Chapter 4

During first block the next Monday, Emil sat down in his desk, quietly as always. He looked over at Lily occasionally. Lily was simply doing her work, and now and then, looking back at Raivis, who simply copied her notes. Emil hoped that 'General' accepted the request.

After class, Emil followed Lily out the door. Lily stopped at her locker to get the book for her next class, Pre-Calculus. Emil walked up to her, with the same blank expression as always.

Lily noticed him and smiled politely," Hello."

"Hey," Answered Emil, the same way he had when she first spoke to him. He already had his book for his next class which wasn't Pre-Calculus. He stayed silent for a while. He wanted to say something. Anything.

"I didn't seem to ask your name before. What is it?"

"It's Lily. And yours is Emil, am I right?" asked Lily with her usual smile.

"That's correct." answered Emil, with the same low voice of always.

"Do you...practice any sports?" He finally asked. Lily noticed his tone didn't change from before. But why the question?

"Not currently. Why do you ask?" She answered ever so politely.

"No reason," said Emil. After an awkward silent while, Lily closed her locker and headed for her class. "I'll see you around then." She said to Emil, with a small wave.

Emil didn't wave back. He simply said a small "ok" and headed for his next class.

As Lily made her way to the next class, she wondered why Emil, out of all people would just go up to her and ask a question like that. Maybe he's warming up to the socialism. Let's just hope that way for now.

Raivis had left early that day for a doctor's appointment. So Lily was by herself at a lunch table. She did get a few stares from people of afar, who jumped to conclusions seeing her all alone. They started to think of her as a loner. But honestly, she couldn't give less shits about that.

She could hear people's conversations. They were talking about a guy from the school that was found killed at a street near the school.

"Did you hear about the kid that was found dead behind the school?" Asked Elizabeta to Anri. "Yes, I heard. It was all over Facebook this weekend. everyone's talking about it! Who'd you think did it?"

"I don't know...probably some sort of gang or something. I swear, if anything else like this happens, I'm moving schools like THAT!" said Anri, with a snap of her fingers at the word 'that'.

"Do you think the new kid, Emil, has anything to do with it? I mean it started when he got here and when he started to talk to those older guys."

At the mention of his name, Lily discretely paid more attention.

Anri shook her head shortly, "Naah I'm sure its just coincidence. The kid doesn't seem like the type to be in a gang."

Lily thought about it for a second. What if Emil did have something to do with it? There must be something he's hiding, and it itched Lily all over just to find out what.

That day, Lily had P.E. class after lunch. The teacher had arrived early this time, so there really wasn't gonna be much time to chat. In the P.E. locker rooms, as Lily changed, the girls kept talking about the murder that seemed to have taken place the last Friday. Nobody mentioned Emil, but a certain Alfred was mentioned. He seemed to have been the victim.

So maybe Emil was off the hook, and the two girls at lunch, that seemed to always be caught up on the gossip (Anri and Elizabeta), were wrong about Emil.

Either that, or people simply didn't talk about it openly anymore. Lily really wanted to believe it was option one, but she had no proof on either side.

The girls and boys came out of the separate locker rooms and met inside the gym. Class began almost immediately. Everyone sat down in the floor in front of a mobile chalkboard. The teacher explained the lesson, and as so happened, Lily actually didn't pay attention. This was the only class where she didn't. She looked across the criss-crossed placed students and found Emil all the way in the corner. He didn't seem as quiet, although he wasn't talking to anyone. He just seemed more warmed up to the school and the students.

All this, and the bro still had that emotionless, unreadable expression on that face of his. How is that halfway possible?

"For this warm-up, you guys will play in pairs," Explained the teacher. Lily started to pay attention after exploring Emil from afar, as crazy as that sounds.

"I'll let you choose your own partner for now. If you don't seem to handle that, I'll choose your partner for you. One of you can take a tennis ball and the rackets and the other gets a space at a tent. Ready? Ok go. You have 15 minutes."

At the hear of the last words, everyone got up and raced toward their best friends and headed out the gym and to the courts out in the clearing of the P.E. area. Raivis wasn't in that class, so Lily found herself forced to go with an acquaintance. Before she even got up, she felt someone walk up to her.

"Can you be my partner?" Lily looked up to see Emil standing next to her while she was still sitting . The question was low and emotionless, yet not as much as the other time in that same class he had spoken to her.

Lily got up and smiled," sure. I'll go get the equipment." And with no further due, Lily got the rackets and the tennis ball and Emil was standing at the far end of a tennis ball court, waiting for her.

Lily came out of the gym with the rackets and the tennis ball. She handed one to Emil, and the started to warm up with a simple motion of hitting the tennis ball over the net.

"So, do you have a favorite sport?" asked Emil to Lily after a few minutes of warm-up. Lily was a bit surprised to hear him speak first. Let's just hope its a good sign. "I prefer soccer, but anything seems good," she responded.

That was all Emil had said for the rest of the 15 minutes. After that, the rest of the class was all about tennis. They were in the tennis unit so what was to be expected. Lily just couldn't wait for the soccer unit to come.

Class ended, and it was time to go to the last class for the day. For Lily it was Art, for Emil it was Pre-Calculus. On her way to her locker, Emil followed her and started to chat up with her. Whether it was about school, or her favorite hobbies. But at the end of the day, it was always something Emil asked her about. Lily started to feel less suspicious of this guy. Maybe he was just shy at the beginning, and now he's warming up to things.

…

Or is it an act?

The kid didn't seem to be the type to kill someone, but at once, he might have been capable. It was all too confusing. Lily didn't know what to believe anymore. How about we just lay off and accept things as they are, she thought. Be his friend, and don't think too much about the other possibilities.

When Lily got home, Vash was playing videogames in the living room.

"I'm home~!" said Lily at the moment of entering her house. Vash had headphones on and couldn't entirely hear her, but he knew she was home. Lily went to the kitchen, fetched a cookie and went upstairs to her room.

She laid in her bed, finishing her homework. Her phone started to ring. She reached over the nightstand for her phone and tapped on the answer button.

"Hello?"

"Hey-o! It's Raivis! What's up?"

"Oh nothing, just doing my homework. Want me to pass you the notes for History?"

"Yes, please."

And after Lily passed over the notes for their third period, Raivis simply thanked her.

"Oh, it's no problem. Anytime!"

"Hey, Lily! Did you hear about the murder behind the school?"

"Of course! Everyone was talking about it today. Especially Anri and Elizabeta. They seem to always know what's new."

"I know, those two always get hold of everything going on. I heard them once fangirling about this new kid..what was his name? Oh, Emil!"

Lily knew that name all too well. She barely realized Raivis never really met Emil now, did he?

"...Lily are you there?"

"Oh, yeah I'm here sorry."

"So yeah. That new kid. He's in our first block, and I barely noticed!" Raivis was laughing shortly on the other line.

"Yeah, I knew he was. He's also in my P.E. class."

"Really? Have you talked to him?"

"Yes, actually. He seems like a nice person."

"Oh..." Raivis answered and his tone was somewhat disappointed and low.

"...hey I have to go now. See ya, Lily."

"Ok, bye!"

Lily hung up and set her phone in her nightstand.

Now that she thought about it, Emil would ask her things about herself. But he never talked about himself. He never mentioned his favorite sport, never said anything about his hobbies. Why? Why did he seemed all interested out of nowhere?

Her train of thought went lost at the knock of the door. "It's open." announced Lily. Vash stepped in with his headphones around his neck."Do you want anything to eat?"

"Not right now, thank you. Maybe later."

"Alright you let me know when you're hungry so I can make something." And with a nod from Lily, vash closed the door and went back downstairs to his beloved video game.

Lily went back to her almost finished homework. She started to think about Emil and what they talked about that day.

"Can I ask you something?"

"What is it?"

"About the kid that got killed on Friday. Do you know anything about that?"

"...No. I don't know what you are talking about."

How did he not know what I was talking about? It was all over people's conversations? You can't be that unsocial to not find out, can you?

Afterschool that day, Emil and the two older students met up with an older redheaded man near the back of the school.

"Did General get the message?" asked Emil, or F7.

"Yes. M4 already told you previously that he won't be delivering the response. That explain my presence."

"Yes, we know, M9. What did General say?" said F7, a bit impatiently.

"General has approved for now. However, he said to not be sudden. First, you three, F1, F2, and F7, need to investigate this girl for the time being. As you do so, F1 can report any needed information to General, Once he feels good enough about her, he'll send orders to M4. Then he will come and give the call to recruit her."

"So what do we do while we gather the information?" asked F2, with his monotone voice like before.

"Act normal. Do not reveal any information about the Black Moon until you receive the call from M4."

The three high schoolers quietly nodded.

"How much time are we given?" asked F1.

M9 thought for a second,"No longer than 5 weeks. After said time, all the units around Asia, Europe and North America will report back to Stockholm, in the Black Moon Headquarters. That will give us about a month remaining for any preparations in time for The Rebellion."

"Seems ok. Anything else you need to tell us?" asked F7.

"That seem like it for now. If anything else, I'll send it to your global devices. Understood?"

"yes," said the three in unison, and in a low tone. After so, the redhead M9 left and the three walked the opposite way. This time, no one was around behind the school eavesdropping on them, so there was no need to 'Eliminate' anyone for the time being.

A/N: Thanks for waiting for the next chapter. I planned on making a longer one, but instead, I decided to break this chapter into two so it isn't so long. It might actually take more chapters to fully explain everything and to get the climax across. I don't want to make these chapters eternally long.

Some clear-ups:

M9 is Scotland

M4 is Netherlands

F1 is Denmark

F2 is Norway

General is Sweden. But he won't appear until later in the plot.

and F7 Iceland, although he's known to Lily as Emil..for now :3

Another thing, when Raivis felt disappointed in the phone, is because he honestly has a crush on Lily. But it's gonna get all twisted later, just you watch. Review on anything that you didn't get and I'll explain it all to you.