"Audri i-..." Simon didn't know what to say, he couldn't believe how badly Adrian was reacting, he never knew that Adrian cared so much about Soren. He was always under the same impression everyone else was, that it was just a crush, a way to feel less like a monster or some kind of object.
Adrian ripped his arm away from Simon, not knowing who to be mad at or who to blame, he just wanted to be alone at that point. And Simon luckily understood and let him leave, mostly to just go cry in the forest enclosure.
He sat there for hours upon hours, holding his legs tightly to his body and sobbing, only being interrupted by Anastasia, he looked up and sniffled, "Anna, what are you doing here?" He asked while wiping his eyes, "It's dinner time... They were worried about you," She spoke softly, bending down next to him and touching his shoulder, "You Okey?"
Adrian chuckled, "Does it look like I'm Okey?" Anastasia smiled, "No, but I meant for you to tell me what's wrong."
"Ha... What's wrong?.. I don't even know, what Soren did to himself.. I just haven't really had time to process that's all." He lied, not wanting to admit that his crush wasn't just a a crush at all, he got up with her, putting on a smile he's learned to fake oh so perfectly.
"Come on, let's go back." He held out his hand to Anastasia, and she took it with a smile starting to walk side by side, hand in hand, "Ye, I think it scared everyone. But you were just immediately thrown into it and not given a chance to process it at all, maybe now that you did you overreacted- or.. not overreacted, reacted worse then you would've if you weren't forced to be strong." She offered, Adrian listened carefully, "You know honestly thats a good way to put it." He said, thinking back to the way Soren held onto Jamie, he didn't have time react. That's why..
They soon entered the cafeteria, still holding hands as Anna laughed at a joke Adrian had made right before they entered, causing everyone to pay attention to the loud, almost angelic sounding voice.
Without hesitation she led Adrian to her table with her friends, he didn't think much of it and just went with it. Sitting down next to her and wrapping his arm around her shoulder out of habit, given he would usually be sitting next to Saint.
Her friends all giggled, looking at him mischievously, "W-well hello there ladies.." He gulped nervously, knowing that this'll either end him in a five way or with a pony tail, either way he wasn't to excited.
However seeing Iris and Isabella slowly reaching for their makeup kits he relaxed, "Bring it on, woman." He challenged them, and within ten minutes he had a full face of makeup and his toes were being painted bright pink, however you would assume a man would find this torture. But that was the last thing that was happening.
He sat back and relaxed as August carefully put lipstick on his lips, like an artists, "You have such nice lips."
"Oh he does."
"I'm jealous."
The girls giggled and he felt like a celebrity, he opened his eyes slowly, "I don't suppose any of you have purple?" He asked, pointing at the nail polish, "Don't get me wrong I love a good pink, but it's a crime to have your hands and toes the same shade of pink." He said, Isabella and and August looked at each other, and and Isabella seemed to have an Idea as she went to the table over and quickly came back with Noah's purple nail polish, and Iris already had a darker purple.
"Which one?"
They asked smiling, "Both, every second nail." He said, and Iris quickly disagreed when Isabella tried to started painting his fingernails, "No! The darkest colour goes on the thumb first." She said, taking the light, lilac purple and switching it with a darker shade, "She's right." August agreed, "Ahh, leave me alone I'm not a nail genius." Iris laughed, using the dark purple instead.
And soon they were running back to the girls dorm before they had to go shower, so they could updo him even more with things they didn't have previously in the cafeteria.
"Wait guys! We should totally do a sleep over." Iris offered, and they all immediately exclaimed yes while Adrian just looked at himself in the mirror, "Ha, typical, you ladies can't stand to be away from this gorgeous beaty- ah! August you smidge the eyeliner!" Everything was all nice and good, until he noticed his eyeliner was smudged, the girls burst into laughter, Anastasia quickly offering to help but he wouldn't let her touch him, "No no no you'll make it worse." He panicked, all his 'beauty' ruined by just one smudge.
Suddenly Lorelei appeared in the room, "Oh? OH MY GOD YOU LOOK STUNNING!!" She was confused at first seeing a boy in the room, but once Adrian looked in her direction she couldn't help but gag, as Anastasia had given him a gorgeous blue and gold smokey eye, so not only was it just the five having fun, they were doing a good job. Well, after so many years of having nothing else to do they had a lot of time to practice. And at some point the boys and girls would take turns to have their makeup done by some of the 'artist' of the groups, just to kill time and get nice and pretty, and Adrian had just locked himself in with four of the most girly girls in this place.
"Wait! You guys I have an idea," Isabela said suddenly, "You two can switch at shower time, after showers Lorelei can sneak into the boys room and Adrian can sneak in here."
"Wait that's actually really good idea! The guards won't notice nor will they check, and you two went together to the labs just a few days ago so they won't call for you again." August agreed, which was fine with Adrian, but he was left confused, "Wait, why does Lorry want to sneak into the boys room?" He asked, tilting his head a bit.
"She has a boyyyyyyfrienddddddddd." Anastasia teased, "OH MY GAWD WHO GURL TELL ME NOW." Adrian literally jumped up and down, this information was completely new to him, "Yoshiba.." Lorelei blushed heavily as she fiddled her fingers, smiling like a love struck highschool girl.
"Yoshiba?! Girl! No offense but he is way below your standards," Adrian crossed his arms confused, "He is like the biggest jerk, he's just using you."
Lorelei laughed, "I know I know, but it's hot Okey? Soren is the biggest jerk too, you of all people should understand." Adrian gasped, trying to think of something to come back, "You know thats actually a very good point." He said, after failing at trying to deny it.
"Besides, if he does anything I know this whole place will go up in flames." Lorelei said, a.d she was right, if Yoshiba even so much as kissed her without her permission he face all hell, Lorelei sat down on the bed beside the one they were all at, "Why did you use the pink bow? I have a blue one." She said, quickly getting it from the box next to her bed, as they didn't have nightstands, just beds, a trunk at the edge of the bed to hold their clothes and boxes for all the personal belongings, "We couldn't find one!" August said excited, quickly taking the pink bow out of Adrian's hair and replacing it with the blue one to match his eye makeup.
Adrian did a dramatic hair flip, 'showing' it to the girls, "Look how beautiful I am, just look at meh," He showed off the bow and nails, "I'm the prettiest boy I'm the whole world~" he said, crossing his legs and being a real princess.
"Oh, now that you have a bit of eyeshadow your just the prettiest?" Iris snickered, "Yes, I had the prettiest girls in the world put on that eyeshadow, that makes me the prettiest boy." Adrian said plainly, flipping his hair once again, the girls blushed and giggled, "Oh don't even~" Isabella snickered, and so did Adrian and the rest of the girls.
"But Lorelei, if you're gonna sleep in the in the boys dorm be warned it gets noisy." Adrian said, "Ye, we can hear you from here!" Iris laughed, but before Adrian could say anything the bell rung for shower time, "So, you gonna switch? You don't have to, he easily just sneak in here." Anastasia asked Lorelei, "I'll ask if he wants to first, and make sure by the girls that they don't feel uncomfortable with me." Adrian answered for her, getting up and jogging out, along with the rest of the girls.
"Yo, Yoshiba, jackass." Adrian called, already only having a towel around his waist as he got ready shower, "What do you want, fag?" Yoshiba sneered, "I'm sneaking into the girls dorm, want me to switch with your girl?" He asked, almost disgustedly, "And no fucking, that's gross." He added, Yoshiba stayed silent for a moment, not knowing if he wanted to insult him or be nice so he doesn't fuck up his chances, "Urgh, yes, yes I want Lorry to switch with you." He finally gave up and just played nice, Adrian smiled, "Say pleasee~" he teased, but Yoshiba just pushed passed, "I'm not that desperate." Causing Adrian to laugh.
And in the girls room Iris asked the girls, "Umm, we were playing around with the idea of a sleepover with Adrian, y'all good with sleeping next to him?" The girls just did not care, "Ye, he's a twirp, even if he tried to do anything there's still 26 of us and one of him." Ariana laughed.
"I'm so shocked we haven't done that before."
"Ye, the guards never check who's in who's room."
"They really don't care."
"I don't even think they'll be mad if they call on one of us and we tell them they're in the boys room."
"Haha, I don't want to find out."
"Yea what if they punish us?"
"Ohhh yass daddy."
"Oh my god Ravens been reading too many books."
"OH MY GOD GIRLIES I FOUND A GAY COMIC SECTION IN THE LIBRARY."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SECTION?!!"
"I MUST HAVE."
"TELL US NOW."
"WHO'S TOP IN YOUR BOOK."
"HIS NAME IS JOO JAEKYOUNG HES SUCH A DADDY."
"Is he toxic? Haha."
"What's a daddy if he's not toxic?"
Even though the girls were in different rooms and showering they were still talking and laughing with each other, "Wait, I found that section years ago, I never knew you guys were interested." Mia said, rinsing her body from the soap, "GATEKEEPER!!" Elaine shouted, causing everyone to burst into laughter, "I didn't know!" Mia laughed along with them, and Anastasia and her friends just assumed that it was fine for Adrian to come.
So when they were all heading out she quickly went to the boys bathroom which was right next to the girls and got Adrian while Lorelei switched with him.
Lorelei was a bit nervous but soon realized that nobody cared at all, and she just sat in Yoshiba's bed and lovingly watched her boyfriend play cards with his friends on the floor, she was happy to just sit and watch, and even though urged to join in rejected them. That went on until time to choose and after that Yoshiba stayed in bed with her and cuddled her while they both listened to their own music and read a book together, though, Yoshiba was not interested in this book at all. He didn't bother keeping up with the book as Lorelei was so invested, he just watched her and rubbed her belly, spooning her and hanging his face into her neck eventually falling asleep far before his usual twelve am, but rather a bit before nine.
And after that many of the boys started having their female friends over, not many were in actual official relationships, but they had their best friends and crushes, and they quickly realized that the guards didnt give a damn.
"Umm, are we allowed to sleep in the other genders rooms or should we hide it from you?" Lorelei asked at the choosing, the guards just shrugged, "Doesn't bother us, one of you get pregnant it's just another specimen." Which was discouraging, especially since the next month's care package had a tube of lube, but it didn't matter much to them.
As for Adrian's experience, it was unimaginably fun. He had a fresh and clean face so they once again did a whole makeup do-up, this time having much more makeup to choose from given they only had what they did in the cafeteria because they were doing each others makeup in the afternoon, so the makeup put on his face was even more gorgeous, all the girls adored having him around. They were having so fun doing his hair and even art on his nails, as Yuna was getting good at small arts, and Adrian's chosen picture that he wanted was a self portrait, "Challenge yourself." He said, encouraging her to come out of her comfort zone and try something new, however it came out looking more like constipated pig rather then Adrian.