A New Chance At Life - Twisted Wonderland-

🥀The Rose-Red Tyrant🥀 (Chapter 5)

{Cafeteria}

The four walked into the cafeteria. It looked the same as before but this time it was packed with people.

"Woooo! Lunchtime at last!" Grim cheered.

Irene's eyes went big at seeing so much food. She had never seen so much food at once in her entire life. Since there wasn't a whole lot of food at her house. She didn't even know what half of these foods were. Most of them looked foreign to her.

"Look how fluffy those omelets are! Ooh, grilled chicken! And a bacon-and-egg tart!" Grim exclaimed while his mouth drooled.

"Shhh! Dude, inside voices! Where was this energy earlier today?" Ace tried shushing him.

Grim shoved a tray into Irene's arms and began tugging her to follow him. Which she did. He began putting a grilled chicken on the tray. Then an omelet and also a jelly-filled bread.

While Grim was putting food on the tray, Irene was busy trying to hold everything and then without paying any attention she bumped into someone which caused both her and him knocking their trays on the floor.

Before Irene could do anything she felt herself being lifted up by her collar of her shirt. She face went pale. She had tears in the corner of her eyes.

"So, you think it's funny to knock someone's food out from their hands, huh?" The grey haired buff looking dude said while being a lil butthead and getting into Irene's face. Like so close you can smell his morning breath like my man did not brush his teeth.

Grim flew up and got in between Irene's and the dudes face.
"Hey! Leave my Henchmen alone!"

Ace and Deuce got behind Irene and Deuce forced the dude to drop her. And immediately she ran behind Ace for protection.

Ace didn't mind though.

                      {After fighting}

"Yeah! That's what I thought!" Grim shouted as the two guys scurried off.

"Man, as two upperclassmen you would think they would be a lot less aggressive to underclassmen." Deuce said while helping Grim pick up the tray and clean up whatever mess was made.

As they were doing that Ace was trying to calm Irene down.

"Geez Rena, you act like you've traumatized by this." Ace patted her head seemingly to calm her down which for Irene she wasn't exactly use to this comforting movement but...it worked.

"Ugh, finally! Now let's go find a place to sit so I can feel my belly with food." Grim acted like he hadn't eaten in weeks.

The four find an empty table, Ace and Deuce sat in front of Irene and Grim. Grim began to eat his jelly-filled bread.

"So, we've seen your dorm but now I'm curious about the other dorm." Grim asked while he had food in his mouth.

Deuce was about to answer but then was interrupted by...

"I'm sure you are familiar with the Great Seven statues?" Cater said standing behind Irene. He was also accompanied by a guy with green hair and glasses.
"Night Raven College has a dorm themed after each one."

"Bwah!! You're that guy from this morning!" Ace shouted.

"You tricked us into paintin' those dumb roses!" Grim crossed his arms.

"Tricked is such an ugly word. Do you think I wanted to spend MY morning painting roses? It's dorm policy. I was just following orders." Cater tried backing himself up.

Deuce sighed. "And grinning like a fiend all the while."

"Now, now, Deucey." Cater sat down next to Irene. "Outside of the dorm, I don't care what rules you follow. Here, I'm just a friendly mentor figure."

Deuce was taken back by the weird nickname. "Please. Do NOT call me Deucey."

"Ah ha ha. That's just how Cater shows he cares." The green haired said while sitting on the other side of Irene.

"And who are you?" Ace asked not really liking the fact that the two are sitting on both sides of Irene.

"Ah, I should introduce myself. The names Trey. Trey Clover. I'm a junior at Heartslybul, like Cater here." Trey looked over at Irene.

"And you must be Irene, the new youngest prefect from that dumb of a- ah, I mean, 'rustic' dorm." Trey smiled at her. "I heard the whole story from Cater. Thanks for looking out for boys yesterday."

"Ah, I didn't really do much, but you're welcome." Irene smiled.

"I don't recall inviting you to sit with us..." Ace pouted from being reminded of what happened the day before.

Cater interrupted, "Hey now, we're all from the same dorm, right? Well other than Rena. But let's all get along. Here, gimme your digits." Cater pulled out his phone from seemingly nowhere.

Irene felt a bit awkward...
"Oh...uh...I...kinda don't have a phone."

Cater gasped. "You don't have a phone?! Oh, you poor baby!" Cater wrapped his arms around Irene and pulled her into a hug as if comforting her for not having a phone. "But don't worry, Cay-cay knows a place that sells the latest models cheap. How about you and I go on a phone-shopping date?"

Irene was a bit shocked by the hug but then she just giggled at his actions.

"Cater, maybe you should tone it down a notch. You don't want to freak her out." Trey said trying to get Cater to let go of Irene.

Cater let go of Irene and put his hand on the back of his neck. "Whoops, ha! Sorry! I can get a little extra sometimes. What were we talking about... The dorms, yeah?"

Ace swallows some of his food. "Before we get into the other dorms, I wouldn't mind learning a bit more about ours."

"Like what's the deal with all the 'Queen of Hearts rule number whatever' junk?"

To be continued...

AHHHHHH!!!!!
Sorry for the lack of posting and stuff. Been busy with school, then also I've been procrastinating. BUT! Don't worry I ain't quitting. I'm just probs gonna post chapters whenever. Didn't I do this last time? Where I didn't post for a long period around Christmas? I think so but I think it was longer.

My account was kinda wonky back then lol. Anywho! Thank you to all who has been reading this fanfiction. I appreciate all of you. And honestly it's helping me stay motivated with this fanfiction and not just giving up like my others. Lol.

Anyways! Enough talking, Hope you home-slices have a good Christmas and New years! Oh mah gosh, 2024 is gonna be crazy 😏.

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