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*beep* *beep* *beep*
Ban groaned sitting up in his bed.
“Fucking-“ he picked up his phone, checking the time.
“What the hell is happening at three fucking a.m?”
He was about to lay back down when his roommate King ran into his room, kind of out of breath, like he had been running
“there is a fire- or something, they want everyone out of the building”
He panted out before speeding back out presumably outside where everyone else was now supposed to gather.
Ban grumbled quietly to himself as he tiredly got up and put a hoodie on. He then walked quite slowly out with a few teachers yelling at him to hurry up out into the winter.
When he got out he yawned and slowly walked up to King who was sitting on a bench with his boyfriend having a nice conversation about arson and how to get away with it.
He sat down beside them still trying to wake up.
“I swear whoever did it I’m gonna grab them by the neck and shove a knife so fa-“
“Ban, dear, shut up before the teachers hear you.”
King said, putting an arm over Helbrams shoulder and flicking Ban’ forehead.
“Im gonna fucking KILL WHOEVER DID WOKE ME THE FUCK UP”
His outburst went completely ignored which angered him more.
Ban slumped down, trying to calm himself a little.
It was snowing heavily and it was cold out so naturally everyone was a little peeved with needing to go outside on such short notice.
Getting bored quickly he sighed quite loudly and let his eyes wander.
He saw his and King's childhood friend, Diane, sitting in the snow making a snowman with their other friend, Elizabeth. Probably trying to pass the time.
Ban continued to look around. There was a man probably in his last year at the college, he was quite tall, had ginger? Hair and was shirtless. A woman was next to him, she was shorter like everyone else ‘this man is like a giant or something’ she had black hair and was probably the one who has his shirt due to how oversized it was on her. ‘They’re probably dating’ he thought and continued to look around.
Some time passed, like five minutes, when he noticed a short man? Child? Anyway it was obvious that he was the reason the fire alarm had awoken.
The man had blond hair and was covered in soot and ash and smelled downright terrible.
He was the obvious culprit, plus he was holding a lighter and a failed attempt in making cookies.
“Who the fuck decided that it was a good idea to try to bake fucking cookies at three fucking a.m with a fuckiNG LIGHTER and nearly burn their kitchen down. Whoever you are, come here and maybe I won’t hit you as hard as I was planning.” Ban said, voice racing at the end.
He stood up and walked to a nearby tree and leaned against it, trying to keep himself awake.
He was glaring daggers at the culprit while muttering things he’s gonna do to him.
After a few very long minutes the blond man child turned Ban's way, Ban who was still glaring at him mouthed the words ‘I’ll kill you’ to him.
The boy then looked him right in the eye, lifted the lighter so it was under the plate of burned nothingness and lit the lighter presumably again. All with a blank face while mouthing back ‘your welcome _____~’ Ban couldn’t quite make out the last part but was very pissed nonetheless.
In the background he could hear King say “Arson Pog” but he could worry about that later.
Right now he was having a staring contest with the culprit. That is until the principal got in the way. The boy was then dragged away presumably to get a warning, get scolded or expelled.
Ban stood there contemplating whether or not he should seek the boy out later or just ignore it.
Apparently he’d been too deep in thought that he missed when the teachers announced that they could go back into the dorms.
What woke him up was King pulling at the hood of his hoodie and dragging him towards the dorms.
He didn’t do much after the whole fiasco. He did hear Helbram come into their dorm earlier so King and him were probably doing something. If he’d be lucky they’d only be up to 4.a.m and he’d be able to sleep.
Luck was on his side for once and he fell asleep before they started they’re weekly game nights, mostly horror games.
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Ban woke up to King being extremely loud in the little kitchen in their dorm room.
‘That fucker really wants me to cook at what…’ he picked up his phone from the night stand
‘8 in the fuckin’ Ban groaned as he turned around and put his pillow over his head, trying to muffle out the noise.
That did not work at all.
King came into his room and dragged Ban out.
“Cmon Kiiing, leme sleeep” Ban whined “it's 8am”
All King did instead was slap him across the head with a pillow and drag him into the kitchen.
The first thing he noticed was the blonde from the other night sitting at their kitchen table.
“Oi, what are you doing here?” Ban said. Staring at the blonde judgementaly, the blonde at least managed to look guilty but Ban didn't buy it.
“Me and Helbram are going back to my room” Ban sighed “yeah yeah go make out or whatever…”
“Were not-“ King protested but got interrupted by Helbram “let’s just go alright”
When Ban heard the door close he turned to the blonde and tapped the table, waiting for him to speak.
It was a bit awkward but the blonde spoke “so umm… i'm sorry for setting off the alarm so early yesterday, i decided to look for you since you seemed cool”
Ban rubbed his fingers against his temples in a soothing manner “so let me get this straight. You specifically searched for me because you thought i was cool after you mouthed your welcome something”
The blonde put his hand on his chin as if thinking, then grinned “exactly!”
The blonde practically jumped up from his seat “My name is Meliodas by the way and I'm on floor 3 and room number 43, two floors beneath yours. If you couldn't count, visit me!”
And with that the blonde, no Meliodas left.
‘Yeah i won't be visiting him anytime soon’
Yeah, that didn’t go so well.
-me, the author