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"Her name is Adelaide," Cassandra said softly, a slight smile on her face,

Seeing her expression, we understood that she had become attached to the child, and without realizing it, we in turn were smiling too.

RAIS Pov

The day after

3:49 P.M

"Does anyone want to read the text?" The philosophy teacher asked, some students were already packing up their things as the bell was about to ring, this was the case of Harmonie, Cassidy, and Corine.

"Nobody-" the teacher began before being interrupted by the bell, the students started to leave.

In the schoolyard

"H, where is Chloe?" asked Corine

"I don't know, she decided not to come today. And don't ask me why because I don't know why myself," said Harmonie, looking at her watch just after.

"But I saw her this morning with you..." said Corine with a questioning face,

"She was helping me with Adelaide, she's the one who drove us here, then she left with the car," she said, looking at her watch again and starting to walk, the two girls followed her unconsciously.

"She has her license?" asked Chloe,

"Yes,"

"Is she eighteen yet?" Harmonie nodded and walked up the stairs opposite.

They finally arrived in front of the door where it said 'DAYCARE'.

Harmonie knocked on the door and then entered followed by Cassidy and Corine, Sylvia turned around when she saw the door open, and she smiled when she saw Harmonie and her two friends. But her smile froze slightly when she noticed the absence of Chloe, she quickly pulled herself together, however this small detail had not escaped Harmonie.

"Hi, Sylvia!" said Harmonie, the latter returned her greeting and Harmonie started to look for her daughter.

She finally found her in the room dedicated to the rest of the children, she turned to Sylvia who had followed her,

"When did she fall asleep?" Harmonie whispered,

"Since 2 or 3 minutes..."

"Okay," Harmonie nodded, kissed her daughter on her forehead, and then decided to leave and let the child sleep.

Harmonie closed the door and turned back to Sylvia,

"Sylvia, I'm going to go. Don't forget to give her, her medicine, please?"

"Okay, don't worry..." said Sylvia, Harmonie, and the other two girls started to leave,

"Harmonie!" Sylvia called.

"Yes?" replied Harmonie as she turned around,

"I haven't seen Chloe today, how come she's not here?

"Oh, someone has asked her out," Harmonie replied,

"Oh..."

"Who did she go out with?" Asked Corine, confused, because earlier Harmonie said that she didn't know where Chloe had gone,

"A girl she met a while ago."

"Seriously?!?" Said Cassidy.

Harmonie opened the door and turned to look at Sylvie,

"No, it was a joke. She didn't tell me why she didn't come, and I don't know where she is," she said, smiling,

She took a step and then turned around again,

"Besides, she's not the type to be unfaithful. Well, I'm off. Bye."

She smiled again, then walked out with Corine and Cassidy on her heels.

She got a smirk on her face.

"H, what was that?"

"Oh! Pre-couple drama?"

"Ah..."

"I don't understand," Cassidy said,

"Don't worry, I'll explain later."

"Okay..."

Later, she finally explained that Sylvia was the person Chloe was interested in and after seeing Sylvia's reaction that day, Chloe was not the only one who was interested.....

4:20 P.M

"H, do you know how to answer this exercise?" Cassidy whispered, Harmonie stopped what she was doing and turned her head to Cassidy who was sitting in the chair to her left.

Harmonie watched Cassidy, who was looking at her hand with a pen, pointing to what Cassidy wanted help with. Harmonie took a quick look at Cassidy's paper and then turned to her paper and continued what she was doing.

Before Cassidy could say anything, she saw Harmonie hand her, her sheet.

Cassidy took the paper, took a quick look at it, then a smile started to form on her face.

She turned to Harmonie, "Thanks, H!"

"Harmonie! Don't sleep on the table, go to the infirmary." said the teacher, Mr. Lacaze, Harmonie shook her head slightly then put her head on the table.

The teacher left Harmonie and continued to help the student he was helping before.

Cassidy continued to do her exercises, smiling.

When the teacher gave exercises, Harmonie only detailed the first exercise in great detail on the sheet, then put only the answer for the rest of the exercises.

Cassidy would then either ask Harmonie to help her or not. Sometimes she would help her, but there were times like today when she would only give her sheet.

The reason she only detailed the first exercise and then gave the answers was Cassidy, and Cassidy knew it.

And she didn't just copy, she looked at the detailed exercise carefully, then did the other exercises based on the model of the first one, and finally compared her results to Harmonie's.

However, it could happen that Harmonie got a result wrong, usually because of a forgotten minus.

Such good results were thanks to Mr. Lacaze who was one of the most appreciated teachers in the school because of his way of teaching and his character in general.

Harmonie was the epitome of how forgiving the teacher was. He allowed students to do whatever they wanted as long as they did not disturb the class and had already finished their exercises.

Harmonie didn't know what it was like in the teacher's regular classes since the teacher also had "normal", "expert" and "supplemental" maths classes, and the last one was Harmonie and Cassidy's class.

The "normal" and "supplemental" classes had the same program, but the program was less demanding for the "supplemental". The "supplemental" was an optional class if you didn't want to abandon maths you could choose it and like the "supplemental", the "expert" class was also optional but the "expert" class had a more advanced and demanding program.

The lessons were going pretty fast with this teacher.

There were not many students in this class either. There were only 15 students.

Some of them, like Harmonie, had already finished their exercises and revised their lessons because they were going to have an exam the next hour. But Harmonie and Cassidy were not concerned by this, since they were not all in the same class, only on this one.

And even for students, it was difficult for them to understand this system…

The bell rang, announcing that they had been in class for half an hour.

Suddenly, the door to the classroom opened, she looked around the room, saw the teacher, and walked toward him.

While the latter was talking to the teacher, Cassidy continued her exercises and Harmonie had fallen asleep.

"Harmonie!" called the teacher, a few seconds later, the latter lifted her head quickly, she rubbed her eyes since she had difficulty opening her eyes.

"Hm?"

"I need you to follow the supervisor, it's urgent." Harmonie turned her head towards the woman who was about to leave.

"Okay..." she said, nodding, she stood up and followed the proctor.

...

He led her to the school office, Harmonie noticed that there were policemen present, and they were talking to one of the supervisors. She tilted her head slightly to the left, not understanding the situation.

"You have to go into that room," the supervisor who had brought her in said,

She entered the room indicated, she tilted her head when she saw Chloe sitting on a chair with her phone in hand.

"...hmm... Okay, thank you," she said before turning off her phone, she stood up and walked to the door, thanked the police, and closed the door.

She then walked to the table and put her phone on the table.

"What happened?" said Harmonie while sitting on one of the chairs in the room.

"I saw one person get mugged by several people, and I kind of ran over them," she said, stroking her neck,

"Ah, okay. Then?" said Harmonie calmly

"Then I started attacking them with the bat..."

"How many attackers?"

"5, I ran over 3 of them, then hit the rest with my bat."

"Dead ones?" said Harmonie in a serious tone, but Chloe knew she wasn't, and her little smile afterward confirmed that,

"No! I just neutralized them."

"The victim?"

"Safe and sound."

"Did you call the old man?" Since Harmonie's grandfather had connexion with the authorities, that's why Chloe wasn't in jail… yet...

"Yes, I did."

"When are you going back to the police station?

"In a few days, while they recover a little from their injuries."

"All right," said Harmonie as she got to her feet,

"Wait for me."

Chloe also decided to go with Harmonie to class...

....

End of classes

"H, we forgot to call her." Said Chloe, a terrified expression on her face,

"Who are you talking about?" Said Harmonie, tilting her head,

"Sorry, my bad... I'm talking about our dearest celebrity as she is so well known, "The Witch" of the gang."

"Who are you talking about, wait-" Harmonie stopped, "Witch? The Witch of the gang?" Harmonie's eyes widened in realization, looking at Chloe, the latter nodded.

"I'm in trouble," said Harmonie with a scarred face,

"I'm sorry H-"

"I'm going to say it's your fault."

"What?!?" Harmonie shook her head, "No!!! It's not true."

"But who would she believe?"

"H, please. Don't do that. She scares me, that woman."

"Me too, I-" Harmonie paused after feeling her phone vibrate,

"Oh no..." she said after reading the message,

"What? What is it?" asked Chloe, Harmonie showed her the message. The colors faded from her face.

On the screen was a message from "My Nightmare", saying:

+In two weeks I will be here. Come and get me when the time comes.+

"She-she's coming HERE!!!" said a shocked Chloe,

"Well, speak of the devil... we're officially screwed… she is coming," said Harmonie

And just then, Harmonie and Chloe heard,

"Hey!" from two voices, they looked up and saw Cassidy and Corine coming out of the girls' WC,

"Thanks for waiting for us. Let's go home now," Cassidy said, putting her right hand around Chloe's shoulders, the group started to walk towards the exit, it should be noted that after their presentation last week, they became very close after some needed explanations.

What Chloe and the group failed to notice was the serious look on Harmonie's face as she stared at her phone,

+I'm coming too, and I'm going to start the mission.+ - Haz

+Very good, thank you+ -Harmonie

Harmonie raised her head and looked at her friends, seeing the smiles on their faces, she turned off her phone and put it in her jacket pocket while she too had a little smile on her lips...