Men of Force

chapter 9

"Fuck" Ashton sighs. it was so so close to being caught.

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They didn't expect it to turn the situation out like this, '" shall we go sir Arl-"' Stella was talking to Nixon and Ashton quickly revert his eyes to the driver, shooking his head silently. She doesn't know this, yet.

And she doesn't need to till the times perfect.

"Huh? What did you say Mr Fallon?" Stella turned her attention from Nixon to Fallon and looked at the him in confusion. She knows Ashton names starts with ash not ar-- or als-- something.

"What did you say Ms?" Fallon asked her through the rearview mirror, sweat droplets slowly starting to form in his forehead even though the car's air conditioner was on. He looked at the brothers and can sense the brothers in a troubled state coming with an excuse.

"No i said what did you call them, ar-- or ars-- something, did you say Ashton's name?" Stella furrowed her brows and with a puzzled look, looked at the driver and the twins.

"Ahh! Yes,that. I said shall we go sir Ashton. Haha" Fallon let out a forced laugh to try to make the thick air around them thin and make it look like a good excuse and blamed it on his ageing nature as he jumbled the two words together.

"Oh it's okay it happens as we grow old" Stella laughed it off and the brother's too just smiled at her laughing face. Smile just never reaching their eyes.

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The whole ride with them was laughing at silly jokes and making funny comments about their exams. How the school didn't gave them time to pick up the whole syllabus and instead gave a a short amount of time to revise as much as possible.

They said the other classmates were complaining and putting up discussions and meetings with the principal and other school authorities in the school including the childrens' parents too for postponing the exams to week or so day later to give them some time to pace up the syllabus.

When asked the reason for speeding up the exams dates, they just replied with, "other branches of our schools around the world is almost days to finishing their exams and vacation break followed"

It didn't make any sense, they were just using lame justification to sway away the real reason. Exams proceeding fast is because, since the elections and some protests about environmental climate change and human rights. Therefore for those reasons it was for to shut down for couple days to month. It delayed many days and preparation for their exams.

So the school literally drags the students anxiety and mental breakdowns with them and force them to study faster just for their purpose.

"Even some kind in our class yelled out to the principal, 'just because you're dragging your own shit down the carpet, doesn't mean you drag ours too' and the whole class cheered him with whistles and laughs." Ashton said to her sitting in between them.

"But the most shocking thing was not the comment, it was the fact that he is the smartest yet quite student too that shocked the class" Nixon leaned down to whisper in to her ear. She listen to it and gasps.

Wow.

"So did you both study?" She eyed them,

They both turned around to face her, they shot a look that clearly voiced are-you-that-dumb. So she shyly looked away before they actually voiced their facial emotion aloud.

she knows them well, from growing up with them, they're the top students in their class,each year their classmates would be jealous of them.

from what she heard from other students is they don't talk much to other students much and mind their own businesses, they don't inquire any questions to the teacher after the lessons or be confused in math class.