Chapter 21:

Silence...

That's all he can hear.

Nothing...

...It was quiet.

...too quiet for his liking.

He glanced around him and trembled, but then noticed a dim light a couple of feet ahead.

Taking a shaky breath, he stood up and walked towards it and saw that it let him see what was going on outside.

Muttering to himself quietly, he thought to himself, 'Is this what you can see Eddy? When you're here?'

Knowing he wouldn't get a response, he stayed quiet.

In the back of his mind, he knew he was about to give up.

Eddy glanced blankly at the teens who were inside the class he was currently in.

'...Pathetic teenagers.'

Clearly, this place annoyed him.

Yet, he was still thinking how to keep Clyde's body under his control. The brunette can break through anytime, but that's only if he was capable on doing so.

Humming to himself as soon as the bell rang while he began walking out the door into the hall full of other teens, he notice a presence approaching him from behind.

Stopping by Clyde's locker, Eddy rolled his eyes and turned around giving them a 'friendly' greeting. Or in this case...how Clyde would greet others.

"Oh, hey Wendy, what's up?"

'The hell does she want now?'

Wendy was carrying something between her hands as she smiled at him. "Guess what I got Clyde."

Eddy inwardly flinched at her joyfulness but he decided to play along.

"Hm? What is it?"

The ravenette's smile faltered a bit, she thought that he would be more confuse, but nevertheless she gave him whatever she was holding.

"Your Math score~"

"Oh awesome! I hope I did good." Eddy grimaced on how he was acting, thinking to himself, 'This is freakin' ridiculous. This girl better leave.'

He began opening the envelop he received and glanced at the brunette's grade before putting it in his pocket.

'Hn...Figures. He'd pass it.'

"Well, I passed it with a decent score Wends!" Eddy made Clyde let out a grin.

Wendy tilted her head to the side expecting Clyde to be more surprised or at leas excited but she shook her head when she thought something was kind of off.

"Anyway, the teacher was really impressed at how your grade turned out to be. She almost couldn't believe yours was the forth highest score in the class."

'Guess he did well.' Eddy's grin twitched slightly, but he made Clyde's hand scratch his neck faking a chuckle, "Impressed huh? That's good to hear Wendy, anything else she said about me?"

Clearly he didn't care much about the stupid grade, he just wanted her to leave so he could think who Clyde was close to or those who were close to the teen.

"No, she just told me to congratulate you on your grade. So congrats!" The girl replied.

Eddy made Clyde let out a laugh not wanting the girl to get confuse on how the brunette was acting.

"Well thanks Wends. I'll see you later, I have to get going."

Wendy smiled and waved at him as she made her way towards her friends.

After she was out of sight, Eddy narrowed Clyde's eyes and made his lip curled into a sneer.

"Tsk. Donovan, your 'friends' are all stupid."

Eddy watched as people from the school were walking around. Some faces familiar, some unknown, and his face scrunched up in annoyance. They were all being happy with all their smiling faces and whatnot. No matter, he could at least try and be courteous towards Clyde inside his head. He knew he can see what's going on outside, might as well speak to him.

'So, Donovan...Looks like you passed that pathetic grade you were worried about. How do you feel about that?' Eddy asked, leaning with a heavy smirk up against the bark of a tree he spotted to get away from any socializing.

Inside his head, he heard the brunette answer him in a quiet voice, 'I..I'm glad, I guess.'

Eddy hummed a dark tune and closed his eyes meeting the brunette in the dim light of his mind.

"Regardless, you did well Clyde."

Clyde cringed for a bit. Then he started to tremble slightly, he still wasn't over the way Eddy made him remember some events when he was young earlier.

Eddy noticed and snickered, "No need to scared of imperfection, Clyde."

He looked around for a bit, and zipped up his jacket as he took a step forward to the brunette, "Or perhaps, you want to see more memor-"

Clyde quickly shook his head and laid his forehead against Eddy's shoulder then let out a whimper, feeling so lost and tired, so broken down and yet still trying to keep convincing himself that there was someone who cares and can help him.

Still...He was slowly giving up, he'll end up leaving his family behind and loosing them as well as those he called 'friends'. He couldn't take anymore of these memories Eddy was showing him."No..Just...D-Don't make me remember...I don't want to know anymore."

Without hesitation, Eddy wrapped his arms around the brunette and let his fingers brush across the boy's hair until he felt him go limp once sleep took over him again. His eyes traveled around until he spotted a door that appeared before them. A dangerous grin played on Eddy's face as he felt the chill of winter wind across his face when he opened his eyes.

"..That's it Clyde. Just give in."

'Catagelophobia: Fear of being ridiculed publicly. Check.'

'Atelophobia: Fear of being imperfect. Check.'

He chuckled beginning to walk away from the tree he was leaning on,"More to go."

Eddy slowed his walking to a stop when he heard someone talking with somebody on their phone, curious at this, he hid behind a building leaning against the wall. He glanced to the side, his eyes taken on a view of the newcomer, "I see you all there, but do you really think something is wrong with him?" He saw the person frown then continue to talk, "Not sure about that. Well yeah, the last time I've seen him was at Stark's Pond. He told me he was there to get some fresh air."

Eddy narrowed his eyes when he recognized the person.

'Stoley.'

"I haven't spoken to him since then so I wouldn't kno-Hey! Don't yell at me! I swear that's all I know."

Eddy rolled his eyes.

Kevin ran a hand through his hair and replied, "I just went to get comic books when I saw him-"

Eddy could clearly hear someone on the other line say, "Those lame Star Wars comics?"

"They're not lame! They were selling unlimited editions ones!" Kevin said offended.

Eddy face palmed aggravated at this nonsense, either way he then proceeded to hear what the other person was saying.

"Whatever, that's all we wanted to know. And by the way Kevin?"

"Yeah?"

"Cool it with the Star Wars crap dude."

Kevin sighed knowing it was useless to argue since this has been going on since he was young. Although he was used to it, he didn't mind much about it.

"Yeah, okay. Bye."

Eddy waited until the boy was out of view and proceeded his way to the brunette's house.

Obviously he was irritated, he knew that phone conversation was about Clyde.

"They just don't know when to fuck off, do they."

A/N: Happy St. Patrick's Day!^^ (Since I've updated this, today~.) I hope this chapter was alright for you guys? (and makes sense) Let me know what you guys think so far~Review c:

(PS: You can tell me what you'd like to see in the next or future chapters, I'd like suggestions ^^, in case I don't know what else to write.)