Torn

"I look up from my book and see a group of teenage girls:"

Tokoyami POV

I am rudely awoken by my phone ringing.

What time is it?

I unwrap my arms from around Y/N and grab my phone.

2:06am

It's too early...

I hit answer.

???:
"Hey, Tokoyami...could I speak to you?"

Me:
"Who's this?"

???:
"Tsu, Ribbit."

Asui...?

Me:
"What is it?"

Asui:
"Could you meet outside? I need to talk to you about something..."

That's vague...

Me:
"What is it you need to talk about?"

Asui:
"I'll tell you when you meet me behind the dormitory."

...

I look at Y/N.

She's sound asleep.

...I don't know...

Should I...?

...

I'm...curious...

I don't know why...

I think...it might have something to do with Y/N...

After a long, silent pause caused by hesitation, I say into the phone:
"Okay."

I hang up and quietly exit my dorm room.

Y/N POV

Flashback

"Did you know...that every female on my side of this f##ked up family...have been accused of being evil..."

I look up from my book on Black Magic.

Mama glances at me...although I'm in a vent near the floor, by the couch...the grill is also up...

I shrink back further into the vent, hugging the book close for some type of imaginary reassurance...comfort...

Because the only thing to comfort a useless little girl...

Is something useful...

In this case...knowledge...

I listen to Mama once she starts talking again.

"All the way back...far...far...many got accused of being witches...and once that craziness past...they were somehow involved with a few major killers...My sister, your aunt, was somehow related to every single major crime that happened from the day she was born...to the day she was executed..."

What...?

"...major crimes...serial killers...murders...kidnappings..."

Hm!

"Assassinations...and so...so much more...poor girl...she was my older sister...I'm a middle child...my younger sister went missing when she was three...she was kidnapped...no clue what happened to her...she's presumed dead..."

That's...awful...

"And...my mother...she went crazy and ended it all..."

Oh...no...