“Dearest sister, it seems that we are indeed in love with the enemy,” Janus replied with a heartfelt sigh. “How ever will we handle this?” His eyes narrowed for a moment in a harsh way. “You may know that we’re responsible,” he said with an evil smile. “But you cannot prove it. Our hands are clean…nothing ties us to any of the scenes.”

Lila smiled, “Shall we play, dear brother?” She gave him an eerie smile.

“Lets,” he replied with crazed eyes. “The student council has declared war.”

—

Myrri woke up in the middle of the night. Something was wrong. He shot up in bed, and looked around. The room was silent, and Janus was sleeping. Just to be sure, the boy waited. Surely enough, Janus’ breaths were audible. Good. He laid back down, and closed his eyes. When he awoke next though, it was utter chaos in the halls.

The entire hall floor was covered in two inches of a gelatinous substance. A few of the boys were confused about it, and some even disgusted, but most were sliding down the halls at maximum speed, slamming into the end halls laughing. One particular boy was coming down the hall when Myrri stepped out, confused as hell, and slammed straight into Myrri, causing both of them to slide and bounce off of the walls.

“WHAT IS GOING ON!?” Myrri demanded. “As part of the student council, I must ask that all of you return to your rooms!” His voice was drowned out by the laughter of the boys.

Janus walked out oF the room and looked around, “Oh wow…who ever could have done such a terrible thing?” he asked innocently.

Neomi was just as careful with Lila. She woke up in the morning and did a little stretch. “Good morning Lila.”

“Good morning Neomi,” Lila was yawning as she stretched in bed. “Best sleep ever.”

Then the chaos started. The laughter. The screaming. The ewws.

“What did you do?” Neomi’s eyes were large as she got out of bed and opened the door to the chaos. “Wait! WAIT! As part of the student council, I have to ask everyone to go back to your rooms!” Neomi slipped on some of the gelatinous substance and fell on her butt. She turned and looked at Lila.

“Whoa,” Lila stuck her head out of the door. “Who could have done this?”

Of course, Neomi couldn’t outright blame Lila and Janus but the smirk on Lila’s face was enough for Neomi to know this was them.

“When on earth did you two do this?”

“Do what? We were sleeping like babies,” Lila chuckled a bit and helped Neomi up. "I'm hurt you'd accuse both of us of such a heinous act."

After the disaster of a morning, Janus and Lila met with Neomi and Myrri in the library for a ‘study session.’ Of course, the real purpose of this mission was for Myrri and Neomi to somehow find a way to prove that Janus and Lila were indeed responsible for the heinous acts that had been committed that morning.

Lila was reading a book, and Janus was staring out of the window wistfully.

“Spill it,” Myrri said as he crossed his arms, looking at Lila with disappointment. “Or we don’t go on our date Friday.”

Stay strong, Lila. Endure. Janus thought. We can’t let the enemy in. Our bond is stronger than they are… But he was facing his own issues. He knew that Neomi would come after him next. Which is why they had anticipated the library would be their meeting location. All they had to do was hold out for a few minutes before the next power play was enacted.

Hold steady, dear sister….

Lila held her book up to her face and looked over it at Myrri. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. How can you punish me for something you don’t even know if I did it.”

I’m trying. Let's just hope he doesn’t go in for the kisses. He knows that’s cheating. Worry about yourself.

Neomi had to take two showers to get all the jello out of her hair. She was sitting there thinking about what to do for Janus. She scooted closer to him and put her hand on his thigh. She hadn’t let him get too far with her but she knew what made Janus Terrowin tick. “Janus?” She tilted her head up cutely at him. “You’ll answer me, right? You’ll tell me what happened this morning?” She pushed herself over and kissed his cheek a few times.

Don't you dare cave to her!

"I feel like we're being unfairly ganged up on," Lila finally squeaked out. "You have no proof we did anything and yet we're met with these harsh reactions."

“I appreciate the affection,” Janus said with a smile as he stared into Neomi’s eyes, “But I have nothing to say because I don’t know what happened.” An elegant lie as always, and Janus was even better at it than his father. “We are being unfairly targeted,” he said as he mirrored his sister. “Such harsh reactions indeed, for someone lacking proof.” He and his sister huffed together.

Myrri crossed his arms, “I guess we’ll have to go the nuclear option, won’t we Neomi?” he said as he gave her a side look. “We do have the maid outfit…and I’m sure there’s a bowtie around her somewhere I can use…” There was a devious look in his eyes. “We have ways of making you…talk…”

Before either of them could elaborate, though, the library seemed to spring to life around them. Books crashed out from the shelves and started flapping about, flying in violent circles. The chairs started to dance around, including the ones that everyone was sitting in! And the tables started to spin in midair, knocking all of their contents everyone all around.

“O-oh my!?” Janus explained in ‘surprise’ as he jumped up. “What’s going on here now!?”

Lila was fairly interested in what Myrri was talking about. However, that just wasn’t in the plans as their next big prank sprang to life. Lila sprung up with a shocked look on her face. “Myrri!” She pulled Myrri to her and clung to him. “What’s going on?!”

Neomi was the same with Janus as she looked around. She couldn’t tell if the twins were the ones responsible for this. Their acting was just that good. She clung to Janus as the library did whatever it wanted to do.

“Enough! ENOUGH!” One of the professors ended the spell and used her own to clean up the mess. “What on earth is going on?!”

“We don’t know!” Lila yelled. “We were just here reading when the library went out of control.” She trembled in Myrri’s arms. “I was so frightened by it.”

“Boys, escort the girls out of here and get them back to their dorms, well… Maybe to the cafeteria. We’ll try to see if the culprit is around here still,” the professor directed Janus and Myrri in the appropriate action. “You might need to avoid the dorms for right now while they are being cleaned.”

Janus had Neomi’s hand, and nodded when they were instructed to go to the cafeteria. What neither Neomi nor Myrri knew, was that this had all gone completely to plan. The cafeteria was the next target, and would be the grandest of pranks they had pulled yet.

Myrri gave Lila a serious look when they got out of the library. “Really? And he bought that from you?” He crossed his arms. “You’ve never been scared of anything your entire life.” He sighed. There was no dealing with her right now. In his mind, they had finished their fun for the day.

If only Myrri had any idea what was about to happen.

Janus squeezed Neomi’s hand, “You’re not scared, are you? Those books looked really dangerous. Who knew that knowledge could hurt.” There it was, his deflecting wit again. “I’m sure we can get some breakfast and calm down from all of the excitement.” His gaze lingered for a mere half a second when he met Lila’s eyes, and the two picked the best place to sit for the show…

“Coffee,” Janus said as they entered the line. He was given his cup, and pointed. “There’s a free spot in the corner there.” He smiled and led Neomi there once she got her breakfast. “Now…what was this about a maid outfit?” He was genuinely interested.

“False, I’m actually scared right now… but your presence is making it all better for me,” Lila said as she snuggled up to Myrri’s arm.

Neomi held Janus’s hand and nodded, “I was a little surprised. I wasn’t expecting all the books to jump to life like that…” She couldn’t outright blame Janus and Lila right now. They were seen as some of the victims.

“Breakfast sounds really good,” Lila got them all food and sat down next to Myrri. “Yes, what is this about the bow tie?” She got really close to Myrri. “Please, I’m just so rattled anything to soothe my dear tortured mind would help…. Myrriiiii. Don’t leave me in the dark.”

Neomi was blushing a bit and she was going to answer but Lila handed her some food. “Thank you, Lila… It’s just we got these props from the theater department. Really nice ones actually. We just thought you would both like them.”

“Oh is that all?” Janus asked.

Three…two…one…

At once, the lights went out. Darkness swirled around the cafeteria, and all of the windows burst open. Even though the initial spell had been broken, the books in the library came to life once more, and swarmed into the cafeteria. The jello from the dorms seemed to come alive and slither about the floors, invading where all of the students thought they would be safe. On the ceiling, a bright light seemed to write out a terrifying message that, once read, seemed to make little sense to anyone.

‘Birds rights.’

Flamingos started to rain from the ceiling, but before they hit the ground or the students, burst into flower petals that scattered about the floor. The lights flickered on, and everyone, Lila and Janus included, once again had vibrant and neon-like hair colors. Finally, there was a loud bang outside where the main school statue was…

When investigated, the statue had become a rather unique. A lot of the students wouldn’t understand who it had become, but for Myrri, he knew exactly it had become. Janus couldn’t believe it, and was practically dying as he fell over laughing. If there was ever proof that he hadn’t done these deeds, it was this.

For you see, long ago, Lady Angela had a special gold statue of her champion made, one that showed him in all of his natural glory. At once, Xeik had rejected the statue, but no one quite knew what happened to it. And it wasn’t like the Goddess of Life and Love to merely give up on her art so easily…

The grand statue of Xeik Eraphim, Champion of Life and Love, stood stark naked with a large leaf hiding the important bits in the dead center of the school campus.

“I can’t believe it,” Janus managed to get out as he tried his hardest to breath between his laughs. “It actually exists!?”

Myrri was in complete shock. “I…what…what the hell…”

Lila was losing her shit just as much as Janus was. “I’ve only heard stories from Daddy.” The twins were laughing so hard that their resonance was flickering between them. They both had bright blue eyes while they were laughing.

“So this is where it went,” Angela stepped out of a portal and was smacking a small handheld fan into her hand. “I’ve been looking everywhere for this. I even woke up Lewis and Simone trying to find it.” She inspected the statue. “It appears fine.” She looked at Myrri, “Didn’t your father tell you I had this commissioned of him? Of course, it wasn’t my idea.” She clapped her hands and Raine came out and saluted. “We need to take this home, Raine.”

“Right! ALSO BIRD RIGHTS!” Everyone recognized Raine as the statue from the first two weeks of school. She took the giant statue and hefted it over her shoulder. “Nakey Xeik go back to his Nakey Hideyholeeeeeeeee.”

Xeik was standing there after coming through the portal with this god-awful look on his face, “Tell me it wasn’t you two.”

Lila and Janus were almost on the floor laughing so hard they couldn’t answer him.

“No, it wasn’t you,” Xeik knew who did it. “I’m going to kill Lewis.”

“We bow down to his prowess,” Lila said out loud as she laughed hard.

“We cannot even begin to compete on his level,” Janus was holding his sister as they laughed.

“Our father is the true king of this world,” they said together.

“Wait… You mean… This whole time?” Neomi looked at the twins.

“We told you it wasn’t us,” they said together. “But the betrayal was real.”

“No no no no no. You had to have some part in this,” Myrri accused the Terrowin terrors for the final time.

“We didn’t have a part in any of this,” they once again responded together. “We’re innocent bystanders in this just like you. We believe we’re owed an apology.”

“BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER ONES?!” Myrri yelled.

“We didn’t do those either,” Janus and Lila said as they turned up their noses at Myrri. They were lying now but no one could tell.