The next day went by quickly. Breakfast was fast followed by the rest of the day's activities up until they all ventured out to the arts and crafts room. He spent the hour there drawing some makeshift blueprints on the hospital building he was staying in. He labeled them and wrote them backwards so nobody would know what they said. He even marked off a few places where he could hide certain things and disable certain security cameras.

Nico rolled up his blueprints and once he got to his room, set them safely under the mattress of his bed. Afterwards, he walked around some more. He went inside some of the doctor's rooms and examined the items. Needles were placed neatly on a countertop besides Cotton balls and Cotton swabs. A small fridge filled with urine and blood samples was next to a cabinet of medicines. A scale and measuring tape were beside each other and some scissors and a small knife were on top.

'For a place worried about their patients killing themselves with shoelaces, they don't really put sharp medical objects away very well.' He walked out, weaving between oncoming nurses and doctors. 'Tedious. Awfully tedious. I need some nice fun to distract me.' With that, he spotted an open room with a phone inside. 'Perfect~'

Nico walked in a shut the door. He sat down and grabbed the phone. He punched in a number, and waited.

On ring. Two rings.

Three rings. Four rings.

Click.

"Hello?" Said a boy on the other end.

"Hello big brother. Long time no speak eh?" Nico smiled as he heard his older brother breathe in sharply.

"Nico? Why the hell are you talking to me?! Mom and dad are going to freaking mur- kil-...er...ground me..." Nico heard his brother shift around awkwardly.

"Ah yes, my dear older brother is uncomfortable in speaking to me since, the incident right?"

"Nico don't act like th-"

"Am I right Daniel?" A second of silence then, Daniel sighed.

"Yes. I am. Do you want to know why? Because it isn't every damned day that my little brother goes completely fucking wacko and..." He sighed again. "All that I'm trying to say is, you're insane. Psychotic. Crazy."

"No Daniel. I'm not. I'm a high functioning-"

"Socio path of society. I know. I've seen Sherlock to. Anyway, it was completely wrong what you did and you are going to jail you know."

"Not if I leave this hellhole before my court date dear brother of mine. And I intend to do so. And I also intend to pay back mom and dad for throwing me in here in the first place."

"You know, you're completely messed up, and I shall take no part in this, whatsoever." Daniel hung up with a click, leaving Nico alone.

"Well I wasn't planning on having you partake in the event of revenge dear brother.", Nico said aloud to himself as he set down the phone.

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The rest of the day went by. Everything was normal (other than the practical murder games going in over the last bag of Hot Cheetos). Samuel made jokes which Giovanni, Carl, and Stephanie laughed to. Nico tried to laugh along as well but he couldn't really push himself to do so. Although he would fake his laughter to not hurt his friend's feelings. By night time Nico had tired himself out by faking smiles and laughs.

That night in the shower he was massaging his face muscles. His face was sore from all those laughs and smiles. He wondered if he would have to put on a bigger show tomorrow as he did today.

After he finished washing himself and he changed into his boxers and black tee-shirt, he walked out and to his bed. He rummaged under his mattress to fish out a knife he snuck in from the cafeteria and twirled it around. He still couldn't believe that he had managed to smuggle it inside. He messed with the knife some more. It was very big, but if needed, it was good enough.

Suddenly, the doorknob jiggled and the knife was quickly out away again to the underneath of the mattress. In came Samuel and he slowly walked over to his bed and threw himself down.

Nico curiously looked at Sammy who was now facing the opposite direction of him. He heard quiet sobbing from his room mate.

'What the hell...?' Nico walked over to his friend's bed and sat down.

"Uh...Hey...Sammy...what's wrong...?" Nico awkwardly patted his head. Samuel shook underneath his hand. "Samuel...?"

His friend moved, turning around to face Nico. Samuel's face was stained with tears. He spoke, his voice shaky.

"N-Nah...nothing's wrong...I'm f-fine." He wiped his face. "Just a small argument with my parents. That's all. Ya know "them calling me a disgrace to the family and stuff. The regular.....but it still hurts like hell." Nico slowly petted his friend's head.

"Hey uh......it's fine....they're dicks and you don't need to listen to them...."

"Heh...thanks Nico...you're really nice..." Sammy smiled and pushed some hair out of Nico's face. Nico felt a bit embarrassed but he didn't say anything.

"You're welcome..." Nico smiled, genuinely this time.

"You know, you have a rather nice smile." Samuel grinned and winked. Nico rolled his eyes even though on the inside he thanked him.

"I don't think now is the time to flirt Samuel."

"Oh. feisty~ I like it." Nico rolled his eyes again and stood up. "Aw don't leave me~"

"Oh shut it. I'm literally five feet away idiot." Samuel laughed and sat up.

"Thanks again. It means a lot to me Nico."

"Yeah no problem." They shut the lights off and laid in their beds and Samuel started snoring.

'Don't worry Samuel. Soon enough the jerks that hurt you will be dead...'