TWST Fanfic - Night Raven College Candy Debacle: Part 3
Lluvia Earnesto - A Grizzly bear beastgirl. She is a hardworking girl who sometimes is too headstrong.
Did Savanaclaw’s Housewarden just ask for paperwork?
It was a typical after school day at Savanaclaw. Some students were lounging in the pool area, a few were out in the spelldrive field practicing, and anyone not in the dorm was likely at a makeup class or a club. Which is why Lluvia, who was heading to her room to study, was confused by the sudden smell of cake. She knew it wasn’t from one of the birthday parties. While there was at least one every week, there wasn’t one scheduled for the day. As she ascended the wooden stairway onto the second floor, the smell got stronger.
“Hey, Lluvia,” Ruggie greeted as he rushed past. In his mouth was a lollipop and in his hands was a box that had the word “SAMPLE” across the top.
“Ruggie, is the Housewarden’s birthday coming up?” Lluvia asked before he could get far.
“Hm,” he looked back, confused by the sudden question. “No, his birthday is in summer.” He clarified. It was only the start of Febuary, so it was a long way off. But Ruggie was even more confused by the grizzly bear beast-girls pensive look at his answer.
After a brief moment, Lluvia gathered her thoughts and made a disappointed face. “Then Leona is having you prep for it now?” Her dropping of the respectful ‘housewarden’ title was an indicator that she was disappointed in the lazy lion again.
“What?” Ruggie didn’t get what Lluvia was thinking until he followed her gaze. “O-oh, this isn’t cake,” he was met with the first year's dubious look.
“If not…” but before she finished that thought, “Then it is for Leona?” she asked, after reading between the lines.
Ruggie’s ears twitched, and for a brief moment he regretted walking past the one room in the entire dorm that housed female students. ‘Ugh, bear beastmen and their noses.’ If it had been any of the others he may have been fine. But Lluvia was one of the rare “honor students” in the dorm. “You could say. It’s just something for the Housewarden’s approval.”
Lluvia was surprised to hear Leona had actually done Housewarden duties. Then she realized that if it wasn't cake, it was still a food sample. And from what she could tell, it was something sweet and pastry like. “So-”
“Hey, Vie, Ruggie! Are those the lollipop samples?” Jack walked up to the two.
“Lollipop samples?” Lluvia asked Jack as he stopped next to them.
This time, the question actually left Ruggie with a surprised expression. But it was brief, as the tenacious Hyena was quick witted. “Where'd you hear about that from Jack?” He asked, but he had a good feeling he knew who told him.
“Hm. Yulise told me about it at the last practice.” Jack answered.
“I didn’t hear about that.” Lluvia was in the same track and field club as Jack and Yulise. And she was close to Yulise after having spent the beginning of the school year living at Ramshackle with her. So she was only a little surprised that Yulise told him something she didn’t tell her.
“It was when we were paired for practice.” Jack clarified.
“Oh. But what do you mean samples?” She asked while glancing back at Ruggie who looked ready to leave the conversation.
“Well, you know how Ramshackle finally got their own lollipops at Mr. S’s shop. Apparently the company that makes them sends flavor samples before they start production.” Jack explained, while reiterating the explanation he got before, but he noticed Lluvia still looked confused. “Does that make sense?”
“I get that, but why would our dorm get samples?” She asked as she noticed Ruggie was about to head down the stairs. “Are you taking the samples to the Housewarden?”
“Yup,” Ruggie glanced back, not failing to notice that she had switched back Leona’s title. ‘She noticed.’ He realized he shouldn’t have told his Housewarden classmate, Yulise, when there were two of her “loyalists” in his dorm. And each of them is a ‘goody-two-shoe’.
“Well, he went back to his room earlier,” Jack was telling Ruggie who he assumed didn’t know because he was heading in the wrong direction.
“Right~” Ruggie drawled out as he switched course.
“We can come with you.” Lluvia said as she started to follow him, with Jack following suit.
The trio made their way to Leona’s room as Jack explained how the paperwork for a new lollipop flavor for Savanaclaw had been filled out. And Ruggie verifying that he had foolishly mentioned it to Yulise. He also mentioned that it was Yulise who told him that the dorms could change their flavor of dorm candy when they follow procedure.
“So the Housewarden doesn’t know,” Lluvia asked, once again reading between the lines.
“What?” Jack asked, realizing why Lluvia had been giving Ruggie a distruting look the entire time. “Then, who ordered the samples?” he asked while looking at the back of the pseudo-vice-houswarden’s head with a knowing look.
“Shh~” Ruggie glanced back at the two as they reached Leona’s room. He knocked on the door, “Leona, I have Jack and Lluvia with me. Can they come in too?” He asked, knowing that Leona never liked company. But the answer he got surprised him.
“Whatever,” was the gruntled reply from inside. Which, in Leona-ese, was a yes.
The three went into the room, greeted to the sight of a lounging Leona with his eyes closed.
“Ruggie, what ‘sample’ is the box that I ‘don’t know about’?” Leona heard them.
Knowing the jig was up, Ruggie, with much more confidence than a schemer should have, said, “Oh, these are samples of a possible candy flavor for our dorm.” He handed the box over to Leona who moved to sit up and grab the box.
Opening the box, which had already been unsealed, revealed about a dozen yellow lollipops and a piece of paper on top. Leona picked up the paper and briefly skimmed it before giving an incredulous look at Ruggie, “Donut flavored?” Now getting the full picture, Leona made his trademark conceited grin. “So when did I order these?”
“Oh, who knows. Either way, they’re just samples and nothing’s finalized.” Ruggie said as he took the now empty lollipop stick out of his mouth. He was trying to save himself from one of Leona’s weird chore punishments.
“So it was donut.” Lluvia muttered.
“You were going to change our dorms’ flavor without telling anyone?” Jack was not all that surprised by Ruggie’s brazenness.
The other three glanced at Leona with a brief moment of silence. Lluvia gave a defeated sigh, “So the housewarden has no clue how the candy order and flavor work. That explains why we’ve had sour lemon this entire time.” None of them were surprised but Jack and Lluvia were still disappointed.
“Each dorm has their own flavor that’s chosen by the dorm themselves.” Jack explained again. “So you never did this when you became a housewarden?”
“Hm,” Leona, taking in this new info and ignoring Jack’s question, glanced at Ruggie. “And the new flavor ‘I’ chose was donut? Is that even something you can make into candy?”
“Well, y’know. Apparently anything can become a flavor…” Ruggie seemed to think for a moment, “Even bacon can be turned into a flavor. And everyone in the dorm has complained about the lemon we’ve had since forever.” Ruggie found an escape. Now he just needed Leona to grab the bait.
Leona lazy held out his hand. Everyone stared as he looked up at Ruggie, still not getting up from his bed. “Well.”
“Uh. Did you need something else?” Ruggie asked. He really didn’t know what Leona wanted.
“The order form. Where is it?” Leona grumbled out.
Silence descended. The rest of the group was shocked.
“Are you saying you’d fill it out yourself,” Leona looked at Ruggie incredulously.
“Hehe,” Ruggie nervously laughed, “I’ll go get it.”
Fun fact: Bears, Grizzlies in particular, have one of the strongest senses of smell in the animal kingdom.