Monsteir High Academy

Chapter 1: Cold Kindness

"Don't you see?
Don't you hear?
I'm falling hard for you
But I keep denying
And the more I deny
The more I fall for you."

Chapter 1: Cold Kindness

I sighed as I slammed the book close. Actually, katatapos ko lang. And the ending sucks. Happy endings aren't real. Why? Ang bobo lang eh. Isipin mo, may dalawang asawang nagmamahalan, namatay ang isa, happy ending ba? Ending na kasi namatay na. Seriously?

Someone bolted inside the living room. I didn't bother looking. Alam ko na kung sino 'yun pero kung hindi siya, di na ako magdadalawang isip na sipain palabas 'to.

"Visiting me is strictly prohibited, sir," I said as I went to the shelves and picked one book to read again.

He cleared his throat. "Jade, hanggang kailan ka ba magiging ganito?" His mid-40's face formed into a beast looking.

Nakabukas kasi ang pinili kong libro kaya I slammed it shut and looked at him straight with calculating eyes. "Like what Detective Howard?" I said coldly. "Don't tell me you're bringing up the topic again, huh?" I smirked.

Napailing siya. "Jade, I had enough but I'm not giving up pero sana naman ibalik mo yung totoong ikaw." I growled at him. Pero pinatuloy pa rin niya ang speech niya. "You're not sociable anymore. You beat up almost all the students in your previous schools, nasa blacklist ka na sa lahat ng schools sa France at Canada, tell me, anong kagaguhan pa ba ang gagawin mo? Hindi ito makakatulong sa paghahanap ng pamilya mo and sa tingin mo ba matutuwa sila sa mga pinagkakagawa mo?"

I faced him and rolled my eyes. "Howard, drop the bullshit." I said and sat down on the couch.

He laughed. "Was my performance great?" He said, smiling broadly. Ugh..

I flashed him a fake smile and with that, nalaglag ang mukha niya sa disappointment. I put the book on my lap and clapped slowly. "Bravo Howard. Bravo." I applauded while shaking my head slowly.

He rolled his eyeballs in annoyance. I didn't have time to waste my saliva talking to him so I opened the book and started reading again. Ever since, Detective Howard was the one looking after me since he's our family detector. You're probably wondering where my parents are. Well, I don't want to talk about it. Mind talking about it some other time? Busy here.

I enrolled to a strict private school in France but fortunately, after 2 weeks, bitches were sent to the school clinic after breaking their perfect nose with no other reason than the famous me. The principal was a great terror. She looked like a four-eyed madwoman panda. Yeah, yes offense. It's not that I'm insecure about those bitches but they've been making everybody's lives hell. They think everybody was their slave until one sunny day I kicked their pretty flat butts. And then, nasa blacklist na ako sa lahat ng school sa France. Past years, same thing happened in Canada kaya pinauwi ako dito sa Pilipinas ni Detective Howard.

My reading was disturbed when naglapag si Detective Howard ng mga papel sa sala table. I took a peep at him with my eyebrow raised. Speaking of the devil...

"Pwede mo naman tingnan yung papel." Sabi niya in a sarcastic tone.

I rolled my eyeballs. "For what?" I asked him. Ibinalin ko ulit yung atensyon ko sa pagbabasa. I have this habit to snob everybody.

Until the book I was holding was no longer in my hands. "Hey!" I yelled at him. He took steps back, making sure I can't get the book. Howard with his childish acts. Yes, he's a detective. A childish detective. Soury right?

"Just take a quick glimpse at it, will you?" Irita niyang sabi.

Kinuha ko yung papel at binasa 'to.