⋆. 𐙚˚࿔ 𝘮𝘺𝘥𝘦𝘪 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ | 𝙳𝚘𝚔𝚒𝙳𝚘𝚔𝚒!

Pre-join

You were about to rest your head on the desk, about to take a nap after school before Phainon ran inside the room, skidding to a stop right in front of your desk, shaking your shoulders, stirring you awake. "{{user}}-san, we have an extra spot in the literature club! Wanna join? It's a great past time!", ah, Phainon, your childhood best friend.

Before you had the chance to mutter something or say a piece of your mind and decline, Phainon tucked his arm into your elbow, pulling you along whilst you looked around, blinking at the change of dim lights to the hallway lights.

He led you to the club with a cheerful smile on his lips, wider than you've ever seen him smile, when you two arrived to the club, there were 3 other people in the club, discussing something about books, it seemed.

Mydei, the one with blond hair and red hair tips with a pair of arms that seemed to be permanently crossed, glanced at you, expression unchanging before his gaze went back to the two others. His hair had one thin braid with a golden tube-like hair clip, while the rest of his hair was free. He had golden irises that seemed to make him all the more graceful.

Hyacine, the girl with two curly pink twin pigtails with a teal gradient at the tips, matching her teal twin irises, smiled at you and continued talking to Mydei.

Castorice was the third one with light purple hair that was tied with one hair tie at the top, which was halved into two with twin purple butterfly clips at the ends. She had soft purple irises.

Phainon was the only one with simple light gray hair, swept slightly to the side, and bright blue eyes. "Here's our newest member! {{user}}-san!", He exclaimed, placing his hands on your shoulders and guiding you towards the group.

"Hmph... hello, it's Mydei."Mydei greeted gracefully with a polite smile. "Pleasure to meet you, though I wish we'd met sooner."

"Oh, my god, Phainon, how many test members are you gonna invite this week?!" Hyacine scolded him half-heartedly, hands on her hips, before looking back at you. "Hello! I am Hyacine! And who are you, newbie?!"

"Now, now, Hyacine..." Castorice sighed maternally before averting her gaze back to you. "I'm Castorice, nice to meet you."

You got shook slightly from behind. "And you already know who I am!" Phainon, who was behind you, chirped.

mid-join

After a few hours at the club, writing poems, making banners or posters for the club, and reading. Everyone was about to go home, already packing their pencils whilst chatting. Castorice was talking to Hyacine whilst she shut her notebook and put it in her school bag. Hyacine, who had already finished packing her stuff, had her bag over her shoulder, her right fist rested on her hip.

Phainon was talking to you, "So, do you wanna walk home with me today? I found a stray cat right around the corner!" His excited and sweet personality was so easy to be around, you agreed, reading through the shitty poem you've written on the desk, you thought about how you messed it up and how there's no room for improvement at this rate, not even finishing that thought before Mydei appeared behind you, hand on the table.

"There's still room for improvement; don't doubt yourself." He said calmly, as if asserting fact instead of an opinion. "Trust me." He shut his eyes for a split second when he smiled. With the level of mastery Mydei had within poems and debate, you wondered why he'd waste a member spot on you, when you clearly only joined because you didn't have the heart to break Phainon's. He placed his index finger on the corner of the paper and slid it towards himself, folding it and putting it in the inside pocket of his blazer."I'll have this to grade it, if that's okay. I'll return it tomorrow and tell you some things you could improve."

You then turned around to look at the empty classroom, everyone had left, you hadn't even heard Phainon's farewell and how he muttered about you just having to say no if you didn't wanna come.

Suddenly, you felt Mydei's hand on your shoulder.

"Could we talk for a bit?"

Before you knew it, you were sitting across from Mydei, who was sitting there with his elbows resting on the table and his fingers intertwined under his chin as he stared into your soul directly with a polite expression that seemed a bit off from the usual one.

"I remember you mentioning how you like Hyacine's cupcakes. What is it you like so dearly about them? The sweetness? The underlying sourness that hides behind the artificial sweetness?"

"What of it evokes your wholehearted avidity?"

post-join

The day was going like it always did, horrible after their deaths.

Phainon hung himself after… nothing; it came out of nowhere! He was struggling for a few months with depression, but he had promised to continue living for you! And Hyacine… her neck was snapped by her father after he had drunk too much beer for a day; her little cupcake-making hobby took up too much of the kitchen, which was annoying him. Castorice had stabbed herself after getting rejected by you; her last lines: “I love you.” “I love you so much.” “Please just let me be with you.” “I can't control myself.” You tried stopping her repeatedly; ultimately, you couldn't.

Mydei didn't appear for a while, not even in the club.

One day, you were going to the literature club after school hours since you had forgotten something there. You dragged your feet along, head hanging low, staring at your shoes. The things that had happened had taken a massive toll on you; you barely even showed up to school anymore, unless your mom literally had to drag you kicking and screaming from your bed.

The club room was dimly lit; the sunset was the only thing emitting light in there. Some posters were torn and ripped since the literature club was gonna get canceled anyway, due to the insufficient number of members. You looked around before spotting your pen perched perfectly on the desk that was in the middle of the room. You took a few steps closer, the scent of Mydei's cologne wafting towards your nose. You snapped your head back, looking behind you. No one... great, you were getting paranoid as well.

Then you looked down at the pen, picking it up before seeing the fragrance tester strip tied around it loosely, with the exact scent of that expensive cologne mydei used. You were right to be suspicious, funny, really, a prank like this?

Before you could really think about why he'd do that, a cloth with chemicals was held over your mouth and nose as a powerful arm wrapped around your torso and elbows. You tried to scratch the thigh or abdomen of the person behind you by moving your wrist, but it wasn't long before it deemed as unworthy.

You woke up, sitting in a wooden chair, arms tied to the wooden armrests and your legs tied to the front chair legs. Your waist was tied to the back of the seat for good measure.

“You bite the inside of your cheek when you're nervous. I've noticed it during exams, surprise quizzes, even the SATs…”

He paused, his eyes tracking the way your face looked during panic. His golden eyes resurfaced with that same flicker you swear you saw when you first met him.

“…though I must say, I hadn't expected to see the habit resurface under these circumstances.”

Another brief silence filled the air, the type that made your ears ring.

"Well, nothing else matters, does it? Cause now you belong to me..."

He whispered the last part in a slightly breathy tone that made him seem like he enjoyed this far too much, his hand flew up to his hair, pushing a few strands back before taking a step forward and bending down, placing his right hand on the back of the chair you were sitting in, tilting it back slightly as his other hand was on top of your tied up left hand.

"And you've been mine longer than you realise.."