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uhmmm I'll put the story down beloow, sorry if there's any typoes or mischaracterization!!!

This was written when I just woke up from the dream so I was kinda tired, and I wanted to keep it the most accurate to what happened in it:'p

Bit of a TW for brief mention of self starvation and throw up if anyone is sensitive to that

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Tuesday on an afternoon, slightly sunny and a little chilly; Its nearing the end of class,

 Miss Cross is talking about something incoherent that I can't seem to listen to or focus on no matter how hard I try. 

I haven't seen Rhett all day, or the day before.. or even the week before.. Im really worried, and its unusual. 

Ever since I saw what was underneath that scarf I just have a gut feeling something bad happened, and I cant help but grieve. 

-I finally snap out of the depressive state when we hear someone stumble into the classroom. 

..A new student? Whos.. extremely late to the class, the bells about to ring in 4 minutes for crying out loud. 

After he nearly falls over awkwardly he stands up tall and dusts off his clothes.. 

His head is shaped like a diamond, and he's dark blue-ish-indigo with a puffy varsity jacket on. Similar to what I saw.. Rhett wear once. 

W-wait, Ive seen him before.

Thats my ex. 

He makes brief eye contact with me before I immediately try to look away frantically, covering my face with one hand. 

I couldn't see the expression on his face but I could tell it most likely wasnt a good one. 

after that hell-ish 4 minutes being in the same room with that guy the class finally ends and i quickly pack everything up and speed out the school for our lunch break. 

I wanted to walk outside for a change. I didn't feel hungry, at least thats what I wanted to tell my stomach.. 

 I haven't felt like eating anything for 2 ½ days ever since Rhett dissapeared. I feel too guilty not to, and I just assume someway, somehow, it was my fault. 

I notice as I walk out into the parking lot that he, from earlier, steps out from behind a car, as a group of other shapes laugh behind it, I assume thats the friendgroup Diamion somehow already got into on his first day here. They made it obvious they were all waiting for something to happen. 

Diamion was holding a bag of pretzels and an open soda in his hand, I knew what was coming. 

"Go on." -B

"What?"  -D

"I know you want to dump that food on me." -B

"I-I uh." -D

".. So? Go on." -B

Then Diamion begins to take a step back, but before that I say.

"Im waiting.." -B

I shake my head slightly, brows relaxed and a overall neutral expression on my face, my arms slightly open and my palms face towards him. 

"Uh.. No..! I just wanted to offer you a pretzel, since you l-looked hungry!" -D

Diamion takes a singular pretzel out of the bag and offers it to me, which I respond to with a dry-

"Im good, not hungry." -B

He seems very awkward and a little embarrassed telling by his expression, but to be fair we had a 5 second long silent moment where we both just stood there, staring at each other. 

He was always nervous like that, just tried to hide it. 

"Uhm.. now its kinda awkward for the both of us. 

I wanted to go on a long, cool monologue being like "from here now on, all of our past doesn't matter! I hate you, and you can do nothi-" blah blah blah the stereotypically thing. But I cant really say that now" -D

 "So.. c-cya around man." -D

"Bye." -B

I look down for a moment before my stomach starts to growl louder and hurt, I covered my mouth to make sure I dont throw anything up. I mutter. (Or try to) 

 "I-I r.. eally shouldve ttaken that.--" -B

I run past another crowd of shapes, who pay no attention to me or anything around them, they just continue to chatter and crack jokes. 

I head behind a corner and rush down into an area I consider comforting, a little roomy space that was for some reason added, I always assume something was meant to go here, but was either removed or never added. 

I decided it to make it my safe study space I go to on my free time.. I even brought Rhett with me often.

 We'd doodle on the walls and the Concrete (or, considerably the floor) with chalk often, they're still there too. 

I sit down and begin to just silently cry, cry until I curled up and fell asleep for a few minutes. 

I had been shivering noticeably, it got colder than usual. 

I was then woken up to someone.. My vision was blurry and making me see things, I couldve sworn the arm in my peripheral vision was Rhett's.. But it wasnt

"..R-rhett?" -B

"Not Rhett.. But are you okay??" -D

"I saw you go around this corner clutching your stomach everything, you kind of looked like you were dying." -D

"-And that just made me more worried when I saw you curled up like a cat unconscious!" -D

I frown a little, sitting up to bury my face into my knees. 

"No.. no, im not okay, I really really miss my close friend, Rhett. Hes been gone for about week already and im extremely worried." -B

"I cant help but cry out of worry and I feel like its my fault so ive just been starving myself for days on end because I can't bring myself to eat over him." -B

I accidentally let all that out. Infront of my ex. who tried to humiliate me earlier.

I cover my mouth, looking panicked, Diamion looks shocked too, to think someone like me would do something like that. 

"Oh my god.. I-im sorry but I think ill have to call the council about this, more specifically.. telling goldel. I hope they can do something about this because starving yourself cant be good." -D

My heart dropped. 

"No.. NO.. NONONO NO DIAMION. DIAMION DONT TELL GOLDEL, DONT TELL THE STUDENT COUNCIL." -B

I stand up, shaking, and looking up at diamion. 

"DIAMION PLEASE DONT TELL GOLDEL PLEASE PLEASE DONT TELL ANYONE." -B

"PLEASE.. PLEASE DONT TELL GOLDEL, DONT TELL GOLDEL HES GONNA TELL EVERYONE ELSE AND HE'S GONNA B-BLAME RHETT FOR IT AND HES GONNA SPREAD LIES ABOUT H-HIM AND GET HIM INTROUBLE LIKE HES DONE BEFORE AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN DOING." -B

I grab onto his arm thats dialing goldel's number, and cling to his shirt, sobbing uncontrollably, not caring how aggressive or loud I was. He seemed startled regardless. 

"Please.. Please.. PLEASE DONT TELL GOLDEL." -B

I start crying more quietly and my grip on diamion's shirt gets tighter, nearly burying my face into it. I whisper, hitching in my speaking. 

"... pple..ase.. mon, ddont tell him. Thats the only thing i-ill ask of y-you. Im scared.," -B

Diamion looks concerned, he had already hit call, but decides to hug me for a moment. 

"Man, I-Im sorry I didn't know id panic you this much. I wont tell him, or anyone for a matter of fact, I promise." -D

Alas, the phone call gets picked up, fortunately Diamion has ane excuse on hand, he indicates a shushing motion with his hand, and I remain clinging to him slightly. 

"Hello diamion! What do you need?" -G

Goldel begins to go on more of his ramblings, listing off and asking various questions of what Dia might possibly need. 

"Uhh woah woah woaaah! Slow down, I just.. Want to know if uhm.. Theres any volunteering or job opportunities for me..!" -D

"Ahh!! Perfect, we actually have some spots available! ----" -G

They start conversing more, I can barely understand anything of what they're saying, im just glad Diamion understood me.

After a few dreadful minutes again, Diamion ends the call after a word or two. 

"O-okay! Ill definitely consider these options, thank you kind sir." -D

"No problem! you can always reach out to the student council if you need anyth-"-G  *Beep*

"Phew.." -D

".. Thank you, *sniffle*" -B

"Its no problem, really. Im sorry for all of this." -D

"I-its okay, I appreciate you." -B

I hug him one more time. 

[Thats basically where the dream ended]

Also more art of what I saw in my dream, for making it till the end<:D