My head was down, didn't know if my knees were trembling due to fear or the cold feet. What if mom comes to know about all this?
“I think I should leave now.” I thought about running. I immediately walked to the door.
“Wait a minute.” Luna Amelia asked me to stop, my heart was racing at its greatest speed.
“Your wet clothes, it’s still in my daughter's room.” She pointed at my wet cloth lying on the floor. I held my head, if I really missed it here, how could I go to school tomorrow?
I sat on my knees and picked my clothes one by one, there had my wet undies too and I was so embarrassed to pick them up because Eric and his mom both were in the room.
“Who your parents are?” She asked me staring at me with sharp eyes. I swallowed in my throat, If I told him then she will come to know about me. She knew Mark well.
“She is Joe’s cousin.” Eric interrupted her and told her. Her brows raised again.
“Are you willing to become a Beta for her?” His mother asked him and he bit his tongue.
“You can leave!” Luna Amelia wrapped her hands around. I picked up my bag which was still wet. I fell into the pool with my bag in my hands.
I walked out of the bungalow and headed to Mark’s bungalow. It was just closer to this place. the night was dark and deep, The moonlight casting my shadow on the concrete road. I crossed the road and reached the right.
In a short, while I reached the compound of my house, before I would step inside I heard Mom and Mark having dinner with each other.
“It’s eleven clocks, goddess knows where has she gone? Her mobile is turned off.” Mom aggressively smashed her spoon on the table. The voice was so loud that I thought she threw it on me.
“She is not a small girl, stop caring about her too much.” Mark tried to relax her but she was overprotective.
“What stop caring. Do you know what will happen if anything happens to her?” Mom gritted her teeth aggressively. I have no guts left to get in the living room.
I was wearing Tanya’s mom’s dress. Mom will ask hundreds of questions. I walked out and move towards the garden and the pond. Just above the pond, I had my room, the branches of the old Banyan tree had almost reached the big window in my room. I waited for nothing and tried to climb the tree slowly.
Clawing my fingers to the barks and with almost tens of scratches on my hands and feet I finally climb the tree. I slowly moved to the branches and pushed the glass out of the window.
“Husshhh...” I finally took a breath of relaxation as I entered my room. Taking the wet uniform out of my bag, I spread them on the chair and the table so they will dry till the morning.
The mild sunshine entered through the big window and lightened up the entire dark room. I opened my eyes when my eyelids were exposed to light.
My uniform was already dried, I picked it up and wore it without ironing it.
I stood in front of Joe's room and called him twice, thrice.
“Joe, are you ready?” I rattled my knuckles on the door but I got no response from inside.
“He left an hour before,” Mom told me.
“Oh.” I wore the bag strap again.
“Where were you last evening?” Mom asked me. I tapered my eyes pretending I don’t even know what was she talking about.
“Last evening? I was in my room.” she raised her brows. “That kid went somewhere so I thought about resting in my bedroom,” I said and then she didn't say anything.
How must have left early for Jessica’s fashion design lecture? Even though Joe had nothing to do with fashion design, he just go to accompany Jessica! It was cute!
I stopped my cycle outside of the gate of the downtown Wisdom school. Almost hundreds of people were standing with a Mike and camera’s in their hands. they seemed like some media people as their Mike had some logo of news Chanel’s. I didn’t understand what was going on. They were speaking about some breaking news.
“Professor Mathew, Doctor of maths. A person who used his power to a***e the female students sexually has now been arrested.” I was surprised when I heard it. I thought the school authority will be forced to take some action against him if I posted that video on social pages but I was shocked to see the interference of the media.
I entered through the small gate of the school as the bigger one was kept close to prevent media personnel from getting inside. Every student in the school had that video on their mobile phone and they were watching it on repeat mode. The video went viral and police arrested professor Mathew in the early morning.
Joe and Jessica were watching that too.
“Who could it be? Who did it?” Jessica asked him. I knew I just came and I have to act like I didn’t know about it.
“What happened guys,” I asked them peeking my eyes into their phone screens.
“Have a look. someone tarnish the image of our school. She literally did it purposely.” Joe was irritated too.
“Aren’t you thinking about how many students he would have ruined until now? At least she saved other girls.” I defended the girl in the video, that was me obviously.
“Wait a minute.” Joe sharpen his ears and stared at me with tapered eyes. I realised he could have matched my voice with a girl in the video.
“I don’t know why this girl did it, but whatever Professor Mathew did was wrong and he deserved the hard punishment,” I spoke and walked to the turf.
I walked into the fees counter to pay the fees to take the receipt of my fees that mom had paid before.
“Name?” The counter lady asked me.
“Ezra, second-year class B,” I replied. She started searching for my fee receipt. I watched the television news channel.
“Downtown wisdom school, the biggest scam?”
It was the media making up things and trying to get the highest TRP. I did not expect the video to be the news of the day for the entire country.
I immediately hid behind the counter when I saw Alpha Dustin and Luna Amelia coming out of the meeting room. She looked so tensed. she had no makeup at all, and her face was dull as if she didn’t wash it since morning. Even she was wearing simple clothes rather than formal ones, just as I have seen her last evening.
“An urgent Alpha summit is held just for us. How would we deal with them?” Luna Amelia was extremely tense.
I heard about Alpha summit once, I never attended it but mom did. Alpha king, the head of all packs was going to preside over the meeting. They do not always do the meeting but when they do, the topics must be crucial. The famine or drought condition, the recession.
“Alpha king is upset with us, what if he transfers the keys to someone else.” Alpha Dustin seemed tensed too.
“Your receipt.” She gave the receipt to me. I just grabbed it and stepped out where Luna Amelia was giving the speech.
“Such a big crime was happening in your school, were you not even aware of it?” She was grilled by the media with their sharp questions.
“Downtown Wisdom school’s reputation was ruined in one night, what do you have to say about it? Can we consider it your negligence?”
Luna Amelia thought for a while. As she was in the position of Vice-chancellor she was facing deadly questions from them.
“See, professor Mathew is still under arrest. We have to hear his side too, what if he did nothing and he was just framed.” Luna Amelia denied it even after the video was released.
Jessica and Joe joined me. The media personnel were aggressive towards Luna Amelia. She was even pushed by the crowd once.
“Poor Luna. How could she save professor Mathew?” Joe said and my brows arched. I thought I heard something wrong.
“Are they siblings?” I asked him pointing to the Luna. Jessica nodded her head. I looked around and found out the triplets were not there.
“Where are Eric, Edward and Eleanor?” I didn't see them since I arrived at the school. I didn't know what their reaction for it. I hope they would understand what their uncle did.
“He is in the finals of IFWA. Today they have a match.” Joe said and we all headed to the turf where international football was held.