Meanwhile...

Rose took the book and cover her head as she left the toilet. She checks the time and it passed 5:28 P.M.

“Oh no, it’s 5:28 P.M.” She wondered. “I’ve stalled Helbram long enough at the Plaza! I better hurry.” She wiped her tears and headed where Helbram is.

Outside....

She looked around and saw Helbram sitting in one of the benches, wearing his headset and seems vibing. She sighs in relief and now on her way to meet him but– when she goes near to the window and tries fix herself; wiping off Stella’s lipstick mark on her face, and tries to groom herself but— seeing how Stella destroyed her hair,

“Don’t trim your hair starting today?” Rose remembered her big bro’s words.

“Trim your hair whichever length you prefer aside boy cut, geddit?”

“Will you do that, Rose?”

 “I will, big brother!”

Remembering that? It snaps her and burst into tears.

Meanwhile...

At the plaza, Helbram finished his food an hour ago and currently listening to the music. When he checks the time, it’s past 5:58. He removes his headset and start looking for Rose.

“Hmm… it’s past 30 minutes and there’s no sign of Rose.” He stood up. “I’m pretty sure my keen eyes never lost track while I was vibing.”

His eyes start looking around. “The school’s almost secluded. I wonder where she– ” Suddenly, Helbram heard sobbing, somewhere in the bushes.

“I hear someone’s…. crying.” It caught his attention. “It’s… kinda… over there.”

Helbram took his bag and headed where the crying noises is.

“This noise… feels kinda familiar.”

Just as he looks behind the tree, he saw Rose, crouching.

“Rose??”

Rose flinched and quickly stood up. “Hel – Helbram?! You’re here!”

She hides her face and quickly wiped off her tears. “Aren’t you supposed to be at the school plaza?”

Helbram tries to see her face. “I did! I’ve waited for— almost an hour.”

He starts looking suspicious.

“Then– then, why are you… here?!” She faced him and quickly uses her bag to cover her face.

Helbram looked at the window and noticed her hair is badly trimmed. That, confirms his suspicions, still, trying to pretend he didn't notice.

“Why… are you covering your face?”

Rose felt bad but still trying to hide. “I… I just– ”

Helbram’s concerned look turned serious. “Rose, you know it’s rude to hide your face in a conversation. Come on, put your bag away and talk to me properly.”

Rose is hesitating but later, she submits, letting Helbram see her ugly trimmed hair.

“Surprise!” She looks miserable but trying to put up a cheerful face. “Did I surprise you?”

Helbram couldn't believe what happened. He extends both his hands and touches Rose's face, trembling.

“Who… did this to you?” Helbram grits but Rose touched his hand and laughed.

“Who? Pft! It’s just me, Hel! No biggie!” She reassures him. “It just so happens that the scissors I used are dulled and it became a disaster!”

“And for what reason why you cut your hair?”

Rose stuttered and chuckled. “I- I’m feeling like my usual self again!” She gently punches Helbram’s shoulder. “There’s this insanely beautiful woman and I fell in love! Hehe! So, I decided to revert back to my roots! You know me and my antics, partner!”

Helbram’s not convinced and he noticed that Rose kept her trimmed hair insider her bag.

“If that’s the case, why bother putting on make-up? I can tell you newly put it not too while ago. And- *glances at her bag* Why did you bother hiding your trimmed hair inside your bag?”

This made her gasp.

“No one in their right mind brings their trimmed hair all along. Why not put it in a trash? Or this scandal is performed in a public place?”

Rose shivers and Helbram put both his hands on her trembling shoulders.

“Rose, you may trim your hair but do you think trimming this much is kind of– forceful? Also, you’re aware that my senses are above average, aren’t ya?”

Rose’s sweating.

“Speaking of public place, why do I smell Stella’s and a school toilet scent on you? Don’t tell me she– ?!”

Before he could finish, Rose fell on her knees and burst into tears.

“Hel, I…. I…!”

She hugged him and let out a great cry. Helbram’s hand stiffed and giving cracking noise his gaze shows that of a hawk, out for kill. His patched right eye faintly glows, responding to his emotion.

Later....

Helbram lets Rose boarded his bike. Rose wrap her hands on his waist and headed to the hair salon. Once they've arrived, they let the hairdresser take care of her.

The hairstylist shows a concerned expression but seeing the girl looking miserable, the hairstylist tried whatever she can.

Rose hairstyle is Ivy League. It’s a refined version of Crew cut. It features short, tapered sides and back with a top, long enough to part on the side or sweep over. The hairstylist is left without a choice because Rose hair is totally messed up. Still, she retained a feminine vibe of her original hair like bangs, but a bit shorter.

Helbram waited and once it’s done, Rose’s back to her old looks, but this time, more of a boyish style than before. She flicked her hair behind her ears, looking all shy facing Helbram.

“I guess, I’m back to my usual look, don’t you think Hel–?”

She looked at Helbram and saw an expression that she hasn’t seen.

“Helbram, are you okay?” she put her hand on her chest, looking all worried.

Helbram snapped back to reality.

“I’m fine.” He directs his attention to her. “Anyways, are you good?”

She felt timid. “Yeah. I’m fine now.”

“Should I take you home or– ”

Rose shakes her head. “No, I’m good.” She said. “I’ve already caused you much trouble so I’m fine by myself.”

Helbram's concern resurfaced. “Really? I... I could take you home with my bike.”

Rose felt shy. “No… Please…” She felt embarrassed. “I’ll also head to bike’s repair shop to fetch mine.”

Helbram's eyes widened. “Wait, today’s the day of its turn over?”

“Yeah. So, that’s why you don’t have to worry about me.”

She said and Helbram looks concern but seeing how she reassured him, he's left without a choice but let her be.

“Don’t... forget our rivalry’s still on!”

Helbram let out a smug. “Yeah, yeah. Whatever.”

He shakes his hand and prepares to leave. “I’ll be taking my leave. Good evening and good bye, Ro– ”

Helbram didn’t finished when Rose touched his hand, interrupting him in the process. He looks at her and the woman smiled.

“Hel, thank you.”

Helbram paused and smiled back.

“No problem.”

Helbram made his leave and Rose bid good bye.

7:00 P.M.

Helbram arrived at their house and then his mother meets him at the entrance, all worried. “Oh no, Brambram! I heard you fell from the stairs.”

This Chubby and Bulky stature woman is Evangeline M. Wilheim y Chua, she has black colored 2 pigtailed hair, fair skin, and a black-colored Asian eye. Her maiden name is Evangeline B. Mauler.

She looks worried and starts checking him. “Where did it hurt most? Is it in your joints? Chest– *gasped* Is it your head?” She helps him sit on the wooden elongated chair.

“Do you need a doctor?” She looks really worried. “Oh no, what if you have break bones from that fall?” She starts biting her nails. But then–

“Big bro’s fine, mimi. Don’t overly complicate things.” A kid with eyeglasses appeared.

Their mother looks really worried. “Mikmik, your brother fell upstairs. The school nurse called me.”

Mikhail M. Chua is Helbram's lil stepbrother. He has a Black hair, wearing eyeglasses, and in his elementary days.

The boy also came home late but enters the house like nothing happened. He took off his shoes and put it into the drawer.

“No need to remind me.” He said as he puts his hat at the hat holder. “I know how the incident occured, after all, we took the same school.”

He pats his pants. “The news spreads like virus. And because of that, Big bro’s reputation rises drastically.”

Evangeline raised a brow. “Reputation? What do you mean?”

Mikhail sighs and he massages his nose bridge for a sec. “Big bro is one heck of a culprit himself, mimi. The CCTVs and the Witnesses said that he headed to his own demise. That’s all.”

Their mom looked at Helbram and put her hands on her waist. “

Is that true, Mr. Wilheim?”

Helbram looked at her, clueless. He faces her and scratches his scalp.

“I… have no recollection before the accident occurs mimi.” 

Their mother became furious. “How come you don’t remember??” She said. “It was you who made such mess?!”

Mikhail intervenes. “Also, according to the witnesses, it seems Big bro is in a state of trance. The students who are in the scene were confused.”

Helbram remembered that he was indeed in a different event but never realized that in reality, he's in tranced state.

“Wait, I was in trance state?”

Mikhail fixes his eyeglasses. “Yeah.”

Helbram starts rubbing his chin. “That’s odd.”

The room became awkwardly silent and that’s when their mother clapped and destroyed the silence.

“Alright, that’s enough Bram-bram topic.” She declared. “Mikmik, why are you home late?”

Mikhail flinched and his eyes were panicking. “Well– I…. Umm…”

Their mom sighs. “Alright… Whatever your reasons are, we all need to eat now. It’s getting late and the food’s getting cold. So, let’s go.” both siblings stood.

“Yes, mom.”

Both of them eat their lunch together as one family.

"Anyway BramBram, I have bought new sets of Protein, want some?"

"Yeah Mimi, put it in my milk drink."

Mikhail looks disgusted. "Seriously, bro, you kept taking Protein and working out yet why your body still a Twink?"

Helbram triggered and their mother giggles.

"Perhaps he's a late bloomer, like your Granddad, yaknow. Also, Mikmik, if you reached the appropriate age, we all gonna include protein in our daily diet."

Mikhail grossed out. "No, I'll pass."

10:00 P.M.

Helbram just finished his work out with his improvised dumbbell. The teen has a nice toned body but he’s still- like Mikhail said, a twink or stick body figure. Helbram headed to the mirror and remembered the events where Rose’s hair is badly ruined by Stella. Angered, he grits his teeth and fist tightened. His anger is aroused that he punches the cement on his left side.

“Stella will pay dearly. I swear in my name, I will give Rose justice.”

His patched eye glows faintly. Then, he does push up and after that, he hydrates himself. He pants heavily as sweat drips from his face. Once his workout's done, he took the towel to dry himself. He allotted 20 minutes and he proceed to cold shower.

There, he flicks his hair backwards and dip his body to the icy cold water. There, he set the timer to 12 minutes. After that, he fell asleep.

At midnight…

Inside the Bathroom, Rose finished taking a bath. She wears her lingerie and bra. She’s about to head back to her room but the moment she saw her reflection projected into the mirror, she stopped, touched it, and missed her long hair. That moment, the events in the afternoon replayed her mind. The gruesomeness, the humiliation, her trauma clashed into one.

She hugged her body in fear, hyperventilating. Rose remembered how Stella did to her in the past, especially what she did on her body. Trauma hit her like a flood that she ripped her bra and so is her panties. But since she can’t tear the underpants, she took the scissors from the table. After she tore it down, the scissors bring back the event where Stella shaved her long hair, thus, she throws it and grasped her head.

Her breathing gotten heavier but the moment she saw the box beside her cabinet, she rips it open and took the bandages there to bind her chest so tight just so she could forget how Stella violated her in the past.

Her saw her private part and her hands starts shaking because fear had taken root in her heart, triggering another flashback where Stella handed her a man wear (brief) to her. She refused but Stella ordered her friends to force it to her. Stella also added 1 Ping-Pong ball inside.

She didn’t realize that she unknowingly wears them when her trauma plays. She cried and sit on her table. She sobs but later paused when she glimpsed on her notebook saying:

 “The Abomination is real.”

Rose took the notebook and start writing to cope her pain. “I… I will prove and make Hel beli… believe its existence!” Though fear taken root, her rivalry with Helbram somehow soothes her trauma. She starts scribbling portraying a slime-like figure but in reality, that figure is NOT the real form of the Abomination.

Inside the Castle....

Somewhere in the Earth lies an Old Castle. At the highest tower, the room is filled with pile of sacs made out of flesh. Within lies a feminine figure, sleeping peacefully inside a womb-like cocoon. Her brown-colored hair is knee-long length, and her body is protected by a membrane. The moment she woke up, she extends her sharp nails ripping the sac, resulting the mucus to burst. She headed where the moonlight shines but her body is so weak that she tripped! She curled on the floor, and her longish brown hair covers her naked big chested, hour glass body. Her stomach growls, echoing across the castle. She looked at the moon, and raised her hand.

“Amby… so hungry.” She mumbled. “Must… eat”

Only half of her face is shown because her hair is obstructing the view.

“Amby… crave… heart… Delicious, tender-juicy heart- no… Flesh.”

She then feasts on her arm, satisfying her empty stomach. Surprisingly, she had insane regeneration ability! The part where she ate, heals. Once she had her fill, her other hand glides down. She twitched, and her legs are trembling. She cried, not in pain, but her pleasures are satisfied. After have an hour, a mucus came out down there and she lay flat on the ground, catching her breath.

At the void....

Everything's all dark but a voice is heard.

“Curiosity creates pathways to unknown, leading to scientific breakthrough. But— stupidity leads to ruin.”