Aurora sincerely hoped that no one from Stellar would see her, at least not like this. Skulking around in the Lobby of the PlatinumView, looking like she was attending some ball and shuffling cards. Admittedly, not a great way to be pass time but right now,it was all that she could do. The other option was to go back to her 'family' dinner where Ariadne was showing off her new boyfriend and she was being reprimanded for not looking formal enough. "Like you can get any more formal than dresses." She muttered to herself, re-shuffling her cards.

Reed walked out from the elevator towards the hotel lobby wearing a
white simple shirt and jeans with a leather jacket. He was going for his
next movie set and he was slightly pissed that his manager told this so
sudden. He pulled out his cig pack when he saw Aurora in front of him,
shuffling her cards.

"Couldn't agree more."

Rhiannon toured the campus, reminiscing her childhood memories with her dad. She sighed at the view of platinum hotel and went inside. She looked around and saw a girl with a boy playing a pack of cards. She sat down and said."Let's start"

Micka walked inside of the platinum hotel and looked around, "Oohh... pretty!" she skipped around then saw two girls and Reed. She smiled and skipped over to them. "Hi!!!"

She saw the cards and smiled widely, "Ooh cards!!!!" she sat down, "Lets play!"

"Start? Play? Wh- wha-at do you all mean?" Aurora asked, blinking and pushing the deck of cards behind her. So many people, not good. |She thought, tempted to go back to her family. Even suffering through Ariadne's boyfriend's monologues about guess what, himself, seemed better than speaking to so many people. The fact that she was in a dress and her hair and make up were perfect didn't help boost her confidence either.

Frowning, she got up and snatched the pack of cigarettes from Reed. "You shouldn't smoke. Killing yourself and slowly poisoning your body isn't the answer to anything. And do you know how much tar all this is producing? That every time you smoke you cut five minutes of your life? That you risk getting cancer and that your own body cells would start to kill you?"

"Uh, Hi." Rhi looked at the bunch of them, with wide eyes. Probably, anticipating for the card game. She looked at the dude, standing. "Dude, there's an extra seat over there." She pointed out to the chair not taken.

"Come on, you brought a deck of cards meant to be played.'

Reed looked at the girls, surprised that they think they're going to
play cards when the fact that he need to go to work. But of course he
still pissed at his manager. Maybe he stall some times to pay him back.

He was thinking to join when Aurora stole his pack and he rolled his
eyes. "Do I look like a dying person to you?" he took his pack back and
didn't let her steal it, "let's make a deal, If I win a round. I'll keep
the pack, if I don't you can try stop me."

He grinned at Rhi and sat at the seat she pointed.

Micka eyed each of them. She played with a strand of her hair and tilted her head to the side.

"So... we aren't playing..?"

"Playing what?!" Aurora burst out in irritation, splaying out her empty hands so that everyone could see that she had no cards in them. It wasn't true though, not exactly, she had got cards in her hands but she had made them 'disappear', using one of the tricks of Street magic.

"You may not look like it now, but you will one day. And that wouldn't be very far." She explained rolling her eyes and making another attempt to steal the box from him. She succeeded, seeing that she was a Street magician, there was almost nothing she couldn't do with her hands.

Reed was so sure she was holding the cards and he pursed his lips when she stole his cigarettes again. He could always buy it later so he let her have it. "Are you saying you wished me dying?" he said feigned a hurt expression that look so real since he's an actor.

Micka pouted like a child and crossed her arms in front of her chest. She leaned back in her seat, she looked at them then looked around for the cards.

Aurora immediately felt bad for Reed. She was really easy to fool with acting and it didn't help that she didn't like seeing people sad. She just wanted to please everyone and even though she was old enough to realize that that wasn't possible, she refused to believe that. "Of course not! Why would I want you to die? I don't that's why I am telling you to stop smoking." She muttered softly, frowning and playing with the hem of her dress.

"Do you really want to play?" She asked the girl hesitantly, fiddling with her hands and bringing back the deck of cards in her hands. "Here."

Reed chuckled and he ruffled her hair, just patting it lightly but didn't messed it. He did that because he knew she care for him and he need to give back her kindness. Rather than hugging her, he just did that little pat then he sat down on the seat next to Micka.

"I knew you have the cards." his eyebrows went up at Aurora the he smirked.

Rhi jumped into the conversation, talking directly at the girl who owned the magic cards, "If we're not playing, then why won't you show us some tricks." She smirked taking the cards from the other girl with a pleading look and handed it to her. Looking at the dude, "And you, no smoking. When we die, i'll haunt you down."

Micka eyed the cards with a twinkle in her eyes. Then she shook her head and looked at the girls then randomly introduced herself. "Ohhhh by the way I'm Micka!!" she smiled at them brightly.

Aurora frowned when Reed patted her on her head. "I am not a dog." She replied with a scoff, carefully setting her hair back in place. She didn't particularly care about her hair, but she knew that her family would and God knows she doesn't need them to be reminded of her being here. Frowning, she looked wistfully at the entrance to the Lounge, she could see them from over here and they definitely looked complete. Without her.

"I don't know any tricks." Aurora muttered in reply, shielding her face with her hair as she shuffled the cards expertly, but distractedly. "Aurora."

"Lying won't get you anywhere, Aurora" Rhi gave her a confident smile, rooting her on. "I'm Rhiannon, by the way. Rhi for short" She looked at them, nodding. "And you guys are?"

Micka looked at them. "Nice to meet you Aurora! Rhi!!" she smiled. "Sooooo.. what are we doing?"

Reed watched Aurora shuffling the cards as he crossed his arms and his eyebrows went up at Micka. "You already know my name Micka." he said not really caring if he should introduce himself but since some of them looked like they really don't know him, he told them his name.

"I think Rhi right. Show us some couples trick Aurora."

"I don't know what you guys keep on talking about. I don't know any tricks, like I explained reed, I am not a dog." Aurora insisted, still shuffling the cards though faster now, as panic started to build up inside her. She didn't want to show these people any tricks. She was sure she will mess them up and then whatever little image they had of her would plummet down to zero. Just like basically everyone at Stellar treated her. "So what do you want to play?' She asked in an effort to keep the conversation away from bad topics.

Reed shrugged, knowing she lied but he didn't push her since he isn't bossy. "Alright fine, let's play strip poker." he said just to tease her even more.

Micka raised an eyebrow. "strip poker...." she blinked and tilted her head to the side

"Poker then." Aurora decided with a roll of her eyes. She would rather die than play strip poker, or rather poker of any kind, but she didn't have to play. "Since we need a dealer and I abstain from playing, I will be the dealer." She added distractedly, most of her shy nature switching as she switched into the role of the dealer. Expertly dealing the cards with practiced ease, she set the remaining cards down on the table. "What are we betting? And who makes the first bet?"

"Like I said, strip poker. That means our clothes." Reed said and scowled slightly when she decide to be the dealer. He was aiming to play with her just because he likes teasing people who could easily get mad or show emotion.

"We can still play without the dealer." he stated then he smirked at her, "you just afraid we will beat you, right Micka?" he grinned.

Micka giggled softly and nodded slowly. "uhmm mhm!"