SSHS 131 Hestia and Albert, with the other Club Presidents who are still awake, then proceeded to check and reassure the students with regards to the flickering lights. While she and her spy partner then went to the basement to check on the breakers and to also check the entrances to the building. “The flickering of the lights might be caused by the snow storm outside.” one of the Club Presidents who are with the two of them reasoned out, trying his best to not panic and think of the worst case scenario. “Yes, that reason has the highest possibility to be true, but for safety, we better check.” Hestia said as he went to the main entrance of the building and checked if it was locked. It was locked. The backside entrance is also locked according to Albert. The doors were locked once the blizzard started, and any snow that could have gotten inside might have melted or was swept away by some students. ‘Then why are there fresh snows inside? The door handle also has some snow on them.’
SSHS 132 It was a popular phrase: “The calm before the storm”. It usually means that something fine, fun or something generally positive happens before a disaster strikes. The disaster, whether it be a natural one, mad- made or something out of the chance, it always brings the biggest of the catastrophe to that person’s life, or their lives. Nonetheless, the situation always turns out into something like this: fun time then into a major fuckery. Such as the situation right now. Once they had lifted the blankets, Hestia was ready to spray some of those stinging chemicals to one of their eyes, Albert was ready to stab the other with his taser pen. They were quick, and silent that the two rookie undercover spies were put in a difficult situation. The two intruders were already awake and were already aware of their plan to ambush them, therefore, the two intruders dressed in winter clothes with their faces hidden— had knives pointed to the students that surrounded them. They took the
SSHS 133 With hurried steps and a loud voice, Hestia and Albert ascended the stairs and began waking up the students sleeping in them. “Wake up! Get up now! Go to the third floor! Now!” Hestia commanded them as she barked her orders. “Hurry!” she added as she ascended to the floors and went to the doors. She immediately locked the staircase doors linking to the first floor where the bad guys are. “What is happening? What’s all this commotion?” said one of the newly awakened students. But she did not receive any reply nor an answer, instead, she was grabbed by Hestia and made her stand, then pushed upwards. “To the third floor, now!” Hestia barked at her and she couldn't do anything but follow what Hestia said. The students from the first floor awakened the students sleeping at the second floor staircase. They all asked questions but were only told to head straight to the third floor. “Know the reason why?” asked one. “I dunno really.” replied one. Then all of a sudden, a burst
SSHS 134 Chaos ensued on the third floor as the students stampede between classrooms and hallways, rapidly turning into the corners and finding a classroom that they can hide about. The Club Presidents were trying their best to calm the situation down even if they are too, panicking inside. The stampede was greatly shaking the third floor, and even in the elevator, it was being felt. Shouts were echoing even to the second floor but not loud enough to be heard to the other buildings as their panic and shoutes were being masked by the snow storm outside. Truly, this is the storm after that ca SSHS 134 Chaos ensued on the third floor as the students stampede between classrooms and hallways, rapidly turning into the corners and finding a classroom that they can hide about. The Club Presidents were trying their best to calm the situation down even if they are too, panicking inside. The stampede was greatly shaking the third floor, and even in the elevator, it was being felt. Shouts wer
SSHS 135 The phone rang for a long time before stopping at the third call. Although the sound was muffled, the students on the other side of the door could still clearly hear it, and the ringtone was very familiar to Hestia and Albert. The pounding at the door continued once the ringing of the phone stopped. “Open up! Open this door!” one of the men on the other side of the door demanded. They pounded at the door again and again but thanks to the desks and bookshelves, the door won’t move for the benefit of the bad guys. For a short while, the pounding stopped again, but it was replaced by the bangs of the gun. It was four consecutive shots and it made those in the hallways jump in surprise, some even emitted a shout of surprise and yet they were able to calm themselves and reposition in the attack position. But Hestia advised them to stick to the wall for safety. “Everyone, stick to the wall. They have a gun and each bullet has the possibility to pass through the door and barricad
SSHS 136 With only a couple of Club Presidents remaining at the third floor, including Hestia, they all thought of a way to bring the still unconscious Aaron down to the garbage chute and to the safety of everyone. The President of the Photography Club, the President of the Karate Club and Hestia all went to the room that Aaron was put in, and the President of the Karate Club— Jikie, was on the phone with one of the teachers down the building, also trying to think of a way to get the athlete down safely. The voices on the other side of the staircase door was a bit muffled but it is still evident that the criminals were still having an argument with Dean Malcolm. With that, the two Club Presidents, Hestia and the teacher took this chance to quickly devise a plan to bring Aaron to safety. “According to Albert, the blood loss of Aaron was not that severe so there is a little possibility that he is asleep right now due to blood loss.” the teacher said from the other side of the screen.
SSHS 137 By the time that the authorities have arrived, the snow storm is long gone and the parents of the students have come to personally pick up their children, especially those who are involved in the failed hostage taking incident. Most of the freshmen members of the clubs ran crying to the warm embrace of their parents, all sobbing and thankful that they are safe and sound and finally back to their parent’s side; those freshmen who are in the dorms were also picked up by their parents as a suggestion of the school itself, stating that, “The incident have surely given them trauma and so, the presence of the parents can calm their minds and not let it develop into something more in the future.” in which the parents heeded and then after a while, most of the students were seen leaving the school premises: both those involved in the hostage taking incident and those who were just trapped in their own buildings. For the older years like the second years and above, they were not mu
SSHS 138 The next day, there were still no classes due to the build up of snow and the intensive clearing of it. Even the students in the dorms inside the La Florence Academy volunteered themselves to help clear the built up snows everywhere— though most of the students used this opportunity to have a photoshoot for their instagram accounts or just to better their image in the society— but nonetheless, there was work done and in that very same afternoon, almost all of the snow were cleared from all the roadways and the whole school ground is neat and tidy. Having the students as volunteers, of course, order must be placed. At first, Hestia was called since she was the Student Council Vice President and she was a lot closer and had more authority to the student volunteers that day. And based on how she handled the situation from yesterday, she really is deserving of the position of the Student Council Vice President— and was even recommended to be the next Student Council President.
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