Chapter 101 - Olivia

"Yeah, you can say that. It's for protection in school in case I get into trouble," she said. 

"...?" 

"I can't be given special permission to get bodyguards inside the school so as a substitute my father made her accompany me… all the time in school," she said the last part in a low voice. 

I am guessing after seeing her expression she wasn't happy with that.

Also, if that girl is acting as a bodyguard then that solves the mystery of why she was able to sneak behind me. She must have gone through some kind of training. 

"Alright then… I will be leaving," I said as I stood up. 

"Wait, wait. She knows about it so you don't need to leave right now," Iris said to me as she looked at the girl. 

"Why did you tell her…?" I asked. 

"'Why' you ask? Isn't that a given that she will tell me everything when she leaves to meet someone suspicious?" the girl said. 

Her name… Olivia, right?

"I am sorry but does she speak for you as well? I mean, is it in the job description?" I said. 

"Huh? Are you looking for a fight with me…!" she snorted out. 

"Iris," I looked at Iris for her to intervene but she ignored me and sat there with a smile on her face. 

"Don't try ignoring me," Olivia said. 

"Hey, we just met, and aren't you even showing your disgust against me. It's pretty clear that you don't like being in the same room as me, so why don't you just leave?" I said. 

"I don't need to know, I know very well who you are. You are just a trouble maker for this school and especially to Miss Iris," she said. 

"Trouble maker? Don't you know that Iris came to me first," I said, "Maybe Iris don't you trust as much as you believe?" 

I ignored her earlier but she didn't stop and still continued to press me. Well, I have already talked to her nicely for the 2nd time so I am guessing the next time she continues she might need to face some consequences. 

"Huh? Aren't you getting ahead of yourself?" she said arrogantly. 

I guess she likes to be talked to nicely. 

"Olivia, that's enough. If you are going to continue like this then I might need to ask you to leave," Iris said. 

"B-But"

"No buts. Make yourself out if you still want to continue," I silenced her completely. 

"Now Allen, what are we going to do…?" Iris asked me. 

I again sat on the same chair and looked at Olivia and then at Iris. 

"For now we just wait," I said.

"What? Wait? Why?" she asked. 

"We are going to look for the one who uploaded the video," I said. 

"Video? How will you find the person?" she asked. 

"Olivia, why don't you tell her…? You seem to know something," I said.

"Olivia? Olivia, do you know?" Iris as her as she turned over to her. 

"I don't exactly know how but it's most likely that he knows someone who can track down the owner of that video's IP address," Olivia said. 

"Really? We can do that…? I didn't know." Iris said. 

"Not exactly the person, IP address is the combination of numerical and alphabetical words. It's like the number specifically designed for the device. Each and every device has its own. So, tracking it is similar to tracking the owner," Olivia said.

"I-I… already knew that," although she said that it wasn't convincing at all.

"Anyway, it should be done soon. But till then you need to gather up information, you know right…?" I asked Iris. 

"Hey, you can't order Miss Iris like that," Olivia said. 

"Olivia, I think I made myself clear earlier that you can't like this," Iris said in a stern voice. 

"I apologize Miss Iris but I still don't like the way this- this person talks," Olivia said. 

Seeing her expression I am pretty sure that she was going to say something else instead of 'person'. 

"Olivia, I don't know why you are this much against Allen but enough is enough. I would have still let it slide if you knew him for quite some time but you have only been here for a couple of minutes and you have started talking harshly," Iris said, "Acting like this makes me look smaller. Can't you see this…?"

"!?" seeing Olivia's expression I am guessing she wasn't aware of that. 

"I am deeply sorry…! Give me another chance to correct my mistakes," Olivia said.

"Iris you can talk about this all you want but I have another important thing to discuss with you," I said in between. 

"What is it?" Iris asked me. 

"It's not something to be revealed easily…" I said. 

"No one is here except us," Iris said. 

"Don't worry. Even though I don't trust you I still respect Miss' decisions. Whatever you talk about here is something that I won't speak to some outsider," Olivia said. 

Maybe Iris's father, the Chairman, made the right decision in sending Olivia by her side. She is too much of an airhead. 

I was hinting at her to talk in private but instead of her Olvia understood it. 

"Then…"

*Play* 

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[Moments before Allen was about to enter the Auditorium]

*Beep-Beep* 

*Beep-Beep*

"Is your name Allen…?" I turned back to who it was.

"Yes, do you want something with me?" the one who called me boy or to be more precise he was a senior, who was wearing glasses. He had the appearance of a studious person. I guess it's only because of his glasses, probably.

"Where are the others?" he asked me.

"Are you talking about those who were called alongside me?"

"What else could I be talking about?" he said rudely. I know he is a senior but he could at least talk a little bit nicer.

"Who knows? I came here alone," I said.

"What?" he appeared to be irritated. That's a given; no one likes being spoken to rudely.

"Do you want anything else with me? I have some more important matters to attend to than arguing with-" I didn't complete the sentence intentionally.

"With what? Say it," he tried forcing me to say it.

"Does it matter?" I said haughtily.

"Hmm… I see," he made a remark.

"What does that mean…?" my intention was to move ahead but now I think I don't need to.

"What? Did you think the rumors about you haven't reached the third year yet? Well, it does. Till now no one hasn't said a word to you because I told them not to," he said something that made me think if it's true or not. It could be true since I haven't been stared at by any of the third years but it could also mean that it doesn't bother them or maybe they don't know about me yet. All of them could be possible.

"So, what do you want with me?" It wasn't a coincidence. He planned it all. I guessed it since I noticed that after a couple of students one particular student was constantly looking back at me, this made me think it was just a coincidence but it continued until he approached me.

"You see, I established this school's reputation and put everything I had into it to reach it to where it is today. You don't have a single clue what I had to do to make this possible and no matter what happens I won't let it blow my future. But now, all of a sudden, because of someone, it has commenced shrinking. I will not let my achievements crumble to the ground this way. I don't care about this school's reputation but if it does something to me I'm going to take this personally," he remarked as he locked his gaze on me.

"I still don't know what exactly you want with me," I said to him. Neither I averted my eyes nor he. 

"You see I don't care about the school's reputation or you. You can go ahead and kill whoever you want but when your actions stood in my path it became my problem. So, I am coming for you. I don't care how the school suffers, I just want you to suffer," he said in a low voice. Voice only to be heard by me, "So, just be careful. I didn't care about you until it only affected the school as a whole, that I didn't care at all but it began affecting my position and authority so I had to stand up. Watch your back, kid."

"I am sorry but I still don't know what exactly you want with me? Like are you going to make my school life miserable or something else?" 

The crowd was passing through us. No, the crowd was the same from the beginning but the way it was moving was rather suspicious because this way we were out of the teacher's range.

"I'm just saying that sooner or later you will have to leave this school," he smirked at me, "And if you would ask me it's going to be sooner."

"Well, we'll see abo-" before I say another word another announcement was made.

*Beep-Beep* 

*Beep-Beep*

TO BE CONTINUED…