Chapter 03: Girl Next Door

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As the bell rang again for the forth time today, 4 friends gathered together again in front of their usual vending machine where they promised to check out the mystery behind yesterday's incident. David, as usual, was the first to reach, followed by Cornelia and Jason. And as usual, Kiara was the last as she wants to be 'fashionably late'. But before they could set together, cheerleader captain, Sally, dropped by.

"Yoohoo, Jason!" She yelled for him from afar.

"Safe me," Jason squealed as he hid behind Kiara.

Sally ran tip-toed towards them with her two yellow pom-poms hanging out from her bag. Her skimpy outfit fitted her nicely which make every boy fall for her.

Well, almost everybody.

"Darling, how was your night?" Sally peeped over Kiara's shoulder to find Jason covering his face.

"Sorry, Sally, but we're busy," Kiara eyed her.

"With something that I can't do with?!" Sally snarled.

"Well yeah. Cause it's got something to do with a girl who looks like.." Kiara ended her talk as Jason quickly covered her mouth.

"Err. Nothing. We're doing nothing. Nothing that concerns having you in it. C'mon guys," Jason tried to hurry them away quickly from Sally.

"But I thought you weren’t doing anything!!??" Sally shouted.

"We are now. Running away," Cornelia managed to say while everyone ran towards the boy's dorm.

The boy's dorm was simple. Rooms, with just a bed, cupboard, desk and a computer, stretch all the way to the end which lead to the common boy's toilet. Jason's room was the highest floor, the third floor, while David slept on the ground floor which made it easier for him to not walk up the stairs.

"You know. I'm really not convinced that last night's girl wasn't Sally." David puffed.

"I'm very sure that Sally's got nothing to do with last night. Now c'mon" Jason urged.

Sally, the captain of the squad, is known to be the prettiest girl in school. Long, tied up brown ponytail with a slim figure and the principal's daughter. The very picky girl admires Jason so much that she calls him 'darling' or 'sweetheart' which Jason doesn't like. Every person has its flaws and Jason feels that she's not the type of girl for him. So the main mystery about last night's incident was that the girl he found last night looked exactly like Sally.The four marched up towards Jason's room, eager to see that what Jason said was true.

"Okay. I'm going to open the door but no one must freak out," Jason said.

"Like as if we would the girl's probably wearing a mask or something," Kiara said.

"SSHH!" Jason got impatient.

"Ready," Jason asked, "One"

"Two"

"THREE!"

And he opened the door to find something very unexpecting especially for Jason. It was like something had knocked him to see this. Everybody too widened their eyes in surprise. What they saw couldn't be true.Jason's room was sparkling clean.Neat and tidy, the bed was well-made with the books well-arranged on top of the shelves. Clothes were seen hanged in the cupboard from the ajar door and there on the neat blue bed was Tiadora, reading a History textbook. No one said anything. They were shocked not because of Tiadora, but the cleanliness of Jason's room.

Jason's room have never been clean ever since he started school here. It has always been a pigsty. Seeing it clean was like a bomb drop.

"Woah. You cleaned MY room?!" Jason almost sounded angry.
But he quickly changed his frown upside down and yelled," Woohoo! Sweet Mountain Perfume! Where did you get it?"

Yup. He wasn't angry at all. The girl on the bed just smiled and replied, "There was a bottle of weird sweet-smelling water in your cupboard. It didn't taste like water so I accidentally dropped it. Sorry."

"Nope. Not sorry. We're just even." Jason said sitting down beside her.
Kiara leaned on the door while Cornelia and David sat on chairs.

"Okay. Who are you? Why do you look like Sally? What were you doing at the boy's dorm? And.." Cornelia started asking.

"Hey hey. Chill. One question at a time. Okay? What's your name?" Jason grinned at Tiadora.

Tiadora didn't feel scared but she felt it was a waste of time here. She needed information about the 4 knights descendants and the History textbook was doing no good. But if she was given a place to stay, the least she could do is thank the person and maybe ask the person for help. It could be her only hope of finding them.

So Tiadora smiled back and sweetly answered back Jason's question," My name is Tiadora."