Inside the school, Arit made her way towards class, but she was stopped in the middle of the hallway by Maria. Maria had a contemplative look on her face as she looked behind Arit to search for someone. She furrowed her brow when she didn't see the person that she was looking for and finally frowned at Arit. Why Mark wasn't there?
Since Mark wasn't there, Maria didn't feel the need to be nice or reasonable with Arit anymore. Maria might be afraid of Mark because of what he can do to her family, but she feels nothing but anger towards Arit. When she spoke, there was a lot of irritation in her tone, and it was obvious that she did not want to be talking to Arit at all!
"I have some information from what Mark asked for yesterday. I thought he would be here with you so I could tell him about it, but if he is not here, then I will just come back some other time and tell him. Make sure you tell him that I came looking for him first thing in the morning so he knows I'm serious."
Arit's eyes widened as she heard what Maria said. Mark asked Maria to look up information on Esmeralda, but the only reason he asked for it was because of what Arit told him about Esmeralda before. That meant that Arit was the one who really wanted to know about Esmeralda, not Mark. Mark couldn't care less about that girl.
Once Arit heard that Maria had some information on Esmeralda, she was immediately interested, and she stopped Maria from leaving by grabbing her hand!
Maria immediately tried to recoil in shock.
"Hey! What do you think you are-!?"
Esmeralda stopped talking as she saw the hard look on Arit's face. The look right now reminded Maria of the look that Arit gave her yesterday when Maria caught Arit and Mark in the closet.
Arit was looking at Maria like Maria was a cockroach that disturbed her by crawling too close!
Maria could never get used to this serious expression no matter how many times she saw it! The only thing that was missing now was the yellow eyes that Arit had yesterday!
"Come with me right now."
Arit dragged Maria through the hallway, and Maria could barely resist as she was shoved into an empty classroom! Maria fell to the floor in pain, and she cried out softly before she glared at Arit in anger! Who the hell does Arit think she is!? How dare she drag her like that!? She thinks she can do whatever she wants just because she has Mark to cover for her!?
Ka-Cha!
Maria couldn't understand what was going on with Arit, but she knew that she did not want to get on Arit's bad side! She immediately started talking quickly!
"I-I don't know everything about what happened, but I was able to get an investigator to follow Esmeralda yesterday! She met up with a woman in a café on the other side of the city. The investigator told me that the woman was Linda, the current chairwoman of the PTA!"
Arit frowned as she heard this, and she immediately began to think deeply about what this could mean. Why was Esmeralda meeting with the chairwoman of the PTA? Did they have some kind of connection? Arit did not know much about Esmeralda, but she knew that her family was the leading supplier of entertainment television to most of the city. Was Linda meeting with Esmeralda for some sort of business? Find more at m _v _l _e _mpyr.
No, that wouldn't make sense. Esmeralda was not the eldest child and she did not have any sort of leeway in the company. Arit knew that if there was business between Linda and Esmeralda's family, then Linda would not be meeting with Esmeralda, she would be meeting with Esmeralda's mother or father, or at least someone higher in the company.
"T-There's more..."
Arit snapped her head towards Maria as Maria spoke up, and she immediately told Maria to hurry the hell up! If there is more, then she should have said everything at once! What was she trying to do by holding back information!? Does she think this is a movie where you keep things hidden for cinematic effects?
"Sorry, I just do not know how true the information is. The private investigator did some more research after finding out that Linda was meeting with Esmeralda, and apparently, there was a meeting between the school board members a few weeks ago. Linda was the one that called for the meeting, and he said that the meeting was... to decide whether or not Mark should remain as a student in the school."
"What?"
'They were trying to expel Mark! Those ungrateful pieces of shit! They deserve death! All of them!!'
The frown that appeared on Arit's face made Maria immediately fear for her life, and she took a step back as she saw Arit's hand tighten against the edge of a table and crack it with raw strength alone!
Crack!
Oh god, I think I'm going to die in here! Maria was so scared that she could feel her knees shaking uncontrollably! Maria had to use another table to hold herself up so she didn't fall down!
Arit asked Maria how certain she was of the information and Maria nodded to Arit quickly. Yes! Yes, that was what the man said! That was everything!