TRIGGER WARNING: suicide, abuse, homophobic slurs, animal abuse

ELMSWOOD HIGH SCHOOL was notorious for its oddly childish cliques, as well as its academic reputation. It was essentially a primary school; and it was seemingly only the students who knew this, as the staff and many of the parents took pride in their 'confident and diligent students,' when in reality, half of the students stole exam answers, 'teased' the smart kids (threatened them), and half-assed essays.

The biggest and arguably most powerful group consisted of three students - Abel Makkonen, Anaïs Droit and Oceanus Driver. They were often accompanied by the power-duo of Angel Woods and Yasser Darzi, two mischievous pranksters who often teased the professors instead of the students.

Angel Woods was most definitely a very abstract character, a character who was a lot more than meets the eye. Even his closest friend, Yasser, didn't know too much about his past or his strange hobbies.

When Angel was young, he was put through a lot, to say the least - he saw his father beat his mother on numerous occasions, until he was enrolled into a foster home. His father left, which lead his mother to commit suicide; he didn't speak to people for years.

It slowly drove him insane. Angel grew dreaming of murder, and when no one was looking, he killed animals. He picked off the legs of spiders, cut off the beaks of birds, chopped off the legs and tails of cats and ripped out the teeth of dogs, to name a few.

Throughout highschool, he was relentlessly bullied, being spat at or shoved and stuck inside lockers or classrooms. He was the infamous 'freak faggot' in school, because one day he a wore a tiny pride flag on his blazer lapel.

But of course, Angel would never let anyone know this. He remained an innocent, caring and loving boy, only because he had to. He felt nothing for people, not even for Yasser. He feared nothing, and would do anything to survive, even if it meant mass murder.

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mafia lads 🤪

june-bug 🐞
yasser
what the fuck did you get us into?

yes sir
GUYS i swear it's not fucving me
paranormal shit terrifies me
i thought it was you guys

rhys 🔭
if any of you did this im literally going to kill youa
devon is freaking out

angel 👼
omg is he okay : ((

little mermaid boy
lmao pussy

rhys 🔭
fuck off anus

little mermaid boy
not cool

rose thorn 🌹
shut the fuck UP oh my god

june-bug  🐞
HELLO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what are we going to do about this!!
i say we drop the game

abel 😈
well that's no fun, is it?
i say we continue.

rose thorn 🌹
NO
WHAT
HOW DO YOU EVEN-
????????????

eve 🦊
dont include me in this xoxo
i dont give a shit lol srry

little mermaid boy
same
yall are boring as fuck xoxo

rhys 🔭
i hate all of you

devon 🌻
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

anaïs 💡
fucking hell
you're all useless
(no offence)
think about this logically
anaïs 💡  is typing...

little mermaid boy

hm

[image attached] 

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3 MESSAGES FROM "uniform2938"

uniform2938
finish the game.
trust me
you should finish the game.

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"For fuck's sake, Yasser! I have exams coming up, now is possibly the worst time for you to have pulled this shit!"

A brown-haired boy was pacing around the other nine students who sat in a circle on the short grass of Elmswood Gardens.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise that we would have a fucking stalker after us!" Yasser rolled his eyes, leaning back on the grass and gazing at the clouds.

"Devon, sit down and help us figure this out," Evelyn reached out, grabbing his hand and pulling him towards the group.

"No, I can't! There's nothing to 'figure out', Eve! I knew I shouldn't have fucking done this, I fucking swear to-"

Tears brimmed in his eyes, his fists clenched so tightly that his skin was wearing.

"What the fuck is wrong with this kid?"

The two of them decided to go for a walk around the gardens, which left eight of them to discuss.

"First year of Sixth Form and this is how I'm spending my time."

Anaïs blocked out the rest of the faint bickering between Rosalie and Oceanus, chewing her tongue.

"Yas, how do you finish a game of Mafia?" Her tone was blunt - Anaïs had always been a straightforward person, who knew what she wanted. Unlike Devon, she knew to stay calm and collected in dire situations.

All eyes turned to Yasser.

"Well.. Everyone closes their eyes and the mafia or the mafioso choose to either kill someone or leave a ransom note. The doctor can revive someone, blah blah blah."

"This seems off."

"Yeah, well no shit-"

"Shut up?"

Anaïs pulled up Yasser's Instagram account.

"'When you all die.' What a threat."

"Anaïs, I thought you were smarter than this. It's so obviously fake," Abel droned on.

"Don't mock me."

"And you know this.. How?" Juniper interrupted, leaning into the circle.

"Are you serious? Look at it! We did this in like, Year 7." Abel shook his head.

"Can we all take this a little bit more seriously? We don't know who this asshole is and they're sending us death threats."

"Ever been on Twitter, Rhys?" Yasser giggled (more than he should have).

"Follow me, @rhysnotreece," he stood up, throwing up his middle finger towards him.

Someone's phone rang.

"Hello?" Rhys answered, walking away from the group.

"Sit back down."

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hope you enjoyed this chapter & i hope it wasn't too short!

establishing relationships is difficult x

obviously because there are ten characters, not all chapters will contain all ten characters, but eventually I think every character should get a chapter explaining their backstory + experience!

anyway tysm for all of the support and lovely pms!! ily all

bye <3

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