Chapter 1: Abnormal Days

[iruy]

Attention! A body has been found! That's right, a body has been found! Report to the hallway on the way to the cafeteria! A body, I'm so proud!

[Maybe you go to the hallway. Standing in fear is Lev, staring at Jakub, who is holding Tony's bloodied corpse.]

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[uhn]

[oh no]

[he isn't about to let someone else flip out like the boy in the thread above who's still yelling at the ceiling]

[quickly walks up to her, takes her wrist and pulls her towards the cafeteria, mumbling "I'm sorry" under his breath]

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

[numbly just going along with it, her eyes aren't really focused right now]

[just... that blood on the floor...]

[there really was a lot of it]

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

[helps her sit down on a chair]

Are you okay?

...

Um, Tony. She got killed with paper cutters, we think. Please do not have a panic!

[if anything he is going to have a panic if this keeps up - he isn't suited for helping people; he barely knows how to react to the murder]

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

[sitting down and just kind of staring at you a little blankly]

A lots of blood. It tastes real.

[just a small little smile]

Do you want to taste?

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

[blinks]

Huh? What?

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

[blinking right back]




Eh? Who are you? I do not see you come to me....

[uhn]

Uh?!

I...


[looks around]

[everyone is either trying to cope with their shock or busy interviewing others for their alibis; no one is available to take her off his hands]

...

[turns back to her]

Do you have a shock?

What do you need? Water..?

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

Ah... I am okay! I promise that! Not a shock!

[shaking her head quickly]

I am okay! Are you okay?

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

Me? Yes.


[stares at her]

[what do]

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

[can't help it]

[you're oddly cute, must hug]

I'm so glad you are okay! You are cute too much to be not okay!

[bro, welcome to marshmallow hell]

[uhn]

?!

[freezes up - what is going on]

U-um--!

[feels the urge to pull away, but tells himself not to - she does have a shock, it's clear]

[that's why she's acting like this; she's trying to distract herself from the blood and the body - right?]

...

[what can he say to her? why does he have to be so bad with words and with people]

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

[giggle]

You are cute. You can be my husband! It is decided!

[nope not letting go]

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

What?

uhn, cont.

[(Anonymous)]

You--

You really mean it?


[NEVER thought he would ever have a wife, or even any human being who would understand him]

[but in her eyes he sees something that makes him feel like he isn't alone with his dark secret]

[suddenly feels pulled out of his lethargy]


We-- we have to try to help those who are... investigating? It's "investigating", right? The, um, the nerds!

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

I-inve...stigate?

[come on, girl, think, what does that verb mea-- OH]

Ah! Yes, we must look for clues! But... errrr, Jakub, what are "nerds"?

[uhn]

Smart people! That's what the clarinet girl said!

[takes her by the arm]

Let us try to find them! Maybe we can do something--

[stops as he remember something]

Ah... what is your Super High School Level? I am a dendrologist, so I didn't think I would be, um... good use? But maybe you can be?

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

Eh? I am, uh, I am Super High School Level Orange Farmer! I am the best in Hungary and America! [beaming... but it fades soon]

But I am not sure how it is full of use for this....

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

Hm...

We will have to see what we can do. I mean, we have other talents that we maybe do not know because we never needed them! Right?

[tries an encouraging smile]

I have worked with apple trees more than with any other trees - if we can, um, live across the trial we can maybe have many apples and oranges!

[blushes again]

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

It will be like.... like, errrr, eating apples and oranges!


Wait, that is not right, no? Um. Apples with oranges? Eh, no....

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

[laughs although he has no clue what she means, but stops as he remembers yet another thing]

Lia? Can you go through the corridor?

When you saw, um, Tony...

...

[trails off as he realises how she launched from being strangely beside herself into full body contact with him]

[is she even okay now?]

[looks her over with an unsure frown]

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

The corridor....

[oh right someone actually died ummmmm]




Nn! I will be okay! It must be the blood. I will just not look at it! [resolute nod]

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

Okay. Can you close your eyes? I will lead you and take care that you don't fall!

[this sudden... "normalness" of talking to people and touching them is absolutely strange, but somehow, somehow he can handle it, and not only with this girl whom he has known for just some minutes - maybe it's because all their lives depend on it, but maybe also because the whole situation in this school just feels different from any other he has experienced so far]

Keep them closed, alright? I won't do anything wrong!

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

[eyes very tightly shut]

Okay. I will not look at!

[uhn]

[takes one of her hands and puts his other one on her shoulder, then steers her through the corridor, past Tony's bloody body]

[looks at her still form as he passes it by, remembering how alive she was just the other day]

[maybe it's because he is running on a minimum of sleep, but everything seems so very unreal]

...

Alright! We are around the corner.

[lets go of her]

I think it would maybe be good if you could talk to people on this side of... Tony, and I go back and look if I can do anything there?

[utterly unsure about whether his suggestions even make sense, but he wants to try]

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

[opening her eyes slowly]

I can talk to them....




...about what? [confused little smile]