Galleria of History, Galleria of Secrets

The remaining days to the excursion date passed like a blur with us getting accustomed to the new classes and teachers; some of whom where preparing with our art teacher for our visit to the galleria keeping them quite busy and us not so much, we where left to ourselves most of the time this resulting in a very noisy and rowdy classroom not helping my already frantic mind

"I mean who plans an excursion at the beginning of a class term for crying out loud" humph

" come on Cathy chill out, I heard our art teacher saying earlier that we had our scheme for the term packed up and she wanted us not to learn only theoretically but practically too..... something about living the art and experiencing it blah blah blah I mean you understand this stuff more than I do"

"Oh now I get it , I understand her I do, I mean the best way to experience art is to be able to visualize it and where best to if not in the Galleria of Arts" I spread out my arms as if to present a show.

" huh huh, see what I mean" she pointed to me..... "see that display right there, that's what am talking about"

"Come on Silv, you just have to feel the art to understand and get to this level so, I get it......but this environment......" I pointed all around us frantically "... is really not helping my already restless and sleep deprived mind" (urghhh) I rested my head dramatically on my desk to ease my already growing headache "I would be more excited if I had slept well last night"

"Dreams again?"

"Hmmm hmm"

Silvia started patting my hair to ease me of my pain and frustration "am sure after tomorrow the class would be more organized as this excursion would be behind us okay?, and since you said it's now weekly you would be able to sleep well today I guess so, tomorrow would even be better"

"Yea Silv you are right and I just can't wait am telling you"

We stayed for two more classes, before the school authorities decided to let us go early in preparation for tomorrow's visit. Silv said she had to run an errand for her mum in a close by grocery shop and ended up dragging me along with her.

When I got home it was a little late so, I just freshened up, had a light dinner with my mum, arranged my bag for tomorrow's visit and went to bed cause I was feeling really tired and like Silv said I was not looking forward to any dream tonight and the rest of the week.

I woke up the following morning, feeling well rested and decided to wash my hair and have a long warm shower as I woke up quite on time. After taking my shower, I dried my hair, dressed up and put my hair up in a high ponytail. My hair is naturally curly, brown and long up to my waist hence, keeping it any way always comes out good making my hair one of my very best physical attributes not that I don't have other assets like; my mum always said I had a very curvy body, so does Silv saying she’s jealous and all that but I just don't dwell much on them and their words because well, don’t all mothers find their kids attractive ( roll my eyes ) and Silv is just being Silv but, I think it will make me stand out and different from other girls because I think am not that much of a looker compared to other girls in school would hence, my always loose fitting clothes so less attention don’t do well with attention. When I was done I put on my glasses not that I needed them I had perfectly healthy and working green pair of eyes, sea green like my mum but, because I think the glasses makes me look smart I normally wear them with my outfit most of the time driving Silvia almost insane.....(I chuckled to myself , I swear I do it to just for to poke at her for fun)

I picked up my bag and headed downstairs where my mum was already getting ready to scream my name for the day, typical mum I tell you......(roll my eyes)

"Good mooorning mum!!" She turned are gaze towards me then I started answering her soon to be asked questions

"yes I woke up on time, yes I know I have an excursion to go to and yes I know I have to leave on time to catch up to my colleagues so, please can I have my breakfast now I love you so so much" I blew a kiss her way and winked

She just shook her head and muttered unbelievable but smiled anyway so I grinned

Mum... "do you have all you stuff packed?, your notes, phone, tablets and everything you might need?"

" yes mum I do, I made sure to put them in place yesterday and double checked this morning... "I would be meeting Silv in 20min at the bus station so I have to head out abooout...(checked my watch) ..... "now, I know Dad came in very late yesterday so say hi to him for me... bye mum" I kissed her on her cheek

" bye baby take care".

I rushed to the bus station knowing Silv would be there already because her place is closer and a few more walk I saw her already waiting.

"Hey Silv" I waved to her before going to her for a hug

"Hey Cathy, how was your night?"

"Slept like a log, even woke up myself and on time this, going to show how excited about this visit I am" lol

"Yea I can see that, no eye bag today and no crappy mood... hallelujah"

"Amen"

We started laughing and talking about how our day was going to play out till we got to school got in line for our tour bus and got in sitting side by side. Although, Silvia made sure she was sitting parallel to Jim; Matt's younger brother. She says she plans to go after both brothers so it's sure she gets one because she wants to have good looking children like them. My friend is just that crazy.

We arrived at the galleria after a long 3hrs drive as it is located in the capital city one of the reasons we had to leave early. And to say it's beautiful was an understatement because it was breathtaking, you just won't know how but a smile unconsciously creeps to your face and you are completely overwhelmed. Looking at the sculptures and the history behind them true or not makes everything seem real and it feels like you are in another era or something u just can't describe it, even Silvia was smiling and awed.

Then we got to the room filled with paintings of the founding families responsible for this place for centuries. We saw paintings after paintings of families that are of nothing less than royalties from different eras till modernization kicked in. One that really caught my attention was the family of Kingston Ray, which is still powerful and present till this day, I mean I knew they were rich conglomerates but I didn't know their wealth go this way back and according to our teacher they are one of the original founding families of this galleria.

When I saw a most recent painting of their family I don't know but it felt like I was drawn to it and when I looked at it really closely the son in the painting looked kind of familiar in a de ja vu kinda way i can’t explain and I felt like reaching to him. He had the bluest of eyes, hair as dark as night with a streak of grey white close to his forehead, well carved jawline, I mean he just looked like one of the sculpted Greek gods only he was in a painting with his equally good looking family. When I kept looking at the painting Silv came over and just nodded in understanding seeing where my gaze was at. I pointed to the guy in the painting rolling my eyes at where I know her thought was going and said "he looks oddly familiar"

"Come on Cathy I know you are quite laid back on all the social media and entertainment world frenzy and all but you can't say you don't know Brian" she looked at me like I was crazy

"I guess I am more laid back than you thought" I shrugged

"Whaaaaaat?"

She yelled startling me and making me jump while I glared at her and she raised her hand in mock surrender.

"Silv would you keep it down before you give me a heart attack"

"Well am sorry but maybe you deserve one to see the and appreciate the world more clearly" she said nodding her head like she just found a solution to her problems.

"Cathy this people are like everything you look at in the media and entertainment news, their wealth, looks, connection everything. They are like low key royalties. I mean you can't tell me you haven't heard of KR enterprises and groups?" ......(An: to my Korean drama lovers u know what I mean)

"I have I just haven't investigated every family member like you have"

" that's the thing I don't have to investigate them dear Mr Kingston or his wife has to be present for any occasion to be tagged top class, Rebecca their daughter is a top class model and owns the largest fashion industry in the country if not in the world".......she glanced me over..... "well I don't really expect you to know her since you are allergic to anything fashion and don't let me start on my sweet Brian huuuh he's like the country's most eligible bachelor with all those women throwing themselves at him even though he's just twenty not that I blame them though have you seen him?"

"Oh a typical playboy so I guess that's how I might have seen him, maybe on a news paper or something lying around the house cuz my mum is into the entertainment news as well" I said as realization hit me but I felt kind of disappointed and I didn't know why, I just felt it was something else and like there was more to the Kingston's that the world doesn't know of , like there was another story behind it all. Suddenly I felt like the story we were told of all the paintings were just a tip of the iceberg that there were secrets lurking behind it all but I just brushed it off as me being my overly paranoid self again although, since I was little I had this sixth sense to feel when something is not going the way I feel it should go more like I feel this continued hum at the back of my mind. Silv spoke bringing me out of my paranoid thoughts

"At least someone in your house is current and Incase the world is about to end you would know, I swear if not that you looked like your mum I would ask if you where adopted Cathy"

“Ha ha ha, whatever you say Silv let's move to the lunch area so we get our lunch" I dragged Silv with her grumbling about how I need to be more interested in life and how I should live more (roll my eyes )

We had our lunch toured the remaining parts of the galleria which involved more paintings of well known artists, we got to the security section and then we were done. We left the galleria at about 4pm to start our 3hrs journey home. We got to our school ground at about 7:45 and we met our parents waiting to come pick us home.