『 Broken Promises 』The Promised Neverland Ray x OC

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Mom smiled warmly.

Krone looked around the room with a smile, her eyes stopped.

Krone was staring directly at Phoebe, she had a pretty intimidating look on her face and usually Phoebe would take a look like that as a challenge and she'd intimidate them as well but Krone....had a more sinister face.

Phoebe felt her heart rate accelerate and she started to feel dizzy, she lifted her left hand to her temple to try to steady herself.

She felt something warm touch her hand and she looked to see Ray grab her hand to stop her from shaking.

She looked at him but he kept his eyes forward, he was trying to tell her that it was okay. She felt herself calm down, knowing that her friend was there with her and he noticed when she started to freak out. But why was her face heating up?

'What the hell? No, bad face.' She smacked her cheeks with her one free hand to calm herself down and Ray gave her a weird look.

She ignored Ray and smiled back at Krone after a minute, not an intimidating smile, it was kind but it was fake. Her stomach was doing backflips and her heart was doing front flips but she didn't want to let go of Rays hand.

"I'll be living here with all of you from now on, it's nice to meet you." Krone smiled once again.

                           <•••>

"I've set aside this room for you." Mom said with a smile.

"Thank you, it's perfect." Krone responded.

They were both looking into the clean room while Norman, Ray, Emma, and Phoebe stood on the stairs. Stalking.

"That's sure gonna be inconvenient." Ray muttered, leaning against the blank white wall.

"It's definitely gonna make it harder to sneak around at night." Phoebe groaned quietly and shook her head.

"She's between the three children's rooms." Emma pointed out.

"Like Phoebe said, it'll be easier for her to watch us-" Ray responded, then they all saw that Mom and Krone turned to look at the four of them.

Emma and Norman smiled while Ray and Phoebe leaned against the wall and payed the two adults no mind.

                          <•••>

"I was so focused on the tracking devices...another adult never crossed my mind." Norman stressed, walking back and forth.

"We should be happy about this." Ray said nonchalantly.

"How?" Phoebe looked down to Ray from where she was sitting.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Emma followed.

"With Carol and sister Krone here. We have two new sources of info." He responded.

"You're right." Norman stopped in his tracks and glanced to Ray.

"First off, where did they both come from?" Ray questioned, pinching his chin.

"I suppose Carol is here to replace Conny, they must be replenishing merchandise." Norman replied, walking in between two chairs.