SSHS 142 Once it was deemed that the grounds of the La Florence Academy were open, students were able to get back to their daily lives as a student of the Academy. Though, it must be observed that by the way that the students would talk to each other, even their body languages or even their topics were as per usual— no topics involving the two criminals entering one of the buildings during the snowstorm. All of them were casually talking about the things they usually have every morning. Even the students who suffered the most— who are the direct victims of the ‘hostage taking’ -- were acting as if the incident never even happened. “Well, that is weird. How come they can act like that? It was like the incident never happened.” Albert complained in a whisper- like voice as he accompanied Hestia to her classroom. But he only received a dismissive shrug of shoulders coming from the Student Council Vice President. Truthfully, Albert was left in a confusion as of the moment. “Look!” Alb
SSHS 143 The crackling of the woods as it slowly burns and turns into embers, as well as the little sparks that fly through the air as a crackle sounds, Hestia, Damian and Mr. Ben settle into the calmness that the atmosphere brings. The coldness of the winter weather as they warm up themselves on the fire. Mr. Ben took out his perfectly cooked marshmallow and proceeded to give the tong to Hestia and told her, “Here, have some s’mores. You can just get on the basket thingy between you and Damian.'' With a smile, the retired veteran continued to make his perfectly cooked marshmallow and would either make a s’more for himself or give the thong to either of the two students. “So rare that you are not with your sister right now, Damian. You two are usually inseparable.” Mr. Ben comments. This made the Student Council President laugh a little at the truth. “Yeah, we have heard that phrase many of times.” Damian replied. “And I guess it’s just a bond thing? That we are connected more tha
SSHS 144 Time then passed by so quickly. Mr. Ben agreed to the plan that Hestia and Damian pitched in and became the Mediator between them and Dean Malcolm. After a few more discussions, Dean Malcolm agreed and began to organise a press conference. Then, all of the students present at the Club Building were all informed of this press conference, and said “You may attend if you want to. This is not mandatory, this is optional. It is up to your choice.” Dean Malcolm briefed them and then told them of what will happen during the press conference that is set to be next week. Surprisingly, many of the students attended the press conference and shared their side of the story, each angle was well documented and aired to the television. The story that is most taken by the media was Aaron’s since he has the visible result of such an attack. When it comes to the blaming to the La Florence Academy for lacking security and letting their children experience such a thing, Dean Malcolm and the f
SSHS 145 It was closing to new years, which means that the Christmas break was also coming to a close and students who went home to their parents and family for the Christmas break also had to get back to school. Many students expressed their sadness and irritability at this, saying that they rather have the Christmas break extended at any cost. “I want to spend more time with my family more!” “We still haven’t gone to the Amazon to visit my brother there— he’s a researcher by the way.” “I still want to go to Tokyo Disneyland!” “The snow! I will miss the snow!” All students expressed themselves as the Christmas Break nears its end and that they have to go back to the routine life of school. But it's not just the students, but also the staff of La Florence Academy— they also expressed their sadness upon the nearing end of their break. A lot of them dearly missed their family and wanted to spend more time, some of them just wanted to not see the faces of the students for a lon
SSHS 146 Life at La Florence Academy was... uneventful to say the least. Although they did celebrate Valentine's day, but not as grand as their other events from the past, still, life at the school grounds was not as exciting as before. We can say that after the fun of the Christmas Break and the return to school, students were busy with thinking about their future-- especially the graduating batch. Arthur, Aaron, and Freya and the other 3rd years were preparing for their upcoming research and projects, they were also tasked with helping organise the graduation ceremony for the 4th years. "Wow! These babies are so top of the line!" Arthur exclaimed as he was assigned to the tech booth with the other students He laced his fingers to the equipment present at the tech booth. With the latest amplifier, the digital audio workstations— the latest of course, mixing boards and many more. Arthur may not be the expert when it comes to mixing sounds or directing the audio things up in the te
SSHS 147 The filing for the request of the fourth year students to be their gift was something that made even the faculty staff scratch their heads, even Dean Malcolm scratched his head while reading the proposal that the Student Council submitted. After some confusion, Dean Malcolm put down the proposal file on his desk and began to laugh. He sounded like Santa Claus from the ‘Rise of the Guardians’ by the way that he laughed. His shoulders shook as he tried to say between his laughs, “Did they really want this? The faculty and I expected for them to request a vacation of some sorts, but an eight hour sleep without interruption? That is oddly specific yet hard to satisfy.” Dean Malcolm pointed at the papers and continued laughing. Damian and Hestia looked at the Dean, watching him laugh and laugh until he stopped. They too would laugh about the matter, but the topic became too common to their ears that it is not funny anymore. “We get told that many times, Dean. even by the thir
SSHS 148 Looking at the posted news on the bulletin boards, it is evident that the graduation is only two days away, the hotel reservations are already done and that the fourth year students may go to L’Auberge de Sedona after the very graduation— it is the best time to relax after all. Another thing that took the bulletin board was the news: since the graduation of the fourth years were to be done by April, they would not be present at the official ending of the school year— May— which is a crucial part of every school year in La Florence Academy. The end of May not only symbolises the end of the school year but also the official transferral of positions from the graduated fourth years and to the person next to them. Therefore, an announcement was made that the fourth years who must perform the transferrals will need to attend the date specified and that to celebrate the transferral and end of school year, a banquet will be held. “Well, that is what is said in the bulletin, it i
SSHS 149 Finally, the day of graduation has arrived. Everyone was excited for it, everyone dressed their best for it. Classes are cancelled for this day, but it does not forbid the younger years to also attend the graduation as spectators— they do deserve to see the fruits of their labours and so see their seniors off with a heartfelt farewell. Following the theme of the graduation: white and gold— all students were wearing white clothes with gold linings to them (all provided by the school) and also their toga which is the traditional black but has white and gold linings. All graduating students were in their best appearance and behaviour for the day of graduation. Some were with their parents and there are others who are just with either their family driver or several servants from their household. Still, everyone is happy to graduate, and everyone is happy to see them graduate. The junior years were silently cheering on the side for the fourth years, they would even shout when
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