Passing The Time... With Bricks

[Annunziato-sama]

Marco took another small step and kept counting
"One thousand nine hundred and five, One thousand nine hundred and six..." His head cocked to the side as he counted and after some time of counting he took anther small step ahead and continued. "one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight" each time he counted a new number he scuffed his shoe on the brick leaving a white mark on it. Behind him One thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight bricks shared the same white mark all the way back from the start of the school gates.

Marco sighed as he took a small bit of chalk from his pocket and wrote some numbers down on one of the bricks, just in case he lost his count.

after righting the number Marco stretched and looked to the sky, Things seemed to be so hectic lately, and here he was counting bricks. But still there was nothing else he could do but wait.

I hate waiting

[Leahshi-sama]

She walked with grace, the soft scent of sakura petals emitting from her form. She had been in the Sakura Forest, looking for ditchers, and after finding none, she had decided to head back to the school. It was her break period, but she was going to use it to make sure that everything around the school was going well. Since the incident at lunch with the Yukimura twins, she was stressed out about keeping order upon Shinjitsu.

At first, her dark eyes didn't even spot Marco. They were looking at the brick wall in horror at the sight of nearly half of the bricks having some white mark in chalk on them. Student Council President Areku brought her hands to her mouth as she looked around for the troublemaker who did this. When she spotted the other third year, she let out a sigh of frustration.

"Bartulovitch." was all she said, the boy's last name rolling off her tongue so easily, as if it were the easiest name in the world to say.

[Annunziato-sama]

Marco heard his name and his head shot up
"Oh its you" he said and put his head back down to where he had last been counting
He had wished it to be someone who knew what was going on with the PDA but it wasn't. Ever since his encounter with his maths teacher he had been stressing about what he should do. At first he had tried to train himself to become stronger, but stress started to get the better of him and he broke down. Now he simply spent his time wasting his life, nothing seemed to matter. Today it was counting bricks, tomorrow he might spend the day looking at his roof.

Marco looked at the sky again as if at any moment the world might come down on his shoulders and crush him.

Marco let out a sigh and scuffed another brick

[Leahshi-sama]

The girl's eye twitched as she walked over and looked down at the boy. "You're ruining our school! Don't you re-" she suddenly stopped, noticing the troubled look on his face. She softly sighed and straightened her skirt as she sat down next to him.

"Spill. What's on your mind." It was more of a demand than it was a question.

[Annunziato-sama]

Marco eyed the girl questioning him not sure what to tell her
"Every person who has any knowledge of magic is going to die in less some miracle happens" sounds a bit... crazed, lets face it there even if there were people who could help you how would you find them, post in the periodicals
"Yeah, were dead" Marco whispered under his breath

The girl was still there, should he answer her, or just ignore her till she leaves?

Marcos eyes ran across the bricks as his mind raced, this was a bad thing when his mind got active he often lost control of his abilities, across from him a bush lining the path started to smoke

[Leahshi-sama]

Areku heard what he had muttered to himself, but she refused to let him know she heard it. She sighed and looked up, her eyes widening a little bit. "What the...Fire?" she quickly stood. "Damn punks!" she shouted as she ran over to the bush, trying to stamp out the small fire that began to form.

[Annunziato-sama]

Marco looked to the side as the girl tried to put the fire out by stomping on it, for a moment he sat there watching with blank eyes. Then slowly he started to stand, and walk over to her. "Areku thats her name" he said silently as he walked towards her "We have been going to school together for three years now"

Marco was standing next to her now, he rested a hand on her shoulder to indicate she should stop stomping. Slowly he leaned over and wrapped a hand around where the bush was flaming, what should of burned him didn't seem to have any effect at all. He simply held his hand there and the fire soon went out.

When that was done he stood back up and walked back over to the bricks, looking back down at the last one he had scuffed and slowly started to count again.

[Leahshi-sama]

The brunette woman looked at the boy as he began to walk back to the bricks. There were no burn marks on his hand from when his hand wrapped around the flames she had tried to put out. She clenched her fists as she noticed he had started working on making marks on the bricks, but she was still shocked at the fact he had done that to the fire.

Areku walked over to walk next to him while he continued on the bricks. "What the hell was that?" she asked, her voice was a little shakey. She had never seen that sort of magic...Or any magic at all...before.

[Annunziato-sama]

Marco looked up from his bricks with blank eyes "Magic?" He said slowly "You shouldn't say things like that, They might hear you..." He trailed off and looked back to the ground "Heh... heh heh... They might just swoop down and take you just for talking to me" Marco was talking to himself now "Have you seen yet? Have you noticed? So many students are missing."

Marco had noticed soon after his meeting with Yaku. The disappearance of students, some of them he knew to be, somewhat mystical the others he was simple assuming they were, or simply knew to much. Then his paranoia started, he started to train his body and mind day and night. His one playful mood turned to scared and skeptic of anyone who came near him. This eventually turned to a feeling of hopelessness, Marco stopped hearing Cirics voice in his head, only little bits of Cirics thoughts came through to him ever now and then, and they were so quiet that they seemed to be his own thoughts. Marco still found it hard to keep his thoughts confined to his head, so he still blurted out everything.

"So many students, children..." he said softly scratching the next brick "Just because they are different"

[Leahshi-sama]

"You're a magic user, aren't you...?" Areku said quietly, her voice almost a silent whisper. She had always watched the boy from afar, noting he was a tad bit different from the others. She often found him with Kurayami Yari. She remembered the trouble those two boys caused. She then remembered something.

"You're also a get backer...You got my art book when that bloody theif from my art class had stolen it. I payed you quite a lot for it too. Is your partner the same way?"

Areku didn't know why she was asking such questions. It was as if she couldn't help it.

[Annunziato-sama]

"Magic..." Marco thought for "Not quite"

"A get backer?" Marco repeated he knew she was telling the truth he knew he was a get backer but it was still so hard to believe. "I am" he finished finally

"Kura" he said and went wide eyed "He is..." Marco thought for a moment "He is fine" his voice went back to normal and his head went back down to the ground "He is with Leah somewhere" Marco looked down at the bricks

"You should, prob'ly be careful about what you say and do, hell be scared of what you think..." Marco looked around him "I don't intend on being made to disappear"

[Leahshi-sama]

"Why are people disappearing? What can we do to stop the people from disappearing and possibly dying?" The girl brought her hand to his shoulder. "I've grown up with most of these people..." she whispered softly.

She clenched her fists lightly. She wanted to help, but she had no magic, she had no ability to do anything that could help. She would be useless to anyone.