Chapter 17- a rule slip - chapter 18- a surprise tip
“Wh- now hold on Riddle–” I tried reasoning with him, he quickly raised his hand and shushed me. “You are a prefect as well, you know how it is!” he gestured to Grim.
“Whoa, hold up! Is that one of your rules too?!” Ace yelled “yeah! If you want the tart gone, let me eat it!” Grim loudly whined.
Trey and Cater walked in front of us “housewarden, allow me to apologize. I was the one who suggested making a chestnut tart.” Trey confessed “I was a part of that too. We had no idea there was a rule about it!”
“The making of the tart is not the issue. The issue is bringing it HERE. today. THAT is the transgression!” Riddle shouted “how can you live by such foolish rules?” I scoffed.
Riddle snapped his head towards me “what did you just call me? “Foolish”?!” Riddle glared “everyone, stop! Don’t dig this hole any deeper! And Riddle, please try to remember that these are new students who’ve only been here a few days!” Cater pleaded.
“Nah, bro. I’ve got a shovel and I am DIGGING. Throwing away a tart to obey some insane rule is about as foolish as it gets.” Ace stated “I agree with Ace. of course, I understand that rules do need to be followed, but… this is going much too far.” Deuce sighed
“Are you attempting to debate me? Bold move. But I'll bite. By breaking even the smallest rule, yoy are throwing wide the gate to anarchy.” Riddle stated almost as if he was the smarted person in the world
Ace turned to look at everyone in the dorm area “everyone, I know you’re afraid of getting your magic sealed away, but you know this is insane, right?”
“N-no, we, uh…” a student stuttered.
“Well? Isn’t it?” Riddle looked at him.
“Far from it, Housewarden Riddle, sir!” the same student shouted “we trust your judgement, sir!” another student yelled from beside the first.
Grim jumped up into my arms “you little…” he mumbled angrily “you spineless, fair-weartherd cowards…” Ace spoke to them.
“In the year since I became Housewarden, not a single student from Heartslabyul House has dropped out or been held back a year. We are the only house that can boast sush a feat. Furthermore, of everyone in this dorm, I have the best academic standing. Hence, I am the most correct! If you would simply obey me without question, we wouldn’t need to contend so.” Riddle grimaced.
“Listen, we—!” Deuce tried to speak before getting rudely cut off by Riddle “it’s not off with their heads because *I* want to do that. I do it because rules must never be broken.” Riddle shouted
I looked at Trey who stood silently with his head down “if you will not obey me, then I will have all of your heads!” Riddle screamed “okay, let’s all say, ‘yes, housewarden Riddle’.” Cater turned gesturing to everyone and trying to get them to say it.
“...I can’t” Deuce slowly back down, and behind me “me neither.” I stood tall while saying “I don’t bow to self-important tyrants!” Ace shouted from behind me.
“What did you just call me?” Riddle face full of disgust, he slowly turned his head towards me to stare down Ace “he called you a tyrant for wantin’ to destory good food just ‘cause you’re throwin’ a tantrum!” Grim nodded his head as he closed off his sentence.
“Guys, I don’t think we need to escalate this—” Deuce tried to silence us.
“Off! With! Your! Heads!” Riddle screamed at the top of his lungs, a collar showed up only around Deuce and Grim’s necks, since Ace already had one “bwaaaah!” they both said in unison “no! Not the collar again!” Grim buried his head into my neck out of shame “gah! I can’t get it off!” Deuce yelled while trying to pull the collar off.
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Sour Candy Kisses
Fanfictionthis is a disney twisted wonderland x male reader A boy is brought to a world that seemed to be like the movies he watched as a child. As chaos blooms and awakens, will he be okay?
