SSHS 107 Alas! The efforts of the students have paid off as all of the exams have ended. It is currently Friday and they have just taken their P.E. exams which deal with self- defence, usage of available resources as weapons and parkour in case of any need for escape. Most of the students are confident that they have done their best and that they will achieve high scores in all of their exams. And then there are those inevitable overthinkers who are still being nervous about the exams and their scores, but nonetheless, they too are relieved that the exams are finally done. Grabbing the opportunity to relax, some of the students banded together to have a karaoke night or an eat out to celebrate their hard work and to also destress. Some of the fancier students opt to have a spa or to relax at their own houses, inviting some of the other students for a sleepover. Every student planned for something that would help them relax after the tedious amount of hours of reviewing and the ner
SSHS 108 It was a relatively normal day for the students of the La Florence Academy. Well, that is for the students only, it was a different case for the staff of the school. Though they did their best to not make a fuss about it and attract the attention of the students and create a bigger problem for them to solve. It is better if the conflict remained only to the knowledge of the staff and secretly of those involved. It is a good thing that the school was implementing a whole week off after the exams, as an opportunity for the students to fully relax after those strenuous reviewing and stressful exams. It was also their way of making way for the faculty staff to complete all of the scoring and the encoding of scores and grades of the students— their way of working in an efficient manner so as there will be no delay in any way. And for this, Mr. Ben, the other certified spies (aside from the rookies) involved and also Dean Malcolom were grateful for. In that way, they would be able
SSHS 109 In the midst of the students giggling and eating their meals, some are still watching how Excami was still beating Arthur, and Arthur being the goofy person that he is, continues to pester and piss Excami off. Damian on the other hand, tries his best to calm down his sister and to make her stop beating the hell out of Arthur but inside his mind, he does agree that the Student Council Treasurer deserves such beating and that he knew all too well how his sister acts when she is pissed— only she herself can stop herself and that the calmness will come sooner to her. And so, he just continued to eat while sometimes stopping his sister from landing a fatal blow to Arthur. Then there was Albert who sat beside Arthur, he made it his role to stop Arthur from further fanning the flames in the eyes of the Student Council Auditor. He does so by putting food into Arthur’s mouth from time to time to make him stop talking, or just blatantly covering his mouth. still, it was all in vain as
SSHS 110 "Mom! Dad!" Excami exclaimed as she stood up from her seat and rushed to their parents, with a wide smile on her face and her arms open wide, ready to hug her parents whom she hasn't seen for so long. "My baby!" Mrs. Montague exclaimed too as she welcomed her dear daughter to her arms. Both the female Montague nestled and snuggled to their warm embrace, and if one listened closer, they might hear the faint sound of purring from the two of them. "Hello Excami. I see you are enjoying the food." Their father commented as he could clearly see the residue of spices on her daughter's hands, and knowing his daughter, she must have had two plates already. Then coming towards them was Damian who was calmly walking towards his parents. Instead of open arms, he did an arm shake and a chest bump with his father and then kissed the cheeks of his mother. All in all, it was their way of greeting each other. Others might cringe on the way of their greeting, considering their age, but to them
SSHS 111 The students who felt admiration, inspiration and an intense want for the Montague parents to pay attention to them was so obvious to their eyes as they flocked towards the Montague parents and interacted with them, often sneaking in a few jokes of adoption and whatnot, though it was all laughed about by Mr. Aiden and Mrs. Zephnir— they know what the students are trying to imply. After all, they are not the first ones to do so. Then again, those were the things that the students felt, not Hestia and Albert. They are well aware of the real reason for this relaxation getaway, in any case, the Montague parents, Hestia and Albert all have the same want from this: information. Though the specific information that they want and need to obtain are very much different, it is still the same in the generic sense. “Hello Hestia, and Albert. I heard a lot of things about you from these cutsie gremlins of ours. They are always talking about the two of you.” Mrs. Zehpnir said as sh
SSHS 112Mr. Aiden and Mrs. Zephnir became the life of the party as they continued to converse with the students. Mr. Aiden always throws dad jokes in which the students laugh and entertain about, some were even spewing their own dad jokes. Mrs. Zephnir was surrounded by the girls of the getaway as she shared her secrets and tips into maintaining her beauty and how she got to hook someone like Mr. Aiden from the sea. Of course, Damian and Excami saw nothing harmful to this, they love that their parents get along with the people they usually interact with. But the thing was, they should be the one, the star– the life of the party, them— the Montague siblings— and not their parents. And they knew inside of them that it was time for their parents to go. Before they spew the embarrassing tales of the Montague siblings and damage their prestigious reputation at school. However, they couldn’t say that they are also grateful that their attention was now directed to Arthur and Hestia. We
SSHS 113 After much struggle, the Montague siblings were able to drag their parents away from their and from the group of students. It was a much struggle as it was so hard to keep the eyes of Mrs. Zephnir away from Hestia, and it was the same with Mr. Aiden who was intently staring at Damian and Arthur, his gaze going back and forth. “Come on, we’re just arriving at the exciting part.” Mrs. Zephnir whined to her children as they continued to be dragged away from the porch and into the room that the Montague siblings occupied. Right after the door was locked, Damian and Excami turned to their parents with an intense gaze, it is clear that they were displeased as to how they acted on the porch. “Mom! What was that all about?” Excami exclaimed to her mother, the anger or the ‘gigil’ in her voice was very evident, and yet Mrs. Zephnir just giggled at the actions of her daughter. To the eyes of the matriarch of the Montague family, this is but a little play that parents normally do
SSHS 114 It was the day that they had to return to the school after a week- long rest. It was the day that they will relieve the experiences, the bonding that they had over the rest week. The day of their return, they will know the standing of each other in the societal ladder, they will know how the people around them will treat just based on their overall score of their exam. Aside from all of those, three students were dreading the day that they come back to the school. They are sure that they do not need to worry about their scores since they are known to be achievers, but the incident last rest week was the thing that would put themselves in a tight rope. As the students are flocking all the bulletin boards in the school as they enter the school grounds, these three students were not even bothering to do so— after all, they are indeed aware of their standing when it comes to scores— but they are really doing their best to be stealthy when walking through the corridors and to no
SSHS 247After the Thanksgiving dinner that night and that mission, the two rookie undercover spies went on with their days. They went on being the ‘normal’ third years that they are and continued being the third years that they are. No more missions were given to them after the mission about the Montague couple and they do not know if the headquarters of the ISO where sympathising with their shock or if there is really no more mission for them to do. But either way, they are glad that they were able to finish the mission in such a short time and also experience being students as they are.They went on and experienced things as if they were normal people and not some spies who were trained at the very young age. Not some undercover people who are in there for the sake of completing their mis
SSHS 246After the game it was already time for dinner, Damian and Excami won because none of them were able to find out what kind of thing they had and they were all tagged out of the game. It was fun for the most part but what everyone waited for was the thanksgiving dinner and it was satisfying. They enjoyed every bite and they waited for the dessert because it was the star of the dinner the dessert.Then after eating, they lounged a little longer by the dinner table and talked about all the other things, like the fun times that they had in school, the love story between the Montague couple how they met how they fell in love and then almost talked about how they conceived the children but thankfully damien and Excami stopped them before it happened. The Montague siblings almost asked about the families of Hestia and Albertand what kind of stori
SSHS 245Sometime later, it is already the Month Of October and things have been going smoothly both for the Montague siblings and for the two rookie undercover spies and for the Montague couple. for the course of the month of october, Hestia and Albert had been invited for dinners and lunches by either Damian or Excami and would always result for a dinner together with their parents and with that the bond between all of them had grow and become stronger and they were more close with each other than ever before.But there is something that the two rookie undercover spies can not pinpoint at all. because most of the past missions they have been assigned to, they are always making the opportunity to get close to the target; they are always making the opportunity to do something, to create a movement, a pattern, a path for their mission t
Sshs 244The next day, Hestia and Albert walked side by side to their classroom. Apparently, the whole school knew of the incident yesterday: Mrs. . Montague pulled them out for the whole day and never came back until the wee hours of the night. Some people tried to block them and ask a ton of questions about what happened yesterday; questions like: what happened? Where did you go? What did she say? Was she generous? Was she kind? Was she loving and sweet and like a saint when she visited back at the beach house? What did you talk about with her? Such a ton of questions were asked to them and yet they remained silent about it. No comment, no answers, just complete silence as they went through
SHS 243 They ate in silence, up until dessert. No one spoke a word and it stayed that way until they were brought into the library. No one spoke as each of them were encouraged to pick a book in the vast collection of books inside the library. As they sat into the chairs available at the library, only then did the conversation start at the pretence of wanting to know what book they found. “How about you, Hestia? Albert? What book did you pick?” Hestia and Albert then lifted up the books that they picked. Mrs. Montague cooed at the books in their hands and proceeded to analyse them. “Wow! You live up to your personality. Unlike someone else.” Mrs. Montague threw in the shade as she briefly looked at her children who were silently reading with their father on the other side of the library. It was not quite far, but it seemed that the Montague siblings were so immersed in what they were reading that they did not notice the shade that was thrown at them by their
SSHS 242 As the three of them sat in silence without any of them taking a bite of their food, they tried to process the information that was at their table. The Montague siblings have been showing two different personalities and all between being inside the school and at school. If at school, they were glorified as students who are the top role models; a fun and energetic one and a gentle ruler, both were on ground and knew how to touch some grass. At home, they are the arrogant siblings who think they are better than anyone and will not even go down to their current level. It was as if they know the a person with the same name and yet still different by how they act.&nb
SSHS 241 A new school year started right before their eyes. Without any mission to worry about, time passed by the two rookie undercover spies and with barely any notice, they were in their third years. There were a lot of things that happened but they were used to it and it passed by them like a flash of the camera and after that, it was already in the middle of the month of September. The voting for the new Student Council began and the whole school was bussing with noises and the representative of the running Student Council President was shouting and getting people to vote for their candidates. “Please vote for…” one student shouted. “No, please vote for…” another student shouted. It was the start of the shouting battle between the two parties running for the Student Council President position. It created so much commotion that Damian had to step up and break the commotion apart. “Enough with this! This is so immature of you! Can’t you go and make your da
SSHS 240 As the surroundings dimmed into darkness, the light sensors in the gymnasium began to light up. Freya’s eyes adjusted from the dark and into the light that the sensor lights brought up. She shielded her eyes with her hands from the sudden light and that was Albert’s cue to remove himself from the sight of the Senior Cheerleader and go behind her. This is not to catch her off guard--- oh she was already caught off guard by the time she mentioned the Pandora’s Box--- but it was his way to not let Freya do anything anymore that will put herself into more danger. It is better if she just surrenders to them in a plain and simple manner.&
SSHS 239 “By the way, how were the Montague siblings? I have not heard from them after that incident with Arthur.” Albert asked. The two rookie undercover spies were roaming around the campus, taking a leisure walk as they passed by some of the students who were headed for their extra curricular activities. The two of them do indeed have some activities too but it was all done. Hestia is done with her paper works and scheduling for the Student Council and Albert was also done with his portfolio for the Photography Club with the theme of ‘After Christmas’. There was a moment of silence to the part of Hestia before she answered the inquiry of her spy partner. “They have been normal, acting as they always have as far as I am concerned. Although Excami now has her guard up always and was weary of everything and everyone, she is as cheerful as ever. Well, it is Damian who changed. He became more strict and protective of his sister, and he also became colder.” Hest