Fortune telling 5
It was cold. With the rain pouring outside, even the spring like temperature started to plummet as well. The whole room felt heavy under a strange unwaivering tension. Several sets of eyes pried themselves away from the doorway. Rain pounded against the window. Everyone in the room knew it, not wanting to say it out loud. Ringo wasn't coming back with the van.
The realization of that dropped whatever brightness Cecil had brought to them. Although they were glad he was alive and well, it was still hard for them to acknowledge the fact that their once beloved sensei was ideas or had betrayed them. But seeing how terrified Ringo had been upon finding Nanami, almost all of them doubted that he could leave them.
"D-does this mean... even if we leave this place... are we going to be safe?" Ren asked, shaking from the cold. It felt like ice had been dumped on them with those words.
Those words brought down a heavy weight upon everyone. Even Cecil looked glumly at his options. All that was left was to sit and wait for Kaoru to make his next move. The brunette looked over at everyone. All four sempais remained. He had to draw one away without being noticed. After that, it should be smooth sailing.
"What do we do now?" Otoya asked quietly. They were as safe here as they were out there. And judging by Ringo's disappearance, it would be like jump out of the pot into a fire. "We can't just stay here."
"We could leave." Syo suggested. "It's obvious that this person is only attacking us when we're alone. We walk out of here as a group... we live as a group."
Cecil stood from the spot he had taken residence up on the floor. "Then we'll need supplies won't we?" It's soaking out there."
"That would take forever." Ranmaru retorted.
"Groups of two would make things go faster." Reiji hooked his arm around the silver haired man's neck. He grumbled something under his breath.
"I'll go with Syo-chan." Natsuki grinned. "I have lots of piyo umbrellas in our room." When Syo glanced up at the other blonde, Natsuki's eyes were sharp and mean. Almost as if he were Satsuki.
"Y-yes. Let's h-hurry, Natsuki." Syo said drawing in a breath. He knew what was coming.
"I'm going to get food." Masato stated dranging Ren, who was still shaken a little, behind him.
"I-i w-want to s-stay here." Otoya said, head pointed at the ground, eyes barely visible.
Camus put a hand on the younger boy's shoulder, as if to say he would stay with him.
Seeing his chance, Cecil acted. "Ai-sempai I need to go back to my room as well. Will you come with me?"
The robotic sempai rolled his eyes at the teen. But he nodded his blue head. Cecil knew that it would be suspicious if he were the only one to return without something and without Ai. He waited until everybody was leaving to go their separate ways.
"Syo-chan." Natsuki's voice was not as light and air as it had been. "Let's stop pretending we don't know what's going on."
The younger blonde refused to look at him. "Drop it Natsuki, we don't know anything yet."
"But we do. Or is that not his pin you're cluching so tightly in you're fist."
Syo spun on his heels to glare at Natsuki. There was no remorse in those green eyes. They hid behind no glasses either. Darn, Natsuki! He must have taken them of to wipe them or something.
Satsuki drew a step closer. "We know who it is. Don't pretend that you don't. He practically told you in that letter. I'm not going to die because your brother is crazy."
Syo looked anywhere and everywhere to avoid Satsuki's cold eyes. And in a quiet, barely audible voice, he choked out. "He's not crazy. His letter didn't say anything like that. He as just worried, that's all." His mouth kept moving with lies he told himself, but no voice could be heard.
"Wake up Syo. It's time to see the truth before you get everyone killed." Satsuki looked down at the glasses in his hand. "I won't let Natsuki die here."
Those words echoed down the dark halls. The only light that could comfort the small blonde s he slide down the wall, head in his shaking hands, was the small illumination from Natsuki's cell phone and the lightning that crashed over head every moment or so.
Syo gripped the insignia pin against his chest. His brother wanted to be a doctor. He wouldn't do something like this ever. His brother was the nicest person he knew, the kindest. This wasn't real... It was all just a very bad dream. A nightmare that refused to end.
"He couldn't." Syo let out a small sob.
Natsuki sat next to him, putting an arm around his friend. "You'd be surprised what one would do or someone they love."
Cecil turned to look at Ai, who steadily walked behind him. The cyan eyed male looked indifferent to him. He continued forward without questioning Cecil.
Don't betray me Aijima-san. You're not part of my plan.
Those words rang in his ears. He flipped his phone over to look at the lit screen. No word from Kaoru yet. He had done what the blonde had asked. He had lured one away from the group.
"Cecil." Ai called out. He stopped walking and looked at the dark haired male. "What is it you needed from your room again?"
The Prince cracked a smile. "You know I can't remember anymore. Maybe I should have told you."
"Perhaps. Going to your room has become irrelevant. It is in our best interests to head back." His modulated voice called out.
"Is it?" Cecil grounded out.
"Of coa-"
"Syo-chan!" Otoya called out. From somewhere in the darkness, Cecil could hear his big brother call out. But Syo was with Natsuki... Kaoru!
Cecil whipped around, heading back to his brother at a fast pace. "Otoya?"
"Cecil? Is Syo-chan with you?" Otoya popped out from around the corner. His big red eyes filled with worry. "I thought I saw him come this way."
"He's with Natsuki. You shouldn't be running around here." Ai chided.
Cecil's frown turned to a smile. He hadn't betrayed Kaoru so of course the blonde wouldn't hurt Otoya. "Said you leave Camus all alone?"
"Nani? He was following me." Otoya tilted his head to the side. "I really think we should find Syo-chan. I didn't see Natsuki with him."
Syo and Satsuki stood in the doorway their darkened shared room. For a moment the blondes looked around the dark room, making sure that Kaoru wasn't there lurking in the shadows. Finding it safe, Satsuki walked in further. Syo followed suit, a few minutes later.
He hadn't said a word since he tried to convince himself of Kaoru's innocence. What little tears he had shed, were indicated only by the redness of his eyes and cheeks. With a sniffle, the blonde looked at Satsuki.
The mean blonde sighed. "They're in the closet."
Syo nodded. Finding his way through the room he had call home for almost a year, wasn't hard at all. He listened carefully for the slightest thing. An extra footfall, where only he was walking. Breathing that neither matched his NPR Satsuki's pattern. Anything, but even I his weariness he found nothing except the normalized pattern he had come to know.
Why couldn't it have been just another normal day?
"Kaoru!" Satsuki yelled running at the window.
The moment Syo looked up, lightning flashed. There was no Satsuki, no Natsuki, and no Kaoru. All that remained was an open window letting the cold air and colder rain hit him and a new soggy tarot card, attached to a paper, laying on the floor, just beyong the water's reach.
His shaken hand reached towards the paper and card. The card was taped to the paper, upside down. But above it, in bright red letters it read:
You know who did this,
you've known for a awhile now,
You can't escape
When you're the one who killed them.
"Syo-chan." Otoya called from the doorway. He looked into the room as lightning flashed again. The second of light revealed a small sobbing blonde, one fist tight around a paper and the other clutched up to his chest. Umbrellas litter the floor, window opened wide, as rain poured in on the disheveled blonde boy.
Hello again! Hope you all are enjoying... mwahahaha. I need some work on my evil laugh...
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