Disclaimer:

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, events, places, etc., are either product of the authors' imagination used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to an actual person, living or dead, or to actual events is purely coincidental.

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My fuckin' morning started with three knocks on my door. I lazily removed the cozy comforter that was covering my whole being and flickered my one eye. Shine's white-headed hair reappeared into my view in an instant.

"Good morning, Avy! Wake up! It's 10:30 P.M. as of now, and there's just 30 minutes away, and the classes will start. You have to get ready~ " She inserted her white head to my door frame and energetically beamed those words to me. I automatically groaned as a response. Damn. I was still having my most fantastic sleep of all. Why do they have to disturb me?!

"Shine! Let's just go already! Leave that bitch alone! Let her be late on her very first day. It's no longer our responsibility to wake her up. We might even be late for our class. Come on!" Rise shouted, which made my eardrums wake up from their sleep too. It's still early in the morning, but she's calling me names again. That made me thinking, aren't our poops in the past life mortal enemies? Why was she this bad and bitchy towards me? Does she hate me? Why? I did nothing to her.

Rise, and her behavior is giving me a major headache. Ugh.

"Hey, Avy. I'm sorry, but I think I need to go. Rise is being on her usual bitchy mode today. We can no longer accompany you. Are you fine with that?" I glanced at Shine with my other eye, who was smiling and raising her fingers with a 'peace sign' in it. And by her looks, I think she's really ready to attend those damn classes. She's in her full uniform.

"Shine! How many times will I call you? What the hell?! I said, let's go!"

"Yes, boss Riri! I'm coming down. Just wait!" Shine eyed me once again; she cheerfully jumps going in my direction and what she did next gave me a sudden heart attack.

She freaking fuckin'...

Kissed me on the...

Forehead.

"Bye, Avy! Love 'yah!"

And she even sent me a flying kiss! In just a matter of seconds, my exhausted body suddenly woke up. When she disappeared from sight, I quickly rose up from my bed and held my forehead where she just planted a kiss earlier. What the heck was that?

"See 'ya later, alligator, bitch!" Those were the last bitchy-statements I heard from Rise before the dorm door closed completely.

Wow. What a great and weird way to kickstart my morning. The hell...

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While holding the bath towel in my head, I looked at the clock again.

11:00 A.M.

Feeling satisfied, I smiled. I slowed down my actions even more. I planned to be very late on this day. That's been my motto in my damn school life ever since day one.

Late entrance? That's amazing!

I've always believed in the saying that your school life is boring if you haven't experienced being late even once. That's not cool. So, In my case... I always make sure not to attend my class at the right time.

Like a turtle, I slowly put on the uniform. I also lowered my hair as slow as possible, even when I finally put on my socks and shoes. The clock reading was 11:30 when I decided to go out.

Almost all the dorm rooms that I encountered on the way to the school building are already empty. Of course, they are probably inside the classroom learning that everlasting shitty lessons. I took my earphones out of the bag and put them on 一 not thoroughly worn because only one was inside my ear and the other half. I just left it hanging. That's what you call style and swag.

I walk on BWH's pathways as if I was just wandering around the park. I don't mind if I go through almost all black. I'll just think that I was taking a walk in the cemetery.

"A not-so-friendly reminder, bitch... Now that you're officially a Blackwoodian Citizen, you must be careful if you want to survive and live in this hell-bound school within the next few days. The classes end at exactly 5:30 in the afternoon. In short, you have approximately 30 minutes to step out of the classroom and get your asses back here at the dorm. When the clock strikes six... lock all your doors and windows. Be sure that no matter what happens, you'll stay inside your room. You'll stay and will never ever go outside. Do that, and your life in here will just be normal."

I suddenly halted from walking when Riri's words the other night came across on my mind once again. Shit, here we go again. Did you know that what Rise said last time made me awake throughout the night? I kept on thinking about her weird warning.

Even though I was annoyed, I resumed walking. No, Avy. Ignore what Riri said. Don't overthink. It's just a joke. She's just scaring the hell out of you. Remove those fuckin' weird words of her in your mind. It's not that important 一

"Just a friendly reminder, bitch... Now that your officially a Blackwoodian Citizen..."

"Just a friendly reminder, bitch... Now that your officially a Blackwoodian Citizen..."

Argh, damn! Feeling done, I forcefully removed my earphones. What the heck. How can I listen to music if her words repeatedly haunt my mind?

Yes, I admit, I did freak out. Who the hell wouldn't be? Just merely thinking of those scary warnings of her, my hair rises in horror. I'm raised as a brave kid but, there are times that I would fall of in that side of mine and switch to my scared self. If you are put in the same situation as mine, believe me, you'll definitely be weirded out by her.

Rise Vanderwoodsen is one of a hell weird and scary bitch. I'm freakin' sure of that.

And the way she said that I'm not allowed to go out when the clock points at six also haunt my curious mind. That I must stay inside my room at that hour. Why? Is that some sort of curfew the school has? Is it one of the rules? If that's the case, why is she exaggerating those warnings while explaining to me? She also said that I must close the door and windows. Like, that's for what? Is there a ghost wandering around? Cops? Or worst ...

Killer? Is this The Purge?

I laugh humorlessly at my thoughts. Seriously, this school and the students here are peculiar and terrifying. I'll immediately do an outrage to be able to go to this school. I think I can't stand staying and studying my asses out in here.

Riri might be right; I might go crazy. Even when I entered the premises of BWH, some of the things I've heard from them and Madame Evee were insane. What more so when I officially start studying here? Hah. Given that this school is so weird, maybe I'll be going not just into a mental hospital. I may have fallen into rehab too. Now, that's Scary.

While shrugging the weird thoughts out of my head, I continued my interrupted walk. When I reached the school building itself, I heave a deep sigh before I turned the big doorknob.

This is it, Avy! Show them what you've got!

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"Oh, here comes our transferee. She's not even ashamed of coming late."

"Poor girl. She's unaware of the things that this shitty school has. I pity her."

"This was probably the worst decision she made. It was a mistake for her to enter here. Look at her, so innocent."

"You fool! What are you saying? Can she be qualified in here if she behaves like that? I'm sure she's also hiding her stupidity, silliness, and monster somewhere inside her."

"Look at her N-meter. Her current indicated negative demerits is -663. That means she really did something bad in her previous school. She might have killed a person."

"I don't think so. Stick your eyes on her black pin. She belongs in Section N.1. What she did in her late school might not be that heavy for her to have that. Maybe her record was just abysmal."

"Well, I think you're right, girl. Maybe that's the case 一."

I wasted no time; I didn't even flinch and approached my bee-like schoolmates, who had been mumbling right here in the gold and black mixed colors of the school corridors.

"Hey, you dumb bitches! I just want to inform all of you that you're whispering so stupidly. Don't you know the right way how to gossip and talk about a certain person? Wanna learn some lessons with me?"

I parted my shoulder-length raven black with matching ash-blonde peek-a-boo highlights hair before I smile fauxly at them. Damn. I can no longer hear my favorite song because their voices are overlapping with it. I'm sure as hell they are referring to me as they gossip. Morons.

"If you want to tell me something, say it directly onto my face, and don't murmur like some legit dumb girls back there. " I rolled my eyes. "And oh! I heard all of it, by the way."

God knows what kind of fake smile my face exposed to them. God! My lips are hurting because I've bitten them so hard as I prevent myself from cursing them entirely and not raising my voice too much.

Avy. Keep calm. Remember, today is your first day. You have to be a good girl. Even just this once.

I understand, I'm new here, so I am the center of their attraction now. What I just don't understand is why are they still whispering? Why don't they just say in front of me their grievances? These cowards. As of now, I want to put their faces into the black grass, damn.

Alright, back to these beecthes (bee+bitches=beecthes). Surprisingly, they didn't utter a single word after I confronted them. Some girls, they left permanently and entered their respective rooms. At the same time, the others remained to stare badly and intently at me. I've also seen a few men who are staring at me with a wicked smile. And then the others, like err ... pity me?

Tsk. I don't care! Probably because their school is full of weirdness, so the students are like that. I dominantly shrugged my shoulders at them and raised an eyebrow at those few who were still staring at me. With a proud stance, I continued to walk up to my room.

§€ČŢİØŅ -1

Wincing, I looked at the engraved letters on the classroom door where I was standing. Shit? Why are the words written this way? The weird letterings are composed of readable but eye-soaring syllables. As usual, its color is still gold, and the whole door is pure black. There is a glass window on the right side, but I was so disappointed to see its condition.

What the hell, why did they even put up a window if it was also tinted? Do they keep a secret inside each classroom, so the windows need to be tinted?

Maybe the president of this school was really crazy. I laughed and, at the same time, was shaken by that thought of mine.

I was about to open the goddamn door but, my hands are suspended in the air right away when it suddenly opened. Fortunately, my reflexes were fast, and I was able to avoid the door frame immediately. Real shit, it wasn't my birthday yesterday and today, but why am I prone to accidents? Ever since I entered this school, my life has been this weird. Really.

"You're here, finally. Let's go inside, Ms. Demascenia. Your classmates are so eager to meet you."

I lost my count on how many times I blinked at this moment. Twice? Thrice? I don't know. What I know is that there's another woman in front of me who was looking like she just attended a funeral. What the heck? Is their universal color the whole shade of black? Does the school color code really vary from black and gold? Oh god.

I looked down at her chest (Don't be green-minded, I'm not voyeuristic.) What I mean is I looked at his black pin, which is also placed on the right side of the chest like me.

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Ms. Đawn Şevərancė

٠ Section -1, Class Adviser ٠

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"Ok, class. May I have your full attention to the front, please." My skin winced as soon as Ms. Dawn's black laced-coated gloved hands touched my arms. She recklessly pulled me inside the classroom and made me face to the students in there.

"State your name, age, and former school." She said demurely to me while plastering her white teeth and extended smile. There goes this weird feeling again. She did nothing and only smiled at me but, it caused something different to my body. Damn. People at BWH made me a scaredy-cat.

"Go on. Your classmates are waiting." She added.

I took another deep breath before following her orders, "I'm Avy Demascenia. 19. From Courtney University."

"Is that all?" She asked. I automatically raised my eyebrows. What a fool...

"Is there anything else that I should say? You said that's the only three things that I should say. " I asked in a bitchy way. Annoyed and confused emotion evident in my voice. Is she crazy? She clearly said that all I have to say is my name, age, and the name of my late school. Then now, she would ask, "Is that's all?"

Hah! Such a silly teacher.

"Ah, yes. You're right. My apologies." I just folded my arms as she slightly bowed to me as a sign of apology.

"Section N.1, she's the transferee I'm referring to. She's your new classmate. Be kind to her."

I turned my eyes to what my adviser was saying, and I can only say one thing ...

WOW.

As in a vast WOW, because I think my grave is just the only missing piece, then I can definitely rest straight in peace. Wanna know why? Because the kind of stare that my classmates are giving me seems to be killing my whole body, including my soul. Unlike the last time, their gazes are much more intense right now. Shit.

"Ms. Demascenia, you can now go to your seat. Thank you."

Puzzled and a little bewildered, I proceeded to my said in the room. I guess this is the seat reserved for me 'cause there's a piece of paper attached to it with the words, "For our new classmate" It's also the only seat that's separated from the others. It's situated in the very middle of the two opposite rows. As if lowkey hinting me to stay away from them because I'm just that new kid in here.

"Wait..."

My feet suddenly came to an abrupt stop while walking across my designated chair. I slowly turned around in Ms. Dawn's direction, only to find out that she's wearing her sinister smile towards me. This smile...

"Welcome to your new Section, Ms. Demascenia. Your classmates are so excited to spend the rest of the school year with you. Take care, alright?"

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To be continued.