Day 1 Continued

An hour had passed since we had a major bombshell dropped on us. Not only were we trapped inside America's Hope's Peak Academy but we are now forced to participate in this killing game if we have any hope of leaving this place. The psycho bear that's been running around that started this all has given us all regulations to follow. I had already looked through them multiple times already but found myself looking over them again. I wanted to ensure that I didn't forget them due to what nearly happened to Brenda and Jayden.

Rule 1: Students must remain within the school premises and are not allowed to leave without the mandatory requirements.

Rule 2: "Nighttime" will last from 10 pm to 7 am. Certain areas and rooms are off limits at this time.

Rule 3: Sleeping anywhere else besides the dormitories is strictly prohibited and will be punished.

Rule 4: Violence against Headmaster Monokuma is also prohibited as well as the destruction of surveillance cameras and monitors.

Rule 5: In order to graduate, a student must kill and become "the blackened" and not be discovered. Killing more than two is prohibited.

Rule 6: New rules may be added as the headmaster sees fit.

Rule 7: If anything the headmaster finds is unwelcome in a school environment, then he has the right to confiscate it for as long as he sees fit.

I sighed before closing the e-handbook. Soon a slam on the round cafeteria table I was sitting at woke me from my daze as Helen looked upon everyone. "So besides the ten of us that originally split up, there is only one other person who joined us?" She asked as we looked over at Marcel who joined up when Helen and Mikayla found him during their search.

Each group sat at their own table except Helen who was the only one standing. "It appears so. We found Paul and Evelyn in the library but they refused to join us." Jayden reported. Shana looked at Helen next. "We had seen Melinda in the kitchen earlier but she seemed… preoccupied with a big slab of meat." Finally I stood up and looked at her. "Me and Luca found Sienna in her dorm but she was too scared to come out."

Helen nodded her understanding. "Alright I see. In that case we shall begin. I will tell you all what me and Mikayla and also Marcel found when he joined us, during our search. We went around the hallways to check all the classrooms and unfortunately the windows in all of them are made of flexy glass and are all barred off and painted over. No one can see in or out and no way to break the glass. Also the main entrance has a thick metal door blocking the entrance and no way to get it open. Now who is next?" No one spoke up so she looked around and pointed to me. "Kai! What did you find?"

I nodded as I looked to the others. "Well we checked out the dormitories and just like the classrooms apparently, the windows are also painted and barred off. Just like Monokuma told us, all our things are in there but somethings have been confiscated. I had a tablet but it was taken because I could do facetime with Terry on it. Besides that, there was nothing else we could notice."

Helen nodded before looking to Jayden who stood up next to Damian, whose arms were crossed with a displeased expression. He just can't have any luck with the ladies right now. "We went by and found a library that had thousands of books piled on high shelves and a lounge area near the commons where people can hang out and have fun but nothing of importance in either location."

Brenda was next to stand as she delivered her report. "Me and Shana looked around here initially but didn't find anything. But we did find that the kitchen is stuffed with tons of food and ingredients in all the walk-in refrigerators, freezers, and pantries. Monokuma even scared us when he popped in and told us the food gets restocked every week. Guess the whole living here forever thing holds true to that."

Finally Willie stood up as the last group got ready to tell us what they found. "Well see, Tommy and I wandered around not really finding anything else besides a few blocked off areas as well as two other rooms that were accessible. One was a warehouse filled with all kinds of equipment and items for us to use but nothing of which that could help us escape. However there was a school store and we did find something in there." We all looked at them in shock, feeling a rush of excitement. That's when Tommy walked up to Helen and handed her a small bottle. She looked at it and screeched as she dropped it on my table. Everyone looked down as it rolled over to show a skull with crossbones on it.

Luca and I jumped back in surprise and everyone else gasped upon seeing the bottle. "Is that… poison?" Marcel asked his voice a bit shaky. Tommy nodded as he continued. "That's not all. The school store not only has neat little knickknacks that you can get but they have a small variety of weapons, poisons, and other dangerous items hidden among those trinkets. What makes it worse is everything in there is out in the open which means it's accessible to anyone."

"We best quarantine that room and make it off limits. Last thing we want is for someone to go in and have multiple different ways to kill us in their disposal." Jayden suggested. Helen nodded in agreement. "Yes. We will do so immediately. Yet it seems it's just as the bear said. There is no method of escaping but fear not. If we just make an oath to each other that no matter what may come we will avoid any senseless violence and live together peacefully until we can find a way out, agreed?"

Everyone looked at each other before nodding and shouting in unison, "Agreed!" Luca raised his hand. "Yes Luca?" Helen called on him like a teacher would. "I think we should make one more agreement. It's in regard to the nighttime rule. I think it would be best to avoid leaving our dorms at that time since a killer would most likely strike when we are most vulnerable. Also we should meet up each morning to ensure nothing has happened to anyone." She smiled at him and put her hands over her heart. "Oh, what a spectacular idea that is indeed. Thank you for contributing such a wonderfully theorized thought. Let's give Mr. Archer a big hand everyone!" She cheered while making small claps in one of her palms. The rest of us slowly began clapping along as Luca looked to the side with a blush of embarrassment.

"Is there anything anyone else would like to bring up before we part ways?" Helen asked, looking around. After a few seconds of silence she nodded. "Alright, then in that case I call this meeting adjourned. We shall meet up altogether tomorrow so let's just live things out here as if it were a normal day out there. Dismissed!" With that shouted out everyone began walking away.

I found myself in my dorm as I looked around. It was fair to say the least. The bed had a nice red comforter set on with a dresser next to it. I had checked it earlier and found all my clothes there. I also saw my books stacked on the top of the dresser and my Oscar Terry had packed placed at the very top. I also happened to have packed a small framed picture of me and Terry when he first met me at the final night of the High School Musical production my community put on. I had a brown wig on, holding a basketball to my side, and wore the basketball costume to look almost exactly as Zac Efron did in the movie. Terry was kneeling next to me, wearing the same black suit he always wore as he and I smiled with peace signs on our fingers. I grabbed the photo as I reminisced that day for a while before I sighed in defeat. I placed the photo down and turned back to my bed and fell on top of it, not bothering to get changed or even get under the sheets as I felt myself slowly drift off to slumber land.

Eventually I felt myself stir as I woke up and stretched myself out. I looked up at the wall clock in my room and saw that it read 9:35 pm. I nearly slept all afternoon since I was in the bed around 3 or 4 earlier. I rose off the bed and quickly adjusted the messy sheets before I turned around to walk into my personal bathroom. It had the usual sink, toilet, and bathtub with I could use for a shower or to soak myself in a bath but right now I just wanted to wash my face off. It always helped me relax a bit especially since I woke up knowing exactly where I still was.

I turned on the sink and cupped my hands under the flowing hot water. I quickly splashed it on my face and breathed heavily once I took my hands away after rubbing it for about ten seconds. I dried my face off before I looked up at the round mirror and stared at myself. Then suddenly I felt something. It wasn't like someone was behind me, I could see that from the mirror, but I could have sworn I felt a small hand caress my inner thigh. "You have such a nice ass. Is that why you were recruited as an actor?" I heard behind me. I lurched around and jumped back with a scream when I saw the little devil behind me.

"What the hell man! How did you get in? I locked my door!" I yelled angrily at him. He laughed in his paws as he looked to me. "I can get in wherever I want using my teleportation powers! Well what I do is close enough that it could be considered that at least."

I glared at him before stomping out of the bathroom. "Leave me alone." He then looked saddened by my outburst but I didn't care. "Aw. He hates me and just when I was gonna offer you something nice too."

I stopped and looked back to him cautiously. "What are you talking about?" He perked up again. "Did I catch your attention? Then allow me to show you your surprise." He then reached down to grab at his crotch as his arms began moving forward and back rapidly. I stepped back in horror as I quickly realized what he was doing as he began grunting and moaning. "Oh! I'm so pent up! My white stuffing is gonna go everywhere!" He cried out as I somehow saw his cheeks flush almost worse than mine. Then before I could even register what was happening, white streaks spewed out of him and flew right at my face. I fell back on my bed and covered myself with a scream as I felt the streams… gently fall on me? I slowly removed my arms from my head to see white streamers resting on my body and Monokuma holding a birthday popper in his hands and now wearing a party hat. "Happy Birthday!" He shouted out before he fell to his side, literally rolling around in laughter.

I felt my fists tighten as I threw the streamers off of me and ran to the door. "Leave me alone!" I couldn't help but shout as I open the door and ran out into the hallway. But as soon as I turned out the door I ran straight into someone and ended up on my ass again. This time I hit my head when I collided with the person and I gripped my head tightly in pain. 'Yep, I can already feel the goose egg forming on my head.' I groaned to myself as I just sat there in absolute pain. "Kai?" I heard the voice above me as I looked up through one open eye. It was Luca looking down confused. "Dude, you gotta stop meeting up with me like this. You're gonna hurt yourself a lot worse if you don't watch where you're going." He chuckled as he knelt down in front of me. "You okay man? What happened?"

I sighed before looking up. "It's stupid. Monokuma just randomly appeared in my room and decided to pull a dumb prank on me." Luca looked in my dorm and then looked back at me. "He did?" I heard the confusion in his voice and looked back into my room. I noticed Monokuma was gone and the mess he had made with that popper was already cleaned up.

I growled as I stood myself up. "Just forget it." I was about to walk off but found the collision left me a bit dizzy as I almost lost my balance. But I felt a substantial weight wrap around me as I saw Luca had caught me before I fell. "Hey man careful. You ran straight into my chin and it looks like your head took most of that blow. Here let me take you to the kitchen and get you a bag of ice for your head." After making a fool out of myself twice in succession just now I just wanted to be alone but I found that I couldn't refuse since I couldn't really stand on my own anyway.

Luca quickly closed my door and locked it with my key and then hurried me over to the cafeteria. He helped me get seated down and then took off as he ran to the kitchen to get the bag of ice ready for me. After a few agonizing minutes of sitting there with the throbbing in my head not diminishing in any way, I soon heard his footsteps approach and felt the bench slightly jump when he sat down near me. I heard the bag of ice hit the table and slid over to me before I felt to shivering touch of the ice nip at my elbow.

I quickly took the bag and pressed it against my head as I felt my brain begin to throb from a headache that was beginning to form. I cringed in pain as I felt a corner of an ice cube jab itself on my goose egg. "Hey careful. Don't hurt yourself." I heard Luca say warily. I looked over to him and smiled, putting on my fake face again. "Not to worry. I just want to make sure this headache I'm getting won't form into a migraine." I reassured him.

Luca didn't look to sure of what I said but shrugged as I noticed him rubbing his chin. "Oh that's right! I'm sorry I ran into you. Is your chin hurting because of me?" I asked him worried. He shook his head with a reassuring smile. "Nah. I hardly felt it." That statement took me off guard as I stared at him. "But I ran into you full force which left me dizzy with a goose egg and headache yet you hardly even felt it? How does that work?"

"Well being a traceur means that to become one you have to fall enough times in order to know how get back up without any worry of falling or hurting yourself. I've hurt myself so many times doing my parkour that I've developed quite the high pain tolerance. I remember this one time I jumped out of a second floor window and landed a bit wrong as I fell forward and skidded across the sidewalk. I not only scratched my face up but I actually my thumbnail in half when my hand was pushed against the cement under my body. But at the moment I was feeling the thrill of having jumped out the window that I didn't even realize that my thumbnail was still hanging on me like a broken hinge or the fact my face looked like it was just rubbed against a cheese grater and I continued running along walls and stuff. It wasn't until I got home and looked in the mirror that I noticed the condition I was in." He reminisced as he told me the story. He even chuckled to himself when it was all over and I found that I was smiling as well as he told the story despite how painful it sounded.

"That's amazing. I bet no other traceur has the pain endurance you've got." I told him. He meekly replied to that after he shrugged. "Maybe, I mean I can still feel pain. If I broke a bone or got a shard of glass stuck in me then I will without a doubt feel unimaginable pain so it's not like I'm immortal. Besides I bet a lot of other traceurs have an even greater pain tolerance than me." There he goes again. Making his talent and the things about him seem to not matter. I just had to know why he did that.

"Hey Luca?" I said to him at this point removing the ice from my head. "Yes?" He asked curiously. "Why do you keeping humbling yourself like that? You seem to put yourself down everytime I bring up the remarkable things your talent has helped you to do. Why is that?"

Luca tensed up a bit before looking away. "I'd… rather not say. I'm not too comfortable when it comes to certain things about my past." I had to say I didn't like his answer and avoided my question but I respected it nonetheless. I was just like that and I was sure everyone on this planet was like that. We all have our secrets of the past that we don't want others to know about. So I just left it at that.

He then looked back to me and smiled. "Well enough about me. I wanna hear something about you. I mean I know what you're like in your movies as your characters but what about you personally? As far as your Wikipedia page is concerned you haven't shared your past with anyone." 'So he's looked at my wiki page huh? Should have figured as much since he made it obvious that meeting me was something he was looking forward to.' I thought of something to talk about and decided to bring up my start as an actor.

"Well I got my start at my kid's community play for High School Musical when I was six. It was the first play I ever took part in. Mother only allowed me because I kept the good behavior she wanted from me for over two weeks." I told him. He looked to me with a small cringe in his face. "Oof. That's a rough start. Was your mother always so strict?" I shrugged. "She had to be. Things got rowdy for her when I first started to pretend I was in the movies I'd watch in secret past my curfew. She caught me when I was imagining myself as a cowboy in "The Shakiest Gun in the West" starring Don Knotts!"

"I see. Well then it was that play that got you your start in acting in general or was it the big shot you got?" He questioned me. "Well at first it wasn't supposed to be anything big but it turned out that way when the girl who played Sharpay had her father come in early for a rehearsal to watch us before we ended for the night. He had a connection to Terry, my agent today, and told him about my potential. Terry came down and watched our performance on the final night before he approached Mother and I and offered me an opportunity to act as a real celebrity, telling me he saw my full potential on that stage. And of course Mother wouldn't let me go until Terry did the proper paperwork and sent me off once it was all done."

"Paperwork? Usually the agent has the mom sign stuff like that, right?" Luca asked puzzled. "Not in this case. After that I left with Terry and he and I have been together ever since. Being here now is the only time I have ever been away from him besides when I'm on set and he's standing on the sidelines." Luca blinked in surprise. "You haven't even gone back to see your mother?" I shook my head. "No I have. It's just not often that I do since we're on the road most of the time to do interviews, record for movies and stuff, and take part at conventions. She has enjoyed my visits especially since I matured much more then when I was with her." I saw a smile appear on his lips. "She must be really happy Terry has taken such good care of you." I looked down as I felt a smile that felt genuine and real and not forced, slowly creep onto my face. "Yeah, he has."

Suddenly we heard a bell ring as the nearby monitor turned on. Monokuma was sitting in a leather-looking office chair with a margarita in his hand. The background wasn't really noticeable since the chair and bear took up most of the screen. "Ahem, attention students attention! This is your five minute nighttime warning. As such the cafeteria and other areas will be closed off at that time. Now then sleep well everyone and get rested up for another wonderful day of your lives here." With that said, the monitor shut off and me and Luca both let out sighs of annoyance.

Luca soon stood up. "Guess it's time to head for the dorms. Need me to help you get back?" He asked to make sure I was able to stand on my own or not. I simply replied to him by standing up without any trouble. We spent quite a bit of time talking so my body had used that time to recover most of my strength back. "Yeah I'm okay. Let's head back now. Don't wanna be the first ones to break the rules or oaths we took, now do we?" I asked rhetorically as he laughed out before nodding as we began making our way out of the cafeteria. I left the bag of ice on the table considering I didn't feel the pain that much anymore.

Soon we reached the dormitory hallways and that's when I noticed how our rooms were arranged. The girls were on the left side of the hall while the guys were on the right. I also noticed the order of the rooms were alphabetical by last name. From closest to furthest rooms, the girls' rooms were as followed: Brenda, Sienna, Melinda, Helen, Shana, Ollie, Evelyn, and Mikayla. The boys' rooms were the same pattern and were placed like this: Luca, me, Damian, Tommy, Jayden, Marcel, Willie, and Paul.

I found comfort that Luca was in the room next to me. I felt like he was my first real friend here since I've shared my past with him as he did with me. I looked to him as I approached my door and he waved to me before he stepped in. I smiled back as I stepped in and closed my door. I locked the deadbolt and wandered over to my bed. This time I cared enough to take the time to remove my shoes and socks before hopping in the bed and under the sheets this time as well. I felt the warmth of the blanket and comforter soon lull me to sleep as I entered the peaceful realm of my unconscious mind.

Day 2

*Ding Dong Bing Bong*

The same bell I heard last night had stirred me from my sleep as I noticed Monokuma appear on the screen the same way he was seen last night on the monitor. "Rise and shine lovelies! It is now 7 A.M. and another fun day awaits you! Puhuhuhu!" After the morning announcement was made I groaned as I wanted to go back to sleep but soon felt my stomach growl so badly it made me recoil into a ball. 'I guess I forgot to eat after what happened yesterday.' I quickly remembered as I forced myself out of bed and slipped my shoes and socks on before heading for the door. As soon as I had opened it I saw a few of the others making their way to the cafeteria.

I stepped out and locked my door behind me before I felt an arm sling around my neck and pull me away from the door. I let out a bark of surprise as I saw the guy's face next to mine. Damian grinned as he pinned me close. "How's it going man?" He asked cheerfully.

I looked to him thoughtfully. "You're in a rather chipper mood today." I noted. All Damian did was giggle as he let me go. I had to rub my neck because he had head locked me pretty tightly. "Yeah man! I am trying to keep that positive attitude Helen wants us to have! Speaking of which I happened to pass by her right before she headed to the cafeteria and she says she wanted to meet you before nighttime." I was taken off guard by this information. "What for?" I questioned him but he just shrugged. "Dunno. She just wanted me to pass it along to you and I didn't pry because it was obvious whatever she wants to discuss will stay between you two."

Many questions now buzzed in my head as I tried thinking about what Helen could possibly want to see me for. That was until I felt my stomach grumble again and realized Damian heard it from the way his smile slowly curled up like the Grinch did when he got an idea. An awful idea. Like when he had a wonderful, awful idea. "Sounds like someone didn't get much to eat." My face flushed as I felt myself shrink in front of him. "Well after yesterday, I kinda forgot about the simple things like eating." Damian then patted my back as he began pushing me along towards the cafeteria. "Not to worry, Kai! We'll get you raring to go today with a big, hearty breakfast!"

Pretty soon we entered the cafeteria where many of the other students were already sitting down and eating. However I saw Helen standing close to the entrance as she stared out to us as if she'd been waiting for us. She smiled as she greeted us. "Good morning Damian, Kai! Me and Luca have prepared a wonderful breakfast for you all. Please enjoy." I wanted to ask her what Damian had told me about but I needed to get something in me so I walked over to see a breakfast buffet set up with all of the usual breakfast foods. Eggs both scrambled and fried, toast, bacon, sausage, cereal, and even more.

I quickly grabbed two sausage links and bacon strips, a piece of toast, and a bowl of cereal with a glass of orange juice. I began walking over and saw most everyone was here. The only exceptions were Marcel, Melinda, Shana, and Paul. I figured those four were either not caring about meeting up for breakfast or just lazy. Me and Damian saw Tommy, Luca, Brenda, and Jayden sitting at one table and we figured we'd join them. Damian sat next to Brenda while I took the spot next to him and Luca.

"Morning Kai!" Luca greeted me. I smiled back as I nodded to him. "Morning! So I heard you helped Helen cook all this food?" He grinned with a quick nod. "Yeah. We actually got Monokuma to let the two of us go in at 6 to get everything ready." I hesitated to ask but I found that I wanted to know about that. "You spoke to that psycho bear at 6 am?"

"Yeah well I always wake up at 6 in the morning. It's kind of a daily routine for me. Also getting his attention wasn't hard. Only problem was he wasn't too happy with us apparently waking him up. He said this would be the only time he'd allow us to use the kitchen before nighttime ended." He explained. 'A mechanical bear needs sleep too?' I wondered. Soon we began discussing other things and the others at the table quickly joined in.

After we were getting close to finishing we saw the last four students slowly begin making their way in. Helen was still standing near the entrance as she greeted them like she did me and Damian. Now everyone was eating and soon everyone was done and soon we all went out on our own.

I now sat in my room thinking about what to do. I figured it would be best if I went to talk to someone since I had Free Time! I quickly got out of the dorm and began searching for someone. It took me a while but I saw Jayden and Helen near the school store with Jayden putting a metal lock on the door handles. Helen grabbed the doors and gave it a few hard tugs, checking the sturdiness of the lock. She gave a firm nod, confirming it would take a lot to break the lock off. "Thank you Jayden! You may now go and enjoy yourself." He only nodded to her before he greeted me with a small pat on my shoulder before he walked off.

Helen beamef happily as she saw me approach. "Why hello Kai! I hope you have been getting along with the others." I couldn't help but smile at her eagerness. "Yeah I have. Hey listen I will just cut right to the chase. Damian told me you wanted to see me about something important."

She nodded as a stern expression took root on her face. "I wanted to ask a favor of you. I have offered counseling to everyone here. Most have accepted but I would like to request you help out too." The surprise she would see on me made her giggle. "Wait you want me to help counsel the others?"

"Well in a way yes." She replied. "I will handle the questioning and analyzing them as I let them pour their feelings out but I want you to just be there as their friend. Of course I am gonna be a friend too but most everyone here knows who you are and trusts you because of your acting career so I think they'll rely on you just as much as me."

I blinked. "Well I don't know. I haven't really made friends my age and they are more in tune with the skills to talk and socialize with each other than me." She frowned at me as she looked like a loving mother about to sternly speak to her naughty kid. "Listen Kai, you think it was easy for everyone to get along?" "Huh?" "What if I told you I was just as shy as Sienna when I was younger and it was because of those years that inspired me to take up this career."

I was shocked as I replied, "Well it would be difficult to believe since you are so loveable and easy going." She smiled with a hint of sadness I could detect. "Well you'd be wrong. At first I was that way because I was someone who desperately wanted to be recognized but... I never got it. All the other kids were exceptional at my private school with arts and crafts and sporting activities and they all got praise of encouragement. Me? Well I would be lucky to see a participation award. The teachers never acknowledged me and the effort I put into my projects, the other kids never patted my back telling me, "Good job" or "Nice try", and I was left feeling down that I was never good enough to meet anyone's expectation. Not even my parents."

I couldn't stop the sad words she muttered through her sad smile from affecting me as my heart cringed up in my chest. "But then I watched a video on motivating yourself with a quote that has helped me ever since. "I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compass - then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own." Do you know who said that quote?" She asked me suddenly. I began thinking as three names popped in my head. Confucius, Michelle Obama, and Henry Cloud.

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Soon the first name that popped in my head was the name I bleated out. "Um, isn't it Michelle Obama?" I asked not too sure of my answer. A simply grin and nod was seen at my answer. "Yes! That's right! She's such an inspiration to so many people and when I thought on her words I realized I wasn't doing so. After that I didn't try to meet anyone's expectations except my own. The result of that made me realize that others might feel the same as me so I wanted to be the one to help motivate and inspire people since I never really got that myself. That's why I became a motivational speaker and I have studied psychology and human behavior to perfect it. I had clients lined outside seeking my advice when I was 12. They were simply other kids from my school at first but then word got out and then I was helping their families and soon their families' friends and then my clients began pouring in all over the country.

'I feel bad that was her start but maybe it was for the best. Helen has helped so many people for so long now and she's still in high school! That alone would inspire someone. I feel like we've become closer friends today.' I thought happily. We chatted about a few other topics before parting ways.

I figured there was still a good amount of the day left so I wandered around to find someone else. I happened to bump into Sienna walking into the cafeteria and she cringed. "Oh no! Kai! I must apologize I-I didn't see you... You must hate me now." She whispered with tears pricking at her eyes. I assured her it wasn't a problem and I didn't hate her. I thought if I should try hanging out with her and figured she could use the company. She looked to me surprised. "Well... if you're sure then how about we just walk around. I can gather thoughts better when I'm on my feet."

Me and Sienna walked around the school for some time. We found ourselves near the library and then I saw Sienna stop dead in her tracks. She lightly trembled looking at the ground and caressing her left pigtail. "Hey Sienna, you okay?" I asked in worry for the small girl. She shook her head keeping her gaze away from me. "Not... really." She whispered out. That was understandable. I mean we were all put into this terrifying situation with other strangers and no way of escaping except to kill. I smiled to her remembering the promise I made to Helen. "Hey don't worry. I know we can all make it out of here. We just need to believe in our friends!"

She looked to me with shock. "Friends? I don't have those." She confessed. Well I wouldn't doubt her words. "But why? You look nice enough and I bet your talent draws in a lot of people who'd wanna be your friend." She shook her head. "I don't think so. I mean I've always been afraid to approach people. The only one whose been able to talk to me is my mom. She was the one who got me into figure skating." I smiled. 'I think I might have found something.' I wondered as I pressed on with the theory I came up with. "So then tell me how she did that. Was she a figure skater too?"

Sienna nodded looking closer to my eyes but occasionally looking back to her feet. "Um yeah. My mommy has always ice skated on the frozen winter lake in Michigan and when I was 5 she took me out there to try it. I was very bad and cried everytime I fell but mommy would always hug me and help me. She helped me get better and soon I asked her if I could perform for the neighbors. She asked if I was sure since I tend to freeze up in front of others when they approach me but I begged her." "So what happened next?" I asked quizzically. She then looked up as if she was remembering with her hands clinging together in front of her chest. "Well I was frozen but I looked to my mommy and she told me not matter what happened that she would be proud of me. I closed my eyes as I let the music enrapture me. I was so lost in the music that I was suddenly dancing on the ice like a real figure skater. I imagined how my mommy would perform and I felt like I was soaring through the air. Suddenly I realized the music ended and the entire town erupted in cheers. That's when I opened my eyes. Apparently I had performed a Triple Lutz which is a move that takes quite some time to perfect yet I was able to do it on my first go."

"Wow! That's so cool! How did you do it?" I asked excitedly. "W-Well I just thought that my mommy would use that move so I just did what she would have. I then had mommy teach me and perfect my dances and I soon participated in competitions around the country and won almost all of them. I was given a nickname as the Blind Ice Dancer." I looked to her confused. "What do you mean? Your obviously not blind." After I said that I thought I heard a light chuckle but I wasn't too sure since it was so quiet. "No it's because I dance with my eyes close." My eyes widened as she explained. "Well it's because I'd freeze up if I see anyone besides my mom staring at me. I know how big a common ice rink is and I use the music and tempo to help me map out where I am on the rink with my dancing."

"That... I can't even describe how incredible that is! And look at you right now!" I shouted happily but she cowered back at my outburst. "W-What!? What did I do?" I shook my head reassuring her it wasn't bad. "No I mean you say you freeze up when you talk to other but you haven't really done that talking with me right?" She gasped in shock and I could've sworn I saw her lips edge into such a tiny smile. "C-Can we do this again but maybe next time you can tell me about yourself?" I smiled sweetly at her and tenderly replied, "Of course. I'd love nothing more." Soon we parted ways before I headed to the cafeteria and got me some dinner.

*Ding Dong Bing Bong*

Soon the nighttime announcement sounded and I went to my dorm. I quickly collapsed myself in the warm bed and soon drifted to sleep.

Day 3

*Ding Dong Bing Bong*

I quickly was woken up by the bell and morning announcement as I felt drool stop leaking off my cheek as it had pooled on the pillow. I wiped my face off and quickly made my way to the cafeteria. Once again Helen was greeting us as we entered. Soon all 16 students were accounted for.

"Glad to see no one's bitten the dust yet." Shana chuckled as she watched the last of us step inside with Helen following behind. Marcel looked over to her. "Dude, don't say that! It's not cool to joke around with our lives on the line." Shana glared at him before looking away. "Well excuse me for trying to lighten the mood."

"Hey there's no need to argue." I interceded the two before things would get out of hand. "Shana did have the right idea to help ease the tension everyone's probably feeling still but she did come off a bit rude." Shana then fixated her eyes on me. "Rude? I was only trying to help! But if anything your rude for singling out a lady like that." Suddenly Damian shot up from his seat and looked around frantically. "What lady?!" He shouted as I could see steam building up in Shana. 'This is not going well and we all just woke up.' I grumbled as Shana shot up and chased after Damian with her pick ax in hand. Damian ran into the wall as Shana chucked her ax. It spun through the air before embedding itself in the wall right in front of Damian's head. He yelped as he fell back and Shana slowly approached him. "Ever say something insensitive again and I won't miss next time." With that said she tugged the ax out and walked away, leaving a big hole in the wall and in Damian's ego.

Luca leaned over to Helen after we all saw that outburst. "Seems a lot of us still aren't trying to get use to each other." She nodded in agreement. "Don't worry. I have already been helping Shana with anger management classes and I think a lot of the guys here need an etiquette class." We all laughed as everyone made small talk. Soon we all finished breakfast and I saw everyone gathered around a table after I had cleaned my dishes. Curious, I rushed over to hear cheering and soon saw that Jayden was in an arm wrestling contest with the others. From what I could see from behind Tommy and Evelyn it wasn't a one versus one bout, it was one against three! Jayden was arm wrestling Luca, Willie, and Marcel. All three of the guys looked like they were struggling to push Jayden's arm back but Jayden sat the not moving an inch. Suddenly his arm whipped down and slammed the other three down resulting in Marcel also being thrown to the ground as well. Everyone gathered around began cheering for Jayden's flawless victory and laughed as the three looked flustered to have lost so easily.

"You gave me quite the challenge. Good job to you all." Jayden said as he shook hands with each of them before helping Marcel up. Luca smiled. "Thanks man. I thought for sure three of us could take you down." There was then a sudden outburst of laughter as we saw Melinda holding her sides. She sat close by at another table with Paul and Ollie sitting with her. "You actually thought you had a chance? Come on even all of you morons put together couldn't outmatch his strength." She then calmed down and looked to the Ultimate Bodyguard. "Say Jayden why don't you sit with us for a while. Stop humoring those nitwits and have a decent talk with us instead." I felt the tension build up in the air again as lightning seemed to strike between his eyes and here. "I thank you for the offer but I would rather speak with my friends here so maybe you three should join us and try to be friendly with everyone."

"What friends?" Paul asked not looking up form the laptop. "How can you be friends after all this and in such short time? This is a killing game we are a part of and I will not be fooled by such petty subjects as friendship and trust. I am not gonna die here but all of you are guaranteed to die if you get all buddy with one another." Ollie just sat there in silence looking indifferent about the conversation. Jayden shook his head. "I'm sorry but if that's the mindset you have then I have nothing to say to you." He replied to Paul but stared at Melinda.

"Well if that's the case then you're as good a bull in the slaughterhouse." Melinda chimed. "Well that's very harsh. But I bet anything you'd die easily too." We heard Willie call out. Melinda's head slowly turned to him as her icy glare was set on him. "What?" Willie quickly stepped forward not showing any signs of fear. "Well if Jayden is gonna die so easily than you're more dead than him. I mean he's packed up as if he were ten bulls! But with you being a lady you're three times as likely to die." I felt myself face palm and knew what would happen.

She slowly stood up and brought out her Bowie knife. "Oh is that so? Then explain this!" She quickly lunged at him and slid down to kick his feet out from under him. Willie was fast and jumped up to avoid it but as soon as he landed she was on her feet and had the knife to his throat. We all gasped in horror thinking she would kill him. We felt it intensify tenfold when Willie spoke up. "Well ladies are smart! They use underhanded tricks to outdo men but I could easily break outta this. But with the knife touching my apple I'd rather not risk provoking the tricky lady."

"I think you've provoked her enough!" We heard a chilled voice on the table the group was still gathered around. We all let out shouts of panic as we saw Monokuma standing there out of nowhere. "So mind telling me what the HELL IS GOING ON HERE!?" Mikayla quickly ran forward and pointed to Melinda who released Willie upon noticing Monokuma. "Well Willie said some very sexist things and..." "Nonono. I mean why is Melinda the only one who has the right idea?! Why haven't you killed anyone yet! It's been two days and all you've done is wasted your energy by chatting and arm wrestling! I've grown bored!" He corrected her.

I glared at Monokuma before approaching him. "Like we've said we are not playing your sick game! Our families and loved ones are gonna soon discover what's happened in here and they will find a way to get us out!" I thought that would get him going but he suddenly laughed quietly. "Puhuhuhu! I doubt that very much!" Tommy was the next one to speak up. "You don't know what our families would do to help us!" Evelyn nodded. "Yeah! This world just wouldn't handle it if my scrumptious self were to just up and disappear!" "You sure about that, Titzilla?" Shana grumbled, her eyes narrowed at her. Evelyn heard this and practically snarled at her. "What the hell did you say?! At least I'm not a flat chested, filthy bitch!" "Well I have a B cup bra as a matter of fact. Yours were probably implanted just before you got here!" Shana shouted back. Evelyn nearly lunged at her before Jayden held her back and grabbed Shana when she flew at her, holding them both in the air as they tried clawing at each other.

Then a piercing screech ran pain in our ears as we all covered them. Jayden had to drop the girls to get his ear covered and the girls rubbed their bottoms with one hand and covered their ears using their other hand and shoulder. We looked over to see Monokuma scratching the tiles with three claws on his paw. "Just shut the hell up already! You can compare boob sizes later because you derailed this conversation!" Brenda chuckled. "As if we'd even continue talking to you. I'm going to my room." With Brenda leading the way everyone began scattering before Monokuma slid in front of the entrance, blocking us. "Nuh-uh! Not until you go to your dorms! All of you!" "Why's that?" Luca asked confused. "Well it's because I have an incentive for you guys. I am requiring you all to go in your rooms and see what is there for you."

I think we all felt a collective shiver go down our spines at his words. "And what if we refuse to look at what you have for us?" Luca continued prying. "Well if any of you think you'll defy me, then don't bother." We suddenly heard a bell go off in our pockets as we pulled out our student handbooks and saw it open up to a new regulation. Rule 8: Any student that disobeys a direct order from Monokuma is ground for punishment. I felt a growl reverberate from my stomach as he chuckled again. "Now then, since I now know none of you will defy me, GO TO YOUR ROOMS AND SEE WHAT I PUT IN THERE!" With that he quickly vanished as we all looked to each other. "So... what should we do?" Sienna asked trembling as Ollie came up to her and tapped her shoulder. This made her jump and stare at the tattooed girl in fear. "We do as the bear asks. It is not smart to defy him at this point."

Soon we all nodded as we made our way to the dorm hallway. Soon enough we all looked around at each other before going in our rooms one by one. I took a breath and stepped in my room. I looked around when closing my door and didn't see anything out of the ordinary until I went further in and saw a desk with a small laptop. I looked excited at this and ran over. I sat down on the chair and opened it only to see it was a portable DVD player. I groaned in frustration. "Of course it wasn't a laptop." I sighed out before opening the disc cover. I saw a plain disc already inside with only my name on it. I closed the lid and hit the play button on it. Soon the black screen went blue and then from blue to a picture I gasped at when it appeared. It was the same photo that was on my dresser that I had brought with me. Soon the devil's pet bear could be heard as he began narrating.

"Kai Brugger, the Ultimate Actor, how do you suppose such a small 6 year old with no real way of being noticed, grew to be top actor in America? Well it's all thanks to Mr. Terry Bobinski, who had a business partner whose daughter happened to be in the same community play as him. Now basically 11 years later and Kai has reached the top of the ladder. All because Terry was there to push him along. He trained him, cared for him, and showed Kai what he needed to succeed and Kai loved Terry for everything. But Kai's also been scared. Scared of what will happen to him and Terry. But right now it's not what is between them Kai should be worried about." Suddenly the picture faded and a video began playing. It was halfway covered with leaves, suggesting it was shot behind a bush. The other half showed Terry and me hugging... in front of the academy?

'What? There was a camera? But how come Terry and I didn't notice?' I thought in complete confusion as I saw us separate and me run inside. Terry stared at the door before he looked in the direction of the camera. "Alright now! Whoever is behind there come out! I promise I won't hurt you unless you try to run." Guess he did notice it. Soon the camera guy stood up as the bush sank into the bottom of the screen. Terry looked at the cameraman befuddled. "What the hell? What are you suppose to be?" I heard him ask as he approached the camera. Then suddenly I heard Monokuma's signature laugh as Terry was then being pounced on by Monokuma. I felt my heart sink as he fought the bear and threw him off but then another snuck up behind him and latched onto his neck. And then another and another and another! By this point I was on my feet with the chair knocked over as I saw Terry desperately fight, trying to pry them off but was soon trapped underneath a battalion of Monokumas! The camera turned as I saw Monokuma holding the camera in his own face. I could hear Terry screaming out, "What the hell's going on here!? Let me go! Kai! What have you done with him!? Kai! KAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Then Monokuma spoke up with Terry's screams being mostly masked by him talking. "What has become of Terry? What has become of the most important person in your life? Wanna know?" The screen the went black as text appeared. YOU WILL FIND THE ANSWER OUTSIDE!

My face was drowned in sweat and I didn't realize that I was screaming bloody murder! "Terry! TERRY!" I cried out as I slammed on the player as if it would let me get Terry out. I grabbed the player and then blindly chucked it across the room. I soon heard glass breaking and quickly ran over to see I had broken my picture frame. I slowly reached down and took the photo out. "Why him? WHY?!" I set the photo on my bed and began making my way to the door stumbling from how badly I was shaking. As soon as that door opened I saw many of the others outside their rooms too and they had the same face of horror I had.

Mikayla shot out of her room and suddenly lurched over before vomiting right in front of everyone. She coughed as she looked up. "That can't be real! It just can't!"

Willie was resting on his knees, leaned back against the wall as tears poured down the corner of his eyes. "Why? They didn't do anything wrong. Why did they do this?" He cried through a hoarse voice.

"I can't take it! I gotta get out of here!" Sienna screamed out as she bolted down the hall but was grabbed from behind as we saw Jayden run and stop her. Despite seeing tears fall from behind his sunglasses he face looked calm and collected like before. "Sienna, I know your scared. We all are but you can't freak out like this. Monokuma wants us to be worried about someone important and drive us mad. We can't give him what he wants." The little girl whimpered before she ran back into him bawling her eyes out as Jayden simply held her close. Her eyes soaked the bottom of this shirt as that was as high as she was to him.

Helen was on her knees too, whimpering as tears fell from her cheeks and stain the ground. Soon she sniffled and stood up. "Jayden is right. Monokuma has threatened our loved ones to make us kill each other! But we're stronger than that! He can't drive us to do his bidding! We're all Ultimates remember! We are strong because of who we are! As long as we power each other's strengths and cover each other's weaknesses than I know we can make it out of this!" Despite the pang of terror I was feeling Helen's words of inspiration made me feel confident. "Yeah. You're right. We are the best of the best! We can make it through this if we work together!" I shouted. I noticed what Helen said reached everyone who was out of their rooms as they began smiling and cheering on. Helen nodded to me. "That's right. Now the best course of action to take is to tell everyone what they saw, that way we can help each other cope with it and so we won't have a reason to kill!"

"No. I won't." Melinda said as she approached Helen. We all saw that her eyes weren't wet and she was trembling. "I refuse to cooperate with you. Besides talking about it won't help." Helen glared at Melinda. "Well I refuse your refusal! If we go over our videos then I know it will help us and..." "No it won't!" Melinda interrupted her which made Helen cringe back. "It will only drive everyone to insanity discussing what we saw. I mean look at pig barf over there." She pointed back to Mikayla who looked down in shame. "Also if we discuss our motives than someone could take advantage of them by saying they could help us "cope" but then stick us in the back to help them escape."

"Y-You don't know that!" Helen shouted as her voice cracked. "I do though. You should know that we all have different values and beliefs and if it that is strong enough, it can provoke anyone to do insane things. Even murder." "But no one here wants that!" Helen shouted as tears began flowing again.

"I do." Melinda replied which made Helen's eyes widen in horror. "T-Then... we'll just do it without you. We can handle this! Isn't that right everyone?" She asked looking out to us with a hope filled smile. But instead of rousing agreement, she only got dead silence as her reply. I looked to see everyone's sad and suspicious faces. Looks like Melinda's words just eradicated Helen's speech. Helen's smile slowly dropped as she scanned the hallway. "Guys?"

"I... want to be able to cope with it but... what if someone takes advantage of me?" Marcel asked.

"Like I'd share that information with any of you." Paul grunted out also looking like Melinda did with no concern to be seen on him.

"I don't want anything happening to... that person in my video by taking about them." Tommy muttered.

Evelyn was staring at the ground. "Well if no one is gonna do it then I sure as hell am not sharing anything."

"I don't wanna think about it!" Sienna cried out in Jayden's stomach.

Helen looked completely defeated. "But... but guys... if we don't then Monokuma will win and one of us might kill. Do you want that? Does anyone here want to die?" Melinda then stepped up and grabbed her by her collar and pulled her close. "You better knock it off Miss President! If you keep trying to be a leader and make us do what you want, I guarantee that the first one to die will be you!" Helen's eyes widened as she was shoved to the ground, crying out in pain as she hit the wall with a hard slam. Sienna nearly dropped forward when Jayden let go of her and charged at Melinda. "That's enough!" He then grabbed her and pulled her back and facing towards him. "Don't go threatening anyone! I swear if you do that again..." "You'll what? Kill me?" Melinda asked as she stared at him unfazed.

We all tensed up even worse when we heard Jayden respond with, "If that's what it takes." He then shoved her away before he helped Helen up. "Are you hurt?" He asked looking concerned. "Besides the throbbing in my head, I'm fine. Thank you." Helen thanked him despite sounding just as defeated as everyone else now. Jayden then looked back to all of us and glared. "Listen up! If anyone tries anything funny I will not allow you to do so got it?!"

Helen looked away. "But what if she's right? What if now I'll be targeted because I tried pushing everyone to do something they don't want?" "Then I will protect you!" Jayden shouted which made her gasp. "That goes for all of you! I promise I will protect you all with my life!" I shook my head as I stepped forward. "But Jayden that's impossible! Even though you're the Ultimate Bodyguard there's no way you can protect 15 people all by yourself! Besides no one wants you to die either so who's gonna protect you!" I shouted at him. He eyes remained unmoving when I approached him. His gaze narrowed at me before he walked away. As he walked I heard him call out to me. "Kai, please come with me. I wish to speak to you alone." He soon went into his room and closed the door.

We all stood there in utter silence and after what felt like an eternity we parted ways. Most of us going back to our rooms while others wandered off somewhere else. Meanwhile I stayed planted where I was before I saw Shana, Sienna, and Mikayla help Helen up and took here down the hall to the recreation room. I felt like my feet turned to stone as I found I couldn't move to Jayden's room. The way he carried himself made it seem like he was mad at me for not helping the situation. I then saw Brenda, Damian, and Luca approach me. "Kai? You okay?" Brenda asked concerned. "I'm fine." I lied.

"You sure man? We all just got a major scare back there." Damian replied back placing his hand on my shoulder. I simply smiled and nodded looking back at them. "Yeah. I am worried Jayden's gonna make me a punching bag now though." Luca then walked up and gave me a reassuring smile. "Well call for us if that's the case. We'll be there." The other two nodded as I sighed. "Not exactly what I was hoping to hear." They all laughed as they let me go as I soon approached the door. I went to knock but figured just to go in since he was expecting me. I slowly opened the door and stepped in. I saw what looked like a small gym packed inside the dorm. Jayden was currently lifting a giant weight above him. I saw there were at least 200 pound weights on each end as he held in above his head. I also saw his shirt was placed nearby and his giant abs and toned chest tensed up as he just stood there. "Glad to see you made it. Please take a seat wherever you like." He motioned to an open chair and the bed. I decided I'd sit on the bed since he made the invitation. I simply sat on the edge as I saw him workout. "So... what did you want to speak with me about?" I asked after a few moments of no words being said.

He then slowly put the weight on the ground before taking the seat next to the bed and bringing it over so he was now seated in front of me. He leaned forward with his right arm on his leg and his left hands dabbing his face and neck with a damp towel. "Listen Kai, I appreciate your concern for me but it is also unnecessary." "What?" I asked him. "I have always had someone get concerned for me. Ever since I began protecting others people always ask me why I would risk myself for others. Would you like to know why?" He asked in such an intimidating tone that I felt fear well up in me. "Uh sure!" He nodded before looking away. "It all started with Tweety." I then felt that fear instantly evaporate into dumbfounded shock. "Wait... are you talking about the Looney Tunes character?"

He chuckled as he looked back. "Kinda. When I was 8 I was asked by my next door neighbor to watch out for her pet parakeet whose name was Tweety because he did look like that character. She was a few years younger than me and she told me she would reward me if I did a good job when she got back from her weekend vacation. I took on the job because I thought it would be easy. The day before the girl came home I had Tweety out of her cage because it was okay for him to be out. However I was playing and I forgot to close my window. As a result of my stupidity, he flew out and I had to track him down. Eventually I did find him but parts of him were now in the belly of a feral cat."

I felt my heart pang at that already guessing where it would go from there but still asked regardless. "What happened to the girl when she got home?" He sighed as his free hand propped up on his other leg and rested his forehead in his palm. "I tried covering it because I was scared she'd be mad. I put Tweety in a shoe box and hid him under my bed and then went to the store and got another parakeet to replace him. When she came by to get him I showed her the bird and then asked me again where he was. I knew it failed when the bird didn't act like Tweety did. So I brought out the box and confessed. Despite getting him killed she forgave me but declined me when I offered the new parakeet to her as an apology. She then told me that Tweety was like a little brother. No matter who you get to try and replace him, he can never truly be replaced." Then Jayden took his sunglasses off and wiped at his eyes as I heard small whimpers emit from him. He then looked up and I gasped as I took in for the first time his eye color. They were a deep red that seemed too unnatural to have as an eye color. "So I promised myself that I would never let a life be taken while I live. That is why I became a bodyguard. I want to protect anyone who needs protecting. I know our current situation means it might be impossible for me and to that I say... you're right."

"Huh?" I was taken back by that. "You're right. There's no possible way for me to protect 15 others from dying. But even knowing that I won't give up. As long as I can help even one person escape and fail everyone else or die trying then I am more than okay with that. I have failed others besides Tweety but I haven't let that stop me before. If someone needs protecting, I will keep protecting until I die!" I blinked as I looked down. "I didn't realize you took your job so seriously. I'm sorry if I did upset you." He patted my head and ruffled my hair a bit. "There, there. No need to worry. I am more than happy you approached me about that. I can give at least someone here reassurance. Thank you for listening. I am going to see if the others would like to ask for my services. I know Helen for sure will want it after the nasty threats Melinda said."

"I understand Jayden. I'll let you get going." I told him. He nodded with a smile as he slipped his sunglasses back on and grabbed his shirt and put that back on as well. We then exited his room and he locked it up behind him. "Well my friend, you just try to enjoy your day." Once again he patted my head and ruffled it a bit before he walked off. 'I feel like I understand Jayden a lot better now. But I shouldn't dwell on things. Let's just go find someone else to talk to."

I then began looking around trying to find someone else to talk to. I soon noticed Tommy standing near the entrance of the school. "Hey Tommy." I called over to him as I sped walked to him. He looked back and waved. "Hey there, Kai. Did you wanna see me?" I quickly stopped when I came up to him. "Yeah. I just wanna try and get my mind off things." Tommy chuckled. "I know that man. Sure let's just talk." We just sat down on the ground and began talking about little things that came to mind. About 10 minutes into the conversation I brought up the next question. "So tell me what it's like on your expeditions? I'm curious as to what happens during your time out in the field."

He smiled as he nodded. "Well for the most part it's hot. We tend to go into more desert locations than anything else but we once went to Antarctica and found a Spinosaurus fossil and a baby one too. But I remember once I fell into an old trench in some badlands in Canada that had built up on top so it wasn't seen. My team desperately tried to dig me up but the trench was so small and deep it took them almost a week to get me out." I felt my hands tighten on my thighs as his story progressed. "Holy crap! A week? Why did it take that long?" Tommy smiled as he shrugged. "Well it was too small for them to go in without widening the hole and very deep like I said. Also it didn't help that I didn't stay put." "Wait you didn't stay where you fell?"

"How could I? Turned out that trench led me to an Amphicoelias fossil. One of the largest dinosaurs we know and that trench ran alongside the entire long-neck dinosaur." I shook my head in disbelief. "Dud you must be the luckiest guy in the world!" Tommy sighed. "Well I don't really think so." My head tilted at that. "Why's that?" He then looked back and smiled. "Because I never won the lottery." The two of us laughed at that before I notice Tommy looked upset for real this time. "Tommy?" He looked back. "What? Oh sorry. I spaced out there for a second. Now that I think about it I'm feeling kinda hungry. I'll catch up with you later alright Kai?" Before I got the chance to say anything, he was on his feet and out of there. 'Wonder if I said something wrong.' Well I couldn't dwell on it.

I still had time to see one more person before nighttime so I stood up and began searching. But this time I didn't find them, they found me. Evelyn suddenly pounced on me from behind and scared me. "Oh Kai! There you are! I've been looking all over for you." She cooed as she hugged me from behind and press herself flush against me. I could feel her breasts squish into my back which made me blush so hard as I cringed with the sudden intimate feeling she was giving off. "Do you mind Evelyn? You're kinda in my personal space." I saw her head appear behind my left shoulder as her eyes gleamed at me. I shivered when she caressed my cheek and blew on my ear. "Oh but I just wanted us to have... a special moment together." I then felt her grab my arm and drag me off towards her dorm. She quickly threw me in and slammed it shut, locking it behind her.

I looked around and saw that her room was decorated with dark curtain over the window, which seemed unnecessary since there was no light to block it with. I figured it was for the atmosphere considering her room made me feel like I walked into a fortune teller's tent. I turned around to Evelyn as she approached me from the door. "Evelyn, what are you doing? Why did you bring me here?" But instead of an answer I was suddenly shoved onto her bed and before I could register what was happening I saw Evelyn crawl on the bed and over me until her boobs were practically dangling over my face. If my cheeks were beet red then my entire face would be swollen with how heated I felt in my head. I heard her sigh as I looked up to her staring down at me. "Oh. You're so cute. Have you never been with a woman like me?"

"I-I never been with anyone like this." I told her as I tried moving up before she laid herself on top of me with her chest now squishing against mine. I looked down and from that vantage point I saw a lot of skin showing on her chest and quickly averted my gaze. "Oh are you a virgin? Oh that's too precious! A famous celebrity that still hasn't popped his cherry. Don't be afraid to look." She then grabbed my head and forced me to look at her nearly exposed breasts. "I am here to serve you in anyway I can if you know what I mean."

That's when I saw her green pendant then lower in front of my gaze as I was now focused on it. I looked up and she simply smiled at me. "Wait... are you talking about your hypnotism?" I asked warily. She chuckled madly as she lifted it up. "Oh the look on your face was priceless! But yeah I have offered a few people a chance to be hypnotized. I wanna help out too. So many others are trying their best to help so I figured I'd help everyone by offering my services." I sighed as I tried not to get angry. After all she was wanting to help in her own twisted way. "I appreciate the offer but I'm not interested in hypnotism." She shrugged as she placed the pendant on the bed's headboard. "Well then if that service isn't appealing... then maybe this one will." She whispered as I felt her hand suddenly tug and my pant's button and zipper.

"That was it!' My mind screamed at me. I bolted up, pushing her off me before I rushed to the door, unlocked it, and pushed out. Little did I realize she had ran after me and tackled me to the ground. I flipped around with her above and then I heard someone clear their throat. Me and Evelyn darted our heads to the left and saw Luca and most of the other students staring down at us. They were either blushing, glaring, or nodding at us with devious smiles when I noticed my pants were still undone. I quickly crawled out from under her and redid my pants, blushing madly. "Um I know it is cliche to say this but it isn't what it looks like." I told them all but I could tell that none of them would believe me.

"You are so disgusting Kai!" Shana shouted. Evelyn was laying on her side staring up to her. "Jealous sweetie?" Shana growled out in frustration and disgust as she stomped madly to her room.

I then heard a dorm room door open behind me and saw Jayden peek his head out of Helen's room. "I ensured nothing dangerous is in your room. You can come in if you'd like." He called over to Helen. She simply nodded as she went to her room and closed it.

Everyone else just continued staring at me with the same looks. "Wait please believe me! I swear I didn't do anything!" I begged them. But most everyone was going into their rooms. I sighed in defeat as I saw Evelyn pick herself up and almost close the door. "My services are still open to you Kai. Just come knocking if you ever require them." She winked to me before going into her room. I shuddered as I began making my way to my room. That's when I saw Luca leaning against his door staring at me. I looked away feeling absolute shame that everyone saw me in such a disrespectful situation. "You say you didn't anything with her right?" He asked. I looked back to him and nodded. "Yeah... I'm still... a virgin." I confessed. He smiled. "You say you didn't then I'll believe you. I believe you more than I believe that bloated bimbo. Besides I am too." Luca then turned and entered his room. That made me relax a bit. 'At least Luca believed me and even made things equal between us by telling me he was a virgin too. Not like I assumed he wasn't but he didn't seem like he goes around and sleeps with a lot of girls. Unlike Evelyn who completely gives off that vibe.' I quickly shook that off and went into my room.

*Ding Dong Bing Bong*

The nighttime announcement played again and I felt so exhausted after everything today that as soon as my head hit the pillow I was out! Again despite everything that happened I knew I would sleep well tonight but little to my realization someone's night would forever be disturbed.

Day 4

*Ding Dong Bing Bong*

Once again the same morning announcement woke me up and I soon dragged myself out. I began dreading today after how everyone perceived what happened between me and Evelyn last night. Now they thought I was probably a complete stuck-up tool who flaunts his fame and his dick around. Well all except for Luca and Evelyn since Luca would believe me and Evelyn since she knows what really happened.

Anyway I decided to take a quick shower before heading out. After 15 minutes of getting myself ready I made my way to the cafeteria and soon noticed some of the other gathered around the entrance. Ollie, Paul, Mikayla, and Shana looked like they were in deep conversation. "Hey guys. What's going on?"

They looked at me but Shana humphed at me and looked away. Paul and Ollie didn't look to happy to see me either but Mikayla rolled her eyes at them before looking at me. "We were just trying to figure out why some of us are late."

"Well I was showering this morning because..." "Because you needed to clean yourself after throwing yourself on that cow uttered slut." Shana interrupted. "Would you knock it off. With the way he reacted I think she approached him." Shana laughed. "Still doesn't mean they didn't do it." Mikayla shook her head at her before looking back. "Anyways that would explain why you were late but that leaves us five people short; Jayden, Melinda, Damian, Helen, and Luca."

"Have you checked their dorms?" I asked. "Yes but no one answered. Unless they are still asleep or in their bathrooms they aren't there. Well Helen isn't a surprise. She refused to eat any dinner last night before going to bed." Mikayla answered.

I shrugged at her. "Well how about we try again? Surely they'd be awake or out of the bathroom by now if I am." Shana immediately raised her hand. I'll check the girls side so that Mr. Red Rocket doesn't try anything again." She then took off like the analogy she compared to me. I rubbed my temples feeling a headache begin to form. Mikayla sighed rubbing her head as well. "Well nothing we an do about her. With her on the girl's side of the hall how about you go check on the boys, Kai?" She suggested. "Sure. Hey if we go together then it will be even faster."

"I'll go." Ollie offered. I blinked at her. "Oh uh sure! Why not!" Before I could realize it she had suddenly taken a hold of my hand and began pulling me back to the dorms. We soon made it to Luca's room since his was the first room on the boy's side. I went to knock but then the door opened and Luca stepped out. He jumped a little when he noticed Ollie and I standing right there and with me about to knock on his face. "Hey guys. What's up?" Ollie was the one to speak up. "There were a few people late for breakfast. We came to check up on you." Luca smiled. "Oh yeah sorry. I was having difficulty with my hair this morning. It just decided it wasn't going to be working with me today." Me and Luca laughed but Ollie just stared at us. The two of us cleared our throats after that awkward moment before she grabbed my hand and dragged me off again. Luca quickly followed suit.

"Ollie, what are you doing?" I questioned her. "We're going to the next room." I sighed out in annoyance. "Well I can walk on my own and I would like my hand back please." But she just ignored me and Luca couldn't help but chuckle which I glared at him for. We passed my room and stopped by Damian's room. Just before Ollie could knock...

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" We heard an ear piercing scream come from down the hall. Not just one scream but two. A boy and girl to be more precise. "What was that!?" I shouted. "Never mind that! Someone could be hurt! Let's go!" Luca shouted back as he and Ollie and I quickly darted to where the screams came from.

We saw one of the dorm rooms open as we rushed in. And what I witnessed was a scene more disturbing than any reproduction a horror movie could pull off. I didn't even noticed Shana and Damian trembling in front of us on their knees. *Play youtube .com/watch?v=W4kxEAVJjSM You already know why ):D*

Helen was laying on her back on top of her bed with her eyes shot open and blood drenched under her head on the pillow. But what made it worse was also seeing Jayden lying on his face on the floor in front of the bed with blood pooled under his head and a bloody knife resting near him. I felt my knee grow flimsy as I fell back and caught myself on the door frame. I noticed Luca looking absolutely mortified from the grotesque scene and Ollie had her hand covering her mouth from the shock.

*Bing Bong Ding Bong*

We heard a different tune play from the morning and nighttime announcements as Monokuma appeared on the monitor in Helen's room. "Everyone please gather 'round in Helen Kibby's dormitory! A body has been found!" The monitor then shut off but immediately after that...

*Bing Bong Ding Bong*

The same bell rang again and the monitor turned on again. "Everyone please gather 'round in Helen Kibby's dormitory! A body has been found!" And once again the screen shut off for good this time. "What... was that?" Shana asked trembling like she was having a seizure. To be honest I think most of us were. "It was an announcement... for the discovery of a body." Ollie answered. Damian looked back at us and shot to his feet. "Hold up man. Hold up! But that announcement played twice! Are you telling me that... their..."

"Dead." Luca finished. I gasped in horror as did everything in my power to stop the nausea I felt rush out of my stomach. "Helen and Jayden have been... ... ... murdered?"

Chapter 1: Lending a Despairing Hand

Deadly Life

Holy shit! The first murder is also the double murder! Bet you weren't expecting that! But I bet you saw the character deaths coming right? Let me know what you thought of this first part of the chapter and give me your thoughts on who the blackened might be. I hope you all despair to know what happens next time! Puhuhuhuhuhu! See you later!