“Gerry, please go to Sneg’’s house now.” I say to him right after I get into the car. “But Mrs. Valter, I’m afraid that your parents won’t allow you..” Gerry replies with a worried voice. “It’s fine. I believe they won’t notice or even mad for it since I’m going to Sneg’s place.” try to convince him. “Alright then. Should I wait for you from the outside?” He asks me while looking through the rearview mirror. “Maybe it will take a long time. I will call you to pick me up later, Gerry.” answering his question although it won’t lessen his worriness. “Please take care of yourself, Mrs. Valter.” He says then his eyes focus back to the front. While waiting to get there, I try to text even to call Sneg to make sure he’s at home. Unfortunately, no response from him at all, I just believe in my luck now. **Arrives at Sneg’s House** Walk close to the gate and press the bell for his house. After half a minute of waiting, two of his servants and someone that had conflict with me before appear. “What a surprise here?” He says. That’s right, he’s Sneg’s Father. “You still dare to come to this place?” He is looking around me and I'm the only one there. “And by yourself? Heh.” He scoffs From the way he greets and looks down at me, it already boils me with anger. Tightening the fists and taking a deep breath in order to calm myself. “Good evening, Mr. Sneg. Always a pleasure to meet you.” I say to him with my normal voice. With that, he clicks his tongue and seems like he is still pissed from the last incident with me. “Speak up, your point.” He says, not even replying to my greeting for him. “Can I meet with Sneg, please? I need to talk to him.” I say to him and that makes him a little bit surprised. Seems like the way I called him is something he never thought before. But then just like his son, his face changes really quick. That surprised face just turns into a smug face in a second. “Is it about last night's accident? Are you going to blame or do anything to protect your image again?” He replies with a very annoyed voice. “You never change, you know that?” Ahh.. this man really pissed me off.. Tightening the fist and even closing my eyes for a moment. At this moment, I’m trying my best to control and calm myself from the way he treats me. “Yes, it’s related to last night’s accident and this morning as well. That’s why I need to talk to him in order to clear things out.” replying to him, still with my normal voice. “I’m afraid of that.” he replies right after I finish talking. “I know people like you. You are just going to make him feel bad or anything of your loses, right? Grow up, kid.” “If you’re going to say all of these things, I’m totally fine with it. I just want to meet Sneg and clear things out. That’s all I ask for.” replying to him with a bit of a frustrated voice. “Go home then. You won’t meet my son. Have a good day.” he says then turns around. Right before he walks away from me, I slam the gate really hard and that makes a loud noise from it. Because of that, the servants quickly turn around and get prepared for my next actions. “Please. Sir.” I say to him with a really frustrated voice and let out a loud sigh “I need to talk to him, right now.” He turns around and once again, he scoffs while looking at me from head to toe. “Show me your sincerity then.” He says while walking closer to the gate. “Beg.” That makes my eyes wide open. His request just now is really humiliating me. Closing my eyes tightly, tightening the grip on my fists, and slowly bent down in front of him. “Please, sir. I want to meet Sneg.” With that he laughs loudly looking at me. “HAHAHA. WHAT’S THIS?! THE FAMOUS VALTER IS BENT DOWN AT ME!” He is still mocking me. The anger inside me is already at the peak and it could explode anytime by now. After he’s laughing for a while the laughter finally stops. “Pathetic..” he says “Go home.” He continues then walks away. Because of that, the patience that has held me for nearly fifteen minutes is broken. The instinct that Stam taught and got improvement in myself starts taking control of me. Suddenly, my body just moves by itself to climb the gate quietly. The servants notice it after I get past the gate and they are too late to react to defend themselves. With that, I successfully take them down by hitting their fatal parts and that’s enough to make them unconscious. Sneg’s father turns around only to see me with two of his servants on the ground. “Wai- How could-” He says with a panicked voice. Without waiting for him, my right arm rushes to his face and my other hand pulls his back clothes to pin him down. Looking at this situation, five servants are coming to us. “Please, sir. I need to talk with your son.” I say to him with a menacing voice. Clearly from my perspective, there is a fury in his eyes. HIs eyes are looking at me piercingly. “YOU! STOP RIGHT THERE!” one of them is shouting from a distance and proceeds to hold me. All of them start to pull out a gun at me. The one who holds me starts pulling me by force to get away from Sneg’s father. My purpose is not looking for a fight here that is why I’m starting to loosen the grip on his collar. “Get that girl out from here!” Sneg’s father shouts while the servants help him to get up. Ahh.. I guess it's hopeless, huh.. When I just lose my hope there, suddenly Sneg’s voice comes from his door house. “Can you guys keep it down?!” He shouts and his voice sounds frustrated “I need to focus here!” The time he shouts like that, both of our eyes meet for a moment there. My mouth just opens and tries to call him but he only gives me that angry face of his. Seems like he’s still mad at me and just turns around not saying any word to me. “Wait! Sneg! Please!” I’m shouting from where I stand right now, hopefully he can hear my voice in this silence. Unfortunately, he keeps walking into his house, not even waiting or looking back at me. These two really upset me! With that, I try my best to put aside my family name and convince him. “I’m sorry!” shouting with a desperate voice “I shouldn’t say that to you! That’s all my fault!” Because of all these, it already makes me a little bit tired and puffed. “Yeah! You’re right! I’m such an idiot for being mad at you before!” Although I’m still trying to call him out, he still doesn’t give any response to me. “You can call me dumb or anything but just please,” getting out of breath because I keep shouting as loud as I can to him “ I need to talk to you..” the last part is bit smaller than before, more desperately. The servant keeps pulling me to get out from the gate. Ahh.. really..? Just about one more step to get me out of his place, unexpectedly Sneg’s voice comes back at me. This time he is using his house megaphone in front of his door house. “Hey, idiot! Why do you look so lame right now?!” He says, mocking me from afar. But that doesn’t irritate me at all, it only makes a smile appear on my face. “Never thought a Valter would be such a dork, huh? Everyone should bring their own popcorn to see this!” still with his mocking voice. “Bring that stupid arrogant Valter here!” He says to the servant who holds my hands from behind. Slowly the servant takes his hands off me and lets me get to the door house where Sneg is standing right now. When I walk past his father, those piercing eyes of his change to something that he couldn’t believe. “You really will let me call you an idiot, huh?” Sneg says when I finally get near the door house. “If that makes you better then just call me anything you like.” replying to him. “Alright, idiot. Get inside.” He says while opening the door for me “You guys are back to work!” He looks back to his servants. After that he leads me to his workroom and starts our discussion there. “These are what I got from today’s research.” He says after explaining what he found. Sneg gathers all of this information from the CCTV of our camp place. There are three people behind this accident and it seems like it’s familiar to me. That car.. Seems like I have seen that before.. “Here.” replaying the video where those people get into their car after the car exploded. “Where can we get a clearer version of this?” pointing out the car plate. “This is the only CCTV that caught them. I already asked and checked the others but none of them got it.” he replies while looking at the screen. “Did Stam say something to you? This morning.” I ask him curiously. “Oh! Yeah about that. She said that those three people got paid for doing that and..” he scratches his forehead “for revenge..? I think she said that before.” Never expecting that second reason. “Revenge? For who? Mana? Or Colombain?” I ask him confusedly. “Duh.. no idea. That’s why I also try to look for some backstory of those two.” He replies and suddenly his eyes open a bit wider. “You are close to them, right? Get any idea why these people aftering them?” he asks me curiously. With that, I try to recall my memories for both of them. “For Mana.. I’m sure she’s that innocent. She never gets into a big fight or anything.” replying to him casually. “But for Colombain..” the memories of his letter and what Célia told me this morning comes through. But deep inside my head, I’m still thinking of is it really the reason? “What? Why you stop?” Sneg cuts off my thoughts in my head. “But you need to keep it secret, okay?” I ask him. He answers it with a nod then I start to tell him their backstory. “Oohh..” he starts to think it over again “But is it really the reason for it? Then the culprit could be someone who got rejected?” That’s surprised me, I thought he’s going to say anything to Colombain and his friends but he just accepts it right away. Suddenly, one of his servants comes to bring us a folder. He thanks his servant and tells him to leave soon after he receives the folder. “What’s that?” I ask him when he reads the paper. “Ahh.. this morning I came to school, right? To defend that girl.” He replies, still focusing on his paper. Curious about what the paper is about, I try to get close enough to him so I can read what the paper is about. Based on what he said before, the paper should be about last night's accident. Those names on the paper just made me realize about the car we just saw from the CCTV. Carl Jefferson, Albino Montenegro, and Gerardo Raffa kicked out of school. “Them.” a word comes out from my mouth and that’s enough to draw Sneg’s attention. “What?” He asks immediately. Pointing at the date when the school kicked them, it’s the date after the embassy's event at school. After pointing to the date, my finger moves to the reason why they get kicked from school is only because their performance is disappointing for the embassies. “Those people could be them. I remember that black car belongs to Jefferson.” I say to Sneg. Feels like Sneg is still unsure about my answer and he still tries to think about it. “What makes you so sure about it?” he asks. “We can ask Principal Halberd about it. I’m hundred percent sure that he had used that car before going to school…” trying to remember the exact time when I saw him with that. Then that odd dinner party event at school comes through my mind. “That night!” Sneg startled from my suddenly high voice “That dinner party in school white hall!” He still looks unsure but nods his head. “Alright. I trust you, okay? I know you’re not that kind of person, suddenly making bad assumptions towards someone. We will find out tomorrow.” Sneg says and writes down what I just said to him. With this, Stam will be free from this accident! That lifts the burden in my chest a little. “Maybe that’s all we can do for today? What do you think? Or do you have another thing on your mind?” Sneg asks after he finishes writing what we should do tomorrow. “Yeah. I think that’s all for today. Thank you, Sneg.” I say to him and stretch my body. “Nah.. don’t be too polite, idiot.” He says and slightly punches my shoulder “Anyway, it’s already a bit late at night. Want me to drive you back home?” He asks me again. “Sorry for always being polite, smarty.” I say to him playfully “It’s fine. I will just call Gerry to pick me up.” pulling out my phone from my pocket. “Heehh.. Stop being a baby.” He says and snatches my phone from my hand. “I’ll drive you home. Let’s go.” Then he walks to the door, my phone still on him. “Eh?” looks at him confusedly and follows him behind “I don’t want to make trouble for you.” I say worriedly. He looks back and gives me back my phone. “I’m the one who ordered it so it wouldn’t be a problem for me.” He says and continues leading me to his car “Now, no more protest and let’s grab something to eat, shall we?” The way he treats me right now is really the opposite of how we first met before. That makes me somehow happy and leaves a smile on my face looking at him. Yellow. “It’s your treat, right?” I say to him playfully, just like how I used to say with the twins. “I will drop you in the middle of nowhere if I pay for your meal.” He replies to my jokes. **Tomorrow morning at school** Sneg and I are in Principal Halberd's room requesting access to the school CCTV on that date. After hearing of my assumptions, Principal Halberd also has the same thought as mine. Without furthermore, he lets us see the CCTV recording on that date and our assumption is correct. That car was being used by Jefferson attending that dinner party. Principal Halberd quickly makes a call to the police department about what we just found out. After hearing the responses from the police department, they told us to come and give them the evidence for it. With that, the three of us go to the police station immediately to bring the evidence we have. Arriving at the place, one of the police officers from that night approaches and leads us to a room where the other detectives are gathering now. The evidence we have is suitable from what the detectives found as well. “Alright. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. We will handle this.” The leader of the detective group says and gives a signal to his group members to leave. “Please excuse me.” He says and stands up from his seat. “Sir!” I call him and make him turn around to face me. “Sorry, sir. I want to ask. Is he going straight to the court?” “No, Mrs. Valter. We will bring him here and interrogate him first along with Mrs. Stam.” He replies. “Why do we need to interrogate her?” Sneg suddenly asks. Based on his voice, he seems a little irritated at how the detective still believes that Stam is one of them. “We still need to make everything clear, youngman.” The detective replies immediately. “After we leave to get Mr. Jefferson, you can visit your friend before the interrogation.” He continues explaining the plan. “Any more questions probably?” The detective asks while fixing his neck tie. “No, sir. All clear, thank you for explaining to us.” I reply and bow a little to him. With that, he leaves the room with a smile on his face. “Arrogant.” Sneg says irritatedly beside me and crosses his arms. “Calm down.. At least we got him correctly and I’m sure Stam will be free.” I say to him, trying to calm him down. “Now, hear what he just said? Let’s go to Stam’s place.” He lets out a sigh at first but answers with a nod. With that we leave the room to ask one of the officers there where Stam’s room is. When we arrive at her room, Stam is already there but there are two officers guarding besides her. Seems like seeing me is something that she never expected before. “Well.. Well.. Well.. What do we have here?” She says with a mocking tone then smirks at me “Your precious student?” replying to her teasingly. She scoffs at my answer to her. “More like the one who’s being mad at me without specific reason.” she replies with an irritated voice. From her response, the memory from yesterday morning comes through and makes me laugh nervously at her. “Sorry..” I say with a small voice. “Treat me a pizza after this and I will forgive you.” Stam says playfully. “Yes, ma’am.” answering her right away and saluting. Seeing my sudden reaction makes Sneg and Stam let out a laugh together. After waiting for about 30 minutes there chatting together, finally the detective comes into our room. “Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We are sorry for the long wait.” He greets us when he enters the room. “Bring him here!” He shouts to his group member to bring Jefferson inside. He shows up handcuffed and there are two officers holding his arms. The moment he steps in the room, the anger inside me starts to pile up because of what he did. “Please take a seat.” The detective says to Jefferson “You two can leave.” He says to the officers besides Jefferson. “These two can leave too?” Stam suddenly asks the detective, pointing to the guards besides her as well. “I’m afraid you’re going to do something funny, Mrs. Stam. I’m sorry for that but they will stay beside you for the whole interrogation.” He replies. “I told you. He is arrogant.” suddenly Sneg whispers in my ear. With that, I’m shooing him to stay quiet. The detective clears his throat and it seems like he hears what Sneg just said to me. “Shall we start?” He says to all of us in the room. The interrogation starts and all of the evidence only points to Jefferson. At this point, the detective starts to ask Jefferson many questions but he just keeps silent. He only stays still there, looking down at his feet. “Well, Mr. Jefferson? If you’re not going to say anything, we will assume that you’re the culprit behind all of this.” The detective says. Finally he looks up at me and only shows that smug face of him. “Heh.” he scoffs “Are you sure, you are the one who is going to report me?” He says to me. That makes everyone look confused. “Are you going to say that and ignore my words?” The detective asks him once again. He laughs loudly and shakes his head after hearing the detective question. “You dig your own grave, Queen Valter” He says with his chin up and looks down at me. “Here is the thing, officer or whatever you are.” Jefferson says while turning his head to look at the detective “Her family is involved in this accident.”
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