Chapter 12

Throughout the whole bus ride, the principal and John were talking loudly about what punishment was to be put on Brooklyn. Well, it was more like the principal was being held back by John, who looked like a scared dog, his tail in between his legs, frightened to death by a ginormous grey bear.

Brooklyn sat very low on her seat, hiding from the staring eyes, the hushed whispers, and Ambers snide smirks. The purple haired girl might've made quite a few mistakes in her life, but this had to be the worst one yet...

'After school every day for the rest of the year, she should have detention!' the principal started up once they had gotten back to school. As soon as Brooklyn had stepped foot on solid ground, the grey haired woman grabbed her arm and pulled her to her office. Lysander just had to lock all the doors after school for one day, considering he was her partner, he had to get a punishment too. Thanks to John, Lysander got off easy.

Brooklyn, not so much.

'Now now you can't do that...Well you can, but that's a bit much of a punishment don't you think?' Mr. Faraize had said once he had sat down in the office as well.

'And who told you to come here Mr. Faraize?! I am deciding the ruffian's punishment.

ALONE.

Now get out before you're fired!'

With that, John stood and walked, more like ran out of her office.

'Now Miss Brooklyn...

I'm not impressed at all with your behavior in the forest. And I'm especially not impressed with your behavior towards Miss Amber~' the principal started off, but the ruby orbed girl stood up suddenly, very angry.

'Amber?! She's been bullying me and other students ever since they got to this school! She deserves much more punishment than I do! That little shit needs to be put in her place!' the petite girl replied annoyed, glaring at the old woman.

'PIPE DOWN YOU DILLINQUENT! I CAN HAVE YOU SUSPENDED FOR SAYING SUCH THINGS!' the old bat threatened. Sighing, Brooklyn sat back in her chair and pouted.

'That won't do you any good. Canada might have been easy on you, but Sweet Amoris won't be! Now, you will go to your homeroom every day for the next week and stay there for two hours; if help is needed, you will help either the teachers or Nathaniel. If you skip, suspension. Clear?' the old bat commanded as she looked at Brooklyn with a serious expression. The ruby orbed girl just nodded her head and stood up, heading for the door.

'Before you go~' the woman piped up again, making Brooklyn put her hand on the door, oh so very ready to leave the retched room.

'Go search out Mr. Faraize. Help him with whatever need be. Now leave'.

Sighing, Brooklyn finally pushed open the door and closed it with a loud

'Thump'.

Whistling down the hallway, Brooklyn spotted Amber and her posy waiting at Brooklyn's locker; the purple haired girl narrowed her eyes and passed them, ignoring their existence for once.

'Hey Brooklyn. Thanks for locking me up. It took a lot of guts~

And well, I guess you're pretty stupid to do that too. Considering you got more shit loaded on you' the blonde smugly remarked. Brooklyn clenched her fists, imagining herself punching Amber's face and shoving it into a locker.

The purple haired girl walked briskly down the hallway and into one of the classrooms, hoping the teacher would be there.

Closing the door behind her, Brooklyn noticed the first thing about the classroom.

'Ugh there's no one in here' Brooklyn said aloud. It was totally dark; no lights on, windows shuttered. Turning around to open the door again, she felt something stir in the room. Glancing over her shoulder, the purple haired girl had just enough time to see a dark figure looming close to her, and then she felt hands wrap around her waist & over her mouth, pulling her towards the middle of the classroom.

'G-G-Get OFF ME!' Brooklyn sputtered as she struggled with her captor.

After a few minutes of blindly assuming what was going on, Brooklyn figured out a few things.

· First, that someone had tied her to a chair with rope.

· Second, it was too dark for her liking.

· Third, whoever did this was going to get an ass whooping.

'Well Well Well. I guess when you said "I'll see you later"; you truly meant later. But probably not like this, hey Brookie?'

'Ugh I should've known' Brooklyn huffed out as she struggled against the ropes. Looking around in the dark, she could faintly see a figure with his knee up on a nearby desk, probably smirking like the demon he was.

Is.

Whatever.

'No definitely not like this...

Why'd you tie me up you dick?!' Brooklyn asked annoyed beyond reality. She heard footsteps come toward her, and suddenly her face was being pulled up and she was looking into piercing cold eyes.

'Hey. I'll be the one asking questions in here if you don't mind. If you do, I don't care princess, because there's a few things I'd like to clear up with you' Castiel grunted as he let go of her chin and grabbed her collar to pull her towards him even more. Brooklyn looked to the side, refusing to give in to his power over her at this moment.

Who did he think he was, tying her up like some kidnapper/victim?

'Fine, but I'm sure you could do it without tying me up' Brooklyn offered frowning as he let her go and pulled up a chair in front of her.

'Nah I like seeing you like this. Quiet, powerless, and completely unnerved' Castiel admitted grinning as he tilted his head to the side.

'And before you whine about the darkness, no I'm not turning on the lights OR pulling up the curtains. This way I can know if you're being honest.

Well, more honest'.

Cracking his knuckles, Castiel looked at Brooklyn and started his questionnaire.

'What's my favourite colour?'

Hearing this lame question, Brooklyn started laughing unintentionally, but stopped shortly after. The ropes were too tight, making her choke.

'Was that supposed to be a legitimate question, or are you playing?'

'Oh no sweetheart, that's 'legit''.

'Pfff fine, then it's red, black on your best days' Brooklyn smartly replied, a satisfactory grin beginning to take shape on her small mouth. She could suddenly see white in the darkness, but it quickly vanished along with the only light source she had seen in the room.

'Lucky guess~

What colours my underwear?' was the next question, making Brooklyn burst out laughing again, but stopped quickly.

'Ugh, same colour as your pants! What's the point of all~'.

'What's my dog's name?'

The conversation kept going on for at least twenty minutes of questions about Castiel, the past, and Brooklyn.

But that soon came to a stop...

'Now to get serious~

When did you start liking Lysander?' irritation strongly in his voice. At this, Brooklyn looked at the floor and kicked the desk in front of hers with her boot, not even attempting to respond to it. She heard a chair scrape against the floor, and then Castiel was upon her.

His lips were strangely soft on hers as he roughly left a trail of kisses on and around her quivering mouth.

'C-C-Castiel s-stop!' Brooklyn uttered out, but the red head was at her neck now; she could feel a light sucking, almost as if~

'S-Stop! You're going to leave a~' Brooklyn started to say, but his lips were attacking hers again, his hands gripping her collar with sheer force; her not being able to stop him what so ever.

'Brooklyn! Brooklyn are you in there?' Violette's soft voice echoed from just outside the classroom, sounding worried. Suddenly Brooklyn was freed from Castiel, but still tied down to the chair. She could see him running to the windows as Violette turned the doorknob.

'We'll finish this later', Castiel huskily remarked, turning back to Brooklyn licking his lips as he opened the window and climbed out.

'Brooklyn! If I had known you were in there, I would've come and got you much sooner. You're sure Amber didn't tie you up in there?' Violette whispered quietly as they walked to the Gardens together. The ruby orbed girl was flushed from what happened; she decided that telling anyone about that would just cause curiosity and unneeded attention on herself.

'Yes I'm sure. The person seemed…

Well anyways, it must've been some prank. A few people are upset with me about ruining the race, so I wouldn't be surprised' the girl admitted shrugging as the two purple haired girls sat down. Violette took out her lunch as Brooklyn reached into her bag and took out the newest released volume of Fairytail.

Biting into her sandwich, Violette looked at the sky, which was odd for her.

'Violette...are you alright?' she looked at her friend concerned. Violette blinked and looked at Brooklyn blushing quite a bit.

'W-Well I have this friend~' the girl started off, but Brooklyn shook her head and made a hand gesture that meant, 'no no don't even start'.

'I've heard that one before. Violette what's going on'.

The grey orbed girl chewed her lip before looking at Brooklyn, her face totally flushed with embarrassment.

'I...I like the new boy who came here' Violette whispered. The ruby orbed girl stared at her.

'Y-You like...Alexy?! Since when!' the petite girl responded a bit too loud for Violette and a few of the birds tastes; the birds flew away from the tree they sat under.

'Sssh!

Well I talked to him once we got back!

He seems very nice and cool...and...I-' the grey orbed girl started shaking her head. Brooklyn grinned and patted Violette's back.

'Don't worry. I'll ask him for you okay?'

Violette nodded and took another bite of her sandwich; her eyes now on a nearby butterfly.

Walking past the courtyard, Brooklyn saw a familiar dark haired man sitting on the bench under the tree; a PSP in his hands. Smirking, Brooklyn walked up to him. Maybe he knows where his brother is, the purple haired thought as she came up to where he was.

'Ugh stupid guitar. If I could, I'd buy a virtual guitar and smash you too pieces! Oh wait! I can!' Armin yelled. 'And now I can't see! ~' Armin yelled some more, looking up and instantly got embarrassed.

'Oh ah Brooklyn. Sorry i'm ah~' he started scratching his head awkwardly, but Brooklyn just laughed and shook her head.

'Ah it's all good.

Hey do you know where Alexy is by any chance?'

The aqua orbed man scratched his head in confusion.

'Ah...last I checked he was going to give the rest of our info to that blonde kid...'.

The ruby orbed girl laughed and thanked Armin, swiftly walking across the courtyard to find her blue neon haired friend. She could still hear Armin saying, 'Ughhhh! Stupid guitar! ~'.

'Alexy! Hey Alexy!' Brooklyn yelled waving to him to get his attention as he came out of the student council room. Good, I don't have to talk to Nathaniel, Brooklyn thought as Alexy came up and side hugged her.

'Hey Brooklyn! 'Sup?' Alexy asked her as they started walking down the hallway.

'Well...ahm you see...

It...it goes...

Ah well…' Brooklyn started, but Alexy stopped her by covering her mouth with his hand, chuckling.

'Try again maybe?'

Looking around, she saw that no one was in the hallway, so she quickly said it.

'Violette likes you'.

Her blue haired friend blinked and went from a happy-go-lucky expression to one of confusion. 'She...does?

Are you sure?'

'Yes! I mean why wouldn't she?

You're funny, kind, fall out of trees~' Brooklyn started ticking off a finger as she made point by point, but Alexy shook his head and his grin was apparent again on his face.

'No no you don't have to convince me of all that' he replied as he sighed and put on a serious expression.

'Thing is...is that I don't like girls. I never will. Well, I will but not in that way' her friend admitted with a hopeful expression that Brooklyn would understand.

Her ruby orbs glimmered with a blank emotion.

'Are you sure? I mean Violette's sweet and caring, not to mention talented~' Brooklyn started again but was shut up by Alexy's hand on her mouth, laughing.

'Yes yes I know all that too!

It's just...

I like a more muscular kind of person'.

Now Brooklyn's ruby orbed glimmered with understanding.

'OOOOOOH! Well why didn't you just say that in the first place!' Brooklyn said suddenly hugging him. The blue haired man chuckled and patted her head, hugging her back and told her that he'd go to talk to Violette.

Watching her friend walk down the hallway, she couldn't help but wonder if anyone else liked...more muscular people.

Walking into another hallway, Brooklyn turned a corner and saw...

Castiel and Lysander?! I thought they weren't...speaking to each other

Lysander had his eyes locked on Castiel's and was saying something. Getting closer to them, Brooklyn was shocked to hear what she did next.

'This passion is like poison.

I need your body against mine' Lysander openly expressed to his friend.

Brooklyn stared at him.

W...what?!

'Hey Brooklyn! The principal's looking for you!' Iris said as she came behind Brooklyn.

'Sssh! I'm in the middle of something here Iris!'

'But it's important! The principal wants to know if you've seen Mr. Faraize~' Iris replied as Brooklyn looked back at the boys.

Shit! They're gone

She started biting her lip as she turned back to Iris, who had been talking to her still.

'Ah, tell the principal it's been done' Brooklyn told Iris as she ran to her home room.

Ugh after everything I've been through today; how did THAT skip my mind?!, Brooklyn thought as she heard Iris call her name, but it only echoed through the now empty hallway.

'Ah yes, that's why the principal was so cross. We didn't make enough money for the next part of her plan...

But um, if you could just clean up the student lounge that would be fine Brooklyn' Mr. Faraize told her a few minutes later once she had found him. Nodding her head, she went in search of the student lounge, happy a certain red head was nowhere to be found.

'Hey! Hey Brooklyn! Just the girl I was looking for!~' a familiar annoying voice sounded out in the halls. 'H-Hello Peggy~' Brooklyn uttered out before she was interrupted.

'Yeah hi!

So, I've heard you had a wild adventure out in the forest during the race! Care to talk about it? Hmm? Any punishments being dealt? What's the full scoop on what you did? Peggy asked a mile a minute questions, making Brooklyn's head hurt and a huge want of punching Peggy came on. But thinking back to the forest...and then earlier that day...she didn't really want to think about anything at the moment. 'Not now Peggy~'

Aww c'mon! I don't want to beg now!

If I have to go to Amber again I'll lose my job! Peggy whined as Brooklyn brushed past her.

'Sorry; maybe next time' Brooklyn replied over her shoulder at a now grinning Peggy.

'I'll hold you to that!'

...Great...

Walking around some more, totally not procrastinating on going to the teachers' lounge, Brooklyn sighed and took a banana out of her bag. As she was peeling it, she saw Castiel & Lysander in the halls again, talking just like before.

Creeping next to a corner, she heard Lysander reciting more erotic quotes.

'The desire is consuming me. I need to touch you~'.

Brooklyn couldn't help but turn red.

I-I-I should get out of here

So she started to walk away, no longer wanting to know why Lysander & Castiel were suddenly chummy, or why...

Anything.

But...

'Hey Brookie.

What are you doing wandering the halls?' Castiel jumped to ask her as he put a hand on her shoulder to whip her around to face the two boys.

'W-Well I~'.

'Are you alright m'lady? You're all red' Lysander asked full of concern, putting a hand to her head.

'Y-You two...w-why' Brooklyn started, but couldn't go on. She could feel tears spring to her eyes and the desire to run away from this was too great.

'Brooklyn...if you're wondering why we're speaking, it's because we're sort of in a band? Or have you forgotten?' Castiel remarked as she wiped her eyes.

'Y-Yeah I must have forgotten...

Sorry for interrupting you', Brooklyn said as she turned away from them to finally escape to the teachers' lounge.

Boys. They're so confusing.

Opening the door to the Teacher's Lounge, Brooklyn saw...

'EW Yuck! Adults are worse than kids apparently!' the purple haired girl grimaced as she threw away her banana peel and started cleaning up. She started with the couch, which was the most disgusting. 'Honestly? Are teachers so huge that they can't get up and throw away their meals?' she said aloud as she picked up the rotten cores and threw them away.

Soon enough the only thing that was left was putting files back into place, and picking up the random sweaters and such.

'Knock knock'.

Brooklyn whipped around. He was leaning on the door frame casually in his gym uniform.

'O-Oh...hi.'

The purple haired girl turned her back and bent down to pick up some of the clothes that were on the floor. She heard footsteps behind her and then saw Lysander taking the files and opening them.

'Hey! Those are classified! I could get in more trouble if you open those!' she immediately sprung up and tried grabbing for the file in his hand, but he lifted it over her head.

'Aww but I just wanted to help m'love clean up a bit. I feel bad that you got into all this trouble' Lysander admitted with a huge grin on his face.

'No you don't. You probably think I deserve it for how I acted. Well, maybe I do. But I can take a punishment by myself!~' she pouted as she leaned close to him and reached out and~

Suddenly Lysander was falling down, unto the ugly orange couch in the teachers' lounge, and Brooklyn fell on top of him. Lifting her face out of his chest, she saw and felt him laugh.

'Ha! That's what I get for helping you' the silverette remarked as he pulled Brooklyn closer to him and hugged her tightly. The purple haired girl blushed and looked around.

'L-Let go you Victorian wearing weirdo! Someone will see us!' she blushed pointing to the door.

The silverette took her face in his hands and chuckled.

'So let them. We haven't done anything wrong' Lysander said confident as his jade & golden orbs looked into her ruby ones; they were mixed with laughter and happiness.

Something Brooklyn wasn't used to.

Smirking, Lysander pulled her down when she hadn't said anything for a while and collided his mouth with hers, drowning her in the strange sensation of a kiss.

When she had pulled away, looking at the floor flushed, Lysander sat up and grinned.

'You know Brooklyn' the silverette started, but stopped so the ruby orbed girl would look up at him.

She stubbornly didn't, so he pulled her on his lap like in the forest and wrapped his hands around her waist.

'L-Lysander!' she uttered, her face red as a tomato. He grinned and kissed her, red face and all.

'You know Brooklyn~

Those lyrics in that song?

They were written for you' he said watching her reaction as he held her tighter and lifted her up off his lap and back unto the couch.

She didn't even have a chance to yell at him, question him, or glare at him, because he had sat up and walked out of the room as quickly as he had come in.

...Men...

Finally putting everything away, Brooklyn noticed~

'Huh? This must be one of Armin's games'

Picking it up, she noticed it was an old looking game that didn't even have the title on it.

Exiting the student lounge, Brooklyn walked to Armin's home classroom with the old game.

'Ah Brooklyn! I hear you found my brother' Armin replied when he saw her enter the classroom, his thumbs pressing every button they could on the PSP.

'Uh yeah~

Hey did you lose a video game recently?' Brooklyn asked him as Armin fist pumped the air.

'YEAH! High score!~

Oh sorry?

A game? Well let me see it first' Armin gestured for her to hand it over as Brooklyn held out the game. The black haired man looked at it and shook his head, grinning.

'Brooklyn...

This isn't a game...

It's a letter.

How could you mistake this for a game?' Armin retorted laughing as Brooklyn took it back glaring at him. 'I-It's not a letter!' she denied as she looked at it more closely.

It was in the shape of a small game; how could this be a letter? Brooklyn thought as she turned it over in her hands.

Grinning when he saw that she was still examining it, Armin replied

'Open her up! See what's inside!'

Looking at him with a crazed look, Brooklyn sat down at the teacher's desk and fumbled with the drawers.

Scissors...scissors...ah!

Slitting open the top part of the letter, Brooklyn pulled out a paper and another envelope. This one had a disk in there, and it was signed.

'This...is for me?!'

Ello dears who read this!
I'm so sorry I haven't updated in a while. Although i've been getting views, I haven't been getting many reviews or that people like my story? It's not too difficult to comment is it? Please, it means the world to see comments. If you like it tell me. Even pm me!

That is all for now. Thank you again for reading this far!
-Z.M.