Pearla———

My love, my light, my life. Where did you go? Have you fallen out of love or fallen out of life?

———Ira.

"It'a official," he started, "you're a liar and a big of a prick." He said sitting down behind some shelves in the library. I stopped my reading of Pearla's book and looked in front of me to him.

"Hello, klaus, how may I help you?" I said, I really should be in class with Isadora, as for now, I'm reading in the library. "I want you to tell me something." He said quietly and crossed his legs. He leaned closer to me and menacingly said:

"You've been doing Carmelita's homework so she won't bully us?" He sounded so mature and sure of himself that it sent a ringing in my ears. Nearly deafening.

I knew he already knew, so I confessed. Like I was talking to the father and announcing my sins, "Yes, I haven't slept in months, but it's kept her off our backs for awhile." The cons sounded softly while the pros roared in the situation.

"Who knows?"

I sighed deeply, "Just you for right now, and between doing double the homework and hanging out with Rider at night I haven't had anytime to...uhm, well for hobbies." Did he know I was referring to the book I held precisely in my hands?

I felt a bit overwhelmed in the moment. The pent up emotion of things I couldn't even explain was knocking on my walls. It felt like a dam breaking loose; "We also haven't seen one another in awhile, we miss you, Desa."

"I know, I just, I wanna- I need to-"

"Cry?" He was such a kind soul, one that I felt already knew me from how well he could read me. I guess all the books and research pay off. "Shut up." My voice cracked. He pulled me into a hug, a familiar one. It whispered 'I remember you' and the sent of him sang 'how are you old friend'?

I wish I could've stayed there all day, but we both had our secrets to keep. Shortly after Klaus left, Rider had come to see me. Olivia gave him a mysterious look before going in the back. It was just a second; when she came back, she sent me away and pulled me behind the back for comfort. My new appearance looked like a crocodile in despair, "woe is me." It'd scream.

I was in the laundry room, it just so happened that I had ran into Quigley. I'm not surprised. I kept my head down and sorted through my clothes, he was sorting right next to me. I pushed my curl behind my ear for a moment before remembering this evening and covering it again. Quigley noticed. "What the fuck happened to your face!" He boomed.

"He didn't mean it." I squeaked. "It was just a little tiff, nothing major. He didn't mean it, and I shouldn't have provoked him."

"I'm about to beat his ass and knock his brains out." He said huskily. It was so intimidating that I didn't even realize he'd stormed past me until I heard his basket tip over onto the floor. I ran out the door with him and tried with every muscle I could conjure go pull and push him back.

We had made our ways to the late night hallways like that. "Quigley, no!" I screamed catching the attention to a creeping Violet Baudelaire, "Quigley, stop!" She hollered.

With our combined strength we managed to push him into the library. Strangely enough the rest of my friends were there. A secret 'secrets' meeting? No time to question these things, we were trying to calm a fuming Quigley Quagmire from committing manslaughter.

"That's a big ass bruise." Duncan said as he closely examined my face, "I'm with Quig, let's kill him!" He proclaimed.

"Yeah, he kind of does deserve it, Violet." Klaus tried reasoning with his sister. Sunny pitched in with an angry "burn the witch!"

Isadora groaned and said, "We aren't saying he doesn't deserve it, but, there's gotta be a better way to get him back."

Violet tied her hair up with a dark ribbon whilst looking at Quigley, whom I've been holding still by jumping on his back, "I think I've got a way to solve all of our problems...I'm not gonna kill him...and you've either gotta get off of me or come with." He smirked

"I don't think I trust you enough to let go." I muttered.

"Then come on."

Mission: Murder. Was a go.

Finished: Sunday, May 12, 2019. 6:37 pm.

Published: Thursday, June 27, 2019. 1:27 pm.