When Feliks woke up the next day, he noted that Yao was not in the dorm. Well, he seemed like that he was the type to wake up at the crack of dawn anyways. Thankfully, Yao left a normal (bacon and eggs) breakfast on the table. Seems like he got the hint that he didn't want dog meat.

Ready to go to class, he opened the door to find Romano standing there. "Romano?" What business can the Italian have here? He clearly hated him from the volleyball game yesterday. "Yao's like, not here."

"I'm not looking for Yao!" There seemed to be a hint of irritation in his voice. "I mean... Ahem." He cleared his throat and looked ready to say something important. "I'm sorry about my attitude towards you yesterday."

Wait, this guy was...? He didn't seem sorry yesterday.

"So here. Please accept this as an apology..." He said as he gave Feliks a red Chrysanthemum. "Well, uh, I'll see you in class." Romano said before running off.

Feliks was shocked speechless as he watched him run off. Looking at the Chrysanthemum, he wondered why he was given a flower of all things. Weren't these meant for girls? Shrugging, he walked back in, got a cup of water and placed the flower in the cup before leaving again.


The teacher hadn't arrived in the classroom when he got there and everyone was really loud. Feliks could hear them from the other end of the hallway. But when he stepped in, everyone went quiet and stared at him. "W-What? I like, didn't fight anyone today." Feliks muttered before taking a seat. Glancing at people as they stared at him, he couldn't help but noticed that the stares did seem sort of different today... He didn't just hear a dreamy sigh, did he?

Feliks was feeling a bit creeped out and self conscious when someone swung an arm around him. "Eeek!" He screamed and punched the person in the jaw.

"Ow... I know you dislike me, but I don't think that was necessary." Gilbert said as he rubbed his jaw.

"Gilbert? Like, what the hell do you want?" Feliks felt angry already.

"Hmm? I can't just be nice to you? Why do you suspect something?"

"No, I'm totally sure that you're like, up to something. So like, what is it? Before I like, totally give you another punch in the face."

Gilbert wondered why he never really thought Feliks was a girl before this. There were more than a couple of girly aspects about him. "There's a party in Francis's dorm tonight. You're invited."

"What? Why are you like, inviting me all of a sudden?"

"Hmm? I can't?"

Before Feliks could answer, Romano yelled from the back of the room, "NO! Y-You can't!"

Gilbert turned to glare at Romano. "And why not? I'm pretty sure I can invite anyone I want!"

"W-Well...B-Because..." Romano sputtered, trying to think of a reason. "You just can't!" Feliks raised an eyebrow at his behavior before Romano pulled his twin out of the room.

"Feli! Did you tell anyone else that Feliks is a girl?" Romano growled. He sensed that he had competition now.

"N-No! ...Well, maybe I did. But the only people who should've known are me, you, Kirkland, Wang, and Ludwig!"

Romano was silent for a moment. "And Spain." That must've been it. Spain must've told Francis and Gilbert and that's how the thing spread like wildflower in the school. "Merde. There goes my entire game plan..." He said with a sigh.

"Game plan? Did you want to date her, fratello?"

"Well, of course! Its really hard to find a girlfriend when you're shipped off to a boarding school every year of your life! And its really hard to meet anyone when that potato bastard comes over to our house so often! Scares off any girl I try to make a move on!"

"Ve! Ludwig isn't a potato bastard! And he didn't mean to scare everyone away!" Feliciano protested for his friend. "...A-Anyways, just because everyone knows she's a girl doesn't mean a thing! I mean... You can still try to win her over."

"You really think so?" Feliciano nodded in response. "A-Alright! I'll give it another try!" Romano said before walking back into the classroom.


"We're lost." Natalia growled at the Lithuanian.

"I-I don't think so! I mean, I'm sure that there has to be someone over those bu-"

Natalia glared at him. "I don't think we're supposed to be in the middle of a forest!" She nearly yelled out the last part.

Well, she did have a point there. They got off the train, got lost in the station and when they got out, they found themselves in a little town. After wandering around for a while, their surroundings had turned greener and greener until here they are. In a forest.

Turning around, Natalia started walking ahead. "Ah! Wait, Natalia! Maybe we should wait for someone to come find us instead! Like the townspeople."

"Not likely. They probably don't even know that we're here." They hadn't tried to talk with anyone. Who wouldn't be suspicious of two 15 year old kids who got off the train without any parents?

"But it we keep moving we might get lost and-" Toris was cut short when Natalia suddenly threw a knife at him. He was stunned with fear as she walked around him to retrieve her knife from the tree which she had hit.

Returning to his side, she held up her knife and a dead snake. "There. I caught dinner." She said proudly.

At that, Toris couldn't help screaming out loud.


"Wow, I'd never thought I'd be thankful that you have a loud voice." Natalia said when an old couple had found them thanks to Toris's screaming and brought them back to town. Now they were given a ride to the boarding school that happened to be on the other side of the forest. They suggested that they didn't try to walk through since there were snakes and the occasional bear. Natalia wasn't scared of bears, though. She claimed that she helped her brother fight one when she lived in Russia.

"I...I never thought so too." Toris agreed.

"Oh my God, like, get away from me!" Feliks screamed as Ivan pressed way too close to him.

"Oh~ Feliks, you're so adorable. I keep calling you Feliks, can't you tell me your real name so I can call you that?" Ivan said as he seem to go for a kiss causing Feliks to scream again.

And right before he was kissed (he could swear that Ivan was at most, 1mm away from him!), he heard someone yell, "NEVER FEAR! THE HERO IS HERE!" And then he could swear someone kicked Ivan in the side to send him to the other end of the hallway. "Are you alright, m'lady?" Alfred said with a superhero like tone of voice. "Don't worry! I'll finished the monster off!" He said with a wink.

"Alfed!" Ivan growled. "YOU HAVE GOTTEN IN THE WAY OF MY PLANS FOR THE LAST TIME!" He roared before charging at Alfred.

Feliks watched wide eyed at the fight and wondered if it was rehearsed.

"Go Braginsky!" A boy next to him cheered. A crowd was starting to build around too. Sensing Feliks discomfort, he explained. "They get into fights a lot. I always cheer for Ivan. Cuz he's a much nicer guy than Jones!"

"Oh." Feliks really didn't know how to react to this piece of news. "And you are...?"

"Me? Oh, I'm Carlos! Carlos Martinez. I'm from Cuba!"

"Right. I'm Fe-"

"Oh, I know, you're pretty famous throughout the school!" Carlos said enthusiastically. "Feliks Ɓukasiewicz, right? I mean, you have lots of guts to get in here! Since after all, this is an all boys school!"

"Like, oh my God! I'M NOT A GIRL!" He screamed loudly enough that everyone stopped watching the fight to look at him. "I'm not!" He repeated.

Carlos was silent for a moment before chuckling. "Its alright, you know? We won't ever tell the teachers!"

Feliks gave him an exasperated stare before stomping off.

"W-What? Did I say something wrong?" Carlos said, looking a bit nervous.


For the 20 or so years the security guard had worked at this school, he had always deemed it a safe place where he could slack off. The school had a good reputation, quite a good security, and not many people had the courage to sneak into it. The people attending the school were all quite rich. These kids. I can't even begin to imagine what their parents do for a living. He would think for a sigh. But school was school and in order to keep their reputation as one of the best school around, they had to make hard entrance exams as well. Still, there was no reason for anyone to attempt sneaking inside.


Toris and Natalia crouched by a tree just outside the gate. "Listen up and don't screw up." He warned the Lithuanian. Toris swallowed audibly and nodded. "There are obviously no lasers."

Lasers?

"But there must be alarm triggers. They have to stop anyone from trying to kidnap the rich kids after all..."

Alarms?

"So thinking about it, they just might have lasers. Just not the ones that would fry you to a crisp. It would leave a burn mark, though."

Burn mark?

Toris's heart sank. This was ridiculous. They were sneaking into a school! Not a bank!

"And after the lasers, there are probably multiple sensors and traps. Traps that can do some bodily damage-"

"N-Natalia!"

"What?" The girl hissed.

Toris pointed to a side door where a man walked out and stretched. "I think the gardener is slacking on his job."


"...And then he actually did what I said! Isn't that just the stupidest thing you've ever heard?" Gilbert let out a bout of laughter that sounded strange in Feliks's ear. "Yea, all of it!" Feliks swatted away Gilbert's arm that was approaching his shoulders. Then he kicked Francis in the shin before scratching the French boy's arm to make sure he didn't try to grope his butt again.

Feliks burried his face in his hands. Why am I sitting in this table again?


"How long is this tunnel?" Toris asked. It was pitch black the moment they entered the door. Apparently, the door led to a tunnel. Which seemed to lead them to a sewer. The only light that emitted was from Toris's watch which showed they have been traveling for over ten minutes. "...I'm starting to get hungry-"

"Don't complain! Or do you want to leap through a garden full of traps?" Natalia threatened as she lifted her skirt to avoid some of the sewage.

"Y-Yes, ma'am!" Toris quickly said and followed her silently. But he was silently wondering why in the world there was such a tunnel and why the heck was the gardener using it? As he was thinking, Toris wasn't paying attention when Natalia suddenly stopped and bumped into her. "I-Is something the matter?" He asked as he squinted into the darkness.

"Grate." Natalia said. "There's a grate here."

"W-What? No way!" Toris walked ahead and sure enough, his hands touched cold metal bars. "...And getting so far too..."

"...Step back." Natalia commanded.

"W-What?"

"Nothing keeps me from my brother!" She said angrily. And for a flash, he saw Natalia pull out her knife and he quickly stepped back. Within minutes, he heard the sound of metal falling into the water. Natalia shrugged and took the lead again.

A little while after walking, a few lights lit the path and the water level grew lower until it was dry ground. A little further ahead was a large wooden door. "Ok, I can't deny it anymore." Toris said with a sigh. "I think I just stepped into Hogwarts or something."

Natalia frowned at him. "Didn't you know? This school is made to be a medieval castle."

"Wha- Medival castle?" H-How can they learn in such an environment? The thought of being surrounded by stone walls that had no heat in the winter made him nervous again.

"The outside walls are like that. I'm sure beyond this door it should be a normal school." Natalia reassured him.

"That's a relief-"

"Just wait for me my brother! Pretty soon, we'll get married married married!" Toris decided not to bother her while she looked so happy and proceeded to open the door.


"I thought you three had detention for throwing a party." Feliks said after dinner as they returned to the trio's dorm room where they were going to hold yet another party. The detention rules was to stay there from after school till dinnertime and after dinnertime till bedtime. No time in between were they supposed to be out of that room.

"Nah! You see, we were smart." Antonio explained. "We paid a couple guys to sit there for us!"

"How's that a smart thing?"

"We're all rich so there's no need for money, yet they do it anyways!" Gilbert said loudly before following up with that weird laugh of his.

"Come on, you slow pokes. How can the hosts of the party be late?" Francis said as he walked ahead.

"That guy's showing off, isn't he?"

"Yea, he's definitely showing off."

Antonio and Gilbert exchanged a look before they caught up with Francis, leaving Feliks to walk on his own. "So, the plan is to drag Feliks away in the middle of the party."

"And we'll be using that secret tunnel we found in the back of your room." Antonio added.

"Oui." France said with a flick of his hair. "And they we get to have our way with the belle princesse." He finished with a smirk.


Toris poked his head out from the door and glanced left and right, checking for people passing by. "The coast is clear, Natalia."

"A real man would charge right in without needing to check." She responded with a 'hmph' as she stepped out. Toris had a feeling that this time she simply wanted the last word.

As they rounded a corner, Natalia suddenly stopped and Toris knew by now how to read her signals and knew that someone was coming. As they hid behind the wall, he heard the voices of a couple of students float by.

"...I really can't believe that rumor is true."

"Rumor? Which one, Roderich?"

"The one about Feliks being a girl, Vash..."

"Tch. I don't believe in rumors!" Vash responded, his voice rather irritated.

"I don't think its a rumor if its true. I mean, what other reason would Gilbert and his buddies have for being nice to him all of a sudden?"

"I... You do have a point there."

Toris heard him sigh and he couldn't believe his ears. F-Feliks? A girl? "Wha-" He had jumped up, ready to ask the two students when Natalia pushed his head back down, glaring at him.

"W-What was that noise? Who's there?" Vash called out. Toris could hear rapid footsteps approaching where they were hiding and he was starting to go dizzy from being nervous. ...Or its just Natalia cutting out my air supply. Natalia had covered both Toris's nose and mouth with her hand, but he didn't dare complain now.

"Ah, it must've been some fool of a student. Let's go back to the dorm room, Vash. The security might start patrolling soon..."

"...Hmph! I'd almost say that you're being a coward!"

"Geez, that's harsh, Vash..."

The voices faded away and the two teenagers let out a sigh of relief. "The hell is wrong with you?" Natalia hissed, hitting Toris on the head. "You want us to be found? We've just gotten in, idiot!"

"I-I know...it's just that..."

"Just what?"

"N-Nothing!" Toris decided that Natalia probably wouldn't have deemed it important enough to be found and would receive another hit to the head. "L-Let's just hurry up...!"

"Right... I think brother's room is-" Even Natalia let out a small gasp as all the lights in the hallway turned off.

"W-What happened...?"

"P-Probably lights out." She mumbled. It must've really surprised her since there was a slight stutter in her voice. "We need to hurry." And with that, she quickly turned around and started walking down the hall.


Feliks sat on Francis bed, staring out into the partying residents outside. There were a couple people in the room with him, drinking and laughing with their friends. Unfortunately, he didn't know much of anyone here anyways. He sipped his punch as he eavesdropped on some of the nearby people's conversations.

"...So it really is true? The ghost?"

"Yea, the Italian twins verified it. And you know that they wouldn't lie. They can't pull it off even if they tried. Everything shows on their face."

"Well, that's just one of the wonders of the school proven true."

"Yea, there are those rumored tunnels... the dungeon..."

The boy's voice droned on and Feliks felt that the longer he listened, the more sleepy he actually became. In his sleep like trance, he started thinking back to when he was hanging out with Toris in the summer. "Toris... I like, totally miss you..." He mumbled.

"Who's Toris?" The voice rang out in Feliks ears and he quickly snapped out of his daze.

"Wha-? Who? Huh?" Feliks stared up in front of him to find Romano standing in front of him with a drink in either hand. Handing him a glass of punch, he sat down next to him.

"You were invited, yet you were sitting in here? By yourself?"

Feliks sniffed the punch before drinking. He was checking in case there was beer in there. He trusted Romano enough to know that he wouldn't slip anything. ...He just didn't trust the trio too much. "I didn't have anyone to talk to..." He said in a whisper. He was quite open with people he knew or people he hated. But it was a different matter when meeting new people that he's never had a word with. He used to let Toris handle that. "Say, I didn't know that you were invited."

Romano shrugged. "Antonio invited me." He said with a scowl. "I normally wouldn't come, but this time was an exception."

"Why this time?"

"Um..." Romano cheeks turned a bit pink before he continued. "...B-Because you're h-"

"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS GOING ON IN HERE?" Arthur's voice came roaring in from the doorway. Both Feliks and Romano ran out to see what was going on (although they could already guess). What they saw was not pretty. Arthur had Francis pinned on the floor with his foot and was holding Antonio by the collar. "BEILSCHMIDT, DON'T YOU DARE MOVE!"

Gilbert, who was the only one free had been trying to back into the crowd, but his stealthy escape didn't escape Arthur's notice. It didn't take long for Arthur to catch him by the collar too.

Arthur had been blocking the doorway so no one was able to leave. They could've just rushed through like a mad crowd, but they did remember that Arthur used to have wilder days when he was younger as well. Wilder days when he beat up the high school seniors that bullied him when he was in middle school.

"...Merde. I knew I shouldn't have come." Romano muttered as Arthur threw Antonio and Gilbert on the ground and took out his cell phone to inform school authorities.

"I was being nice last time." Arthur said smugly when he got off the phone. "But right now, I'm still feeling angry... Thanks to a certain someone..." He eyed his new roommate. "And I'm not going to let anyone off the hook this time!"


Natalia and Toris were still walking down hallway after hallway of classrooms, completely lost. Heck, Toris was surprised that any student made their way to class on time with the ways the halls zigzagged. "Natalia, are you sure-" A beam of light shined in their faces and they both covered their eyes to avoid being blinded.

"Hey! You two! Its after curfew! What are you doing out of your dorms?" A man yelled before heavy footsteps approached them. "...You're out of uniform and- What? You're a girl?"

Shit. Busted.


Feliks gritted his teeth as he sat next to Romano in the main office. There were other students sitting here as well. Some looked glum, others looked as though this was a daily thing and did not care. The trio, however, were not sitting among them. They were getting yelled at by the principal in the principal's office.


"Who are you kids and what are you doing here?" The security guard asked as he brought Toris and Natalia to the main office. He was hoping to get a quick nap and instead, one of the patrol officers rush into the surveillance room to inform him two kids snuck in. He was more than upset. And now he had to make the effort to get up and bring them to the main office.

"Hey, the principal here?" He asked as he opened the door and let the two kids in. The boy was easy to take care off, but the girl? They ended up having to tie the girl up in a rope and confiscate her knife...

Toris walked into the room with a sigh. He should've known it would be a dumb idea. But he had wanted to try and see Feliks again. "Toris?" Oh man, I'm going delusional, I'm hearing his voice...

"Toris!"

"Dammit, shut up... I know I won't see Feliks again for a whole year..."

"Toris! I'm like, right here!"

"Huh?" Toris glanced up to see Feliks getting out of the chair he was sitting at and walked up to him.

"Toris, like, what are you doing here?"


Notes...

Red Chrysanthemum - According to wiki, its supposed to mean 'I love'

Cuba's name - I just went through a list of popular Cuban names and picked something that sounded good.

Belle princesse - beautiful princess (French)


De-Anon from Kink meme.