Love You till the Last Rose Dies [KOTLC Sokeefe fanfic]

Chapter 2: The First Petal

Keefe Pov

Today was like any other day. This is my last year at Foxfire. Likewise for Fitz. We all walked into the school together, as a group. Tam and Biana walking next to each other, Dex and Marella calmly joking around, and Sophie and Fitz. They're holding hands and looking all lovey-dovey. Gross. But sometimes, I do wish that it was me walking next to Sophie.

Lihn walks up. "Hey! How's life for you guys?" She smiled.

Sophie returned her smile. "We're all doing pretty good."

Fitz laughed. "Pretty good is an understatement, Sophie."

"Says who?"

"Me."

"No fair!" Sophie gently shoves Fitz aside and crosses her arms in a little pout. That pout, well, I could be drawing that all day.

Fitz entangled Sophie in a hug, while everyone else sighed.

Watching them together was kinda painful. But, I'm Keefe Sencen. So, I put on my mask and join in the sighing. "Really guys? It's literally 5 minutes into school and you guys are probably lovey-dovey enough to fly into the sky!" As I say that, I feel myself sinking into the ground as if the weight of the world had suddenly been placed on me. I tried to smile. "Who's up for a quick prank on Forkle before we start?"

Everyone except for Dex groaned. "Really?" Tam had one eyebrow raised so high, it looked like it might fly off. "Could you give us a break on the pranks for just one day?"

Dex shrugged. "Couldn't hurt. We already have detention for the whole week because of our last stunt."

Once again, I forced a grin. 'See? Dex agrees! We should totally do it!"

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Fifteen minutes later, we were all sitting in Magnate Leto's office, the principals piercing blue eyes fixed on us menacingly.

"Really? That's the third time this week!" Magnate Leto looked furious, but he also had a hint of a smirk on his face.

I piped up. "It wasn't that bad though..."

Magnate Leto frowned and shook his head. "Keefe, even it if wasn't that bad, I don't think you all should be spending your time plastering the hallways with ruckleberries!"

I didn't really know what to say. Neither did my friends.

Magnate Leto continued on. "I know you already have detention for the whole week. I'll let you off this time, but if I catch you one more time, that'll be detention until midterms. Got it?"

Everyone nodded, while, of course, giving me the stink eye. I shrank back and lowered my head.

Walking out of the office, I caught a glimpse of Magnate Leto massaging his eyes and mumbling, "You kids."

Fitz was the least enthusiastic. "Thanks for getting us in more trouble Keefe."

Sophie pulled on his arm. "Fitz! He didn't mean to. Plus, we didn't exactly get into more trouble."

"I guess you're right. Anyway, we should head to sessions. Bye!" Fitz ran off in the direction of his Telepathy class, with Sophie tailing right behind.

The others also bid their farewells. Soon, it was just me in the empty hallway. I sighed. "Today, is going to be another long day." I considered ditching but turned on the thought last minute. Dragging my feet against the floor, I shuffled to my Empath session.

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Time skip to detention. Today we had Sir Conely. Which meant horrible, screeching siren songs. At least it wasn't Lady Belva and ballroom dancing. That's just the worst.

We were all sitting, waiting for Sir Conely to arrive.

"Is he ever going to get here?" Biana complained.

"I hope he doesn't. You know how torturous those siren songs are," Tam muttered under his breath.

Everyone else was muttering their complaints. I just sat in my seat with a terribly forced smile on my face. Suddenly, I coughed. " Excuse me." No one said anything to that. Which I was expecting. What I wasn't expecting was what I saw on my table. A flower petal? Hm... I think it's a rose petal to be exact. But it doesn't look like any rose I've ever seen. It's a velvety hazel colour, edged with gold. 'Kinda like Foster's eyes,' I thought. No. They were exactly like Foster's eyes. Why, would there just randomly be a rose petal in that specific colour on my desk? I shrugged and pocketed the petal, not thinking much of it.

"Are you guys ready for detention?" Sir Conely had entered to room. Oh, great. This day just gets better and better.