One by one, Elizabeth bought the stuff Masato pointed to, happy that he was around to pick the most practical things for her as well. Then he looked at her in that serious way of his and she felt the famed butterflies invading her stomach. She smiled, narrowing her eyes, but said nothing. He was right.<br/><br/>Her attention was drawn from his eyes to Onbin who pointed out the fact that there were cameras all over the place. Every angle from the vending hall was being monitored. Elizabeth froze in place. Her parents rarely admonished her for something, even when she had her “rebel period” they have been understanding. But not coming back home for a long time and staging her own kidnapping was an extreme action with extreme repercussions. She wasn’t sure she wanted to take part in saving the world (well, Mateia’s world) anymore.<br/><br/>“Maybe I did rush a bit into things..” she said sweetly, referring to the message she texted to her father.  “I can text back, saying one of you made a prank” she winked at Onbin “and that everything’s alright, but I’ll need a team of armed men and another vacation at the beginning of the school year.”<br/><br/>She was joking, masking her trembling voice with a smile.<br/><br/>“What’s the penalty for alerting the authorities without good reason?” She asked her friends, gripping her backpack. “And more important, can it be changed with paying a fee?”<br/>