a threat?" Lyca had seen the boy, he looked like he could lift his body weight twice over and then some, but looks could be deceiving. If Juliet knew him though, Lyca wasn't going to argue. "If he's not a threat, why is he here? He's probably in more danger not being a threat, because someone will probably see him as easy pickings. Not me, of course, just to be clear. I'm not interested in foul play, I'm here to win because I'm meant to." Lyca wasn't trying to brag, she just didn't want it to seem like she was making threats. A lot of the rich kids would do anything to win, and Lyca just wasn't one of them. She didn't need to resort to that kind of stuff.

Lyca stepped closer to Juliet's desk, "I'm not trying to piss you off or anything, I'm just saying. You should talk to him about how you feel, because if you don't you might regret it. Whether either of you die, if you don't snatch him, someone else might." As for Joelle, "You and Artemis don't have the same kind of history as me and Jo."

Lyca had come closer, Juliet could tell that much just from the way her voice sounded, and looking over she saw that she'd turned the wall and was nearer her desk now. "He's not.....he's not going to get hurt. I mean-" Yes, Kaneki could easily be seen as a threat, just looking at him it was obvious he could bench press like two cows if he really wanted to. But he hadn't even placed last competition. And she didn't want him to get hurt....to be seen as a threat. "He's not easy pickings either, anyone can see that looking at him. He's just....just kaneki." Jesus, Lyca way to activate the worst fears in Juliet's very core. To cause her breathing to be a little more focused on to keep it even.

But at her next words she frowned and rolled so she was on her back, staring up at the ceiling as she pursed her lips. "yeah well....he kind of has a fiance. So you're really beating a dead bush here, Lyca. They're on a bit of a break...but only because he's being stubborn about everything." Not a lie, but not the whole truth either, "She's in love with him, and she came to the Academy to prove how much she loves him too. So I don't think telling him about any feelings I could possibly have," Not that Juliet was confirming anything here, "is going to change a damn thing. So how about we stop talking about my problems, and we can talk about you and Jo and that 'history' you're talking about. Cause I'd be very worried if you had the same history as Artemis and I." Juliet rolled back over then, laying on her side and looking down at Lyca. Eyes practically pleading to move on to a different subject.

One that didn't involve Kaneki being hurt in the future. Or how he was in love with another girl....even if he didn't quite remember that part.

Kaneki didn't seem like he had a finance by the way he was grinning at Juliet, and if he did, he was a sketchy character. But from how carefully Juliet was choosing her words, she figured that there was more to the story than she was letting on. Not that Lyca needed the whole story, she could tell just from her roommate's expression how complicated it all was, and it would probably take a long time to explain. Sure, it was complicated, but what was simple was the way the two felt about each other. "Okay, I get it, you don't want to talk about it... but you're focusing on why this other girl is here and shit, but have you thought about why he's here? Or even asked him?"

Lyca would been $100 the kid had come for Juliet herself.

"Because a bit of break to me sounds like he's fair game." she offered, almost as a concluding thought. Lyca wasn't sure why she was pushing Juliet to go after this boy so much, they weren't even friends. But like... just by the way they looked at each other, someone should be happy around here, and why not Juliet?

As for her and Joelle... Lyca wasn't sure how to explain it. "Basically we were almost a thing, then weren't because my parents locked me up in my room like I was Rapunzel or something. Que to why you need to not say anything, because my brother is here and if hears -- you'll miss my charming wit. Fast forward to now, and it's different because we're older and Joelle is definitely not here for me, she's here for the race. She doesn't trust me because I lied about some stuff, and like my chance is completely shot. And I'm not here for her either, so. It's different." Not to mention what Lyca didn't know was Jo had wanted nothing to do with her back then, and still didn't.

Juliet didn't need to ask Kaneki why he was here. She knew why he was here: he was here because after his accident he wanted some adventure and the chance to find himself. Simple. See. She didn't even need to ask, despite what Lyca seemed to think. "I know why Kaneki is here, and trust me he's not chasing after me. He's lived near me my entire life, and was the object of pretty much all the girl's affections from around town. Trust me, pick of the crop like that he's not going to be interested in chasing after me." Juliet sighed then, finally sitting up and turning to Lyca. She was just going to have to give it to the girl straight since apparently Lyca was some kind of secret matchmaker or something.

"Look he's not interested. If he was, I think I would probably know. And he's not fair game because the other girl is here and still very much in love with him. I'm not about to go risking my friendship with Kaneki. Okay? I care about him too much. I know he's going to realize he's being stupid and he's going to go running back to Althea and if I do something stupid like tell him I like him then he's going to get awkward around me and not be my friend anymore," Well fuck. Juliet hadn't meant to say all that. But it had tumbled out. One thing after the other and now she just sighed, shoulders slumping in defeat.

Thankfully Lyca offered up her own mess of a romantic life. Pursing her lips for a moment she nodded, sounded like a sticky situation. Probably almost as sticky as Kaneki's. "Well....sounds to me like Jo is just hurt about things. I think that there's still a chance there. I mean you obviously still have feelings for her, right? Who's to say she doesn't have them too? Under that whole rough exterior of hers."

Those girls that never seemed to realize how beautiful they were and that no guy would ever want them... was never the kind of girl Lyca had been, so she didn't really relate to this whole struggle that Juliet seemed to be going through. KC liked her, and it made no sense to Lyca why Juliet couldn't wrap her head around it. The whole he's to hot for me because all of the other girls wanted him way back way thing wasn't working for her because it didn't matter who wanted him, it mattered who he wanted. If she had said that he had gone chasing after every single girl besides her, that would have been another story.

Lyca also didn't think it would be awkward if she confronted KC because she had recently just made out with one of her childhood friends, and he was actually just a really good kisser, and they haven't been awkward. Or had to like define the relationship or anything, it's just been really chill. She wondered if it was almost too easy, and decided not to offer that up as a pro towards her telling Kaneki... mostly because she didn't even know how to say it without confusing herself. Okay, so maybe it wasn't as simple as she thought, because her feelings were still incredibly confused. But okay, one emotional problem at a time.

Lyca shook her head, "No, I'm not chasing her, she knows how I feel. Well, I think. I don't know, I shouldn't have to apologize for something that isn't my fault. But why should I have to tell Jo if you won't tell Kaneki?"

One emotional problem at a time was right. Juliet didn't need any more problems. She had enough. What with Matt, and Artemis, and trying to do good at these competitions, she really didn't want to have to think about how Kaneki and her own feelings and Althea all fit into everything. The very scraping of the topic was starting to give her a headache. "Because you and Jo actually almost had something? Kaneki and I never have?" Like seriously? How was this even a question? If Juliet had ever had an almost thing with a guy she would damn straight have been fighting tooth and nail for that boy.

Ha, she was typically fighting tooth and nail just for Kaneki and Althea and that wasn't even her own damn relationship.

"Fine. If you tell Jo and I'll tell Kaneki." Juliet felt pretty confident in her little bet. After all, what were the chances that Lyca was going to say anything to Jo? Pretty damn slim. Besides, what was Lyca going to do? Wire tap Juliet and make sure that she told Kaneki? No. Even if Lyca did say something, Juliet figured she could probably get away with letting down her side of the deal.

Or maybe Lyca would find out and put a knife in Juliet for going back on her word. Who knew?

Her and Jo were probably as close to having something as Kaneki and Juliet, since Lyca's parents would literally murder her. Maybe she should just get with Dan make it all easier -- because if she was with him, both of their parents would be happy. Then again, Lyca had never been skilled in the pleasing of the parents department, and though she loved Momma Moss, her own mother was the last person Lyca wanted to impress. And besides, she didn't need to worry about that, when she was a guardian, she could do whatever the hell she wanted.

"Deal." she said, pulling out of her own head. Lyca could guess what Juliet was thinking though, that she might not have to hold up her end of the deal. She could practically read it on her face, she wasn't very subtle. "I'll tell Jo the next time we're alone, and you should do the same. And if you don't, I'll go up to him myself and told him I heard you moaning his name in your sleep, and he should stop by at night sometime, because you could most certainly do with a good lay."

Lyca wasn't sure how serious she was about the threat, but the look on her face was enough of a payoff even if she didn't go through with it.

Woah woah woah. what? No. Not deal. Not deal. NOT DEAL.

Juliet had never offered it as a deal, more of as a boast, but nope, she made her bed and now she was going to have to lie in it. Kill her now. "How will you know if I tell him? I mean I could say I told him either way," And what kind of threat was that? If i think you didn't actually do it I'll tell him you're moaning his name? She could do that even if Juliet did tell him! "But fine. I promise I'll tell him. You have my freaking word on it. Just....don't ever say that to anyone." Ever.

The last thing Juliet needed was for Artemis to hear about Kaneki in some way and go flaunting her blonde hair around. She'd already convinced Matt to die for her, and Juliet never thought he'd do something so stupid. Who knew- maybe she'd do the same with Kaneki too.

"Now...im just going to take a nap." And with that end to their conversation, Juliet rolled over, her back to Lyca, mostly because she wanted to feign sleep. She just....hoped she'd actually fall asleep. Because how was she supposed to tell Kaneki about feelings...she wasn't even sure she had?

Telling Artemis had been her second plan, but Lyca had figured she should offer her a less aggressive motive for telling KC before hitting her with the backup. Believe or not, she actually liked Juliet, just a little bit, so she wanted it to end with for her and Kaneki... and adding Artemis to that drama would not be good. Not that it would matter, flaunting Artemis in front of KC probably wouldn't do anything for the kid, because from the way it looked, he only had eyes for Juliet. But looks could be deceiving, so who knew honestly.

"Take your nap then." she replied, rather pleased with herself. Lyca walked back towards her side of the room, pausing in the doorway to moan Kaneki's name before jumping into her own bed before Juliet could throw something at her.