Camille toured the whole house.
She saw where the wine cellar is, the botanical laboratory where John works, saw every room of the house, wherein the students sleep. After she woke up, she went down to see the garage and saw many cars piled up, all with different colors and different brands.
Camille was surprised when one of the cars was open and pretended that she was driving it. Camille was astounded that the house was more than she expected. The house was nothing that she imagined. She taught that the house was only a school for witches snd warlocks, with all the academic staff and the weird stuff going on, but she realized that she was liking to be a witch.
Camille thought that it was a bad idea to go to the academy, but this time, she was liking it to be in the academy, and not planning to get out.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." A woman said from her behind, and she gets out of the car.
"Sorry, I was just…seeing…the car." Camille said to the woman, who she thinks the maid of the house.
The maid regarded her and nods. "I hope that you behave yourself in front of the Headmistress and the Supreme. I see that you have your eyes gleamed in diamonds. The students here are living in an extravagant."
"So, I could get a car like the ones parked in this garage?" Camille asks. "What's your name, anyway?"
"The name's Christine, Ma'am," Christine said.
"Oh silly. Don't call me Ma'am, just call me by my name! Camille or Cam. Whatever you prefer. And based on your accent, you're Russian?" Camille said.
"Yes, Ma'am," Christine said.
"Please, call me Camille." She said.
"It's uncomfortable for me to call the guest of the house in his or her name."
"Why is everyone in this house is in love with formality? I mean Jesus!" Camille wailed.
Camille wasn't used to the class in the house, even though she heard someone cussed when they drop something. It wasn't her world, but she'll try to fit in then.
Camille turned around to look at the other cars when a car catches her eyes.
"Oh my God." She gasped, "Chevrolet Camaro! Black and white! I will eat this." She opened the driver's door and have a seat. She was dreaming of having a Camaro for herself.
Wayne goes to the garage to get some Nutella spread and fruits for Meghan. When Christine saw him, she bowed down her head, hiding her faint smile and Wayne saw someone playing in his car.
"Hey!" He shouted.
Camille goes out of the car and moves forward while Wayne says, "What are you doing with my car?"
Camille saw that the guy was very attractive. He has the beautiful brown eyes, the toned muscles, and the hard-line of his mouth. Maybe she could invite him for the night. But the looks of it, he might have it big.
"Sorry for messing with your car. I was just looking," Camille said with a purr and a few dog eyes and seduction in her sight, then she gives her hand to him. "I'm Camille."
Wayne looked at her like she's crazy, which he thinks she is. Wayne goes to his car without regarding Camille and goes to the garage door switch. He goes in his car and gets in until he drives away.
Camille just watched Wayne driving away. She was ignored. She was not being snob buy every boy and girls she tries to get into with. For the first time, she felt lame.
"Did-did you see that asshole? He ignored me. He fucking ignored me!" Camille said in irritation.
"Maybe something's going on his mind-"
"Or maybe I think you should shut the hell up." Camille bashed to Christine.
Clementine goes into the garage with Ander behind her, dressed in her black dress and a hat on her head.
"Christine, I need you to come with me to my father's grave," Clementine said, a Hermes bag clutched on her arms. "Get the car ready now, Ander, or we'll be chased by the rain. The cloud's dark."
"You're going to dad's grave? I want to see it"
Clementine did not answer her, instead, she opened the door of her Subaru, and left it open because she's fixing things. Ander and Christine are opening the passenger's door, preparing other things to go to the grave.
They, especially Clementine, were keeping her from seeing even her dad's grave. It was unfair but just any illegitimate children, the real child had the right to wipe off any excess dirt that blocks their way.
While Camille is watching them, she heard someone say, "Are you a new student?" She turned around and see another attractive man. Must be my lucky day. This one has the sapphire eyes, wears eyeglasses and he's lean not like the one who ignored her.
"Yeah, you've been here?" Camille said.
"If you mean I've been a student here for long, then yes." The man said and gives her a grin.
"You must be like a geek? The one who owns the Camaro is the jock and I'm the stripper, so to speak the stereotype."
The man laughs, "Basically yeah. Oh forgive my manners, I'm John Harding and the one that's you calling a jock, he might be Wayne."
"Camille Anderson, Lewis' daughter. Not too shabby." She smiled.
"I know. I kind of went through your files after the day you came here." John said.
"My God, I didn't think that it's boring here," Camille said.
"You want to go with me tonight? I'm going to watch a race in Spain. Just to cool off and be out of the academy."
"Oh! And what time's the flight?" Please tell me you're looking for a business class seat, not some shit economy style.
"No need for a flight. I can teleport us both, and that's for free." John said, and Clementine heard this.
"What did you say? Teleportation? It's your metaphor of getting a first-class seat in an airplane, right?"
"Oh no, Miss Clementine. I tried to test myself last night about what else I can do." John said and tells the story to the people in the garage how he manifested teleportation.
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Hungary
England
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Switzerland
Afghanistan
Finland
Austria
Korea, north, and south
Egypt
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"So warlock, you mean to say that you went to those countries when you learned that you manifested Teleportation?"
"Norway, Iceland, India, China, and even the Philippines. Yes, I have manifested it by just reading the books, Miss Clementine." John said.
"That explains the white sands on the hallway, Miss Clementine." And the dried mangoes that Christine stole from John's cabinet.
Clementine is wide eyes with John. Two more from the Acts of Principle and he could be the next Lord. He's growing more and more powerful, that's what they know about him.
"So, are you in for Spain?" John asks Camille!
"Hell yeah, and finally! Someone, to hang out with, not unlike some cunt here who can't even invite me to the town of the dead," she pertains to Clementine gave her a sharp look. "
"Who else is joining us?" Camille asks John.
"I tried to invite Wayne, Meghan, and Aria but they said no."
"How about Jean?"
"Err, You can ask her," John said. John didn't want Jean to join him in all his escapades, not that especially he got a girl to join him.
"Okay then, if you don't want to invite her then we can go there together."
"Hold up you two," Clementine said to John and Camille. "You two are not going anywhere around the world."
"Screw you, bitch. We're going to España." Camille said.
"No! Do you want to see your father's grave? You're coming with me, but you changed. I don't wanna be with someone looking like they came from a trailer." To John, Clementine says, "and you warlock, you're coming with me as well."
As John's respect to the headmistress, he followed while Camille watched how her sister commands Ander to get the limo instead.
All the while Camille was talking to John, she felt something from him. It's not the spark that people tell whether they're starting to fall in love. It's not a spark of power as well, but something that is out of this world. She cannot even describe the feeling.
All she knows that people in this institute are interesting. Especially John.
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Wayne was back from the mini grocery store.
He got himself a Nutella spread and a loaf of bread for him and some fruits for Meghan. When he got into his room, he hears the shower running.
"Meghan, I have some fruits and bread here." He announces.
He was taking care of Meghan for a while now. When he learned that she was fine, he felt fine like her. But then after Meghan's recovery, she got a little bit cold.
Also, John, even though he was invited to watch a car show somewhere; what's going through his head is that why is everyone changing? He has to take care of Meghan, but then he wanted for her and himself to be safe. These days, you won't even know where your enemies could appear from.
Meghan got out from the bathroom, a white towel wrapped around her body, and her hair still wet. Wayne got to look at her legs and then looked away. Meghan too didn't see Wayne and was about to unwrap herself when she saw him and backs from him.
"I'm sorry, I'll get out and allow you to dress," Wayne says as he goes to the door.
"No, it's fine Wayne. Sit down but still, turn around."
Wayne took a seat on the bed, not facing Meghan and he hears a fall of the towel on the floor. He remembers the dream when he saw her beautiful body.
It would be rude for Meghan if he was drooling for her body, but then her smooth skin…
Meghan was fast. She wears her undergarments, shirt, and pants almost immediately. Meghan's hair was still wet but she was trying to dry it with the towel. "You can look now." She said.
"There's some apples and salad I bought from the mini grocery." He says as he stands and goes to Meghan. "You can have some Nutella if you want."
Meghan sits on the bed as she rummaged through the paper bags, "You bought Nutella spread?"
"I thought you might like one," Wayne said.
Meghan fishes out an apple and a loaf of bread and puts it on the bed. Wayne just watches her eating all the food she eats. It was the first he saw her eat a lot. Meghan looks at him with her mouth full.
Meghan catches his eyes and got a little bit of conscious that she was eating like a pig and she hadn't offered him food. She then swallowed.
"I'm sorry. I didn't offer you anything."
He laughs, "It's fine, I like you watching eat."
"Don't say that. I feel like performing a freak show. The girl who eats lots. Yeah, that would be my name when I join the circus." She jokes.
That would be a fun show. You're in it. Can I ask you something?"
Meghan looks at him.
"I don't know if I asked you this, but how was your stay here? I mean, being a student, which never happens because we don't necessarily do what normal schools do." Wayne said.
"My granddad died when I got here, learned that Percy wasn't what he is like, got shot at the back two times, and I almost died." And saw a hot guy, and I'm talking to him right now.
Of course, she didn't say that. "Yeah, my stay here is…" She takes a bite of bread with a Nutella spread on it, "Nice." Meghan said with her mouth full.
"So when did you enrolled here?" Meghan asked.
"I didn't. I stayed here not too long ago. The Lord saw me when I did some tricks."
"Granddad? Did he saw you where? What powers did he witness you used?" Meghan said.
"I stopped everything at that time. And it wasn't in a compromising place. Don't ask please." Wayne then thought of something and leaned, "How about you? There must be a power in you that you used when you got here?"
It was the question she evaded for a short time she stayed in the academy. Wayne was, by her decision, one of the people she trusts in the house. Clementine only knows what powers she had to get in here.
"Hey, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to," he says as he touches her hand.
Meghan gasped. Gasped like a shocked gasp.
And she was seeing things.
She saw a man falling from the balcony. Wayne screaming, stopping the man from falling when he was too late. Wayne wet from the rain falling from the very very dark clouds. It was all disturbing and shaky.
And the vision stopped.
"Meghan, are you okay?" Wayne said the worry was in his voice.
Meghan looked at him. She looked through his eyes, his beautiful eyes, "You witnessed it."
"Wha-what are you talking about? Meghan, what is it?" Wayne said.
"You witnessed granddad's suicidal attempt," Meghan said.
Wayne was astounded by what she said. How did she know? He only knew that himself. He didn't tell anyone that he saw Lewis jumping from the balcony, not even Clementine. He just kept it to himself.
"How did you know? Is that what you saw?" Wayne asked Meghan.
Meghan said, "I-yes. It was the first time I saw a vision, and I should also tell you this."
"Tell me? About what?" Wayne was confused.
"Yes, you saw granddad committed suicide. But he was murdered."
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Clementine puts the flowers on her father's grave while Camile's beside her.
The sky was dark and it starts to rain. She was holding an umbrella and covered herself. Ander and Christine were waiting for her in the car, whilst John is behind the two women. It will only take a minute for her to talk to her dad again.
She cannot though remember when's the last time she talked to her dad, a real father, and daughter conversation, so to speak. She cannot even remember the face of her dad now. Except what is etched on the portrait hanging at the fireplace in the academy.
She visited her father's grave so that she could talk about anything that comes to her mind. Talk about her life, her confusion on whether she would forgive Rob from all he had done, and taking care of the students in the academy.
She was fine though.
"Here lies the best person I knew my whole life, Camille."
Camille was surprised by Clementine's regard to her. Since she came into the house, she has never heard her name from Clementine's mouth. She also made her dress something better that does not show her legs and covers her arms. The two of them look at their father's grave.
"Get in the umbrella. You'll get yourself in pneumonia or Rob's going to kill me if you got sick." Clementine said.
Camille scoffs, "come on. I've been doing fine even without that man who's six feet under now." But she joins in Clementine's umbrella anyway. Somehow, Camille has this question in her mind which she said to her, "would you imagine though if Lewis introduced me to your family, would it be so much better than this? Would you think that he'll be happy seeing us, his children, to be in a room together, chanting spells like Abracadabra and shit?"
Clementine softly laughs. "You know what? I am thinking the same too, and that is what we can ask him now." To the grave, she says, "Dad. What do you think of us together?"
Camille tries to mimic Lewis's voice to answer, "it will be shithole in the academy, Clementine."
Clementine then laughs, loudly enough that John can hear it behind them. "You got some humor yourself, you know?"
"Blame it on Big Bang Theory. Though, I don't have that kind of smart language." Camille said. "Do you find it hard though to believe that Lewis killed himself?"
Clementine questions this herself. When they learned that her father's body was found from his terrace, she doesn't actually know the reason why he would that kind of thing. Remorse perhaps after the death of her mother?
"What I believe is that maybe he's in peace. With my mother, I think. What I also believe is that your father is the greatest Lord, even though sometimes I lived in his shadows when I was a teenager." Clementine confessed to Camille, that she never said to anyone, not even to her ex-husband.
"You know what? Why don't I give you two one on one talk?" Clementine said.
"To what? To this grave?" Camille said.
"Just hold the umbrella and I'll be back. Just need to talk to one of your eye-candy as of the moment, or my student rather." Clementine said and gives out the umbrella to Camille and walked behind her to talk to John.
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John was lighting his cigarette when Clementine walks to her.
"Warlock. Now I know that you have the brain of curiosity, and I really understand that you like to experiment with things on your own. But we need to keep these things first to Rob. The last time I want to see is having testosterone battles for the position." Clementine explained to John.
John understood where Clementine is going at, "but that isn't going to stop me wandering with my capacities to become the next Lord of the academy, Miss Clem."
"I know dear. But we need to make time for this. But fine, if you like to know what are the powers from the Acts of Principles that you can manifest, then do so, but discreetly. Are we clear?"
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Camille was just staring at the grave of her father that she never knew and saw someone drops a basket of flowers on it. She looks at the man that her sister could know. "Are you a friend."
The man didn't regard Camille's question and just stared at Lewis's grave.
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Clementine and John saw Camille with a man beside her. She then goes back to Camille to see who the man is.
"Excuse me? Yoohoo? Are you a friend or some creep that just leaves flowers to my father's-" Camille continues to ask the man when Clementine stops her.
"Let me handle this, Camille. Go back to the limo first." She commands Camille to which she follows.
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Camille walks with the umbrella from the grave near the road where the car is until she senses something else, then she looked everywhere for something. She senses something.
John looks weirdly at Camille when she starts searching for something around the place, which made him look around too.
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Clementine asks the man who he was while Camille is near her.
"I've been waiting for you to get here, Mrs. York." The man said.
Clementine looks around and crossed her arms in front of the man. "Well, everyone was waiting for me ever since. What brings you here?"
"When I tell you this, you won't go to see me again. I was just finding a chance to talk to you because I'm being hunted down." The man said.
Clementine's eyes furrowed in confusion. What was he talking about? "Excuse me? What are you talking about? What do you want to tell me?"
"I am the appointed embalmer of your dad. Actually I was appointed by your dad." The man said.
"Alright. So why are you telling me this?" Clementine said.
"Because I discovered something when I was cleaning off your father's body. When I opened it, there was something inside. The color of his stomach and his intestines had changed. Like something was put in his body."
Clementine wanted to ask more, "What do you mean like something was put in his body?"
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Camille and John look around and felt a sense of danger around them. John goes to his headmistress to warn her.
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"The color of organ changes whenever the person drinks something. Your father must've drunk something and it may have killed him.
"What are you saying? My father was poisoned?" Clementine said, almost cannot believe what she's hearing.
"Yes, I believe so." The man said.
When Clementine was talking to Camille a while ago, her thoughts went to that night where her father committed suicide, but not realizing that it could have been something else. Is there a danger inside the academy?
"He may have been poisoned with something that any living person couldn't handle. I could not tell what is, but it's something that is made from some ingredients inside the house, and I know how witch you can do with some potions or poisons." Clementine got surprised by the man's admittance that he know what kind they are. "What I think is that someone inside your academy made it looked like he committed suicide. He was drinking a lot, so someone must've put something on one of her father's liquors." The man continues.
And she knows a student that has the potential to do it.
Her eyes went to John, and he's walking right to her.
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Camille saw a car moving around, then sees an assault rifle flash out the car window. Then she tries her best to go back to Clementine to warn her.
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Then blood splattered all over her face. The man falls on the ground, having a hole of shot on his head. All of the witches and warlock heard another shot and the women screamed as they covered herself with the gravestones, trying to go back to her car. It only took a short while until when she heard the car ran away. She didn't wait and run as fast as she could to the limo.
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All the bullets she heard made her go back to the time it was darkest for her. She saw Clementine ran past her but goes back to her to take them all back to the car.
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John tried his best to fetch the woman, but to no avail, he drops the same time the women did. And when the car run away, he stood to help his Miss Clementine get Camille together back to the limo.
Christine went out of the car but Clementine shouted, "Get in the car! There's someone onto us." They all got in and tell Ander to drive as fast as he could.
Beside her is Camille lying on her shoulders, flabbergasted with what happened a while ago. This is serious, and there should be something done.
"Are you alright, Miss Clementine?" John asked.
She can't believe the question she's hearing from her student.
"We're fine," She answered John. To Ander, she says, "Get us back to the academy. Quick!" And feels the speed of the limo running around the streets of New Orleans.
She now questions her sanity, her knowledge, and then what's happened a while ago. Could it be?
Could it really be?
She knows that this student was very great at working in the academy. He has the skills of potion craft, memorizing spells, and making new inventions. Clementine has seen a potential that he has the makings to be the next Lord of the academy. But then she has been fooled once again. Maybe he wanted the position immediately for himself, the reason why he's learning all the skills from the Acts of Principles.
Or maybe she's just wrong. Or maybe she's right.
Or maybe John Harding, the person in front of her, killed her father.
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Murder.
It's such a dirty word.
How come murder became a beautiful thing in the academy?
So much has happened and everything was starting to fall into pieces.
What secrets will be revealed in the next chapter?
Will they overcome all of these, come back and find out who is the next Lorde?
We'll see.