SSHS 171 Thinking about it, the timeline is so weird and so out of the course. If Arthur was with Freya from their first year and they lasted that long without anyone finding out, then what is the reason for Arthur flirting with all of the other girls? And what was Freya’s reaction to it? Are they even still together? And looking back, does she know of what Arthur did— about the ‘Blackmailing Incident’? In fact, if Hestia remembers correctly, Freya was also a victim of it. Everything is disorganised and messy all of a sudden. Instead of answers, she was faced with even more questions. And not only that, it seemed that this kind of cycle has been going on for so long that she almost got used to it. This kind of cycle was like a cliche story line of a novel dealing with mystery, and somehow, this pisses her off. “Sure that the prolonged suspense was beneficial to hook them up, but it would be better for my mission to obtain the answers as soon as possible.” she muttered to herself as
SSHS 172 The last week of the Summer Break was coming to an end. It was Sunday and the students availing the dorms were flooding the school for them to settle down with their rooms. It also gave them a heads up in collecting the required books from the library. Many flocked the library to browse or to at least have an advance reading of their lessons. Teachers are also their to add references to their lesson plans and sometimes help the students they come across with.Hestia, however, cannot be seen in the library. Aside from the reasoning that she did not need to, she also has other duties and tasks to complete.
SSHS 173She can be seen taking a stroll around the school ground: checking the buildings, admiring the flowers and the green grasses. It was Summer at that time anyways, every colour of every plant was close to being pastel bright. It was so fun to look at them. It was fun admiring them as they glisten with the help of the rays of the sun. Truly, it was such a nice walk, but she had to finish what she was doing. Re- installing all the cameras and listening bugs to the places she planned before, she made sure that they were camouflaged perfectly and hidden well to the point that not even Arthur Camelton Beckett would not find them. She had grown suspicious of the boy ever since their conversation last time. From the unanswered questions that she has up to the things that Arthur knows about her. Worst case scenario, Arthur uses that information against her. Even in the even more worst case scenario, Arthur spreads that information— she would not have anything to counter it. If she wer
SSHS 174 The news of Damian being elected as the Student Council President again was ringing throughout the whole school. Though they were happy about it, they were not particularly happy with the fact that there are no other candidates, and they are even wondering why the possible candidates backed out. The students did demand to know the people who backed out, but the School Board decided that it is better to keep them hidden— private— for their own safety. The students were left to wonder who they were. Damian, on the other hand, was a bit conflicted about the situation. Being the Student Council President again means that he has to choose his co- members. There was a desire to re- elect his former members, but that would take away the opportunity for the others to experience what it is like being a part of the Student Council. It was a conflicting thought. a
SSHS 175 “Why do you even need to think of it? The people are clear they want us again in full force, just hire us already!” Excami exclaimed to his brother and she put down her application form for a position in the Student Council. Although she was aiming for the Vice President position since she does not want to ever work again with that arrogant Arthur Camelton Beckett. “And besides, it’s better this way since we already know how the things work and what to do with them. It will just level up our efficiency when it comes to our work progress.” she added. Damian listened to this and took it into consideration.
SSHS 176 Damian thought about it, that it was better to just recruit the former Student Council as Officers since they are already accustomed to their jobs and knows how things works, but then again, he still thinks of how about the opportunities that can be given to the other students— the opportunity to also be part of the Student Council. However, due to the constant nagging of his sister, he was not able to think things that long and deep. So he settled on the fact that the students have expressed their want for the former Student Council Officers to run things again and that it would be better if they did. “And besides, do you think some of them would actually grab a position here? Hello, they want to just relax and lay low if you did not see it.” Excami added as she ended her nagging to her brother. Though she might be applying for a different position, she really did want to have the old crew back. She was already comfortable with them and that they already know how to do th
SSHS 177 As Hestia can remember it, it was as hectic as the first time she was a Student Council member. All those paperworks, those schedules, fund forms and all the signing were present— yet again. And it made her remember the exhaustion it cost her. She remembered the headache she had last year when reading the proposed funds, the reports and the overly wrong grammar of the papers given to them by the clubs. “It’s the same errors as before. Have they not learned at all?” Hestia grunted on herself as she lay down the pile of papers on the table. According to the application form they submitted to the Faculty Office: Excami is now the Student Council Vice President and she— Hestia— bears the position as the Student Council Secretary. There are certain responsibilities and duties of the Student Council Secretary that she inherited last year— since they lacked a Secretary back then. Though the load was not as heavy as she expected, seeing the same mistake as before was something she
SSHS 178 Grabbing the opportunity presented to her at night, Hestia ventures out in the darkness to do her task: placing the cameras and listening bugs. She is well aware of the placements of the security cameras of the school— she has memorised the blueprint of it after all— and she was using it to her advantage to not get noticed or even be captured by any camera. By doing so, she can also identify the blind spots that further bad guys may use in the wrong way and could hurt the students as the worst case scenario. She cannot recommend those or inform the school itself of those blind spots— she will be questioned if she did. Once she was done, she swiftly went back to her dorm room and logged in to see if all the cameras and listening bugs were all working perfectly. She also contacted Albert about this and informed him of the updates. “They are all placed now. Now we can monitor them.” her voice was almost a whisper, yet still that cold and monotone. “Thanks Hestia. By the way
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