Her Treasured Secrets

The mask of fakeness.

It's the mask of decoys that some wear to obscured their genuine feelings and emotions, either bad or good for numerous unearthed purposes. Some may succeed in bluffing but some may not. They forced a chain onto the substantial self to retain the vulnerable and poor sides stays concealed as the society despises the actual me but admire the fake me or so.

The longer it was suppressed, the more erratic they were. Gradually, they would only plunge deep and deep without a way out from the maze of none honesty. Despite that, it's the mask that some wears that weary them out... every day...

.........

Long glossy and wavy golden-like hair. Perfectly formed neat eyebrows. Large round light blue eyes with lengthy natural lashes. Sharp straight-edged nose bridge. Rosy red cherry elegantly shaped lips. Flawless smooth face structure. Grand delicate snow-white skin.

Those traits she acquired since youth fascinated all of the other people that were present on that day. A sole glanced captivated and mesmerised people that they were weak to the knee.

The International Prestigious High School of Prodigies--------- the international high school for the diverse prodigies or simply, the gifted youth also students from the elite family in Japan. Regardless, it's been a span since they opened up the school for various students regardless of their background and cultures. Most of the students either speak in Japanese or English as half of the students' nations were either Japanese and Westerners.

As soon as her speech ended, she ambled elegantly from the stage with the crowd's applause assorted with pleased cheers. Unfortunately, no one's noticed what the angelic smile hid beneath her killer smile.

After she headed down from the stage where no one was there, her breath was rapidly intensifying and her heart was sprinting like crazy. Both her tiny hands and small face were sweating cold bitterly as her worlds were swirling like a disco ball on wild dusk.

“P-Pills...” Her trembling hands struggled to open up her pouches that were packed with medications but unluckily, her staggered paces slowly drooped, blackouts before she was able to take her pills. The medications dispersed onto the ground along with the pouches. Yet, someone fetched her and got held of her before her body managed to attain the floor that would unquestionably result in surplus harm to her.

“Hey....” No response he obtained from her that brought his sanity back. He was nevertheless stunned when she plunged so abruptly. Her light physique made him effortlessly picked her up and carried her to the infirmary room.

He positioned her on one of the bed at the infirmary room which was relatively vast compared to others. The nurse was alarmed upon seeing the one who keeled over but she hastily examined on her and dealt with it forthwith.

“Poor little kid. She regularly suffers from the panic attack and that specific someone doesn't even bother to care...Ah, I almost forgot about you...Well, are you her friends, student Arden Asher?” The nurse raised a question but something was erroneous there. It's not their familiar nurse but somebody who was easily recognisable to the cybercrime.

“...No. Would you excuse me, miss not-so-nurse?” He asserted in a polite manner, strived not to offend her in any conceivable aspect but distinct from what he would visualize to obtain, a burst of subtle laughter.

“Haha...Of course. See you.” She let out. That's way too straightforward and promptly. Indisputably, precisely as he told, she was apparently not the nurse in charge of their school but only someone who will be freelancing as a momentary nurse for a while.

Arden simply left the room after conveyed the agreement too.

“Hah~ What a smart kid. I'm beaten... My dearest niece, why are you forcing yourself too much? It pains me seeing you suffer, though I'm merely your young aunt...” She was the prominent head researcher of her own lab research also a big science institute who was perceived as a spectacle who divulged cures to ailment whose name was Alicia Victoria Abigail, Evangelyn's close aunt. Despite having the myriad successes and being an aunt, she was still basking her youth as her age recently reached twenty-four years old.

Arden set in motion heretofore to the niche to pick up all of the scattered medications of Evangelyn's as speculated the quirks prior ago. They were classmates and it's not that tough to recognize her as she was crowned as the ideal queen and flawless beauty at their school who exceeded in her studies and never failed to impress with her abilities.

He identified each of the medications, he's not aiming to be a busy body but this proportion of pills were too plenty for an individual. What was she suffering from?

“Arden!!” A voice yelled for him that make him hidden the pouches, not discerned just why he did that. It's Oliver Spencer, one of the overly enthusiastic guy and likewise, his close friend.

“Where did you go to? We better hurry up. The P.E is starting.” He grabbed his hands, coerced him to simply pursued his step to their gymnasium. He's kind of pulled like a brown teddy bear by a tiny youngster.

The boys were playing basketball as some girls were either applauding on them or practising netball. It's up to them to match or not.

About that, he has never seen Evangelyn played any sports except for which she even infrequently performed recently. Was it because of her illness?

*bump *

The ball hit him hard who was already not eager in playing and were in his own world, assuming a lot.

“Arden!! Are you alright?! You had a nosebleed!” Oliver exaggerated though that it's honestly was not that critical.

“I'm sorry but I will go to the infirmary for a while.”

“Need any help?” Someone stood by his right, Louise Edward whose eyes sparkled as if an idea just

popped through the door to his mind on how to avert playing the basketball. It's indeed their freedom to attain anything but a specific someone just wouldn't tolerate him to lounge peacefully.

“No need. Enjoy your game.” That excuse put out the lights in his eyes as he surely aimed to quit playing before his collar was grabbed by the back with that pitiful puppy eyes as Arden simply stared at his pitiable pal as he was joining the game ‘willingly’.

Arden rinsed and cleaned the blood initially but it hardly ceased and he eventually concluded to visit the infirmary again. Frankly, it's just an explanation to went there as he has to return the pouches ample medications back to her.

“You're here again, student Arden. Need anything?” Alicia inquired unprecedented caught sights of him there twice in a row.

“Do you have something to stop this blood?” He implied on his bloody nose.

“Oh... That's bad... Take this.” She passed him a gauze pad and also a few cotton bud.

“Thanks. Could you hand this to her? I'm going back first.” He seated the pouches on the table.

“No way, young man. You need to have a proper rest after cleaning your blood.” She demanded a bed to rest with a plotted agenda in her senses that one could never surmise.

“Then...I'll take a rest just a little.” He conceded after all as he was sort of exhausted and more to that he refused to go back to the court.

“Be my guest.”

***

“...what time is it...” Evangelyn arose after a slumber or apparently, after passing out that she herself knew the better of it.

“Ah...I fainted again, didn't I?” She glimmered depressingly which honestly weakened her.

She picked up one of the green leaves from the trees beside the opened window that enabled the unpermitted leaves too. The leaves were strewed into the room but her sanity was concentrating on another aspect. She delicately tuned a soft and gentle melody that was agile sorta like a lullaby for an infant.

Her whistle was consecutive until her ears hitched another leaf whistling tone who corresponded to her tempo and harmonically exploited concurrently with her which composed a delightful and a rhythmic hymn on her and that unidentified self who appeared to be on the bed beside her. What a marvellous tune... it's like the natures graciousness and the waterfalls gently draping the noise which centralized and generated nature green essences!

Gradually, the hymn ended and they both slumped the leaf. Her inquisitiveness peaked up elevated like a Mount Everest but tragically, the you-know-who evacuated the infirmary, not allotted her the opportunity to properly seized a peeked of his countenance or to the least, learned his name.

Later on, she reached to her classroom which had people ambushed her with fractions of questions. Lily Margaret who skillfully caught a glimpse of her dashed and hugged her with a sigh of relief reasoned that she might be abducted by an alien which would never occur, obviously.

“I miss Evy so much,” Lily mumbled that had Eva grinned finding it more.

“Evangelyn Elora. On which planet did you vanish to?! Did you know how long have we been searching for you but were never to track any of your traces?! I'm going crazy that I almost go with Lily's thoughts which you might be abducted by the alien, which alien never ever happen!” The beautiful both on the inside and outside truest friends who went by the name Thea Cassandra Lorraine had been by her side since their adolescence which even strengthened it up till now.

“Hehe...My bad. I fall asleep near the trees.” She proclaimed, well, technically, she wasn't fabricating at all as the infirmary truly was placed beside an enormous tree which she also utilized its leaves to whistle with earlier.

“We will be switching our seats today. I'm so excited but also anxious.” Thea expressed with her countenance remain unchanged, literally, was that what you called excited and anxious?

“One quest. Where is Kathy?” Evangelyn interrogated after contemplated their classroom for the forty-five times, surveyed for that one person who constantly absent like a ghost went awol.

“You know how she is....” Thea muttered before proceeding...

“....always skipping.” They said jointly then giggled at the verge.

***

Her seat was relative to the left of the class and was near to the window side that had the scenery of their track fields. By her right side was Thea's seat while Lily's seat was parked behind her as Kathy's by Lily's right side.

Nonetheless, there's a guy who was positively prominent in their school, Arden Asher who she kept wrangling within their academics score. He's got an exquisite promising background and a good looking face which girl either inside or the outside of their school was crazy for. Though, he retained rejecting every love confessions with that icy cold tones and he also not the loquacious talker type.

It's already the verge of the class and most of the students were headed back home except for those who went to cram school or were associated with extracurricular activities such as a club or organisations.

The four friends reunited likewise when their friend whose hobbies was skipping class, Kathleen Hailey huddled them when their class ended.

“Eva, are you going home already? Don't you want to spend time at the cafe with us?” Kathleen inquired with Thea's furrowed eyebrows that let out, ‘when did we agree on that’.

“Mmm...I'm sorry but I've got something to do. See you tomorrow, alright?” Evangelyn shoved her petitions away as she had another urgent stuff needed to be accomplished. She stepped into their family car, which was droved by their chauffeur in front of the gate.

“Sure. See you.” Thea responded as she waved back to her.

“Later, Eva!” Kathleen said.

“I'm going to miss you again, Evy,” Lily uttered which the phrases that she invariably repeated unusually. The four of them commonly strolled around their towns or go to the cafe to spend time together to kill times before going back home.

“I'm just going back home, Lily. I'll miss you too.” Eva chuckled. She entered the car with another girl sat inside the car by the side seat in the front, her personal assistant who similarly lived together with her. Both are the same age startlingly and they went to the same school together to keep track of Evangelyn's safety.

“Maeve, the hospital please.” Eva notified Maeve who's full name was Maeve Seraphine. Her personal assistant who was kinda like a personal attendant and guards.

“Yes, Young Miss,” Maeve replied before expected the chauffeur to alter their destination and departed to the hospital which they perpetually went to.

Upon arriving, she didn't hesitate as it wasn't her prime moment being there and went consecutively ahead to the doctor who was monitoring over her ailment and furthermore doctored her. They already had an appointment booked with her that it's fine to simply go upright to the doctor. Besides, it's a private hospital that its safety was a hundred per cent guaranteed.

“Doc. Misaki, I'm here for my monthly check-up. I'm also out of my medication.” Evangelyn greeted her before beginning their dialogue, not postponing the procedure any longer.

“Welcome, Miss Evangelyn. Shall we start the check-up, dear?” The middle-aged doctor who was in her white robes inquired of her conclusion. She had been lasting for her important patient and already prepared everything they required.

“...yes...” She retorted.

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