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It was extremely rare for the Ignihyde housewarden to appear on social media as herself. Many assumed she had some anonymous handles, accounts where nothing tied back to her in any way.
Which was why it was a surprise for one of her posts to show up on the school’s Magicam feed one random Monday.
@Shrouded.Mess
‘Wanna be kissed by a pretty girl so bad rn :( #wlwproblems #wouldlikeagf‘
Accompanied by a picture of glowing blue hair and yellow eyes peaking out from behind a pillow.
The comments were filled with a variety of ‘mood’ and ‘same’ or even. rare ‘lol can’t relate’, all relatively simple comments.
Most interesting of all however was a comment from one Kalim Asim’s personal account.
Kali.Kali: I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!!! 🤚 CHOOSE ME PLS!!!
No one thought much of the comment, just Kalim messing around as always.
Several Scarabia freshmen noted in a few groupchats that not long after that comment was made public, their housewarden had mysteriously vanished from the dorm. According to several eyewitnesses, the girl hadn’t returned until the early morning all giggly and happy. Still no one thought much of it.
Kalim’s usual pale yellow cardigan disappeared Tuesday, replaced with a light grey one.
Idia showed up to class on Wednesday with a familiar gold bracelet around her wrist.
On Thursday someone pointed out matching charms on their phones.
Friday they were spotted leaving campus together, hand in hand. Now that got people buzzing.
Scarabia students explained what they could, Ignihyde students searched and took screenshots as fast as they could to piece out together a timeline.
With no new posts from either girls accounts, there was no concrete proof of anything aside from that one comment on that singular post, the start of everything.
The next Monday Idia showed up to class with her hoodie entirely zipped up and in PE class, some reported bruises on her neck and shoulders.
Tuesday Kalim winced whenever her back leaned against something. those in her PE class reported red lines down her back. Conveniently Idia had a new set of blue and gold acrylics with slightly pointed tips.
On Wednesday Idia didn’t attend classes in person, Kalim however seemed to be sporting a mysterious bandage on her neck that she subconsciously touched throughout the day with a fond smile.
It was at a housewarden meeting on Thursday of all days that answered all the questions about the two girls.
Azul blinked. Then again, trying to understand the scene in front of him.
Idia, sat across Kalim’s lap, a familiar cream cardigan over her shoulders while she tapped something on her tablet. The Al-Asim heir had her arms around the other girl’s waist to hold her in place while they quietly talked, nodding in agreement and occasionally giggling.
Not a single soul said anything, as if scared to disturb the scene in front of them. How could they when they looked so… peaceful.
Crowley apparently did not share said fear.
“Now then! Let us begin!” he announced with a clap of his hands.
The two girls startled slightly before turning their attention to the Headmage. Neither of them made any move to separate, simply picking up one set of papers on the table in front of them to read together.
“Ah Shroud… Asim, could you two please…” he waved in their direction. Nothing happened.
Yuuko snorted.
“Old bird if they wanna get cozy then let ‘em,” the Ramshackle Housewarden said “doesn’t affect any of us now does it?”
The headmage sputtered slightly, rambling some nonsense about being ‘proper’ and ‘setting a good example’ (a hilarious statement considering most of the room had overblotted and he had let one of them live in a dorm definitely not fit for living). That earned him an eye roll.
“Being proper didn’t matter when you shoved me and a sixteen year old into a falling apart dorm so can it,” Yuuko cut him off “Let’s actually get some things done for once.”
She looked to the lovebirds, nodding in assurance before picking up the papers and starting to flick through them.
“These budgets won’t sort themselves out you lot.”
And with that, the matter was settled and the meeting truly began.
The cries of lost bests and cheers of victors flooded the halls for the entire weekend as everyone caught onto the news.
By the next Monday Idia and Kalim were spotted eating lunch together in the hallway, laughing at something on the latter girls phone while mindlessly feeding each other.
All because of one post on a random Monday evening.