Chapter 19

Periodically, Initials are more powerful Than words.

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I took that small folded paper, gently in my hands, and opened it in a quick stern. With my trembling fingers.

'The region where you can't see anything from your eyes, still my very educated mother just served us noodles, but you get burnt!  Then what will you do? '

What the hell!  I just read?

I was so lost in my assumptions that I didn't realise Veronica. She stood in front of me again. Like always, and snatched that paper from my hands. While practically digging her nails over my palm.

"Ouch! " a voice yelled through my throat.

"Don't ever try to be on top. Bamenda, " glared she.

I want to slap her, seriously, I mean what's wrong with her? What's wrong with her?  Why is she acting, so weird? I know that she wants to win, like everybody else, but it doesn't mean that she has to be crazy, and act like a raged animal with everyone!

And what is she saying about me, being on top?  I never wanted to be on top. I didn't like this system, where all the enchantments were given to the person who tops!
I don't understand why she acts like this?  As she was under some powerful pressure or force. To beat all of us, who are surrounded near her in the race.

Though what she did was harsh, and in-human.It is dangerous!  Why?  Because, in that area where she dug her nails on my palm, now became bloody red, and I'm not a fan of Blood. No, not at all in fact whenever I see it, my heads start aching and I feel obnoxious while seeing the sight of it. only God knows, how the hell Doctor does their work, by seeing so much blood around them, while I can't even stand by a drop of it. Thank god, I'm not a Doctor.

I laughed, at that stupid thought of mine, while everyone was giving me looks strangely. Nevertheless, why are they giving me those looks? As I did something wrong with them.

You need to think about that clue, while you are wondering about you are a doctor or not! What is wrong with you?

Oh yeah. Now I know, why are they giving me those looks, coz I was laughing like a stupid maniac, rather than thinking about that damn clue!

Somehow, Veronica, Cleared her throat. Who was standing in front of me with her rebellious gaze? And read what was written in that small folded paper, loud enough. So that everyone can hear it, at the same time.

Woah!  That had to be a miracle in itself then, that she is reading it loud enough, however, maybe she knows that she can't solve it alone by herself! She had to take our help.

Forget about her, and concentrate on the clue.

Yeah.'The Clue', so what was it? 

The region, where you can't see anything from your eyes, still my very educated mother just served us noodles, but you get burnt!  Then what will you do? '

I recalled it in my brain, while everyone was thinking that, what it can be?

"The region, where you can't see anything from your eyes? What it can be? " I said. Loud enough!

I don't know, what they were thinking, yet somehow it looks like they were expecting me to answer, including Veronica also.
Then let's not think about, what they were thinking, or not. We don't have enough time, and I already wasted my time in my thoughts.

"Maybe, It has to be dark, then. If we can't see it from our eyes, " exclaimed Nathan.

"And far away from us, " declared Veronica.

"Then it has to something, which is far beyond away from our imagination," muttered, July, and Tori in Unison.

Think! Think!  What is can be? Which is dark, far away from us, and beyond away from our imagination.

Come on!  Why the hell my mind is not working? When it has to work fluently! Huh!! Anyways! I just want it to be finished so that I can relax, and sleep at night .watching stars! Then that would be wonderful, and the telescope that I purchased, yesterday. I want to use it desperately. To know all the secrets of the sky, night, and maybe the universe. if I'm lucky enough, who knows?

"Hey. Amanda, did you get any idea? Hey!  Wake up!!!  What are you thinking, " Nathan, jerked my shoulders repeatedly in a constant manner?

"Huh? "

He was looking at me. furiously, his brows raised in confusion, " Clue, what do you think about it? "

''Oh yeah, a clue! That little wobbly thing!  Which is dark?  Mysterious, and far away from us?  Wait for a second, I read somewhere, that there are some stars, which we can't see from our eyes, and they are mysterious, far away from us. In fact, beyond our imagination .so the region, they are talking about is, where are those stars! And they are in the galaxy.  Yes, if I'm not wrong, the region is a galaxy!! " I exclaimed.

"Yeah. It makes sense," Muttered, Nathan. Deliberately, while continuously tapping her chin, nonchalantly.

"Ok!  We have an answer, for our first question, but what about the second one? " complained, Veronica in a whisper. I don't know if it's just me, or what!  Her whisper is not usually like her, this time it sounded different.

However, why the hell?  I was thinking about her? I need to focus only on the damn next question of the clue!

"Now, What the hell is this line supposed to mean- My Very Educated Mother Just Serve Us Noodles, " asked Tori. In response, everyone shrugged their shoulders, not speaking manner.

"Neither, I know. What I know is that this line is anyhow related to the galaxy, which is the answer to our first question. " I said.

"How can these eight words, be related to the galaxy?" Asked,  Veronica.

I don't know why?  But there is something that had to be in the clue, between these two words, which are -galaxy, and eight words. I just need to think!  What it can be?  Which is eight in numbers and related to the galaxy?

Idiot. We have eight planets in our galaxy.

Oh my!  Why I hadn't thought about it before! Yes. We do have eight planets, what I don't understand is why the management committee used this line, if they want us to solve the clue, they can give us another line, or something else. then why this line?

I don't know, either. What I know is, sometimes, Initials are more powerful than words.

What?  Initials are more powerful than words. Yeah,  Initials are most mysterious, and deadly .whenever  it comes to suspense. I always wonder? What is about Initials, why do people use them often, and why can't they use the whole word to give us information, rather than just initials?

I think! I know why?  Because, they want us to use our brain, they want to be mysterious, and that's why these Initials are famous.

Something clicked in mind. Why that line used, is now in front of me! Now, I know everything about it.

"Planets! " I exclaimed.

"What?  How?  And the most important question is why the hell is that line used in the sentence? " Everybody asked in unison.

"Here, see. That line consists of eight words, and that line is somehow related to the galaxy, so eight words and galaxy. Means eight planets in our galaxy! " I breathed

"Ok! Let's think about it. We can consider it, but why the hell was that line used?  And how can you be sure about this?  We can't take a risk, at this moment. Amanda, we need to be clear, about everything, " Declared Nathan.

"Very well then, I"ll tell you. Just listen to me carefully, just look at the words in the sentence- My Very Educated Mother Just Serve Us Noodles. Here, look at the Initials- My initial is M, which means Mercury. Very initial is V, which means Venus. Educated's initial is E, which means Earth. Mother's initial is M, which means Mars. Just Initial is J, which means Jupiter. Served Initial is S, which means Saturn. Us Initial is U, which means Uranus. Ah! And last, but not least. Noodles initial is N, which means Neptune. "

I was breathing hard. Finally, as I said that much in just one breath. I hope what I said is making sense.

"Ok, we got it!  Don't need to act smart, and for your kind information. We still don't have any complete answer to this clue. " Veronica bite back rolling her eyes.

What's her problem! I'm trying my best to do anything, just to win this competition, and to prove myself! Can't she see that!

Oh! Who am I kidding? She's Veronica, and she is just horrible! That's it. I can't even say more things to her.

"Chill Veronica, At least she's solving these questions, while we doing nothing! " Nathan defended me, but Veronica warned him to shut his mouth.

Oh, Nathan!

"Guys! Focus. We need to focus, so hold your grudges for later, and think about the last question! 'What will you do if you get burnt? " July Chimmed in.

"Listen, galaxy, and planets we already have. Can we just do it fast? We don't have that much time to do nonsense talk here, "muttered bitch.

Yes. She's a bitch! Bloody hell. Enough is enough! I just want to punch her, she's bloody insane! I don't want to say it, but she is doing nothing, yet acts like she's a queen.

"You get burnt, then what will you do? - if we got burnt then there must be heat somewhere, near planets. Oh, bloody hell! Planets rotate around the sun. Sun gives us heat, and if we get burnt then what will do? We need water. A pool of water, Holy shit! That's a Swimming Pool! " Nathan exclaimed.

And yes, it does make sense! Finally, we were able to solve the most complicated clue.

I just want to do a happy dance, so I started moving my legs slowly -slowly, but someone's voice caught me off-guard." then what are we waiting for?  Run! "

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We searched all around near the pool, but we couldn't find anything. Not even a leaf around there! We can't be wrong! Not now, if we didn't find our clue in the next five minutes, then we are not going to win.

I became anxious, started sweating! And started walking around in circles near the pool, while thinking desperately. When something caught in my eyes, a plastic box inside the pool. Why is something, inside the pool?

Oh, wait. No, it can't be there. Well, this is Cross River high school, and anything can happen here.

"It is here, inside the pool. " I shouted on top of my lungs. All my four teammates gathered quickly near it.

"I'm going, "said Nathan. He grasped the hem of his shirt and started rolling over his head.
Just like a normal teenager, who can't control her hormones. I was waiting for that moment when he was going to throw out that shirt, but it didn't happen.

Can you guess why?

Because bitch wants to interfere at that moment. She came out of nowhere like sheep in the jungle. And stopped Nathan from whatever he was doing, seductively.

Ok! That may be fine, but the show was just going to start. Hold your horses, everyone! Because Veronica took off her dress while revealing herself in a black bikini, and that Bikini is hardly covering her.

All the students, and staff members. Stopped their work, to watch her it was like some freaking show, where all the air is evaporated, and she's the only source of oxygen.
Everyone was ogling her. Boys, because they want her. And girls want to be like her.
She was looking like a model, and splash! She jumped on a pool making splashing droplets everywhere.

Everyone was cheering for her at that moment, and when she came from the pool with our clue. Like a model, swaying every part of her body .people became insane! they started shouting her name 'Veronica!' 'Veronica !' they all went crazy.

And, I was thinking here. Looking like a fool, What just happened?

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Finally, we have our third, and final clue in our hands. Well, not in our hands. In fact in bitch"s hand. After her show near the swimming pool, she received all the applause for her work. For her social work .that is how she jumped on the pool without thinking anything else, just for the sake of her best friends, yet Team-mates. Oh my! She is the only soul who is so pure, without any doubt! She is the best. No one can beat her!

Shut up!!!!!!

Fine. That was enough sarcasm for her!

We were in the hallway, waiting for her to come out from, changing room. And yes, she took that clue with herself!

After some time. Finally, she came. And cleared her throat, "Pretty Face! pretty face! What is the secret of your age? Why do you hide so many emotions in every stage."

"What? " everybody asked in unison, including me.

"Our next clue. Obviously," muttered she, while rolling her eyes.

An idea came into my mind, let her solve this all alone. She thinks that she can rule over us, and just by doing her last show, she already gain all credit, yeh let her take all credit. But it flew away instantly, because I know, whether she believes, or not, but we are in the team. And we have to work coordinately. Otherwise, we can't win!

"My face is pretty," exclaimed Tori.

"No. My face is pretty, " argued July.

And they both started bickering, ready to wipe off each other heads from their bodies.

"Girls! Stop. Don't be stupid. Can't you see that you are saying all these things in front of me! I mean, are you kidding me? I'm the prettiest here, " interfered Veronica.

Now, all of them are arguing. Let me tell you straight .this This is the first-class comedy show, where two bimbo's bickering like Cinderella's step-sister, and mother of them. I mean our one and only bitch, declaring herself prettiest.

Well, what can I say, "yes? Veronica, you are the prettiest you are that much pretty, that this word develops after you. This word is only for you. You are the prettiest in the world. not alone on this planet, in fact in the whole universe in whole galaxies, and you can beat aliens in front of you. I mean just look at you! who wouldn't want to be like you?"

You.

Sarcasm was dripping from my voice, rather than that it's not easy to say all these things and come up to the stupidest content. which I blurted out! can you blame me? And by looking at her, she was thinking. Not in the real world, maybe she was considering it for real!

Nathan, Cleared her throat. "Guys! Every -girl is pretty in her way, but we here gathered to solve clue .not to fight for a beauty pageant! "

Oh, Nathan!  At least. Someone has some -sense in his brain.

"Pretty Face! pretty face! What is the secret of your age? Why do you hide so many emotions in every stage."

Again, that line gets repeated. Now only we are one step close to winning one round, and we are ready to do anything for it.

"Face, age, and emotions? What the hell is that supposed to mean in this school? " Veronica demanded.

"I don't know this time! " Nathan shrugged his shoulder in a manner of surrender.

What it can be?  Face? what does even that line mean?

Think!

Think!

What it can be?

Come on.  You can do it. You can't give up, now.

"I don't know, but face for me. is like a book of a human body, where you can get to know everything, just by the look of it. "

That's it books!

"Oh yes. If we see metaphorically, the face is the book of our self. It contains all our emotions ourselves. Just like books contains the most powerful, and magical words in them. And that line- what is the secret of your age, means- according to me, that we can read oldest of books anytime, coz they were keep publishing again. They never became old. Coz, they contain knowledge, that is their secret. And 'why you hide, so many emotions in every stage, must be the feelings, the passion of each word, each story, each line. And the emotions of the author. Who had written that book specifically? " I blurted out. Lost in my thoughts, I didn't even know when I was speaking rather, than thinking myself.

The looks on each other faces are priceless, but it's not a big deal. At least we have an answer.

"So the place, where all the books have been kept in school, has our clue!" Asked July, her brows raised in confusion.

"Holy Mother of God, that is the library," Veronica Exclaimed.

"Then .that's it. our last and final clue is in the library!" Nathan chimed in.

"What are we waiting for Then? move your asses. We have to win. "

We all said in unison. While stomping our feet. No matter what happened in this whole game, at least we have something in us .that's why we worked as a team, and finally, we agreed on something in unison.
It doesn't matter. Whether it is good, or bad. Whether we win or lose. What matter is that we tried, and worked as a team. 

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