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Chapter 022: The Story Of His Past (1)
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Black's POV
"This is nerve-wracking!" Scarlet exclaimed as she paced back and forth. "I'm sure he'll be here soon." I replied to hopefully calm her down. "Maybe he just got caught up in something."Today's the day of Scarlet's competition. To support her, I was supposed to just stay in the audience and watch, but she sent me a message telling me to go to their dressing room. It turns out, Crimson was running late, and beacause of it, Scarlet's panicking. It was really quite a sight to see her like this. We both sent him a message, but he wasn't replying. We don't know where he could be, so we can't even try to look for him. "Um, if Crimson doesn't come, I can wear the clothes instead." I suggested. "No!" Scarlet exclaimed. "I don't want you to wear something I made for somebody else. You should wear something that I made for you. I don't want to just give you something just because the peRelated chapters
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Black's POV"Do you feel better?" I asked as Crimson came back."Yeah, thanks." He replied."Here." I handed him a cup of hot chocolate and sat down. "You're gonna sleep here, alright?""What? I never agreed to that.""Aunt Autumn said it's too late to go home, and I agree with her. I don't want you getting into another fight.""I told you, I'm fine.""And I believe you, but I'd rather you stay here for tonight."He sighed, then glared at me. "You really gotta mind your own business sometimes."'Here. Eat up." I said as I pushed him the box of pastries."That was your aunt, right?" He asked as he took one and started eating."Yeah.""And it's just you two here?""Yeah. I live with her after all.""Right..."The atmosphere quickly turned awkward
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Black's POV"I'll ask you again." Crimson said as he pinned the light-colored boy on the wall. "What the hell are you doing here?"The boy glared at Crimson, then pushed him back and threw a punch. "I wouldn't have gone to this dump if you didn't run away!"Crimson immediately retaliated with a punch of his own. "I never asked you to find me!"And the fight just went on. I wanted to try and stop it, but there was no way I could do it on my own. If I let myself get caught in that crossfire, I can guarantee that I'll just end up being beaten up. I could probably do something else that doesn't involve me getting their way, but what?I took a deep breath and accepted that there was no peaceful way to stop this, so I braced myself and stepped in the middle. "Stop it!" I exclaimed as I shielded Crimson from a punch."Y-You idiot!" Crimson shouted as he checked on me. "Are you okay?? Does it hurt?"
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Black's POVI could hear a knock on my door as I just finished fixing my bed. "Black, breakfast is ready downstairs." My aunt said. "I'll be back tonight.""Take care, Aunt Autumn." I replied.Autumn Vera, or Aunt Autumn as I call her, is my aunt that took me in after both my mom and dad passed away. She's a very kind person that agreed to take care of me despite not even talking properly with her before.Right now, our relationship isn't so bad. We've been becoming closer, but it's still a bit hard for me to fully open up to her. Don't get me wrong. I'm very grateful to her, but after years of closing myself off from everyone, it's not easy to open up again.I finished getting ready for school, so I went down to have breakfast. As usual, Aunt Autumn made one of her odd flavoured pancakes. It was purple this time, which was a lot better than the green pancakes she made last time. It tasted like ube, w
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Black's POV"Wow." White said as he stared at the school's entrance, which had extravagant decorations. "This is a school festival, right?""I guess so." I replied.I don't know what White sees, but everything that I could see was just monochrome. I'm sure these decorations make people feel festive or something, but I guess that's gonna be impossible for me.'Should we go inside?" White asked."Ah, yeah. Where do we give the tickets though?""I think over there." He pointed to a small booth right past the gate.We gave our tickets, then they stamped the back of our hands with something. I guess it was some kind of permit for the festival. I texted Al to ask where he was, but he wasn't responding.I looked at White and saw him looking around. "Do you wanna walk around?" I asked."What about your friend?""He hasn't replied yet
