Chapter 30 - Unfolding Moment

Their parents had compensated for the service they had rendered to their store.

These three children, Adrianne May, Ace Sydney, and Pallas Athena were brought up to live simply. They had to buy only their needs. Their wants should only be purchased during their birthdays & one of the most significant holidays; holiday during Christmas Season.

If they've some limited editions personal belongings it should only be used on an occasion that requires to use them. So, in their everyday lives, they used those they bought from an affordable cost.

Only silver made jewelry were worn by them. Gadgets like cell phones were the cheapest brand provided they had it for their safety and emergency device.

Still, there were some who didn't believe them to belong to a middle class family. They could have basically detected their real status in life through the refinement of their personality.

On the other hand, others belittled them that would resorted to bullying them.But just what they were influenced by their mother and father, they escaped from them without the bullies knowing their sudden disappearance.

Nevertheless, the repeated bullying had them to have caused their disappearing acts which the bullies noticed after their several times doing it. They were like the idiots left alone without anyone talking nor reacting from the bad words they were naming them. The three children were treating them like invisible thin air.

As a result, they planned well how to trap them. Came the realization of the bullies' plan. They victoriously cornered them in the school campus near the parking lot where their driver's waiting for them. But about fifty meters away from behind them, a big acacia tree was standing proudly. Under it, a concreted seat around it, their bodyguards were closely watching them. With the request of Sydney & Ms. Peace, they're allowed to stay inside the campus pretending to be those that manage the parking of the cars.

First, one of the bullies went near them, as they stepped outside the classrooms she quickly walked with them as though they were friends but the truth was that she was provoking them some insulting words that the siblings pretended not to hear. When they kept on walking without even looking at the bully, another bullies accompanied the first who immediately positioned themselves around them.

Studying the position of those bullies, Adrianne May held the hands of her kid siblings. Upon seeing by the bullies her protective action, they stretched their arms holding each other hands making sure that they won't be able to escape from them. Their bullying can no longer be denied anymore as it literally showed how they're trying to trap them by using their bodies.

The bullies insulted them enjoyably but the siblings remained quiet. Instead of talking back, a shrilling sound was heard not only by the bullies but by their driver and two bodyguards. Upon listening to the warning sound, they immediately ran toward the children of their boss to save them from harmful enmities.

The bullies were confused when they heard the shrilling sound. However, one of them untied her hands from holding her companion to push Adrianne May.

It was time for the three siblings to use their training to defend themselves by shielding with their strong arms through capturing the hands of the bully and pushed her as hard as they could that caused her to be blown a little and was fallen & slumped seated on the ground.

That was the exact time when the driver and their two bodyguards were on the spot where they were ensnared by those female hooligans. The driver had quickly ushered them toward their car while the two bodyguards tried to ask the bullies why they were trying to harm their boss' children.

"They act as though they are wealthy kids when in fact, they are not." They interjected almost in chorus/quartet.

"What do you know about them? Does it affect you so much that you need to bully them? How sure are you that they aren't wealthy?" Bodyguard 1 asked.

"Bro... It's none of their business if these siblings are wealthy or not. This is our first and final warning to the four of you to think million times before bullying them. Got us?" Bodyguard 2 ordered.

After warning them, bodyguard 1 went to the principal's office to request for the recorded video clip from the cctv that the school installed outside the play ground. It did not take them long in order to get a copy of it

The four bullies were so enraged by the interference of those three men. They asked each other who those men were that saved the siblings from the harmful desire that they planned to be inflicted upon them. Despite the warning, they did not yet give up. Once again they had pledged to one another that they would still bully them should they had their chance to do so.

During their dinner, the report of the eventful afternoon was reported to Sydney and Ms. Peace. The children were quite afraid that their parents might rebuke them for pushing one of the bullies, only to learn that their fear was wrong.

During their family time, their parents decided to reveal a very important secret that stupefied them.

With the bodyguard & the staff were already in their quarter, Sydney decided to show their children what should be known to them. The whole family locked all the doors well including the windows with their curtains drawn to cover what was inside their house. Together, they went to the secret room behind the security system with a door in that big movable drawer, and... Voila! They were inside another room.

Ms. Peace pressed the combination of the small wooden door. Behind it was another stainless door with another combination of numbers to open it. When the small stainless door was opened another two small stainless doors were opened with the similar complicated lock. When the two stainless doors were opened, the children were speechless when they saw the heap of bundles of paper money.

Their father showed the exact amount of each vault. When he got a wad of it, the amount gotten and the remaining amount in the coffer were registered.

"We are revealing this to you not to brag but to remain a low profile and shouldn't

go under their provocation or belittling.

Just listen to them, never brag as it will put you more to danger." Sydney told them.

"Never mind if they are insulting you, looking down on you, provided you know that you belong to a wealthy family from your parents' hard earned money." Ms. Peace advised their children.

"We're a billionaire, Mom & Dad?" Ace Sydney asked for confirmation as he could never believe it.

"What do you think, Bro? What amount have you read?" Adrianne May teased his kid brother.

"We are!" Ace & Pallas answered in duet.

Going back to the family room means locking the vault and the room where it was furtively hidden. In the family room they were instructed not to tell anyone, not even one of their household staffs and their bodyguards.

"But.. Why do we have to wear bargained clothes while at home we're wearing branded ones including those sleeping clothes and undergarments?"

"Only us can see you here. We do not want you to be kidnapped." Sydney explained.

"Can you promise us to be secretive about what you saw tonight?" Ms. Peace urged them to promise.

"You can trust me, Mommy." Adrianne May assured them.

"You can trust me, too, Mom and Dad." Ace Sydney said.

"Me, too. Mom and Dad." Pallas Athena also promised.

"Alright, then. Good night children. Now is your time to sleep for another new day tomorrow." Sydney dismissed them so for their children to be in each bedroom.

From that time on when they learned how rich they were, they had become more very humble children and helped their nanny & the maid to do household chores.

They had to work not only in the store but also at home. Thus, they were the ones cleaning their own bedroom and the bedroom of their parents. From the time they started such home activities, their home had more become spec and span. Even their walk in closets were not topsy turvy. They're arranged & grouped according to its category.

In the store, while a buyer listened to the brief explanation of Sydney in using the machine, so did his son & his youngest child. The result was excellent that when there was a buyer during the absence of Sydney, both Ace & Pallas explained how to use the tool. No one had gone back nor texted a complaint that the machine did not function well.

An incintive's given to the younger kids to motivate them more to be the best young sales clerks. In each room both have their own lengthy big bamboo bank where they saved their money instead of spending it.

Hence whenever there are buyers they were the one discussing how should it be manipulated to function well.

Like their hard working parents, they,too, has started to work hard and what was so noticeable was their new habit of saving their hard earned money.