1. Transferred students

In a well-furnished office, three teenagers were standing silently in front of a middle-aged man who was sitting on the chair with his hands resting on the table.

On the table, a nameplate was placed clearly telling his name and designation. “Dr. Edward Du The principal” was written on it.

“Your respective classes have been assigned. You can join the class by tomorrow. For now, I will arrange someone to show you all, around the school.” Dr. Du said to them. They were the newly transferred students. And, they would be joining the 11th Grade in the current month, July.

He picked the handset of the telephone and pressed some buttons on the dial pad.

*ring* *ring*

After two rings, the call was picked and a melodious voice of a girl was heard from the other end. “Hello.”

“Come to the principal’s office right now.”

*toot*

He cut the call as soon as its purpose was served.

“Huh!? What was that!?” The girl was bewildered. “Judging from his tone, it shouldn’t be any bad news,” she murmured to herself.

“Looks like I’m the only one who can go right now.” she sighed. “Just, why do I have to be alone in this room at this moment?” She muttered while roaming her eyes in the room which only had traces of human presence but no one except her at the moment.

This was not the first time she met the principal. Yet every time she met him she couldn’t help but feel fear due to the fact that ‘he is the principal of the school.’ She knew that Dr. Du was not a scary person despite the fact that he could not be taken lightly.

*sigh*

‘Here the music sheets are missing which is already enough for me to worry. And, now he is calling someone god knows what for and he didn’t bother to specify a thing. I just hope it won’t turn out to be another headache for me.’ Her mind was singing complaints as her feet were taking her to the principal’s office.

*knock**knock*

“May I come in sir.”

“Come in.”

After receiving the permission, she entered.

Soon a slender girl came into view. She was wearing the school uniform. Her waist-long hair was braided. Her face was small and pretty. She had an innocent charm which was reflected by her smile that could lift anyone’s mood like a blooming flower.

There was an additional thing on her. That was the ‘Secretary’ badge she was wearing on her chest.

“Good morning, sir.” She greeted the authoritative person sitting there.

“Good morning, Secretary Lani.” He replied back with a fatherly smile. It wasn't surprising that the principal knew her name as she was, after all, secretary of the president from the student council.

‘He’s not angry or anything bad rather... he seems to be kind of... happy.’ She was analyzing his mood when she heard him say.

“Secretary Lani, these are new students of our school. Please show them around the campus.”

“Certainly sir.” While maintaining her perfect smile, she turned to the other three people in the room. Now she was facing them, she found them eye candies. Though she could not check them out, at least not here, but… ‘Giving them a tour of campus won't be a bad thing. Anyway, they are also looking for the sheets. So I can do this task without any tension. Right.’

After coming out of the principal’s office, Lani introduced herself. “Hello, my name is Lani Lei. I’m the president's secretary.”

“Hello, my name is Opal Jin.” The girl who introduced herself had smooth skin free from any traces of harshness. She looked delicate. She was smiling. Her smile was free from any fakery.

“Hello, my name is Caleb Lin.” He introduced himself with a gentlemanly smile on his face. He was handsome and appeared to be kind as he was emitting a soothing aura.

“...And he is called Zou Haoran.” Caleb introduced the boy standing beside him. He did so without any pressure or embarrassment as if it was natural for him.

Lani looked at Zou Haoran to scan him with her eyes. But, when she laid her eyes on his face she couldn’t take them off. He was heavenly handsome. He had a cold air around him telling others not to disturb him yet his face could make them stuck to him. It was the moment Lani found her vocabulary short of words as she couldn’t describe more.

‘Can’t he introduce himself?’ With this thought in her mind, she moved her neck which started to hurt due to his height.

‘Ah, rich people and their strange habits. Maybe even his words are expensive.’ She guessed that they were rich based on a few clues she managed to find like principal sir wouldn’t have called someone just to give them a tour. Plus, she herself was somewhat a shopping maniac, thus she could tell that from head to toe their appearances were screaming money.

“So, where would you all like to go first?” She asked them, flashing her perfect smile.

“How about we should visit the outdoors first.” Caleb suggested.

“Cool, let’s do this.” They all started to follow her as she led them to the sports ground.

While walking she did not forget to advertise the sports available in the school and of course, ask them a few things.

“You know our sports teacher is friendly natured. Oh, by the way, which sports do you guys like?” Lani loved to talk and a lot at that. But, this time she had another motive. She wanted Zou Haoran to speak; she wanted to find out his voice. And, she had no plans of giving up so soon.

Opal decided to answer her first, “For me… you see, I’m not ve--”

“Give me those sheets in your hand. Climbing up can’t help you to cover your theft.” A sudden stern voice of a girl interrupted her. But that voice didn’t stop there. “Either you come down or I’ll come up there.”

All four looked in the direction of the source of that voice. They saw not far from them, two girls were standing under a tree, looking up to the boy… on the tree.

One of them was in school uniform, sobbing while standing behind. And, the other girl was wearing a sports tee and track pants, that was the sports uniform. She had an irritating expression with her hands folded in front of her chest. Even from that distance, they could tell that she was a remarkable beauty.

Then, they looked at the boy, only to see the striking similarity between his face and that sobbing girl’s face. Without a doubt, they were siblings or maybe twins.

This drama piqued the interest of everyone including the indifferent Zou Haoran. After all, you won’t see someone threatening others like that.

He wanted to know her identity but he was sure that his question would be answered without him asking.

“So it was him.” Lani’s angered voice piqued their curiosity further.

“Are you al--”

Before Opal could finish her words, she was interrupted again. “Hurry up. You are wasting all of us with your absurd solution.”

“Umm... Lani, who is she?” Opal asked.