Beautiful Rat: Harry Styles x Beastars (15+)

The Lone Rat

What does he want from me? Why didn't he just kill me then and there? Did he just want to scare me?  What a monster.  "I've always wanted to eat a rat?" how arrogant and heartless can someone be. I pick myself up from the floor and try not to think about the incident or about him for the rest of the day. 

I went about my normal routine: ate at the cafeteria alone, sat through my classes, and promptly returned to my dorm room. But I stayed vigilant. At every corner I turned around, every hallway I passed through, I made sure he was not around. There  have been too many cases of predators eating prey at Cherryton recently and I certainly was not going to be the next victim...reduced to a name that is carelessly scribbled onto the newspaper: the talk of the school for a week only to be forgotten by all by the next. I don't know what Harry wanted from threatening me like that, nor if he really meant any of it. If he was actually planning to kill me he could just do it at night behind the gymnasium with no word of warning. Maybe he's just dumb...arrogant...vain. 

Besides, if I had friends to talk about this incident, this could ruin his reputation as popular knight-on-a-white-horse honor student and ally of all students. I don't see how everyone could fall for that act. Knight in shining armor? As if. Behind all the gallant speeches at assembly and smiles to the herbivore students is just a mindless and wild wolf. I don't buy it. An aggressive, arrogant wolf who makes it his hobby to threaten the school's loner prey when no one's watching. Hey...that isn't a half-bad idea...I could lure him in...and watch everyone finally realize what he truly is. Harry Styles, you made a mistake trying to scare me. 

Well, that settles it. I'll deal with him tomorrow.  I pull out my chemistry textbook from my backpack and sprawl out all my notebooks on my desk. I look back at the pages we covered in class today, a few ahead, and fill half a page with notes. I like chemistry. By its very nature it's predictable, orderly. Atoms bond together so naturally, obviously. Together, they form large molecules from which emerges beauty and complexity unimaginable from its individual components. Unity. Order. Harmony. Of course, the animal world is not so simple. I am alone. 

Once I finish studying for the night, I switch off my light, change my clothes, and crawl into bed. But when I look out my window I see a shadowy figure out in the courtyard. Big, furry, menacing. When I squint my eyes, I see that it's Harry. What is he doing out here? The wolves' dorm should be on the other side of campus. He looks up. We lock eyes.