"Pray to God he won't say a word," she grumbled under her breath as she dragged her feet to the classroom. There were bags under her eyes due to the lack of sleep from the previous night, and an annoyed expression from both getting scared and the male finding out about her. She was already starting her morning off in a very bad way, even arriving late to class and getting scolded by her teacher once more.
She sat down at her desk and lowered her head onto t, to make sure that no one interrupted her. Well, if she truly saw something in her bathroom, she was going to find out what it was, even if Diarmuid did not want to help her. She would have to stay up in her room at night and catch any supernatural activities, and since there was no other way to track the ghost, she would have to loose sleep over it.
After not being bothered for the entire class, she was ready to head to the library for break, where she hoped to find articles on the school and what not. But, much to her disadvantage, she was stopped at the door by none other than the King of the school; Gilgamesh.
"What do you want?" She scowled and stepped to her right so that she could go past him, but he blocked her again.
"You have been getting a little bit buddy-buddy with my friend," he muttered, checking to see if the male would come to stop him again, "Look, I do not know your relationship... but you might want to hide it from the head master since sneaking into another male's room at night is highly frowned upon."
Arturia rolled her eyes, "There is really nothing happening between your boyfriend and I; it's strictly business."
Gilgamesh's eyes grew wide, "Boy—ugh! Arthur, just stay away from Diarmuid, alright?"
"Or what?" She glared up at the male before her as she hissed.
"Or..." he tapped his foot impatiently as he tried to think of something that would make her leave.
"Or nothing, I thought as much," she heaved in response, "Now move, there is places I need to be and things I need to get done." She pushed past him and walked down the hallway scowling.
Gilgamesh turned towards her and barked, "Just stop it and leave him be; he doesn't need you!"
Gilgamesh was becoming a nuisance more than anything else, and whatever his business was with Diarmuid really did not matter to her the slightest bit because she was not looking for any sort of acceptance from anyone. Upon reaching the library, she hurried off into the non-fiction section and tried to find articles on the school... but of course there was nothing.
She could not even find a single thing before the academy was reopened which kind of got her a little confused...Reopened? She looked at the oldest article in the library over and over again. Read and re-reading it until the sun went down.
Reopened
It was the keyword. Queen Victoria's Academy had been reopened after twenty five years...but only to men. She furrowed her brows tightly and ran a hand through her hair very short hair. She licked her lips and sat back on the chair.
"I am sorry, Mister Pendragon, but the Library will be closing in ten minutes," The librarian smiled down at her, a big and soft smile on her face.
Arturia nodded lightly and looked back at the article, "May I ask you something?"
"Yes, of course," she grinned, "But there was a boy looking for you earlier; I simply did not know if you wanted to be disturbed, so I told him off."
"Oh, well, it's alright," Arturia shrugged, guessing that it was only Diarmuid trying to bother her again, "This academy was closed down a long while ago, right?"
The librarian shook her head after taking a second to think, "Not that I know of," she shrugged, "No."
"But this article, here," she pointed at the newspaper before her, "tells me that it had been reopened; only to men, this time around."
The Librarian looked down at the paper oddly, "Oh my," she shook her head, "what a big mistake! Here, let me take this article off your hands for you, I'll have to find a proper one put up for the library after I get rid of this one."
"Um, actually," she bit her lower lip, "I will take it out."
"Since it is giving you the wrong information, I must take it away and dispose of it."
Arturia rubbed the back of her neck after seeing that the female was suddenly hostile, "Do not worry. I only want to read it for entertainment, you will surely allow me to take it with me."
"I cannot do that." There was a stern loo on her face and Arturia could feel to coldness in her gaze, "You cannot take it."
"I think that I have the right." She stood from the chair and crossed her arms over her chest.
The woman before her blinked rapidly, "I am still the librarian."
"And I am the noble! I can have this article if I want!" She never usually used the Noble card, but this time around, she had to. If the school was reopened, she needed to find out why and if it had anything to do with the person that was haunting her all along.
"You cannot take it with you!" The librarian screamed it, and Arturia was taken aback, stepping back a couple of feet to draw distance between the dark haired female and herself.
There was a loud sound that filled the library, almost as if a bookshelf feel over and then all the lights went out. Someone gasped-most likely the librarian-and Arturia hurried to grab the newspaper and shove it into her blazer before trying to find a way out of the library.
"Arturia," the voice was back, louder as it echoed around the entire library, and it frightened her all over again. She was not going to deal with ghosts tonight.
She almost screamed when she felt a hand on her arm, but after her eyes had adjusted to the dark, she was able to make out the frightened face of the librarian. Arturia shook her off and hurried out of the library, scared for her life because she knew what happened when there were loud sounds in the nighttime.
She grabbed the chair that was nearest to the Library entrance and she threw it at the door because she was not going to deal with the whole locked-in ordeal when she knew that she had no key. The door breaking made a loud noise, but she did not even care and so she simply jumped out, thankful that it had caved outwards and fully come off it's hinges; not only the centre being broken in and splinters flying everywhere.
Right as she got out of the library she bumped into something hard, and there was a grip on her upper arms as she almost screamed out again until she noticed that it was only Diarmuid.
"Woah, It's alright, Arthur; you are alright now."
Arturia had not noticed that she was hyper ventilating, as she looked up at the male that held onto her tightly, "Yes, I know," she tried to sound composed in front of him, "but I don't think the librarian is." She managed to say it before a scream flooded their ears.
He furrowed his brows tightly and loosened his grip on her as he looked over at the Library door. He licked his lips and moved her aside as he walked over.
"Are you insane? You cannot possibly go in there! Ugh!" Arturia went to grab for him, but he made sure to avoid her and continue towards the door, "You can't get involved again, remember what happened last time?" She still tried to call out to him before he did something he regretted, but he paid her no heed and simply went in ahead.
She rubbed her face anxiously and waited for him to return, but as time went on she began to loose hope and she was starting to get a little anxious. What made her think that the ghost couldn't come out of the library and after her? And while thinking about it for a while longer, she figured that the woman was much more interested in Diarmuid than in her.
When he finally emerged from the library with the female on his back, she let out a breath that she did not even know she was holding in.
"She only fainted," he mumbled as he walked towards her, "I haven't any idea why, though."
Arturia helped him with the librarian and they were silent as they both took her to the Maids' dormitory, where the nurse could help her. Of course, Arturia was still shaken with the though of her name being whispered. After they set her down on the infirmary bed, they both took a deep breath and walked to their dorm. They had not been asked many difficult questions; only how they had found her and how it all happened.
Diarmuid glanced over at her, "Are you able to be alone tonight?"
"I found something," she ignored him, "which might need some looking into. It is very important, you see, and the librarian did not want me to know about it..."
"She didn't?"
"That was before a bookshelf fell and the lights went out..." she added as they stopped in front of their rooms. "Here," she took out the article from her blazer and passed it to him.
He had a quick scan over the article and looked at her as if he expected an explanation to why it was so important, "What of it?"
Arturia rolled her eyes and scowled, "It has been reopened. Do you understand? Something horrible must have happened for the school to be closed down and the reopened; only for men this time around."
"So, by something horrible; you mean a murder, right?" Diarmuid took a deep breath and clicked his tongue, "But is not a murder a bit too extreme, though?"
"It would be enough to shut down an Academy," she shrugged her shoulders and walked to her door, "I really haven't any idea."
"Do you want me to spend the night with you again?" He glanced over at him, a sincere and modest look on his face, as if he had not realized what he said.
"Hah," Arturia laughed, "You should not say those things. People might get the wrong idea, I'm sure you do not want your boyfriend thinking you are cheating on him."
"Boyfriend?" he furrowed his brows, "Excuse me?" He was truly bewildered because he did not think that he was having any type of relationship with anyone as of late.
"Gilgamesh; he seemed awfully attached to you..." She shrugged and bit the inside of her cheek, seeing as the male looked confused, "You seem to have a lot of lovers to be thinking which one."
Diarmuid shook his head rapidly, "Oh! Goodness no! There is nothing between us, and I think I have told you that I do not exactly fancy men too much. Anyway, he just doesn't want to loose his friend, that is all. Plus, I think he is into women, actually. And no, I am not in any relationships."
"That is what you think right now, but he seems a little bit homosexual to me," She smirked, "So you research what happened with that article and I stay up to check what the hell happened today in the library and try to get some clues, alright?"
"Yeah, sounds about right," He nodded and turned the knob of his door in order to just get into bed. He was already very tired, but he still wanted to know about what really happened.
"Thank you, but I'll pass on the offer today," she mumbled before entering the room, "Maybe next time." Although she did not want to be alone, she guessed it was for the better.
