Chapter 41

GIANNA
'Give way all you simpletons!!!" I heard a tiny voice say from a distance and all the students suddenly paved way as I saw a skinny looking girl in a pink Louis Vuitton designed long sleeved dress with a
black flashy looking purse marching her black and pink stilettos. She catwalk past the other students who paved way for her. The sight of that made me chuckle with disgust and turned to admire the rest of the building when I felt someone tap my should from behind.
'Excuse me… can't you see the others paved way for me to pass huh? Can you get your filthy self out of my way?" I heard that same tinny voice say, and I turned only to find the skinny looking girl staring at me with a frown, arms akimbo and taping her right foot.
'Can I help you?" I asked, and she scuffed as the other students gasped.
'How… you… (turns around and yelled) Ashley!!!" She screamed a name and I saw a cute looking girl in glasses rush to her side with an iPad in her arms, she was more like embracing it.
'Who is this arrogant simpleton that has the guts to question me?" She asked Ashley who adjusted her glasses and began punching some keys on her iPad and scrolled through, she finally stopped and looked up.
'She's Gianna, a twin sister to the young model Mason and a first-year student." Ashley replied and I was stunned by how she got my information.
'Oh, so your brother is the young model Mason?... Oh my, I can't believe you two are actually twins, where did he get his looks?" She said with an evil smirk.
'Kindly watch what you say to my sister." Mason said as he stepped forward from the crowd and all the girls went 'OMG he's so much handsome and cute in person."
'Oh Mason… I was just being honest to your sissy, didn't mean to offend you." She said to Mason who held my hand and tried to pull me away but then I pulled away from his grip.
'Aww, are you offended?" she teased covering her mouth with her right hand and giggling.
'Of course not, why would I be offended by someone who has been lied to her whole life about being beautiful. Huh I hate telling ugly people that they are ugly, it's so not nice." I said with a smirk and she looked at me totally stunned. I could hear some of the students murmur and others gasping with shock.
'You… how dare…" She said angrily.
'How dare me? Girl I was just being honest too." I said giving her those sad puppy eyes followed by giggle.
'You have no idea what is coming for you. You just signed yourself a death contract, I'll make your life miserable that you will come crawling on your knees to me for forgiveness." She replied with
clinched teeth and angrily walked away followed by Ashley who turned and gave me a secret thumbs up.
Some of the students cheered me up, some just walked away, and some looked at me with anger… but I don't care.
'That was so cool!!" A girl said happily as she ran to my side.
'oh my God, you were so cool…no one has been able to stand up against Aurora…you are the first. No one dares crosses her path."
'You mean she's Princess Aurora of Sol Empire?" I asked, and she nodded.
'Exactly, no one crosses her and her minions' path. But I must say you did what no one has ever done before, she's in her second year here. Well enough of my blabbing… I am Zoe at your service, a first-year student too." She said with delight. She has a cheerful nature from what I'm seeing.
'I'm Gianna and this is my friend Sandra and my brother Mason whom I guess you already know." I introduced her to Sandra and Mason.
'Can I have a selfie?" Zoe asked Mason as she held out her phone into the air, Mason nodded as they both posed for a selfie.
'This is going straight to my IG account, you have no idea how crazy my friends are going to go crazy!!" she screamed with excitement.
'Umm, are you from the high-class family too?" I asked her, and she chuckled.
'That nonsense doesn't work in my world. I prefer being myself, not under anyone or anyone's pet." Her mood had suddenly changed to a little bit angry and sad mood.
'I'm sorry if I got you bored." I apologized.
'Don't bother apologizing, I just don't get why people are ranked in the society and treated differently. Let's forget about that stupid order. Why don't I show you guys where the orientation will be taking place? 'She suggested and we all nodded as we followed her.
I looked around and saw people glare at me and some pointing fingers at me. I paid no attention to them as I walked on.
I was seated under one of the trees with Sandra when a well-dressed lady who seemed to be in her early thirties approached us.
'Gianna, right?" she asked me, and I nodded. 'Yes please." I replied.
'The Principal requests to see you." She said, and I turned to Sandra.
'Okay I'll be on my way." I said to her and she smiled.
'Could it be because of what happened earlier this morning?" Sandra whispered to me.
'No… I don't think so. I'll be right back okay." I whispered back.
I stood up and followed the lady who led the way to the principal's office. She had informed the secretary to the principal about our arrival and we were ushered into his office and I bowed showing my respect. He looked like a man in his late forties, but he had a young man's touch and looked as though he was younger.
'Ms. Gianna, I have some news for you." He said to me after he asked me to have a seat.
'His Royal Highness has asked us to make you a boarding student. He has assigned a hall for you and your brother in the school so you two wouldn't have to go back home every day. You'll be directed to your halls after class today." The Principal explained.
'But my mom…" I said, and he immediately interjected.
'Your mother has already been informed about it and she agreed to it so there's no need to be worried."
I couldn't say anything anymore but say Thank you and head out.
'Really?" Sandra asked after I informed her about what the Principal had said.
'But who's going to help mom run the shop?" I asked with worry.
'You don't need to worry about that. I'll talk to my dad and he'll get one of his boys to help your mom out at the shop. You have no idea how glad I am to know that you'll be staying at school just like me."
'Are you also staying on campus?"
'Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you earlier, I just hope we end up in the same hall."
'I hope so too, I'm just worried about how Mason will take it. He's never stayed away from mom before." I replied with a look of worry.
'Don't worry about my sweetheart, he's a grown man now. He'll be able to take it." Sandra assured me, and I smiled.
I was immediately called right after school and directed to my new room, it had two beds, very huge and luxurious with a balcony and a set of closets for each bed. I was wondering whom my roommate would be. I looked at my closet and it was packed with clothes, shoes, bags and jewelry. Am I in the wrong room or what. I heard the sound of notification from my phone and when I checked, it was Mason.
'sister… you wouldn't believe this, but my closet is already filled with clothes, sneakers, shoes, bags and handles."
'Well I thought I was in the wrong room when I saw mine."
'Could it be the king who did all these for us?"
'I guess so… I'm going to call mom and check up on her."
'Okay, see you later."
I closed my messages and went to my call log as I scroll through for my mother's number, someone came running into the room. It was Zoe.
'OMG!! We are roommates!!" she said excitedly as she shook my shoulders.
'Yeah, I can see that. I think you should quit shaking me that way or else I'm gonna black out."
'Oh my, I'm so sorry, I'm so excited right now."
'Yeah… I can see that." I said as I sat back down and watched her stare at me.
'So…" She said, and I just stared at her. 'So…?" I replied, and she smiled.
'I hope we have a great time together. You have no idea how many people liked the video of you standing up for yourself in front of Aurora. Over two thousand likes within an hour." She said showing me the video on her phone.
'You posted that on the internet?" I asked her.
'Yep, I'm good at that. Well it's something you don't usually see around most of the time. I think you should open an account too, I bet you're going to have a bunch of followers." She said to me and on the mention of the word followers I looked on her screen and she has 345.2k followers.
'Wow you've got a lot of followers." I said with amazement.
'Oh this, I had a lot of followers on my old account, it was hacked some weeks ago, so this is a new one. It's been just a week." Her last statement made my jaw drop.
Just a week and she has that much followers? I had an IG account for over two years and only had 50 followers, so I just deleted the account. Who exactly is she and how does she do it?
'Let me create an account for you and I'll post your username on my account, you'll have people jumping into your inbox and a lot of followers.
'She said as she took my phone and began creating a new account for me.
She was done in a few minutes, took her phone and posted my user name with the caption 'ROYUS super girl's username!!!" added a few emojis to it. My phone went buzzing continuously with notifications.
'But I have no idea what to post over there." I said to her and she giggled.
'Leave that to me. Now hurry and let me get you all dolled up for tonight's welcome party for fresher's." she said pulling me to my feet.
'I invited Sandra over for makeup, so we can all go together." I said to her and she was filled with excitement.
'oh my, we will enter (spreads her arms and posed fancily) the hall with a catwalk as all eyes will be on us." She said dramatically, and I couldn't help but giggle.
We were soon joined by Sandra who came in with her beautiful black cocktail dress and a pair of black fashionable heels. They were stunned when I opened my closet, Sandra and Zoe went through my stuffs and selected an outfit for me. They sat me behind the mirror and worked on my make-up and when they turned me around…. 'Ummm who's that in the mirror?" I asked looking into the mirror.
'That's you girl!!" They both said excitedly. Oh my, I looked different.
'Oh, you guys are the best, I have no idea I look so stunning." I said and we all giggled.
'You look beautiful boo." Sandra said planting a peck on my right cheeks and Zoe helped me up.
We walked out of the dorm, we could hear the sound of music from the hall as we cat walked past some group of students, the air blowing our hair, we had all eyes on us. We caught the attention of every student we passed by and when we got to the entrance of the hall, the spotlight landed on us and everyone turned to our direction as we cat walked into the center of the hall. I smiled at a guy next to the chocolate fountain and he went dizzy with stun making me smirk.
'Hey!!! 'A sharp voice said from behind us and when we turned it was Aurora (the Princess).
'Don't worry, she's just jealous we are getting all the praise and attention." Zoe whispered to me and I chuckled.
'Don't spare her if she brings herself." Sandra also whispered, and I nodded.
'How dare you come walking in here and taking all the attention? Don't you know your place yet you low class wench?!" She snapped at me as she walked towards me with a glass of champagne.
'Is she from a low-class family?" 'She's really in deep trouble if she really is." 'Too bad for her." 'This is going to get exciting." I could hear the students murmur among themselves.
'You think you own the school, don't you? Ask around about what I do to people like you. 'She said to me as she tilted the class of champagne towards me but then Zoe held her hand.
'Don't you even dare try it." I was stunned at how Zoe snapped at her.
'Oh, so now you hang around low class brats? Where is your pride Zoe? You better step out of
this." She warned Zoe.
'And if I don't?... Well you and I both know you can't do anything against me because if you do (snaps a finger) you'll lose everything, even your tittle." Zoe said with a smirk.
What's going on here?
'Are you threatening me because of this good for nothing?" Aurora asked Zoe who chuckled silently.
'No, I'm not threatening you your Royal Highness, I'm just trying to remind you Princess…about something." Zoe replied.
'You know what Zoe, no matter how much you try to be by her side or protect her, I'll make sure I make her life miserable and I'll see to it that it does get miserable!!" Aurora said turning to me.
'Oh, I see, I can't believe just anyone can be born into the royal family and behave so carelessly. Go
ahead and try making my life miserable, I won't stop you but then… I'll warn you to always watch your back 'Princess"." I said to her and she groaned with anger as she threw her glass of champagne against the floor and stormed out of the hall.
'Oh, my sister is so cool!!" Mason came running in my direction with two thumbs up making everyone burst into laughter.
'Yo! Yo! Yo!! Let's go back to the entertainment and out a way that drama, who's ready for some dancing!! 'That was the MC.
'This is to all the freshers in the building!!" he added and then the DJ tuned his disks and the whole place went wild.
The party was awesome, and Sandra slept at our dorm that night. I actually talked to my mom before the party and she said she's gotten a helping hand at the shop, so we need not worry about her and just study.
'Wake up sleeping beauties!" Zoe's voice woke me up from slumber land.
'It's morning already?" I asked, and she giggled. I looked at Sandra who turned to another gear to continue sleeping. I looked at her for some time and a smirk came drawing on my face as I lifted up my right hand and smacked her buttocks and she jumped out of the bed.
'Hey!! 'She cried out loud as she rubbed the spot where I smacked, and I burst out laughing with Zoe. She threw a pillow at me and we ended up having a pillow fight that early morning before going to shower.
Sandra went to her dorm to dress up and we met on the corridor and walked to campus together.
Guess what? We are all offering the same course 'computer engineering".
A car horn caught my attention as I turned to the direction from where the horn came from but then I saw five cars and all the female students running to the cars.
'What's going on?" Sandra and I asked Zoe with a chorus and she sighed.
'Why do they have to show off so much?" she said sucking her teeth.
'Umm Zoe?" I called her, and she turned to me.
'You know what? You both should come with me." She said pulling Sandra and I along with her to where the cars parked.
The female students began screaming with excitement and started taking pictures as three men in black walked towards the three cars in the middle and opened the car doors. Three young men got out of each car uniformly like they were in each other's head. The three of them first placed a
left foot out of the car, then they popped their heads out followed by them coming out of the cars and the whole place went 'click…click…click" with cameras and the girls admiring their looks.
'Arh well they look… they look alright." I blurted out and you should've seen how the girls closed to me glared at me.
'just 'alright" girl are you blind?" Sandra asked me, and I lifted up my hand in a way to show I surrender. She's totally crazy about good looking boys.
'Let's go." Zoe said as she turned around and holding our hands. We were about leaving when someone called her name.
'Zoe-ah…" A manly voice said, and she suddenly paused, shivered a little and groaned before turning back.
'What?" She asked the tall one in the middle of the
three handsomest men the school had ever seen. 'The handsome Trio."
'How did he know her name?" I heard a girl ask another girl.
'Could she be his girlfriend?" I heard another ask. I think he heard it and chuckled.
'Hey… your elder brother arrived at school and you won't welcome him with a warm hug?" He said opening his arms wide and Zoe frowned.
'Erh, me hug you? It's a no no." she replied, and I could see the look of disappointment on his face.
'Come on Zoe, just one hug." One of them say, he was in a white long coat with a red and ash scarf around his neck. His face was filled with smiles and Zoe immediately run to hug the tall guy.
'That's what I'm talking about." The tall guy said almost squeezing Zoe in the hug before disengaging.
The other one was just glued to his phone and barely looked at anyone, he had a cold expression and I wouldn't even want to approach him.
'Who are they?" I asked Sandra who was drooling.
'I can't believe I'm in the same school with them…. The one in white is Prince Waylon, the second son of the king, the tall one is Axel, the Duke's first son and the cold one on his phone is Prince Ian the next in line for the throne." She said with her eyes glued to them.
'Are you sure the cold looking one is the…" I couldn't finish my statement when the tall one called my name.
'Gianna." I pointed a finger to my chest to know if I'm really the one he was calling, and he nodded as he and the one in white walked towards me.
'I saw your video, you were so cool… ROYUS super girl. I'm Waylon, I prefer to be called Waylon instead, nice meeting you." Prince Waylon said stretching his arm for a handshake. I hesitated before taking it and gave him a handshake which was followed by him kissing the back of my hand making me shiver. 'You must be Sandra." He added turning to Sandra, took her hand and kissed the back of her palm and the tall one did same.
You should've seen Sandra blushing so hard.
'And I'm Axel, Zoe's elder brother nice to meet you, I hope we get along well." He said taking my hand and kissing the back of my palm. The cold looking one just stared at me from head to toe and then turned away as they left pulling Zoe along and the other students following them.
'Let me go!!" I heard Zoe cry as she freed herself and came running to Sandra and I. I turned, and my eyes met Princess Aurora's, she glared at me with furry, her eyes were blood shot red and I read her lips as she said, 'I'll destroy you."
'Aren't you coming?" Sandra's voice made me turn to her.
'Sure, let's go." I said as I held Sandra's hand and we walked to class.
……
.......ZOE........
She woke my heart that very moment she stood up to Aurora. She is gorgeous, long legs with long silky black hair falling on her shoulders, bright brown eyes and a pointed nose. I forced myself through the crowd and there she stood, the wind blowing her hair as she put Faith in her place…she looked like a super hero for all those students who are being bullied by that good for nothing Princess. At that moment I knew the exact name to give her 'ROYUS Supergirl". ROYUS (the nickname of Royall Steward University) yeah and she was now the new heroin.
I got super excited when I discovered we both were roommates. I know I'm nosy and loud but that's my nature even though sometimes people find me to be annoying, I'm not gonna change my true self for just someone who barely appreciates me.
I'm just hoping Gianna and I will get along well, including Sandra too.
The sight of those three coming to school in those grand style of theirs is so annoying. I mean…everyone on Campus knows you are so why make such a grand entrance to school?
If Waylon hadn't come in, I wouldn't have hugged my elder brother. I just wanted to have a quiet college life without becoming a hot topic but then he always steps in and thwart my plans. So annoying.!!
You think having an elder brother is fun huh? Wait till you have mine for just a day. He irritates me… he irritates me!!!!
'Aww you two are so lucky to have an elder brother." Sandra said with a sad expression.
'Lucky? You don't mean it!" Gianna and I said with a chorus and Sandra stared at us with disbelieve.
'Why? Is it that bad to have an elder brother?" She asked and Gianna went first.
'He's always getting more attention from my mom. Everyone thinks he's awesome and cute,
he's always there to consume the little amount of food you get to eat and always gets away with it."
'He's always on your nerves and calls you ugly, always making fun of you and pulling pranks on you. But when he is out there he's the sweetest." I added, and Sandra gasped.
'Well I'll give anything to have that." She said with a shrugging and smiled.
'Oh Sandra, poor Sandra, you have no idea what you're asking for.
We all are offering the same course, so we walked to the lecture hall and I was stunned by what I saw.
All the girls were gathered around someone and I bet it will be a guy. I paused at the door way with the others as I looked at them from the distance.
'What's going on there?" Gianna whispered and I shrugged showing I had no idea.
'Yeah and that's the fifth time in a row." I know
that voice.
'Hyang Jun!!" I yelled as I marched to where he seated. I rushed through the crowd and finally came face to face with him. With my arms akimbo, I looked at him.
'Oh! Zoe-ah…" He said raising up and pulling me into a hug.
'Why, why me why me?' I cried, and he chuckled.
'You have no idea how much I missed you." He said hugging me tighter.
'Aww he's so sweet, I wish I had an Elder brother like him." I could hear the other girls say.
Oh God, they have no idea what they are wishing for.
'But you saw me this morning." I said to him and he shook his head as he pinched my cheeks cutely.
'Can't I miss my little sister and squeeze her some more?" He asked in a cute childish tone and I chuckled.
'Hi Gianna!" He said waving at Gianna who bowed a little to show some respect.
'You finally got to hang out with some true friends. I'm glad you made such a friend but please and please don't get Faith much mad than she already is." He said to me as he crossed his arms around his neck and walked me to the door way.
'Don't worry about that. I have her at my fingertips. With the least mistake she does, I'll just snap her off." I said with a smirk and he looked at me with puzzled look.
'What do you mean by that? Have you got something down your sleeves again?" he asked.
'Arh well, I can't tell you yet but don't worry I'll be fine and please stop appearing in my class, I wanna have a peaceful and quiet college life that's all I'm asking of you. So please don't disrupt my plan like how you did back in high school."
'Hmm I'll think about it." He replied, and I playfully hit my elbow in his side.
'Ouch that hurts." He said letting go of me.
'But still I'm not saying I'm going to stop!!" He said running off.
'Hey!!!" I screamed after him but then I wasn't ready to play Tom and Jerry with him.
I went back and sat beside Sandra and Gianna and got ready for our first lectures.
'Why is she taking so much selfies in class? Who is she?" Gianna asked. Her question got Sandra and I staring at her with shock.
'Gianna… which century do you come from?" I asked her, and she looked at me totally confused.
'Sometimes I wonder why my friend doesn't know people she should know even though she has nothing to do with them. Harh… we really need to work on you." Sandra said as she brought out her phone.
'What…I just asked who she was." Gianna said as she hugged her book.
'That's Ji Hoo, the most fashionable fashionista you'll come across. She's the daughter of the Prime minister. She's known as the Selfie Queen…she takes selfie like she depends on it to live." I explained.
'She's a daughter of the Prime minister and how am I supposed to know her when I don't even know the name of our Prime Minister." Gianna said and I was stunned.
'Oh my, it's so sad." Sandra said looking at me and I shook my head.
'We really need to work on her." I said to Sandra and she nodded in agreement.
Gianna is really funny, even in her serious moment she still makes us laugh.
We rushed to the dorm immediately after lectures, not wanting to cross paths with any of the handsome Trio or Faith.