What happened...?||Twisted Wonderland

𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐃𝐀𝐘𓂂

They're not dead, right...?

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It was another day like many others in Heartslabyul, a normal Thursday where the boys did
their things. But it was a strange Thursday because there were no two boys to cheer this day up, but by now the classmates are used to not feeling that liveliness that characterized the dormitory since the beginning of the year. By now the boys did not care about the loss of two sixteen-year-old boys, after all life goes on, even if it is a cruel thing...

But Riddle didn't agree with this, and he never will. He hoped that the two boys would knock on his bedroom door and say, 'Sorry we ran away for two months! Please don't punish us!' But life is always cruel and indifferent to people's sadness...

Riddle looked at himself in the mirror in his room: he was paler than usual with big dark circles under his eyes, his makeup was smudged and his hair was messy...it seemed like he had just woken up from bed but it wasn't like that, he had just cried, letting all his frustrations turn into tears

Why, he wondered, why did the two of them have to disappear without a trace, if only he had cared more about them, if only he had paid more attention to them, if only...he had behaved like a true dormleader...would this have happened?

Riddle rubbed his eyes which threatened to bring tears to the surface again

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Riddle walked towards the door hoping that it really was his beloved two troublemakers, but when he opened it it was only his childhood friend

"Are you...ok?" Trey knew it was a stupid question with an answer already, he wasn't okay at all, no one was okay, in that room Riddle let out all his pain while on the outside he had a facade of "everything's okay", after all they need a strong dormleader, but he wasn't

"Trey...they're not dead, right...?" He said in a weak voice as if he was afraid that the harsh reality would fall on him like a bucket of cold water

"I...I don't know Riddle...but we know they are strong, they won't let you die like this" In reality, Trey wasn't even sure, but he hoped so with all his heart

After all, they disappeared two months ago, and two months are a lot. In fact, in those two months, many things happened...: in the first week after their disappearance, they didn't pay much attention, after all, they are used to disappearing but then they come back. Well, then more weeks passed and the people close to them became alarmed and went to tell their dormleaders, then when it seemed strange that they didn't come back, they decided to look for them all over the island (like Rook) and the dormleaders used their status to get other help (like Vil who, being a famous actor, reported their disappearance on social media asking that if they saw them, they contact him or Leona who used his status as a prince to send help). Meanwhile their parents were...furious and shocked: in fact Deuce's mother was holding Crowley by the collar asking for logical explanations, Ace's older brother called Jack was yelling at Riddle for not being able to keep an eye on his little brother, Epel's grandmother was being held back by Rook because she wanted to go out to all the kingdoms to go and look for her beloved grandson, Jack's younger brothers were crying and punching Leona's leg and Sebek's mother...his mother was strangling Lilia and Sebek's older brother was glaring at Malleus while his grandfather, Baul was silently thinking about how to eradicate the school

Instead there was no one to think about the disappearance of Yuu and Grim, after all Yuu's parents are in another world and Grim is simply an orphan, but this was not true because the ghosts thought about them, they were worried about their disappearance and in fact they were the first to go to Crowley to bother him so that he would report their disappearance

Trey looked at Riddle and hugged him knowing he needed someone now

"Ace...Deuce...we made a mistake but we understand our mistakes, please...now come back..."

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It was another day at school, everyone was listening to the lessons and doing their homework, everyone was talking to their friends and were happy

But Kalim knew that they were just being selfish and it turned his stomach knowing that they didn't care about the disappearance of 8 people

But he also knew that for some, specifically for the dormleaders and vice-dormleaders, it was just a mask they wore to stay strong and guide the students, but he had witnessed the breaking of those masks they wore. He remembered how he had seen Riddle cry in the library looking for a solution, he had seen Vil cry after he canceled all the photo shoots to give all his attention to the little missing potato, he had seen Leona cry silently because a puppy of his pack had disappeared because of him, and he had finally seen Malleus cry alone because he had failed, once again, to protect the people he loves

He might have seemed dim-witted, but he wasn't, and he knew that the last time they had been seen they were having one of their usual Friday sleepovers at Ramashackle dorm because it was the only dorm available (even though he had told them they could use Scarabia if they wanted, but due to Jack's poor heat resistance they decided to politely decline the offer) and he knew that their dormleaders ignored them when they tried to tell them about the sleepover (since Ace had told Jamil when he was at the basketball club and he was there too)

"We knew they were with us! Then they left and never came back! We thought they went to other dorms but many days passed and Yuu and Grim never came back!"

That's what the ghosts said when Kalim went to the dormitory to see what had happened and the only thing he found were their magicstonesmagicstones

It was another day like many others here while for others it wasn't at all