As Libra walked lazily through the campus, he was enjoying the abundant green radiating from the freshly clipped grass. This year, he thankfully had first period off, but wasn't sure what to fill his time with. As he sprawled across a random patch of grass, he was about to doze off, until he heard an abrupt ambulance siren to his left. Goddamnit, he thought. At times, he just wished he would go deaf finally. He had already lost 80% of his hearing in his left ear, and 60% in his right. And the halting dizzy spells every 5 minutes didn't help either. No other student at the school, not even his friends, knew that he had suffered from Ménière's disease since he was five, and had feared going deaf ever since. But nowadays, sometimes going deaf would be easier. He just wanted to get it over with.
"Oh no." He thought, assuming someone in the culinary arts program blew something up again. But as the ambulance stopped next to the library, Libra had to rub his eyes, making sure he was seeing clearly. But, clear as day, he saw two men and a woman jump out, carrying a stretcher. They didn't seem in much of a hurry though. Almost like...no, no, that's impossible, thought Libra. No one dies here. Like-ever. But, sure enough, a girl named Aquarius, who he had a brief fling with last year, came hurtling across the campus, from the nurses office.

     "Hey! Aquarius! Slow your ass down." He says as he lazily gets up. "Why are you in such a hurry?"

"Listen, I don't have time for your bullshit right now. A few minutes ago I-I saw one of my newbies in my house dead. Lying on the library floor, with-with a knife stabbed through there chest." Aquarius says, breathless. As she doubles over, clenching her sides, Libra feels himself falling back into his default mode: standoffish.

"What? Come on, stop playing around, Aquarius. This is serious." But as he searched her face for any recognition of this all just being one big joke, his heart soon fell. As he saw Aquarius's legs start to shake, and a startling sob slipped through her lips, Libra caught her just in time before she hit the ground.

"Hey, hey, it's okay. Everything's going to be alright. Just breathe, just breathe." As Aquarius slowly exhaled, and I felt the knots in her shoulders give way, I saw the three paramedics from earlier come through the big, ancient library doors, carrying out a freckle covered red haired girl, with blood frozen cold in there tracks, and a bloody knife held sternly in her chest.

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As Sag stretches out his sore legs, and listens to the teach moan on and on about the best sources and cameras to accomplish the best results in the career of Photography, everyone is startled awake by the abrupt noise of a nearby ambulance. As the rather dull teacher peeks out the window of the substantial classroom, his face turns ghostly.
"What's the matter, Mr. Johnson?" Asks the perky blonde in the front row.
"Um-I-I have to go to the office for a minute. Everyone please stay where you are, and you can softly communicate with your neighbors. Just don't mess around." Of course, as soon as Mr. J slammed the door, everyone got up from there seats. Some to make out, some to get a little more dirty, and a small few to get up and look outside the window. Unfortunately, the ambulance was gone, but he could see the small blur of a human, that belonged to the librarian, Mrs. Milcent. She was leaning against the wall of the library, outside, looking as though she was about to throw up. And, a few yards away, were Libra, and a girl he knew to be Aquarius, crumpled in the grass, Aquarius looking shooken with grief, and Libra doing his best to comfort her. Something wasn't right...