Chapter 10 - Talking (Part 2)
The next morning, Blossom arrived at the canteen, where everyone else, apart from Bubbles, was already there. She noticed that everyone was eating some type of sandwich. She walked towards the table where Buttercup, along with Gumball, Darwin, Steven and Ben, was seating.
"Morning, guys. Why did everyone suddenly decide to eat sandwiches?" she asked confused.
"Hey, sis! Bubbles made these for everyone!" Buttercup said with her mouth full.
"Bubbles?!" Blossom seemed surprised.
"Yup! I don't know why she did it but I ain't complaining!" Ben said as he took a bite.
"And where is she by the way?" Blossom asked.
"I think she said she was going to be in the kitchen." Gumball responded "She also left a sandwich for you!" he passed her a plate with a delicious-looking sandwich in it.
"Thanks." she said before taking a bite.
It tasted like home.
"This is... woah..." she was speechless. It was delicious. It tasted exactly like the ones Professor would make her. Professor...
As she was chewing her breakfast, she took a look at the environment around her. Dexter and Dee Dee were sitting in a table, talking about something. Finn and Bubblegum were also together talking, while eating their sandwiches. However, there were three people who were sitting all by themselves in different tables. Robin, Mandy and Mindy. Robin was calmly reading a book whilst eating his sandwich. Neither Mindy nor Mandy had yet to touch their sandwiches nor shown any intention on eating them. Those two were definitely oddballs.
After finishing her sandwich and talking a bit with her peers, Blossom decided to head to the kitchen to see her sister, Bubbles.
"Hey, Bubs. Are you okay?"
"Oh hi, Blossom!" she flashed a smile at the redhead "I'm fine. What about you? Did you enjoy the sandwich I made for you?"
"Oh I sure did! How did you manage to perfectly recreate the ones Professor makes for us, though?" Blossom asked.
"Oh it was easy. Professor taught me how to make them."
Blossom smiled "You know you didn't need to do this, right?"
"Blossom, I know that but... I just want to make sure everyone is feeling well. This has been a really crazy situation and I like to put everyone in a good mood!" she responded.
"Sometimes you're too nice to even be real, Bubbles. For real." Blossom said "But make sure you also rest a little. I bet making all those sandwiches must've been tiring."
"Maybe... do you know if everyone liked them?" she asked, jumping excitedly to hear the answer.
"Umm... yeah. Everyone liked them and everyone definitely ate them." Blossom tried to put a fake smile, remembering Mandy and Mindy hadn't even touched their food.
"Great! I'm planning on making more for everyone tomorrow! You think I should?"
"Of course! It's such a nice gesture! Plus, do whatever makes you feel happy, sister!"
"Thank you, Blossom!" Bubbles waved with a big smile as Blossom left the place. "You're welcome."
Blossom had been on her room for a couple of hours. After the last motive Monokuma had given them, she had been trying to figure out who were the most likely suspects. Although she didn't really want to believe the fact that someone would kill another person, she wasn't dumb. She knew a murder was soon to happen.
"Okay, let's see..." she thought while writing everything down in a notebook "Bubbles and Buttercup? Not happening." she immediately made a cross over their names. Of course neither of them would do something like that... of course...
"Gumball and Darwin? ...Nah, they seem too naïve and bubbly to do such thing." she crossed their names too.
"Ben? ...He seems nice, I don't think he would kill."
"Steven? ...After what happened to Connie I highly doubt it. He's also too pure."
"Dee Dee? ...She's like Gumball and Darwin. Doubt it."
"Finn? He seems like a nice guy and I doubt he would follow Jake's steps after what happened to Mordecai. I don't think he would kill at this point."
"Robin? ...He has that mysterious energy around him but he's a pretty nice guy. He wouldn't murder."
Now it was a whole different story.
"Dexter? Well... after what happened last trial it's not like it would be impossible for him to kill..." she wrote a question mark beside his name.
"Princess Bubblegum? Although she wasn't really the murderer last trial, her file doesn't make her impossible for killing... Maybe."
"Mindy? She's a bitchy brat and isn't really friends with anyone. But would she choose to murder?"
"Mandy? She's kinda rude and never cracks a smile. She's always frowning. I wouldn't exactly be surprised if she was a culprit..."
With that, Blossom decided to have a talk with those she found most likely to kill. She walked out of the room and went to the library.
When she stepped into the library she immediately saw Dexter seated and reading some type of book.
"Hey, Dexter." she greeted.
Dexter seemed surprised by the redhead's greeting "Uh, greetings, Blossom. Do you need something? he asked, politely.
"Uh no, I just wanted to talk with you." she said as she took seat near him.
Dexter looked taken aback from this but quickly stayed firm "And what do you want to talk about?"
"Like, how have you been feeling about this whole situation. It must be pretty hard to-" she was interrupted by the boy genius.
"I have no feelings about this situation." he replied with a cocky smile.
"Um what?" Blossom looked taken aback by the sudden response.
"You heard me. I said I don't have any feelings about this crap." he said coldly.
"Dexter, what do you mean by that?"
"You have to understand something, Blossom. To survive this you'll have to abandon your feelings and become neutral to everything and everyone. Your attempts to make friends and talk to everyone here are pathetic and useless to say the least. They will soon betray you. You can't let your emotions take over your mind. Look at the people who died. They were weak and vulnerable so they gave in and succumbed to despair." he finished, now looking more serious. "Have a nice day!" he smiled before returning his attention to the book he was reading.
Blossom just stood there speechless at what her peer had just said. Why did he have to be so cold like this? Was he really no bothered with this situation at all?
She left the library without saying a single word and decided to go to the second floor and see if she could find someone else.
As she was climbing up the stairs she encountered Dee Dee, who was climbing down. She greeted "Hi, Dee Dee."
"Hey, Blossom. Have you seen Dexter?" she asked.
"Oh yes he's in the library. I just got out of it." she responded.
"Thanks. See ya!" she shot a smile as she walked away.
Dee Dee is literally the opposite of Dexter. I wonder how they're even related.
"Wait, Dee Dee!" Blossom shouted, making the ballerina stop and look back. "Yeah?"
"I wanted to ask you something."
"Oh okay, go ahead!" she smiled.
"Um, you know, I've talked to Dexter recently and he was really... cold. He told me that to survive this I had to abandon my feelings and other stuff... Is he always like this?" Blossom asked, not totally sure if she should be asking this.
"Actually no. He's actually a cool guy when he's not blabbing about science and boring stuff. I think he just wants to stay strong so he doesn't end up like... the other ones..." she hesitated a little at the end.
"Oh... I guess that's understandable." Blossom slightly smiled "I guess this situation affects all of us in different ways. Maybe his way of manifesting is being cold."
"Yeah maybe. But he's not a bad guy, I know that." she reassured Blossom "I guess I see you later then. Bye!" she waved her goodbye while smiling.
"Bye." Blossom softly said before walking upstairs again.
As she was walking through a hallway, she saw Mindy supposedly walking out of the Medical Center.
The powerpuff girl hesitated a little but decided to greet her "Hi, Mindy. How are you doing?"
Mindy eyed Blossom up and down "Are you talking to me?" she asked with a bit of disgust in her face.
"Uh yeah, I am." Blossom responded, quite nervous.
"What do you want, loser?" she rudely inquired.
"Hey! You don't need to insult me, I was just trying to be nice." Blossom frowned, visibly mad.
"I didn't insult you. I described you. No one told you to be a loser." Mindy replied.
"Geez, you're so rude for absolutely no reason!" Blossom said, as she walked away from her. She could hear her snicker as she left.
Blossom then headed to the Chemistry Lab where she found Bubblegum there, seemingly making some experiences.
"Success!" the candy princess exclaimed, probably because her experiment had gone successfully
"Hey, Bubblegum! What are you doing?" the powerpuff girls asked curiously.
"Oh it's nothing. I just like to do experiences on my free time." she said, while covering her experiments, as if she didn't want Blossom to see them. "Finally this place has an interesting room huh?"
"Uh yeah it is cool. I also like science." Blossom responded, although she did love science, that wasn't the time to talk about it "So, how are you feeling?" she completely changed the subject.
"Huh?" Bubblegum seemed confused.
"Y'know, the latest class trial and Dexter and-"
"Oh that." she frowned "I still don't know what was his idea but whatever." she shrugged "I don't want to spend the last days of my life being mad at a kid." she said, trying to cover her anger.
"Uh okay..." Blossom muttered "Anyways, what do you feel about all of this situation? I know Jake was important for both you and Finn." she softly said.
Bubblegum sighed sadly, thinking about her deceased friend "He really was... I just can't believe this is real... We're really trapped inside of a school where the only way to leave is by killing? Who even does that? Who's evil enough to actually do this to us...?" she sighed again "But hey... at least I still have Finn, he's also one of my best friends ever."
Blossom slightly smiled "Yeah, and you have us too, Princess. We're also your friends... well, most of us, but we can work together to beat Monokuma! We can't let anyone kill or be killed."
"You're right, Blossom." she smiled "If you talked to the others about it, I think they could understand."
The redhead sighed "I hope so..." However, she already knew that wasn't possible judging by her conversations with the others. And her next conversation would just make it worse.
Blossom was passing by the sword room when she saw that the door was open. She lurked to see if there was anyone there. There was Mandy, looking at the hundreds of swords plastered on the walls with as if she was analyzing them.
"Uh, hey, Mandy." Blossom greeted nervously as she stepped into the room.
"..."
"So... you like swords?" the redheaded girl asked, after receiving no response from the girl.
"Kinda." Mandy shrugged, not taking her gaze from the swords.
"So, how do you-" she was immediately interrupted by the blond frowning girl "I don't want to talk to you. If you could leave or at least shut the hell up it would be great."
Blossom didn't even know how to react. Why did she have to be so harsh?
She left the room in silence after muttering to herself "Gosh, what's her problem..."
After her 'conversation' with Mandy, Blossom decided to head to her room. Those were enough interactions for a day. She couldn't believe how bad they overall were. She thought about checking on her sisters but she was really tired. Plus, they could take care of themselves.
She landed on her bed and checked her E-book. It was 5 PM.
"I guess I'll sleep earlier today." she uttered before closing her eyes and falling asleep.
The next morning at around 7 AM, Blossom entered the canteen, where she found pretty much the scenario of yesterday.
Bubbles saw her and waved at her with a big smile, signaling her to seat with her. At the table there were also Buttercup, Gumball, Darwin, Ben and Steven.
"Hey, guys!" she greeted "What are y'all up to?"
"Right now, we're just eating Bubbles's delicious sandwiches." Darwin said.
Bubbles smirked "Yeah, and I left one for you." she handed her a plate.
"Thanks, Bubs!" Blossom exclaimed before taking a bite. "Hum! Delicious!"
Everyone seemed to be getting along and eating Bubbles' sandwiches at Blossom's table when suddenly...
"Argh!" Ben exclaimed as he placed his hands on his stomach and growled in pain.
"Ben, are you okay?" Steven asked, concerned.
"I- I don't know what is happening..." he then turned green "Uh-oh." he immediately ran towards the nearest bathroom.
"Gee, I hope he's okay." Buttercup said, taking another bite of her sandwich.
"Me too." Bubbles agreed, with an uneasy look "I wonder what happened to him..."
"Maybe it was just something he ate yesterday. Nothing to worry." Dexter said as he left the canteen. He had apparently heard their talk.
"Yeah, maybe Dexter's right." Gumball shrugged.
Blossom was now leaving the library. She had borrowed another book to read in her free time and to distract her from the current situation, although she knew very well that it wouldn't work.
She was heading to her dorm when she found Robin at the end of the hallway, heading to the staircase. They hadn't really talked for a while so she decided to call him.
"Robin!"
He turned around and smiled "Hey, Blossom!" he walked next to her "What's up?"
"Nothing much. Was going to read this book to distract myself. What about you?"
"Nothing much either. I was just heading towards the chemistry lab now. I haven't really checked that room yet." he replied.
"Oh I'll go with you." she said.
"Really? I thought you were going to read your book."
"I will but I don't mind accompanying you. I have a lot of time to read the book... lots and lots of time..." she muttered.
"Okay then." he said. Both of them made their way to the second floor.
When they arrived at the door to enter the chemistry lab and Robin was about to turn the doorknob, Blossom stopped him "Stop!" she shouted.
"What? Is there something wrong?" he looked at her with a confused expression.
"I... I don't know. I just kinda have a bad feeling about this." she said, feeling uneasy.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"It's... You know what, Nevermind. It must be nothing." she said, rubbing her arm nervously. The uneasy expression on her face was still evident.
"Okay..." Robin uttered before opening the door carefully.
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...Laying on the ground was Ben's lifeless body with its red eyes open, showing zero emotion. Although there wasn't any blood nor evident injuries it was obvious that he wasn't alive.
"Dammit!" Robin exclaimed, beating his foot on the floor in frustration.
"I can't believe it..." Blossom uttered, letting her book fall from her hands "I can't believe this actually happened again..."
"Ding Dong! A body has been found. After a set period of time, that will be used for the investigation, a class trial will start!" Monokuma's announcement echoed the room.
And another one bites the dust. Did you like Blossom's interactions with the other students? It was fun writing them.
Who do you think is the killer of Ben? I wanna hear you guys' opinions! Upupupupu...