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•|• Lesson Two •|•

"Yugi-kun! You're not missing anything either are you?" A sugary voice from behind him inquired. Turning his sights upwards he caught the silver-haired girl bouncing on her heels as she watched him with a small smile. His fucking luck sucks. Someone save him.

But...

It was true. The gift he'd promised Hanako had mysteriously disappeared just after he moved it into his desk cubby. If it hadn't been for what he'd brought her he would have given up the search long ago and possibly even made up a story just so he could flake out of their afternoon sessions. But he couldn't do that because he'd spent the last little bit of his allowance on this present and there was no way he was letting that go to waste. "Yeah, it seems I've misplaced my snacks..." No way he was gonna admit what he lost, especially to her of all people.

"Maybe...the Faeries showed up?" Another voice piped in from behind.

"Huh?"

"You haven't heard? Everybody's been talking about them lately!" Aoi exclaimed grabbing Yashiro and Yugi by their shoulders shaking them back and forth rapidly. Once she stopped the boy dizzily leaned against the desk looking back to the purple-haired gal in a frazzled manner.

Catching his confused eye she smiled rather timidly scratching her cheek bashfully. "There's a new rumor going around, and it goes:

Have you ever lost something you were keeping a close eye on?

Or had something that was always there vanish right when you need it?

Has that happened to you?

Then you might have been the victim of the faeries.

But you must never look upon them, because if you do...

...they will even take...

Your life...

Or so they say, of course, it's just a rumor after all!" She explained with a wave of her hands a nervous giggle following shortly behind.

If he'd remembered correctly, that what he and everyone had assumed about Hanako-san, too. If her rumor was true that that must mean the one she just told is as well.

Does Hanako know about this?

"Ah, is that so?" Yashiro whined thoughtfully, hand cupping her cheek as she leaned in to hear her friend's whisper as Aoi directed their interest towards a group of students fussing over their missing items a few rows away. "But lately-" she began, "Things have been going missing an awful lot."

"What do you think Yugi-Kun?" The diakon asked, tugging him back into their discussion.

"Who knows," he shrugged lazily leaning back into his chair with closed eyes. "Maybe they're real, but...you better watch out, it'd be hard to run with those ankles of yours Yashiro-chan~" his tease sent her cheeks aflame as she grumbled embarrassed.

"Oh, come on..."

"Guys! Come quick!" Someone boomed from the hall, garnering the attention of everyone still ideally waiting in the classroom.

Once in the corridor, the three of them (and the following whisp, much to Amane's dismay) jogged their way to the growing crowd huddling around the lockers. Chatter echoed through the right space, gossip, and talk spreading from mouth to mouth into the ears of anyone who'd listen.

"The locker doors are all gone!" A student from a couple of classes down cried out in shock.

"Who would do that!?" A blue-haired girl yelled angrily clutching onto her school bag as if her life depended on it. "I don't know! I just looked up and this is what I saw!" Amane creased his brows in confusion as he analyzed the dilemma at hand.