Chapter 13

NIGHT'S POV:

"Why is our teacher taking so long to come?" Light suddenly asked beside me.

I heard Fighter snorted. "Why do you even care? This is so not you, Light." He uttered which made Light frown and turn to us.

"Bro, this is the new me. I'm desperate to win our bet because I need relaxation time in life." He stated.

I chuckled. "Are you sure you will win against Enchanted?" I calmly ask him.

He was about to say something when a man suddenly entered the room while holding his opened laptop in both of his arms. He was wearing white long sleeves that were being inserted in his black pants with a black Gucci belt. His top folded at the end of every sleeve and he paired it with black shoes. His hair was also neatly combed and I could say that this guy was a good-looking one.

"Wow, his aura and expression were lethal." Light exclaimed softly and more like a whisper to me.

"I'll take that as a compliment, Mr. Cyrus." The teacher suddenly mumbled in a cold and deep manly voice which made Light's eyes widened while the teacher put his laptop above the teacher's desk before looking at us with a serious expression. "Good morning, everyone. I am your second professor in this section. I'm sorry if I didn't make it here last time and we are supposed to be meeting is canceled because I was in another country and does something there but anyway, we will do something interesting today. " He stated while looking at us blankly. "I'm Zarion Ace Alejandro. You can call me sir Zarion since I don't like my surname." He introduces himself. "Any questions?" He asked while roaming his eyes around.

P'Soiree suddenly moves his hand up which made us look in his direction. He stood up and looked firmly at the teacher. "Do you already know all of us one by one if you don't mind me asking, sir?" He asked and sat down again. Sir Zarion just grinned and walked near the door and locked it.

He sighed and looked at us again. "Yes, and maybe you are all confused about how did you get here and why, what is your purpose here, and what is the secret behind this section." He mumbled and smirked. "Am I, right?" He asked which made us all look at each other and at that moment, I knew that every one of us has the same questions in mind. What sir Zarion said was right. "Base on your expressions, I think I don't need any answers anymore since all of your faces say it all." He concludes.

"Sir?" I called his attention and he smiled warmly at me. He motioned me to continue which made me stood up. "Why did we enter here and how did it happen?" I asked softly before sitting down again.

"About that, I can't tell you all, right now." He answered calmly.  "But being here needs more determination, patience, and knowledge. You need to use your brain, body, time, and resources. In short, you all need good coordination with everything and anything. I don't know if all of you trust each other or not, but to survive here, you must know how to prioritize what's more important between your heart and mind. You must decide if you will do the right thing or not. Every action comes with great responsibility so you must decide on something that you also know how to face when the consequences will come." He added or more like a warning to all of us.

All of us became silent because of this. Trust? What a big word to define something. In this world, trust is the most expensive thing here next to life. But trust can easily be broken and when it did, it is also like a broken glass that is so hard to make whole again.  It is not easy to earn but it can be broken in just a second which means that it was so fragile.

No one knew how important trust is unless it is already taken away from them and it's already too late to turn back everything.  A person can forgive, the pain will fade away but the scars will always be left behind just like wounds. It will always be the symbol of what that person does to you and you will not forget everything.

So, we must use our freedom wisely because we can't always turn back the past and correct our mistakes in the future.

Sir Zarion turned away from us and pressed his laptop until a statement there flashed from the white screen.

Hey, Kayla! I am okay bere, I get the chance to see the waves outside. They even let me eat seafood that tita Laura cook last night. Please, don't worry about me anymore.

He turned to us slowly. "So, what do you think about this statement?" He asked us in a calm voice.

"It has many wrong letters that lead to being the wrong spellings in the statement." I heard Ethereal says.

Sir Zarion grinned and nodded his head. "Yes, and what is the hidden meaning?" He asked again in a calm voice.

I look at the white screen and frown. "It was helpful," I mumbled and they turned their heads onto me. "What? It was just a wrong letter Cipher." I pointed out and I saw how Enchanted and Ethereal nodded in agreement. So, they also know it. Well, it wasn't that hard since it can be also considered as one of the easiest ciphers.

"Correct. Now, stand up, Night."  Sir Zarion told me which made me furrowed my eyebrows but I also complied anyway. "This question is for you only. If you can't answer this, you can call a friend." He added and I just nodded my head. He did something on his laptop again and other letters came out.

ababa aabaa Aaaaa baabb aabaa

I frowned. "Bi-literary Alphabet which read as leave," I answered which made him look at me in amusement.

"Wow, this is just the basic and you already comply. Let's make it a little harder for you, just a bit harder." He muttered and I just nodded my head again.

GAT ----- AAT ----- ACT TTA GAA ACT ACT CAT GAA ATG AAA AAT ----- TGG ACT CAT GAA TCT GAA TGT CGT GAA ACT

"Do you know what's this?" He asked but I stayed silent while looking at the letters and decoding them in my head. I can already feel the eyes of everyone towards me but I didn't take a glance at them since I was a little bit busy right now. "So, do you need help?" Sir Zarion asked again and I could feel that Light was panicking beside me.

I sighed. "No need, I already know the answer," I mumbled and he grinned because of it.  "This is a DNA code which says, do not let them know the secret but I already let them know," I answered jokingly and he chuckled while I smiled at him.

"Good job, you can already sit again." He instructed so I happily do it.

"It's a good thing that you answered everything because otherwise, I will excuse myself and go to the restroom. If sir Zarion didn't let me, I will just be going to pretend while looking away from him so that he will not choose me or you will not choose me." Light whispered beside me.

"Who told you earlier that he will choose you? Did you forget that we have all been together since childhood and Night already know that all the things inside your head are just worthless?"  Fighter asked in a bored tone.

Light gasped dramatically. "Hala! Are you my best friend?"  He asked while widening his eyes in a fake expression. I just rolled my eyes at him.

"Okay, as you can see. Those are examples of codes and it is one of the clues for our next activity but for now, I wanted to congratulate you all for helping the authorities and detectives in solving the cases last time." Sir Zarion announces which made us looks confused.

"Sir? What do you mean about helping the cases?" P'Lindsell asked with a confused expression also.

"Oh, you didn't know?" He asked with amusement and some of us shook our heads. "The activity that Miss Aimee gave you was a real case and when you do your task, you also help the authorities in solving those crimes. In short, everything you do here in this section can help and has a great impact on society and other people." He told us.

"You mean that we are also working as secret detectives and this is the purpose of this section?" P'Worth asked in a firm voice.

Sir Zarion nodded his head. "Yes, it is one of the purposes but there's more and that's your assignments starting today. Just like what we did earlier, we decode those codes and cipher. In this case, you need to decode also your purpose in entering this section." He answered and look at his watch before looking back at us. "I think, that's enough. You can all go now and see you at our next meeting." He told us and before we know it, he was already gone.

We all just sat there looking at each other until the stomach of one of us suddenly growled causing us all to laugh.

"Don't even think about it, let's eat first," P'Air mumbled while laughing a little also.

"This is a miracle, P'Air. You didn't say anything earlier but now, you said something." Light muttered while looking mockingly at P'Air.

P'Air hissed. "Shut up, Light! You also know why since I am too stupid when it comes to codes so, to not get his attention, I must stay low key." He responds.

Light clapped happily. "You are my P'. We are the same, bro!" He exclaimed and stood up, only to get a high-five from P'Air.

We just shook our heads at that.  Since it was one of their crazy antics again.

"That's enough, come on and let's eat," P'Sun told us.

"You too, P'. You also kept quiet earlier." Light said again that became a reason for P'Sun to look at him boringly.

"My silence is already inborn, Light. Don't make me like you who will be going to die in keeping quiet. Do you know? If you and P'Air send to the quiet place movie, you will probably be dead in less than a second."  He deadpanned which made us all laughed and the two frowned because of it.

"Burn!" I happily exclaimed and they chuckled again because of it. I pouted at that but when my eyes landed on Ethereal who is now grinning at me, I instantly looked away in embarrassment.

"I'll go now." Enchanted mumbled which made us all look at her.

Light scoffed. "No, you are going to eat with us." He uttered which made Enchanted rolled her eyes.

"You can't stop me, moron." She uttered boringly and pick her bag.

Light gasped dramatically again.  "Did you just call me a moron?"  he asked with a fake shock expression.

"I will so like this drama." I heard P'Air mumbled which made me realize that he was already beside me, crossing his arms in front of his chest while grinning evilly. I just shook my head at what they were doing and looked at the two again.

"Yes, drama queen." She answered boringly to him.  "Seriously? Are you gay?" She asked which made us quiet.

I waited for Light to say something and my jaw dropped more when he answered. "Don't call me gay, do you want me to get you pregnant now? How many children do you want?" He asked which causes Enchanted to suddenly get annoyed with it.

She scowled but didn't say anything and just walked out of us. We just stared at her departing figure.

"Ouch! It hurts, P'Arrow!" Light complained while P'Arrow held his ear and went out.

We all just looked at each other and shook our heads as we followed the two of them.

P'Soiree chuckled. "Let's go, guys!" He says which made me smile and nodded.

We all just walked to the canteen and as usual, we were on the second floor again.

"What do you want to eat, Night?" Ethereal asked beside me.

I smiled at him. "Rice, adobo, apple juice, and Leche flan, please," I answered and he just nodded his head and turned it to our friends.

"Who's going to order with me?"  He asked with a hint of coldness in his voice but we already know that it was natural being an Ethereal Equinox Zander, he wasn't Ethereal if he wasn't cold.

"It's me, Ethereal," P'Cadwell answered and Ethereal just nodded his head. All of them recite their orders and the two instantly walked to the counter.

"How was your ear, Light?" P'Ocean asked calmly.

Light just frowns. "It still hurts, P'." He answered with a hint of bitterness in his voice.

"You deserve it, you know? It's not good to ask a woman like that especially since it seems rude." P'Arrow muttered coldly.

Light pouted. "I know and I'm sorry. I just got annoyed because of what I heard from her. Look, gays are fine for me and I don't have any problem with them. I just don't like hearing it from anyone especially if the one involves is me. " He reasoned out.

P'Worth nodded. "We understand, it's just that, I think you should say sorry to her this time." He says softly which made Light nodded.

"I will, P'." He mumbled softly which made us smile.

After a few seconds, Ethereal and P'Cadwell came back and we ate while chatting about our previous project when I remembered something. I looked at P'Soiree curiously which made him look back at me.

"Yes, Night?" He asked confusingly.

"P'Soiree, did that Emman guy still bothering you?" I ask him which earned the attention of everyone around our table.

"Yeah, what happened after your encountered, anyway?" P'Lindsell asked too.

He shook his head. "He didn't bother me at all. I didn't even get the chance to cross paths with him because he wasn't in our class since the day he messed up with me in the comfort room, I wonder why also." He answered which a confused look also.

I furrowed my eyebrows and glance at Ethereal beside me who was eating silently. He may realize that someone was looking at him so he looked back at me questioningly.

"What?" He asked softly.

"Did you do something to that guy?" I whispered to him.

He shook his head. "The truth is, I want to teach that guy a lesson but I didn't have the chance to do it because he just suddenly disappeared without a trace." He answered with a clueless expression and because of this, I knew that he was telling the truth.

"Let it go. Maybe if he was here, he would hurt Soiree again. So it's good that he's not here."  P'Ocean said.

"Yes, but let's talked about other things, why are you good at codes, Night?" P'Cadwell suddenly asked me.

I looked at him and smiled. "I love books, P'. I love to read mysteries and books about detectives and crimes. That's the reason why I know some codes since I am so interested in those things." I answered happily.

He smiled. "You like books also, just like me." He stated which made me nodded happily.

We talked again to each other until the bell rang so we were all alone and the others walked first.

Ethereal and I are in the back. I was about to continue walking when he held my hand and I instantly stop because of it.

I looked at him questioningly but the scene in front of me makes me blink a little. His face was a bit hesitant and he was biting his lips while looking at me with an expression that I cannot distinguished.

"Are you okay?" I asked worriedly.

He sighed and nodded his head.  "I-I just want to ask you something." He answered while rubbing the back of his neck while looking at me shyly.

I smiled at this cute side of him and I wonder if I was the only one who can see this. I hope so because I have this feeling inside of me that I just want him to show his other side only for me, only for my eyes. But I also remembered that I have no right to do it since I am not sure what he feels about me and we are not in a relationship. Gosh! Why am I even thinking about this? He will never like someone like me!

"Can you go out with me on Saturday?" He asked and I blink again because of this.

"Are you asking me on a date?" I asked with a shocked expression.

He chuckled shyly and nodded his head afterward. I was speechless at this so I looked at him to see if he was serious or not but I did not see any hint of joking on his face.

He looked at me hopefully so I smiled and nodded my head. He smiled faintly and was about to say something when Light suddenly shouted which earned some attention from the crowd.

I frowned because of it and I saw how Ethereal glared at him.  "Shut up!" We snapped together at him and looked back at each other. I chuckled and his face softened with a faint smile on his pink lips.

He was really cute when another side of him appear and I love to see more of it.