Like what the administration of this school has said, we got free access in this University plus the popularity that we never wish to have. My name becomes so famous all over the Universities and I don't exactly know why. Each week, I've always received a bouquet of roses and a bunch of chocolates that makes Wave mad at all the time. Wave became the best MVP in here and they started to build a new varsity team again together with his friends and the other boys that are in the highest ranking. It's so unfair for me to think that everyone wants to be part of the varsity team, maybe it is what they want but they couldn't let in cause it is just for those who're at the highest ranking. Wave's friend is in the top 10, and the rest 5 is I don't know who they are. While me, the only girl at the highest ranking still thinks that it is really unfair treatment for the other students. Last week, we moved to our new room at the top of the dormitory where it is really a complete and perfect room. I've been thinking that it is like a condominium. Everyone at the highest ranking is in there. Next to our room is Byron's room, and next to his room is the room of Wave's friend. For me, it is not good knowing that we're here eating so much that everyone didn't experience what we're having right now. In real life, we can buy a condominium if we wanted to, but how about the others that are working hard to be part of the highest ranking but they could not get in?
"Hey, what are you thinking about?" Oly asked while we're eating pizza at the school cafeteria.
"Nothing, I'm just..." Someone interrupted my words. It's Rigel, standing in front of our table handling a tray of his foods. He looked so cold man without any expression on his face. He gave me a chocolate cake that I never asked him to give me or buy me. There's a cherry at the bottom of the cake.
"What is this for?"
"Eat it up. I know you like it." He said and left.
"What's that? Why did he give you that cake?" Leila asked while taking a sipped on her frappe and watching Rigel's back walking around.
"I don't know. We're not even close yet."
"Does Wave know about it?" She asked again.
"I already know it. Stop eating that cake, I will give you a new one." It's Wave's voice coming around. He's with his friends again and his new friends at the highest ranking.
"Okay."
"What was that for? Is Rigel starting to like you?" Green asked, looking at the cake. I shrugged.
"I don't know."
"He can't like you, Elyrhia." Wave said and walked out. I know he's jealous again. He never feels so jealous but this time, I don't know why he's acting so strange about that man that I do not know.
"What's happening to him? Is he jealous?" Loony asked too.
"Maybe?"
"I never saw him that he's jealous." Amari said and laughed.
We stopped talking when someone was calling my attention. I think the speaker here is connected to the computer room.
"Attention everyone, calling the attention of Elyrhia Red Thomas... Again, calling the attention of Elyrhia Red Thomas the top 1 of the highest ranking. Please proceed to the Faculty room at 10am. Thank you." Everyone looked at me. I look at my wrist watch to check the time.
It's 9:25 am. I still have 35 minutes before I'll go to the faculty room.
"Why is the admin calling you?" Loony asked.
"Can you just stop asking me? Not all of your questions need to be answered." I hissed and rolled my eyes. There are so many questions that I couldn't answer.
"O-okay. Don't be mad, baby girl." Amari said and chuckled. After I finished eating my meals, I left them and went alone to the faculty room. I was walking around the lobby when I saw Byron walking alone too.
"Hey, where are you going?" He asked. I thought he's mad at me cause I took his place to be number one. But he's not mad at me, not like what I think.
"At the faculty room, where have you been?"
"At the faculty room. They are all waiting for you." He smiled at me and turned his back. I was walking again when I heard someone talking behind my back.
"That's Elyrhia Red, right? Damn, she's so gorgeous all the time." The girl said to her friend. I act like I didn't hear everything.
"Yes, she is. Imagine, that girl is the top 1 in the highest ranking? And how about Kate Ventura? I didn't see her for a while." Oh fuck. I forgot about her. I hadn't seen her since the time that the highest ranking was announced. Where is she? Is she hiding just to avoid the issues or what?
"Maybe she's really disappointed for not being in the highest ranking. But actually she deserves it. She's not even that rich and looks at the students in the highest ranking. They are all having their connections to the government. Look at Elyrhia, is she the daughter of the governor?" Why are they blaming me for being the top 1 in the highest ranking and accusing me that I only have a stronger connection at the government. What do they think of me? Paying this school just to let me be the top one all over this University? No, I will never do that. I will never use my money for useless things.
I walked out and was already in front of the door of the faculty room. I was about to knock, when someone opened it.
"Oh, Elyrhia Red. You're here, come inside. We're all waiting for you." I guess she's one of the board of directors here.
I come with her inside. I was a little bit shocked because they are all here and looking at me. Seems like they are watching every step that I'm taking.
"Take a seat." He pinpoints the chair in front of them. I nodded as I took a seat.
"We would like to talk to you about something." The man with the gray tuxedo said as he flipped his chair and looked at me.
"About what?" I asked.
"Since you're the only girl and the top 1 at the highest ranking, we would like to give you this problem and solve it as soon as possible." He gives me an envelope and seems like there's something inside on it. Why me? I accept it and open it up. There's a picture inside.
And when I'm looking at it, it seems like I lost all of my strength.
It's a picture of Kate Ventura's death, is this a murder or suicidal?
"What do you mean that you're going to find out if that is a murder or suicidal?" Wave asked as I can see anger in his face while he's looking at each of Kate's death pictures. We're with his friends and all of the students at the highest ranking. We're at the meeting room near our dormitories. They are all looking at me, waiting for me to answer their questions. But I really don't know how I can answer this one.
"I don't know either. They just give me that..."
"I think it's a suicidal thought..." Amari said.
"I think so too. Remember that Kate is one of the students who graduated Valedictorian in the other school? I guess she killed herself because she didn't accept the truth that she couldn't get in the highest ranking." Rigel said as he looked at me. And lean back at the chair that he's sitting right now.
"Absolutely. But why there's a blood in here?" Val asked. We look at the picture that he's talking about. It's so hard to find this case, I'm not even a detective or what. I'm not a private investigator but they are forcing me to think and solve this one as I Am the top 1 at the highest ranking.
"We will solve it. You're not gonna solve it by yourself." Wave said and took a seat beside me.
"Why are they depending on their students to solve that case? I think they are thinking that we're a private investigator because of the level of our IQ. Especially you, Red. Can't you imagine? A student like you got a 99 percent grade?" Byron said and looked at me.
"It is not all about if you're a detective or what. They are basing the IQ of someone on how they will solve a problem like this." Green said.
"So, what will you get if you solve that?" Leonard asked. Leonard is the top 12 at the highest ranking. He's one of the varsity players also.
"I do not know. Should we start interviewing and asking Kate's parents?" I asked them as they looked into each other and got back their look at me. I was just wondering if they will tell us more information about Kate.
"Why we will ask them? Kate's death was happened in here. They are not around, when it happened." Wave said, and look again at the pictures. Only if I Am able to solve it by now, I will.
"If it is suicidal, what is the reason?" Davon asked. The top 13 in the highest ranking.
"And if it is murder, who will be the murderer? Is it a student, a professor? Or maybe one of us?" Byron said. Green slapped his head.
"Are you damn joking with us? One of us? Are you serious? Why would we do that to her?"
"I'm just guessing, stop being stupid dude."
"It's not funny. You're also accusing everyone of us and you're also saying that everyone here in the University is suspect?" Amari asked.
"What if we ask Kate's classmates?" Green suggested.
"Yeah, and ask her friends. When was the last time that they saw her..." Loony added as he looked at me and nodded.
"Well, we will do all of your suggestions. But we don't need to give the full attention here. Okay?" I asked all of them and they answered me in a nice way. Although it keeps bothering me at all, I keep calming myself not to think more about this case. I don't want to over think and get insane in a few weeks.
"You okay, baby?" Wave whispered.
"Hmm, yeah..."
"Is her room still open?" Ivan asked. Great, maybe we should take a look in her room but I'm scared because it is her death place.
"Yes, I saw that earlier while we're on our way here. It's not locked, but there's a caution outside her door's room."
"Really? Shall we go now?"
"Let's go---" someone cut Wave's word. It's Rigel, sitting on the chair while looking at the photo in the envelope. What is that?
"Wait!" Everyone of us here looks at him. He's too serious and makes me nervous.
"Why?"
"What the fuck, Rig?"
"It's not just one photo..." He said that makes me more scared for what is happening right now.
"There's more..." He added and looked at me while handling the photo's, not just one but--- there's really more photos.
"The photo that you saw is just a clue, Red."
"Look at this..." He gave me the photos. When I finally got it, I couldn't stop being scary and nervous at the same time.
Damn.
"This is a stupid phenomenon. Look at the photo's. The first photo shows that it was a suicidal, because of the rope hanging in the photo and the chair under the rope. Seems like it shows that she killed herself." Rigel explained. We're all remaining silent.
"The next photo shows that there's a murderer, because of the knife and the blood besides her. Take a look on her hands. There's no blood, that blood was in her body."
"I don't know where I will believe in. They make this thing so stupid." Wave said.
"Realest."
"But wait... Look at the photo, there's a shadow in here..." Ivan Bryan said while pointing to the photos with shadow.
"It's not just one shadow... It's two, three." Loony added.
"It's scary! Stop that damn thing, fuck it off!" Leonard hissed.
"Yes it is, but it is the truth that we need to solve."
"How about we secretly hire a private investigator and pay them to solve this case?" Davon suggested.
"Not all of the private investigator's are able to solve a case. Especially this hard one. We need cooperation here." Rigel said.
"My mom is a private investigator. I will ask her help even though all of you didn't like it." Leonard said. But everyone didn't agree with him.
"Don't let everyone know about this. They know that it was just Red who knew this. But Red told us about this." Amari said.
"No, I won't. I'm just saying that---"
"Stop thinking what you're thinking right now."
"Okay, fine. I won't tell my mom and never ask her help." Leonard said, finally giving up on telling her mom about this case.
"Let's go to her room, shall we?" Loony asked.
"Let's go."
"Maybe this time, we will even get more highlights to solve this case, ASAP." Rigel said and he stood up.
We're all hoping that we solve this case to give justice on Kate's death.
We, together with the students at the highest ranking go together at Kate's room at the 12th floor we're there's no students around cause it's almost time for the next class. We're the students at the highest ranking. We can ditch classes, we can go for the cutting classes cause we can do whatever we want to do. But there's only one thing we need to keep in our minds. During the examination day, we should pass the exams and be in the highest ranking again, or else everything that we got for now will be gone. Every examination, I should be staying at the top 1 in the highest ranking. We're exactly here in front of the door of Kate's room. There's a caution in here so no one can enter inside. But we're stubborn to think that we need to be in here, so we can get more information, more clearly information about her death. It's a big deal for us to solve this. Especially myself, cause this was assigned to me.
After our class for the whole day, Wave fetched me at my room and took me alone at our room. They are starting to have training as of now, I guess. I keep checking my phone and the clock, waiting until 6pm turns so we can go to the grocery store with Oly and Leila tonight. I keep sending a message to the both of them, but they are still preparing. I wore a simple shirt and shorts, and took my wallet at the cabinet. My phone rings again. I received another text message from the both of them.Leila:Should we wait for you at the entrance of the lobby? Or maybe downstairs of your room?Oly:I'm going to your room, Leila. Where are you? Come outside, let's go.
"Hey, wake up everyone. It's almost 2:40 am." I heard Khalee waking up all of us here. Wave is still sleeping, while hugging tightly. I wake him up, and everyone here is already awake. We prepare ourselves for the plan that we made last night. We should find Kate's body to solve the problem that we're fixing right now about her death case."Do you have a flashlight?" Davon asked."Yes, our phone.""We don't need more flashlight's while we're going there. More flashlight's, more chances that they will know there's someone going in the laboratory." Wave said besides me. Yes, he's right. We should be careful while going there, and wait until we finally find her body.
The past between me and Byron never erased Wave's mind like he was always thinking that I might choose Byron over him that makes our relationship complicated because his mindset is not that right about Byron. But for me, I already forgot what happened between me and Byron and I've treated him as a friend of mine that I would love to treasure for the rest of my life."Babe? What are you thinking?" Wave asked, putting the glass of pineapple juice on the table. He's looking at me, examining my whole face and I think he's reading what's on my mind but I didn't care at all. I smiled at him."Nothing much babe. Take a seat, and let's eat." He nodded as we started to eat our lunch. We're in the middle of eating our food when the girl from the other side grabbed the hair of the other girl who looks lik
"Oh yeah, McDonald's never failed me to admire their food since when I was seven years old..." Davon said and still ate the large mcfries that he took out. We're walking to go to the convenience store to buy some groceries for Kate's mom. Maybe we should buy a lot for her mom. They took some push carts and started to pick some groceries for Kate's mom. I can pay for all of this just to help her. And the only thing that I know is maybe she will ask us why we are doing this to her. We're in the middle of buying some groceries when my phone rings.It's from an unknown number."Who is that?" Wave asked while looking at my phone. I'm a little bit curious. Why does this someone know my cell phone number? I never gave my phone number to anyone except Wave and my family.&n
We don't exactly know what she really meant by saying that to us. I took a deep breath and look at her eyes. She really looks so tired and depressed like every mom that I've seen before when they are all depressed because their kids were lost. It was the exact feelings when my auntie lost her daughter before because of the car accident, which is my cousin. The only thing that I remember, weeks ago after my cousin's burial, my auntie lost her mind and it leads to a mental hospital. I'm afraid that maybe kate's mom will lose her mind too because she thinks a lot about the death of her daughter. We should be responsible to help her to get Kate's body out of that school, and to be with her mom although she's already dead. She never does anything bad. She was just a simple girl who was dreaming to become a perfect girl with a lot of dreams in her life and get her mom out of his kind of life. She was passionate about her dreams. But the University didn't give her any chance to achie
CHAPTER 1I've been preparing myself for the first of our school today. It's a little bit exciting, but somehow is a little bit nervous. Today, I'm starting my new life at Calvorie University. I heard a lot about that school and it gives the best opportunities for the students who enrolled there. My family expected me so much that I couldn't imagine what my life is going to be, if ever I started to move on my own and risk my own life to study hard. It's not easy like what I think, but I can work hard for it not to fail them. After preparing my things, I called Wave since he's going to fetch me here and we can go to Calvorie University together. Aziwave Moreno has been my boyfriend for almost two years. I met him when we're having a math competition but I won against him. He hated me at the beginning because he was too competitive at that time, but he started to like me. 'The
CHAPTER 2Monday is the most interesting day that I'm waiting for. I'm too excited to meet my new classmates and prof. Wave wake me up that early so we can prepare for our first day. Yesterday we got our schedule and it's the same time but in a different room since our course is not the same. He's now done taking a bath, while I'm wearing the school uniform."I don't think it's a good thing to wear that skirt." Wave said looking at the skirt that I'm wearing right now."Nah, it's good. It feels like I'm an anime character." I chuckled but he didn't seem happy at all. He keeps looking at my legs and it pisses him off."Do you think it's funny that I can see how slim you are in here?
We don't exactly know what she really meant by saying that to us. I took a deep breath and look at her eyes. She really looks so tired and depressed like every mom that I've seen before when they are all depressed because their kids were lost. It was the exact feelings when my auntie lost her daughter before because of the car accident, which is my cousin. The only thing that I remember, weeks ago after my cousin's burial, my auntie lost her mind and it leads to a mental hospital. I'm afraid that maybe kate's mom will lose her mind too because she thinks a lot about the death of her daughter. We should be responsible to help her to get Kate's body out of that school, and to be with her mom although she's already dead. She never does anything bad. She was just a simple girl who was dreaming to become a perfect girl with a lot of dreams in her life and get her mom out of his kind of life. She was passionate about her dreams. But the University didn't give her any chance to achie
"Oh yeah, McDonald's never failed me to admire their food since when I was seven years old..." Davon said and still ate the large mcfries that he took out. We're walking to go to the convenience store to buy some groceries for Kate's mom. Maybe we should buy a lot for her mom. They took some push carts and started to pick some groceries for Kate's mom. I can pay for all of this just to help her. And the only thing that I know is maybe she will ask us why we are doing this to her. We're in the middle of buying some groceries when my phone rings.It's from an unknown number."Who is that?" Wave asked while looking at my phone. I'm a little bit curious. Why does this someone know my cell phone number? I never gave my phone number to anyone except Wave and my family.&n
The past between me and Byron never erased Wave's mind like he was always thinking that I might choose Byron over him that makes our relationship complicated because his mindset is not that right about Byron. But for me, I already forgot what happened between me and Byron and I've treated him as a friend of mine that I would love to treasure for the rest of my life."Babe? What are you thinking?" Wave asked, putting the glass of pineapple juice on the table. He's looking at me, examining my whole face and I think he's reading what's on my mind but I didn't care at all. I smiled at him."Nothing much babe. Take a seat, and let's eat." He nodded as we started to eat our lunch. We're in the middle of eating our food when the girl from the other side grabbed the hair of the other girl who looks lik
"Hey, wake up everyone. It's almost 2:40 am." I heard Khalee waking up all of us here. Wave is still sleeping, while hugging tightly. I wake him up, and everyone here is already awake. We prepare ourselves for the plan that we made last night. We should find Kate's body to solve the problem that we're fixing right now about her death case."Do you have a flashlight?" Davon asked."Yes, our phone.""We don't need more flashlight's while we're going there. More flashlight's, more chances that they will know there's someone going in the laboratory." Wave said besides me. Yes, he's right. We should be careful while going there, and wait until we finally find her body.
After our class for the whole day, Wave fetched me at my room and took me alone at our room. They are starting to have training as of now, I guess. I keep checking my phone and the clock, waiting until 6pm turns so we can go to the grocery store with Oly and Leila tonight. I keep sending a message to the both of them, but they are still preparing. I wore a simple shirt and shorts, and took my wallet at the cabinet. My phone rings again. I received another text message from the both of them.Leila:Should we wait for you at the entrance of the lobby? Or maybe downstairs of your room?Oly:I'm going to your room, Leila. Where are you? Come outside, let's go.
We, together with the students at the highest ranking go together at Kate's room at the 12th floor we're there's no students around cause it's almost time for the next class. We're the students at the highest ranking. We can ditch classes, we can go for the cutting classes cause we can do whatever we want to do. But there's only one thing we need to keep in our minds. During the examination day, we should pass the exams and be in the highest ranking again, or else everything that we got for now will be gone. Every examination, I should be staying at the top 1 in the highest ranking. We're exactly here in front of the door of Kate's room. There's a caution in here so no one can enter inside. But we're stubborn to think that we need to be in here, so we can get more information, more clearly information about her death. It's a big deal for us to solve this. Especially myself, cause this was assigned to me.
Like what the administration of this school has said, we got free access in this University plus the popularity that we never wish to have. My name becomes so famous all over the Universities and I don't exactly know why. Each week, I've always received a bouquet of roses and a bunch of chocolates that makes Wave mad at all the time. Wave became the best MVP in here and they started to build a new varsity team again together with his friends and the other boys that are in the highest ranking. It's so unfair for me to think that everyone wants to be part of the varsity team, maybe it is what they want but they couldn't let in cause it is just for those who're at the highest ranking. Wave's friend is in the top 10, and the rest 5 is I don't know who they are. While me, the only girl at the highest ranking still thinks that it is really unfair treatment for the other students. Last week, we moved to our new room at the top of the dormitory
"I'm just joking. And what do you think of me? Thinking of you?" Oly rolled his eyes on Leila and look at me."By the way, did you read your notes?""Yes, I already did. But damn it! It's so hard for me to understand the lessons that our professor has discussed.""College days are never easy.""I wish I could be in high school again. No pressure in studying, just go with the flow with our life in high school days.""You want to be high school again so you can flirt with so many girls again." Leila said. I laughed for what she had said. I can wait for one of them to make a confession someday.
I bought more food for Kate. I bought more of her necessity in her dormitory. I should buy her some groceries next time if we're able to go outside and if we have a lot of free time. Maybe she's too shy to tell me about her personal problems, so I will help her as much as I can."You sure you will give her all of these?" Wave asked while holding all of the bags that I gave him earlier after we bought all of these for Kate."Nah, I'm sure. Don't ask. Look around and keep looking at the room number of her dormitory." I hissed, while looking at the dormitories room number. The librarian said that her room number is 124 Kate Ventura from the Chemical Engineering section. Though their room is apart from us. And I think it is a good idea if I give her all of these in her dormitory