For anyone who still reads/writes/gives a fuxk about HSS
You know how in friend groups there’s always those people who are closer to each other? Or in opposition there are some who aren’t actually that close or don’t spend as much time with each other unless the whole group comes together?
Well regardless of those dynamics there are moments where everyone is there for each other:
Despite their pledge to stay friends, there is still an awkwardness lingering between Emma and Caleb that doesn’t really go away until they both start dating other people and when it finally does go away Emma is the one who gets Caleb to start liking Lookout and Valiant and even teaches him the ropes
Aiden and Michael don’t really have much in common. In the early days of the friend group, Aiden thought Michael was lazy and aloof and Michael didn’t really care. There just wasn’t a lot of common ground. Until Michael introduces Aiden to music that isn’t from a hundred or more years ago and Aiden finds himself actually enjoying it. They don’t bond or spend hours together like the others do but every once in a while at lunch you catch wind of them exchanging playlists and youtube links.
Another rare sight was seeing Emma and Maria spend time together when MC wasn’t around for some kind of committee or when Maria wasn’t running around doing surveys for an upcoming school event. All it took was one day of volunteering to help Maria with passing out flyers for a bake sale and Emma got a glimpse of a work ethic she’d never thought humanly possible. Both afraid and amazed, she and Maria would spend the late hours before exams and project weeks together at the library, maria keeping them on a tight schedule and Emma reminding that every once in a while slowing down to breathe wasn’t a bad thing.
Everyone knew the power that was a Maria-Michael teamup but nobody could’ve predicted how much more powerful, how much more chaotic it became when Myra joined the fray for a valentines day event at Berry. Aiden swear he hadn’t seen that kind of motivation out her since she was assigned to lead the brass section. There were so many matches made that day that the site Michael set up for feedback actually crashed but at that point Maria had enough data to determine the event was a success.
When Emma finds herself wanting to learn how to play piano so she can learn the OST to her favorite game who else was she to go to except the music maestro of Berry himself. Aiden is more than ready to teach Emma and while normally his frustrations can get the better of him; it’s Emma, one little pout and his anger melts away and whatever admonition he might have had turns into simple yet solid advice.
These were just some headcanons of mine about how the group might get closer to each other outside of orbiting MC
