🌹🌷Prim and Proper
₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ That Riddle x twst!kingofhearts!oc fanfic I promised to upload again. A few "warnings": I am not a native English speaker nor a very good scenario writer lol. I did some work as dialogue writer and am much more comfortable writing stories through comics. But I have a lot of ideas for these characters and simply cannot produce so much comics haha! So this is a short beginning, just a meeting. Not really Riddle x OC since it's just friends :) Let me know if you guys want more of this stuff! I am kinda nervous posting writing like this but I am cringe I am free! The fic is under the line ! ₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚
🌹 Riddle’s POV
The Night Raven College library was a sacred place to Riddle. It seems that everyone followed rules a bit better here, right after his own dorm. A grand place where everyone could study to their hearts content. Sometimes there would be some ruckus, but nothing too out of order. Except today. Night Raven College was so kind to lend their library to a small school on the island, Lady Mystic College, now that their own library was under renovation. When Crowley announced how graciously he offered his service to the all girls school Riddle could hear several boys cheer. Behind him Ace let out a “nice!” and was eagerly waiting for his high five to be returned by Deuce. Riddle just stuck up his nose. He didn’t know much about this school, and that said enough. It was small and their students weren’t particularly known for any great achievements. Unlike Night Raven College or even Royal Sword Academy. And now these unknown students, ones Ace liked to call “Lady Mystic girls” are occupying the library like they own the place. And it’s hard for Riddle to contain his second hand embarrassment seeing his fellow students gawking at the few girls now in their presence. It’s like they have never seen girls before and they’re not scoring any points by their blatant stares. He already told several students around him to keep it down, it’s still a library. But now there is a duo of girls being awfully loud too.
It’s remarkable how the giggling of two girls from across the room can get so easily on Riddle’s nerves. Is this how they acted in their own library as well? But seeing how they were eyeing the other students, perhaps not. Their outfits were dark purple with touches of pink, very proper and prestige. But their attitude was anything but. They were leaning close to one another, snickering and talking about surely something else than their studies. Riddle’s slammed his book down as he arose from his seat, making his way to the source of his irritation.
Coming closer he noticed a third girl. She was smaller than her friends, her curly hair was kept in tow by two pig tails, and her eyes were nervously switching between her book and her friends. Her upper lip was resting on her braces, ones she clearly tried to hide by constantly pressing her lips together whenever she was reminded of their presence. Where her friends were clearly the trouble makers, she seemed more of an observer than anything else. Still, she could’ve warned her friends for their unwarranted behaviour Riddle thought as he came closer.
“Excuse me.” Riddle said sharply as he arrived at their table.
The girls looked up, their giggling stopped as soon as they saw the red haired boy. “Hi! What’s up?” one said way too casually.
“This is a library.” Riddle stated. “You are disrupting other students with your talking. Please keep it down.”
The girls exchanged glances and tried to keep their giggling to themselves. “Yeah, sorry about that!”. Her tone didn’t sound apologetic in the slightest.
“S-Sorry! We uh- we didn’t- I mean-” the third girl stammered. She fiddles with her book as she looks up at him. “We’ll be quiet, I promise!”
Riddle frowned, eventually nodded in response. She seemed genuinely sorry but rules are rules. And they all bore the responsibility of their collective behaviour.
“Thank you.”
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🌷Prim’s POV
She felt a pit in her stomach as soon as the boy pointed out their distracting behavior. This wasn’t the first time she got scolded, but she was still new to it. Her parents both homeschooled her up until middle school, and now that she was finally attending a real school it happened more and more. She looks over at her friends, who seem to be amused by the boy correcting them, not planning to change in the slightest.
“Uhm- you guys, I think we should be silent-”
“Don’t worry Prim, we’re thilent.” that little comment both made them laugh again.
Prim loved her parents, and spending time with them. So she never felt like being homeschooled was something bad. But she always wanted to attend a real school, simply so she could make some friends. And Mallery and Selena were the first to talk to her her first day at Lady Mystic College. Mallery was her roommate and apparently she already knew Selena from the coronation. So it was a natural friendship, really. And they constantly made little jokes with one another, and sometimes one of those jokes was imitating her lisp. Prim presses her lips together. That’s what friends do, she thought. It’s normal.
Later Mallery and Selena decided that they had enough "studying" today and left with more noise than Prim would’ve liked. She could spot the red haired boy from across the room glancing daggers at them leaving another pit in her stomach. Prim decided to stay behind, she still needed to write her paper and correct Mallery's and Selena’s. She didn’t mind being alone, and now that Mallery and Selena left she could concentrate a little better.
After a good hour of making notes and studying Prim decided to get up. She packed her stuff and looked around trying to remember where she got her book from, hoping to return it properly. The library was huge, it even had stairs going up to even more books. She snickered by her own thoughts, what else would they lead to? With her backpack and the book she borrowed she started to pace along the bookshelves. When she arrived at the correct one she stopped in her tracks. The same boy from before was exactly in front of the place she needed to return her book to. She pressed her lips together, was he still mad? One look at his furrowed brows confirmed her fear, he must be. She holds the book close to her chest and quickly made the decision to just approach him.
“Hi!” she tried keeping her voice down.
The boy quickly turned his head towards her, startled by the sudden conversation starter.
“Uh- hello.”
“I uhm- I wanted to say sorry again. For being loud.”
The boy frowned again, like he did back at the table when he confronted them. “It wasn’t your fault. Not entirely.”
“They’re not always like that… They uhm- they just like having fun. I guess.” even she could hear the lack of confidence in her voice. The boy must have noticed, because his eyes were studying her for a moment.
“Just make sure to not disturb others when you’re in a library. One you are attending as guests, mind I remind you.”
“Yes! Yes of course… you’re totally right. It’s basic rules.” She looks down at her book, holding it closer. “I wanted to return this one, this should be the place.”
The boy takes a glance at the book and steps aside to make way. “You also could’ve returned it at the service desk, the ghosts can return it to the right place for you.”
As she returned the book to its rightful place her face lit up. “Oh, yes the ghosts! It’s so amazing you guys have ghosts attending here! I mean attending your needs like- uhm.” as soon as she notices she might be too loud due to her rambling she lowers her voice again. “The ghosts working here, I mean… they’re very remarkable.”
That got a smile out of the boy. “They’re very diligent.”
“Yeah!” She extended her hand with a bright smile. “I’m Prim by the way!”
“Riddle.” the boy said, introducing himself.
“Your library is very beautiful! It’s nothing like ours-”
“But it’s in renovation, yes?”
“Yes, they found mold in one of the bookcases and discovered all of them are in dire need of replacement.” she explained “But I don’t think we’ll get anything like this.”
Riddle looked a little disgusted by the mention of mold but quickly recovered himself.
“As long as it provides a good studying place..”
She saw his eyes dart to her mouth for a second, reminding her to close her mouth again.
“Yes! Exactly."
It was silent for a second longer than she liked.
"Well uh- I have to go now. Bye… uh- Riddle!”
He simply gave a nod back as a form of farewell.
As she turned back to make her exit she felt happy she got to talk to him. He didn’t look that mad up close. She could still feel that pit in her stomach though.
