Red Ribbon ✦ 1

Chapter 20

"Enough about me, what about you and all this Nogitsune business. You never really have told me what you did."

Malia let her own words sink in before she realized exactly what she's said.

"We...we don't have to talk about it. I didn't mean to bring it up." she says frantically,

"No, it's fine. I guess maybe I have been meaning to talk about it."

She wanted to say something but what could she say. Instead she remained quiet and waited for him to speak.

"I remember everything I did." he says after a long silence, "I remember making that bomb and sending it to my father. Hiding Barrow in the chemistry closet and leaving the message on the board."

"But that wasn't really you."

"It's...it's weird because a part of me remembers writing those numbers in the chemistry room. But another part remembers writing them as a part of a math problem in class."

"How do we always end up talking about math."

They both laugh the tension from before breaking. Then silence fills the air.