The Nerd's Payback: Rise of the Archangels

Archangel 7: Sera

" Bragga," 

" Yes, Senator?"

" Don't you think something's not right?"

" Umm, pardon, Sir?"

The Senator stood from his swivel chair and walked back and forth in front of his secretary. He's confused, nervous at the same time. It's been weeks since he have heard that his daughter is bullying the one and only daughter of the great Ezio Vezalius, yet up until now, nothing suspicious is happening to his daughter. He should be relieved, yes, but knowing Ezio? Something is up..

" Ezio's not like this," He stopped in front of the huge glass wall and stared at the neighboring buildings. " May namatay na ba sa mga tauhan mo?"

Naguguluhan man ay piniling sumagot ni Bragga. " No, Senator. Lahat pa naman po ay buhay pa, maliban nalang sa mga pinadala niyo kagabi sa transaction site." 

" Magpadala ka ng mga tauhan para bumisita sa Elysian," The Senator ordered.

" May I know why, Sir? Kulang pa po ba ang nagbabantay kay Ms. Davina?" 

" I want to know something. Algo es sospechoso, Bragga." 

Elle's POV

" Mind explaining what you just did in the canteen, Ms. Auditore?" Ms. Alona, our Guidance Counselor asked Georgina, Alas' sister. It's been a month since she transferred here and I don't know why, but she loves bullying me. 

I was walking to our table from the counter in the canteen when she tripped me. I was holding a plate of carbonara that time so when I tripped, I accidentally spilled it to her. She was so furious that she grabbed my hair and slapped me twice. While she was doing that, I was barely holding it. I was trying to calm down but of course my patience has its own limit as well, good thing Alas already came and calmed her sister down before I get to punch the f**k out of her.  

It's not like I don't get fed up with their bullying, okay?!

" She threw her food on me!" My brows furrowed because of her answer. Why would I even throw my food at her? I was damn hungry that time!

" Honest answer, Ms. Auditore." Ms. Alona sighed. Of course she will know that this young lady's just lying, CCTV's are all over the campus and that includes the canteen!  " You leave me no choice, Ms. Auditore. I'll have to punish you according to how severe your actions were." 

Oh, so they actually punish these bullies? No wonder Davina and Yvette are out of touch lately.. 

" But Miss--" Georgina tried to whine but Ms. Alona cut her off immediately. 

"  You must clean the women's comfort room beside the canteen for 3 days. Absence and indolence wouldn't be treated so lightly so I suggest you do your job right. Understood?" 

" Y-yes, Miss.." Georgina answered with a sigh. No wonder Ms. Alona's the Guidance Counselor, she can obviously tame these delinquents!

" As for you, Ms. Mendiola," She glanced at me and clasped her hands together under her chin. " You would share the punishment with Ms. Auditore."

" WHAT?!" She immediately glared at Georgina, probably because the latter was too loud. " Miss, I can do my task alone, just giver her a different punishment."

" No, and that's final. Now you may go." Georgina was so frustrated when she left the room leaving me alone, still puzzled, in front of Ms. Alona.  

" Miss, can I ask?" I asked her carefully, afraid that she will think that I was questioning her decision.  

" Sure, what is it Ms. Mendiola?" She smiled warmly at me.

" What's my violation? I don't remember fighting back..." 

" That, darling, is exactly your violation," She leaned forward and her smile slowly faded. Intimidated is an understatement of what I feel right now. " In Elysian University, being weak is a violation." 

" Manang, bakit po ang daming tao outside?" I asked Manang Lourdes. Yup, I can now manage to speak some Tagalog words tho I'm still not as confident. I still suck at pronunciation but I'm slowly getting fluent. 

" Nako! Buti naman nakauwi ka na, Elle! Bilisan mo at magpunta ka sa dining, naroon ang mga bisita mo." Manang Lourdes smiled widely at me. She looks so excited that I just nodded and did what she said.

Manang Lourdes has been with us since I was just probably a fart in my Mom's belly. My parents are always not available because of their business, so Manang Lourdes partially took their responsibility to take care of me and my brother. No hate towards Mom and Dad tho, they were great parents. With their busy schedule, they find ways to spend time with us and never miss special occasions of our life. 

As I was walking towards the dining room, bit by bit  I can hear utensils clanking. Once I saw the people inside, I immediately ran towards them and gave them a huge hug!

" Mommy! Daddy!" 

" Hey there, how's school?" Dad kissed me in my forehead while Mom hugged me like I was a baby. 

" And what's with the get-up?" Ngayon ko lang nanotice si Kuya so  I immediately went to him and kissed his cheek.

" I often experience eye infection since I got here, probably because of dusts." I explained. My eyes doesn't have any grade, I was lucky enough to have a 20/20 vision. But eversince I got here in the Philippines I always get puing because of the dusts, hence, the huge eyeglasses. I made sure that it was huge so it can cover my eyes pretty well. Smart ayt?

" And what about the braces? The messy hair? That awful uniform?" Mom raised her eyebrows while smiling. She's probably thinking of ways on how to tease me. 

" The braces? Isn't it a trend here? Almost everyone have it," I shrugged before seating down. One thing that I noticed here sa Pinas, everyone thinks that braces are beautiful. Now that I have it, it's not really attractive, in fact it's just painful! " About the hair, blame the Philippine shampoo. And please, don't even come at the way I style my uniform." 

I like to button every buttons of my uniform because I don't want people staring at me because of my skin! My skin's really white as snow, especially my legs and shoulders which is uncommon in here so I like hiding it with our long-sleeved uniform. 'Di ko naman inexpect na what I did with my uniform was what they considered weird. I had no choice but just to live up with it, you know. 

" If the shampoo's that bad, why don't you just change it?" My brother, Axel Ryker chuckled. 

"I made Manang Lourdes buy a lot of it. I don't like wasting so I'm just nagtataga.." I started eating with them but stopped because they were all staring at me. 

" Nagtataga? Of what?" My father asked, confused of what I meant. 

" Of the shampoo." Nagpalipat-lipat ako ng tingin sa kanila but all of them are just staring at me.

" Oh!" My mom suddenly exclaimed. " You mean, nagtitiyaga?" 

" Was that the right pronunciation?" My eyes widened.

" You suck at Filipino, Sera.." My brother laughed. 

Sera, that's how he always address me, even my mom and dad. I always get confused as to why they call me that when I don't even have Sera in my name. 

" Anyways, what made all of you come here? Business?" I asked them while eating. The three of them looked at each other and awkwardly smiled at me. 

You see, Mom and Dad are based in Europe, Italy to be specific. While my brother's alone in Japan because of business. I was living with Mom and Dad when they suddenly decided that I should study in the Philippines. All of them know how to speak Filipino because of mom, I was the only one who's struggling to learn so they sent me here. They said they want me to know the culture of Mom's country.

 Being the Dora the explorer that I am, I happily obliged. 

" Yeah, we have business in here. We would stay for about 3 days." Dad smiled. 

We continued eating while chatting until I excused myself to sleep. I have class tomorrow and the punishment with Georgina will start as well. I need to have a long deep sleep so I can recharge my patience.