Have a look around for 'em!

It's not too hard to find the two, after a quick look around the usual spots of the school. When they aren't at any of those, the next logical step is to check their shared room, and since you're a very logical and overall generous/pretty person, that's what you do. And that's where you find them!

knock knock

You knock politely, even though the door's not properly closed and you could walk in if you wanted to. From inside, you can hear Lexi and Miranda talking about something. You do your best not to focus on any words before they let you in officially, so as to not be eavesdropping.

Lexi comes to the door and pulls it a bit further open, flashes you a quick and bright smile when she sees you, then walks back into the room again with the door left open behind her. You step inside and shut it gently behind you.

"Hey guys!" You say. "What are you two doing?"

Miranda gives you a semi-hesitant wave. "I-I'm showing Lexi where I organised all of her stuff to when I cleaned the room up."

"And I am dutifully present!" Lexi chirps, shifting up and down on her feet happily but staring at the window without even trying to hide it a little. It seems like she's not really paying much attention.

You take a seat on the end of Miranda's bed and observe as she turns back to Lexi and tries to get her attention. You brought your lunch with you, so as you watch and listen to your classmates, you get to work on munching down on the nice sandwich and little chocolate you've got. And apple juice!

"S-so... Lexi?"

"Mhm?" Lexi snaps back to attention.

"I, uh...." Miranda turns to gesture to a certain compartment of a cupboard in the room, and in the precise moment she was turned away, Lexi was already looking back out the window again.

Lexi gently swings her arms and smiles widely, evidently watching a pair of butterflies mate on a nearby tree branch which is extended to nearly brush against the window pane. They're both sitting quite comfortably within a colourful blossom on the branch, and their wings have a pretty cool (but standard for butterflies) pattern on them.

"S-so, I put all of your percussion instruments in here, that would fit...." Miranda explains, before moving and pulling out an extra-deep drawer to the side of the compartment. "....and this is where I put your clarinet, flute, and recorder, but I had to disassemble them all to make them fit...."

Miranda shuts the drawer again, and then opens a little hatch-door which hides another small box-shaped container.

"And in here I put your little tool-thingies. Like your electric guitar cables, your woodwind reeds, your guitar picks, your... lock picks, which I didn't realise that you had and to be honest I'm not even sure that you realise most of the stuff you have here even though it's only been a week...."

Miranda turns to look at Lexi again, and Lexi snaps back to attention before Miranda notices she was looking elsewhere.

"Black box on the lockpicks, right? Not the see-through one?"

Miranda furrows her brow, and nods.

"Yeah nah, those are just my backups then." Lexi says passively, waving her hand in the air.

Towards the end of the sentence her nose sounds a bit clogged, so apparently she's still a bit sick. She grabs a pair tissues out from a box on the windowsill to blow her nose. The noise startles the butterflies outside the window, and they both go flying off together.

Lexi looks up from the tissue. "Aw, man."

"Are you still sick, Lexi?" You ask earnestly.

Lexi nods. "Dude, I'm sort of thriving on being sick to be honest. Your girl's got probably the strongest immune system known to man, so if I get sick this week, it means I'm gonna be clean for the next two years. Tried and tested."

Miranda furrows her brow again. "That's not how-"

"Tried and tested." Lexi assures her. "Medically and statistically. And spiritually. And...."

She purses her lips to consider.

"....Musically?" You offer, after a brief pause. Lexi snaps her fingers and points at you, waggling her finger about.

"That'll do it." She says.

You take a final big and loud slurp from your apple juice, having already finished the food part of your lunch, and crinkle all of the rubbish up into a ball to be put in the bin. You give both girls a bright smile and stand up from Miranda's bed with a big, satisfied, full-bellied stretch. Lexi whistles appreciatively, which makes you blush and cut the stretch short.

"You're lucky Miranda's really cool, by the way." Lexi warns. "If it were anyone else, I'd have been deeply hurt that you chose to sit on their bed over mine."

You blink at Lexi a few times, then turn your head to look at her bed. It is covered in workbooks, textbooks, a few clothes, a hat you've never seen her wear -- actually, two of those -- and a bunch of scattered pens and pencils. You turn back to Lexi.

"Hey, uhm, Lexi?" Miranda says, trying to get her attention again.

"Mhm?" Lexi turns her head to look at Miranda.

"Uhhh... a-are you ready to go over where I put the xylophone, drum kit, and keyboard? Or do you want to take a break, and we can jump ahead to the Katzenjammer memorabilia?"

A strained smile comes to Lexi's face. "I'm.... sure I'll just be able to find it all, Miranda. You organised it so intuitively, after all, so we don't really need to go through it all right now...."

"B-but.... we haven't even got to your posters yet!"

You're not sure which way this debate will end up going, but you are sure that you've finished your lunch and are fully ready to go do some more cool stuff before classes start up again. And.... this doesn't really quantify as cool stuff now that the food is gone and the discussion has lulled. So you give both girls a friendly wave and a hasty goodbye, before leaving Lexi to fend for herself and heading back happily to the Courtyard. And binning your rubbish too, of course!