"Woah. Nice car." a guy student said as I went out of my car.
"It's the Bugatti Veyron." the guy's friend said.
"You seem to know a lot about cars." I said.
"I do. That car is the most powerful, most expensive, and fastest street-legal production car in the world. Its top speed is over 400 km/h." the friend said.
"You do know about a lot cars so you know how much this car costs. You may want to tell your friend over there not to touch the car."
I immediately went to Tito Calvin' office for the meeting on the art's week.
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"Athena, you are early." Tito Calvin said as he welcomed me.
"Just wanted to get things going." I said.
"Don't worry. The others would be here in a while."
"What will be my job exactly Tito Calvin?"
"Well you'd be the arts consultant of the visual arts week. Don't worry. You'll get paid."
"Tito no need. I'd do it for free."
"No. I insist you get paid."
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"Let's get the meeting started." Tito Calvin said.
"Sorry. I'm late." Caleb said as he rushed to his seat.
"It's okay Mr. Franco. Let's start. Before anything, I would like to introduce to you Ms. Athena here. She'd be the consultant on the visual arts week project." Tito Calvin said.
He also introduced me to the visual art's week committee that is composed of some students and faculty members.
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"Virtual arts can be sub divided into several categories such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, and filmmaking and architecture. Why not devote each day to a category? Like one day would be all about painting then the other for filmmaking. And with that we think of events per day. Also on the last day we can have a grand gallery to showcase some works of art. There could also be a contest per category." I said.
"Ms. Athena is right. We could invite speakers from each category. It will make visual arts closer to the students especially those who are not taking an arts course." Stella, who's the student body president said.
"I like that idea." Tito Calvin said.
The meeting went on for about an hour or so. We finalized everything already and settled the things that we need to do.
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"Ms. Athena!"
Stella called while I was going to my car.
"Stella, is there something wrong?" I said.
"I just want to say I like your ideas."
"Thank you."
"Also, I want to ask you to mentor one of the painting classes for tomorrow. Dean Jimenez and Sir Franco told me that you'd be perfect to be one of the mentors."
"Uhm. Okay. Sure. What time will that be?"
"After lunch."
"Sure. I will go back anyways tomorrow to check on things. I will be a bit late since I also have work to do that day but I will definitely come."
"Thank you Ms. Athena."
As Stella left, Caleb suddenly appears from behind.
"Stop following me." I told Caleb.
"We need to talk." Caleb said.
"I don't think so."
I immediately went inside my car and left.
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"You shouldn't have followed her here." I told Franz, a friend of mine when we went out to get some drinks.
Franz is the boyfriend of the Ara Badeau, the leader of a car smuggling syndicate. Ara inherited the business from his father. My real target is his father Lance Badeau but apparently he died of cancer and gave the business to her daughter. Ara is here in the Philippines to settle some deals.
"You can't blame me Sophie. I love Ara." he said.
"Does she know you followed her?"
"No."
"Just go back Franz."
"No. I don't want her getting killed. I know what you do Sophie or should I say Agent Athena."
"What do you know about what I do?"
"You do the dirty work for the government. You kill the bad guys."
I took a sip of my dry martini.
"But what you don't know is that we spare those who change. We monitor our cases. We don't kill them immediately. We are not that bad."
"Then spare Ara. I will make her change and leave the syndicate. I will do anything just spare her."
"Love."
I sighed.
"Please Sophie."
"Zeus will get mad at me for this but just make sure she changes. One month Franz, just one month to do it."
"Thanks Sophie. I owe you."
"Better go now. The clock is ticking."
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"Beer."
A guy from behind said. It was the car guy. Come to think of it he looks a lot like Apollo when I first met him when we were in high school.
"I didn't know kids are allowed here." I said.
"You are the lady that drives the Bugatti Veyron." he said.
"You are the kid who knows a lot about cars."
"I'm not a kid. I'm already an adult."
"But you do look like one."
"I didn't know old women are mean."
"Who say's I'm old?"
We both laughed.
"Ryan."
"Athena."
We shook hands.
"What are you studying?" I asked Ryan.
"Fine arts."
"Nice. You are lucky. You?"
"Paint."
"A painter who's also interested in cars."
"Is there something wrong with a painter who likes cars?"
"I didn't say there's something wrong with it. Who are your favorite painters?"
"The masters like Van Gogh, Dali and Picasso. But I also like this anonymous painter named S. Javier."
"Good choice of painters. About S. Javier, watch out. You might see him one of these days. See you around kid."
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