"it's Alejandre Lopez" he said staring intensely into her eyes.
Adria couldn't help but admire his molten grey eyes as they looked in hers. Once again that feeling of familiarity rose within her and it had her doubting if she knew him. Andre turned to focus on the teacher while Adria was lost in thoughts. She kept wondering where she knew those grey eyes from because she could no longer deny her feeling of being familiar with him.
When the class ended, she arranged her books and decided to engage him in a conversation to know him better but he was already out of the class by the time she looked up. She decided to follow him and maybe ask him where he was from hoping to get a clue about it they had crossed paths.
Outside the classroom she saw him rounding the corner, she followed him and saw he entered the class where they were having their next lesson and went in after him. The classroom was empty except for the both of them. Turning to face him she saw him already staring at her, and as usual her heart didn't miss the chance to skip beats.
"Already obsessed with me miss Wilhelm?" he asked with a smirk playing on his face which made him look dangerously handsome.
Adria's thoughts were along the line that him being this handsome should be a felony, but when her brain fully comprehended his words, she frowned.
"I'm not obsessed with you." She stated.
"Really, because the stares you gave me in class and you following me here states otherwise." He replied, teasing her.
Adria face turned a little red realizing that he caught her and him seeing that made his smirk stretch further.
"I was only staring at you because you are new here and I didn't follow you here, this is the next class I'm having." She said not fully comprehending the words that flew out of her mouth in order to not prove him right.
"Right...so what you are saying is that you stare at every new student."
Adria felt like face palming her self when she realized what she said. Her face turned beet red when she realized how dumb it sounded, seriously of all the things she could say she just had to say that.
"So why did you follow me miss Wilhelm?" he asked deciding to stop teasing her and go straight to the point, he no longer had the smirk on his face.
"I...." She thought of how to phrase it so it wouldn't sound suspicious but decided to just say it like that. "Where did you transfer from?"
"Why are you asking?" He said not answering the question.
"Just answer it." Adria really wanted...no, needed to know where he was from.
"Not until you tell me why." He replied, not giving into her quest to knowing where he's from.
She decided to go with the truth, "fine, I'm asking because you seem familiar and I wanted to know if we've met before. Now answer the question."
Adria saw a look flash across his face when she mentioned that he seemed familiar but she didn't know what that look meant. He didn't look like he was going to answer her.
She was already getting frustrated with him not giving her the answer she needed. She was about to remind him about the question she asked when the bell rang and students started trooping in. She headed to her seat and tried her best not to look in his direction as it seems he knew when she always did, but she sometimes felt his gaze on her being.
The class ended and the teacher left. She was about to turn to Andre so she could get her answer when someone called her name instead. Turning to face the person, she saw it was another new student.
"You are Adria, right." The girl standing in front of her with a bright smile asked. All Adria did was nod.
"Great, my name's jade and I'm new here. I was told that you are very smart and really good in mathematics calculations." Jade said.
Adria still didn't say a word, when jade realized that she wasn't going to say anything, she continued.
"Anyway I came to meet you because I'm in desperate need of a tutor. You see I'm actually a scholarship student, not that my parents don't have money to pay it's just that my dad wanted me to work hard so he made me apply for the scholarship, so I passed but I have to take my maths exam again because I missed it but because I excelled in other subject they gave me the scholarship but they rescheduled the maths exam in a month and I have to take it again but the thing is that I'm not very good in maths that why I approached you hoping you would be able to tutor me and... I'm probably rambling right now." Jade smiled sheepishly.
Adria just looked at her, wondering how she got all that sentence out in one breath.
"I'm not normally this talkative, I just tend to talk too much whenever I'm stressed, nervous and excited. But you don't have to worry I promise I will try to control talking too much so that I would be able to learn from you but that is if you accept but I really hope you accept because I can't afford to fail this exam because then my dad would be disappointed in me and I don't want him to be disappointed I want him to be proud of me and I'm probably rambling again." She sighed.
Adria still didn't say anything but she has a small smile on her face because the girls character amused her. Jade was feeling a bit embarrassed and decided to walk away when she heard her name.
"You said your name was jade right." Adria asked waiting for confirmation from her. Jade was about to say something but decided against it and just nodded.
"Okay, meet me after school in the library." Adria said gathering her books together.
Jade had a confused look on her face, "why?"
Adria looked at her with a face saying are you serious.
"For our first maths lesson of course." She replied, still smiling at jade's amusing personality.
"Omg, thank you, thank you, thank you, you have no idea how much this means to me." Jade said happily, looking like she could jump around if not that there were people in the class so she had to hold herself.
"I think I do, remember you told me, about not wanting to disappoint your dad."
"Oh yeah I said that, I guess you do know how much this means to me. Uhm, I know that I promised to try not to talk too much but I want you to know that you can tell me anytime I'm rambling or talking too much because it's something that I can't really control but believe me I'm trying, I've actually been reading about what I can do to stop talking...."
"Jade, you are rambling right now." Adria said placing her hand on her shoulder.
"Oops, sorry. Right my lips are sealed." She said placing her thumb and index finger together, while she made the motion of zipping her lips.
"Remember, after school, the library." Adria said heading towards the door. She heard jade mutter thank you, she just nodded and left. She thought jade's character was cute and amusing.
She headed to her next class, hoping that Andre was there alone so that she could get her answer but when she got there, the class was empty with no sign of Andre. For the rest of the day there was no sign of Andre. She wasn't the only one who took notice as she heard girls talking about his absence from class and some speculating that he was the type to ditch school for the rest of the day, having that bad boy vibes.
Adria heard this but decided to ignore those thoughts, basing her thinking that maybe there was an emergency that urgently required his attention and that was why he had to leave. With that thought she went and met jade at the library for her first lesson.
When they were done, she headed to her car and started the drive home. While she was driving, her mind went back to the time he had said his name, "it's Alejandre Lopez". Suddenly a memory popped in her head, he said his name was Lopez. She remembered back when her father was still alive, she would often go into his study to watch him work as she admired the way he signed documents and made money making offers to people he wanted a partnership with.
She remembered one time seeing a file with the name Lopez on it and when she wanted to open it her father came into the room, took the file away and kept it in his safe. When she asked him why he didn't want her to read it since he always allowed read others before, his reply was that it was a special file and she wouldn't understand. This was months before their death. She decided to check the safe when she gets home to know if the file would still be there, she had a feeling that it was related to Alejandre.
When she got home, she went straight to her father's study and opened the safe, and just like she guessed the file was still there. She opened the first page and read through it. It was about a man named Dante.
Name: Dante Lopez
Wife's name: Maria Lopez
Children's name: Larissa Lopez (female)
Alejandre Lopez (male)
When Adria saw Alejandre's name she paused a bit but continued reading. She found out that Andre's father owned a chain of hotel around the world but she knew her father didn't invest in any hotel project so she wondered why he had his file.
Reading further she noticed that it wasn't just a plain file because watching her father work she knew how he composed documents and files and this was different. She remembered one line her father always loved saying, "mi hija ( my daughter), you see the truth isn't always as it seems, the web of lies is woven with threads of Truth." She didn't really understand what he meant by that, but looking at the file in her hands, she understood what her father meant.
Realizing that the file was just actually a cover up but instead a method of passing a secret message, she spent hours deciphering what it actually meant. And when she was done, she was shocked and confusing because the message seemed to only provide more questions instead of answers, it read:
"Years and years of secrets buried. The time has come for all truth to be revealed.
The Omerta Alliance must rise from it's ashes, hidden no more, we fight the battle head on.
Signed: Wilhelm and kaiser."