He smiled, looking behind me once, his expression changing before speeding away, in a second he was out of my sight. "WHERE IS HE?!" I felt a gun poking my back, I put my hands up, slowly turning around as Zanira's blood dripped down my arm. I looked up, my glare transforming into a smile with a tint of mischievousness.

"Dead, turned into dust." I simply spoke, I was an incredible liar, I act okay all the time even though my own mind eats me, this was minor.

"H-how," they were puzzled, "he tried to get a taste of me, wait that sounds dirty. I mean he went all vampire on me, and my blood killed him, obviously hadn't done his research." I convinced them by revealing the bite on my neck, it was confirmed when the bite mark matched the one on one of Zanira's victims.

Isaac looked at me in question, raising his eyebrows which asked me 'what really happened?' I innocently shrugged as I was pulled into a carriage by Isaac, taken to the Paradox to reside back in the dorms before they took the blood off my hand, taking it into a flask. "I don't believe it for a second," Isaac spoke, shuffling next to me inside the carriage.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." I chuckled, as he put a little plaster over my neck. We reached the school, entering to silence since classes had ended and everyone was probably in their dorms just chilling. I noticed the other carriage was there too, Nova and Taehyung must've arrived back. I was told that everything that went down in with the ministry today was meant to be kept quiet, if the people found out the only person worthy of the crown was a malefic they're all scared of, there would be chaos.

"Hey," I ran into Nova and Tae in the corridors, she hugged me as she pulled all of us into the Lilith common room, somehow knowing the password to it. "What I have my ways," she shrugged innocently, entering as we met up with Clara and some others sitting in a circle. "I thought a games day would be fun," she said, the others scooting up to make space for us 4 to join the circle. I attempted to wave at Clara but she just avoided eye contact, so I just fiddled with my fingers.

"So here's how games day is going to go, we're all going to write a game we want to play on a piece of paper, I'm going to toss it in a bowl, and the game that comes out is what we will play." Clara said, handing everyone a chit with a pen. I couldn't think of a game so I just wrote sleeping, today was tiring I just wanted some rest. We all folded our papers and threw them into a plastic bowl where another kid from Ixorous named Aaron, picked a paper out. "Truth or dare," he read out, making everyone except Nova groan, she jumped in joy as anyone could tell she was the one who wrote it.

"We aren't kids c'mon," Isaac rolled his eyes, "it'll be fun! I have something that will make things a lot more hilarious," she cheekily pulled out a bottle with blue liquid inside, "is that velenscence?" Taehyung squinted, "yep," she nodded proudly. "Where on earth did you get a truth potion?" Clara asked, "I stole it from your mums collection," she replied making me and Tae make eye contact from across the circle, our brows were raised in surprise. "Jewel you're such a bad influence, look what you've done," Taehyung complained to me making me scoff. "ME? A BAD INFLUENCE?" I spoke out in disbelief, as we all laughed it off.

"Alright so this is how it's going to go, we're all going to take a sip from it, a sip is more than enough to make you spill your beans." Nova explained as she passed around the bottle, everyone taking a little sip. I was the last person to receive it and there wasn't much left anyways so I drank all of it.

"Alright, Clara truth or dare," Nova began, "dare," she replied. "I dare you to go to your mothers office and steal some booze, we all know she keeps more than potions in that room," Isaac dared, taking a sip from his water bottle. "Easy, I do it all the time," Clara replied, getting up, slightly dusting off her uniform dress as she skipped out the room. We all gave each other a single glance before bursting out into laughter.

"Taehyung, truth or dare," Aaron said, "truth," he replied simply. Me and Isaac who were sitting next to each other made eye contact, mouthing 'pussy' at the same time before cracking a smile. "Uhmmm, OH, when was your last kiss?" Nova asked excitedly making me choke on actual air, a smile had never left my face faster.

I looked across the circle to Tae, shaking my head, screaming no with my eyes, but he had sipped velescence, there was no stopping him. "This morning," he responded making everyone pause before getting extremely curious, "you're not allowed to ask who, it's not part of the game," he warned them.

The audacity to actually kiss me though, boys and their weird actions, I'll never understand them. Clara returned with 3 bottles of red wine in her hand, one half empty, "only the fanciest for you guys," she said, her behaviour and the tone of her voice made it obvious she was drunk. "We were meant to share you know," Isaac grabbed the bottle, filling his empty water bottle with wine before handing me the rest. "Don't drink all of it, you'll be dead drunk," Aaron advised.

"Oh don't worry, she's got a high tolerance," Taehyung chuckled.

"Hello, you can't be drinking," Nova took it off me, "oh c'mon please-"

Learn to be obedient with others, only then will you be obedient when I come to get you.

I heard in my head, my whole facial expression changed as everyone looked at me puzzled. "You're right, I shouldn't..." I didn't want to say anything more because the velescence would make me speak what was on my mind even if I didn't want to. I sat as calmly as I could, I could hear his breathing inside my head, it ticked me off so hard.

"Earth to Jewel?" Isaac waved his hand in front of my face, "truth or dare princess?" He said, "uh, uhm, dare," I replied, my leg bouncing due to anxiety of that man speaking again. "No no, let's keep it to just truths, it wasn't easy to steal that velescence you know, let's make the best of it before it wears off, we didn't drink that much." Nova said.

"Fine, just gimme a truth then," I limited my words, not wanting to speak more than necessary. "Uh, who's the person you care for most?" Aaron asked, not really sure of what else to question. The people you cared about are dead, tell them how everyone in this room will die too, go on Jewel.

"U-uh, there's this man on earth, his names is Seokjin, I call him Mr Kim. He's been by my side since I was young, he was more of a father to me than my actual father, oh shit, right he wasn't even my real dad sorry." I kept spouting everything that came to mind like an idiot, "he's always in danger because of me, because I'm too selfish to let go, but if he leaves me too I'll really lose everything, this long fight, I'll lose it." I said again, I noticed Tae, Nova and Isaac giving each other concerned glances, I should stop but it just keeps coming out.

The voice in my head had paused for a second, the man in my head seemed like he was thinking of what to say. Pathetic, a human? You care so much for a human? Your mindset has to be stronger than that.

"Jewel are you feeling ok?" Nova asked, "no." As much as I wanted to say yes, and pretend like I was ok as always, this stupid potion was pulling the curtain off of my real feelings, the sadness, the constant overthinking, the guilt, the regret. Tell them why, tell them how everyone around you dies because of your selfishness, tell them that you're going to destroy the world with me like you're destined to.

I looked around at Nova, at Taehyung, at Isaac, weird visuals of them dead appeared making me gasp slightly as my lips parted. "I'm so sorry," I bursted into tears, covering my face with shame that I was letting that man penetrate me mentally.

"God I'm in pain I'm in pain," I sobbed, grabbing my head weakly, but it wasn't the wound that was hurting, it was exhaustion from the emotions that I had attempted to conceal from my friends, piling up, and threatening to release as words.

Isaac quickly hugged me, hiding my face in his chest, "where does it hurt? Is the wound paining you?" He asked, pulling out the hug to grab my cheeks. "I'm sorry I really tried to hide it forever, you shouldn't have to see me like this," tears dripped down my cheek before I slightly calmed down.

"You know, it hasn't even been a month since my godfather passed away? He was a distant man, never used to show much care and affection, and I found out that he was risking his life by taking care of me. Which didn't make sense to me because, why risk your life if you aren't going to even care for me? Why work so many jobs just to stay away from home when we didn't need the money? Why not love me? But then my overthinking did it's job, and I figured out he was just- he knew he was going to die. He didn't want me to get used to the affection, the care, he probably thought it'd hurt less if I didn't feel the difference of him being gone."

I spoke a thought that was running through my mind for days, my sobbing had calmed down the slightest. "But I feel it, I feel it along with guilt, because only a couple days after he died, I smiled for the first time in a year. I dared to smile, I had the audacity to be so close to happiness. Because of you." I pointed at a concerned yet silent looking Taehyung.

"You shouldn't have made me feel, crying makes me look pathetic." Everyone in the room was left speechless, they pitied me, I know they did. "Who's made you this way...?" Isaac asked softly making me smile, "I did."

"You know ever since last year I've been looking for someone to blame, someone to hate for what happened. But I've come to realise that I have no one to blame except myself."

"I'm the villain in my story."