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~3 months before Anon transferred to Volcano High on some anime chatting website~
[StegoStar 6:55am] Só come on you gotta tell me! What did you think of that episode? Isn’t Yu-Gi-Oh the best??
[Y-nonymous 6:56am] Eh I’ll admit I’ve never been into Yu-Gi-Oh that much like I’ve always understood it but just never cared THAT much yknow? But I’d admit ever since you got me to watch Gx I’ve found myself going outta my way to watch. Usually I’d just shit on it but admittedly that stuff with Jaden during that Yubel fight was pretty cool. I dig his red jacket tho greens more my color.
[StegoStar 6:56am] Oh my god I know right? It was so cool! I also thought the stuff with Yubel was super sweet! That Kinda devotion for some like that is super cute. I love it! It shows how much Yubel really cared for him!
[Y-nonymous 6:58am] I honestly didn’t care that much for all that
[StegoStar 6:58am] What do you mean! That sorta love is like amazing. Wouldn't you like it if someone kept caring for you that long?
[Y-nonymous 6:59am] I mean I guess?? Contrary to your beliefs about me I’ll admit something that I’ve never told to anyone Irl
[StegoStar 7:01am] Whoa! Really?
[Y-nonymous 7:02am] So I know usually when I make posts and such I’m usually bragging about how I’ve had a girlfriend but in actuality I don’t have one. In fact never had
The text pop up in the bottom of the chat would appear over and over as StegoStar typed up a response. The little pop up would appear and disappear a few times over and over till eventually a message was finally sent through
[StegoStar 7:05am] WHATTTT!!! You?? You’re like so cool! I mean you and I could practically hold a conversation for hours! We’ve talked for actual hours, full nights and all!
[Y-nonymous 7:05am] I know but Irl most people don’t really like me at my school. I have some friends I hang out with and such but like they don’t really watch anime and yknow most are when it comes to the subject altogether. You're practically the only person I can weeb out with about this sorta stuff. Most at my school barely like me as is I can’t imagine what would happen if girls found out I liked anime enough to pose myself with Wifus edits I made in the bathroom mirror
[StegoStar 7:06am] You still gotta show me those yknow I wanna see!!
[Y-nonymous 7:06am] HA in your dreams Star. There’s no way I’d do that I’m already embarrassed about them enough as is and I’d rather not have you making fun of me for em either
[StegoStar 7:06am] I’d never! Besides I know what you're going through so don’t worry. I don’t exactly have many friends I could speak with about anime either. There’s this one girl I do talk with but she’s never been all too interested in anime so I try and keep the topic to a minimum with her but she’s cool and cooks amazing food though!
[Y-nonymous 7:08am] Lucky you. To bad we don’t know each other in real life I’d rather hang out with you then go to this school at least with you we could have more anime talk then I could finally brag about a girl liking me
[StegoStar 7:08am] Lol If only. I’d totally hang out with you! And well we already talk a ton on here so I don’t see why we wouldn’t get along irl
[Y-nonymous 7:08am] Exactly! Now that would be some luck wouldn’t it? Crap I gotta go now the bus has arrived but speak to you after school.
[StegoStar 7:09am] Okie dokie I should be going to. My friend’s coming to pick me up to drive me to school but speak to ya when I can Nony!
[StegoStar 2:30pm] Hiya Nony! Finally out of my classes and stuff! Wanna talk anime? I could stream another one for us to watch?
[Y-nonymous 2:56pm] I’m done with that crap I’m done with anything anime it’s only caused me to get bullied and fall for people who I thought were my fuckin friends
[StegoStar 2:56pm] What happened??
[Y-nonymous 2:57pm] My so called FRIENDS shared those dumb edited photos I made of myself and my wifus and those fucks shared it around the whole damn school I’m the fuckin laughing stock of the whole school. Even my fucking dad is disappointed but thats no surprise there
[StegoStar 2:57pm] Oh I’m sorry that happened to you but that’s no reason to quit anime as a whole because some jerks wanna make fun of you. You can get past it Nony I know you can! I get bullied everyday even at this school I barely have one friend I can actually talk about this stuff to other than you.
[Y-nonymous 2:58pm] That’s the difference YOU have someone you can actually express this crap to. I did or at least thought I fuckin did!
[StegoStar 2:58pm] If I was there I’d give those jerks a piece of my mind for picking on you! I wouldn’t let anyone bully you just for some show you enjoy watching.
[Y-nonymous 2:59pm] I love the way I know you’ll do anything…But I’m done Star… I did enjoy talking to you a ton tho so I can at least say I enjoyed being friends
[StegoStar 2:59pm] Why are you saying it like you're leaving silly?
[Y-nonymous 2:59pm] Because I am I’m leaving the form Star. I’m also gonna try and see if I can move schools in some way and get out of this shitty town
[StegoStar 3:00pm] But you don’t have to leave the form to do that!!!
[Y-nonymous 3:00pm] I do I told you I’m leaving this crap behind I don’t want any chance someone connects me to this account
[StegoStar 3:00pm] But what about us???
[Y-nonymous 3:01pm] Well I guess this is where we say goodbye
[StegoStar 3:01pm] BUT THATS NOT FAIR NONY! YOU CAN’T JUST LEAVE ME LIKE THIS SO SUDDENLY!? I GET THINGS ARE BAD BUT WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER!?
[Y-nonymous 3:01pm] Sorry Star I gotta do this..
[StegoStar 3:02pm] But….BUt Nony I love you! I’ve never loved anyone else, I talk to you daily! I don’t know how I’d be able to get through my days without talking to you!
[Y-nonymous 3:02pm] HA Nice Sakura from naruto reference where she did that in the snow. Thanks for one last reference for the road. Stay cool Star you were the best.
[StegoStar 3:02pm] But I’m not lying I mea-
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~The Present~
~Stella~
I was happily walking on my way through the hallway before noticing Anon and Fang walking by “Oh Hey Anon, fang!” I said happily while waving at the two of them as they walked in my direction. “How are you two?” I said with a smile as the two just shrugged.
“Eh fine I guess?” Fang says while stretching out her arms and wings “Meh had a pretty decent class time thanks to some dweeb next” She says with a small smirk towards Anon who just blushes lightly while looking away and rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly “i-I mean all I did was help you out with science its no big deal heh”
It was as clear as day that Fang was teasing him. It only happened recently since they’ve been hanging out so frequently since he arrived but Fang and Anon have grown closer a lot closer at least more than she has with anyone else. In fact it wouldn’t be too odd to say Anon’s attracted a few different eyes onto himself from some of the other girls, those girls being Trish ‘though I’m not sure if it’s because she likes or him something else’ and Noami which is surprising for her considering she’s already with Naser. Don’t get me wrong Anon seems like a cool guy and honestly I’m pretty sure he’s a huge anime fan in disguise but I don’t see him that sorta way as he doesn’t really talk to me all that much outside of chance meetings which is a shame. “Oh well that's great I’m glad class went well for the two of you, Were you both heading to the Auditorium?”
“Yeah Trish and Reed are waiting for us there, You?” Anon asks
“I’m heading off to the Gardening club, me and Rosa wanna go over a new layout for some new flower buds we had gotten, specifically chrysanthemums” Anon and Fang look at each other before raising their eyebrows “Chrysanthemums?” They both ask. “What’s so special about those?”
“Hehe, I'm so glad you asked!” I say taking out my phone to pull up a photo of the white flower. “See in some places these flowers can mean “Eternity”. Me and Rosa plan to use them to make Ikebana” The two just look even more confused “It means “the way of flowers”. In short it’s just a fancy way to say flower arrangement or rather japanese Flower arrangement. You gather flowers that have different meanings and put them together and it’ll sorta give off the feeling you want to convey. It’s like painting almost, It's super fun to try and do. But yeah me and Rosa were gonna make a big one for everyone to see during the upcoming gardening club showcase” I say with a ton of excitement
The two just nod and Anon gives a thumbs up “Cool I guess. Never been into flower or gardening as you kno-” I cut him off before he could finish while leaning forward and sorta in his face “What do you mean that first time you two got detention over the weekend you actually did really great Anon!. Rosa was even impressed, remember? You should totally join us y'know!"
Anon leans back with a small blush while shaking his hands dismissively. “No way flowers and stuff are your thing and well gaming is my thing. So I’m gonna have to say no…again” I lean back and cross my arms and pout “Mh! I’ll get you to join and help out one of these days!” I jokingly said. “Lemme at least do a tarot card reading? You always keep finding some excuse to dodge it!” Anon glances over to Fang who just shrugs and nods to which Anon rolls his eyes before agreeing. “Fine fine”
Wasting no time I quickly reach into my back pocket to pull out my trusty tarot card set before shuffling them and holding them out to him. “Now then have some kinda question in mind and then simply pick whatever card speaks to you personally” I said looking up at him with a smile as i could feel my tail wagging behind me.
I watch as Anon thinks for a second before reaching his hand out towards the cards “Welp here goes nothing..” My overly happy expression is soon replaced by a surprised, confused and shocked expression as I hear Anon mumble ‘ ..For the Heart of the cards..’ It’s not the first time I’ve heard those words before, after all it’s quite a popular phrase within the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom but there was only one person I ever knew to say that when doing a tarot card reading.
‘But there's no way it could be Him…I’m most likely just over thinking it as a whole…It’s a super popular phrase from a super popular anime…There’s no way Anon is…is my Nony..’ I think to myself while practically staring off into space only to be shaken from my thoughts by Anon.
“Hellooooo?? Stella whats this card mean?” He says holding up the ‘Upright Wheel of fortune’. Moving my eyesight down to view the card I’d grab it. “...Oh right..Um you pulled the Upright Wheel of fortune which…” I look up from the card at him and then back down at the card. “Which means some form of change, a cycle of some kind or…or some kind of Inevitable fate...” I looked up at Anon one more time before shaking my head “Right! Well I’m off to Gardening club! See you both later!” I say walking past them now
“Oh well…crap does that mean I’m fated to cycle that damn boss fight?” I heard Anon say before Fang laughs “Pfffttt dumbass did you use a tarot card reading to see if you’d pass a boss fight?”
Once I’ve turned the corner I break out into a sprint quickly making my way to the club room before shutting the door behind me and clearing off a table before starting to reshuffle my deck “No..no..There’s no way..You can’t be him not after so l-long….no way I’m so..s-so” I then spread the cards out on the table on one motion before closing my eyes and taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly. Opening my eyes to the now reshuffled and spread out cards I slowly reach my hand out to hover over reach of them.
“Is…Could Anon…How plausible is it that Anon and Nony are the same person?” I asked before closing my eyes and reaching out to grab a card before holding it in front of me after flipping it over. Opening my eyes I find that I’ve grabbed none other than the Upright Tower “Um disaster..? No it can’t be that.” I focus on the card a bit longer before it finally comes to me “Sudden upheaval..” I then place the card to the side before reshuffling and taking another deep breath
“How plausible is it that Anon and Nony are the same person?” I ask out loud again before grabbing another card and opening my eyes to see the Upright Star. “Hope..faith?” I muttered before placing it to the side with the one before it only to reshuffle again and do the same process over. Opening my eyes I’m now holding the Upright Magician "Desire?”
I could feel my heart begin to beat out of my chest now and not wanting myself to get lost in the feeling of it all I slap my cheeks with both my hands before before putting the Tower, Star and Magician back into the deck before shuffling them all together once more and spreading them out in one swift practiced motion.
Closing my eyes and taking one last large deep breath I then quickly reach down and pick out three cards before opening my eyes to view them only to find I’ve grabbed the Upright Tower, Star and Magician. “N-no way..” I’d say before noticing an extra corner behind The Star. Sliding it and the hidden card behind it in the opposite directions so I could view the mystery card I’d find that it’s none other than The LOVERS….
“The Magician; Desire…The Star; Faith…The Tower; Sudden upheaval… and T-the LOVERS; Union…Those along with Anon’s Wheel of Fortune; Inevitable Fate…” I placed all five cards onto the table in front of me while looking over them as I felt my heart beating faster and faster now “F-fate..Faith...Desire…Union…Upheaval…” I repeat those words a few times only before suddenly popping up from my seat and slamming both hands down onto the table.
“I-I GET IT!!” I blurted out loudly before my hands went to hold my head “I-its fate…Anon…Anon IS Nony!....My Nony!” I could tears begin to well up in my eyes “H-he’s finally come back…w-we found each other again…” I say to myself as I feel a few tears start to roll down my cheeks before I wipe them away with a small happy chuckle. “I can’t believe it..Nony’s really her-” My sentence is cut short when a sudden realization comes to mind.
“H-how am I supposed to make Anon realize it’s me when he’s too busy getting gawked at by Fang and the others….” I quietly said to myself before slumping back into my chair and glancing around the room before noticing some flowers that were ready to plant. “A flower arrangement! I’ll make him a flower arrangement to show him how I feel and how I’ve never forgotten about him. It's great!” I say quickly bouncing from sad to happy and quickly moving off to get started on my arrangement.
~3 Days later~
I’ve spent the last couple of days making sure I’ve created the perfect flower arrangement to convey my feelings that I’ve always had for Anon. It took a lot of work and a lotta running around after school to different flower shops along with some from my own garden. The Arrangement was made up of Pink Camillas which represented My longing to reunite, My Chrysanthemums for Eternity and a Gardenia for our Secret love that would blossom.
I was filled with absolute joy and thanks to my tarot cards I just knew me and Anon were always meant to be together. With a happy pep in my step I make my way off to Anon’s class to wait for him outside the door. A few students glance my way as they file out the classroom and soon enough Anon is the next one out. “Hey Anon!” He looks up from his phone and over to me before walking over. “Hey Stella, what's up?”
Feeling myself already beginning to blush I’d glance down before brushing some hair out my face. “I was wondering if you could um come with me..I wanna show you something I made I think you’ll like it” Anon raises an eyebrow in slight confusion before speaking up.
“Oh uh ok? I suppose I could check it out before I have to meet Fang” I nodded before grabbing his hand and then quickly leading him off and towards the gardening club and behind the shed where I've set up a flower pot with the arrangement. Letting go of his hand I wait before looking up at him excitedly “Uhh…Stella what's this?” He says pointing at my arrangement
“It’s a flower arrangement silly” I said with a small giggle at his rather silly question. “No I get that but like explain I don’t get why I’m looking at it alone with you.” Taking a few steps forward towards the arrangement while holding my hands behind my back clasped together. I take a deep breath while looking over my hand crafted masterpiece before turning and leaning forward slightly “I-I um..” My nerves would begin to act up now causing me to start blushing and I find my hands now in front of me fiddling with one another before I get an idea and pressed my two index fingers together and lightly poking them together as I look up at him only to break eye contact and look over to the left.
“W-well I um…you see…Nony..I made these for you..to show you my love for you..” I say feeling a smile grow onto my snoot before glancing back over to him only to see a surprised shocked expression like he’d seen a ghost. “H-h-How do you know that name…” He says as his phone slips out his hand and falls onto the floor.
“How? W-well that's easy silly…It’s…It’s because I’m Star!” I’d say before rushing forward and hugging him. “i-I what?? How??” He stammered out while I hugged him “I didn’t believe it at first either! But 3 days ago when I did your tarot card reading? You did something only you and I would know. You said ‘For the heart of the cards’ when pulling for a tarot card reading. No one says that outside of dueling or like gambling and you always said that when I did your readings over text!” I say with a happy giggle before looking up at him while still hugging him before reluctantly letting go and stepping back.
“L-last time we talked you didn’t believe me but..But I did and still do Love you Nony. I don’t care if you're an anime loving nerd or a big obsessive gamer. Our daily talks made my day more than you could ever know. And the day you left..it only seemed like life got worse….But i never imagined that you of all people would move to My school and that We would be friends!” I say with another happy giggle. “I meant what I said y'know?" I added
He looked from the flower arrangement and up to me “I– wha?” He says even more confused. “Naww don’t act like you don’t remember silly. I’m talking about when I said I loved you before…before you left me forever….I meant every word I wasn’t just saying that because I didn’t want you to leave me. I do and still love you. I wanna…I want to go out with you, play games with you…To geek out about anime WITH you together! A-and I promise I wont let anyone ever hurt you like those so-called friends did before.” I say clasping my hands while looking up at him.
Anon meanwhile is still standing there with a look of complete disgust awestruck! “L-look Star- er Stella…I told you I-I left all that behind…I left YOU behind…I’m not into flowers and at best I barely let people I talk to be aware that I’m into Anime as it is. I can’t risk having someone bring up my shitty past to hold it over me…g-get rid of those or something..don’t let anyone know you made them for me…and don’t ever call me Nony again. Let's just pretend this never happened alright? I um need to go meet up with Fang anyway” Anon says while looking around before awkwardly giving me a thumbs up before picking up his phone slowly backing up before quickly jogging off away from the gardening club’s shed and promptly leaving me to stand there alone as his words slowly repeated in my head.
“L-left..me behind..?” I say out loud to myself as my gaze slowly moves down to the floor only for my body to follow next as I fall down onto my knees “...H-he didn’t like it..w-why?...Did I mess up somehow..? Maybe I didn’t use the right flowers..?” I said out loud to myself
“It’s because you're weird” A voice would say, causing me to look up only to see none other than Trish standing there. ‘I– What..? Why would you s-say that..?” I asked, looking up at her and noticing she was holding a rock while tossing it up and catching it. “Because it’s true. Your weird Stella.” She says with a shrug “I get liking a cartoon when you're younger and crap but you gotta grow up. Of course guys are gonna get turned off when your whole damn personality is just based on cringy shit.” She says tossing the rock up higher before catching it.
“Your first mistake was saying you liked that good for nothing loser of all people. I’ll give him credit though..at least he wants to grow up” She says before catching the rock once more and throwing it at my flower pot which then breaks and falls apart spilling the perfectly arranged flowers along with the water in the pot all onto the floor.
“One good thing you did manage to do though is finally give me some dirt on Anon to finally make Fang realize that falling for that loser would be the worst mistake of our life so Thanks Stella” She says with a little wave before taking out her own phone and walking off leaving me alone once more to stare at my now broken flower arrangement that's spilled all over the floor along with shards of the pot itself.
The rest of the day goes by in a blur. All that repeats in my head are the words Anon said to me and then the words Trish said and all I can think about is did I do something wrong…Did I mess up somehow..? Now finding myself at home laying on my bed feeling empty and just within eyesight are my tarot cards sitting on my night stand. Reaching out to them I grab the first four from my deck before looking them over only to find that my fate hasn’t changed apparently…
Focusing more on the changes I randomly pulled I realized they were the same exact cards as from 3 days prior. “W-wait my fate hasn’t changed..?” I sit up only to bump my arm into the night stand causing a card to fall over. Reaching down to pick it and look at it I find it’s none other than the Upright Judgment and the first word when viewing this card that comes to mind…”Awakening..?” Not being able to understand what awakening could possibly mean I glanced between it and the others I kept pulling. Getting angry I threw them all away from me which only scattered them all over my floor but I didn’t care….I just buried my head in my pillow for the time being I wanted nothing to do with those cards at all.
Eventually the next day would come and today an assembly was scheduled during our last period before lunch break. I was walking next to Rosa as we made our way into the auditorium along with every other student. Still feeling empty I glance around the room only to notice none other than Anon all the way in the front with Fang, Reed and Trish with the latter looking more annoyed that he managed to find them.
After the last of the other classes take their seats Naomi takes to the stage to go over the usual to go over whatever practiced speech she had prepped and to be honest after the events of yesterday I haven’t felt the need to pay attention much instead just resting my head against my fist with a sigh. I even opted to close my eyes, deciding I'd rather sleep through this.
After about 30 minutes everyone erupts into laughter which causes me to quickly open my eyes to find out what all the noise was about only for my eyes to widen when I see what’s on screen. Being shown from the projector and up on stage would be pictures of Anon but not just any pictures THOSE pictures the one that made him decide to leave his old self behind…to leave me behind.
Quickly popping up and looking down towards where Anon was sitting I’d find him with him holding his own head down out of embarrassment, Fang trying to console him, Reed doing his best to try and turn off the projector, Naomi up on stage shocked and Trish…She was laughing even pointing at Anon herself. With Fang’s help Anon and her quickly leave after Reed manages to unplug the entire projector itself.
I quickly made my way out of the other Exits and the two some walking towards me “A-anon! I um..I like your wifus’..they were good choices!” I said doing my best to put on a happy smile and try to help console him. “Even s-she’s just making fun of you” He mumbles before Fang quickly ushers him away and the two head out of the school through the front doors. Before I could speak up “I-I was only tryna h-help…” I quietly said to myself while my hand was stretched out towards the door only for it to slowly fall to my side.
Behind me I hear a door get shoved open loudly and Trish comes walking out with Reed behind her shaking his head white looking disappointed “C’mon what the hell Reed you gotta admit it was funny! I was just playing a little joke, who knew he was gonna be a big baby about things! It was harmless fun!” She tries to plead to Reed who continues to look disappointed in her. “Trish j-just drop it man..I-’ll talk to you later or something..” He says before walking off to leave her “THE HELL MAN!!” She yells out as he heads off down a hallway leaving her to let out an angry huff before kicking a locker with a loud thud before turning around to leave herself only to be stopped by Spears.
I watch as she's taken away by Spears to his office no doubt…Whatever punishment he gives her is too good for her. She openly went to dig up something about Anon’s past to hurt him all just to make him look bad in front of Fang…I want to do something to give her a piece of my mind not just for myself and yesterday but also for Anon and all the crap he’s had to put up from her…But I can’t and couldn’t do anything even if I wanted to…
Frustrated, I reach into my pocket to go pull out my phone to try and message Anon only to pull out the judgment card once more…the only odd part being that I decided to leave my deck home so how did this card come with me? And even weirder, the picture on the card wasn’t its usual picture. It was Instead a picture of Trish laying with a grave stone above her head… “What the…” As I stare at the picture I’m reminded of how Anon left me behind…and how even here his so-called ‘Friend’ turned on him to make him once again go through a trauma he shouldn’t have to go through.
She even ruined something I worked so hard on for Anon like it was nothing…and a simple talking to or being yelled at or even expelled wasn’t enough of a punishment…I finally understood why I suddenly pulled this Judgment card and it was the world itself had enough of Trish and the FATE Itself was telling me to enact judgment upon her…it’s the only way for me and Nony to truly be together…After all it was only thanks to people like her for us being separated in the first place…
Seeing Rosa walking up to me I slip the card back into my pocket. “I can’t believe something so horrible like that would happen to Anon. Do you think he'll be ok?” She’d asked as the two of us began to walk off to grab our own stuff from our lockers “I’m not sure but I hope so I think he just needs a little time as for Trish she’s already getting in trouble for what she did.” I replied as we got to our shared destination.
While grabbing my stuff I glance back behind me to the wall on the other side of the hallway where Trish’s locker was located. I would focus in on the locker as if it would magically open only to have my staring match with the locker broken by Rosa “Want me to drive you home Stella?”
“Hmm? Oh no it’s alright for today I have some..things to do anyway so you can just head on home without me” I said with a smile to which Rosa nodded before heading off our the front doors towards the school’s parking lot.
~Trish~
I let out an annoyed sigh as I finally finished cleaning up any messes that were left on school grounds which was the first part of my punishment for what I did to that damned Skinnie. To make matters worse Fang hasn’t even responded to any of my texts I’ve sent them. I take out my phone and check only to find it hasn’t changed one bit. All the messages were still on ‘Not Read’.
“Ugh! This is so stupid and it’s all that damn Skinnie’s fault!” I angrily huffed out as I made it to my locker. I was only made to stay an entire hour later than everyone else so many of the other students are gone aside from maybe some student council or staff for whatever reason. Opening my locker I notice an odd loose paper place on top of my bag.
“Trish we need to talk..I’m coming back
After everyone’s already left school as
I’d rather not talk at home and
I’d rather we talk in person
Meet me at 6 in the auditorium”
-Fang
Seeing the note left by fang seemed to rebuild all that energy I had wasted while being made to clean up messes that weren’t my own. All I’ve wanted to do is talk to Fang but every damn time I wanted too Anon’s ass would get in the damn way and steal away all their attention from me! Maybe this time I can actually explain to Fang how I feel…And after I can rub it in his dumb bald face.
I let out a snicker to myself after closing my locker and then quickly making my way home in a job eager to try and pass the time for my meet-up with Fang. I end up having to spend the next few hours watching my siblings WHILE trying to do my homework and as usually they didn’t make the task any easier, only hard with them constantly doing something that either annoyed or hurt the other while mom was out of the house.
Having to explain the call she got from Spears was not easy at all. At most she was pissed at me for having to spend an extra hour at school and leaving my siblings alone when she had to head to work. But I could care less at the moment as I have bigger things to worry about. Glancing over to my phone and tapping the screen till it lights up I’m greeted with the time 5:39pm.
I close my workbook and pick it up along with my other school crap before carrying them off from the living room coffee table to my room and tossing them onto my bed. I grab my jacket before heading back to the living room. “Alright Guys I gotta go out to meet Fang but I’ll be back”
My siblings looked up at me from the game they were playing on TV to where I was standing in the doorway. “Where are you going? Y'know mom’s gonna be pissed if you leave before she gets back?” My little brother Riley says while crossing his arms. Rolling my eyes and letting out a huff I shake my head “I’m not gonna be gone that long chill just…Play the game some more or put on a movie or whatever I should be back long before then anyway..And don’t be a little snitch if mom does come back before me. Just tell her I went out on a jog or something” I say, stepping out the door and watching as my brother rolls his eyes “You owe me” He says with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
“Yeah yeah whatever” I said back before closing the door and rushing off towards school. It takes me only 20 minutes to get to school thanks to a little bit of excitement that puts an extra pep in my step. Getting there I find it mostly closed as expected with no cars in the parking lot either. Running towards the side of the school I notice Stella just barely out of sight but once I look back she’s gone. Not sure if she was actually there or not I just shrugged it off and continued off towards the school's side entrance.
Quickly picking the lock and slipping in I make my way down the hall off towards the auditorium with my anticipation growing more and more till I’m standing right outside the doors with my hand on the handle. I struggled to actually fully grasp the handle as I felt my nerves begin to act up as I tried to imagine what the two of us would talk about..along with trying to convince myself to actually tell Fang how I felt fully for once.
Taking a deep breath to try and calm myself a little I quickly opened the door and walked in “Hey Fang I’m here! I got your letter!” I said walking down the Isle till I got to the stage before looking back at all the empty seats “Fang??” I called out once more only to be replied to with silence. Taking out my phone I open up me and Fang’s chat before sending her a message
[Trish 6:16pm] Fang are you running late? I’m at the Auditorium like you asked so we could talk.
Stepping back and lifting myself onto the edge of the stage to sit back and wait while occasionally checking my phone and the time before laying back and sighing “Guess they’re running a bit late..” Taking a sec to think on what could be keeping them I suddenly sat up “CRAP..What if this is a Fang’s way of saying she’s mad at me by standing me up when they asked to talk??” I suddenly said out loud only to be startled by the lights suddenly being turned off on me.
“The Fuck??” I blurted out only to jump even more when the door opened only to suddenly close with a loud slam causing me to stand up and step back onto the stage further away from the edge “Who’s there!” I yelled out while turning on the flashlight on my phone. Shining it around to my right I don’t see anything before going to do the same with the left only to hold the light directly on Stella who was standing there looking surprised. All the fear I had before from being scared was quickly replaced with disappointment and confusion.
“Stella what are you doing here..?” I said with a bit of annoyance. As she looks up at me awkwardly and with a slight blush before waving with one hand. “H-heh hiiiii Trish..I was um here because I was doing some um prep for gardening club and well…” She pauses for a moment as if to think “Oh and I saw you so I um followed! Not sure why the lights went off though it only happened after you came in at least that's what I saw yeah heh.” She says with a smile.
“Stella, I can't begin to tell you how much I don’t care..go do whatever you were gonna do I’m fine” I say trying to shoo her away. If Fang comes in and sees me talking with her alone in the dark she could maybe get the wrong idea. “But I-I came in here to check on you. I got worried when I noticed you sneaking in!” She says taking the stairs on the left side of the stage up and stopping in front of me. “Plus I heard you sound well scared” She adds which causes me to blush out of embarrassment
“I did not sound scared!” I yelled in defense. “I was just startled. It was all nothing more, now what do you want, I'm fine!” I say with a huff. “Well I um..I wanted to talk to you about one thing while I found you if that's ok?” She asks I just roll my eyes and prompt her to go on my hand. “C-could you maybe apologize to Anon?” That prompts my attention being shifted back onto her rather than the darkness around the two of us.
“What..? And why would I do that?” I said looking confused
“Well because..Anon didn’t deserve that…I know you two aren’t exactly friends-”
“Because we’re not” I cut in before letting her finish. “Er…right well I know you two don’t get along well at all..But Anon’s not a bad guy yknow? He’s…well he’s like Fang almost? Kinda mean here and there but mostly a good gu-” I cut her off stepping forward and giving her a forceful not that strong of a push back that makes her fall back onto her butt. “DON’T COMPARE THAT FUCK TO FANG AT ALL!! THERE NOTHING ALIKE!!” I suddenly yelled at her.
“I’m not gonna apologize to that fuck, if anything he should apologize to me for showing up randomly and trying to steal Fang away from me! I don’t care if you like that idiot. I’m not apologizing to your Lame boyfrien- wait he’s not your boyfriend because even that loser rejected you so what's that make you? And even bigger loser now hurry up and get lost. I'm waiting for someone!” I yelled at her before pointing towards the door with my free hand as Stella just stands there looking shocked and like she may possibly cry.
I just stared down at her expression…I possibly might’ve snapped and mayyyybbbeee pushed her a little harder than I should’ve..she did come to check on me after all but still she could've just left me alone..I may as well help her up that way she doesn’t tell on me at least..regardless she shouldn’t have compared Fang to Anon of all people.
I sigh before stepping forward and going to reach my hand down to help her up with a sigh “Are you ok Stel-” I’m cut off by what feels like a paper cut on the palm of my hand along with a warm liquidly sensation which causes me to pull my hand and look at it in confusion even tilting my head to the left as I inspect my hand.
A sudden stinging pain is felt on the palm of my hand as I now notice a large cut as blood was drooling out of the long thin wound. “OW! FUCK!” I yell as I drop my phone which falls screen first onto the stage leaving the light shining up as I hold my hand. “The HELL Something just cut me did you see what it wa-” My own words were cut off as I looked down to see Stella still on the floor with her arm stretched out and in her hand a large knife like a kitchen knife and on it I noticed blood.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what happened when you add my sudden wound, the knife in Stella’s hand and the look on her face like she couldn’t believe what she had just done. “STELLA WHAT THE FUCK!?!?” I suddenly yelled out which caused her to flinch before she quickly scoots back and onto her feet while holding the knife in front of her pointing at me.
“STELLA THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING WITH A KNIFE!?” I yelled at her as I was beginning to get more than pissed off at her actually cutting me. “I-I said apologize t-to Anon..” She sheepishly said back “I told you I’m NOT fuckin apologizing! You say sorry for fucking cutting me you fuc-” I quickly shut up as she suddenly lunges forward towards me with the Knife causing me to quickly dodge to the right though she does manage to cut my hip some.
“THATS IT!” While she’s still going forward I turn and punch her in the face causing her to fall to the ground while dropping her knife. Before she can react I quickly kick her in the stomach causing her to slip off the stage and fall to the floor with a loud thud and yelp of pain. Grabbing my phone off the floor and grabbing the knife with my bloodied hand I hop off the stage in front of her. “Now I’m gonna fuckin kill you!” I yelled at her as she got up onto her knees.
She quickly reacts and knocks over the cart holding the projector causing me to move back while she gets up in a full sprint to which I react by chasing after her “Get back here!!” I chased Stella out the auditorium and through the halls before she stopped and turned to run up the stairs. “YOU BITCH GET BACK HERE!!” I yelled out as I chased her up to the second floor where I saw her quickly checking for any of the doors to be unlocked and right before I got to her she managed to get into the science room and close the door causing me to run into it.
“I’M GONNA BREAK DOWN THIS FUCKIN DOOR AND WHEN I DO!” I didn’t bother finishing as she knew exactly what would happen once I got to her. After a few tries I finally bust the door open causing her to jump and yell out. “The hell is this some shitty attempt at revenge? Wait don’t tell me that fuckin Skinnie put you up to it didn’t he? Told you he’d actually consider dating you if you ‘Got the job done’?” I said while walking closer.
“First I’m gonna fuckin deal with you then I’m telling everyone Anon put you up to this crap!” I said before quickly tackling her to the ground with me on top of her now. I hold her down with one hand before bringing my hand with the knife down towards her chest. She quickly goes to hold my wrist with her own hand so I simply added my other hand for mother strength to which she does the same.
~Stella~
Shit shit shit! This isn’t like those animes at all! I didn’t expect her to spot me so fast after I turned off the lights…A-and then I-I..I couldn’t even commit..I ended up going for just her hand! And now she’s pissed if I run away I’m screwed she’ll definitely tell someone and now she’s trying to kill me. Trish is way stronger than I am. There's no way I could hold her back while she’s on top of me like this. Gotta find something quick!
I quickly looked around the room before spotting the stack of Lab trays on the table next to us. I quickly try to use my longer tail to grab the table’s leg while also doing my best to try and hold off the knife in Trish’s hand. With her superior strength she pushes down and I can feel the sharp point of the Knife press against my shoulder threatening to push in further. With another hard tug I jerk the table knocking over the trays distracting her for a second as she glances over.
Once she did, I quickly pushed her arms up before grabbing a tray and smacking it against her head as hard as possible before pulling myself from under her and kicking her back in the stomach “Gah!” She yelps out and as she goes to recover I run to the other side of the room where the glass cases were. Hearing her get up behind me and coming up I open it up and grab out the first thing I could before throwing it at her face.
She’s too slow to react to the apparent sealed beaker as it collides with her arm and face before breaking and releasing wherever was inside onto her arm and bit of her face along with glass. Not even a second breaks out before Trish lets out a loud pained yell “GRAHHH!!! F-FUCKKKK!!!” She falls back before starting to writhe all about on the floor as I watch the contents of the liquid quickly burn through her jacket's arm and into her own along with bits of her face as the affected areas begin to discolor and blister up.
She crawls away as best she could before making it over to the emergency safety shower and leans up with her non-affected arm and pulls hard on the cord causing the water to quickly spray her off but that only makes her yell out loud again. “AHHH!! Y-YOUR FFFFFF-FFUCCKING C-CRAZY!!” She yells out before getting up and stumbling out the classroom falling against the door as she makes her way out.
Looking down I see she had dropped the knife and after picking it up I quickly make my way out the room and stop before I spot her heading towards the stares while taking her phone out of her pocket.
‘I can’t let her leave! I can’t let her get Anon in trouble! She deserves this! With her gone, Anon and I could be together!”
Are the only words that repeat in my head before I find myself charging up into a sprint towards her “YOUR IN THE WAY!!” I yelled out at her before suddenly shoving her as hard as I could, sending her flying out over the stairs. I watch as her phone gets thrown from her grasp into the air. The entire act of movement seemed like it was in slow motion as I watched her one decent arm reach out for anything and within the moment a small ‘Ping’ was heard from her phone.
She manages to make eye contact with me as her body starts to roll forward in the air. The look in her face was nothing but pure fear itself mixed in with confusion..her eyes had even welled up with tears. The look on her face quickly put my own emotions into over drive of pure confusion as the entire world lost sound till suddenly.
‘KTHUMP’
The loud sound of her body suddenly landing out the stairs quickly broke the silence and I watched as she began to tumble down the rest of the ringing out more sounds
‘BAM—CRASH—THUMP’
More sounds elicit from her as I hear a few hard ‘CRACK’s and ‘POPS’ Before landing onto the ground floor with dull ‘Thud’ sending the staircase back into silence as I stare down at her laying there motionless with one of her arms bent the other direction and even bleeding from different spots on her body.
“...I–I..didn’t mean….T–..Trish..?” I sheepishly called out to her still laying at the bottom of the staircase. “I-I..I actually d-did it-...W-what am I g-gonna do..? I-I didn’t t-think this far a-ahead..” I look away from her only to find myself snapping back to her laying there. “I-I just w-wanted to scare y-you!” I yelled down at to her before closing my eyes and holding my head Knife still in hand “W-why didn’t you just s-say sorry you bit–”
“MmMmnnn..” a quiet groan is heard from at the bottom of the steps causing me to quickly snap open my eyes at her “s-s-some…h–help..” She weakly groans out before starting to weakly drag herself forward “T-this wouldn’t h-have happened..If you just..if you just APOLOGISED!” I yelled out feeling myself suddenly grow angry as my own tears began to well up within my eyes threatening to fall down my face.
“H-help? YOU want help!? I begin to descend the staircase slowly “Y-you ever think that..that being a massive BITCH to everyone wouldn’t cause this!? All you do is treat everyone like SHIT!” I yelled out as she did her best to crawl forward. Looking ahead of her I spotted her destination…her now cracked phone that was still on.
“No one's gonna help you…No one even LIKES YOU!” I yelled out pointing the knife at her as I got closer “IT'S BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU!! THAT NONY LEFT ME SO F-FUCKING ALONE!!...I-if I get rid of you…M-my Nony’s life can get better…and then he– Then he and I.. could have a chance at FINALLY being together!” Trish manages to make it to her shakenly pressing on it weakly as it lights up but before she could do anymore I get her a rough kick to the stomach eliciting a loud ‘CRACK’ And a pained grasp before she coughs up blood.
I make sure she watches as I reach down to pick up her own phone. The device’s screen has blood smears on it from her trying to turn it on. Checking it I see the earlier ping was from none other than Fang. “From Fang ‘Running late for what? I didn’t say to meet up? Either way let’s meet up, we gotta talk about what you did to Anon Trish..’.” Looking down at the badly injured and barely conscious Trish who’s coughing and panting heavily I just shake my head.
“Yeahhhh..That note that you figured was from Fang? It was from me as far as she was concerned…She didn’t wanna see you at all after all you did shame the guy she likes..” I notice her eyes twitch at those last few words. “Don’t like that..?” I think for a moment before suddenly realising something which makes me start to laugh
“Pfffftttttt!!! D-dont tell me YOU liked HER???” I say now starting to laugh uncontrollably. I can’t explain why it’s so funny or what about it exactly was funny. All I could feel in that moment was that it WAS funny to me. “HAHAHA!! DID YOU THINK YOU’D BE ABLE TO CONFESS TO HER TONIGHT??? S-sorry for getting your h– HAHA hopes up!” I continued to laugh as I thought about it more and more which resulted in my laughter echoing within the halls around the two of us before her phone slips from my grasp and clacking loudly as it hits the ground.
I’d slowly stop laughing before crouching down to her “In your next try maybe don’t go bullying people…But I’ll let you in on a little secret…….You almost got ME back there. You almost stabbed me with my own kitchen knife..riiiiiiiggghhhttttt HERE!” I suddenly said while quickly shoving the knife into her shoulder causing her to let out a pained choke and coughing up blood. “G-agh..!”
“T-this is more fun then I expected..dunno what exactly happened but after all of that back and forth..I feel…well…good? Like I could do anything! This how you feel all the time when you put people down with all your constant toxicity?” I said while tilting my head and twisting the knife ever so slightly which causes her eyes to widen as she lets out a pained rugged huff before I roughly pull it out only to stare at the dark colored liquid coating the blade.
“Trish…” I say as my eyes slowly look down from the blade to her “Do everyone a favor and..die fully please…I gotta figure how to clean up this mess..” I watch as her pained expression slowly contorts into an almost mocking one as if she was still laughing at me even when SHE’s the one that's dying…And that look I hate it it’s the look ive gotten from so many others…Its a look I’m sure Anony has gotten from so many others that think there BETTER.
Without another thought I quickly bring the knife down onto her before doing it again…and again…and again repeating the motion over and over as her eyes widen over and over before she starts to stare up blankly at the ceiling and even then I don’t stop. “Q-quit looking at me like that!” I yelled out as I stabbed her lifeless body over and over before starting to grow tired…now left crouched over her body, My hair undone from its usual space buns due to our earlier struggle.
I could feel tears start to fall down my cheeks as I began to softly cry over her…a few minutes later I finally stand up before going to wife my face only to notice all the red all over my hands and not only my hands now my kneels the end of my shorts and some on my shirt leaving me to stare at her body that's now in a pool of her own blood.
“I-I gotta clean this mess…” I say staring down at her before I quickly head down to the janitor’s closets grabbing whatever I could find and filling the bucket. Once that's done I head back over to Trish before bending down to grab her and drag off somewhere. “H-hopully…Maybe….This proves m-me and him belong t-together..yeah I did..say I’d do anything for him..that I’d give these jerks a piece of my mind…a-and he said he loves the way I’d do anything heh~”