Chapter Eighteen
My cousin had to apologize to Alison and the next day she left.
And the days began to pass for the much warned expulsion to take place. Five classrooms disappeared. Now there were ten of us freshmen, I looked out my bedroom window to see them leave, many of them were sad, but they were the new school rules. If I had failed the test I would have been in their place too. I wanted to erase that sad moment and talk to Snaider.
I had heard that the president was out of school for a few days, no one knew why, but I had my own problems. I decided to go talk to him about what had happened on the test.
The first thing I saw was Alison's brother talking to another sophomore almost arguing.
-Pass Luan, we're done.
The other boy greeted me and came out of the room, he had orange hair with blond tones and black eyes, almost like the statue of the president.
He looked at me and said.
-How are you? -How have your best freshman days been?
-Hey, tough, now the whole school knows me and looks at me, it's uncomfortable. I wish I hadn't finished the test.
-Whatever, it doesn't matter how things went. Until the end of the year everyone will see you like this. What you do in this test determines many things about you, you didn't need to have a CE or high statistics, this is against all the standards that the school had, congratulations.
-I...I.....
-Don't worry, you'll handle the pressure, but I doubt any of the twelve will sponsor you to represent the school at the statewide level.
I didn't know if he was making fun of me, or trying to reassure me.
-There's something I want to ask you about. You've seen my statistics and that.
-No, why?
-Look at them.
Snaider stayed a while and looked at a leaf Luan was carrying and decided to talk.
-It's strange, tell me, have you had contact with any irregulars or has anything strange happened to you?
-Eh, no.... but because you mention an irregular...
-Some people can alter their metabolism.
-And is it serious?
-That is determined by a doctor, so if it was due to an irregular.
-Let's say I had an incident with one.
-Mmmm, you should go to the nurse's office and tell her what happened to you, she'll let the school know and they'll give you an evaluation, before the ministry comes to bother you. Changing the subject also, they wanted to ask you, have you seen a purple-haired boy bothering Alison?
-Ehhh,no....
-Okay, I just need you to keep an eye on him if he comes near my brother.
-Why?
-You'll find out soon enough, just follow Alison for now, and stop her from doing anything as silly as the one you almost caused on the last expedition.
-Okay, then I will.
-Well, I have to inform you that I'm running for president of the school again.
To go along with it, I said.
-Oh, great.
-I see that you are not being sincere, but well, I will not go on the expedition with the school, so I want to ask you to support my brother.
I assumed that he knew about his Alison, and wanted me to help him, but another doubt haunted me and I decided to ask him.
- Won't you go?
-It's a medical recommendation, but Alison can heal you, and you could keep putting on the bandages to simulate the wounds, I leave it in your hands.
-Why are you giving me this responsibility, I can't even take care of myself.
-But you're smart, and you can plan what to do, most except Alison and Hana don't think before they act, they just follow by their strength and the level they have, they think that with that they can achieve anything, but it's not like that.
- Is that why my cousin is the vice president?
-Well, she's pretty good at talking to people, something I have some difficulty with, and despite being a level 2 she shows qualities that stand out from the rest.
-You'll soon find out, for now just follow Alison, and stop her from doing another silly thing like the one they almost caused on the last expedition.
-Okay, then I will.
-Well, I have to inform you that I will be running for president of the school again.
To go along with it, I said.
-Oh, great.
-I see that you are not being sincere, but well, I will not go on the expedition with the school, so I want to ask you to support my brother.
I assumed that he knew about his Alison, and wanted me to help him, but another doubt haunted me and I decided to ask him.
- Won't you go?
-It's a medical recommendation, but Alison can heal you, and you could keep putting on the bandages to simulate the wounds, I leave it in your hands.
-Why are you giving me this responsibility, I can't even take care of myself.
-But you're smart, and you can plan what to do, most except Alison and Hana don't think before they act, they just follow by their strength and the level they have, they think that with that they can achieve anything, but it's not like that.
- Is that why my cousin is the vice president?
-Well, she's pretty good at talking to people, something I have some difficulty with, and despite being a level 2 she shows qualities that stand out from the rest.
- Like what?
-You asked me a lot today, ..... She answered me quite seriously.
-Okay, goodbye .....
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It happened a week after the situation at the school.
Liz returned to class, and joined the group, we left for a village in the south of the country, a forested area, with some rivers, was one of the tourist areas of the country.
To this place we would go to three classrooms, group 3 in the third year, and groups 3 and 2 in the first year.
The school sent us all together in one flight.
And as expected, we were also scrambled.
I was next to some sophomores, two girls.
- You're friends with Alison, right?
-Yes," I answered.
-They said that you could introduce them to us.
-He already has a girlfriend," I said.
I gave them that answer because I didn't want them to harass him, they looked pretty intense.
They didn't answer me, and they stopped talking to me.
I begged them to end the trip to talk to her, and explain to her to avoid misunderstandings, if they dared to ask me.
I closed my eyes for a few minutes and Alison came over to where I was.
The girls were apparently not there at the time.
-Hey, Alison, why are you here?
-I came to see if you weren't feeling bad, I saw that many people are following you now.
I think he had noticed it too, many people now saw me and recognized me as another student.
-I'm fine," I answered.
-mmm, ok now we talk.
-Alison, uh I...two girls were asking about you and I told them that you had a girlfriend and they stopped asking.
-Okay, late we talked.
Apparently she didn't like what I said, and I remembered Samantha's words, but she still didn't believe it was all true.
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We arrived after two hours at the airport, and were taken to town.
It may have taken us 5 hours or more, but I was already looking forward to getting some rest, my body was getting heavy and we stopped twice to eat and the area was getting greener and more isolated from the world.
I was going back to sleep and I don't know when we arrived, but someone touched my shoulder and woke me up.
-Hey, get up already.
The place looked better than the previous expedition.
It was a place that combined modernity and nature.
There were trees and buildings no higher than three floors together, as if they wanted to give it a jungle look. Some people had horses and other carts. Perhaps there were no more than 10,000 inhabitants.
We were taken to the town square, my room was surprised. How could a town be so modern?
When we got there there were ten other schools, with first, second, and third year students like us.
But one girl stood out among all the students present, wearing a white uniform, with a jacket, a navy hat and a full uniform of that same color with red stripes.
She had black hair, long, crimson eyes, a slender figure, I can't deny she was pretty. And a sensual voice began to give the welcome speech.
-We thank the mayor of the city for receiving us...
That girl belonged to the Brustel School, one of the most expensive in the country, and only the children of bureaucrats and high-ranking military officers went there.
Some comments from other schools said that she was the daughter of a senator and a noblewoman. And they called her Princess Delta.
When she finished her speech she proceeded to return to her school, but some classmates approached her and spoke in her ear. Their eyes were focused on us. I immediately thought maybe it was because of me, because of the test results, but it wasn't like that all eyes were on Alison. Although he kept that expressionless attitude.
One of them approached Alison.
-You are the weirdo who humiliated the princess's dad.
-....
Alison didn't respond.
-Deisy wants to talk to you.
-Okay, we'll do that at camp.
He took it off his shirt.
-You're not listening, come now.
-I can't get away from the group, and you're all staring at us.
Before the eyes of all, that boy let go of Alison and answered her.
-All right, just don't delay.
The rest of the students from the other schools were silent, wondering what was going on, and there were murmurs.
-What did you do now, Alison?
-Something insignificant when I wasn't studying here.
-Because you...
-Will you reproach me for that?
-It's not that, it's that what you do affects us all, and .....
-All right, I accept it, I committed an imprudent act, but I hadn't entered the school, just ignore what the others say.
After a while we all got on the buses to go to the camp
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After the welcome in the square we were sent to a camp in an exhotel, it was big enough for everyone even left over. And because of Alison's, the men who stayed with him were sent to the worst dormitory. I didn't know what to do anymore. I didn't know anyone could get into so much trouble their first year of high school. That was beginning to make me believe that everything Samantha told me was true and that at some point I had to face up to what happened to my cousin.
As I analyzed everything, the girl I was thinking about came up to me.
-I think you're worried about him too, aren't you?
-Yes, I don't understand, because he must have done that.
-Well, from what I see he's going to get beaten up one of these days, I think I have to make the passes with him. I wouldn't want to leave him alone with so many students. And I think this would be the ultimate test to see if what they say about him is true.
While we were talking I felt movements around the place, apparently there would be a meeting very soon. It was almost six o'clock in the afternoon at that place. I noticed that the other schools were looking at us because they knew we were Alison's classmates.
The atmosphere, perhaps worse than the school and the problem that was rumored with the sophomores, I didn't know if the other classrooms in the school that were with us would intervene, but we needed them at this time.