As they made their way back to the house, Sarah couldn't help but think who this mystery guardian was, no one came into mind who could be chosen by the guardian, at least from Valoran Academy. She looked back to see the group of people following her, Rakan had left but that was no surprise, she supposed she didn't want to be part of a girl's sleepover. Sarah could feel something heavy in her chest, whatever it was it was eating her up inside, what was this feeling? Guilt. It was Guilt, the guilt of not being there fast enough to have prevented Ahri from getting caught in the first place. She landed on the roof of the house and opened the window, everything was still there, the popcorn was cold and the drinks were close to room temperature. "Do you think this person will be in our class?" Sarah asked, as she waited for everyone to get in. As soon as everyone entered she sat down at the foot of the bed and pressed continue on the film that was playing earlier. "Maybe they're someone we know? I... I have to- I mean, We have to find her." Sarah felt like she owed this to Ahri, just for not being fast enough.

Sarah flinched at that question, Boki and Baki gave each other looks before they looked up at Sarah who looked both relieved and distressed at the same time. Though being tired and still the confident queen people know and love she answered as truthfully and humbly as she could. "Well..." Sarah said, nodding her head as she prolonged that word to think about it. "It’s basically like the movies, a rush of adrenaline and your palms get sweaty cause you’re nervous but..." She stopped that main thought for a moment to change it into a better one. "It just... Came out, I wasn’t as nervous as I thought I was, I wasn’t an awkward stuttering mess... I think it was because of the fact that I’ve known Ahri for so long that I just... You know, kinda... Knew." Said Sarah as she looked down on the floor, her head then slowly moved to face Xayah. She could see the concern on her friend’s face, Boki and Baki then helped keep the other familiars at bay as she added. "It did feel pretty good, it was like everything got lighter ever since I told her that, now all I have to care about are upcoming homeworks... Oh and evil monsters invading the earth of course." Sarah said jokingly, that smile on her face made its way back on her face and she was all happy and dandy again.

Sarah raised her brow and her mouth slowly formed into a mischievous smile. "You’re right, being sad isn’t my thing..." She then raised two fingers and pointed it forward and acted like it was a gun and shot it forward. "But then again that was before I shot something." she said putting her hands down, when Xayah whispered in her ear saying the kiss was hot Sarah then whispered back "Oh please, being straight is a myth, everyone is Bi... Even Syndra probably." She said looking over her shoulder to look at Syndra, "And our new friend of course." She said turning to Neeko who seemed to be confused about popcorn.

Sarah let out a small snort and ended up bursting into laughter as it is now apparent that the dark sovereign is hella on the non-straight side. "Alright alright, no one in Runeterra is fully straight... Fact." Said Sarah. She then leaned back and let out a small yawn, "Alright, bed time, acting captain’s orders." Said Sarah, her phone then buzzed, she pulled it out to see a text from Ahri.

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There was an attached picture of Ahri with a V sign and a kissy face. Sarah replied to Ahri before putting her phone away. She then got up with a groan and walked over to the closet, she opened it and grabbed the futons, laying them on the ground with the sheets. Alright, that should be all.

The night went on, as they slept, Sarah just went through her phone, scrolling through the hundreds of selfies of her and Ahri trying to find an appropriate lockscreen, but being best friend for years there wasn’t one that Sarah wanted to show off to everyone to prove that they were dating, she didn’t even realise that the sun went up already. She sat up and noticed that Neeko had disappeared, she then went into panic trying to look for their newest member. Her head was a mess, she had zombie face and she was all over the place. She ran downstairs, she saw neeko preparing them breakfast, veggie wraps and they looked really good. "Hey, whatcha making there?" Neeko flinched and turned to Sarah with a smile "Oh hello!Neeko is making breakfast from her hometown, veggietable wuraps!" Sarah couldn’t help but smile at her pronunciations, she gave her a pat on the back and let out a yawn, Sarah had no sleep at all. She took a wrap and gobbed it down before walking to the bathroom to get ready. Neeko smiled and just shook her head as she continued to prepare breakfast for the crew.

Sarah ended up eating a few but Neeko just kept making more and it looked like they weren’t going to run out anytime. "How are you making as fast as I eat?" Neeko smiled and put her finger on her lips giving Sarah the shh gesture. "Neeko’s secret-" Suddenly Neeko’s ears flinched, and drooped down, she heard footsteps coming from the stairs and peaked over, "Bird feet! Bird lady is awake!" Said Neeko, Sarah then turned with a mouthful of veggie wrap to see Xayah at the bottom of the stairs. "Hey, one more to go and we can get our asses to the academy." Sarah then put her phone down on the counter and stretched her arms out, "Alright, I’m gonna get some fresh air, you feed everyone that comes from those stairs, alright catch ya’ in awhile kiddo~" Sarah then walked out the door and stood by the garden for awhile.

After minutes of standing there, something landed on her arm, a snowflake. Sarah was confused, it was the middle of summer, and even though the city was in a naturally cold place there shouldn’t be snow until September. She looked up to see it snowing pretty liberally, her phone started buzzing on the counter, Neeko just looked over, confused and a little bit scared to why the phone was gradually sliding away and making weird buzzing noises. Sarah continued to look around as the entire neighbourhood came out of their houses to see the snow.

Meanwhile, Ahri pressed her phone as hard as she could against her ear waiting for Sarah to pick up since she may know why the snow is happening, her heart rate was monitored so it was visibly and audibly getting faster and louder, Ahri was in a small state of panic since no one was picking up. A nurse came rushing in and tried her best to calm Ahri down, telling her it was just snow, Ahri repeatedly shook her head since she knew it was something more.

Sarah flinched at the sudden call of her name, she turned around to see the older vastayan, her eyes filled with both and confusion as she saw the snow coming down. She then handed the phone over to Sarah which was buzzing like crazy, Sarah answered the phone and immediately asked, "Does this have anything to do with us?" Ahri visibly shook as her heart rate monitored slowly calmed down, "Something big is coming, you guys need to find that guardian soon." Sarah glanced over at Xayah then back to the sky, "We’ll do our best cap, time has been moving pretty slow, it was only last night where you got grabbed." Ahri let out a sound of digression, "Okay, I’ll text you what we have to do when we find her, you got my back right?” Sarah let out a smile and walked over to Xayah then stood beside her, "Always." Ahri smiled at the other end, she felt herself melt but she also felt weaker, everything was tiring her out so quickly, "Thanks Sarah, I... I gotta go now, Love you~” Sarah then glanced over at Xayah and replied, "I love you too." With that they both hung up.

Sarah turned to Xayah and put her arm around her, "We should get inside, it’s freezing as shit." She then took Xayah by the shoulder, and walked inside. There everyone sat there, "Okay since no one anticipated for snow, who here didn’t bring a jacket or a coat or anything?" Sarah asked, Neeko then raised her hand to interject, "N-Neeko no have jacket, but cold no affect Neeko!" Sarah’s brows then quickly raised then went back down again to acknowledge that, "Okay uh... Anyone else?"

Sarah had her arms crossed as she thought for a moment, but thinking back on everything that happened, the guardians all gravitated towards Ahri, but with her out of the picture, Sarah didn't know how to find the new guardian. "I uh... Don't know, when all of the guardians, including all of you showed up it was towards Ahri." Sarah then shook her head and saw the time, "But we should get ready for school first, there's Ahri's bathroom which I'll take first, then the one around the corner over there." She said pointing down the hall from the kitchen. "We'll figure it out." Said Sarah before she left to go take a shower upstairs.

As she went in the shower, she kept thinking who it could be, it should be someone they know or at least, someone they've seen before.

Once Sarah came out of the shower, she immediately got dressed in uniform with her necktie just slung over her neck. Her hair was still a bit damp and fresh, when she saw head for the bathroom after her. Neeko had just nodded to whatever Xayah had just said and carried on doing whatever. Sarah then walked over with a towel a she was still drying her ears and asked, "Hey kiddo, what about you? No shower? No freshening up?" She then sat down and started sliding on her socks, "Nah, Neeko already bathed when everyone was sleeping, Neeko is night Neeko." Sarah then laughed after she had acknowledged that, "You got your uniform?" Neeko nodded and went in the guest room down the hall to change, when she came out she looked a bit rugged, Sarah let out a sigh and walked over to her, letting out a light soft thump for each of steps on the wooden floorboards. "You'll have to learn how to tie your tie soon-" Said Sarah as she started tying Neeko's tie, but she cut herself off after remembering that she was in the same position before, but instead with Ahri.

She often scolded her about not learning how to tie a tie but Sarah always replied with "Yeah but I got you, so why need to? I can shoot stuff, you can tie my tie." And before anything, that was where their friendship started, which evolved into something more. Sarah then shook her head trying to snap out of it, and gave Neeko the most perfect double knot tie she had ever done in her life. She then moved away and nodded, waiting for the others to finish.

Sarah pulled out her phone and started texting a contact, this person was still a student but she held some information that was usually unknown to most. This contact isn't a guardian, but she definitely knew of their existence, and surprisingly has kept her mouth shut about it for the past few years. After a few back and forth texts, a small list of names popped up on the message as to who this person suspects it could be. Sarah thanked her and promised to pay her within the day. Syndra then walked up to Sarah and she immediately put her phone away, "Well... Hurry, I have to go buy something on the way to the academy." Said Sarah.

She looked at Syndra then let out a small sigh, "Do you... Do you think Ahri would be okay? I'm kinda you know... Fucked just thinking about it, been tryna' lock in a box deep inside and shut it out but I can't, I can't stop thinking about what happened last night." Said Sarah, the look of concern grew on her face as it would appear she had told Syndra all that woes her, there was definitely much more than that, but Ahri was priority.

Sarah let out a chuckle and just gave her superior a smile, Syndra was right, no reason to dwell on the past now, and also no reason to dwell on what could have happened. Though that had been a fortune special, Ahri had taught her that she needs to make options first before running in there and making a ruckus. "Yeah you're right," her defense mechanism then kicked in, humour, "Guess I would have had to talk to her through the stars and moon, then I would have to turn into a star princess and conduct rituals just to say what I feel, yeah, that would totally happen." She joked.

Neeko then popped up behind Syndra and immediately clung on to her like a koala, "Rah! Neeko's got tall lady, Go Sarah! Attack!" Sarah chuckled and shook her head, she then formed her fingers into a gun with her index and middle finger pointed at Syndra, "Bang~! But Neeko, this is no time for games, especially since the old bag here could throw you to a different country." Said Sarah, Neeko climbed off her and cowered, hiding behind Sarah, "Sarah please protect me from scary tall lady!" Sarah shook her head and added, "Be nice to her and she'll throw the people you don't like to another country."