Chapter 5 Elite Academy Resumption Is Perfect

• Bianca’s POV:
• My heart thumped speedily as I stood at the entrance of the hallway. Every student in the school had their school uniform perfectly fit on them. Mine was a little bogus because my mother tried to save money and sewed it by herself. A woman approached me with a happy expression void of pretence. She held an envelope in her armpit as she approached me, smiling. Her nicely-coloured suit was perfect to tell that she was the principal of the school.
• “You must be Bianca Andre,” the woman said with a big smile.
• “Of course I am, but the surname’s changed,” I replied, trying to reciprocate her smile. But suddenly remembered that I had to act like the starring slut.
• “Oh, I’m sorry,” the woman said drawing the envelope out of her armpit.
• “That’s the name you’re registered with here. Do you mind if we leave it that way?” the principal questioned.
• “No. No, I don’t mind. It’s okay,” I replied nervously.
• She smiled at me: this time I perceived something unreal in her smile.
• “Anyways, welcome to Star Side Elite Academy. I hope you’ll have a wonderful time here,” she said as she touched my arms to walk kin with her.
• “You can make lots of friends, join a club, which sports are you good at?” she asked.
• “Lawn tennis. I was the best player in my former school,” I blurted out and suddenly figured out how absurd I sounded for letting myself so loose.
• “I’m sorry,” I said.
• “No, don’t be. I’ll call some people to give you a tour of the facilities. Wait here,” the principal said and walked away.
• I stood in the middle of the busy hallway, unsure of which direction to go if the principal hesitated. Two girls spoke very loudly to each other: they talked about the quadruplets.
• “I’m in love with one of the quadruplets but don’t know which one,” one of the voices said.
• “You must be kidding. You’re absolutely in love with all of them,” the other voice said.
• “I guess,” the initial voice said calmly.
• “Helen would never allow you near them. She easily detects when a girl is close to her boyfriend,” the second voice said.
• “Helen’s the girlfriend of Kel, right?” the first voice said.
• “Yeah, I guess. She’s dark just like her boyfriend and I strongly suspect the both of them,” the second voice said.
• “What’s on your mind? You suspect that the both of them are having sex already?” the first voice said comically.
• “No. I suspect that they’re using dark magic to achieve some things, which is terribly wrong. Our section and territory are strongly against dark magic. That’s the same thing Kel’s Mom did that got her banished from the territory,” the second girl reduced her voice while she spoke.
• “Um… Martha, don’t you think this girl is listening to our conversation?” the first girl said, which made the both of them shift away from my direction.
• I stood unshaken and knew that they peered at me to observe a weird feature in me. The information I grabbed from them was something that could be vastly misconceived by many. I considered it as something heard and not investigated thoroughly. The principal approached with the envelope in her armpit again, but this time she wasn’t alone. She came along with Mike, who held up a smirk as he walked towards me.
• I crossed my heart and hoped that Mike would do nothing that would cause a scene. And I wondered why Mike would smirk at me. He seemed hot in his uniform: his golden locks seemed oiled, his uniform did nothing to shield the muscles he possessed, and his blue eyes beamed like the light in the sky. He was charming, and so were his brothers in their uniforms – they were exactly the same and it would take a smart person to tell them apart.
• “Hey, Bianca. Good to see that you waited,” the principal said.
• I smiled at her.
• “He’s going to give you a tour of the school’s facilities. Then, you’ll have to make a choice on which extracurricular activity you’d love to belong to. And there’ll be proper orientation for all new students before the end of the week. I just want you to make some new friends,” the principal said and looked at the both of us to make introductions.
• I understood her language and stretched forth my arms to Mike.
• “Hi, I’m Bianca… Andre,” I said, my hands stretched forth to his and a forced smile on my face.
• Mike was unresponsive. He rather looked ahead of me and waved to students who passed by. That made me feel embarrassed and unwelcome as it always was.
• “Okay, maybe the both of you can go now. And Mike don’t forget to show her everywhere,” she said with a smile.
• “I got this Principal Jessica,” Mike replied.
• “And before I forget, Bianca, this is your schedule for the semester,” the principal drew out the envelope that was in her armpit.
• “Thank you very much, Principal Jessica,” I replied and watched her smile away.
• Mike didn’t make eye contact with me but continued smirking. It was very awkward that he was supposed to give me a tour of the facilities and wasn’t speaking a word. He preferred that I follow him to wherever he wanted me to go. We walked past Dandy who was kissing a girl, supposedly his girlfriend.
• Mike waved at the kissing Dandy and continued walking. To my surprise, Dandy began following us behind from a distance. I feared but didn’t dare confront Mike in an angry tone. We continued walking down the hallway without any proper conversation. But I couldn’t let it in anymore.
• “You’re supposed to act like you don’t know me and give me the tour round the school’s facilities. A new and innocent student doesn’t deserve to be treated this way,” I told Mike, not minding the nearby presence of his brother.
• “And you’re not supposed to be speaking to me. You’re supposed to be playing to role of the starring slut,” Mike said with a straight face and looking ahead of himself as though he hadn’t said anything.
• I tried not to react to his meanness and swallowed a large gulp of spittle.
• “Why is your brother following us?” I asked Mike in suspicion.
• “This is an elite school, Bianca. This is a school where everyone is free to move around in the hallway. You can’t question his presence behind you. Besides, he’s here to protect you,” Mike made the last statement, looking at me with a fake smile.
• We soon reached a section of the hallway where there were very few people. There was a small classroom where I supposed people barely visited. Mike opened the small classroom and walked inside, but I was too scared to join him. I contemplated walking into the empty classroom and looking for my classroom when I felt a heavy force on my back.
• I was pushed into the classroom by Mike. I fell on the floor hard and hit my head, which made it swell. To my surprise, Jonah and Kel had hidden there all along, waiting for me to show forth. They began beating, punching, and kicking me on various parts of my body. I tried to shout for help from the neighbouring classrooms but they shut my mouth tightly with their palms.
• I was very weak after ten solid minutes of intense beating. They paused after hearing slight footsteps passing the classroom.
• “If you tell anyone about this, you’ll be forced to go live with your father in the trenches and maybe your life would be over,” Mike said.
• “You and your prostitute mother made our Mom to leave us. Do you have any idea how depressing it is?” Dandy said in deep anger.
• “She deserves a life full of dark torture and I’m the man for the job,” Kel said, his eye colour switching from one to another.
• “Final warning: if you tell anyone about this, you’ll regret why your mother decided to wreck our family. You’ll have to return to the shitty school you came from, and your father would kill you when he decides,” Mike made a warning and left with his brothers after a thorough check to be sure no one was approaching.
• I sat there and sobbed to myself. I had thoughts of running away, but they were never feasible because I had nowhere to go. That was the moment I realized that I was in for war.