Comeuppance

Chapter 4 - Elimiere

He smiled once again and argh those dimples, omg Cade you are so driving me crazy. Ay jusko, kalami naman lang jung kusniton. (Translation: Oh God how good it is to pinch that face.)

"Okay, let's do it slowly. So what do you wanna know?"

So I started remembering all the things that happened earlier. There are lots of things I really wanna know and now, I really don't even know which one should I ask first.

Ay maybe about him yeah that guy....

"Who was that guy who.. That guy who held the girl's arm earlier in sync with you and that guy who is always with him?"

"That was Xavion Alvarez. Most people address him as "your sovereignty", he is the school president and quite strict and he is practicing tyranny but I must say it is effective, well you know, tyranny doesn't sound right in the human world but in here, anyone who defies him will suffer consequences. He is a Z-Class individual, it's advisable to avoid him and avoid violating school rules. "

So he was the school president and a tyrant? Schools in the fictional world surely hit different. I don't really see anything good with tyranny and I think nothing will ever change my mind but Z-Class what? Individual?

"A Z-Class Individual? What's that?" I asked as I looked at him and waited for an answer.

"Well, let's see.. There are ranks for each person depending on their strength and it does not only apply to school, it applies everywhere in this world as long as you have a proof, everyone when they turn 7 years old will need an ID with their ranks on it. The alphabet is highly involved in this. Letter R to A is like weak to strongest but if you're called Z-Class, you're already beyond of an average strength."

Woah, fictional world really is different. Imagine getting high ranks like that.

"Eh what about you? What's your rank?" I asked.

He took something from his pocket, it was his wallet and then he showed something to me and so I looked at it. 

It was his ID and wow, I can't believe he can still manage to look this good even on an ID picture.

Name: Kipween Cade H. Obregon

Birthdate: **/**/****

Rank: Z-Class Individual

Woah, my eyes widened, unbelievable, I mean it is believable that Cade is a Z-Class Individual, the only unbelievable is that he has a high rank but is friends with someone like me,  but anyways waaaahhhh I am so proud of him. Lahi ra! (Translation: strikes different!)

"How about me? What's my rank?"

"For now, you're an R-Class Individual." he said. Oof, the weakest rank? Huhu. But it's fine! I don't really live here so I don't think there's a need for me to be worried about those ranks.

"It's my turn to ask." My eyes widened when I heard those words from him. Cade knows that hehe I don't have a lot of knowledge about their world that I'm even asking him and if he has questions, I don't think I can answer themmm waahhh.

"What happened last night when you met Xavion? I've heard about it but the person won't tell me in detail."

Ahhhhh. That... heheheh that... I think, I think that was the start of everything. My knee would not hurt like this if only I hadn't done that thing yesterday. But to be honest, I totally have no regrets, he deserved those words, he was morally ill, pretty sure he didn't get taught much, he's even a Z-Class Individual, what's a high rank if you have no morals.

"Eh because.. Those two guys were with a certain girl last night, it was so obvious that the girl was having a hard time carrying all of those stuffs, I swear Cade, if you were there too, I'm sure you would lend a hand as well, those boys even look so strong and healthy and young, so what was the matter? Why couldn't they help their friend? They argh those boys look so manly but they didn't even help her but I just ignored them and so I decided to help the girl myself but then that guy, that silent guy started talking and saying something about it's rude to intrude then he even had the guts to ask something so obvious, he asked the girl if she was having a hard time and I'm like ???what??? I mean ain't it obvious?? So yeah, I just gave him an advice that he should have a common sense and that was it." I said while I was remembering all of those things that happened last night. Like how much does it take to have one? Even someone dumb like me has one, it doesn't hurt to have one!  

"Well, Alvarez is really known to be cruel to his Secretaries, they barely last."

Well yeah obviously! Who would even want to be an assistant of that high level type of devil dude? It's like allowing hell to take over your life :D. And oh, how about that annoying guy who kept teasing me?

"Eh what about the other dude who's always with the President, who was that?"

"That was the Vice President of this school, Chace Amintianus."

I pouted, I just noticed how cold and mean the President look like but it's also how gullible and joker the Vice President look like. It was as if, craziness is all he has and knows in this life.

"He seems rather playful and so people mostly think he's useless for his position but to think that Alvarez had seen something in him that made him chose Chace to be his Vice-president is something everyone can trust."

Yeah, even me, I am a little doubtful about him being the Vice President but wow really, this Xavion, your sovereignty or that President dude must really be this trustworthy that any decision he makes, no matter how doubtful his decision looks, the people still trust it.

Now I know why they are famous and many really were against me but how about that pretty girl who also hurt her knee? She was the one who helped me awhile ago aside from Cade and I will never forget that.

"Ahhhh. How about this Tengukonoshi and Lightning brothers? I am very curious about them because this girl, that Tengukonoshi helped me awhile ago and that lightning brother something, he arrived but I feel like he was so far because I couldn't smell him----"

"What do you mean smell? You can smell people?"

"Uhm yeah, and about that, I also wanna ask about the perfumes that people use here, what brand and so maybe we could also find out what it is made of, it's really consistent, I could easily tell if you're near so yeah about that lightning brother again, I could feel he was far because I couldn't smell him but if you just feel the pressure he's bringing, it was as if, he's only like a few centimeters away.

"Tengukonoshi is their surname. There are four of them. Yumegenchi Tengukonoshi, their youngest, the only girl and she's your classmate too and the triplets---Lightning brothers, Raijenki, Raijenshi, Raijenchi Tengukonoshi. They are called lightning brothers because of their magic element which is lightning. Tengukonoshis are well-known all over the world, aside from being rich, they're also powerful and not just them their whole clan is. " he said and looked at me. I was surprised for a moment because he looked so serious. Are the Tengukonoshis really that something that even Cade looks at me with so much seriousness in his eyes while talking about them?

Confirmed, this is really a fictional world. There's no such thing as powerful, or usually it means something about being rich in human world but in here, when they say powerful they mean something else and when they say rich, it also means you have a lot of money, there's nothing like this in this world, it's only Cade who got lost, should I give him a map? Ehehe joke. Butttt the lightning brothers and Yumegenchi have very cute names, that Yumegenchi girl even looks so pretty and cute at the same time, she reminds me of Lee Min Hoo's fiance in the Korean Drama entitled The Heirs.

"Ahhhh.. So why does the clock have 1-24 hours here?"

I was really so shocked about it awhile ago, during classes, I was so shocked like really shocked, it was my first time seeing a wall clock with 24 numbers.

I noticed his watch and so I took his arm and looked at the time.

18:37 

18:37 is equivalent to 6 PM in the human world but there's no tiny bit of darkness outside and one more thing I like is that it's not so hot in this place and even if there are sunshines that land on your skin, it doesn't hurt at all. 

"There are 48 hours in a day here and oh btw, Lys.." he stood up and I followed him with my eyes and then he opened the cabinet and showed me some clothes.

Wait... these clothes look so familiar.

Oh! Those clothes are the clothes the girls were wearing awhile ago in the school, does this mean Cade got me sets of uniforms? There are 6 pieces of that kind and I noticed that there are 2 other kinds with 2 pieces each design, it contained jogging pants with its pair, a t shirt and shorts that look like a jersey and a sleeveless shirt that it is really a jersey shirt and a dress with the Ninfea University Logo oh so there are 4 types in all. 1st type is the classic school uniform and it really looks like those school uniforms worn in fictional movies ahhh omg that's so cute then the second design, the jogging pants, third design, the jersey then the 4th design, the dress. 

Waaahhh these are so cuteeee. Fictional World surely is beautiful. everything you imagine that you thought could only happen in your imagination can be made real in here. Out of all trips, this is my favorite one.

"You have P.E. Classes tomorrow, don't forget to bring your P.E. Uniforms, the professors are really strict during P.E. Classes. And your schedule, your ID and the rest are in your bag, I would suggest to put your ID card in the pocket of your uniform though."

I looked at the backpack. "This is mine?"

"Yeah, don't tell me you didn't use it?" he said as he went to it and knocked on it as if it was a door.

I frowned but Cade isn't crazy, I gotta trust him.

"Uh yeah I didn't use it because I don't remember owning this bag so I thought you made me use it for fashion purposes ehehe."

"You know this bag talks, it actually talks but I don't know why it's not talking right now."

I was surprised for awhile then I realized I'm in fictional world.

He chuckled. "This is yours, I bought this for you to use it and I even bought more of it to pair with your uniforms, just check it in the bag closet. And you'll be using this condo for awhile since it will be awhile before you can have your own."

"How do we work here?" I asked him since I don't want to depend on him always like this. It's shameful to do so, uniforms, bags, and etc, he bought it all for me plus he's gonna make me live in his condominium-- speaking... 

"And where are you gonna stay?"

"If you're thinking about working, then stop it. I won't let you and don't worry about me. I have a lot of places where I can stay, we are also much richer than you think." he said and then winked.

"I need to work." I said. I will depend on your for now but not all the time, Cade. I don't know what to do but it doesn't mean I'm gonna be dependent forever, I want to work. I don't wanna be a burden.

I saw how his face expression changed, he looked so worried. "It will be hard for you, there are lots of things you don't know about."

"Then teach me. Make me learn, I can't keep depending on you."

"Yes, you should depend on me."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"Why do you keep insisting that I should?"

"Because I was the one who took you in. Let me at least take responsibility."

"I was also the one who agreed to be taken in, you never forced me to."

He sighed. "There's no winning an argument with you. Still, my answer is No. You can't work." he said.

I got speechless and quiet. I just wanna show him that even if I'm like this I can still survive in my life without being dependent on him. I want to show him that I can handle myself and that he doesn't need to worry a lot about me. 

"I'm heading home, wait for the dinner here, I already paid for it."

I feel so down. See? Don't you think it's lame? Even my dinner, he paid for it. Even my dinner, he was the one who paid, how long will I be like this? How long will it be like this? Will it be like this all the time? 

I can't keep living like this. I sighed.

The day after that he fetched me but he was so silent and so I was too. I was supposed to be excited eh. It's my first day wearing school uniform, I literally just noticed that that the shoes here is so fancyyyy. It's a pair of wedge with laces and paired with black knee socks then a skirt that's a little above the knee and it's high waisted with a white inner but it's so little, like Winnie the Pooh's red shirt and a jacket or a coat or what do you call this? And with a belt with a metal logo of the school.

He opened the car and let me in when I---

"Analys, what's the matter?"

I instantly covered my mouth as I feel like... I instantly covered it or else.. I'll end up vomiting in his car... 

"Crap." 

I can barely see anything.. 

"Can you drive a little faster to get to the school quicker?"

"Yes, Sir."

I can only feel the car getting even faster but it still feels like one second is one hour.. I am so dizzy.. I don't understand what I'm feeling.. what's happening..

I feel so... uh.. sick.. my stomach it feels like... I wasn't feeling anything awhile ago.. just now... why.. why is it just now... 

I can't talk.. or move anything.. I feel so paralyzed and weak and never felt so entirely weak in my whole life... I feel like I'll die if I move.. I'll definitely vomit if I move even if it's only an inch.

When we arrived, I went down and surprisingly, I wasn't so sick as I was when I was in the car but still I feel so weak especially that I can't even walk properly because of my knee and this wedge shoes is really making things even more difficult. I can feel all the people's stares at me but I have no time for that right now, I feel so sick but at least I don't feel like vomiting anymore. 

"Lys, I am so sorry. It slipped out of my mind--" he said while guiding me. .

When suddenly a lot of people gathered and I lost Cade. They were all cheering and yelling. I frowned and literally I'm not in the mood for any of this. I feel so sick.

I looked to see where the commotion is coming from. Again, what on earth is happening? 

There are bunch of girls shouting, yelling, they are so wild, what's gotten into them? f**k.

They are fighting over something I think? Like really I'm not in the mood for anything, I feel so sick so instead of intruding, I decided to walk towards my classroom and since I remember how to get there and I have a map.

"Kipweeeennnnnnn andddddd Hellllzaarkkkkkkk!!!" 

"Where's my bias among the three?"

"Who? Elimiere? Uh,  I totally don't get girls who like him or who stan that guy, if we all think about it, Kipween is the one worth stanning for, I mean just look at his Prince Charming figure."

Yeah right, Cade is really the prince charming---but who's Elimiere? He has the same name as someone I know in the human world. 

When I looked at the time, the second period is still a little too away especially that the first subject is vacant so I decided to sit down on one of the benches in the hallway when I noticed someone sat beside me.

"Uninterested?"

Her scent is familiar. Looks like she was that girl who got called "feeling close" yesterday, I looked at her, she might be a fan, she might get me bald on the spot if I tell her I am uninterested.

"Hehe, it's not like that.. I mean I really don't know what's going on."

"Ah by the way, I'm Jahzyra Mayi Rostingdias." she said as she offered her hand. I held it and shook it. "I'm----"

"Analyseana Vanidestin. It got mentioned multiple times yesterday." she said.

I just smiled and nodded. "I wonder what they're doing." I said as I looked at the crowd.

"You don't know what they're doing?" 

I still feel a little dizzy and sick..  "Nope.."

"They're cheering for them, they're yelling, ever seen a fan go crazy for their idol?"

A fan go crazy for their idol? Is Cade.. suddenly everything that happened since yesterday especially the Xavion incident flashed back. Cade is just like him? He's famous.. oh so that's why.. a lot of people were looking at us yesterday.

"But what about you... are you also a fan?" I asked her.

She chuckled. "I'm not too fond of them for real like I'm totally fed up with those jerks."

I got shocked. Does that mean they see each other everyday? So I found that girl! There's always that one or two girls in a fictional story that doesn't really care about those famous guys.

"How are you related to Kip?"

I looked at her. Kip? Does she mean----

"Yes, I meant Kipween Obregon."

Again, I was shocked and now I am shocked again. Maybe, her ability is somewhat related to mind reading. Oh my, she can read my mind?

"We're friends.."

"Just friends?"

"Yes"

"As in, no family relations?" she asked then I nodded.

"So how's your first day? Are you all goods despite the pain our classmates gave you on your first day?"

I again remembered what happened yesterday, I just smiled out of nowhere, it's just that I'm happy to be here on this fictional world even if I am experiencing any antagonist would deserve to experience.

"It's fine, it's only natural that fans react like that if their bias gets treated the way I treated that President guy yesterday." 

"Hmm, oh wow, you seem so understanding haha."

Understanding? I mean ain't it really like that? When you're a big fan of something, if someone tries to spread hate or bash it, it is only natural to react or to get mad because it's your idol and someone's insulting it

I instantly noticed the other commotion at the other side of the building. I caught new scents in my nose.

"Ah let that be, that's just the so called Queen of Bad Girls here, Kiana Girarizo."

Wew. They really hit different, they even have those titles, it's really just like those stories I've read. AI wonder how it feels to be like them? When you're one of those famous mean girls. Very fictional.

"How's your knee? You even got picked on by Mr. Vice-P's fans. I can help you with this, if you permit me."

I turned to her. "You can do anything that you please."

She smiled and then placed her hand above my knee then suddenly her hand glowed, it has a light brown color that's mixed with yellow and green light coming from her hand. Wow, I am really witnessing this right now.

Then suddenly my body feels all better and lighter, it was as if all the pain has been taken away even the dizziness and sickness I felt just a minute ago. I stretched as I am now feeling all better. Oh wow. She's a doctor! She's amazing like really amazing.

"How did you do that? Thank you so much! That was just so cool!"

She smiled. "It's one of my abilities."

"So those girls were actually the guy that's always on the side's fans, I thought it was Your Sovereignty's."

"The guy that's always on the side? Anyways, Your Sovereignty's fans are more sophisticated. They wouldn't act like that knowing the attitude of the President." she said.

Well yeah, that president really has that attitude but anyways, she's still so cool..

"These things just annoy me, it's better in the human world, in the human world, there are no things like this."

I felt my heart skipped a beat when I heard the 'human world'. She shouldn't notice that I'm a human.

"How did you even know about that? we never know, who knows somewhere there, there's something like this too."

"I've been there many times."

I got shocked but I shouldn't let her notice it. But yeah, i wouldn't meet Cade.. But how?

"Is it even allowed?"

She smiled. "Of course, humans of this world can easily go there and survive but mere humans from that world will have a hard time entering here coz once they do, they can no longer go back."

they can no longer go back

My heart beat so fast. Even my eyes widened. They can no longer go back?

"Ahahah, I'm not sure though." she said and scratched her head.

"Oi Jah, you're just here, I've been looking anywhere for you." there's a new girl who arrived, I can tell she's from my class too. I've caught her scent yesterday.

"Oh, it's the transferee. Hello." she said then waved at me. I also waved at her while I was still thinking if I'll really be stuck here forever. What about my papa? My sister? My mama? What about my auntie? My family?

"This is my friend, Sandraoise Macias. We're gonna head to the classroom, do you wanna come along?" asked Ms. Rostingdias.

I just shook my head. "Oh, okay, we'll go ahead then. See you around."

My mind was floating the whole time. Until I heard the bell rang for lunch. Cade didn't even come here, he must be mad because I'm hard headed and stubborn.

Once again, the bell rang for the afternoon subjects to begin but I'm still thinking what if I'm really stuck?

I sighed then decided to go back to my senses when..

Where's everyone?

There is no one else but me, I'm left in the classroom, where did everyone go? Where are my classmates? I heard familiar voices from the ground and so I went and looked from the window and oh my God, they're on the ground.

Hala omg, I instantly went out of the room and because I wasn't so familiar with the place, I got lost.

When I decided to just follow some faint scents of my classmates, that's when I finally made my way there. I was about to slowly just get in the line when---

"YOU!" 

I closed my eyes then looked at the professor.

"COME HERE." I slowly walked towards him and realized they're all wearing P.E. uniforms :D

"You must be one of the transferees. Why are you late? And you're not even wearing the uniform!" he shouted while I was just bowing my head.

"You're the first Class A student to be like this. Why are you even in this class?!"

I just kept looking at the ground. But I think it is a must to speak. "I am sorry, Sir. This will not happen again, I will accept any consequences given." I said.

"Hmmmm.. Call Eli Macias."

I noticed some surprised reactions. What's wrong? I looked at my surroundings, the professor and anything else but there was nothing strange.

"What are you waiting for?! Call him!"

I saw one of my classmates run.

"I want to see what you can do to be so confident that you don't care if you run late and not even wearing your uniform, you think you're special, you want spotlight so I'll give it to you."

I closed my eyes out of embarrassment. It wasn't anything like that. This is really my fault, Cade wouldn't do anything that would harm me. He's not like that so I have to focus on the present.

"He said he doesn't want to come, Sir." 

"Sir, I don't think it's necessary to punish her when it's only her first offense."

"That's exactly why I'm punishing her, Miss Rostingdias because when you don't punish someone properly during its first offense, the tendency that it will repeat is higher. Why? Tell him I'll deduct his grade if he won't."

Huhu I wonder what kind of consequence it is that will show someone's capabilities, my capabilities well in fact I have none. I am sweating a lot, I can literally feel every drop. Why do I have to encounter this in the fictional world?

I caught a new scent or no.. This scent I smelled this awhile ago. The pressure I'm feeling is... scary. I am trembling while looking down. I lifted my head slowly to see where it's coming from and saw a guy with a messed up bowtie, unbuttoned suit and he's not even wearing a coat then the sleeves of his suit are being folded and he is smiling but gives off a different vibe.

He is weird but I am still trembling because of the pressure from him, it's scary, I can't explain it.

"Yo." he said and I noticed that when he got closer, my classmates moved away from him while he was getting closer to us. When he stood beside me, I can feel my whole body trembling, I can't understand, it doesn't seem that he's bringing any weapon but the pressure got really really strong especially now that he's close to me.

"Finally, you got threatened." the professor said.

He was just really smiling but a weird smile that gives off something tricky or bad.

"I know you miss me but never to the extent that you would instantly call me in when I just arrived." he said while smiling.

Oh my, he's that bad boy from fictional stories who isn't scared of any teacher and just making fun of them, he really seem like that.

"And by the way, you can deduct as much as you want, I won't mind, help yourself, old man."

"Professor, call me professor, you really don't have any morals, do you?"

"How many times do I have to ask...." he said and even smiled wider, I saw his face when he lifted it and the sun shone on it.

"...What the hell are morals?" 

I had goosebumps all over me, it's scaring me.

"So what do you want me to do anyway?" he asked.

"I just want you to fight this girl in a physical combat, no magic involved."

My classmates cheered. Am I hearing this right?

Physical combat? I have no knowledge about that. Not even a little bit. Huhuhuhu. He doesn't seem like the type to hold back.

He looked at me. "She looks boring." And I heard them all laugh.

I was just looking down because I have no idea what to do, I said I would accept any consequences but I never knew it was like this.

"But there is no such thing as stopping in a thing called fight." he smiled..

And at that moment, I knew.. I f****d up huhuhuhu.