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There are a bunch of life stories in this chapter.
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Ciel was at his dorm, practicing his lines for the audition. He heard a knock on his door. Alois was out for the evening, and wouldn't be back until ten at night, so it couldn't be him. Who was it?
Ciel opened the door cautiously. There stood Finny and Mey-Rin. "Hello, Ciel," they said in unison.
Ciel smiled. "Welcome in. Make yourselves at home."
They came inside. Ciel sat down on the sofa. "So, what brings you here?"
Finny smiled at Ciel. "We just wanted to get to know you since you're new! And also tell you a bit about the people here. Yeah. Thats all."
Mey-Rin adjusted her glasses."So, as you probably already know my name. But I'll give you a proper introduction, you know, just a formality. My name's Mey-Rin, I'm a sophomore just like Finny. So, is there anything you'd like to know about us?"
Ciel stroked his chin. "I have all evening. Tell me your life stories."
Mey Rin's Life Story
My name is Mey-Rin. I grew up at an orphanage with Finny. When I was five, I was sent to sniper school, since the orphanage owners were twisted, and they would get a lot of money if I became an assassin. The school made us shoot at real people for practice. Their pained expressions still haunt my dreams. I've killed so many... the blood of a hundred men stain my hands. So, if you ever come to visit my dorm room, that's why I have a sniper gun pointing out my window. It's part of my job to guard the school from the local gangsters, the Spiders. The whole school knows, it's no secret. But, anyway, back to the story. When I graduated from sniper school, I was ten. I was sent back to that cursed orphanage. A new guy was there, he was two years older than me. His name was Claude Faustus. He was nice, but always very serious. Lets just say I developed some... feelings for him. We were friends for a while. Claude, Finny, and I were plotting our escape plan. The day we put it into action, Claude was kidnapped in the process. He was kidnapped by the Spiders. This happened when we were twelve, and he was fourteen. Two years later, Finny and I started school, and what do you know, Claude was there. But not the Claude we knew. Claude was an ex- Spider member, and a cold-hearted playboy. We don't know what happened to him, but... I still love him. But he always treats me like a stranger. I just want to have back the Claude I used to know.
Ciel was slightly shocked by this. He didn't know they had had such a dark past. If he could find out what happened, then maybe... he could help Mey- Rin. Because he could relate to her. He could relate to the pain she felt every second of her day. Because he had the same type of pain. The scars of loss. The scars of sadness.
"Finny, go on," said Mey- Rin, and nudged Finny.
"Right, right."
Finny's Life Story
I'm Finnian. I never knew my last name. I grew up at that same orphanage. The living hell, we used to call it. When Mey-Rin was sent to sniper school, I was sent to the lab to be a guinea pig. And boy, was it painful. I had to wait in a cell for ages before one day, the scientists took me out, chained me to a table, and injected a strength serum into me. I ripped the chains like they were paper, and busted the hell out of that place. I came back to the orphanage, because there was nowhere else for me to go. That was about the time when Mey- Rin came back from sniper school. There was Claude. Not the Claude he is now. When we were twelve, and he was fourteen, we plotted an escape. Claude was taken by the Spiders. Two years later, we start at Phantomhive Academy, and there is Claude with a heart of ice, and he is a playboy, too. I wonder what they did to him to make him like that.
Ciel could relate. He felt their pain. He knew how it felt to be scarred for life. A certain someone interrupted his thoughts. "Ciel, tell us about your life!"
Ciel sighed. "I might as well since you did."
Ciel's Life Story
My childhood had been the good life. I would run around the garden at my mansion. I would play in the forest with my cousin Lizzy. We would make up crazy stories about every animal who lived there. My dad taught me about being a businessman, and he would take me to the carnival every year on my birthday. My mother read me stories and made me strawberry parfaits whenever I wanted. They told me when I was older, they wanted me to go to the school our family had owned for generations. But then... They came. The gang in the masks. They burned down my house, and the fire took my parents. They kidnapped me, and burned a mark on my skin. A spider. I managed to escape later, but I was all alone- my family dead. Lizzy had moved out of the country to who-knows-where. All I had left was my mansion, the family business, my butler, Tanaka, and pain. Lots and lots of pain.I honored my parent's last wish. Thats where I am now.
The atmosphere got serious real fast. They all were thinking the same thing. All that pain. They all felt the same pain. The pain of being scarred for life.
They all lent in for a group hug, and Finny cried a little. The memories were flooding back, but now they had friends to help them through the period of hurt. It helped, because then you knew you weren't alone- they had someone who knew how they felt.