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Riddle isn't sure how it might have happened, but he isn't.. necessarily complaining.
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Riddle was confused, he was being invited? He had been approached by Kalim Al-Asim, a 2nd year at NRC. He was also Housewarden of Scarabia. He would consider Kalim to be a friend... maybe? Kalim does have an enjoyable presence.
Nonetheless, Kalim was inviting Riddle to a Sleepover. Riddle's face contorted as Kalim talked to him about it.
Kalim mentioned how he had already invited some other 2nd years. Silver, Ruggie Bucchi, Jamil Viper, Azul Ashengrotto, and The Leech Twins.
It wasn't a secret that Riddle was dating Jade. They had been dating a little ways after Leona's overblot. But, Riddle still couldn't stand to be in the same room as Floyd.
Just thinking of him makes Riddle want to burst into flames.
He doesn't necessarily hate Floyd! Its more like a uncontrollable anger and dislike. If Floyd would knock his antics off once n a while then maybe. Just MAYBE he'd be able to tolerate him.
Overall, he's just exhausting.
The sleepover would be at Scarabia in Kalim's dorm room.
Riddle thought about going, quickly opting out of infact, NOT going.
Untill.
"Whaatt!! Riri, you HAVE to go!! This would be #Totally Awesome for you! Plus its good to get out and have fun once in a while!"
Damn you Cater. Damn you Trey for agreeing with your boyfriend.
Now, Riddle with a simple teacup, which was weird., in his pj's walking to the mirror chamber.
When he gets there he spots the Octanivelle trio, and Ruggie. He faintly remembers hearing that Ruggie worked at the Monstro Lounge. That must be why they're together.
"Goldfishie~" Great. Floyd looked over at him and waved, the other three looking in his direction.
Riddle tensed, his face fighting the urge to scrunch up as he walked up to them. "Good evening everyone, I assume you're all out here for Kalim's Sleepover?" They all nodded.
"You know, when I heard Kalim Invi'ed you, I wasn' sure you were gonna show" Ruggie shrugged. I mean, he wasn't wrong. Not at all.
"I wasn't planning on coming but, when Cater caught wind he quickly ushered me out." Riddle sighed, crossing his arms over his chest. It hardly seemed fair. Plus, this was breaking just about every rule about sleep in his rule book. Let alone ruining his sleep schedule.
He heard the Octanivelle trio laugh, "Well, I'm glad he decided that. It'll sure be nice to have a new face join us this time around" Azul smiled and clasped his hands together.
Hes not even going to ask what that means.
He then turns his attention to Jade, the other was smiling at him. Riddle offered a small smile back and waved, "Hello Jade, hope you're doing well?"
"I'm doing just fine, thank you" Jade bent down a little to kiss Riddle's forehead, Riddle's smile grew a little at the feeling and theres a breif moment where Floyd gags in the background before being hit in the rib.
"Does anyone know where Silver is?" Ruggie's ears flicked towards Azul and then back towards the darkness. Silver seemed to be narcoleptic, so none of them would be suprised if he didn't show up.
Although, Ruggie turned towards a faint ruffling sound, "He's here," Silver came over and waved at them, a yawn leaving his mouth as he rubbed his eye with his other hand.
"Sorry.. I missed my alarm, am I late?" He did look like he just rolled out of bed.
"Nope! You're just intime!" They all jump and turn towards the voice. Kalim, who was the source waved frantically at all of them. A few bags in his hand, Jamil followed in after him with a few more bags.
How many snacks did they need?
Riddle turned towards Floyd, wasn't he holding something? A rather big container. While Riddle couldn't see inside of it, it was probably a sweet treat.
"Good evening you two" Riddle starts, Kalim smiles "Hi Riddle!! I was worried you wouldn't be attending! Its nice to see you around!" Riddle nodded, going a little flushed in the face.
Is it really that uncommon for him to "hang out?"
Thats a stupid question. Of course it was.
"Well, let's get going" Jamil ushered everyone through the mirror. He honestly looked like he didn't want to even be here. Probably forced my Kalim. It is rather hard to say no to him..
It was a rather quick journey from the mirror to Kalim's dorm room, small conversation was made between everyone, mostly Kalim who was starting them.
He realized that Jade had somewhere along the way moved to walk next to him, aswell as Ruggie holding Silver's wrist pulling the other with them. Which seemed to be helping somewhat as Silver looked like he was fighting the urge to pass out right now.
They all walked into Kalim's dorm, Riddle had to take a second to look around.
Yes, a housewardens dorm room is supposed to be bigger then anyone else's in the dorm, but this is really nice. A obvious stark contrast to Riddle's dorm room.
The open scenery almost reminds him of Leona-san's room, yet, more "fancy." If thats the right word?
"Nice room, Kalim" Ruggie compliments, taking a seat on the floor, Silver following to rest his head on the others shoulder.
"Thank you! One of the many perks of being a Housewarden I guess!" Kalim smiles, setting down his bags as both him and Jamil started to empty them.
A variety of sweet treats, some Riddle had never even heard of before now littered the floor. They laid them out sporadically, yet making sure all were visible.
At the same time, Floyd set down the container, opening it to show a vary of brownies and cookies. Sugar cookies and brownies with cute round sprinkles on them littered the tray.
"Aha! How fun!" Kalim reached for a Cookie as Jamil tried to stop him he had unfortunately already picked it up.
Why did Jamil do that? Whatever, too late now.
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Soon conversation started up again and the room only seemed to get louder. Riddle would chip in here and there but was often in his own world.
He wondered why he even listened to Cater and came in the first place. It was already a little ways past his scheduled naptime. He can only hope Trey is running the dorm okay..
"Hey Riddle! Wanna play?" Riddle looked up from his hands at Kalim. The snacks had been cleared closer to everyone as Jamil started shuffling cards.
"Whats the game?"
"We're gonna play Uno!"
Uno? Riddle tried to think on it, it was obviously a card game, but he had no idea how to play.
"Sure, I don't see why not"
"You do know how to play right?" He was drawn over by Azul's voice. Riddle shook his head and he heard a few gasps from the room. Jamil started handing out cards, 7 for everyone.
"What?"
"You dont know how to play Uno?" He turned his attention to Ruggie
"Uh, no? Should I?"
A chorus of "Yes!" sounded from the group and Riddle's eyebrows furrowed. He had heard of the game before but never knew the rules or how to play.
"Don't worry Riddle, I can teach you," The moray eel grinned at him and Riddle smiled and nodded
"Thank you, Jade" this seemed like an important game.
He could pratically feel Floyd getting tense, kind of like how he seemed during Basketball games.
Just his luck.
Once Jade went ahead and explained the rules to Riddle, aswell as picking a game mode. They we're gonna be stacking.
Okay, this shouldn't be so hard.
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Somwhere along the ride, Riddle had gained 16 more cards, and he still didn't have a fucking green. It was preposterous! He was actually starting to get more angry as the round continued, like many others.
Somehow Silver had gotten in the lead with two cards..Ruggie had 5, if he could recall. Azul was hiding his cards but Riddle knew he had 7. Jade had 3, and Floyd had 12. Kalim looked also close to winning tied with jade, a big smile on his face. Jamil looked like he was about to burst. Whether from excitement or anger, Riddle wasn't sure.
Riddle groaned, finally putting down a green card. And the round continued.
In the end, Silver was threatened with a fork for taking Jamil's other 2 cards, Kalim was on fire obviously because of floyd. Azul looked like he was about to pass out.
Ruggie ended up winning...
And Riddle is sure he saw some cards in Ruggie's pants earlier
Even if it was utterly ridiculous, spontaneous, and manic. Riddle found himself laughing on multiple occasions and overall having a good time so far.
Around 9:30 pm is when they started doing Karoke. Ruggie and Silver had gone first, doing the song "Promiscuous." And dear was it.
Riddle was sure Ruggie was seconds away from tearing Silver's clothes off.
But atleast they sounded good.
Kalim ended up singing this pretty sad song named "Ceilings." The amount of emotion in his voice made Riddle want to cry. As Uncharacteristic as it is.
Yet he seemed so giddy and happy afterwords. How could someone just flip a switch like that? Riddle would never know.
Floyd sung Party Rock along with Kalim, Ruggie, and a rather quite Azul who joined in a few lines in.
Jade sung "Put your head on mh Shoulder" with quiet follow ups from Jamil.
Riddle opted not to sing anything, claiming that his voice wasn't as good as everyone else's.
The others in the room knew that was bullshit, but let the excuse go. Only with a sigh from Kalim.
After Karoke, they moved onto "Just dance"
Another game he hadn't heard of. Just follow as the people you're assigned to do. Hence the name "Just dance"
They started with this song called "Circus" it was actually pretty fun! There were 4 characters, Riddle was the ringmaster, despite his declarations.
"Wait me? What why-"
"You didn't sing! Therefore you have to do a dance!"
"Hold on now, that doesn't make any sense?"
"Dance!"
Riddle grumbled. So he was the ringmaster, Ruggie was the cat, Kalim was the half n half clown, while Floyd was the cotton candy looking clown.
It was actually rather fun. Riddle had to stop to catch his own breathe as he continued to go, dance after dance after dance.
Following circus, was "Where have you been", "Gibberish", "Timber" which to him was the most fun, he did this one with Jade. And he would never admit it, but being on someones back really is fun.
"What makes you beautiful" and halfway through "Rasputin" with Floyd, he had to sit out because that man was doing a lot... too much for his liking anyway.
Finally, the last two songs they did was, "Cant take my eyes off you" He did that one with Azul, but Kalim and Silver joined in aswell.
And "Watch me whip" everyone seemed pretty excited for this dance, excluding Jamil, Azul, and Riddle himself. But they all ended up doing it anyways. Riddle remembered he was the fox?
He was genuinely starting to enjoy comming to this sleepover!
Finally, they we're beginning to wind down, with a simple game of "Truth or dare"
Riddle thought the game was reckless, so he opted not to play. Silver was already knocked out, but Riddle was sure he was going to wake up soon enough. With the endless chatter and running around in the room by everyones else, Riddle didn't know why the whole dorm wasn't awake.
Riddle grabbed his teacup, pulling out his pen and doing a simple spell to put tea in the cup, Herbal to be exact.
Rule 153. States, the only tea you may drink in the evenings is herbal tea. It is still.. technically evening? It's 11pm.
While drinking his tea, Riddle helped himself to the brownies on the tray the Octanivelle trio brought in.
As he continued to eat, he loosely lost count of how many he was eating. Starting to get more and more giddy, feeling relaxed. The brownies were good, super good. Made him want to act like a child.
Riddle picked up another brownie, before hearing a voice, "Riddle? You might want to slow down.. I've seen you pick up more than 5 of those brownies"
Riddle turned towards Ruggie and blinked, biting into his brownie, "It's fine..! It's not like anyone else is eating them." Well that was rude. And really unlike Riddle to say.
Ruggie raised an eyebrow "Those are edibles by the way."
"I know. Thats why I'm eating them??" Riddle shrugged and rolled his eyes dusting off the brownie crumbs. When did he finish that one?
"No no, Riddle. They're full of Cannibis." Riddle turned fully towards Ruggie with his eyes blown wide.
"What?" Riddle looked down at his hands as they began to shake slightly. Is he shaking? Are his hands doing that? "All of them..?"
"Riddle, how many of those did you just eat?" At this point everyones attention had turned towards Riddle, Jamil had been the one to ask the question.
They all looked a little worried, weird. Riddle felt elated, almost happy even! His worries washing away before remembering he ingested drugs.
"Uhm.. uh, uhm like 10? Maybe, 12?" Riddle answered after a moment. His hands were still shaking. Why?
There was a collective gasp from the rest of the room. Riddle looked up to see everyone staring at him a little wide eyed. Even Silver had woken up.
Riddle's hands were going numb. He couldn't feel his face anymore. Was he speaking?
"That amount with your body weight?!" Azul quickly started to calculate how bad this could be, and determined it was pretty bad.
Its not like they could go to the infirmary.. Riddle could always just, sleep it off?
"You're fine its gonna be fine!" Kalim attempted to keep his happy voice but a grimace was evident on his face.
Riddle scowled, "Then why are you making that face!" Ruggie slapped a hand over Riddle's mouth, did he mean to say that so loud? Sorry.
Riddle moved Ruggie's hand off his mouth, in a flimsy but determined motion. He felt weightless. Like he was floating on cloud nine, like he had no worries!
He sighed moving to lay down in Jade's lap. Nice, a cushion..
Riddle looked up at Jade, the other looking down at him worriedly. "Hey"
"Hi, are you doing okay.?" Jade's tone seemed cautious. Riddle only smiled and winked at him.
"Yeah, im doin good, what about your gorgeous?" Jade chuckled nervously, definitely not used to such a bashful riddle.
"Yeah, can we put him to sleep now? I didn't like that." Azul turned towards the rest of the group with his question.
"I dunno! It's kind of sweet!" Everyone else groaned.
Riddle talked with Jade a lot, cracking jokes when time was due witn everyone else aswell. Maybe some Cannibis was what he needed to finally let loose.
He actually joined in on their game of truth or dare!
"Goldfishie! Truth or Dare?"
Riddle turned to Floyd and scowled. Maybe even though he was high, he still seemed to hate that nickname.
"Hmm, I dare you.. To chug this entire thing of hot sauce!
"Bet!"
"What!" "Oh no way seriously?" "Okay but isn't that seriously dangerous.." "Hush Jamil! Hes actually gonna do it!" Jamil sighed defeated as Riddle began to chug the hot sauce bottle Floyd had bought
Soon Riddle started freaking out, as the drugs seemed to wear off from the effects of the hot sauce. Well not all the way.
"H-HOT! HOLY CRAP" Riddle scrambled to the bathroom throwing water into his mouth. His eyes welled with tears as he looked at everyone else who was crowding the doorway
"WHAT DO I DO!?" A swelled voice called out, his tounge was starting to swell. Kalim took out his pen.
"Don't worry! I've got this!"
"WAIT KALIM DON'T!"
"OASIS MAKER!"
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When Riddle woke back up, his head seemed a little Foggy. He was the first person to wake up between everyone. The room was a boderline mess.
He took out his pen and started throwing the trash away and wrapping up whatever needed to be wrapped up. Riddle's not sure how to handle the very damp room though.
His hair was super wet. Wonder why..
He walked over to the bathroom to quickly brush his teeth. Today was a sunday, so he had classes tomorrow, but it didn't mean he had to rush back to the dorm today.
Its weird, why couldn't he remember anything that happened yesterday after just dance?
Maybe its for the best that he forgets?
Riddle then feels the sudden urge to-
He rushes over to the Toilet and throws up a few times.
Maybe he does need to know what happened last night.