SSHS 203 Now that such a phenomenon was raised to her sight, Hestia was baffled that such a thing was possible to happen to her. Though the change was gradual and baby steps, it was still a significant change to her. It was true that if she was the same as last year, she would not be intervening like she did. It would be like how Damian had described: either she would grab the Montague siblings and go to their usual spot--- near the heater--- or maybe bark a command at the Basketball Team; it is as a way to solve things easier and faster so as to not waste any time. As it was her nature to do things in an efficient way since she does not like wasting time at all. But now, she did really take the time to mediate the situation and solve it in a way that both parties understand the situation (in this case, it was mostly the Basketball Team that were hit with the realisation and understanding). But still, this is either a huge milestone for her or might be someth
SSHS 204 The things that the Montague siblings said resonated with Hestia. Although the statements made by the older Montague were indeed on a philosophical level, still, to her, it was somewhat shallow. And yet it was able to offer some assurance to her mind that change is indeed a good thing. Nonetheless, putting her mind at ease after such an explanation, she continued reading on her tablet. Pretending to be doing a review for the upcoming midterm exams. This was followed by Excami and soon was done by Damian, and they all enjoyed the silence for the remaining time of the lunch period before going out of the Student Council Office and then went to their classes. The walk towards the second year building was a bit quiet between the two second years: Hestia and Excami. Excami was lightly whistling as they walked leisurely towards their building. Hestia listened and let the Student Council Vice President do her thing. Which fascinates the rookie undercover sp
SSHS 205 Such a ton of questions posed inside their heads continued to exist. They have a plateau of information right in their hands and yet there is nothing that they can do about it. It is an ironic way of saying that they are at a dead end and yet it seems that there are a lot of paths and options that they can think of. At a loss for words, they were slowly leaning to the idea of asking for help from the senior spies and the ISO. “Hey, do you still have that handwriting?” Albert asked to his spy partner who was lurking through the window covered with a curtain. Hestia turned her head towards Albert as she walked backwards and away from the window. They are currently back in his room: Hestia went there the same way that she did from last time. “Yeah, I still have that. I have only the digital copy with me though.” Hestia replied as she showed the screen of her phone, showcasing the scan of the letter that she found at the rooftop of the Club Building. “And we already did a scan
SSHS 206 Hestia did not understand what her partner was going for, nor does she have any idea or a lead somehow. He just stared at the screen of his computer and then looked at him as his grin got wider and wider as he scrolled through the contents. This felt like it will not yield any new thing for them to work on. “What is this all about really?” Hestia asked, her tone a bit annoyed and she began to become restless to her space. She walked from right to left and left to right, walking in semi circles around Albert. “Albert just scrolled down and down and never bothered to answer his spy partner. He then uttered a soft, “Found it!” as he hurriedly clicked on a photo and grabbed Hestia to be still. “Here. Look at this.” Albert said and showed Hestia of his findings. Highlighted in his screen was a single picture of another piece of paper.
SSHS 207 Looking at the screen, there was a clear semblance between the piece of paper and the paper that was used in the envelope Hestia found in the Club Building rooftop. Indeed, she forgot to look at this point of view. She immediately assumed that there will be someone who has the same handwriting as the one inside the envelope and from there they will find the person responsible for doing so. She was looking for the fastest way to solve the question, to find the exit for this mission--- to end it all that she was viewing things in a linear and parallel ways only. She forgot to turn her head from left to right and notice the other things in the picture. In fact, it was not about the handwriting at all, but another factor that was always there and Hestia forgot to look at. Luckily, Albert was able to notice such and fill in the places that Hestia lacked in--- they are indeed a perfect tag team when it comes to this. Maybe it came from a long time of bondi
SSHS 208 At last, Aaron was able to escape the clutches of the people who seem to cannot stop their small talks and what not. It was visible that Aaron let out a sigh of relief once he was out of the building. It might be a good thing for Hestia to follow him with her exiting in the main door, but it would be deemed suspicious: she was in the dark, silently watching and then all of a sudden she will appear out of nowhere and exit the building— the other participants will surely suspect her identity— worst case scenario, they will stop her and ask her a ton of question. Aside from that, it was very obvious that everyone in that auction knows each other, if not for the intimate and deep sense, then at least some type of friends. It is indeed risky for her. So, Hestia deemed it better to just go out the way that she went in. climbing up to the third floor, she spotted the window that she entered in and she jumped out. But she was strategic with it as instead of going down, she jumped
SSHS 209 Once Hestia was at the edge of the alleyway to which she will pretend to have stumbled upon with Aaron; creating a perfect opportunity to talk to him and have him start a conversation with her. She just hopes that this will go without a hitch. Hestia waited a bit longer until she heard that familiar tapping of shoes unto the floor--- the familiar steps of a Basketball Star Player--- it is still baffling on how spies were able to differentiate the different steps of many people and then isolate just one. Nonetheless, Hestia inhaled and took a deep breath and readied herself for what she was about to do. Once Aaron was closer to her location, she immediately went out of the alleyway and pretended that she was talking to someone on her phone. She was busy arguing with someone that she did not notice the tall guy that was going her way. She bumped to a wall--- no, she bumped to Aaron and that sent the two stepping backwards and regaining their balances
SSHS 210 “I just know that you are up to something and it has something to do with Freya. I can offer my help to help you achieve whatever that or you can just help me, which ever way it is, this is a win- win situation.” Aaron leaned more in to the table and said those things in a serious and yet whisper like tone. His eyes were sharp and bearing of fear and bravery at the same time and the two rookie undercover spies do not know what to do of the situation. This is a complete turn of events--- a complete 180 degrees--- a major plot twist to the happenings and such an offer, is indeed tempting to take. However, precaution is a must, they may not know what lurks behind the offer of the Basketball Star Player and they are uncertain overall. Albert has to wave his hands in the air to make the Basketball Star Player to stop talking and let the two rookie undercover spy do some internatilization of the information they have just received. It was a total shock. “Hold on for a sec
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