"Echsuuse me?!" Mumbled the red haired girl through a mouthful of food, barely preventing herself from spitting out pieces of noodle. "We ah goin' to win it!"
Victoria merely let out a quiet chortle in response, before giving her a mischievous smile. Her blond team mate poked out his head from behind the row and began speaking to Victoria.
"You're on your way to winnin' our hearts at least." Victoria rolled her eyes and stared ahead. "Oh boy..." she murmured to herself. "Hope the others think like you do--if that can be called thinkin'. If nobody's competin', it should default to us, right?" Victoria tilted her head slightly before responding with a hushed "Touché" accompanied by her trademark smirk. She brushed back the right side of her hair past her ears and was about to move on to say something else when Eminence began politely conversing with the other group. Victoria gave him a repulsed, horrified look, as if to say "What are you doing being nice to the enemy?!". Victoria zoned out again when they began talking about something called Cosplay, and resumed her habit of playing with her jacket zipper.
Eden had skillfully ignored Eminence's awkward apology. He had always been weirded out about how the boy could not understand when someone was just being sarcastic/cynical, but he assumed that it was some sort of...eh, he didn't know, and it hurted his head to even think about it, honestly. Instead, Eden sat back and watched his teammates converse with the other team, not really caring all that much about the missed training time. He did, in fact, care about how his damn lemonade was abandoned and alone, but there wasn't much he could do about that, now was there?
The blond member of Team BEAT spoke up again, introducing himself as Tawne before moving on to the rest of the team. "The stunningly moderate chick is Burgundy. Sure, she's got a pretty face, but wait 'til you see her other one! And the broad at the end is Echo. We're pretty sure family tree's a cactus; everyone on it's a prick, and really, really tough."
Victoria tapped Daelon on the shoulder and whispered. "Oh, I like him." with a snicker, while still fiddling with the jacket zipper.
Daelon's sensitive ears caught the distracting sound of metal quietly clinking, and he instinctively glanced over at Victoria, arching a slim black eyebrow at the girl's nervous habit. "Orphans die when you do that." he said, completely serious.
Victoria paused and stared Daelon dead in the eyes before continuing the habit, all the maintaining eye contact as if she was daring him to stop her. "Wait, aren't you an orphan? Oh yeah, you are." She once again continued the habit.
"Harsh." Eden smirked, turning his attention back to the other team, just in time to hear their final question. It would be nicer to beat them? Heh."I doubt it, but you'll try anyway. Good luck." He stood, brushing locks of hair out of his eyes. He really should cut it. "Let's go, Team DEVL." Turning around, the teen rose a hand in farewell, continuing on the path. Victoria was caught off guard by Daelon's sudden departure.
"Uh... Um... It was nice meeting you... I think? she said before she ran off to catch up.