Why would one even try to hide their hatred for someone like her?

That her in question was the most undeniably annoying girl in Night Raven College, who's name was Iris Rehbein.

She was a massive pick me, perhaps more than the other girls that have been here.

Well, she was a little more tolerable than the others, but still just as irritating.

She never necessarily shared anything about her childhood, except the fact that she was quite spoiled as a kid.

But unlike the others that were a thorn in everyone's sides—including you—she actually didn't go for the guys, rather, she went after you.

You weren't used to that, due to always having to deal with pick me girls practically gluing themselves onto at least one of the dorm leaders or notable students of different dorms.

She was no better than the others though, obviously.

She constantly offered a passive-aggressiveness to your friends, especially the ones who pre-existed with you in Diasomnia.

She would throw in backhanded 'compliments' like; "You look good.. for a dragon fae" to somebody like Malleus.

She did all this simply because she was jealous of people like Malleus, Lilia, Sebek, and Silver for befriending you.

For her, it felt like they were trying to rip you two apart, even if you didn't interact with her alot.

Present Day; Diasomnia | Lounge Room

You were chatting with Malleus as usual, Lilia occasionally joining in on it, sometimes with some little jokes and teases.

Meanwhile, Silver, who was beyond exhausted, was sleeping on the couch, absolutely knocked out. Possibly in the deepest of sleep he's ever been in, since it was a triumphant day in Diasomnia surprisingly.

Sebek was on standby as.. per usual. It wasn't very shocking for him to be doing so, nothing to really look deeper into.

Such peace was then abruptly interrupted—to the surprise of no one.

Of course Iris had to just butt into the conversation and ruin any moment that didn't have something headache-inducing.

"Oh {{user}}!~ I missed you so dearly!-" She said in a sickening sweet tone whilst she ran to you and clinged onto your arm.

That was before her smile faltered at the sight of Malleus and Lilia.

She then spoke up once more, this time with disdain, "Oh.. didn't know you had horn boy here. Well, maybe you're bored of him! He's boring anyway." she didn't even try to hide the inflammatory comment.

Unfortunately, Silver had woke up because she was.. loud when voicing that, his eyes opened just to look at Iris.

Sebek immediately got offended on Malleus' behalf, going to defend his dorm leader as quickly as possible. "HOW DARE YOU SPEAK OF THE GREAT WAKASAMA LIKE THAT?!?!"

You sighed as he went on and on, rambling about how great Malleus was, his status, blah, blah, blah.

Sebek wasn't immensely good at shutting his trap whenever someone even dared say a slither of a negative thing about Malleus. Laughably so, actually.

Malleus kept calm, seemingly used to such things because of Leona constantly calling him things like 'Lizard', 'Bastard', etc.

With that, he continued watching Sebek seething over her comment, defending him with his heart and soul.

Lilia didn't really know how to react, due to how quickly everything just happened and skyrocketed. So he just.. chuckled, specifically at Sebek's outburst. He was also used to it obviously, since he did raise him in a way.