In the light of the harvest moon, and as the party inside the sorority house were in full swing. The five girls who had been silent since the party started simply stayed in the corner, starting to feel bored between all the revelers, which was a perfect mixture of the fangs-who, were the University sportspeople and the Sorority girls.
Their eyes were getting heavy, and they were starting to yawn. They were bored of the loud music and the loud shouts. They were drowsy from the dancing and the laughter. They were tired of the smoke in the air, and the perfume smeared all over each reveler.
When Leira yawned, she stood up and went to the garden, she didn't utter a word of the invite on her friends, but she looked said it all. She was silently suggesting they go out in a more silent and rather private place for them.
The other girls looked at her and nodded their heads, and they followed her, they knew what she was thinking, and they were all in agreement, so they stood up and followed her.
They all walked until they reached an old oak tree, the same one they had stood under when they were told about the sorority. They all stood under it, and they were looking at each other's faces, and they were all silently asking what to do next.
"How about let's play twenty questions?" Dennise said to open up a topic.
"Sounds like a good idea," Zara said, and they all agreed.
Yden thought about it for a moment, and she started to ask questions.
"Leira, what's your full name?" Yden asked to start it all.
Leira smiled, and she said, "Leira Rose Ashford."
"Okay, next," Yden said, and she looked at Leira again.
"Leira, where did you come from?" Yden asked.
Leira smiled, and she said, "I was born in the capital of Scotland." My mother stayed there for vacation until she realized that she was pregnant and can't be able to come back home since her pregnancy is a high-risk case."
"Okay, next," Yden said.
"Leira, what course are you taking now?" Yden asked again.
Leira smiled as she answered. "That is actually one of the secrets I've been hiding with my parents. They didn't have the idea that I shifted to Custom administration. They don't actually know about it. They were expecting that I was studying medicine. Which is I'm not." The group went silent for a moment when Leira got serious with what she thought. They can't imagine as well how she can get through that.
Lying to her parents that way and took her a lot of years of lying. It will take her until she finishes University.
But Ella wanted to break the tension and said. "Okay, I think we should go on with the next question? Or, maybe asked someone else? How about Yden? Anyone wanted to ask Yden."
"Okay," Yden said. She was surprised; anxiousness showed on her face. "Okay, what's your deepest secret?"
Yden stayed silent for a moment, and she looked at their faces. They were all waiting for an answer. She seemed like looking for the best answer to their question.
"You can tell us," Dennise said.
"Yeah, we are all your friends, right?" Leira said.
"Yeah, we won't tell anyone," Ella also said.
Yden looked down, and she said, "I was born in a low-income family, that only source of income is something that's not actually desirable to the eyes of the society? I am?"
The girls moved closer to Yden as she sounds like she needed to spill some detailed information about her life.
Yden, was supposed to be ready and tell her new friends the truth, but somehow, part of her was scared of not being accepted.
"Uhm, my ... parents were farmers. They were not currently in the city, and I was only living here alone and trying. It's actually hard to be here, study and work and." Yden was stopped by Ella's comment.
"Oh, you worked here. I also want to find a job in the meantime that was just near here. Somewhere that just around the periphery of the university. The factory I was working in was just far enough for me to travel back and forth, not to mention risky too, especially during the nighttime." Ella said.
Yden glanced to her right and took a deep breath before she answered. "Actually, I'm working in a call center. I get in at ten in the evening, I had morning classes, so it would be easier for me. However, I know that your classes scheduled were evening. So, It won't be applicable for you, I guess?" Yden, answered with a faint smile, and if only the ladies were keen enough, they would know that she was having a hard time answering that question. That she still has to find words to answer it.
"I see," Ella said, and she looked at Yden, who was still looking down. Yden was shocked. She didn't expect Ella to be that surprised. Her face was full of questions, and her eyes were full of curiosity. It was different compared to the rest of the girls. Her looks screamed suspicion.
That was making Yden uncomfortable and scared. She was worried by how Ella looked at her, 'Why does she look at me like that? Did she knew me?" Yden asked herself, her heart pumped uncomfortably fast compared to usual. However, she didn't want to be too obvious about what she felt. Since she still didn't know what's in Ella's mind, she can pretend and live by what she told them.
She is Yden, a perfectly normal girl. Although she strived for a living, she was doing it in the right way and not with some weird kind of job.
Leira walked closer to Yden, and she said, "You know, we don't care about that, we don't care if you came from a family of Farmers, you're still the Yden who's hard-working and the strong Yden who live her life her way. In fact, I admired farmers. They are the source of our foods right, can't you imagine how important they are?"
Yden smiled, looking over Leira, but she herself knew that she's not worthy for that word nor for that kind of admiration for her family.
'If they only know,' she thought.