Project: Socialize

It was about two hours until the official start of the play, so the two of us wandered around for a bit more. After eating lunch, I felt a bit more invigorated, but... it would appear that ingesting food did not have the same effect on Luna. Her face was somewhat more pale after eating, but that might've been the change in lighting. Her voice sounded slightly different as well, lacking in its usual power by only a tiny bit, small enough that normal people would never truly notice. But not me. I heard the difference and it bothered me greatly.

We left my classroom, and I followed after her. The crowd seemed to part before her, allowing her continuous access to the hallway to get to where she needed to be. It must've been from her authoritative aura, but I could sense that the authority seemed to have weakened somewhat. However, she seemed to not notice this sudden change, or she chose to not acknowledge it, and continued down the hallway with a smile on her face.

"Are you alright?" I asked her finally out of curiosity.

"What're you talking about?" she asked, turning around to face me while continuing to walk backwards.

"You just seem... a bit weird," I sighed. "It's a slight difference."

"Hmmm," she brought a finger to her chin as she thought over my comment. "I'm actually on a diet right now to lose weight," she explained. "And since I didn't eat much earlier..."

"Oh," I said, cutting her off before she was forced to finish, knowing that such a topic is usually a taboo to talk about with a girl."It's surprising that you even have to do that."

"What makes you think that?" she asked. "Maintaining my figure isn't easy work."

I glanced down at her body subconsciously, taking in her slim waist and perfect distribution of fat on her body. She was quite slim, but her hips and breasts were both of a perfect proportion.

"Stop staring," she sighed, causing me to notice where my eyes had wandered to.

"Sorry," I apologized.

"I forgive you," she said as she turned to face where she was walking and continued.

It was then that I noticed something that was odd as well. We weren't stopping by at any classrooms now, and when a student were to approach Luna, unlike before, she would conclude the conversation quite quickly without losing any politeness or kindness and continue on her way. In addition, the direction that we were heading in was also one that led to somewhere with fewer and fewer people. When I realized it, each step we took, there were fewer and fewer people around us. We had walked up the stairs to the top floor of the lecture building and made our way to the accessway leading into the secondary building.

She walked into the secondary building with me following close behind. Here, the hallways were completely empty with a great degree of silence. It was day and night here when compared to the loud and bustling lecture building. Here, it seemed cold and deprived of vitality, almost like a morgue where silence from the loud and chaotic noises of the living was had. It was so quiet that it made me feel quite uneasy. Slowly, my heart began beating on pace with the sound of our footsteps.

"Where're we going?" I asked.

"I left something in the student council room," she responded without looking at me. Instead, she continued her walk until we arrived before the closed doors of the student council room. "Wait outside," she said to me as she entered alone, leaving me standing before the closed door in obedience.

It was quite a while until she reemerged from the student council room, a length of time that was long enough to be quite suspicious, but short enough to not be as well. Was she searching for what she had forgotten? That's the only logical answer. However, it would appear that she had recovered what she had forgotten for her facial expression seemed to regain its vitality. Come to think of it, maybe her pale face was from her worrying about whether or not she had lost the object she came searching for.

"Did you find it?" I asked as I started following her once again towards the lecture building once again.

"Yeah," she said, letting out a sigh of relief. Then, she paused for a brief second in her speech before continuing once again. As she waited though, she took a quick glance over at me and smiled. "I though I had lost it earlier."

"What is it? If you don't mind me asking..."

"That's a girl's secret," she chuckled. "Something you're not prepared to know."

"I'm only a year younger than you," I responded.

"Still too young," Luna laughed as we crossed the accessway and into the lecture building, slowly leaving behind the dead silence of the secondary building and back into the world of the living.

We walked around for a bit more, this time stopping in the classes that we had skipped over earlier. Like before, we didn't particularly spent money in these places. Mainly, it was Luna having a casual chat with the students there while I looked around. Then, as we finished making our way from the deeper areas of the lecture building back to my classroom, she pointed towards the classroom next to mine, class 2-B, which was a horror house.

"We haven't gone into that one yet," she said, pulling me on my arm in order to drag me to the horror house.

"If you say so," I sighed.

I wasn't particularly afraid of this horror house. The reason why? It's a high school production. How scary can it be? I predict that it must be just jump scares. Nothing to special.

"Would you like to have a try, Ms. President?" the student dressed as a fortune teller sitting at the desk before the curtained off entrance to the classroom asked.

"Yeah," Luna responded. "He's with me." She pulled me closer to her in order to prove to the student that I was actually accompanying her.

"A-alright." The student sounded quite surprised, but he remained calm and acted professionally. "I'll let you to get in for free." He then got up and gestured for us to enter. "I hope you enjoy."

"Are you sure we don't need to pay?" Luna frowned, probably from the guilt she experienced after every single establishment she went to offered her stuff for free.

I'm just adding this in there, but when we were eating at the cafe my class had set up, her meal was free while mine I had to pay.

"Of course," the student smiled.

"Thank you then," Luna sighed and entered the horror house after parting the curtains with me following close behind her.

"You seem quite popular," I commented.

"I try my best to know everyone's names," she explained as we slowly walked down the dark, sectioned off hallway the students of 2-B had set up to create a creepy atmosphere. "It's my job as the student council president. As time went on, people just slowly became like that."

"I see," I nodded, although it was dark enough that she probably wouldn't be able to see it.

"Alevian," she then said, turning around to face me. Her face was partially illuminated by the eerie blue light that the students had hung on the wall, which made it possible for me to catch a glimpse at her angelic grace and that look of contempt on her face. "Are you afraid of death?" she whispered.

Her question was so sudden that it caught me off guard. Like really, why would she ask whether or not I would be afraid of a horror house once we're in it?

"Huh?" I asked."You should've asked me this before we entered." I paused and let out a sigh, looking over my shoulder and at the entrance. Beside it, there was a sign posted that said Do not backtrack. "We can't go back that way anymore."

"So you're scared of stuff like that?" she smiled in an amused manner.

"No," I responded. "I know it's fake and all."

"Right..." she nodded her head with a mysterious expression on her face that I didn't quite understand what it meant. "If you're not afraid, let us continue on."

For some reason, her voice sounded off for a second there. Like there was something on her mind at the moment. Was she expecting for me to be afraid so that she could be the caring student council president she was? That's probably the explanation.

"Well," I then said after putting that idea into consideration. "If it's truly unanticipated enough..." I blushed and looked off to the side. "... then I think I would probably get sca— woah!" I called out when something jumped out from the corner of my vision. It was a hideous being, but not too long after, I realized that it was a student wearing black clothing and wearing a creepy mask.

"Hehehe," she giggled before transitioning into an actual laughter. "You were trying to act cool and..."

I sighed and looked at the student that had scared me, looking into his mask as he shrugged as if to say he had nothing to do with this.

"Come on," Luna then said as she pulled my by my arm further down into the maze.

Like I had expected, it was jump scares. Plenty of them to be honest. However, there were circumstances where the atmosphere was actually creepy. For example, the dissection room where limbs hung from the ceiling of the room. That was quite disturbing to be honest. Then, there was that lone chamber with a person dressed in a white straitjacket and tied to a chair while struggling to free himself. The muffled screams really got the atmosphere down, and I have to give credit to where it was due. The student that played the mental patient really did a good job in frightening me. Although it was only just a little. Just a little.

"You're really not that afraid," I said to her as we excited the horror house. I was being extremely honest. Luna never once had a look of fear on her face. She was always calm and collected, with a simple smile on her face as we went through each room that the students had created.

"No," she said, shaking her head. "I was actually very afraid." Then, she turned around to gaze into my eyes. "But you're with me. That's why I have nothing to fear."

"Ms. President..." I blushed at what she had said. My heart raced and I could feel a warm feeling within me.

"Because if there was something scary," she continued, "you would be the first one to be scared. It's quite funny to be honest."

"F-funny?" I sighed as I realized that it was just my misunderstanding a few seconds earlier.

"Right," she nodded. "You're quite interesting." Then, she checked the time on her phone. "It's still a bit early, but I think we should head to the gym to get seats for the play."