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In his bedroom again, Vincenzo opened his eyes, one arm next to his head, under the pillow, and the other tucked underneath his black bedsheets. It had been a long month since the initiation, and the scavenger hunt had finally arrived. He had been preparing for it for a few weeks now, reading books about the school and tearing out pages when he thought he might have found useful information, both trivia for the scavenger hunt and clues about the disappearances. He was not a patient reader, so many of his books ended up missing pages, but he tried to keep his notes very acutely written, a small contribution to his sense of academic organization. The students of Wyndham college played a dangerous game trying to decipher the secrets of their school. Surely within a pool of such brilliant students, there were many trying to piece together the reasons for the tragedy that struck them. Likely, however, that only pushed the culprit further into their hiding place, and perhaps closer to their knife drawer.
One of his favorite conspiracists was Hayes Ferrell, someone that Vincenzo considered both a friend, and a source. He was a wizard for herbology, and the tall plants in his room often contained ingredients for any spell that they could dream up, as well as fulfilling other… recreational purposes.
He was a very tired, nervous, tormented delight to have around in Vincenzo’s finest opinion. Although he had previously been so invisible to the eyes of the student body, his recent decision to repeat a year made Vincenzo realize that he had been right about his initial interest in him. After your best friend disappearing on your campus, you would think you would leave as soon as possible, and Hayes and the choice to, but he withdrew from the horizon of his graduation and slumped back into the dark hanging over the head of his college experience. There was something at the school that haunted his body, hollowing the reflection of light from his baggy eyes. And it was not letting him move on.
He had been trying to figure out some things himself, but it seemed that he continually got distracted by the woman in the window…
Sometime between skips
She had gone to sleep by now, so there was supposed to be nothing interesting to watch from her, but he could not help but let his gaze continue to linger, wondering when she would wake. She laid on her stomach, her sleepy face facing the camera and he could not help but admire her dainty features, and the way her little eyelashes curved up even with her eyelids shut, wearing cute little pajamas that made the outline of her skinny body very clear. Perhaps he should not have been surveilling her any longer, though, so he closed the laptop on his lap so that he could no longer see the footage, and took his black-socked feet off the desk so he could place the device there. “Good night,” he told her, although she could not hear even if the laptop was still on. He found it funny how she had not yet noticed the camera staring right at her; so foolish. If she were smarter, perhaps she would have noticed it by now. If he were smarter, perhaps he would not have to watch her from afar.
Decidedly so, the idea of becoming closer with Hayes was not unideal to Vincenzo, in fact, it was genius. They had already been friends, since childhood, in fact, but it was time that they geared their subjects of conversation in a more… practical direction.
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After Vincenzo readied himself for the day, brushing his teeth, fixing his hair, etc, he had put on an all-black outfit. He wore a black, collared shirt with black pants, and his classic watch that tied the look together in an expensive way. In the mirror, he spritzed his neck and chest with his cologne, and then placed the bottle behind the looking glass. Staring at his reflection, he ran a hand through his hair. “Ah yes, I am so handsome,” he said to himself as if schizophrenically narrating his day to an audience that was not present. “And I just-“
He was about to continue complimenting himself when he heard the footsteps of an Umbra brother knocking at the door, and his positive affirmation turned into a dry cough. “Come in,” he said, obviously offering his guidance to whatever his brothers needed. But then when the door opened, Vincenzo realized that the man who had opened the door was just Bradford, who was like Renlin but even more concussed. “Was I interupting something?” Bradford asked sweetly, and Vincenzo relaxed.
“No, I was just checking the mirror before I left.”
”Looking good.”
“Not so bad yourself.”
“Can you kiss my forehead, Vinnie, I had a bad dream 
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“Not right now buddy, maybe later.”
Bradford tilted his chin down, pouted, and then crossed his arms before he left, groaning in sadness.
“Bradford I will see you later!” Vincenzo shouted into the hallway, and then quickly left to go to the cipher suite.
The lavish, purple aesthetic of the suite never failed to entrance Vincenzo when he entered the space, but he only got a quick look before he reached Hayes’s door. He knocked, but no one answered. As suspected, the man was asleep.
Using his dominant hand, he manifested a small cloud of shadows, and slowly manipulated them until they coalesced into a key shape, entering the slot, and turning so Vincenzo heard a click. He turned the doorknob and went to the foot of his bed, comfortably snatching the man’s blankets off him, and throwing them to the side, as they were childhood friends after all. “Good morning!!” He exclaimed grandly, knowing that his friend was probably still going to be very sleepy, and most likely try to kick him out. With a slow, deliberate movement, the man turned his head and opened his eyes to see Vincenzo, opening them slightly not to take in the light of the morning. Seeing how asleep he had been, Vincenzo supposed it may have been a bit rude to snatch his blankets and throw them. Maybe. So he sighed, deciding to relax his tone. “Hayes, breakfast is already starting, you have to get ready if you don’t want to be late for the scavenger hunt.”
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@astxrism Hayesy baby
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@idiot.exe bradford TEEHEE
@Madilfill renlin one sentence
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