SSHS 181 Cafe de Luna was a cafe that was considered as a rare thing to exist. It is rated five stars because of its magnificent service, food quality and whatnot. But the thing that made Cafe de Luna sought after and considered rare by the people: was that Cafe de Luna is not your regular cafe where you can just enter whenever you want. Cafe de Luna operates in a reservation system. You cannot go in if you don’t have a reservation beforehand. And that guests must appear never a minute late, or else their reservation will be revoked and dismissed then and there. That is why, even if the location of the cafe was somewhere not that densely pop;ulated, they still have so many customers. A table was not left empty even for five minutes, that is why they have to be fast when clearing the table. But guests were willing to wait just to taste the food and drinks that the cafe offers. That is how highly regarded they are. “Woah…” Albert muttered in a low tone, followed by a whistle. Who kn
SSHS 182 “Goodness, that was so satisfying.” After a burp, Albert massaged his stomach, his face full of satisfaction from all the food he ate and drinks he drank. His hunger was satisfied. Hestia on the other hand, barely touched her: she only ate half of the sandwich and drank only half of the cappuccino latte that was specifically for her. Albert, spotting the half finished food, eagerly pointed at it and asked her, “Can I have those?” his eyes were sparkling at the front of the food. She only responded with a nod and he quickly snatched teh sandwich from the plate and devoured it in seconds. He also drank the cappuccino latte in seconds and let out a satisfied sigh followed by a burp. “That is so good,” he said again. Hestia stood up from her chair and walked around the room again, checking it one more time before settling at the bay window and looking at the restroom door. “Can you tell us why you made us come here now?” her voice was a bit cold and annoyed— she was getting mo
SSHS 183 It is just too bad they do not have any kind of recording of the voice. Whoever the owner of the voice was, they are clever enough to think of all the things they could possibly do in that situation. Even Albert grumbled in his corner as he tried to repair all of the cameras and all of the listening devices but every single one of them were fried up to the core— they were beyond repair. “My babies…” with sadness and disappointment in his tone, Albert stored all the ruined cameras and listening buffs into his box and went back to scanning the IP Addresses and looking up the photos and verifying them. Hestia is all focused on her task. “Most of these documents are transactions and contracts in trades and stocks. Some of them are also partnerships. But most of them, the primary signature was Freya’s father, and she only bears witness to it.” Hestia said and showed her laptop screen to Albert. He nodded in agreement and said, “It is common now for business involved people to
SSHS 184 The following days in La Florence Academy have been quite peaceful. The pace of things was on the moderate side and it made the students feel a little calm and at peace, that they are in control and that the time is going at their pace. They have yet to feel the rush of things. As the teachers have yet to put down the assignments and projects. But to be fair, they are letting the students be on their own as of the moment— as the students are eager to learn, they see that there is no need to push them on some readings or to encourage them to read in advance. And they were mostly thankful for that for the example that the role models of the school presented last year: the Student Council has done a good job. And everyone was hoping that they would do so again in this year. Excami, Damian and Hestia can be seen walking together towards the building that houses the Student Council Office. Along the way, they encountered some familiar faces and some of the new o
SSHS 185 Hestia’s mind was still stuck to her encounter with Freya in that coffee shop. it somehow felt untrue to her, as if it was staged that she will see Freya on that very day— like it was planned from the very start. and yet she cannot do anything about it now, it already happened and now here they are, on their way to the headquarters of the ISO. “Hey, you okay?” Albert asked her with a tap in her shoulder. Hestia turned her head and only responded with an uncertain nod. then returned her eyes to the road. Albert let her be, knowing that the female rookie undercover spy was deep in her thoughts. Once they were in front of the headquarters of ISO, Mr. Ben drove the car into the basement parking lot and parked it there. Once they were out of the car, Mr. Ben waved them goodbye and drove off with his own car. “Bye kids. Take care.” He said and disappeared from the sight of the two rookie undercover spies. Albert and Hestia then walked towards the entrance and were welcomed by
SSHS 186 Freya then began to start fawning over the StudentCouncil Secretary. She circled around Hestia and pointed out every littledetail that she noticed that had changed since the time they bought schoolsupplies together. Aside from the extensions on her hair, Freya also noticedthe new colour of Hestia’s eye glasses’ frame: from the classic black and intoan eye- catching beige. Then there was the new colour of Hestia’s lanyard, andthe new band on her left arm stating that she is now the Student Council Secretary.Freya continued to point out a few more things as Hestia only stood there andlet the senior cheerleader do her thing. The Student Council Secretary just stood therecalmly. She may be letting Freya do her thing, but in reality, Hestia was alsoobserving the senior cheerleader. She was eyeing her as she circled her. Everylittle change, she also noticed every little change about the seniorcheerleader. Freya seemed to have lost weight since the la
SSHS 187 At the mention of the name of the former Student Council Treasurer, Hestia raised a brow and quickly turned her head to face the senior cheerleader. Her mind was confused, shocked and was once again swirling with questions around like a whirlpool, resulting in not knowing which question was to ask in the first place. What does the senior cheerleader mean when she says to not believe whatever Arthur will say? What is the meaning behind this? “I’m sorry, I’m still confused. What do you mean by saying ‘do not believe whatever Arthur says’?” Hestia took a few steps backwards to separate herself from the hold of the fourth year student. “I think I am missing something here.” Hestia added as she settled herself two steps apart from the fourth year student. “You are still hiding something from me. And I think I should know about that.” Freya fiddled with her fingers once again and looked guilty as Hestia spotted or noticed that minor detail. She thought she might be able to get a
SSHS 188 Hestia was quick to her feet as she dashed from the rooftop and into the elevator. Hoping that she could catch a glimpse or even a trace that Freya had taken. But as she arrived at the ground floor of the Club Building, there was no Freya there. Only the students leaving and a few faculty staff lingering around the premises. There was no Freya at all. Some of them noticed the device that the Student Council Secretary is holding, noticing how it is such a bizarre machine and what it does, as well as questioning where she got it from because, “As I remember, you were not holding anything when you came here.” the janitor of that building pointed at the device on Hestia’s right hand. She also looked down and looked at the device in her hand. She was reluctant to state any reason at first, as it may endanger her identity or may leak out what she did at the rooftop (although it was nothing controversial nor scandalous as it is only a talk among two students), but Hestia still wa
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