Harper sat there, digesting every word her grandmother said. It was amazing! This town was amazing! How can this tiny town with less than a half of population of Ardens Creek City be this amazing! Harper had only one word in her mind. Amazing.
"So… Aren't all of you need to make the projects? After all you all are in the senior year." Kary broke her thought process.
"Well, yeah. We all are in the senior grade. Although we are in different majors, we can make a project in a group with whoever we want. Just they should be in the same grade as us. The points should be judged by the amount of work and the subject we choose for research. We haven't found the main subject yet. But looking at these books, I think this is what we were looking for. We also have the noting and practical information." Harper answered in detail.
"Hm. Well, Mr Davis is coming to meet your Grandpa for the dinner. You can ask him if you have any queries. I don't have much knowledge in this area. But I can point out some home garden techniques and other small things." Kary encouraged her while cleaning her spectacled with a cloth and put them in the exquisite box.
Harper smiled as she proceeded to write down her ideas while reading the introduction book.
"Charming." Lana came from the yard as she called out.
She saw two figures sitting in the gazebo while reading and occasionally taking a sip of grape juice. She quickly ran to find out what her best friend had found while they were taking their sweet nap in the noon.
"Here." Harper looked up and yelled back with a wave of her hand. Kary and Harper saw the petite brunette running to them, almost tripping on the way.
"Careful, there. Why are you in hurry? You could have hurt yourself." The redhead scolded her. In response the brunette grinned while showing her cute dimple with her hazel eyes shining, making a heart shape with her hands and spitting out a 'sowwy'.
Harper huffed and tugged her to sit on the couch beside her and started talking. Kary smiled, looking at the girls. How young. Innocent. Carefree.
"How the fu*k did you forget it there?" Her granddaughter spoke up. Innocent.
"Did he misunderstand? Did you explain it to him properly?" Her granddaughter spoke up again. Carefree.
Cough.
Harper and Lana looked in the direction from where the voice came. They both realized that they were not alone. They saw Kary raising a brow. They both glanced at each other and smiled embarrassingly.
"Uh… Grandma. It is not what it sounds like. We are just discussing some life matters." Harper bit out.
"Yeah." Lana added as if to give affirmation.
"Well, I won't invade. But please have mercy on whoever your prey is. Don't play constantly. It makes the interest fade away. Let it have a rest. It rejuvenates the energy." Kary spoke lowly and then turned around to leave the gazebo.
Harper and Lana looked at the elegant old lady walking back to the Manor with their half open mouths and round eyes.
"Did they wake up?" Harper asked Lana as she handed her the manuscript.
"Nope. I ran here straight after I woke up." Lana answered and read through the paper.
"Wow. This looks awesome. We all can contribute out points." Lana looked into the book.
"Doesn't it? We all will have our points. You, Raph and I can have our economics point of views. And Anna and Carter can have their scientific point of views. We just need to make our suggestions and new paper." Harper smiled.
"Yup. By the way, where did you find this?" Lana inquired with curiosity.
Harper proceeded to tell her about her and Carter's discovery. Then she recited what her grandmother told her a while ago.
"This is amazing." Lana was speechless.
"Yeah? I also thought so. Amazing. No other word." The redhead answered.
They never had thought that this will be their first impression for the town. Even before the tour. Then what are they awaiting for the real tour to the town?
They sat there making manuscript for more than two hours.
"Young lady. Miss Dunkeld." Butler Simon came to the entrance of gazebo.
"Yeah, Uncle Simon." Harper answered, being distracted from the book, from which she was giving pointers to Lana.
"What would you like for the dinner?" Butler Simon asked with smile, listening to her address for himself.
"We can manage everything except green pepper." Lana answered for her as she smiled at her knowingly.
"Hm… There you go…" Harper rolled her eyes at her as she replied to Butler Simon's farewell.
Raph got up from the bed and opened the door which was being knocked to the point of screaming for mercy from having fracture.
The blonde barged in knocking Raph's shoulder. The redhead clutched his shoulder and shifted his eyes heavenwards. This was second time, his shoulder was knocked, at the same place, after opening the door.
"Bro… What the hell are you doing? Look at the recent post of the school forum." Seeing his best friend in his own world, the blonde shook Raph's arm to urge him. "Raph, to Earth."
"Someone has posted a thread about Charming. It's problematic. It's about her copying something. I haven't read into it. Just as I woke up I saw the notification and came to you." Carter handed his cellphone to Raph as the redhead frowned and looked into the post.
[Wow! Look at what we found! A top hacker on Stag Oblivion Forum – Fury. How awesome his code hacks are. Even our school's top students copy from this genius. Wonderful.
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-Anonymous]
Raph's brows scrunched up. The pictures were snapshots of the code and outputs of certain top hacker and Harper's submission to the Computer Science project. The poster had made the theory of the codes of both matching in the context. The posted had been posted more than an hour ago. And it had been started spreading on the social media outside the school too. Raph opened the comment section.
[Wow, that trick is genius. As expected of tigers and dragons hiding in the SOF.]
[Yeah. Fury is the best.]
[What a garbage post. Fury is the god. Even genius bow to him.]
[Are we really not gonna talk about that student? What top-student? Can't you raise your own project? Copying from someone else. Is this called the top-student of Monarch Sapphire? If it is, the reputation is in vain. Seriously.]
[Hey… Who are you to talk about our school like that? First take care of your own profile picture.]
[That is just one student. Why are you making objection towards whole school?]
[…]
[…]
The comment section was evidently manipulated after the fourth comment. Even Fury's fans came to rebuke in-between. The students were also involved in this drama. Some even posted the pictures of the Harper. Those were taken from the school website for giving medal or making speech etc. Some were cursing and some were excusing.
Raph closed the section and rubbed his temples. Carter was stunned at this development after reading these together with Raph. He was very well aware that someone was trying to make this difficult for Harper. But, seriously? Could you not get anything else? This?
"Don't tell Charming about this. We will handle this." Raph spoke while ruffling his already bird's nest like hair.
"What? How? Delete the thread?" Carter exclaimed.
"Is there any other option?" Raph asked back.
"And what about outside the forum? There is someone who is constantly building the rhythm. What if, there is another one after this?" Carter spoke up.
"That will be handled after it happens. Now we shall concentrate on this." Raph said. Carter stared at him silently.
"Does she even know this Fury? Who is he?" After a while Raph asked.
Carter looked at him incredulously. The Fu*k? Isn't he Charming's twin? Is he seriously not aware of this? Goodness. He is actually fed up with this situation. Raph was in dilemma of how to take care of this mess and not affect his baby sister. He was not aware of the psychological activity, Carter was going through as he questioned the existence of this situation in the first place.
"Let's talk to Harper. I think she would want to know if something like this happened. You know her, right?" Carter said, gritting his teeth, and rebuke as other tried to intervene.
Raph thought for a while. What his friend said was reasonable. Harper had to know that this happened. What if, someone tried to sow discord after summer vacation? She will feel betrayed. She had to be aware of this, even if he was reluctant.
"Okay. Let's talk to her now. You call Anna. I'll bring Lana. We'll discuss this together. They will be good support to her." Raph made the decision.
Carter hummed while thinking. His friend was so considerate to his sister. And his sister? Spicy chicken.
Anna was sorting her notes on the bed. A knock came. She frowned as her concentration broke. She got up and opened the door and was not surprised to see the urgent Blonde. She had experience in this.
"What did you do now?" Ashe asked while letting him come into the room.
"Shut down the school grading system? Rammed the stock market? Locked down the SOF?" She asked familiarly.
"None. It's not me this time. It's Charming. Something happened. Let's go to her room. Raph is calling Lana." Carter said urgently.
"She should not be in her room. She is in the gazebo. I just received their message. But I had to sort these out. I was just going to go there." Anna stopped Carter.
"Hey. Lana is not in her room. Do you where she is?" Raph came to them as he saw that Lana was absent from her room.
"Yeah. They both are in the gazebo. Let's go and talk there." Anna understood that something must have happened for these two to be so serious.
The three went down the hallways and got through the back yard to the gazebo.