JJBA: Twin Gemini

Tree of Pentacles, part 3

The time was nigh.. Nyoko had to make a move, but due to social anxiety, she just couldn't do it. She gritted her teeth and was thinking, then their 5 min break started after a few hours of astrology. " i'll be back for 15 min..if that's alright." her teacher looked up at her from his desk. '' for?...Miss Tachibana?" " lady stuff-" she stuttered out loud softly, he understood and let her go out after she closed the door she tapped her feet in a certain number of clicks as a sign for Toto, they both learned coding at a young age, mostly Nyoko on the Enigma machine grandma Jules kept from her trip with her friend Joseph, Jotaro's grandfather. Oh how Nyoko adored coding, not to mention Mr. Joestar. When he gave her a signed picture from Paul McCartney AND John Lennon, it felt like they would sing to her when she was sad. That's what Joseph would tell her when she was young, she doesn't remember much of him, just that grandma Jules visited him a lot till he moved back to New York.Toto understood the code she was making out and coughed as Nyoko walked out to the art room near the nurse's office. She looked around, perfect! She knew her sensei would take her student outside for a silk project and inks, now was to find finished canvases or of course, Kakyoin's bag with the painting.

the door swung open in a slow fashion into the empty room, its echos painted the walls and the statues the 2nd years were making. There were some drying racks so Nyoko checked to see if the painting would be there.

1st rack; just a brainless person with no sense of creativity. "Seriously..who the hell decided to put you in that class." 2nd rack; none.." okay..getting absolutely nowhere." she bit her middle fingernail as the 4th and 7th rack were empty, then she took a look at 4th period's class. She took to see the work, somewhere of bad "reality self-portraits." which the nose didn't look like a normal human nose, that made Nyoko cringe at the sight, shift up again to find some works from her sister..they were of Jotaro, looking calm or drawing something complicated. " she actually took my drawing tips.." This made her smile warmly, even though those two had a love-hate relationship; Toto and Jojo were friends as children. Toto was the chaos, Jojo, the voice of reason, and Nyoko..what was she to Jojo? Something but a mute fish? Maybe a wall. She never had the chance to ask him.

Then there it was! A peek of grey painting and familiar sight. Before Kakyoin left, she could partially see the sides of it and had used some of her photographic memory to remember the smell. It was fresh damp paint. The touch made her flinch, half of her fingertips turned a slightly light grey blue and she yanked the painting out, making some slightly louder noises. It was what made her freak out. "His..his ankle..but how did that-'' she soon heard footsteps and decided to quickly, yet quietly, move from the first door and to the other on the right. Ducking as best as she could, she decided to crawl. Bruising on her legs kissed the skin as she would hit a hard spot on the floor. she stopped as she heard clacking. the person walking stopped. It slowly crept, its shoes trudging quickly, and then stopped by her door. Nyoko curled into a small ball like a pill bug, in an effort to keep the person at bay, it worked. The person walked away as suspected.

A heaving sigh came out and Nyoko crawled back up and onto her feet, running toward the nurses' office till she felt a weird aura. She had no time for this, there was a restroom across the hall so she hid in the bathroom. She was breathing shallowly and hard, Nyoko heard a chuckle and a lock. She was now trapped. Sprinting to the large door, Nyoko tried at the handle desperately trying to get out. She jiggled it heavily and banged on the door hard enough to where her palms were red.

" LEMME OUT!!" she kept yelling and squealing. The wind-like feeling was near her. She could feel something..something was starting to crawl towards up her leg...keeping it pinned, and the other on her arm held tight as suddenly Nyoko felt like she was being ripped apart inside as she started to shriek. she opened her mouth and tried to scream, only no sound came out. It looked as if her mouth was forced open and was frozen to stay like that. Soft strokes were made onto her arm. She needed help. She couldn't communicate. 'Crap! What exactly is going on?! I-i don't wanna die!' she looked around with her vibration-like gaze, frightened, meek, she couldn't withstand the pain that was starting to take her into a dark place. Then it came to her. THE PHONE! It was clinked halfway open as the keychain fell off when she dropped it, thank god for phone cases. Nyoko couldn't move to this form that was pinning her. The phone she could only touch with her fingertips, Groaning and grunting to spare free of this unlikely invisible form holding her close. Then gagging increased. This feeling made her sick. The pounding in her abdomen started up and down and up and down till she shook her head and sobbed as Nyoko begged for it to stop inside of her thought. An improvisation set in her mind, she placed her feet against the door she pushed herself off like if it were inside the edge of a pool, slowly, but surely, the tentacle-like feeling removed out of her, causing a sheered painful gasp as she got the phone and texted half the word and accidentally sent it the phone knocked on the ground and her mouth forced an open gap and a hot liquidize feeling down her throat as the feeling was shoved back into her causing her to scream as hard as she could. 'Someone spare me.. someone....'

Toto took a small break out in the hall as their break time in Science class was being taken, she took out her flip phone and checked the time, her foot tapped ruthlessly and she stroked her hair. She flipped it back into her pocket as she heard gossiping about what the rush was or anything in the school to be "proclaimed" a rumor. She decided to overhear. "So you are sure Tachibana-chan did that? That sounds awful!" one girl with afro-like hair said. " Of course! Bloody 'n all! The 'Knock Hard Girls' is not joking around when it comes to that. I heard that one girl, Kaori conked that one girl, Sakshi? Yea. had to get plastic surgery for her date." Toto scoffed and was thinking in her head about Nyoko. She never would let her do something risky, that was HER job. Toto would do anything for her just to make sure she was ok. It made her think of that one time where Nyoko wanted to draw a frog but couldn't and wanted to see the real deal. So they both snuck into the pond in their primary year and Toto snatched a bullfrog while getting her uniform wet and stinky. She got in trouble a lot. Just for her sister's sake.

" so.. 'K.H.G' is just like a gang right? It makes no sense as to- oh..uh.. Tachibana-"

"What. don't Tachibana me unless it's important."

The boy gulped. "Whelll uhmm.. Is it true you played baby as you got stuck to a tree the other day?" he tried not to giggle as the girls behind him did a tad and nervously.

"You calling me a class clown? I would say 'that isn't very nice' but I'm not in the mood."

"O-oh well it sure was a great joke!"

"Idiot! Blood was on her hands! She killed someone or something."

" haha! Kill?! Really? You are full of shit!! You'd think I'd kill!!" her tone grew lower

"Just like Kujo. you knew what happened to that pro boxer and those other three. You probably got it from him. Besides your nothing but-"

" But what."

" b-buh-"

"Spit it out. cmon. I'm waiiiting~"

"Well, you- you just can't compete with him. Besides he's much better, sex appeal and skills. And plus he is just..not a cry baby like you Toshika. He actually has feelings, unlike your pointless frame."

" Besides, you are just a big meanie who doesn't have a boy." the girl stuck her tongue out while pulling her eyelid down with her middle finger. " MEaaanie!~''Soon they started to walk off and yammered about Jotaro. Toto had had enough.

"Ah yess!! I love gawking at him behind the vendors!"

" I know, right? So mysterious in many ways! I could seriously sleep on his abs for days on end!~"

The two girls giggled as the boy; one of their boyfriends who was the one who first noticed Toto laughed nervously. In a white flash, the girl was slammed to the locker, causing a jump scare to the girl as she didn't notice Toto's silent steps. " Sex appeal and skills?! You've pushed my buttons this time. What men are t'ya?" she grabbed the girl's collar of her uniform and tightened her blue scarf in rage. "You know he doesn't like gawkers like you, visibly cheating on your boyfriend and even he would kn-" the girl next to her with the afro punched Toto's arm and she grunted as she let the girl down, gasping for air."