Scissors (part 1)

1.13 - Scissors

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After asking for help from Emil and making a deal with Peach, I began marching towards the bathroom on my own.

The bathroom on the floor for the first years is located at the other side of the hallway from the stairs. It was right next to class D, which was my class. And it was on the opposite side from class A, which was Nico and Alica's class.

Alica should have walked past my class if she wanted to reach the bathroom. And yet, I didn't even see her walk past the class.

And now, she should be in there. Waiting for me in the bathroom. And certainly, I know what is waiting for me isn't just Alica.

This is a trap.

And yet, I'm walking towards it so firmly.

I arrived in front of the bathroom. Before entering, I noticed three girls grouping up not far from the bathroom's door, in front of my class's window. The three kept an eye on me as I was getting closer to the door, and I knew immediately that those three were going to be guarding the door.

They don't seem scary at all. Now, to face the real problem.

I stepped forward, and placed my hand on the bathroom door handle. I opened the door to the bathroom, and I noticed that it was surprisingly quite empty.

There was nobody in the stalls. However, there are two girls waiting for me in the mirror. The two quickly turned to me, and I knew immediately what this trap really was after seeing them.

They had ropes on them.

"Oh? You're brave enough to come here alone."

One of the girls said upon my entrance, and I noticed that the person I'm looking for is not here.

"Where's Alica?"

"Oh? So you know who she was. I was about to brand her name into your brain if only you still didn't know her name."

As she was saying that, the other girl took out items from the plastic bag she brought with her. There's bandages, a first aid kit, and a pair of big scissors. She placed them on top of the wash stand next to the tap.

I saw a glimpse of them and turned my cold glare back to the leader, and all of a sudden, things got rowdy outside.

The bathroom door was opened, and five girls rushed inside. They quickly grabbed both my arms and held my body in a tight position, and held my head so that I'm facing the leader properly.

I simply let them do what they want. After all, they haven't harmed me so far. Not yet, at least.

I can only act when they do something to hurt me. Simply holding my body like this shouldn't be counted as attacking, so I need to hold back.

The girl in front of me began walking closer. She stared at my face very closely, and she giggled as soon as she got close.

"What the hell? You're not even pretty at all."

She openly said to me, and I simply stayed silent.

"What's wrong? Was it too scary for you?"

"I'm just wondering when I can get out of here. Any chance you girls let me go?"

I joked a little to the girls holding me, but none of the five seemed to be caring. I turned my eyes back to the girl in front of me and noticed her smiling widely.

"Wow! You have a tough mentality! As expected of the girl Nick favors so much. But, that's all there is to it between you two, isn't it? Like, there's no romantic feelings or anything, right?"

The leader said while walking towards the wash stand, and she picked an item up. From the looks of it, the harassment will start very-very soon.

She picked up the scissors, and she played it as she glared at me with a smile.

"Answer wrongly, and you might just see some red~."

She threatened, and certainly it was scary seeing her act like that. Anyone, if they were in my position, would be losing their mind and cry pools of tears while begging to be released.

But the past few days have been incredibly insane to me. The most popular boy came up to me and told me he is interested in my ability. We hunted down ghosts together, to the point where he got badly wounded and nearly lost our lives. And we didn't do that once, because we did it again two days after that.

And after experiencing the battle with the smoke demon two days ago, I realized a certain fact.

I may have… multiple other talents within me.

She doesn't scare me even a little bit.

The leader walked closer to me, and she toys with the long scissors as she gets closer. Beforelong, she finally arrived very close to my body.

She placed the scissors on my tie, and she cut the tie completely. I simply stayed still since this is still not counted as physical harm, and everyone could only watch as the cut tie fell to the bathroom floor.

"Hmm. How disappointing. I thought you'd beg for more than that."

She said, and I giggled a little.

Oh, oops. I ruined the mood.

I mean, for god's sake. My tie?? Really!? That's the best you can do!?

I swear you can just cut my clothes open and rip it all off. Or you can cut my hair and make me bald. Or you can do even worse and stab that blade deep into my throat. Anything, really!!

But, my tie!? Seriously???

Hearing me giggle, the girls holding me suddenly tightened their grabs. It felt quite suffocating around my stomach area, where a girl is literally hugging my waist.

From the way they are holding, they are really not letting me breathe even a little bit. It's as if they are expecting me to retaliate greatly as if I was being physically tortured.

And yet, the only thing I've experienced so far was getting my tie cut.

"This is so embarrassing."

I said so openly, which pissed off the girl. She lifted the hand that is holding the scissors, and she threw them towards my face.

FLICK!!!!

Auch… that hurts.

The scissors she threw bounced from my forehead and landed on the ground. But, not before causing a long graze on the top right side of my forehead.

Blood dropped little by little from the opened wound, slowly covering up the right side of my face. It felt like some amount of blood entered my right eye, but I can't really swipe them away. So, I was forced to just blink and let the blood be part of my tears.

This truly hurts. It hurts so much.

However… it's relieving.

Because now, I have all the rights to make a move.

"You are so fucking annoying, you know that!? To think a girl like you is someone Nick really cared for--"

"Was that really what all this was about? Honestly, it was very disappointing."

I cut her off, and this time I'm facing her seriously.

I turned my cold glare to her, all while having the right side of my face almost fully covered in blood. She looked shocked seeing how serious I was being, and so did the girl behind her who brought the scissors.

"Where is Alica? She's the one who called me here, wasn't she? Why isn't she here?"

I asked her coldly, and she giggled a little upon hearing that name.

"Well, looks like you didn't even notice it. If Alica isn't here, then… I wonder where she could be…?"

The girl said while turning her eyes at the door, and I didn't even bother turning my head in that direction. I can't even do that, since the girl holding my head would just push my head back forward.

So, I focused my ears and listened closely in that direction. She was right, there was a massive commotion going on outside. And I wondered deeply as to how that commotion has any relation with Alica.

… Unless…

"She… Nico?"

I said my guess out loud, and the girl laughed loudly.

"Correct! You do have a little bit of brain in you, after all! The taunt you gave Alica this morning, she took it to heart, you know? 'Men will always go for girls that are popular and widely known'. You said that to her, didn't you?

Now, what would have happened if Alica finally made it into Nick's eyes?"

Ah… I see what is happening now.

This entire bathroom fiasco, there can only be one meaning of this. The commotion going on outside was the true goal that Alica has been wanting to do since this morning.

She concocted this multi-layered plan within just two hours, ever since we first met this morning. She even successfully executed them despite the short amount of time for preparation.

The words I said to her, she took it deeply. Men will always find the popular and most liked ladies, and she understood that meaning literally. To put herself into Nico's crosshairs, that was her main goal. Putting me on a leash and not allowing me to ruin that plan was only the second layer of the plan.

Her true aim… was to confess.

There is no other way she can be more popular than making it be done in front of everyone, especially all of the first years.

And to put the cherry on top of the cake, she kept me in here so I wouldn't ruin it.

This is… so ridiculous. Normally, I'd just let a confession like that slide.

But, after the trash talk from this morning… a certain feeling suddenly grew inside of me.

My desire for owning. To keep Nico for myself.

And a deep-deep desire… of not wanting to lose.

In the end, I had to do this, huh?

In front of me, Alica's right hand girl seemed to be getting bored by my silence. She found my surprised expression funny at first, but I was still silent even after five seconds, hence she got bored quickly.

"This is getting boring. Bucket, please?"

Behind her, the other girl who brought the scissors on a plastic bag suddenly came out from a bathroom stall with a small blue plastic bucket. I noticed immediately that the bucket is filled with water.

The girls behind me suddenly pushed my body down, and I was forced to kneel on the ground while still being held by three girls. I only followed along since I had no other choice, and I was already kneeling within ten seconds.

The girl who carried the bucket handed it to the leader, and the leader dropped that bucket filled with water on my head very slowly. Gradually, my body was wet from top to bottom, and I simply let it all happen.