As soon as the day broke the night skies, Our team immediately set off to search again in the area where we're all assigned of.
Right now, I am wearing a high school PE uniform and brought a school bag so that I would look like a teenage student. My hair is in high Ponytail while my bangs is still on its position. Any persons who don't know who I am would mistaken me as a tall young teen because of my look.
"Looking good today, Ami?" Thadd called as he saw me in my outfit. He also wore a PE uniform to match mine.
Keio is wearing an elementary school uniform while Benina is wearing a blue dress, looking like a mother of our young mate.
"You look like a lot older than me, Thadd," I told him that made him laugh.
"Dude! How could you?!" he said while laughing. He continued until he reached the kitchen.
Tsk, sarcastic bastard. I know his ego was hurt. Well, whatever.
After we ate our breakfast, Kherst, in his bodyguard uniform, instructed us what to do.
"Ami and Thadd will roam around the high school campus of this academy while Keio will do the elementary. Benina will act as a visitor that was looking for a school that befitted her child. I will be taking a vital part as a bodyguard of this academy near the alley where the Manus gang hides." He then looked at his wristwatch. "Anytime soon, Heins will take us from here since Doc Even is nowhere in sight. Wherever he is, we shall not take heed for a while. We're on a mission, Delta team." And with that, he walked first out of the door followed by Keio then Benina.
Thadd faced me and make faced. "I can'g imagine a twenty-five-year-old woman could look younger than me," he blurted. Can't believe I have this face.
Well, a special sciff with a baby face.
I shot up my right brow and answered, "What can I say? I have a baby face." Then a smirk plastered on my face, making him flinch im annoyance.
He even left before me, ending myself to get the keys of this house to lock its doors. I clicked my tongue then scoffed, this mission unfolds everything that was meant to be hidden.
For one, me being sciff. Then Arem Avec, the woman I affiliated with during my teenage days sneaking into a facility where Shalom—006—had always visited. The same facility where I last saw my father and was removed from my memory.
After locking the door, I placed the key in a box under a pot. This box is so small that only a key could fit in. I then walked out of the gate where my mates waited for 069's arrival.
As soon as Heins' jeep is in sight, we prepared ourselves like passengers. And when it stopped in front of us, we immediately stepped inside.
"Buckle up, folks! We're going to Jose Avenida Academy," Heins spoke before he started the engine and stepped the gas to run the jeep.
While on the road, I practiced my introduction speech since I will have to use another name.
“I am Amelia Fe Asucena, 17, nice to meet you all.”
I practiced and practiced the line so I couldn't forget the name I will be using.
"So cool for us to use different names in this mission!" Thadd expressed, then added, "Thaddeus Cervantes, then call me Deus. Cool, right?"
"Yeah right," Benina countered. "Who would even imagine that your name could be that old? Older than mine," she boasted.
In this mission, Benina is Biena Madrigal, a mother figure to Keio who uses the name, Kavin Madrigal.
Then another episodes of arguments between Benina and Thadd had started again.
"It still felt like we are using our names—real ones," Keio told as he watches the clouds dancing in the sky.
"Well, yes, it's like real ones. But not really." He then smiled at me.
"Ready your hidden communicators," Kherst butted in. "We're about to reach the academy."
I pressed the buttons on the earings I wore and to the button on my necklace.
Keio pressed his earpiece behind his left ear and the button on his school uniform. Thadd only placed his wireless earphones and pressed the buttons on them. Benina pressed the button on her ring and pressed a small earplug onto her left ear.
Kherst had already done with his stuffs since he acts as a bodyguard in the school. He, by the way, uses the name Solomon Figura. Quite near to his real name.
After we got off from a few blocks away from the Academy, Heins immediately drove off to not cause a scene.
"I will go first, next will be Keio and Benina. Then Ami and Thadd will go along with the other students, make sure to not turn off your devices, we're here to gather informations," Kherst instructed before walking out first from our circle.
"This is exciting." Thadd clasped his hands and rubbed them as he smiles eerily on the wind.
"You're weird," Benina commented then turns to me. "Hope we can find Arem as well."
"I'm certain we can find her." She nodded at me before taking Keio's hand to walk out. I then faced Thadd.
"Let's go, we have no more time."
Thadd and I walked together like real siblings. Well, we acted as one. And some people around us instantly shared gossips about us—as new students of this academy.
'New students?' 'odd, it's the middle of the year.' 'Omo! I like that cute guy! Catch me I'm falling!' 'Dude! Hot chit!'
"I can really tell that this school, sucks," I spoke in low-tone that made Thadd to snicker.
"I think every schools are like this," he replied, urging to not laugh at my dilemma. I really hate being the talk of the people. It will make you an instant subject of false tales that fools would really believe because they seemed so true.
"Yeah right, whatever, Thaddeus," I mocked.
"Yeah right, whatever, Amelia," he copied but changed the name to mine.
"What's your section again? I'm in Room XII-B," I spoke. Not getting back at his remarks, arguing with him will cost me much salivas than sweats.
"XII-C here, Today is PE day and I think we must go to our room fast to catch our homeroom adviser." I nodded then we paced fast to reach our rooms.
We're not classmates because Kherst instructed us to do so. When we're placed in one room, it will not be good for us to easily gather what we needed.
Being a twenty-five-year-old as I am who studies again as if I'm about to come to my age, felt surreal and odd. But for the mission, things like this will be normal.
When we reached the hallways where we could find our designated rooms, I bid my farewell to Thadd and walked ahead of him to get into my room. And good thing, classes hasn't started yet and my new classmates are quite not interested of whom entered their rooms.
Some people in this room are very competitive—in playing games on thier phones. Some were sharing gossips, some are sleeping, then playing songs using guitars, then reading books—don't ask me of what they read. But I saw an image of a man in his bare upper torso with flames around him. A typical romance novel cover.
Again, don't ask me, I'm not a fan of those stuffs. I just know them since my co-workers from the company I worked had that kind of book as well.
A few moments later, a man in his early thirties enters the room and instantly smacked the front table with his stick three times. Making the whole room be engulfed with silence in seconds.
"We will have our class now, proceed to the field, class B." Then he left the room to wait outside. Groaning, my new classmates have no choices but to take heed to their instructor—I mean, our instructor.
Sighing in disbelief, I stood from my seat and silently followed last to my classmates.
When I got out of the room, a hand was felt on my shoulders. And out of fear and reflex, I grabbed the arm of the owner of that hand and flipped his body to my front.
"Ow! That hurts!" My eyes went wide when I saw that it was that instructor who entered the room.
"Oh no! I'm so sorry sir, let me help you." I lift him up slowly from the floor. Not minding my classmates' reactions when they witnessed what happened.
"You're strong despite of that age, new student," he spoke as he groaned in pain.
"I wasn't expecting to be tapped by on my shoulder, sir. I'm sorry again," I apologized.
"Nah, doesn't matter! To the field, class!" He claps his hands and walked ahead—slightly limping while rubbing his butt and hips.
My classmates looked at me with surprise plastered on their faces, can't believe they will have a classmate like me.
I looked away and started to walk away from there. Dang, first day in the middle of school year and yet, I flipped an instructor out of my reflexes.
Great, Amelia.