Third Person's POV

Dymitri succeeded on running his way into the Great Hall. As he entered, the room was full of colorful decorations all round the hall. It looked more fancier. He texted Tyler and asked if where are they and it's only a matter of seconds when his best friend responded.

They're at the front, near the stage together with Ali. He immediately went in front. He immediately saw them, thanks to King's body figure which stands out because of his broad shoulders and tall physique.

"Guys!" He called out, his friends and King turned around to see him. Wearing a smile, Dymitri approached them carrying the food he bought earlier.

"Demi!" Tyler said.

He took out the milkshake from the plastic and handed it to them one by one. He took the other milkshake out and turned to the intimidating King, he offered it to the King with a small smile on his lips.

"Here." He said, reaching his hand to the King. Theodore looked at the cup of extra large milkshake and stared the kid straight to his purple eyes.

Dymitri nodded his head towards the cup, signalling King to take it. King didn't do anything but to accept the kid's offer. Soon, he opened the plastic of foods he bought and gave them to his friends. He was about to sit when he realized their sitting positions.

Sky and Taylor on the furthest right, next with Ali and Taylor then a vacant seat then King.

I supposed it's my seat.

He sat there, not uttering a word. He took a sip of his drink and munched his french fries. He was about to took another bite when he noticed King not eating. He didn't even touched nor sipped the milkshake.

"Hey King?" King looked down beside him, seeing the kid.

"Aren't you hungry?" He asked but King didn't responded.

"Or you don't eat these kind of things?" Dymitri just realized that King was one of the richest students inside the Crystal Academy. So, he expected King ate expensive foods and drinks. His eyes landed in the food he bought, looking sadly.

"I-if you don't want to eat, I'll take it. I can throw it away if you don't like it." He softly said not looking at the King. Theodore raised his brow. Dymitri was about to reach King's food but the man took it away from the kid before it could land his tiny hands into them. Dymitri looked him confusedly before King replied.

"Who told you I'm not gonna eat this?" He sounds cold and Dymitri flinched to it.

"I-I thought you don't wanna--"

"It doesn't mean that I don't like it Kitten." He was interrupted by the King's voice, making him stop at the midway of his statement.

"You bought it, and I'm going to eat it, understand?" Dymitri only nodded and didn't utter a word anymore.

Upon continuing eating, he turned his glance to the others. Tyler is pretty busy exploring his eyes around while Sky and Taylor are busy on their conversation being Head Students. Meanwhile, his eyes landed on his new best friend, Khalil Dela Torre, who's been quiet ever since he came.

"Ali?" Dymitri called him but he doesn't turned. He was staring somewhere not in particular, in other words, he's staring void.

"Ali?" He called again and luckily, Khalil turned his head and faced the purple eyed kid.

The redness and puffiness of his eyes are still evident, making the kid getting more curious.

"Did you cry?" Dymitri asked in shocked. Tyler, as well as the two head students and the King who's busy munching a fry looked him.

"N-no! I didn't!" He stammered, voice shaking.

Dymitri looked worried at him. The urge of crying is ready but he's trying his best to resist it. He bit his lower lip, helping himself to not cry, especially in a public place. He'll look really pathetic if he do.

"Are you okay Ali?" Dymitri asked him one more time, concerned and worried.

"I'm fine Demi, it's just, I'm still traumatized on the horror house earlier. Those costumes makes me wanna puke." He lied, smiling to assure them he's okay.

Dymitri didn't look convinced, but he's pretty sure that Ali won't tell nor open up his problem so he just let him go.

A few more minutes passed by, when Ace came up.

"Hey King!" King looked at him, with a smug face. King rolled his eyes and took a sip of his milkshake which he finds delicious.

"Oi! Where did you get that? I'm fucking thirsty." He complained sitting beside the King. Dymitri looked at the Ace. When their eyes met, he flashed a small smile and mumbled a 'hi.'

"Oh hi kiddo, what are you doing here? Joining the contest too?" He asked.

"Y-yeah." He nervously said.

"So, who's with you?" He then looked towards the people beside the kid. He saw an unfamiliar face beside the kid, then the silent one with a pair of reddish eyes, the crossbreed and finally, his eyes landed to him. To his ex-boyfriend.

When Sky saw him looking, his mood changed and eventually looked his eyes in annoyance.

Ace smirked.

Feisty.

He leaned back, looking at the stage with five large cage-like boxes in the stage. Decorated with different decorations each. Fancy and colorful accessories are being displayed and decor-ed at them.

"So, where's Prince?" Ace asked the King.

"I'm not a fucking lost and found Exequile. Maybe he's fucking his sluts right now to who knows where." King spat.

"Woah, chill bro. Just asking." Ace held up his arms in the air, as if surrending to his friend.

Minutes later, Dymitri's phone buzzed. When he scoop out his phone out and checked it, he saw Taylor's icon popped out in the screen. He instantly swiped his phone, unlocked and opened the message.

It's time.

Sent, 3:27 pm.

He looked at the Delta Head Student, he saw her looking at him. He signalled a nervous nod and put his phone back to his back pocket.

"Uhm, I'll go to the restroom guys." He said, standing up.

"What are you doing there?" Tyler asked.

"To urinate?" Dymitri answered, looking like a question. Ace snickered at his witty answer.

"I know that Dydy, what I mean is, why so sudden? The show is about to start."

"It'll be quick, I promise." He said, starting to walk away.

When he disappeared from his friend's sight and the two members of Triple Crown, Tyler spoke out his thoughts.

"Something is fishy here."

"How come?" Ali asked.

"Dydy is acting suspicious." He simply replied.

"So, I'll head out now. The show is about to start and the emcee should be there upstage now." Taylor waved a simple bye and head upstage.

The hall is filled up. Different students were seated inside, noisy and loud with their chit chats. They were interrupted when Taylor spoke.

"Good afternoon everyone! Welcome to the Annual Crystal Festival!!" The crowd began to applaud.

"And today, we have this kind of show that you'll definitely love! And of course, there will be a contest too." The crowd of students began to shout and applaud even louder.

"The game will be called, 'Your Voice Sounds Familiar!' It's a game where you will guess who was singing a random song, and the songs were came from the Human World. In other words, you'll be hearing today different songs and music from their world." She stated looking at the crowd who's getting excited.

"As you can see, we have five boxes here upstage, and this boxes contains the players who'll sing the song. The song was randomly picked from different countries, namely Japan, USA, Thailand, Philippines and Korea." She added.

"The mechanics will the participants, all of you," Taylor pointed to the crowd who growled in excitement.

"Will identify the owners voice identity. The person who can identify most of their voices identity will be rewarded." She smirked.

"The person who will have the highest points will be the one who will be rewarded by the Headmistress."

"The reward is not just an ordinary reward. The reward will be coming from the Headmistress, herself. And guess what, what's the reward." The crowd yelled 'what' in unison.

"The Headmistress will grant one of your wishes and requests. Like, you can wish from her a house and lot, private place and island, etc." The students screamed in excitement louder. They're all excited for the game.

"Are you ready Crystal Academy?!!!" Taylor asked, slightly screaming. The students roared a big 'yes' and Taylor seems to be satisfied with that.

"Let the game begin!" The lights inside the hall flickered in different colors as the boxes lit up.

"Presenting, the five mystery singers!" Then, the light focused on the boxes. A flash of light was lit up behind the box, revealing a dark figure of a person in front of a light background. A silhouette in exact.

"So, the first one to sing is mystery singer number one, who will sing a Japanese Song, Cute-nichiwa! Around of applause please." Taylor said as she exited the stage.

The first singer began to sing, it was crystal clear that she's a girl due to her soft voice. As Cute-nichiwa sang, the crowd had a hard time guessing her name and that's the challenge to them, they should know her name and identity. As soon as the first singer ended, the crowd was given a minute to write their answers on the paper they had. They took it when a bunch of students in charge of the event roamed around and passed some answer sheets and pens.

As the three other mystery singers sing, they even barely had an idea of who's voice was it but when their fighting spirits held up, they will never give up guessing the names. They had to win in order to fulfill their wishes.

Sky, Ali had difficulties in guessing, Tyler is not interested in participating in the game though, he's worried that his best friend didn't came back yet. However, the King didn't give a fuck for this game while the Ace is busy looking at the two, especially to his ex.

"And last but not the least, the one who will sing a song from Korea, let's welcome, I Purple You!" Taylor stated as she exited once again from the stage. The music began to play and the crowd starts to jam with the music.

Blueming by IU

❀ 𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚑𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚘𝚕𝚜𝚜' 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎

//- 𝙸'𝚕𝚕𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚙𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙸 𝚍𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚘 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙺𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚗 𝙻𝚢𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚜 𝚜𝚘 𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚙𝚞𝚝 𝙴𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚜𝚘 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚊 𝚑𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚕𝚎 (ᗒᗣᗕ)՞

When I said "what's up?"

I really meant "I miss you"

In each and every emoji

My subtle feelings keep changing, I wonder if you know

No, I'm not busy, nothing no no

I'm not sleeping, insomnia nia nia

I'm not with anyone else

Yes, I'm thinking about you too.

Upon hearing the first, two verses of the song, the crowd stopped as his sweet and soft innocent voice soothed their ears and filled the hall. As they were mesmerized by the melody, Tyler gasped when realizations struck him hard.

Our rectangular chat is in bloom

I'm making roses blossom with my thumb

I think I'm getting drunk with the scent

It's our own secret garden

I feel bloom I feel bloom I feel bloom

I'm sending you one more flower

Updating you with my all-nighter work

The author of this interesting piece of work, that's me

Maybe this is the climax of the relationship

Before it goes over to Act II, this is good timing

King looked intently at the silhouette of the fifth box, his focus where all pin pointed there, as well as the rest of the students.

I know we feel the same, realize la lize

Don't be so careful with your words, just reply la la ly

I'm curious how you'll interpret

My playful metaphors

Our colors are gray and blue

I'm making word balloons with my thumb

I feel like I'm gonna explode

My breath is quickening, I'm getting dizzy

I feel blue. I feel blue. I feel blue.

I'm filling you up

Tyler smirked, as he turned around and saw mostly of the students humming in the tune. Sky and Ali too, but when he looked to his other side, he saw a small smile creeping on King's lips.

I'll text you without any spaces

I think this is love

A hundred roses, wanna make them bloom with me?

Let's color the flowers however we want

So it's beautiful even when it withers

Our rectangular chat is in bloom

I'm making roses blossom with my thumb

I think I'm getting drunk with the scent

It's our own secret garden

I feel bloom I feel bloom I feel bloom

I'm sending you one more flower

The song ended, and the lights from each of the boxes were gone. Taylor came up with a smile on her face, she asked,

"Are you still there?" The crowd only cheered, some whistled, and almost clapped their hands.

"Well, your guessing time will be end up so soon so think of your answers right now because only a few minutes from now, the winners will be soon announced." She said.

The students doesn't have a clue to the last singer. They want to win the game but they can't figure out the mystery singer if he's a he, or she's a she. In the end, their allotted time is ended so they have to pass their sheets now so the students in charge if checking will check their answers immediately. It will only cost five minutes to check them all. Despite of being many, they can easily check the papers one by one with the help of a little bit of magic.

Upon writing, Sky and Ali gave up. They didn't know who was the last mystery singer. They had the same answers but they didn't copied each others. Ali sighed and reached his paper to Tyler, pleading to pass it to the girl not far away from them who collects a bunch of answer sheets.

Tyler took the paper, he looked at his answers. His number five was blank. With a great idea in his head, he took his pen out and write a name to the last number before handing it to the girl.

When they finished, he sat back. The checking lasted for about a minute and the result is already on Taylor's hands.

"So, the results is already in, and guess what, we had the winner's name inside this card." She raised the card up.

"We only have one winner though, and the shocking news is, he guessed all of the mystery singers! Oh my gosh!" The crowd went 'woah' in surprised but they were carried away when Taylor spoke again.

"So before we could actually know the winner, let's reveal the mystery singers' first, okay?" All of them clapped, feeling excited to know the voices behind the boxes.

"Cute-nichiwa, reveal!" Taylor exclaimed as the white curtains drape from either side, revealing a girl in a 3rd year.

She was a Beta from Year 3 - 2. The crowd went loud when their guesses were right, while some sighed in defeat because of their wrong answer. She introduced herself and once she finished, the crowd applaud for her.

Then, the others' identity was revealed too.

A boy from Gamma 2 - 4.

Another boy from Alpha 3 - 3.

A girl from Delta 4 - 2.

All of them introduced theirselves and the crowd once again applauded for them. Once they reached the final box, the atmosphere inside seemed to intensified. They already want to know the owner of such sweet and soft innocent voice.

"I have this feeling that I Purple You's voice was bit familiar." Sky admitted while Taylor is still talking up from the stage. Ali, Tyler, and somehow Ace and King looked at him.

"Don't you think?" He asked to Ali.

"I think so, I think I heard it somewhere but I couldn't pin point where." Ali exclaimed which Tyler snorted. Ali and Sky noticed him, as well as the Ace and King.

"What's funny?" Sky asked him.

"Seriously? You don't know him?" He said with a sly smile.

"Him?!" Ali's and Sky's eyes widened.

"Hey new kid, how are you sure that he's a he? Its pretty much to be a girl you know?" Ace voiced out.

"No, no, no. Gods and Goddesses help me." He said laughing.

"And last but but not the least, the moment we've been waiting for, the revealing of I Purple You!" The crowd went wild. They were about to know the voice's owner.

"I Purple You, reveal!"

"Did you already heard how Dymitri sing?" Tyler asked them with a smirk. Their eyes widened, and when their eyes landed in the stage, the curtains draped beside, revealing a purple eyed kid inside the box. He pushed his eyeglasses back to his nose bridge in order to see properly.

The audience's mouths hung, parted away from their lips as they sat on their seats, shocked and surprised. How can a tiny little kid like him have a high tone of voice like that?

"What the fuck?" Ace gasped in shock.

Dymitri was there, upstage. Wearing a nervous look. He was scared, especially those eyes staring at him. He's shy so the only thing he just do is to flash a small smile and walked forward.

"So, after our mystery singers' identity is finally revealed, let's proceed to the announcement of winner." Taylor spoke and open the card that she was holding.

"The winner is, no other than...." The crowd of audience went silent, they're really waiting if who's the lucky person who won the game.

"Khalil Dela Torre of 2 - 1!! Congratulations!" Taylor said as she applaud. The crowd goes as well but Ali was in pure shock.

What??

"Khalil Dela Torre, you can proceed to the Headmistress' Office later to fulfill your request. Congratulations!"

"And to those who didn't won, better luck next time. And look forward for the next Annual Festival next year, we will prepare bigger games for all of you. For now, the officers in charge of the games will give a song performance. Around of applause please." Taylor then exited her way to the backstage.

Upon arriving there, there's no one in there, except for a man with thick round pair of glasses on his eyes. When they made eye contact, the man grinned and approached the girl with a bouquet of flowers.

Fresh, red and fragrant bouquet of roses.

"Congratulations on your successful program Miss Morgans," he said, voice raspy and somehow, chilly.

"Er, thanks." The girl replies.

"Please, accept this gift for you m'lady," he said, gesturing the bouquet.

Taylor found it weird but she end up accepting the flowers but upon the moment when her fingers touched the stem, she felt and excruciating pain within when she pricked herself. She accidentally let go of the flowers, ending falling to the tiled floor.

She looked at her wound, blood is dripping out. She looked at the man again but she was shocked when she didn't saw him there anymore. She looked around to check the man if he's still within the area but he's gone.

When he looked at his hand again, her mouth hung open seeing her blood came back inside the wound, but thicker and darker. She felt dizzy as if she was spun around for more than an hour until she pass out.

However, the man from earlier took out his eyeglasses, then he immediately changed his appearance. The masked man smirked seeing the girl unconscious in the floor.

"Let the real game begins." He muttered and laughed until he snapped his fingers and disappeared.