1. Two Sides of the Coin

"𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯- 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳, 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘺. 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩- 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘦." —𝘠𝘷𝘦𝘴

"Earth to Yves~" Claudette sings as she waves her hand in front of her friend, Yves, making the latter flinch. Seeing the reaction, she asks her with worry. "Are you okay? You've been spacing for quite awhile now."

Yves gives her a warm smile. "I'm fine! I just remember something."

They are currently at the same spot where they met months ago, the last room of this campus. Claudette suggested to make it their hang out place which Yves agreed to, willingly. Ever since the day of unexpectedly meeting each other, the two secretly meets there until Claudette starts to get comfortable with her. It wasn't hard for Yves to bring down her friend's guard. After a month, Yves finally succeeded on convincing Claudette not to hide their friendship. It was hard but worth it. Unfortunately, Yves was at the star section while Claudette was at the last, they come up with a solution that whoever finishes the classes first must wait and fetch the latter. It became their routine for almost 5 months now. Although, there was a time that Yves wouldn't make it. Being the first-hand audience of how pretty and good person Yves was, it's no wonder for Claudette that a lot people surrounds Yves and make friends with her. Despite that, Yves never forget her and God knows how thankful she is for that.

"Now, you're the one who's spacing out," Yves speaks as she searches something on her bag.

"What's wrong?" Claudette observes her action.

"Ah," she pauses to concentrate. "Here!" then exposes a black hairpin. It has a small purple butterfly attached to it.

"Really? This is for me?" Claudette can't hide the smile creeping in her face. It's beautiful, simple yet alluring.

"Of course. I saw that in the nearby shop and it's suddenly reminded me of you so I bought it," Yves grins. If it means seeing Claudette's sparkling eyes and wide bright smile, she wouldn't hesitate to bought anything her cute friend wants. Yves can't help but spoil her. For her, Claudette is like a little sister.

"Let's go," Claudette looks at her wrist watch. "The class is about to start."

She nods as an answer and stands up. As soon as her body straights up, Yves uses her hand to get rid off some pieces of dirt that glued in her pants. They were sitting in the ground so getting dirt can't be avoided.

Just by watching her friend, Yves can't stop the funny feeling filling her inside. It's really crazy how deceitful human can be. Claudette's appearance gives off a intimidating and villainess vibes which the total opposite of her personality— naive, sweet, and kind-hearted.

Yves' cut off of her thought when she notices her friend flinched. She follows her gaze and found Ms. Santos. 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘧𝘶𝘭. Look at this teacher, she looks decent, a woman who abide with the law. Who would thought she's having an affair with her husband's colleague.

Suddenly Yves had a flashback of last month where she went to the neighboring city for some matter. She was peacefully walking in the busy night street when abruptly her eyes caught Ms. Santos entering a love hotel with a man. She shrugged it of thinking it was her teacher's husband and it's her personal life and clearly not her business to mind. After 2 days, her husband fetch fer from the gate, but how intriguing, her husband had a long hair. So different from the guy she went with to the love hotel.

"Good afternoon ma'am~" Yves sings.

"Good afternoon," Claudette bows.

Ms. Santos gives the latter a distaste look while she smiles at Yves before passing through them. Claudette watches the teacher left and sighs right after the teacher was far.

𝘈𝘩~ 𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵. 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘬𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘢.

"Don't mind her," she then taps the shoulder of her friend and mumbles, "she's not worth it."

"What?" Claudette tilts, curiosity glimmers in her eyes.

Yves chuckles as a reply and ruffles her hair like she always do making the curious cat pout. The two goes back to their pace. Yves' room comes first so she announces her departure. "I'm off now, see yah around Claud."

Claudette replies with a nod and waves her goodbye. And the whole day passes with that.

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The next day, before the class could even start, a voice coming from the speaker echoes in every corner of the school. "Dear students, we would like to inform that every student must come to the auditorium for we have a meeting. Students who caught ditching the meeting will receive punishment. As for the room, it will be close until the meeting is over. Thank you for everyone's cooperation."

The students who halt to listen begins to move towards the auditorium including Yves. On her way she saw a girl small girl holding 2 boxes, it literally heavier than her weight. Yves wants to ignore her since it's none of her business, but she knows she can't given how much she doesn't care. Because she have an image to maintain, the humble and kind-hearted girl. Besides, the boys who passes through her literally chooses to take a blind eye.

"Let me help you," Yves offers with a sweet smile.

The girl is stun to see her, she can't hide the blush rushing through her face. "T-thank you."

"Really it's nothing but you're welcome Rylle...? You're Rylle right?"

"Y-yes! You know me? That makes me happy. " Rylle gasps from shock. Is she hallucinating? Because right now she can clearly see a halo on Yves' head and a blinding light that who knows where it came from. She's just like an angel who flee from heaven to Earth to help me.

"Of course!" Yves peaks at her side only to see students whispering compliments to her, and smirks.

𝘈𝘩~ 𝘴𝘰 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺, 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴.

"Rylle!" Rylle flinches hearing the deep loud voice. She's sure it is the president's.

"Pres," she calls when the guy stops right in front of them.

The president gives his subordinate a check before his glance landed on the slim and pale girl. It's the same person who bumped him 6 months ago, the one who was grunting something. The same kind and humble woman who always lends her hand to someone in need. "Yves." He blurts out all of a sudden.

"Yes?" Yves tilts her head. Her answer seems to surprise the guy as he reacted to it.

Rylle who's so close to the two, wishes to have a free hand to block the bright light these two radiating . Seeing the interaction between to angels is too much for her to handle. Plus their heavenly appearance, Jenus, the president, with his blonde curly hair and manly feature, and Yves who has a black wavy hair and slim feature— she feels like she is out of place. A mere asteroid close to the sun and moon.

"I will help you with the box. Sorry to bothers you with the student council's work," Jenus raises his hand to get the box Yves' holding. To his surprise, the girl swiftly sway the box to avoid his hand.

"No, I don't mind. I exercise so this is not hard for me. Rather than helping me, it would be nice if you lend your strong arms to Rylle. It seems too heavy for her size to lift the box."

𝘠𝘦𝘴, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵.

He hesitates for a second and sighs before reaching for Rylle's.

"Thank you pres! Drake might need me in the stage so I'll go ahead first," she excuses as soon as the weight was gone then runs off leaving Jenus agape. The truth is, she just feel too overwhelm with those two's visual.

When Rylle is out of sight, Yves mentally sighs, "This is so awkward."

In the pond full of swan, Jenus is like a duck stuck in the pond. He is different from other. He never hides her true self, is straight forward, not afraid to show his flaws, genuinely kind and warm person— her antithesis. Jenus is the type of person Yves hopes to avoid entirely. He's too pure for her to handle, making it all hard for her to act in front of them. Maybe she feels guilty, ashame for her true color or she just plainly feel uncomfortable when she is around Jenus.

"Ah, you look pretty today— I mean you're always pretty but now you're prettier, you know? If that make sense," he stutters with flustered face.

𝘑𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘵! 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵?

"Thanks and as usual you're stunning as ever." No, Yves' not sugar-coating her words. Jenus is in indeed stunning, enough to get her attention everytime.

"Rally?"

Yves chuckles, she can clearly see an invisible dog ears pops-out of his head and tail that wags nonstop with excitement. She feels the urge to pat his head. "Yes! Lying is not my forte."

Jenus doesn't reply earning a look from her. As her eyes laid on his face, Yves already knew why he can't reply. Jenus is like a walking tomato with his face down to his neck all red especially his ears.

𝘚𝘰 𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦.

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In the dark, gloomy and empty alley of a noisy street where bars and clubs stands, a unceasing footsteps engulfs the alley. This part of the city is full of bars and clubs to the point you can see one whenever you turn your head in any direction. This place is called B&C park. A lot of known and unknown person blended here. Different loud music from establishments cover the area that you can barely hear someone's voice.

"So it's no use even if you shout on top of your lung," someone comments then blows a breath on a well-suited man's ear making him shivers.

"P-please don't kill me! I will give everything you want. You want money? Here," the guy rummages on his pocket and pulls a check and cash, "you can have it all! If you want more I could give you more if you let me live."

The 'someone' clicked his tongue. "Money? I don't need the money you stole from Acesia Familia, Felipe De Castro."

"W-what? How did y-you know?" Felipe stutters, his eyes wide open from shock and disbelief.

Acesia Familia was gone long time ago. It was known that the whole family died from a fire caused by their maid and all their properties were given to the government. That's right, they made sure to make it look that way. So how did this person now?

" You don't need to know such thing. Goodbye, Felipe De Castro. Your karma is now here to make you pay for all the sins you made. See you in hell."

"No! Please wait—

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Ps. There must be typographical and grammatical errors, sorry in advance!