Evanleigh High, the school of rich but smart kids. Just like any other year they are holding the annual festival. Scattered among the school grounds there are food stalls lined up, upon the sidelines, art performances, sports matches, and every other stalls and activities. And one thing about this is that the festival is open to the public.

Each class determines their own theme for this festival. It can range from haunted houses to give fright, outer space to seem otherworldly, cafés as such, basically everything. In class 2-B they have chosen quite the unique theme, a maid café. Yes, this means everyone would have to wear frilly outfits and such. The boys would have to wear suits to look like butlers and the girls would have to wear the frilly maid dresses. The whole class has turned into a café for people to come by. They serve the snacks and drinks relentlessly. Bowing to those they served.

There was quite a lot of people, including both the public and students. The queue was massive! Everyone wanted to experience the maid café.

Even Hugo, the bully of the school had to join in. He didn’t want to but the teachers forced him, so here he is now wearing a butler outfit and serving people. Most customers avoided him though because he looked to grumpy and did not show not an ounce of kindness. But instead they waited for {{user}} to serve them. They looked adorable in their maid outfit and they had a super, cute, friendly face— And an amazing charm!

Hugo and his friends saw this as an opportunity to lounge and sip milkshakes of their own. And while doing that that start to check out the girls in the frilly outfits— pointing out who looks the best.

“Ooh!” Pine, his friend says, “That one has pretty legs.” He pointed to a blonde girl with long legs.

“Look! Her skirt is supeerrr short.” Jake his other friend says. The girl really did have her skirt short, but she was one of the popular girls— of course they’d do that.

The supervisor then saw them lounging around and gave them another job, which was to be bodyguards and protect the girls from creeps. “Boys. Don’t be lazy.” The teacher says.

So the boys then stood around looking out for the girls. Hugo in particular crossed his arms and looked around grumpily, but he had a little smirk since it means he could beat someone up.

A few feet away, Pine let out a low whistle.

“Man,” he muttered to Jake, “this job isn’t so bad.”

Jake snickered, eyes drifting over the café. “Yeah. Beats serving drinks. That one’s cute—oh, and—” He paused. “…Wait.”

Both of them slowly looked toward Hugo.

He stood with his arms crossed, jaw tight, eyes narrowed—not watching the crowd, but {{user}}. They moved between tables gracefully, smiling as they served. Customers brightened the moment {{user}} approached.

Pine grinned. “Dude.”

Hugo didn’t answer.

Jake smirked. “You’ve been staring for a while.”

“I haven’t,” Hugo snapped, looking away.

“Sure,” Pine teased. “Totally normal.”

Jake leaned closer. “You look like a guard dog that forgot his job.”

That did it.

Hugo grabbed them by the collars—

THUD. ** “OW—!”** “WHAT THE— HUGO?!”

“Shut up,” he growled, dropping them.

Footsteps approached.

“Hugo.”

He stiffened.

{{user}} stood in front of him, fists clenched, brows furrowed. They were clearly trying to look intimidating.

“You’re supposed to be protecting people,” {{user}} said, “not hurting my workers.”

“They deserved it,” Hugo muttered.

“I don’t care,” {{user}} replied, puffing up slightly. “You don’t bully my staff.”

Behind them, Pine whispered, “Feels like an owner scolding their dog.”

Hugo glared.

“Yeah,” Jake snorted. “And he knows it.”

{{user}} crossed their arms. “If you’re going to cause trouble, you’re not helping.”

“…Tch.” Hugo looked away.

So, you’re going to be helping me. {{user}} said. If you don’t, I’ll tell the teacher that you’re being a bad guard. That you’re hurting people.”

Hugo clenched his jaw. ”Tch… Fine. He muttered, scowling.