Mui pov

Huh..? Misaki texted me..?

"Meet me in the art room tomorrow at lunch. I need to talk to you"

My heart slightly sank.. What.. Why..? Did he know about me seeing genya?!

He better not have.. Oh god.. I know what hell do.. And I don't want it to happen..

I slightly held my hair, running my fingers through it.. He was joking.. Right..?! He.. He won't actually cut my hair.. No.. He wouldn't joke about that.. He's serious..

Fuck.. No I'm sure it's okay, he might just.. He might just be asking me something- he might just- he..

He will cut it..

Just don't think about that, mui. You'll only scare yourself, he might just be reminding me not to go near genya, there's no way he's found out I saw him.. Right..?

No, just.. Calm down,

Nothing will happen, calm yourself mui..

But it was so hard.. Why couldn't I get that out of my head..?

It's okay, just.. Take a breath.

I looked back at the message

"Alright.. Why..?"

I waited for a second before I saw the icon come up, to show he's seen the message.

"None of your business currently, you'll find out, and stop using those stupid ass '...'s to try make me feel sympathy for you"

I sighed, before turning off my phone and laying back on my bed

I closed my eyes, thinking to myself for a bit.. Before I drifted off to sleep

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I woke up to my phone buzzing..

"Fucking stupid alarm.. Go away.." I spoke, switching the dismiss and snooze at the same time, hoping it'd do something

And it did, it went on snooze.

I layed there, trying to untangle myself from my hair that was wrapping around me like vines, it was stuck in my mouth too- what a mess..

I felt really droopy.. Sleepy- I mean.. It was pretty late when I slept last night..

~ This part of the chapter is by MistHashiraMui the rest of the chapter is by Muichiro0san ~

Once I untagged myself I sat up and rubbed my eyes, yawning right after. I already knew this was going to be a shitty day, I felt horrible, everything just seemed to be going wrong even though I just woke up.

Suddenly, I hear my phone buzz again. I expected another text from Misaki but no.. it was from Genya.

"Good morning :) I heard y'all have a test from math soon and I thought that maybe I can give you a quick tutoring lesson just like before, we both know that you suck at math"

I chuckled at the text and replied with "good morning! And of course! I'd love that, I have time around 4pm, does that work?"

"Mhm, so how about we meet at the library at our favorite spot around that time? I can bring snacks too"  Genya said and I felt my mood get slightly better "alright, sounds good"

And with that the conversation ended. I couldn't help but smile as I stared at our texts, I felt so happy and relieved that we were friends again..

But my smile soon faded when a message from Misaki popped up on my phone. I let out a sigh and opened our chat, seeing "get here before anyone comes, I want to speak to you alone, you have 10 minutes to get here"

I was about to say that I won't make it in time because my house is quite far from school but before I could say anything.. another message popped up.

"And don't even try to say shit like I WoN'T MaKe It In TiMe, I don't give a fuck"

I sighed and just left him on seen, quickly putting my clothes on, brushing my teeth and hair before putting my shoes on and quickly running out of my house.

While I ran to school I was thinking.. "Why am I running? Misaki seemed mad and if we will be there alone.. he'll be able to do anything he wants to.. why won't I stop.. why won't I go back and go to school with Yui instead.." questions circled my mind while I ran to school, just wanting to get there, go through whatever Misaki was planning and go on with my day but.. at this point.. I didn't know how bad the thing Misaki wanted to do was..

…

"Ah, you're here" Misaki said while I walked towards him. I gave him a slight nod and stopped in front of him, looking at him anxiously "so.. what do you need..?"

Misaki smirked and pushed me against a locker, slamming his hand right next to my head, saying "can you explain this?" He then showed me something that made my heart drop.

It was a picture of me and Genya sitting together in an empty classroom from the day before. "H-Huh.. h-how- N-NO I mean- I don't know who got that! I never talked to Genya I-" before I could finish, he raised his hand and slapped me really hard.

The impact of the slap was so hard it made me fall on the floor. I touched my cheek and felt a hand grab onto my hair and aggressively made me look up at him.

"Muichiro, I know you are fucking lying to me!! You were with that motherfucker yesterday! I am not stupid you know, I know you would do something like that… so I let someone watch your every single step, and bingo, I was right, you just can't be without him"

I shook my head, tears welling up in my eyes "I-I am sorry I just.. I-I had to apologize.."

"Hm.. you think a simple 'sorry' will make me forgive you? Pfff No! Nothing can make me forgive you anymore… let's just do something to punish you, hm? Just like I said last time" he smirked and suddenly, two of his friends walked up to us.

"Hold him," Misaki said and my eyes widened. His friends held me by my arms tight while I was trying to get out of their grasp "l-leave me alone! I-I am sorry, I-I am sorry Misaki! Pl-Please give me o-one more chance!" I yelled out but he just clenched his fists and turned to look at me again.

"I said no! Only thing I want now is to see your pathetic little tears while I punish you.. you wanna know what the punishment is?" He smiled and I shook my head "hah.. too bad.. I'll show you anyway"

He said and took out something from his pocket. Scissors. My eyes widened as I repeatedly shook my head, making Misaki laugh out loud "come on, Muichiro, are you scared of a little haircut?" He said, moving closer to me.

He grabbed a chuck of my hair and began to talk "remember how your real mom used to braid it? Good times, huh? Too bad she's dead now" he chuckled.

"I bet she didn't even like it.. I bet she was glad to get sick and die.. I bet she was glad to.. finally take a break from you.. don't you think?" He said and cupped my cheeks.

"I bet she hated your hair, so how about we do her a favor and cut them. I bet she would be sooo happy when it's gone.. I would be happier too, you look like a girl.. she ugliest girl I ever seen and I've seen some messed up shit before.. I can't believe I actually loved you" he said, making my tears slide down my cheeks.

"Y-You.. don't love me..? Y-You.. think I am ugly?" I said quietly, making Misaki chuckle once again "you finally realized.. Well, now that you know that, let's go on with the punishment, shall we?"

He grabbed more of my hair and put scissors to it. I was desperately trying to get out of their grasp but it was impossible. I was crying and shaking while watching Misaki slowly gather my hair.

I closed my eyes, preparing for the worse to happen but then.. "hey! What are you three doing?!" I heard next to me. I opened my eyes to see a teacher standing there.

"Let go of him now! And all of you to the principal's office!" She yelled out and Misaki groaned, letting go of my hair and whispering "lucky bastard.. but don't worry, next time I lay my hands on you, you won't get away this easily"

He stood up and his friends let go of me. Once he was far enough, I just sat there, looking at the floor in disbelief. My whole body was shaking. I slowly grabbed my hair and looked at it, seeing no signs of cutting.

I sighed in relief and stood up, wiping my tears and wanting to compose myself somehow before heading to the principal's office as well.

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