𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞 || CAM BRIEL

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Bleeding To Seek A Memory
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I almost forgot I had detention, at the cemetery, at 7 AM early in the morning, along with Luce and Arriane and the other people who got detention. We've been general cleaning for punishment at the cemetery for about thirty minutes now, wiping windows, gravestones, and angel statues, and trash-poking dead leaves.

Randy handed me a bucket of water and a washcloth as he assigned me to clean the old chapel's large stained glass window that had only three colors: white, green, and a dim yellow that looked mostly like gold.

"I didn't expect getting a first detention in my second day of school." I wiped the colored window with an image of warrior angel.

Luce scoffed, wiping her red nose from the cold. "Welcome to Sword & Cross Academy," she stated, trash-poking the brown leaves and candy wrappers on the ground.

I squeezed the washcloth after putting it in the bucket of water. I let out a sigh "Lovely school."

"Okay, I think I got almost everything here— I'll go next to the building," Luce said as she noticed another new mess over there and turned to face me as I climbed the short ladder.

"Alright."

"See you, and please do be careful." Luce pointed at the ladder as I reached the top.

I looked down at her, "Will do if you do," as I continued wiping the upper right window. Luce nodded, a tight-lipped smile on her face, and proceeded to the building's front yard.

So, I yawned so loudly that I had to cover it with my arm, and then I heard Arriane's yell from about thirty feet away, where she was cleaning in the graveyard. "Oi! Be careful up there (y/n)!"

That made me swallow half of my yawn and widen my eyes. I looked over my shoulder and waved my hand at Arriane with a small smile, "Scream one more time and I'll fall this time."

"Sorry!" Arriane gritted her teeth apologetically, her brow furrowed before continuing to wipe the dirt off the gravestone next to her.

Then I noticed Molly and Cam had just arrived, carrying buckets full of water and washcloths on their way to the cemetery with Arriane. I mostly waited for him to look at me, but I realized I was too far away, and he wouldn't notice me if his eyes were focused on his path.

I turned and continued wiping the stained glass window of angel, face to face, his wings were gold and similar to my dream I had this morning. Hm, what a coincidence.

But there were times when I felt Cam's eyes glancing at my back in my every wipe on this window, as if I was being guarded by someone, by him. Okay, that's odd.

I gave a look from behind me and I think I caught Cam's eye before he poured the gravestone with a bucket of water. Why was he suddenly avoiding looking at me? Okay, why I'm overthinking over a small thing? I gotta stop as why should I care?

The blue sky above me has darkened, as if rain is about to fall.

Gosh, this is slowly killing me, I miss my iPod and wished I can listen some punk rock music right now to get energized or motivated somehow— but, my iPod was confiscated along with my phone when Randy obviously caught it from my bag and decided to include it in the box of "hazards" which is sucks.

I kept working my sleepy ass off with wiping the every detail with dust on the window then suddenly, a sound of thunderstorm started roaring from the dim sky that made me startle and almost fall off the ladder just as my heart from my chest when the ladder wobbled under my feet, caused my body twitch from panic "Shit." I placed my hands swiftly on the cleaned stained glass window to support my weight. My face in front of the angel, then a sudden flash of lightning boomed from the gray clouds.