Weston College Prep

by thaliaarche

A blond starlet. His bespectacled stalker. A rich chess player. A redhead actor who's superficial on the surface. A perfectionist obsessed with Harvard. A valedictorian-to-be with one hell of a poker face. A shifty youth whose only mood is subjunctive. All seven juniors report to the counselor's office, after violence breaks out in the hallowed dining hall of Weston College Prep.

6. Chapter 6

Grell

Grell: "You think I might have anger issues? Might?"

Counselor: "Have you been in therapy before?"

Grell: "I don't really know anyone professional who's trained to help with my particular issues. But I've got a friend to talk to, in secret. Always in secret."

Counselor: "Why in secret?"

Grell: "He doesn't want people to know."

Counselor: "Is he also suffering from mental illness?"

Grell: "It's life and death with him, not that he'll admit it while he's still alive. That would mean admitting he's flawed, and he won't ever do that."

William

William: "I'm fine, really."

Counselor: "Why are you so set on going to Harvard?"

William: "It's number one, by a staggering amount of objective metrics. You needn't worry about my mental state, by the way. Everything's fine. Perfectly fine."

Lau

Lau: "What do I know about Adderall? It is a powerful aid to those who love success. I believe it is prescribed for patients with ADHD and is otherwise off-limits. As for whether Alois Trancy has been unusually hyperactive and lacking in attention span recently . . . I cannot possibly comment."

Alois

Alois: "I thought the whole fight made for great drama, actually. Ciel as the ingenue, me as the temptress, Claude and Sebastian as the knights, Grell as the comic relief . .."

Counselor: "What about William?"

Alois: "He was the commoner saved deus-ex-machina style!"

Counselor: "Saved? How?"

Alois: "Well, he dodged, relatively speaking, and got hit in the hip. Which is lucky, seeing how the knife was heading straight towards those gorgeous hands . . ."

Claude

Claude: "I will confess there is a possibility that I overreacted in my defense of Alois. However, my reaction was not the most heinous of the day."

Counselor: "Really?"

Claude: "There is some physical resemblance between myself and William, and Sebastian claims he intended to attack me, out of blameless self-defense, and simply missed. However, Sebastian was almost . . . professional as he took up that knife. I find it hard to believe he hit the wrong target entirely."

Ciel

Ciel: "I've survived being harassed by Alois Trancy— that's something of a Weston rite of passage. I've survived having dead parents. I'll survive haptophobia. I'll survive being aromantic quite happily, I expect. Really, why does everyone assume I need help all the time? Just because I haven't smiled in years . . ."