After All, I'm Your Secret Admirer~!!

Ch34 - Hey.

A/N

this chapter contains suicidal thoughts! please be safe!!

(btw, hbd cel! :P)

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Paige's head is hazy for the rest of the beginning of school. No matter what, he can't get his mind off of all the stuff that was plastered all over his locker. What did it say? Why was it so horrible? Why did the whole school seem to be in on a joke he wasn't?

When Paige leaves his fourth period class, he doesn't even think twice about it as he heads to his locker. His head is so full of whys that he just lets himself follow his natural route to the lunchroom, where he always passes by his locker.

It's not until he's at it proper does he notice something.

All of the notes that were taped to the locker earlier have been replaced by one single neat note. It says, "I cleaned up that atrocious mess for you." In a small circle under it is a smiley face. At the bottom, it's signed S.S..

Paige plucks the note off of his locker to see it's actually folded. He flips it over to read:

"P.S. If you have even the slightest inkling of who may have done this, please report them to the principal immediately."

Paige blinks.

"Always need someone to clean up after you, huh Paige?" Leaf snickers., causing Paige to frown again.

"Can you please be nice to me?" he pleads. "Things are kind of scary for me right now!"

Leaf blows a small raspberry. "I'm sorry, do you want somebody to hold your hand?"

"Ugh!" Paige stomps his foot and whines. "I don't know what your issue is, but I can't deal with it and everything else right now!"

"Whatever," Leaf says, rolling their eyes. "I'll go and die then, I guess."

"What?" Paige gasps.

...There's no response.

"Leaf?"

Nothing.

Paige sighs. Leaf just kind of talked like that, didn't they? He was sure they were okay.

Maybe.

Hopefully.

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"Paige," Sue says as the teen approaches the lunch table he shared with his friends. There's an urgent tone in their voice. "We know who committed the crime."

"Crime?" he asks, sitting down and looking around. "Also, where's Brandon?"

"He-he's at th-e Dean's," Bro answers.

"What!?" Paige gasps. "Why!?"

"He's reporting what happened to you." Sue lifts an eyebrow. "You know. The crime."

Paige squints. "...You mean the notes on my locker earlier?"

"Yeah," Bro nods. "It was... i-it was..." They shake their head. "I—I'm just glad you d-didn't see any of th-at."

"Could it really have been that bad?" Paige asks with a small laugh in his voice as he opens his milk box.

Sue and Bro stare very seriously at Paige.

"...I guess it could have," he frowns, taking a sip.

"Hey guys!" says a voice Paige is happy to hear. "Ya boy's back!"