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Engel's POV
Its been a few days since the death of your best friends...
Abbie...
Lana...
And Claire...
Abbie being basically eaten like he's actually an apple by Miss Circle, Lana being killed when she witnessed the whole thing, Claire being half eaten by Alice... those deaths are sickening to reimagine... too much to even think of it.
You can't seem to pull anything together anymore... you're having more of a short temper everyday because of this grieving. You wish that Zip and Edward never tricked Claire into getting into Alice's room, you wish that Oliver had continued after Claire and the teachers to atleast prevent her to go into Alice's room but he stopped at seeing Abbie and Lana's dead bodies.... well... you don't blame him for that, Abbie was his best friend...
Zip and Edward... they will pay... and somehow Alice... you'll find a way sooner or later.
Engel sits alone at his table in the Cafeteria, zoning out. He haven't had a good rest in the last few days and he hates it.
Edward and Zip were bullying another student again, Robby, they stole his lunch money and walked into the cafeteria with it, leaving Robby there... who just slumps down in defeat.
Engel glares at Edward and Zip as they passed by, understandably hates them for what they did and acting like nothing happened.
oh how he wants to punch them, cut them, hurt them, tear them apart into pieces until they're nothing but a bloody mess.
Unfortunately Zip notices Engel alone at his table. Walking over to him with that smug smirk on her face.
"Oh look who's here! still crying about your oh so poor friends?" She says as she puts an arm on his shoulder. Engel hated her use of sarcasm here, fucking.hate it.
"I don't need sympathy from YOU out of everyone here..." He swats Zip off.
Edward chimed in.
"Geez it's like you want to JOIN then at this point. if so, then feel free to visit Alice"
Riley finds Robby and goes over to help him up. there's indistinctive chatter
Yeah Engel wants to yell at them but he already have too many warnings from the teachers and seriously doesn't want another suspension.
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"What? cat got your tongue?" Zip says as she pitches Engel's cheek hard enough to bruise, speaking in a mock sympathic tone.
He swats her claw away instead harsher before unconsciously snapping back.
"Atleast I actually take these kind of stuff seriously unlike you dumb ducks! How can you two ever take yourselves seriously!?" Engel said as he pointed a finger at the both of them
"That's the point... We.Don't."
Zip spoke in a serious tone before laughing "Bye loser!" She hits Engel on the back before walking away, Edward following behind (pulling the middle finger at Engel as he goes)
Engel slumps back down, staring at the two walking away.
"Hey Engel! Sorry for being late!"
Bubble skips up to him with her tray of food before setting it down on the same lunch table Engel's at. She sits down and notices Engel didn't get any to eat.
"You're not going to eat again?"
"Not.Hungry." Engel spoke through his teeth, barely hiding the annoyance he has, Straight up lying.
"Uh... want a brownie?" She offers Engel her snack from her tray.
Bubble's face showed a half lidded "are you serious?" expression before getting an idea of-
"C'mon!! Take it!!" She shoves the brownie into his face.
"Ok, ok, fine." Engel takes the brownie, chuckling at her antics a bit. "Thanks..."
"C'mon that's what friends do" (・∀・)
Oliver watches by at the interaction before walking away again without a word.
Heh... atleast he has one more friend with him.
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"Why you not do anything?..." Riley asked as she picked up Robby, who's just grumbling under his breath quietly. It's easy to get him up since he's a short king and that, y'know, he's malnourished. He was never the best nor was ever the worst, just somebody else with only the infamous trait is the fact Riley keeps using him as a practice knife throwing and stabbing target (though she always missed her shot, even if Ruby isn't here sometimes to stop her)
"It's... nothing" Robby mumbled before pulling himself out of Riley's grasp but she grabs him arm again, fingers digging into his skin. She's just glaring at Robby with those annoying psycho-like wide eyes, if you told me she has three mugs of coffee beforehand then I would've believed you.
(The way Riley is talking is TWAG's headcannon and now you gotta guess what is a headcannon in future now because me will not always say)
"Ay how else I supposed to have a willing target person if they too weak to even fight back anything?" Riley laughs manically, back to her full in psycho self once again. Shaking Robby back and forward multiple times holding both of his shoulders... but he's already weak so, he starts losing consciousness.
"Riley stop...."
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"??... Ah shit- Ruby for sure gonna report me" Riley just now realizes that Robby is unconscious after she's done with her manical laughter, her smile dropping down a bit as her grip loosens. She looks around quickly for any signs of Ruby, Skell or Kevin CAUSE KEV IS A LITTLE SNITCH AND SECRET SABOTOR- before shaking her head and picking up Robby and running off, aiming to go to the nurse's office without anyone else noticing...
If she remembers correctly the nurse's office should just be near the principal's office... somewhere... She takes a left turn... then goes straight... then takes another left...
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"So do you think this outfit is good?- or this one? and oh- this one?" Petunia stammers as she shows Lizzy some pics of the new "wardrobe" on her phone... wardrobe... that's just how she likes to say she brought a dozen more dresses again. Her parents were always rich so she could have whatever, can even get herself out of bad grades which in turn gets her a step away from getting killed for an F. But she doesn't really care about that right now, she just cares about right now, in this cafeteria, on their table in the center of it, and the opinion of her best friend. She's excited for trying new clothes out, embarrassed for stammering and anticipating on what Lizzy thinks. The two aren't really planning to eat anything so they have the whole recess to talk.
"Hm...they do all look dazzling... You sure have picked a good selection" Lizzy says in a calm tone, fixing up her purple eyeshadow a bit as her free eye occasionally moves between the mirror which she's using to help apply the eye shadow and the phone. She's in her little poison era... she usually changes up her clothing style every month, last month was bluejay and the month before that was goth . but unlike Petunia she's more resourceful with what she has and can out on. Despite the changes she goes through every month, her personality remains the same calm and kind as she usually is.
"I know, right!? can't WAIT to try them ALL!" Petunia squeals in delight, the input from Lizzy is always the same(if it's good) but Petunia's response will always be the same. She scrolls down her phone to look at the clothes for the thousandth time.
"Although... it would be good if you settle down with how much you own..." Lizzy closes her eyeshadow palette and outs it back into her bag, her moves slow calm and deliberate.
"Oh come on you always say that all the time yet you never do anything to stop me!" Petunia said with a chuckle, not taking offense to what her best friend said even if she would've scratched her to death for even daring to say that if she wasn't.
"Hm... not the one to force such things... anyways, have you perhaps heard about the new gossip that was stirring up yesterday?..."
"Omg tell me about it!"
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During Classes (after Recess)
Engel barely payed any attention to the lessons, he just, can't. half the teachers didn't really notice his shift in mood, those half teachers are miss fat-arse Oreo lover, miss crazy wall crushing wendigo and miss short stack razor sniper (just butchering the names of the teachers)
He's zoning in and out of class before his head meets his arms and eyes closes. tiredness slowly taking over his conscience.
1 minute passes by,
5 minute passes by,
nothing.
"ENGEL. This is the fifth time you fell asleep this week!" (ugh shut up annoying bitch)
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Miss circle yelled out to Engel, hiding her compass onto the desk. He jolted awake from the sound.
"I uh-... yeah?" Still disoriented.
"If you didn't have good grades I would've just taken you down" She remarked before going back to teaching
Engek stared at her back, there's no fear in him exactly... just.hatred. If he was given an opportunity to kill her, or given an order to do so by the right person, he would've done it without a second wasted. he would feel no remorse for her. Heck, he'll kill Mister Compass with that too in an equally bad death too just to put in the knife to the grave... Maybe he could use Edward's acid or steal some from the laboratory of the advanced class... Maybe he'll keep punching her until she's nothing but blood... Maybe he'll do that while forcing Mister Compass to watch...
Whileee he was zoning out thinking of all the ways to kill her. Before a familiar voice calls out to him. it's Bubble who's calling out to him. he goes back into reality.
"Psst. hey Engel!"
Engel looks over to bubble and smiles at his friend
"Oh hey Bubble, what do you need?"
"Are those two still annoying you?" She's obviously mentioning about Zip and Edward, who else could it be that's annoying Engel
"Unfortunately." He whispered annoyingly, it doesn't help they are the favorite students and can just get away with literally anything.
"Oh- sorry I didn't come earli-" She suddenly stops talking, probably because Miss circle is right now giving them a death stare to be quiet.
Bubble goes back to taking notes in the lesson quickly. But Miss Circle was more staring at him, before going back to teaching, teaching teaching teaching... F u Abbie.
Engel let's out a sigh as it she turns and goes back to zoning out, not bothering to take notes from the murderer of his friends. How much more does he need to emphasize this to himself?
End of school, Engel was the first to zoom straight out. holding his bag with shitty ah grip, wanting to just run home and get out of that damnit hellscape--- he bumps into someone
"Ow-" engel stumble back and fall down on the pavement .
"omg I'm so sorry! are you ok??" The person said a little anxiously before offering him a hand to get up. she was a student of another nearby school.
"Eh i'm fine-" Engel notices the girl to a very familiar person... Bobcut, fluffy short hair, similar in style and looks... He thought it was Claire but he was wrong, it's just some random girl with a similar hair style. but to his disappointment it was just Clara from Shilwa School. an Ex friend of Claire who haven't been let known of her death as the evidence was already disposed and Claire was considered missing.
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"Hello?" Clara asks, getting unnerved by the long stare Engel's giving.
"Ah sorry- are you ok?"
"Yeah I am... bye I guess." She waves bye and walks away muttering under her breath like "weirdo" or something like that.
They wave bye and move on. Engel now moving slower, probably now a little embarrassed about bumping into someone in public because of his running earlier. Seriously why was he running like a maniac if he has no best friend to run to? and run into the toxic ah ex friend too
"Hey Engel?..." Engel heard another voice... great. ( ՞ਊ ՞ )
He turns around only to see a surprising surprise (wow creative wording), it was Oliver, His hair is tied up, skin's a little pale, you can clearly see the eye bags and the tired look on his face. The hair is a quite but messy and his pencil hand seems to be unsharpened and chewed up at the tip(kinda like people biting their nails when stressed). He looks like he has seen things with that tired stare...
"Oliver? what are yo-" Oliver gives Engel something before he could finish speaking. it's a hand puppet, with apple-themed colors with two bows looking like leaves. it has a little bit of Engel's friends, it seems to have made with a lot of dedication to seem this new.
"I'm... s-sorry for your loses... h-have... a nice day." Oliver stutters out, voice being very shaky and strained, his right right hand holding his other arm. seems like Engel's not the only one affected by the deaths of them... it's still nice having a little memorial of your friends.
Engel stared at the puppet for about a minute or so before looking up to thank Oliver but he is already walking away with his head down, stumbling and tripping a little with each step. How much sleep did this guy get to be this disoriented...
Oliver's POV
He slowly walked away in silence, dragging his body along with him with a few trips... he... has tried to report to Miss Grace about the deaths but who would believe him? who would ever? WHO.WILL.LISTEN.then in the midst of his spiralling he suddenly started losing focus and getting dizzy, a loud buzzing sound was getting louder while the words- THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE COMING THEY'RE-
BANG
Someone Oliver banged his head at the school gate bars to get himself out of whatever that was, his hand gripping one of the bars as blood slowly dripped from his forehead, it's painful but atleast it got him out of whatever that was... He stumbled a bit, leaning onto the bar for support as his legs threaten to give out, the bag has little to no books yet it feels like he's holding up rocks, right eye sight goes blurry since injury is above there, the blood poors down to his mouth that he wipes away with his already short sleeve shirt.
He knows he's been doing this to get out of panick attacks but this time. it felt like someone pushed him for him... despite no one else nearby. He starts hearing footsteps.
Miss Grace comes out of the school in response to hearing that, it must've been loud. She had a concerned yet annoyed expression on her face, looks like a student potentially killing themselves is not her biggest problem...
"Oliver, what are you doing?"
"Eh... sorry Miss Grace... just tripped..." An obvious lie, to him atleast. but convincing enough to be brushed aside...
"... just bandage yourself up and go home"
"Yes Miss..."
Oliver hurriedly walks past Miss Grace, his hand covering his wound. But that will never change that someone is watching him.
"Ugh kids these days..." Miss Grace scowls at Oliver before going back inside the school to prepare it for closing.
Back to Engel
Engel returns home in a slightly improved mood, mainly because of the gift and Bubble using her efforts to cheer him up. He puts his bag down and starts walking up the stairs...
"Good evening sweetheart, are you going to eat something today?" It's his mother calling out, speaking in a strict tone. Has been awfully worried when Engel started being more distant and less hungry.
"Hi, mom... not hungry today. Plus I can always have a snack-"
She interups Engel "I haven't seen you eat a proper meal for a while, come and eat."
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"Fine..."
"Good."
Engel goes back downstairs and into the dining room, there's a good pumpkin pie waiting :P He takes a plate of Slice and goes up stairs without a word.
"... Atleast that boy's eating something."
As soon Engel goes to his room he immediately goes to studying, while having a bite of the pie from time to time :P. he had to study more to make up completely zoning out in almost all the Classes, he has a language test tomorrow. He was getting real tired from just overburdening himself. Then decided to-
Stare outside, to clear his mind,
then at his window frame,
then at his books and homework,
then at a picture of his friends,
then at the clock, it's 11:34PM
then at the nightstand that has his prepared noose, it's been sitting there for a while now...
and then at the puppet Oliver gave him, maybe he can stay alive for a few more days for his friends in heaven, then he'll decide.
He goes to cry to sleep while hugging the puppet.
An unknown person is watching him, invisible, untouchable.
"Oh poor En,we'll meet soon... it's a shame that you don't know.. that..."
"WE WERE NEVER IN HEAVEN"
Bonk-
"What- Puppet! what was that for!?" The first person yelled out to the other, who seems to be taller than them
"I'm getting impatient, Parasite. And so is Captain. So when you'll drag him to the place?" The taller one replied, grumpy.
"I'm just about to, sheesh."
"Good, see you soon." The taller one leaves.