Behind the Mask

Profound Hate (Part 1)

The school bell rang, annoncing that another class had just passed, while simultaneously signaling that Ririkas shift, in which she had to be available, was over. Not like it made, at that point, a difference anyway. After leaving the council room, Ririka had directly loitered towards the community room, resulting in Ririka now being entirely alone in the empty room she had entered just a few moments ago. The whitehaired girl was standing completely motionless in the middle of the silent room. Ririka was leaning with her right shoulder against the wall, which was separating the room's two big windows. However only half her body was in the middle section of the chamber as some portions of her body were pressed against the bounding window as well, barely allowing her to quietly gaze outside the window, without actually being completely positioned in front of it.

Ririka's mask, which the vice president still had on, was lightly pressed against the cold glass of the window, which was nothing compared to the coldness she felt on the inside. Even from the outside Ririka seemed tired. Although it wasn't the case, the empty large community room, in which Ririka seemed almost to be furniture at that point, considering how she wasn't having any form of presence around her, was by itself, generating the feeling like there wasn't a single person in the school anymore.

The atmosphere in general in that room appeared to be noticeably depressing. Ririka ,detached, looked through her mask at the early afternoon sky. The clouds seemed to have dispersed themself a little, instead of piling up on each other, resulting in them seeming a little friendlier than before as the now seemingly less dense clouds admitted more light to reach even the community room in which Ririka was located. It still was not pleasant weather as the atmosphere was still completely covered by the clouds, however there now seemed to be the chance of the sun revealing itself towards the evening, which would be nice. Ririka took a deep breath, when she suddenly heard faint creaking noises coming from the room's door.

Ririka swiftly, yet completely impassively turned around after hearing the noise, moving completely away from the window in the process. Ririka was now standing in the centre of the wall and directly looked towards the door's direction. The whitehaired girl gazed carefully at the slowly opening door so she would instantly identify who was coming in. Even while looking at the entrance through her mask, Ririka still seemed more impassive than usual. The door unusually slowly opened, however it didn't even have to open completely since Ririka already recognized the blonde hair which she could see the moment the door had opened even just a small gap.

"It's Mary..."

Ririka took a deep breath as she could sense how she started feeling discontented. Ririka had already wondered why Mary had not been in the room when she had arrived there. The whitehaired girl had just assumed that Mary had gone the restroom or something, so she decided to wait, although deep down she had hoped that Mary wouldn't return to the room. "Maybe I should have gone home after leaving the council room..." Now that Mary was about to enter, Ririka was slightly regretting not having just left, as she really didn't want to see Mary right now. "But if I would have just left without saying anything, Mary would have maybe gotten angry with me... which I want even less..." realized Ririka unhappy, although being aware that it probably was better that way, no matter how much she didn't want to see Mary while feeling the way she was feeling right now.

Finally Mary walked seemingly nonchalantly through the entrance. The golden brown eyes which seemed calm, quickly found Ririka after slowly looking around the room, almost like she was checking if someone else was in the same room. Ririka with still foggy eyes, under her mask tried avoiding looking at Mary directly. "I'll need to act somewhat natural..." determined Ririka for herself. Ririka was completely conscious about not being able to deceive Mary under normal circumstances, "...it should be possible as long I keep my mask on."