Chapter 14

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YUU POV:

"Hurry up and paint those roses red!" Cards with paint bucket yelled around me.

"Slather them quickly, as aforesaid!" Another card yelled.

"Hurry, hurry! There are still roses left to paint!" I watched an Ace of Clubs yell out.

"They're painting...roses?" I mumbled to myself.

I watched as a long haired girl in a dress appeared.

"Why are you painting these roses red?" She asked the question swirling through my head.

The cards all turned to her. "Huh?"

The Two of Clubs was first to respond. "Why, you ask? It's quite simple. We planted the wrong color, you see.

The Ace of Clubs continued for his friend. "The Queen likes her roses red. If they're white, we'll lose our heads!"

"Lose their heads...?" That was a lot. Just because the roses were the wrong color?

I watches as the girl walked up to one of the trees, only half of the roses were painted. "Goodness!"

A Three of Clubs was standing by the tree she walked up to. "And so, were painting the roses red." It said to her.

A small ripple took over my sight, and everything went black.

"I could've sworn I was asleep in my dorm..." I muttered to no one in the darkness.

The darkness cleared up, and I was staring up at the roof of the shared bedroom.

There was a loud banging noise from downstairs. "Is someone knocking at the door?"

"Myaaah... Hey, Yuu... I know it's the middle of the night and all, but I think we've got a visitor. And the fox-thing is still sleeping..." Grim muttered from beside me.

"Maybe it's those pesky ghosts again? They don't know when to quit." Grim continued.

I went to get out of bed to go to the door, but was stopped when I couldn't lift up my right arm because of something heavy.

I grumbled silently and then turned to look at what was keeping my arm down.

There I found my female Housewarden laying ontop of my arm, snuggled against my chest. Grim was cuddled info her arms aswell.

Her ears were pressed flat against her head, and I now took notice of the tail that was covering part of both my legs.

I chuckled a little, and I could feel my cheeks heat up a little. This was just too cute.

When I heard the knocking on the door again I groaned. I did need to get up and get that.

I slowly leaned over. "Y/n, there's someone at the door..."

Her ears twitched and slowly popped back up. I felt her tail pull away from my legs, and I already missed the warmth of it.

She yawned and slowly her [e/c] eyes fluttered open. "Hm...?" She mumbled something incoherent and looked back into my eyes.

"Someone's at the door." I repeated in a low tone.

"M'kay..."

I watched as she slowly pushed herself up and got out of the bed. I followed her action and we started heading down to the door.

We stepped down the stairs into the entry hall, Y/n was walking after me with Grim in her arms as if he was a small plushie.

"Who would ve here at this hour." I grumbled to myself, slightly mad I couldn't continue to cuddle with the shorter girl.

2ND POV:

There was a voice from the other side of the door. The person must've heard that you were walking down the stairs.

"It's me, Ace! Just let me in, all right?" The voice said from the other side.

"Ace? It's the middle of the night!" Grim shouted from your arms, making your shut eyes open for a little again.

Yuu opened the door, and Ace walked in. I opened my eyes a little to look at him, but was surprised to see him wearing a bug heart shaped collar.

It looked alot like the collar Grim was wearing after the red haired boy cased his spell on the cat.

Grim was surprised seeing the collar aswell. "B - bwah! That collar!"

Ace put his hands on his hips. "I can't go back to Heartslabyul House. I'm joining your dorm. For good."

"Myah?! Come again?!" Grim's eyes shot open, and so did yours. Finally.

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You had all moved towards the lounge. You were seated on one of the couches with Grim and Yuu. Ace was seated in a lounge chair across from you all.

You were half asleep, leaning against Yuu's shoulder. Your eyes were open, but they fluttered shut wvery once in a while.

Ace was -unknown to all of you because of the dark- slightly glaring at Yuu.

Grim was the first to speak as soon as you all sat down. "I'd recognize that collar anywhere. It's the same one that psycho stuck on me at orientation! What'd you do to get shackled with that?"

Ace groaned loudly before responding.

"I ate a tart."

"..."

"You...ate a tart?" Yuu asked with a confused tone.

"Yeah, that's it! That's all I did! I was a little hungry, see, so I went down to the dorm kitchen and found some tarts in the fridge. Three whole tarts! Big ones, too!"

~Flashback~
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Man, I'm still tired from our little adventure. I missed dinner, too, and now I'm starving!" Ace slumped into the kitchen of Heartslabyul.

He went up to the fridge and pulled it open. "Got anything for me, fridge? ...Whoa, score! Tarts! Those look amazing!"

His eyes shone as he smiled at the tarts.

"And plenty to go around, too! No one would notice I'd I snagged one teeeeeensy little slice, right? Right. Of course not."

He pulled one of the tarts out of the fridge with a smile.

He took a piece of the tart, and immediately stuffed his face with it.

After less then a second his eyes widened in glee. "Mmph... SO good! I'm in pastry paradise right now!"

There were soft footsteps behind the boy, and suddenly a voice spoke. "Of course they're good. Trey made them. His tarts are always exceptional."

Ace didn't take notice at who was behind him. "Yeah, but I mean... there are CRAZY good! Like, he could sell these at - wait, Housewarden?!"

The ginger had finally turned around to look at the shorter male behind him and almost jumped at the sight of him.

The red head glared at Ace. "That you would think to touch something of MINE... Well I'm impressed with your audacity, at least. But the Queen of Hearts's rule 89 is quite clear. "Never eat a tart without the Queen's permission." The theft of tarts us a serious crime! Off with your head!"

"Bwaaaaah!" Ace screamed out as yhe collar appeared around his neck.

~End flashback~

"And... here I am." Ace finished telling his story.

You were all staring at him as if he was stupid.

"....."

"....."

"....."

Grim was the first to break the everlasting silence. "So... The point is you're both terrible?"

You nodded at the cat's words.

Ace got confused by this. "You don't think that it's insane for my Magix to get sealed away from eating ONE slice of tart?! For a mage, that's like having your arms and legs bound and shackled! And there were three whole tarts! THREE! It's not like he could eat 'em all himself!"

He huffed loudly. "C'mon, you KNOW thus is messed up!"

Yuu hesitated before answering. "I guess...?"

"What kind of wishy-washy answer is that?!" Ace asked in a loud tone.

"Ace, did you ever consider they weren't for him? Maybe a part or something?" You muttered from your spot against Yuu's shoulder.

"Yeah!" Grim agreed. "Maybe it was someone's birthday or somethin'? Lookit that! Were, like, master detectives too!"

"That would explain it." The ocean blue eyed male agreed with with his dormmates.

Ace glared at the three in front of him. "Man... I thought you'd be more sympathetic! I'm a victim of the Housewarden's tyranny here!"

"He may have been a little extreme." Yuu agreed before you spoke again.

"Yeah, but how would you feel if someone stole your food without asking, Ace?" You asked while your eyes drooped closed again.

He though about what you said and then sort of half nodded, half shook his head.

"Tomorrow, go and apologize." Yuu said, and you nodded weakly from his shoulder.

Grim huffed at Ace. "Don't go messin' with another man's meal..."

The cat's ears suddenly shot up and his eyes widened. "Hey, wait a minute! I just realized I never got those cans of tuna the headmage promised me!"

Ace ignored Grim and slumped his shoulders. "All right, all right. Fine. I get that I should apologize. But you three are coming with me. This was your idea, after all."

"Yes..yes... all right..." You muttered until a yawn interupted your words.

"Fair anough." Yuu mumbled aswell.

"Anyway, you got a place for me to crash tonight?"

"You were serious about that?" Grim crossed his arms with a sigh. "Outside of the bedroom me, Y/n and Yuu use, thus entire dump is buried under a foot of dust. So if you wanna crash you should start cleanin'!"

Ace frowned at the answer. "Dude, no way! I hate cleaning! Just let me stay with you, N/n-chan, Yuu-chan. I'm really slim. I won't take up much space."

"Allow me to introduce you to the lounge sofa./Not in your wildest dreams." You and Yuu said at the same time.

Ace tch'ed at this. "Tch. You're both about as flexible as a brick. Well, fine. The sofa is is. Night!"

You, Yuu and Grim got off of the couch and started heading up stairs. Ace layed down on the sofa and shivered a bit from the cold coming in through the cracks in the walls.

Then, there were soft footsteps coming towards him. A soft blanket was thrown over his body, and his head got lifted up. A pillow was placed under his head, and then his head was let down again.

"Goodnight, Ace..." Your voice muttered softly before he heard you walking up the stairs again.

✿༺ 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓈! ༻✿

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A/n: Yall so quite... im not gonna bite your head off I swear😭. I'm really nice, trust🙏 Anyways. Do you want me to start from one at every book like this (chapter 1 book 1) or do you want me to continue counting? (Chapter 14).
-Kitz/Yumeko