Ryan and his brothers walked into their classroom and we're welcomed by the crazy shrieks of excited girls.
"They looked so handsome!" A girl said dreamily.
Ryan settled in the back seat alongside his brothers in their respective seats. The noise only died down when their teacher; Mrs. Rose, walked in with a stern look on her face.
"I'm glad I didn't have to send someone to the principal's office for you all to quiet down," Rose said.
"That's the only thing you could do," a girl said and everyone burst into laughter.
"Principal's office. Now!" The teacher said,
"Whatever" The girl left the class without a fight.
"We have new students amongst us. They are cousins and would be joining us today" Rose said, waving to the new students to walk in.
Simi, Lauren, Naomi, and Kat walked into the classroom quietly.
"Please introduce yourselves to the class" Rise said.
"They'll figure out our names later," Karen said, rolling her eyes.
"We just need seats for now, " Simi said politely.
Rose looked stunned and started at how polite Simi was. She had never been addressed with such a tone and yet seemed polite.
"Of course. There are enough empty seats to go around" Rose said, smiling at Simi.
Lauren walked past and settled in a seat beside the wall and was unfortunately close to Jason.
"Just great!" She muttered, staring out the window.
Simi found her way to the back and found herself sitting beside Ryan who had his headphones on and his head leaning on the wall.
He looked peaceful.
"Stop staring, '' Ryan said without looking at her
She was taken aback.
"I'm sorry" She apologised.
"Seeing we're all settled. Let's make sure to help the girls around and be good students. Okay?" Rose said.
"Yes, Mrs. Rose" they chorused.
"Your next teacher will be here soon" Rose took her to leave.
The class became noisy again and paper planes were flying here and there.Simi was uncomfortable as the cold aura she was getting was intense. It was like the girls were darting daggers at her for seating beside Ryan.
This wasn't helping her first-day impression and not aiding her low-profile code.
A teacher soon walked in and classes commenced. Simi was more than glad for the distraction and the class lasted for hours.
Finally, it was lunchtime and everyone headed out towards the cafeteria. Some girls walked towards Simi glaring as they stopped right in front of Simi's table.
Ryan stood up and walked out of the class not glancing at Simi once.
He was the coldest person she had ever met! He didn't wait to see if she was okay.
He didn't owe her that. But still!
"Why are you sitting next to Ryan? Are you blind to the other seats in the class?" The prettiest girl in the group : Sonny asked.
Simi looked puzzled
"It was an empty seat?" Simi said as though they were crazy.
"Are you dumb or you don't just get it?" Sonny asked. "No one is allowed to sit beside Ryan," she said.
"Are you his girlfriend? If you're not, you really should go sit somewhere. Save that energy for something better" Simi said smiling
"Don't you girls think you need to observe lunch? You look breakable. It's highly depressing" Lauren said as Kat and Naomi approached Simi's seat.
"And how is that a comeback?" Sonny asked, laughing at Lauren's attempt.
"It wouldn't take me two minutes to restructure all the bones in your face with my fist darling." Lauren said, approaching her with her most intimidating stare.
"You…." Sonny stepped back in fear
"Get lost. Princess. Go pass your orders somewhere else" Lauren said.
"You've been blacklisted. Just know that" Sonny threatened.
"Come on Sonny" Winnie pulled her bestfriend away from the obvious looking weirdos.
"You didn't have to," Simi cautioned as she cleared her table.
"Sorry, team mate instincts" Lauren said.
Simi glanced at Ryan's seat and sighed; her mission is a total jerkface which works for her since she wouldn't have to talk to him.
"Are we having lunch or not?" Naomi asked
"Come on"
They all head towards the cafeteria, walking side by side and calling attention to themselves. The squad were really pretty girls and their uniforms seemed to do more Justice to that.
The princes were approaching from the other side of the hallway, walking side by side too.
"This is not the first day I planned" Kat muttered anxiously
"Just ignore them," Lauren said, staring at Jason with lack of interest.
"How is that possible when we are about to intrude each other's way forward?!" Kat reasoned.
"We'll walk in between each person then" Lauren said.
"And we stay far away from them and keep a low key profile. Deal?" Simi asked.
"I don't like my mission anyways," Lauren muttered.
The squad didn't stop approaching and every eye was on them as the distance between them closes.The princes pulled a stop but the girls approached anyways.
"Just ignore them. Like they weren't even there" Simi said as though trying to soothe herself from Ryan's cold stare.
The girls walked past the boys and onward without looking back at them.
They had lunch to get to.
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The girls settled on a seat back in the cafeteria. It was packed with half the school's population with different groups on different seats. The cheerleaders were on a different seat as well as the popular kids. Different people, different clicks.The girls sat far away from the rest and away from all the noise.
"I'm sure Mia won't be happy to hear our update on today, '' Kat said wryly.
"Who cares about the old hag? All she ever does is make our job look simpler than it really is" Lauren reasoned.
"I think the less we stay together, the better for the mission. We might have to move to different home rooms and hang around each other less" Simi reasoned.
"We can't be far away from the princes since they are our focus anyway" Kat said
"True. What we need to do is stick around each other less" Simi took a bite of her sandwich only to spit them out on a napkin.
"Tastes like sand," Kat muttered as she stared at her plate in disgust.
"Thanks for the heads up" Laure pushed her plate away.
"Nine o'clock. Mark " Simi said.
Just when they decided to keep a low profile....