I look at her while talking to Mizuki.
*Flashback*
I was running to look for Elisha. A shout I heard not too far from my direction. I went in the direction where the voice was coming from.
It's coming from the back of the school. Is that the construction area? I saw Elisha lying down on the floor.
"Do you think you can hide easily?" A man walks forward in her direction.
"Please, leave me alone!" I walk slowly to the man's behind.
I beat his head and waited until he fell to the ground. I went to Elisha.
"Are you okay? Did you get hurt? " She's still looking shocked. She didn't respond to me, instead she hugged me.
"Why are you here?" I offer my hand to her.
"Let's go first before he wakes up." She grabs my hand and I help her stand up.
We walked out of the construction area and went back to the academy.
We had almost reached the Academy condominium building when I saw someone standing behind us. I turned around and saw the man I beat.
He smiles like a psycho.
"Where do you think you're going?" He attacked us. He punched me in the face and kicked me in my stomach.
"Please, Chase, stop! We already broke up. " Wait, he is Elisha's ex-boyfriend. I look at her while Chase is still beating me.
"No, you are mine!" I grabbed his feet. That made him fall to the ground. And I beat him hard.
Suddenly, police came into the academy.
"Raise your hand." I raise my hand and get out of Chase top.
Elisha looked concerned while walking on my way.
"Are you okay?" She held my chin and every side of my face.
"Yup, I'm okay. Don't worry.
She hugged me. She looked up and looked at me. She tipped her toes, almost reaching my face and closer—
"Hey Sky, stop daydreaming. We have a problem," Shawn said, while shaking my body.
I'm back in my senses.
"What?"
"Did you remember Sakiya?" he said. Wait, Sakiya?
'Sakiya, is that the girl from our former school who was Mizuki's friend back then? Why? "
"I heard from one of our former classmates. She will come here. She just got transferred. " He sat in front of me.
"I feel something will happen."
Suddenly, the loud noises of our classmates became quiet.
A girl walked into our room.
"Sakiya?" Shawn and I suddenly said it in shock.
The teacher walked into our classroom.
"Good day, class. We have a new transferee here.
"Please introduce yourself." Ms. Cruz said.
"Good morning, I'm Sakiya Ushiro. You can call me Saki, Kiya, or Aki. Nice to meet you all." She bowed her head.
She looked at us and gave us a smile, then she suddenly turned her head to Miyuki.
"Hi, bestfriend," she said cheerfully.
"Hello," Ms. Cruz greets them.
"Oh, you guys know each other. So you'll be seated behind Ms. Stanford. "
She went behind Mizuki and sat down.
"Okay, class, we all know regarding Mr. and Ms. English for our school. But there are some changes for the event. We still have Mr. and Ms. English in our school. But the winner will be our representative with Mr. and Ms. English Academia. Our school will be participating in the Academia Sports Festival, which will be a week-long festival in the Sylverio Academy along with the other academies. So for this class, we will have a representative for our Mr. and Ms. English. So the nominations are now open."
Sakiya raises her hand.
"Yes, Ms. Ushiro." She stood up.
"I want to nominate Mizuki Stanford to be the representative of Mr. and Ms. English."
"Okay, so is there anyone who wants to nominate?"
Julie suddenly stands up.
"I want to nominate Akisha Montemayor to be the representative for Mr. and Ms. English." They high fived each other.
Akisha's allies are Julie, Thea, and Jane.
"So, is there anyone who wants to nominate?" Ms. Cruz said.
No one raised their hand.
Okay, Sky, please come here in front. You will be the one who counts their votes. So the voting is now open.
I went in front.
"Who votes for Mizuki?" Ms. Cruz said.
I started counting. Mizuki didn't raise her hand.
"Fifteen votes for Mizuki."
"Who voted for Akisha?" I count all Akisha's votes.
"Fifteen votes for Akisha. Tie Ms. "
"Who didn't vote? So we may know who will be our representative.
Gray raises his hand.
"Ms. Cruz, Klint was not here yet."
"Oh, so we will wait for Mr. Nicklaus to come to find out who will win."
"If I am to the others, I will resign and let me be Mr. and Ms. English's representative. Do you think you can win against me? I, Akisha Montemayor, will lose to someone. That got her fame from her father. An ugly swan will always be ugly. I'm the pretty who can win against the other academy. "
Akisha stands up.
"Well, Mizuki can slay it." We all look at the door. It's Klint, who is leaning on the door.
I look at Mizuki, who is now looking at the door without blinking her eyes.
"Mizuki can slay it." She stuns in every way. She's not popular just because her dad is famous. She's popular because of her own beauty and kindness. She has the heart and the intelligence to answer everything. So for me. Mizuki looked at Mizuki.
"She will win the pageant."
"So it's clear that Mr. Nicklaus voted for Mizuki." So Ms. Mizuki Stanford, stand up and you will be the representative of our class in the pageant. So for Mr. English, the nomination is now open. " Akisha flounced to sit in her chair. I raised my hand. Gray, Shawn, and Klint raise their hands.
"I nominated myself as Mr. English representatice." We all said it in choir.
"It looks like a lot of men who admire Mizuki." Ms. Cruz teases us and we laugh.
"Okay, who voted for Shawn Rutherford?" Ms. Cruz counted the number of Shawn votes.
"Okay, six. How about Sky? "
"Eight votes for Sky. How about Gray? "
"Seven votes for Gray." So the rest of the ten votes went to Klint. Klint, please join Mizuki in front. " Klint walked and went to the front.
"For Class A-1, we will have Mr. Klint Nicklaus and Ms. Mizuki Stanford as class representatives for Mr. and Ms. English."
Everyone clapped their hands except Akisha.
"You may sit down." They went back to their prespective chairs.
"Okay class, may I know who has already fallen in love?"
Some of us raise our hands.
"If you fall in love, you can do anything, right?" I just listened to her.
"We can sacrifice everything we have for the person we love. Like the story of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespear. They may not see each other again while they have time to live. At least at the end of the day, even if they both died. They know that they love each other. And no matter what happens, Romeo and Juliet know in their hearts only one person they love the most. " I look at Elisha.
"How about the story of Cupid and Psyche?"
"They got married, right?" Elisha said.
"Yup, they got married. But before they got married, like the other couple, they had problems. Psyche was not allowed to see Cupid. But she disobeyed it. She looked at Cupid one night while he was sleeping. When Cupid found out that his wife already saw him, he'd immediately flee. Psyche was to be with Cupid again. She needs to face all the four challenges to be with Cupid. At this point, all of the couples, including Cupid and Psyche and Romeo and Juliet, are both couples. These are the challenges that make their relationship grow stronger and more bound to each other. If trust was not part of the relationship, it may have destroyed it easily. Like what we have right now trust is really important. In our lesson for today, we will test your trust in each other. Change now into your gym uniform. Trust must be in your group. like what we had in the two stories. I'll group you guys into five groups. Each of the four groups will have six members, while the other two will have seven members. We're going to play thug of war."
"I don't like it; it just gets us sweaty." Akisha said with a stagy voice.
"Ms. Montemayor, did you hear? As I previously stated, you will all be involved in the thug of war. That means you are not exempt from our activity. "
"I don't want to get sweaty!"
"Sorry, Ms. Montemayor, but you will not be participating in the activity." Okay, class, I will tell which team you guys are. "
She got her class list. And call us.
"Okay, so for group one, Mizuki, Gray, Klint, Akisha, Sky, Shawn, and Sakiya. Please go outside and line up alphabetically. "
"Group two: Julie, Thea, Jane, Troy, Echo, Shun." Go outside and fall in line. "
"Group three, Tristan, Faye, Patricia, James, Elisha, and Louiel, fall in line behind group one."
"Group four will be Ehd, Kenneth, Sean, Shainah, Saichi, and Martina, and will fall in line behind group two."
"The last group will be Miguel, Bryll, Roy, Fhill, Ruby, and Blessie. Okay, go to the gymnasium and each leader will be in the front. "
We all went into the gymnasium.
"Okay, so in the first round. Group one vs. Group two. Group three vs. Group four. The person who won in the first round will compete in the next round. While in the third round, The winning team in the second round will compete with group five. "
"Wait? I don't want to be in group one if we have to compete in two rounds while they are chilling on the bench. " Akisha said while stomping her feet.
"Ms. Montemayor!" Ms. Cruz shouts her name.
Shawn's silent laugh behind me Akisha stopped stomping her feet. and look shocked.
"I will tell my dad what you did." She said to get her phone.
"Fine group one will be group five. Group five, change your position to group one. "
"What's that? Favoritism! " Group five is shouting and the others are murmuring about what Ms. Cruz did.
Akisha looks happy while we are on our way to the bleachers. Groups three to five went into the bleachers.
"I feel relieved." She said to sit beside Klint and get her phone. I sat beside Mizuki and she still looked pale.
"Hi Mizuki, I miss you." Sakiya said and looked at Mizuki with a wide smile on her face.
Mizuki looked up at her.
"Hi."
"Oh, why did you like that with your best friend Mizuki? She greeted you nicely, but you look horrible to be her friend." Akisha said and tapped Mizuki's shoulder.
"By the way, I'm Akisha Montemayor." Akisha offered her hand to shake hands.
"I know you. You are a famous model in Korea and a well-known YouTube influencer. I didn't recognize you earlier. " Sakiya said and accepted Akisha's hand.
Mizuki just looked at her. We know why she acts like that.
"Hey, Mizuki! Will you go to the cafe for some drinks? " Elisha extends an offer to Mizuki.
"Let's go." Mizuki grabs Elisha's hand and stands up. They walked out to the gymnasium.
"It looks like your boyfriend has already found a new one. A substitute for you." Akisha spoke to Sakiya.
Klint stood up.
"Gray, come with me?" Klint said and Gray tried to act like Mizuki.
"Let's go," Gray said. We all laugh at him.
"I don't want to waste my time being with someone who is double-faced."
I looked at Shawn and he gave me node. We both walked out of the gymnasium with Klint and Gray.
"What's with her that makes Mizuki bother?" Klint looked at us.
"She was betrayed by Sakiya way back when we were still in the same school."
We got frozen when we saw Mizuki standing in front of us. Looking far away. It was her in the video playing on the screen.
That's the video made when she got drunk and said all the curses that she had on her parents.
Mizuki turns around. She got shocked when she saw us. She ran towards me and Shawn. She hugged us tight.
"Shhh, stop crying, everything will be alright."
It's the same video when it had a part where she almost got raped by Sakiya's boyfriend.
"What's that? Akisha said in a loud voice, "Everyone look at the screen in the hallway."
"Is that you, Mizuki? You are drunk? " Akisha turned her head to Mizuki.
"Class, where is Elisha? Wait, are you okay, Mizuki? " Ms. Cruz said she looked worried for Mizuki.
"Yes, Miss." She said as she wiped her tears.
"Okay, Elisha, your group's turn. Be back after five minutes, so your team will be competing with the group that will win the second round." Ms. Cruz turned around and walked back to the gymnasium.
"Are you okay?"We said.
"Yes I am. Let's go. Shawn, can you buy me some bread and soda in the cafe? " Mizuki said.
Shawn nooded at her and left.
When we get back to the gymnasium, I still look at Mizuki.
Shawn came back from the cafe. It's walking distance from the gymnasium.
"Here, by the way, some of the other schoolmates we had are in the cafe." I found out that our previous school will be competing with Nicklaus Academy for Mr. and Ms. English Academia. Shawn said while opening Mizuki's bottle.
"That's fine, we know Mizuki and Klint still bring home the bacon. They will all be stunned by these two. "
"If I don't have a game. I assure you, Mizuki I will be your Mr. English for that night. " Gray said while flipping his hair. We all chuckled at his joke.
"You smile," he said while pointing to Mizuki.
"I knew it. I could make you smile." He said, while laughing at his own
Klint sat behind Mizuki and got her head and he started massaging it.
"Just relax, we still have time to enjoy. We still have time to defeat them. Klint looked away.
"Okay! group one! You will be competing in Group three. " I look at Elisha. She smiled at me.
We went to our position.
"Ready? Get set! Go!" Ms. Cruz blows her whistle.
"Lay back!" Klint said.
We start laying back while the other team is pulling us.
"Ouch, ahh! Ouch, I hate this! My hands hurt. " Akisha said.
"Just stay laid back!" Klint shouted at her.
"You guys took three steps forward when I said three."
"Three!" Klint said that makes us step forward three steps.
"Pull them!" He yelled.
A few minutes after pulling them
They get laid on the floor.
"Our winning team is... Group Five!" Ms. Cruz said.
We hugged each other and seeing Akisha smile at us made me feel comfortable.
"Guys, go back to your rooms now." Ms. Cruz said we went back to our room.
It was a mess.