Woo! Another chapter of fun, scary Beyond! XD ... ... ... ... It's not really a scary story, is it... Damn... Meh, I'll try harder to scare you guys... But, the horror will start soon! :D

Oh yeah, when K mentions the temperature of the night before, I'm talking about Celsius, not Fahrenheit.

Disclaimer: I own BEYOND and LAWLIET! They are mind forever! :D

Chapter 5:

The next morning, Kay knocked on A's door. He had not come out, even after 9, when classes started. During the break, she wandered over to see why.

She knocked on his door. No answer. She knocked again, still receiving no answer. She sighed and opened up the door.

The curtains were drawn pretty tightly, cutting out any light that could have entered and decreased his melatonin levels. Piled on the floors were many text books, papers and clothes. There was one shirt that was discarded on his bed. Its whole left side was covered in blood. She picked it up and studied it.

"A... What happened?" She whispered. Just as she had spoken these words, the entrance door opened.

"K? What are you doing in here?" It was A. Kay quickly turned around, his bloodied shirt tight in her grasp.

He was wearing a pair of blue jeans which hung lowly on his hips, his hair was wet and he was holding a towel. he had a long scratch over his neck which seemed to deepen as it reached the other side and a large slash on his left shoulder. K felt her cheeks heat up for mostly embarrassment of being caught in his room.

"A, why is your shirt covered in blood?" She asked him, coming closer and grabbing his cut shoulder. "What did you do to get this?"

A pulled his shoulder away from her clutches. "Nothing. I was just climbing a tree last night and fell, that's all." He lied, walking past her to his bed. K's gaze followed him. The boy dumped his towel on the bed and headed over to his set of drawers in the corner.

"Why were you climbing a tree in the middle of the night?" She demanded. "You know how cold it was! It was bloody snowing last night! It was minus 3 degrees!"

"Yeah, I know." He said, opening up his bottom drawer and pulling out a black leather belt.

"And don't you get colds really easy?"

"Not really, on account of all the sports I play with you." He mumbled, sliding the belt underneath the straps of his jeans.

"You get them easier than any other sporty person!" She growled. She knew A was hiding something from her, but what was it?

"Yeah, well maybe I just got lucky." He replied, opening up another drawer, looking for a clean shirt.

"I don't know, A. I had to wrap myself in many blankets to stay warm, last night. It was freezing. I don't think you'd have been that lucky."

"Well, maybe I was."

K groaned in frustration. "Alternative, your lying to me. Why won't you just tell me what happened to your shoulder?"

"Because there's nothing to tell."

K clenched her fists. "It looks too clean cut to be a tree wound." She pointed out.

While A's head was in the drawer, his eyes widened. 'Why did she have to notice that?' He thought, closing his eyes out of annoyance.

"It's a knife wound! A, what have you gotten yourself into?"

A lifted himself out of his cupboard and glared at her. "Will you just leave me the fuck alone?" He yelled. K was cut off on all words. She stared in silence at him for a moment, before gritting her teeth.

"Well, A! I'm sorry I care about you and your well being!"

"You don't need to worry about me. I'm fine and can take care of myself." He sighed.

"If you can take care of yourself, then why do you have a gash on your shoulder? Why won't you tell me?"

A sighed again pulling on his shirt, covering up the wound on his shoulder. He walked towards her and grabbed her shoulders, looking her dead in the eyes. "Nothing bad happened last night, Kay. Everything was fine. You don't need to worry about anything, ok?"

"If nothing bad happened, then why won't you tell me what happened to your shoulder? I've known you since we were seven and eight. We've never kept anything from each other, why start now?"

'She just won't leave... She keeps asking me so many questions about what happened last night! Why doesn't she just get the message that I don't want her to know? I just... want her safe from Backup!' He thought. "You say we haven't kept anything from each other? Kay, don't lie. We have kept things from each other before. Don't give me that 'don't start now' shit. Don't think I haven't noticed the way you look at me when you think I don't know you are."

K felt her cheeks heat up. "I haven't been looking at you." Her voice shook as she spoke from nervousness. A rolled his eyes.

"Well, whatever it is. Don't think that I haven't noticed."

K clenched her fists and turned around to leave. A groaned and closed the door behind her. "Bye." He said to the wooden panels sarcastically.

-.-.-

"There's two spare seats, today. Alternative and Kay are away." The teacher pointed to two spare seats in between Backup and Xanthus. "You can sit in either one, I'm not expecting Kay to come back, but I know A may show up. He is top of the orphanage, after all. Well, besides Lost one." The teacher smiled dotingly. "Anyway, you can sit in either spot."

Hood looked at Backup. He was very uninviting. He was frowning, with his eyes narrowed. His hands were clasped on the table and his knuckles were white from pressure. He was wearing a long sleeved black shirt with a black and grey striped hoody.

She turned her head to Xanthus. She was quietly talking to the boy next to her. Xanthus had white blonde hair that was left out and wavy. Her side bangs were plaited and clipped away from her face. On the bridge of her nose sat a pair of rectangular glasses. She was wearing a chocolate brown jacket which was opened halfway, revealing a thick, plain, white, long sleeved shirt underneath.

Hood chose the most sane person to sit next to. Xanthus. She wasn't expecting her to greet her, she was quite absorbed in the conversation she was having with the dark haired boy next to her.

"Hello there. You must be Hood. The new one, right?"

Hood was taken by surprise- she actually looked away from who she assumed was Zero to say something to her when only the day before it seemed he was the only thing in the world.

"Uh- yes. I am Hood." She still did not like that new name of hers. She didn't like the way it sat on her tongue the way it did.

"Awesome. I remember my first day here." She reminisced, suddenly lost in the past. "... Anyway, that's over now. It's your turn." She flicked some of her blonde hair off her shoulder. "How are you liking it here?" She asked.

This girl seemed rather chatty. Hood was not used to having a conversation this quickly, even if she had barely had a chance to speak.

"It's alright..." Hood trailed off, turning her head to Backup. She felt a chill run down her spine after doing so as he was staring right at her. His expression was blank- yet it was kind of creepy.

She wanted to say she felt confronted about how Backup treated her just because she sat on 'his' swing. She wanted to tell someone about how an eerie chill ran down her spine when she saw his ashen face. Hood sensed danger as she felt a knot of nervousness tie in her stomach.

"Don't pay attention to him." Xanthus grabbed the bottom of her jaw and turned her head back to her. She noted the annoyance that was already planted on her face. "He's not worth even being scared of." She smirked. Hood dangerously narrowed her eyes. 'I'm not scared.' She hissed in her mind. Xanthus turned to the boy beside her. "This is Zero. Zero, Hood, Hood, Zero." She introduced.

They both made a half assed wave to each other.

"Zero and I have been friends since my first day." She told her. "He's not as talkative as I am, he's more of a listener." Zero made a sleazy grin. Xanthus rolled her eyes. "And he's just a little perverted." She demonstrated 'little' with her thumb and forefinger, squeezing the air between the two appendages.

"Xanthus! Third warning today! Be quiet!" The teacher growled.

Xanthus humorously mimicked the teacher, pulling a face at her when she turned around. Hood smirked, suppressing a giggle unlike Zero who was supposedly quiet. He laughed out loud, earning a glare at all three from the teacher.

"ZERO!" She yelled. "Quieten yourself!" After she had yelled this, there was a knock at the door. She grumbled quietly to herself and went to answer it.

"Kay? Where is A?" She asked. A few peoples attention was perked up at the news. It was unlike A to skip class. Usually if he did, Kay did it with him. Nobody could see the brunette outside of the door as the teachers rather large ass was in the way.

"He's... Sick."

"Is he coming back to class anytime soon?" The teacher demanded.

"I don't know." Kay snapped out of annoyance. The teacher groaned and moved out of the way to let her in. Kay walked inside the class room and raised a brow as she saw that Hood was sitting in her seat. The only other seat in the room was next to Backup but she wasn't about to risk her life just for a seat.

"Miss, where can I sit? Hood is sitting where I normally do." She groaned.

"There's a seat next to Backup. It's quite obvious isn't it? It's right at the front of the room."

Kay grumbled. She really didn't trust Backup. Whenever she was near him, she also felt a knot of worry grow in her stomach. She walked behind the rows and pulled up the chair besides the teen. Backup's ruby eyes were fixed on her. The girl couldn't help but shudder. She hesitantly sat. She turned her head back to Backup. He must of had some sort of staring problem because he was still looking at her with glassy red eyes.

"That's A's seat." He said, keeping his voice low and monotonous. Underneath the table, Kay's hands were gripping the edges of the chair beneath her.

"I know. He's not here today." She knew A and B had somewhat of an understanding, but she never knew how A could last being around him without breaking a cold sweat. There was something definitely different about this teen.

"Is he afraid to get another knife wound?" He teased.

'What? It was BACKUP who did that?... Why doesn't it surprise me?' "Excuse me?" She hissed.

"I said, you. Are. Sitting. In. A's. Seat."

Kay narrowed her eyes. "Backup. I meant what you said afterwards. Don't mess with me." She threatened, trying hard to ignore her warning signals inside her body telling her to shut up and turn around.

Backup snickered but didn't answer her. Kay edged her seat as far as possible from him, right until the point where she was almost leaning on Hood's shoulder.

Hood said nothing as Kay was pressing to her side and breathing down her neck. Hood, the blonde girl, grimaced at how uncomfortable this felt.

Kay was contemplating whether to ask Hood to swap seats or demand it. It's not that she didn't give a shit about who she was rude to, but she did not know Hood from the grey in her eyes to the brown of her boots. If anything, Hood could have been even scarier than Backup was!

Backup seemed to have lost interest in scaring K as she was too easy a target. She definitely was afraid of him and was not ashamed to show it. He leaned back on his chair and rested his hands behind his head. 'I wonder if Hood is easy to scare?' He thought.

-.-.-

It was getting dark. Classes had finished an hour ago and Hood (being sneaky) was sitting on 'Backup's' swing. The other orphans had already descended back into their dorm rooms as soon as the light began to fade out of the sky.

The air was cool and was nipping at her skin. The ropes attached to the plank of wood used as a seat swayed back and forth from the wind. All was silent.

Hood sometimes liked to be by herself. The silence was bliss. She remained outdoors for what seemed like hours. Eventually, and unwillingly, she decided to go back to her room. She only hoped spiders would not crawl out of nowhere onto her body.

Before she lifted herself away from the swing, she heard a noise. Her ears perked up to listen.

Somebody was humming something. The voice was definitely male as it was deep and it echoed in the cool wind.

"Hmmm.. Hmm.. Hm."

The girl did not recognise the tune. She racked her brain to think of anything that may have had some similarities but there was none.

"Hmm... Hmm..."

She felt a small chill run up her spine; the voice sounded eerie and breathy. She knew that was the time to leave, so she descended from her seat and power walked towards the great doors of the Wammy orphanage. As quick as she was walking, she could still hear the creepy humming. She wasn't sure at the time if it was just her imagination playing tricks on her or if it really was somebody outside. Maybe it could have been the wind?

The girl had a constant chill run down her spine as she was walking. She could feel something drilling into her back, creating deep holes. The humming was embedding in her brain and it was all she could think about.

"Haylee!" It was a quick and almost silent whisper, but it was enough for the girl to stop walking. Shaking, she turned around.

The wind had stopped yet the swing was slowly rocking back and forth. Nothing had seemed to stir. The blonde shook her head and turned back around. "Just my imagination." She whispered vehemently.

She walked back quickly, not even hearing the slightest of noises. She tried to convince herself that her mind was just playing tricks on her. She turned back around again for one last inspection. Trying to convince herself had not worked. Absolutely nothing seemed out of place. Her stomach felt like it was twisting in knots and she felt her heart beat rapidly against her chest. She briskly turned around again and chortled a scream as somebody had grabbed her.

"Hood?" It was a worried, yet monotonous voice. She broke away from the hands holding her shoulders. Breathing heavily, the girl studied the person before her.

Messy black hair, terrible posture and dark rims around his eyes. The girl couldn't see the colour of his orbs on account of how dark it was in the area. She gave herself a minute to relax.

"L-Lost one?" She asked, concentrating on keeping her voice steady.

Lost one put a finger to his lip. "Yes?" He asked. He was holding something in his hands. The smooth, coolness of it was rubbing on her forearm.

Hood sighed. "Don't worry."

She watched as L lifted the object in his hands to view. The moonlight reflected off the surface, but made it light enough to make out what it was. A jar. A jar of what?

"What are you doing out here?" He asked, unscrewing the lid with slow, careful motions. He ran his finger around the rim of the jar and licked off whatever was on his finger.

"Nothing. I'm just thinkning." She answered him, mumbling the last part.

L raised the jar and tilted it so the contents slid in his mouth. The girl grimaced at his eating habits. "Thinking? About what?" He wondered.

'None of your business.' She thought, not answering the older teen before her.

"Very well. Its best you get back into your dorm." He said, barely giving her a chance to return a reply while turning and walking towards the doors of the orphanage, leaving the girl by herself. She hurried to catch up with him but it had been too late. He'd already gone.

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Wooo! Chapter 5 bitches :D Yeah, sorry for the late update... I had a bit of a rough week :/

ANYWAY! Besides deppressingness (yeah I know that ain't a word) How about something positive? Hmm? I think a review sounds nice :D