Chapter 3
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It was finally lunch time and Mayu needed a distraction from the persistent stinging of her wounds, that distractions name was Yukari. The rainbow haired girl got up with her bento in hand, "Enjoy your lunch Usano-san." Megurine-sensei spoke with an inviting grin as usual.
"You as well, Sensei." Mayu returned the kind words before leaving the classroom.
All day Aria had been picking on Mayu with only Megurine-sensei there to stand up for her. This was another bizarre thing that Mayu wasn't used to a teacher actually being nice to her so she appreciated the pinkette-sensei for all she's done despite it only being day 2 of school. Lost in her fluffy thoughts about her sensei she didn't notice Yukari-senpai walking towards her.
"Hey Mayu-chan, over here!" Yukari called out waving her arm at her kouhai.
Mayu looked up to see her goofy senpai waving at her, "Hello senpai, how are you?" The rainbow haired girl greeted closing the distance.
"I'm doing great now that it's lunch time." Yukari winked at Mayu hoping she'd get the hint she so obviously dropped.
To Yukari's delight Mayu's cheeks filled with a deep red hue, "Surely you don't mean that?"
"If I didn't I wouldn't have said it right?" The senior reassured with a big smile. "Come on lets go eat on the roof, no one ever eats there beside SeeU and I. Not like it's a surprise since it's always raining here but there's a picnic table up there with an umbrella attached to it so we'll be fine."
"SeeU must have been that girl I saw Yukari with earlier." Mayu thought to herself holding her jealousy at bay.
"Agh!" Yukari slapped her forehead, "I keep forgetting that it's only the second day of school, I haven't introduced you to her yet. I think she might be up there already so let's go."
"Okay." Mayu responded following beside her senpai to the roof area.
"So sweetie, how're things at Merciful Father today? That teacher hasn't messed with you at all has he?" SeeU asked the person on the phone sitting at the umbrella table.
"Yo SeeU!" Yukari called out holding her hand in the air in greeting.
"Shut up Kari-chi I'm on the phone with Miku!" SeeU scolded the violet rabbit.
"Sorry, sorry!" Yukari apologized holding her hands up in defense. "She normally only scolds me when Miku's around probably because she's embarrassed of me." The girl said with feigned sadness pretending to wipe her eyes of tears.
Mayu watched her senpai taking in how animated of a person she was, "Well even if she is, I'm not."
"Well that's because you haven't had the displeasure of being around her that long." SeeU teased walking over to the two girls. "I'm SeeU as Yukari's probably already told you, it's nice to meet you Mayu-san."
Mayu was stunned that SeeU-senpai even knew her name, "It's nice to meet you, SeeU-senpai."
"Oh don't look so surprised that I know who you are, when we have this loud mouth to thank for that all she did yesterday was talk about you. Talk about obsessive huh?" The nekomimi wearing girl teased some more reveling in the embarrassment she was causing the violet rabbit.
"Ooooookay SeeU that's about all we needed from you, how about we eat now huh?" Yukari interrupted her face a burning red.
"Oh all right but I still have so much to embarrass you about Kari-chi!"
"No! I revoke your tease card for the day SeeU perhaps you'll use it more responsibly when I give it back!"
"I probably won't but hey by all means keep the dream alive Kari-chi. So Mayu-san how's your second day at Sorrowful Mother?" SeeU asked before taking a bite of her lunch.
"Its fine but a girl in my class keeps bullying me, but that's nothing new." The girl played down taking a bite out of her bento that she bought on the way to school.
SeeU looked at the girl with a pained expression feeling as if she opened old wounds, "Well that's rude to make fun of someone for absolutely no reason, this school has absolutely no boundaries."
"I know right? Mayu-chan you're adorable, I don't get how anyone could tease someone so cute." Yukari complimented making googly eyes at the girl.
"Well geez senpai, you're flattering me a lot today." Mayu smiled looking down at her bento.
"I swear this is my first time seeing you two together and I could've sworn you've been in love with each other for years." SeeU commented taking in the cute sight of the two together. "I think you guy's might have Miku and I beat."
Mayu looked away in embarrassment, "Welooklikewe'reinloveifwe'reinlovethatmeansYukarilovesmetooifYukarilovesmetoothat'dmeanthatsomeoneinthisworldotherthanMimilovesmewhichmeansthatamonsterlikemyselfhasfoundtheoneandifi've…." A thousand love-filled thoughts scrolled across Mayu's mind in one giant mashed together sentence making her forget where she was and who she was with.
Yukari looked at her kouhai who was blushing madly, "Well seeing as how she hasn't vomited yet I'd think I have a shot?"
"I'd have to agree ol' chap." SeeU agreed with a fake British accent.
Mayu still in her lovely reverie accidently let a simple yet powerful phrase slip out, "I'm in love…."
"Wh-what did you say?" Yukari asked stunned.
"And the plot thickens." SeeU said amused texting someone on her phone most likely Miku.
"You! Shut up!" Yukari pointed at SeeU then immediately swerved her head back towards Mayu, "What'd you say Mayu-chan?"
"N-nothing!" Mayu responded dumbfounded at what she had said quickly packing up her lunchbox and running away as fast as she could. "I can't believe I said that, I can't believe I said that, I can't believe I said that, I can't believe it, I can't believe it, I can't, I can't, I can't believe I did this again…."
"Mayu-chan wait! Yukari called out to the girl packing her things up and following after Mayu. "Sorry SeeU, I'll see you in class okay?"
"Hold on Kari-chi, we need to talk." SeeU commanded with a strict tone.
"Can't it wait? I have to catch up to Mayu-chan." Yukari weakly argued before reluctantly sitting back down.
"I want to talk to you about Usano-san." SeeU said with curiosity lacing her voice. "Please tell me you feel something for her, please!
Yukari blushed then looked away, "Geez U-chan, you stopped just to ask me this?"
"Of course I did, you two were absolutely adorable, and Usano-san is so sweet she's exactly what you need."
"You really think so?" Yukari mumbled blushing madly, and playing with her fingers.
"I do, I do, I give you my stamp of approval." SeeU laughed, smiling warmly at her friend.
"Well then, I'm going to go look for her, thanks for that U-chan." Yukari chirped grabbing her things and going off to find the 1st year.
Mayu practically jumped down the stairs and sprinted through the halls, "GetawaygetawaygetawaygetawaygetawaygetawaygetawaygetawaygetawayGETAWAY!" She chanted coldly in her mind.
"Well if it isn't Mayu-san." Ia provoked the flustered girl. She was standing outside the classroom probably waiting for the girl to come back.
Mayu simply walked past her ignoring her but Ia grabbed a handful of her light blonde and rainbow hair pullinh her back. "I can't do this here." She thought as anger began to bubble in her stomach.
"Let go of me!" Mayu commanded grabbing onto the girl's hand.
"No, I don't think I want too." Aria answered dragging the girl to the bathroom another girl following closely behind.
Reaching the bathroom Ia threw Mayu to the floor shaking her hand loose of rainbow strands of hair, "Miki would you lock the door for me?"
"You got it boss!" A cherry red haired girl answered her ahoge at attention.
"When I first laid my eyes on you yesterday I knew you were the one." Ia said moving closer to Mayu. "I knew that my twisted kindness couldn't break you no matter what and I was right but a nagging feeling in my chest keeps telling me to go further. It was painful to ignore the voice and I know it's only been two days but when it's meant to be it's meant to be right?"
"Maybe you should be concerned that you're hearing a voice and go find help, instead of relying on me." Mayu stated trying to get a rise out of the girl who so vividly reminded her of her father.
Ia opened up her book bag and pulled out an assortment of items: a ropes length of barbed wire, duct tape, a box cutter, and a journal. "I told Megurine-sensei that we'd be doing friendship exercises with the counselor she ended up giving us the whole period off, I mean in a way I wasn't lying right? Because this is how I show my friendship, well to the ones I find interesting anyways."
"Click" A faint noise resounded through Mayu's head but it wasn't clear enough to make out what it was. "KILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILL" A violent voice yelled madly but Mayu ignored it as best she could. Aria was a spitting image of her father causing her murderous intent to skyrocket. "What are you planning on doing St. Benjamin-san?" The rainbow-haired girl asked in a strangely calm voice.
"Normally this is the part where you shake in fear, you really are different aren't you?" Aria stated sadistically. "I'm going to enjoy my time with you. Hey, Miki could you hold her down for me while I tie her up please?"
"Roger that boss!" Miki ran over to Mayu grabbing ahold of her arms, Mayu fighting back the entire time, "Hey Usano-san calm down would you? I'm just doing my job."
"You must be a sad girl if you're helping someone like her." Mayu retorted struggling harder. The girl was stronger than she looked but the damage she had taken from her father had weakened her greatly.
"Okay it isn't my job but if you want to be popular you have to do things that you aren't particularly proud of right? You understand don't you Usano-san?" Miki tried to reason with the struggling girl.
"I'd never understand someone as mindless as you." Mayu spat still fighting to get free of Miki's grip.
Aria had cut the barbed wire into two separate sections one two tie up her wrists and the other to tie up her ankles. "You have a will of your own unlike this girl so it would be hard for you to understand but understand that this time that we're about to share together will be special I promise." Ia said breathily, her cheeks completely flushed.
Before Ia tied the barbwire onto her ankles she took off the girls ruby red loafers, and slid off her socks revealing a myriad of scars and bruises on the girl's legs including the fresh new wounds around her ankles that she received this morning. "Now what could this be?" Ia asked carefully taking off the bandages revealing two deep bloody rings around her ankles.
"Oooooooooh? How'd you get those Usano-san?" Miki asked in curiosity.
"Guess." Mayu deadpanned closing her eyes tightly awaiting the pain of the barbed wire.
"You're so cold Usano-san but uh if you ever need someone to talk too, you can always come to me." Miki suggested.
"Oh so I'm the bad guy." Mayu taunted her voice ironically not losing its coldness.
"Well I'm only the bad guy right now, tomorrow I might be the friend…but I doubt it I guess I understand where you're coming from Usano-san." Miki said in defeat.
Ia sighed, "Would you shut up already Miki-san?!"
Miki recoiled at the harsh words but did as she was told, "Our playtime will begin now okay Usano-chan?"
"Okay as long as I get a turn." Mayu said feeling a chance to take out her frustrations arising.
Yukari sat at her desk bouncing her leg uncontrollably she couldn't make up her mind on what she was going to do. "Why'd she run away like that? What did she say?! Dammit, this is killing me, I couldn't even find her maybe she was hiding from me. Don't tell me I've already ruined my chances, I really don't know if I could handle messing things up with Mayu-chan. She's just so sweet why did I have to react that way?! Idiot, Idiot, Mayu-chan forgive me…"
SeeU looked over to her friend and noticed that she had a puzzled face, "Eh? What could that idiot be thinking about? Hopefully not stressing over Usano-san, I had that talk with her specifically to avoid this. I'll just send her a message to let her know everything'll be fine."
"Hey babe, wipe that sad look off your face." SeeU texted Yukari.
"I couldn't find Mayu-chan, what if she was hiding from me?" Yukari nervously texted back.
"I kept you longer than I planned so perhaps she was already in class, stop worrying already talk to her afterschool."
"But what if she turns me away?"
"She won't, I really don't think that she would."
"You're probably right, I probably sound like an idiot worrying so much huh?"
"You always sound like an idiot but today I'll let it slide."
Yukari leaned back in her desk then let out a loud involuntary sigh getting unwanted attention from the class and the teacher.
"Is there something else you'd rather be doing Yuzuki-san?" Hiyama-sensei asked the shocked girl.
"U-uh no not at all sensei!" Yukari rebounded trying to shake herself back into reality.
"Good then answer questions 3-7 aloud." Hiyama-sensei ordered.
"All right, all right." Yukari conceded standing up with her notebook in hand. "I'll talk to her after school, I can't wait."
Mayu sat there restrained her wrists bound by barbed wire and the barbed wire tied to the sink pipes. She was dressed only in her bra, gloves, and skirt. All over her stomach there were words carved into the skin such as: Scum, trash, shit, bastard, piss-stain, worthless, etc. Ia had written down words that were mainly used to demoralize someone specifically so that she could carve them into Mayu's skin. Why? Well not even Ia knows, she just knows it gets her off.
Mayu rested her head against the sink, her breathing was raspy and choppy it seemed as if she was on the cusp of unconsciousness. Her mouth was covered in duck-tape so that made breathing even harder. Her arms, torso and feet were covered in blood making her look like a captive in a horror movie.
"Aria-san, don't you think it's time for us to stop, she isn't looking to good." Miki said in concern for the wounded girl.
"Not yet, I have a few more words to do and then I'll be done." Ia said in a breathy tone, sounding as if she were about to climax. She slowly lifted the box cutter to a bare patch of skin then pressed the blade into it immediately drawing blood. Mayu winced and her breathing began to pick up at the stinging contact, "Filth is the next word, though you're far from it Usano-chan but something about defiling a flower of its beauty is just well arousing."
Mayu felt every line that Ia made into her skin the pain was amplified because of the other numerous surrounding cuts. "Next word is Mutt okay Usano-chan?"
The rainbow-haired girl wanted to fight but the more she struggled the deeper the barbed wire entered her already wounded skin, at this point it was so tight that she could barely even move her fingers and toes without the wire getting deeper. Mayu cringed at the mixture of pain but her eyes didn't show any pain, "I'll try not to kill you, when I get free." She thought wincing at the latest word being carved into her flesh.
"Pig is the last word okay? Exactly like that violet haired girl who yelled at me earlier stupid bitch." Ia ranted feeling the same rage she felt earlier.
"Click."
"I won't hold back anymore."