We're on our music class today, our teacher is out for the next days but she told us to practice some songs using any musical instruments that can be found on the music room, so here we are.
"Wanna make a bet?" I automatically stepped 5 steps backward away from the piano that I was about to practice.
"I'm n-not interested" I stuttered, oh mother nature why now?
"Such a weakling, fine then" he smirked and took out his phone.
"Hello miss Tirrae? Sorry to bother you for a moment but ms. Belfour wanted to play the harp for you as her performance task and I really can't wait to tell you this" he said.
"Well that's great to hear that someone finally learned how to play that instrument, I'll look forward to that" she replied with a chuckle before ending the call.
"Why are you doing this?" I asked harshly trying to deny my anger as I could possibly do.
"Nothing, so I suppose you can't let miss Tirrae down right? Goodluck" he gave me his teasing smile before leaving the room.
"What happened?" Sam suddenly approached me, I smiled and shook my head.
"Nothing, so what are you playing?" I asked her.
"The guitar, how about you?" She asked.
"I'll play the harp" I smiled, her jaw dropped.
"Girl, you're gonna get your fingers ripped up! We still need to practice volleyball after dismissal and we have a dozen of homeworks to answer" she held onto my shoulders and shook my body.
"Aww Sam! I know, chill, besides it's not that hard" I lied and she sighed.
"Fine, good luck!" she said before walking back to her place.
I walked over the harp and started to practice until the bell rang, signaling us that it was time for lunch, I look at my aching fingers before taking my bag with me and walked out of the music room.
"My throat hurts" Liz complained.
"I told you not to play the flute" Sam commented while looking at her fingers as well.
"Poor you" I chuckled, as if my fingers are not dying from pain.
We were on the way to our building when Sofia showed up once again, I sighed and hid my hands behind my back.
"Oh hey" I greeted her.
"Sorry for always bothering you these past weeks, we just really want to make sure that you're safe since you also came from the military family" she said.
"Huh?" I mumbled cluelessly.
"Nevermind what I said, I'll go ahead have a great day!" She said and jogged towards her group who was with the 8th Cards.
The two are always with each other, I wonder why, unlike other groups, they are really close to each other, whatever, good for them to have that circle of friendship then.
But what she said earlier was reaally confusing, how did she know that I came from a military family? I shrugged that though away and turn to San who suddenly spoke.
"Okay lets go" she said while eyeing them weirdly and I pushed the two of them towards our building.
I'm so hungry right now and I need to eat a lot of food for our practice later, also I still need to continue my harp practice- argh! That Death Jaxen Ace Salazar! He really loves seeing me suffer- welp I think it's too late to back out now, miss Tirrae already expect me to perform the harp for her so I can't let her down.
I ordered some some fried steamed pork with a special sauce, a lot of rice of course and a bottle of water. I also took from clean utensils on the steaming bars before waiting for the two to finish taking their meals.
Once done, we all sat on our usual table, the three of us are chatting about our performance task on music when Annie came with Loraine trailing behind her.
"Oh you two are here" I said and occupied the remainimg chairs on our table.
"Yeah, I almost lost my way back here" Annie groaned in furstration.
"Good thing I found her" Loraine added and we all laughed.
Annie is a shy girl to be honest but when it comes to our group, she would always find a way to make us laugh, I think a day won't pass without us hearing her jokes.
"Actually, I was avoiding Peirce" she said and we went silent.
"We get it, don't worry" I patted her back and she smiled.
"You know if I'm not engage now, I would have courted you" she grinned, I rolled my eyes there it goes again.
"No thanks" I flashed a smirk as she frowned and leaned back on her seat.
"What club are you in?" Sam asked her.
"Gymnastics" Annie answered and continued to finish her food.
"Woah, you're so talented" Liz said in amaze.
"I know right? Did you know that she also aced the quiz earilier" Loraine added and we looked at her.
"Congrats" We clapped for her catching a few attention on the tables near us making our Annie hide her face in shyness.
After having our lunch, the five of us walked back towards the main building. Annie was talking nonstop about her first day here in the Emprium Academy when something fell from above us.
Loraine and Sam pushed the three of us away immediately making us fall through the ground but the two caught their trap.
They were now drenched into some slimey substance and it smells so bad, I heard a loud laugh from above, it was the 4th Cards.
"T-those guys..." Annie hid behind me, how can they do that?!
"Ooh acting like heroes huh? Too bad we only have a small ammount of frog eggs on the lab" Troy laughed while the other three just smirked.
"Yeah too bad" Sam hissed.
"Xiena why are you hanging out with these losers?" Peirce called her out.
"It's none of your business" she said in a cold voice startling us, d-did she just-
"She got an atittude bro" Ace laughed at Peirce's confused reaction.
He then suddenly climb down the 2nd floor by using the tree branches to get down to our place and suddenly pushed me from blocking Xiena, he grab her arm making her gasp.
I was about to step in when Liz held me back, Xiena glared at him.
"Watch your mouth woman, you're gonna pay for every word you say" he threathened her, I can't just stand here watching my friend getting violated by this guy.
"Ouch! Peirce let go!" Xiena cried in pain, trying to break free from his grasp.
"Oi Peirce, she's a girl, let go already" Icer, who is somehow a gentleman, scolded him.
"Tsk!" He flicked her arm away causing her to almost lose her balance.
I was left dumbfounded while watching him waall away and his friends leaving in silence, Liz went to check on Sam and Loraine while I walk towards Xiena who is looking at Peirce while holding her arm.
"A-are you okay? I'm sorry I just stood there and-" she shook her head and smiled at me.
"It's okay, I understand, Loraine told me about your trauma, are you good?" She held my hand, then I suddenly notice my knees trembling and I suddenly felt my eyes burning up, geez I got emotional too suddenly.
"We're just gonna change, you two should get to the infirmary, Liz can you get us a new set of uniform on the dress making room?" Loraine instructed, Liz nodded and jogged off.
"Right, see you later" Xiena said and we walked towards the infirmary.
The moment we stepped in inside the nurse led us to a table so we can have our excuse slip for the following class, once done, the nurse led us towards the resting room because we are not needing emergency treatment.
"Oh dear what happened to your arm?" The nurse asked Xiena while I took some pills to calm myself.
"I'm a clumsy girl especially when it comes to wearing heels so I tripped over" she lied.
"Well that's the general uniform of the school, you can't do anything about it" the nurse smiled and took some cold compress from the back of the room we're in.
"Can you remove your top sweetie? It will be easier to treat it that way" said the nurse and Xiena obeyed, we're all girls here inside the room so there's nothing to be embarass about.
"Ms. Belfour you can take a nap for a bit, and ms. Holmes, make sure that the compress is cold enough okay? I'll check you girls later on or if something happeneds, please let me know" she said and we nodded.
I sighed and laid on the bed staring at the ceiling, I'm so weak. I should try and overcome my trauma so I can do my best on the military after this school year's graduation.
I don't wanna fail my family on this so I'm gonna attend the military school for the whole 5 years under training before finally getting my chance to be promoted after graduation.
I was over thinking things when I didn't realize that I had fallen asleep already. I suddenly woke up when somebody shook my body, I flattered my eyes open and sat up, oh the three girls are already here.
"Come on, time to get to class" Sam smiled at me, she smells like auburn roses now, good thing thay stinky smell manage to fade away.
"What time is it?" I asked her.
"It's 4 in the afternoon, and we have a 2 hours class on history, well we can skip classes to attend our volleyball practice, we can send the teachers some excuse letter" she said.
"I think we still should prioritize our grades than extra curicular, let's go" I stood up and took my bag, Annie on the other hand, is already done fixing herself.
"Come on guys" Liz smiled and the five of us left the room, we also thanked the head nurse for taking care of us and she said that it wasn't a problem and we should be more careful.
When we got into the 4th floor, me, Sam and Liz parted ways from Annie and Loraine. I knocked on our classroom's door and our terror teacher greeted us- more likely to say, he's on the 3rd Cards.
"Ms. Belfour, ms. Morgan, ms. Zamora, where are your late slip and excuse letter?" He asked whew well I think he's on a good mood today cause he sound so calm.
We handed him our late slip and excuse letters from the infirmary's log book and also signed by the head nurse, he sighed and decided to let us in.
Lucky us cause he really is in a good mood, the three of us sat on our seats and our classmates start to look at us.
"Are you guys okay? You've been getting in class late especially you Tine" one of them asked me.
"I'm fine- we're fine, thanks for your concern" I smiled at him and he nodded before facing the board once again.
Our history class went on for 2 hours and I couldn't listen very well since I was busy copying everything that is written on the board, I think this will be the time when I'm falling behind my greatest enemy.
I sighed and took a quick glance on him, he's busy writting as well as his friends, Sam on the other hand is listening on our terror teacher while Liz, is sleeping- but hey! She's also on the 4th rank even when she's sleeping and that is so unfair.
My head starts to hurt but I still manage to survive the whole 2 hours without learning anything, I'll just read my notes tonight then, even tho it really sucks to study after what happened to me today.
After classes the three of us walked towards the covered gym to change to our practice attire, a black shorts, black blouse with violet linings, white rubber shoes and a violet vest containing some numbers.
"I can't wait for our jersey to be made" our opponent last friday- Ashlyn- the one I called tall girl, suddenly squealed.
"Me too" I agreed, and tied my hair into a high ponytail since it's been gaining more length for the past months.
"Girls please pick the vest numbers now so I can record it" Coach told us.
One by one, we started picking our vest numbers and I picked 5, my birthdate, May 05. I smiled before closing my locker, and waited for the other girls to finish preparing theirselves.
Our coach recorded our numbers on her clipboard before calling us out to start the practice, I was the last one who got out of the locker room but I was pulled to the corner.
"Sofia..." I groaned, I thought I was being kidnapped.
"You, you, you, you!" She shook me insanely.
"W-what? Hey! Stop it" I shook away from her grasp.
"I was really disappointed seeing you toss the ball to your team mates but never made a single point, we'll be watching again today so you better score okay?" She smiled at me before jogging away.
My jaw dropped to the floor, well I was aware that they were watching the try outs last friday but I didn't know that they'll be so much interested with me playing and even pushing me to score on today's practice.
I sighed and walked towards the court, the coach was busy explaining the drill to notice me comming out late. We did a few warm up exercises first before continuing with the drill.
It's suppose to be dinner time already but here we are, practicing. I tossed the ball towards the members while they jump and spiked the ball on the other side of the court, this is already the last drill for us to perform before our practice begins.
Since there's just 12 of us here and there are suppose to be 6 members on each side of the court, everyone of us playing this time.
"Volleyball is a sport where team work is a must but here in our academy, we consider calling it 'a group of individuals' just like on other sports as well, this strategy means forming a bond of connection towards each other"
"We play as a group but has individual skills and approach, every player should have a various connection towards each other so to begin with todays practice, let's see how well can you girls connect with each other" Coach announced the grouping and I seperated from the two.
But I'm still with Ashlyn, Kiana and Althea- our opponents last time. The coach gave us one minute to plan some strategy, we need to win 2 sets before practice ends.
I look to the side, the usual sight of Sofia and Joseph's group can be seen, Sofia gave me a meaningful look and I nodded before listening to their conversation.
"Cursetine, you're from the highest section, you give the plan" Althea said.
"How about you girls just have fun there for a sec? I mean I can't really give one unless I experience playing with you on the court" I chuckled and they all nodded.
"One thing tho, keep the ball to me as much as you can so I can toss it to you" I added.
"Sure thing" they smiled as we get into our formation on the court.
Oh yeah, I'm serving first. After hearing the whistle I hit the ball as it flew on the other side of the net, I ran towards my position and look over the possible attack of our opponents.
When the ball came to our side, I was the one who received it.
"It's too long sorry" I said and Ashlyn rushed over to catch it.
"Kia!" Someone called and Kiana tossed the ball to Althea.
'She can set the ball?!' I exclaimed mentally.
The first point was eaened by our team so I went back to serve again and the game went on.
Time flew by and we won the first set, we're already halfway the second set and I really wanna finish this game as soon as possible.
I acted like I was about to toss the ball to the others but ended up dumping it, 3 more points and we're good to go.
"What a talent" Althea chuckled, I'm really sweating hard right now.
I just made 3 points on the first set and 4 point on the second set, that's 7 in total, at least I scored.
"Come on let's finish this" Ashlyn told us, she's really qualified for the position team captain.
In the end we still won the last set, finally time to go home, the coach gave us a few instructions before finally letting us go. the 12 of us went back to the locker rooms as I notice the 7th and 8th Cards leaving the gym in a rush, I didn't mind it and made my way to the shower room.
"Ahh what a day" I heard Sam sighed.
"Congrats to the winner team!" Liz cheered.
"Nope, congratulations to everyone for the good work!" I said and all of them cheered for me.
"Alright ladies hurry up so we can yavr our dinner" we heard Ashlyn told us and we did.
Once we were done we walked towards our building to celebrate and of course dinner, on the way there we saw an ambulance, police cars and a large crowd on near the entrance of the building.
I jogged towards Sofia's group who were also busy with something with the rest of the girls following me.
"Sofia! What happened?" I asked her, she put her phone down before facing me with a sad look on her face.
"Another student just commited suic*de, she's the first one this school year" she sighed and looked over the body covered in the white blanket with blood stains on it, getting carried to a stretcher and was settled inside the ambulance.
"Sofia, we're cleaning the place, you should head back inside with your group" Icer came with his group.
"What's her name?" Ace asked.
"I'll head back later on, the students' info is with Dhenzy, just check it out, Peirce, Troy can you two help me with something?" Sofia instructed and they seperated.
"Every year, some student would do that, tsk, I hate cleaning up the investigation" Icer frowned.
"Go back inside" he told me, that's knew.
"Poor thing" Sam look at the blood stained floor in front of our building.
"Come on" Althea said as we walked passed the scene and literally avoided the police line.
The Core society members was there except for the 1st Card, 5th Cards and the 10th Cards, those three groups are rarely to be seen on this type of events.
The 12 of us had our dinner silently, we were suppose to be celebrating the first day of our practice today but turns out it's not the time for it.