Monochrome Stories

White's POV

"Remind me again why I'm stuck with you?" Chartreuse asked as we were both walking towards the vending machine. 

"I don't wanna be in this situation as much as you do, but Black told me to buy drinks for all of us, and Lilac told you to come with me." I replied. 

"I wonder why Lilac cares so much about that delinquent. I've never even heard of her talking about him."

"Never?" I asked as I stopped in front of the vending machine and put money inside.

*clank*

"Oh, are you jealous?" She asked.

"W-what?? Me? Jealous? No way!" I replied, handing her a drink. 

She smirked. "I really do wonder what's up with them. Maybe we should hurry up and go back?" She laughed a little. 

Shit. What if there really is something up with them? 

"Yeah, we should head back now." I said, grabbing the drinks and running off. 

"Excuse me!" A voice called behind me. I turned and saw an unusually good looking boy. He had ċhėstnut-brown hair with white highlights styled into the same hairstyle korean idols have. He was way taller than me, and was wearing a plain, sky blue sweater with his school pin on the right side of it. "You forgot this." He said, handing me a drink. "It was left inside the vending machine."

I walked towards him and took the drink from his hand. "Thanks." I said. I didn't notice at first, but his eyes were so beautiful. One of them was light blue, and the other one was purple. 

"Is there something on my face?" He asked with a confused look on his face. I must've been staring at him for way too long. 

"N-no. Sorry. It's just, your eyes are so beautiful." I replied. 

"My eyes?" He asked, taking out his phone and using it as a mirror. "Oh crap! I forgot to put my contacts back on!" He exclaimed, putting his hands in his pockets and taking out a pair of contact lenses. "Hey... Can you not tell anyone what you saw?" He asked with a very nervous look on his face. 

"Oh. It's fine uh..."

"Cyan. My name is Cyan. Nice to meet you." He introduced himself, putting his hand out for a handshake. 

I returned it. "I'm White. It's a pŀėȧsurė."

"You ȧsshole!" A distant female voice exclaimed. I looked behind Cyan and saw Chartreuse running towards us. "You're dead meat if I catch you!"

"Sorry, Cyan, but I've gotta go." I said as I continued running. 

"See ya." He replied while waving goodbye. 

We arrived at the office and saw Lilac sitting on the bench at the side of the door. 

"Hey, Lilac. Where's Black?" I asked, trying to catch my breath.

She stood up and took a drink from my hand. "He took Crimson to the nurse's office. He told us to go ahead and not to wait up." She replied. "What happened to you both? Why do you look so out of breath?"

"This ȧsshole decided to leave me." Chartreuse replied while pointing at me and catching her breath. 

"Well, sorry, but you were gonna murder me if I didn't run." I said. 

"Alright, guys. That's enough." Lilac said. "Chartreuse, we're gonna be heading here. Are you gonna go the other direction or are you gonna walk with us?"

"I'd rather go in the other direction. See you, Lilac." Chartreuse replied, sprinting away. 

Lilac and I headed to the classroom just before class started. Black still wasn't anywhere to be seen here, so he must've still been in the nurse's office. 

I still wonder what Lilac and Crimson's relationship is. I've never heard about him from Lilac until today even though we were together the whole weekend. Did they already know each other from before? Wait, no, I remember we talked in the hospital too. Lilac didn't seem to know anything about him... So why do I feel like this? Am I actually feeling jealous? Maybe I should take her out for some food. It might relieve me of this feeling. 

I took my phone out and started searching for newly opened places to eat around the area. There was a lot, but I'd rather go to the closest one. 

"Okay, class." The teacher in front said, prompting the start of class. I looked over to Black's desk, but he still wasn't there.

The class started, and Black arrived a few minutes later. He had this look of worry in his eyes. I guess something must've happened between him and Crimson. 

The moment the class ended, I stood up and looked for Lilac to invite her. I looked around the classroom, but she wasn't here. I asked around, but no one seemed to know where she was. Maybe I should approach Black?

"Hey, Black." I called him. "Do you wanna go out today? I found a new cafe near here and I wanna try it out."

"Sorry. I can't." He replied. "I'm gonna head to the music room to visit Crimson. Maybe invite Lilac?"

"I was gonna, but I can't find her anywhere." 

"She must've went home already. Try texting her and see if she'll respond. Why don't you come with me for a bit? I'll introduce you to Crimson." 

I took my phone out and sent her a message. I didn't really have anything better to do while waiting for her reply. Maybe I should go with Black? "Yeah, I think I'm gonna come with you. I'll stay there for probably a few minutes." I said. 

"That's great! You'll finally see he's a great person." He replied as he walked out the classroom. 

I followed him to the music room, and as we drew closer, I could hear a beautiful sound of a guitar with somebody singing.

"That sounds beautiful." I said. It really was beautiful. 

"I know. It's one of the reasons why I love coming here." Black replied. 

We arrived at the music room. Black grabbed the doorknob and turned it slightly, but he didn't open it. At first I thought he just couldn't open it, but he looked troubled for some reason. 

I placed my hand on his shoulder and he flinched a little. "Hey, what's wrong? Why aren't you opening the door?" I asked. 

He didn't utter a word, but instead just stared at me. 

"Black?" I asked again. 

"Oh, right. Sorry." He finally replied and opened the door. "Hey, Crimson." He called to him. 

I stayed outside of the room because Crimson and I weren't really close. I don't think I'd be comfortable if I were to go inside. 

"I also brought White with me. He wanted to ask you something." Black said, gesturing me to come in. I entered and saw Lilac, still as beautiful as ever, but why was she here? I thought she already went home? 

"H-hey, Lilac." I said with my hands shaking. Asking her to do anything never gets any easier. 

She stood up and walked towards me. She stopped at a very uncomfortable distance from my face. "Yeah?" She asked. 

"Do you, maybe, wanna come with me to a cafe?"

She smiled and grabbed her bag from a chair. "Let's go. You're walking me home after this." She sayid, walking past me, but then stopped. "And Crimson, take care of yourself, okay? Bye Black!"

I followed her outside and walked beside her. 

"So, where are you taking me?" She asked. 

"Oh... I found this new cafe just near here and I wanted to try it out with you." I replied. 

She grabbed my cheeks and started squishing them. "You're so cute! Thanks a lot for inviting me."

"No problem.... Uh, hey..."

"Yeah?"

"What were you doing in there?"

"There? You mean in the music room?"

"Yeah. I was looking for you during dismissal and didn't see you anywhere."

"Oh, sorry. I was just really worried about Crimson, so when the bell rang, I decided to head there immediately."

"Were you not worried at all?"

"Why should I be worried?"

"You were alone with a guy!" I exclaimed, my voice getting a bit louder. 

"But I'm alone with you too right now, and you're a guy." She replied, looking confused. 

"But Crimson is different beca-" She cut me off. 

"Because he's a delinquent? Is that it? White, I thought you stopped being so bias with him. It's not his fault that the rumours are saying awful things about him." She snapped and avoided eye contact with me. "I don't think I'm hungry anymore. I'm gonna go straight home." She said, walking a bit faster, but stopped. "And just so you know, he isn't what everyone says he is." She said before running away. 

"Lilac, wait!" I exclaimed, trying to catch up to her, but eventually lost her. 

I stopped in the middle of the corridor in front of a classroom to catch my breath. It wasn't like I could have even caught up with her, so I just went towards the window and stared outside. 

Shit, I messed up. I should've just kept my mouth shut... Argh! Why am I like this?! Why am I so worried about him?! It's not like I'm going out with Lilac anyway... 

"That's something you don't see everyday." A voice behind me said. I turned around and saw a boy by the door of the classroom with medium length, messy, blonde hair, with some of his bangs covering his eyes. He had a black piercing on his right ear, and had these beautiful dark yellow eyes. He was wearing a galaxy sweater with what looks like a white polo shirt inside, and ripped blue jeans. He had wounds and bruises all over his face, almost like he had just gotten into a fight. 

"What do you want?" I asked a bit aggressively. 

"Nothing, nothing. I just saw something interesting and wanted to make a comment on it. Anyway, can you move out of the way? I have to clean these erasers." He said, showing me the two erasers on his hands. 

"Right, sorry." I apologized as I moved out of the way. 

"Thanks!" He replied and smiled. His smile looked totally weird because he had two sharp teeth, almost like fangs, on the sides of his mouth. He looked kinda like a vampire to be honest. 

He walked towards the window and slammed the erasers on each other multiple times to remove the chalk dust.

"So, what's your name, man?" The boy asked. 

"O-oh. My name is White. I'm from the arts department." I replied.

"Oh, cool. I'm Ivory from the music department. I just transferred here so I don't really know anyone yet. I'm struggling to make friends, especially because of the incident earlier today."

"Incident? What incident?"

"Do you know the fight that happened earlier during lunch time?"

"Yeah. The one guy there was my friend's friend, so they were so worried about him. I don't know about the other guy though. People said that it was a new student."

"Yeah..." He smiled. "That new student was me."

... What?!