Chapter 27

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Deuce was panting as he stared at the now painted roses. "... Well, this is going better than before."

"Looking good!" Cater said in his usual enthusiastic voice.

He glanced at his phone, and his eyes widened. "Ooh, it's almost time! Okay, all you sexy body doubles, that's a wrap!"

"Aye-Aye, Cay-Cay!" All the doubles shouted before they disappeared out of sight.

You, Yuu and Ace placed your paint buckets and brushes back where you found them, and followed after Cater towards the tea garden.

It was decorated with tables with white tablecloths and red chairs. Everyone of Heartslabyul was standing at their chair and you all took place infront of one aswell.

"All hail our leader, the red sovereign himself... Housewarden Riddle!" One of the student shouted as Riddle walked in his extravagant dorm uniform.

"We salute you, Housewarden Riddle!" All the other students shouted.

Trey was stood a few steps behind Riddle, looking at the shorter boy as he inspected the scene.

The Housewardens eyes flew over the scene with his nose held up high. "Hm. The garden roses are red, the tablecloths are white... This seems a proper unbirthday indeed."

"Is there a dormouse asleep in the teapot, as there should be?" He turned to the Vice-Housewarden behind him.

Said Vice smiled. "Of course. And should it become necessary, we've also prepared the jam to spread on his nose."

Riddle nodded in approvement and turned back to the party again. "Very good."

Grim was gaping at all the student dressed up in the Heartslabyul uniform. "Myah! Those are some fancy duds!"

Cater laughed at him. "These ate Heartslabyul dorm clothes. Aren't they fierce? At the forefront of fashion, and they look great on Magicam."

Cater waved his magepen around, and suddenly he also was in the uniform of his dorm.

"One of the Queen's rules mandates formal dress on party days. As a show of kindness from a beloved mentor, I'll help coordinate your outfits." He waved his pen around again.

Ace and Deuce were now also in the uniform, and Grims bow had turned into a cute black and red checkered themed how.

Yuu was looking kinda good in the uniform aswell, but instead of checking himself out, he was gaping at you instead.

Infact, so we're the rest of your friends.

"Damn, I knew I had style but geez... I need a picture of this darling, come here." Cater started snapping hundreds and thousands of pictures.

You stared down at your clothes to see what the hype was about, and your jaw dropped on the ground.

You looked at the clothes, twisting your body to see it from different angels. You felt the hat pinned to the side of your hair, which wasn't on the way of your ears surprisingly.

"Thank you, Cater. It's beautiful." You smiled at the junior, who awed and started snapping even more pictures of your slightly flushtered self.

"Whoa!" Deuce said as he finally looked down at his own outfit aswell.

"Lookin' sharp!" Ace complimented himself in the camera of his phone.

Ace had been so kind to take a picture of Grim's bow so he could see it, and the creature was marveling at the picture. "Myah! So cool! Y/n, look! Look!"

He pointed at his bow repeatedly, and you chuckled at him. "It looks amazing Grim." You smiled as he ran for you to pick him up, which you did.

"You all look fantastic." You then said to the four boys accompanying you, with a smile on your face.

"Yeah, you too Y/n!" Yuu said enthusiastically.

Cater smiled aswell and winked at you, before turning back to the whole group. "Now, let's tear this party up! And don't forget to give Riddle the tart."

You all took your seats while Riddle stood up from his and watched over the tables. "Before we begin the croquet tournament, let us make a toast. Does everyone have their teacup?"

Everyone around nodded, and some held up their teacup gently to show they did.

Riddle nodded approvingly. "On this most significantly unauspicious of days, I bed all in attendance... a very merry unbirthday!"

"To a very merry unbirthday!" Everyone cheered as they held up their cups in the air.

"Ace, this is your chance!" Cater poked Ace in his side making the boy flinch.

Aces frown quickly turned upside down as he realised the situation. "Right..."

He stood up and walked over to Riddle with the tart. Riddle happened to be at the same table, so it wouldn't be to hard to keep an eye on the freshman.

"Uh, Housewarden, sir..." The ginger started off strong.

Riddle's eyes shifted towards Ace, but he didn't seem very interested by his presence. "Ah, it's you. The tart thief."

Ace deadpanned before turning back to his awkward smile. "Yeah, so, I wanted to apologize for eating that tart. We made you a new tart to replace it."

This seemed to have piqued Riddle's interest as he finally tilted his head slightly to look at Ace better. "Hmm? And what kind of tart is it?"

Ace smiled at his interest. "I'm so glad you asked! It's a chestnut tart, and I sweat, we weren't stingy with the chestnuts."

Riddle's head snapped into Ace direction. "A CHESTNUT tart?!" He screamed out.

"What?!" The freshman took a step back in shock at the sudden yelling.

The Housewardens expression shifted to a harsh glare. "The Queen of Hearts's rule 562: "One must never bring a chestnut tart to an unbirthday tea party." Thie is an utterly flagrant rule violation! Do you understand what you've done?! You have ruined an otherwise perfect unbirthday!"

Riddle stood up from his spot in anger, while you all stared at him in shock. "Rule 562...?!" You all chimed together.

"How many of these rules are there?!" Yuu asked in shock.

You were wide eyed as well. "I have no idea, but I'm honestly scared to know.."

Riddle had heard Yuu's question and turned towards him. "There are 810 rules in all and as Housewarden, I can of course recite each and every one or them."

Cater shifted in his chair and leaned towards Trey. "Wow, T-I-L... This could be bad. Trey, we're you aware of this?" He whispered to the Vice-Housewarden.

You squinted your eyes, he better not have because otherwise-

Your thoughts were cut off by an equally stressed sounding Trey. "I was only able to memorize the first 350 or so."

He sighed and then continued. "Well, we really botched this one. Big time."

Riddle then turned to speak to Ace again. "As Housewarden of a dorm that established to honor the Queen of Hearts's rigor, I cannot ignore this."

There was a short pause before he pointed at Ace with a frown. "Destroy the offending tart immediately! Then throw these rulebreakers out of the dorm!"

✿༺ 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓈! ༻✿
✿༺ As much as you appreciate justice, you think those rules are bs.
✿༺ Caters gonna make a mixed background of pictures of you now.

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A/n: random people: "its all in the little things🫶"
The little things:

THATS S RANK AND YIU CANT TELL ME OTHERWISE.
anygays... I'm sorry my pookies for infrequent updates, vacation should not be this fucking tiring. Have to make an appointment at the hospital bc other people don't know what the FUCK they're doing.😠 Bffr I don't wanna be at my dad's restaurant 24/7 doing random ahh shit while I could he wiring. When I do come home I'm so tired my brain isn't functioning enough anymore for me to properly type so I'm especially sorry for any spelling mistakes in this one🫶
-Kitz/Yumeko