Uldartre Academy (IC, Year 2 cont., signup first)

[Allied Connurist States]

"I can't believe I'm doing this." Connor muttered under his breath as the phone began to dial and he sniggered as he put the loudspeaker on.

"Hello?" came a clearly feminine voice from the other end of the line.
"Hey Mum, it's Connor. I'm in Celeria now so I thought I'd just let you know." he said calmly back.
"Oh, hello Connor. How's Celeria?" she asked him, and Connor was calm and collected as he prepared to inform his mother what he'd been doing.
"It's an amazing place. I dare say I've had the best day of my life."
"Oh? Tell me more?" his mother asked interestedly. Shit was about to hit the figurative fan.
"Well..." he started laughing, "Since you asked so nicely... I've just been fucking a a very lovely Duchess." The other end was silent. "And that's not all, I've been drinking lots of alcohol, taking drugs, spending a metric fucktonne of money, but that's alright because I do now have a few million in the bank." he continued, slightly proudly. There was no reply yet, but the call was still active. Connor, a wide smile on his face, pushed the phone across the table towards Maria, offering it to her if she had anything to say.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

Despite the wide smile on her face, Maria was strangely silent, and the look she gave Connor said only 1 thing: you're on your own here.

[Allied Connurist States]

At long last came something from the other end of the phone. "Are you joking?"
"No, of course not." Connor replied confidently.
"You would say that, though." his mother said back, and it could be told from her voice that she was in a mix of being pissed off, being in disbelief, and half-pleading that it was a joke.
"I'm not!" he exclaimed, laughing.
"Prove it then." she said firmly, refusing to believe her son.
"Okay." he said simply. "Maria, would you like to talk to my mother or not?" Connor asked her with a playful look on his face.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

"Oh hello," Maria said, in her best 'talking to foreigners who must be impressed' voice, hiding much of her Celari accent. "Yes...I can verify everything he's said. You must be happy...Connor's a millionaire. Although, drinking and taking drugs aren't all he does though...he's taken the whole course on how to be Celari, considering he's now got a very prominent gun."

[Allied Connurist States]

The phone went dead ; his mother certainly unsettled and not willling to put up with any more of it. Meanwhile, Connor found the whole affair immensely funny.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

"You've got family issues," Maria said completely deadpan before laughing. "I bet she's hyperventilating now...shall I arrange for her to get sent something very expensive just to prove it every single day? She might lose the plot completely."

[Allied Connurist States]

"You're telling me!" Connor told Maria. "Family issues aren't anything new, anyway. That sounds like a good idea too... although i'd be more inclined to just transfer her some money." he admitted, though he had no idea if it was a good idea.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

"Would you like me to freek her out again?" Maria asked, getting out her own phone. "This could be fun. Just give me some information and I'll kill 2 birds with 1 stone."

[Woodstovia]

Allen was silent for a moment and then shook his head at Lucas, entering the dining area and beginning to order some food.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

Their were some traits that most Celari nobles shared: Lucas was no stranger to them. Once he'd set his mind on doing something, stopping him would probably require deadly force or hiding. Lucas followed with the expected determination.

"So because you can't get over the fact that someone else with her body did those terrible things, you're prepared to leave her crying?" he asked Allen, glaring at him. "How selfish is that? Considering she was in your room last night, I'd say you led her on quite a long way into thinking you wanted sex, at least last night. To do what you did then warrants an apology."

[Allied Connurist States]

"Alright then." said Connor, prematurely agreeing to any plan that Maria may or may not have formed. "What information do you need?"

[Greater vakolicci haven]

"Just name and address and bank info if you have it," Maria pressed.

[Woodstovia]

"I can't get over the fact that Alicia stabbed me and bragged about it. I think shouting her is a lot less harsh than what she's done to me. And I told her before we started sleeping that I didn't want sex, I told her earlier that day that I didn't want sex and the day before that too!" Allen snapped. "I'm not going to apologise to a person who's caused me so much harm." Allen said while struggling to place an order on the Celari machine.

[Allied Connurist States]

Connor informed her of his mother's full name and address before moving on to bank info. "I can't access her bank account, of course, but I can tell you which establishment she banks with, and if I look through my own account she'll have put stuff in it before."

[Greater vakolicci haven]

"She didn't cause you the harm," Lucas snapped back. "She couldn't do anything about it. Sometimes she can't even remember doing it. I know this is hard, but you need to think past the fact that the person who did it looked like Alicia, and realise that it wasn't Alicia. Just try and make up with her, or this will carry on for ages...can you imagine Blacksen letting you leave?"

"You should have her sort code and number from that at least," Maria said, memorising the rest of the information.

[Woodstovia]

"Can... Can you help me order?" Allen mumbled, annoyed with the fact that he had to ask for help.

[Allied Connurist States]

"I should." said Connor, looking through his bank app on his phone and looking through his transactions. "Here, I've got it." he commented, reading out the sort code and other relevant information.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

"Can... Can you help me order?" Allen mumbled, annoyed with the fact that he had to ask for help.

"I'll help you do nothing until you apologise to Alicia," Lucas answered stubbornly.

"Can I have her number please?" Maria asked, getting to the dial pad on her phone. "Oh wait..." she changed her international caller ID setting simply to 'International: GVH' and returned to the dialpad.

[Allied Connurist States]

"Of course you can..." replied Connor before reading the number off to Maria.

[Woodstovia]

Allen made a face "You're cruel." he said, before continuing to struggle with the machine.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

"So are you," Lucas said, perfectly seriously. "I'd be nicer if you had a heart and apologised to Alicia."

With a laugh, Maria dialled the number and waited.

[Woodstovia]

Allen looked at Lucas for a minute and then left wordlessly and went back to his room, closing the door and flopping onto his bed.

[Allied Connurist States]

New Atherton
Some house, on some street
Empire of Allied Connurist States

The phone was ringing again. She really wasn't in the mood for the phone, but it was an unknown number, and she had the courtesy to answer it.

"Hello?" she asked in that same phone voice she always put on.

[Woodstovia]

Across the dining room a young man was fiddling violently with one of the ordering machines. He seemed to be wearing a military style uniform, with a short=sleeved shirt, shorts and long socks as well as white gloves.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

"Is something up?" Lucas had decided that Allen was clearly set on being an arsehole, and had walked to try and find a machine that Allen had not been at: for that machine was currently listing the desert options in French in its excitable babble.
The man he didn't recognise was seemingly attempting to shake one of the other machines, and so Lucas found it within himself to bother to check if he needed help.
"Do you need help with that machine?" he asked. "Who are you, by the way?"