I.D.E.A. (International Diadem Elite Academy) [RECENTLY UPDATED!]

Chapter 25

"Hello? Gina?"

This may have been one of the longest staring contest Franz and Javvy have seen. Nobody in the room dared to move a muscle. Not even the hairstylist. After what seemed like eternity, Gina finally looked away and gestured for the others to leave the room for a while. And they did. She turned to look at Knight again who still has the phone in his hands.

"If you keep on doing this, then I can't make my plan work.", said Gina. "Don't make them conclude on their own, otherwise, you know that it's not me, not you, not the band who's going to be in serious trouble.", she added as she held out her hand.

Knight didn't move, not even blink.

"So just trust me, and let me do my job.", said Gina as she moved closer to Knight and took the phone from his hands.

He knew that this is what Gina does best: getting them out of trouble. But after succumbing to quite a number of compromises just to make her plans work seemed to have gotten way too burdensome for him. Him having to take classes in IDEA which he dreaded in every fiber of his being...and having to involve an outsider into their dilemma.

"Yes. Hello. Sorry about that. Poor network in the dressing area."

Gina started talking to the anchor again, this time, she went out leaving Knight alone in the room. He hated the fact that he could do nothing else but just stand there and listen to the rest of the interview.

"Oh, she's back everybody! We were so worried that we lost you, Gina. Not now that our conversation has just gotten even more interesting.", said the anchor with even more enthusiastic tone. "So tell us, could it be possible that this Mavis is somewhat special to Knight? Could she finally be the beauty to our beast that the world has been dying to find out?"

Knight raised his head to look at the monitor. Every word that came out of the anchor's mouth all sounded idiotic for Knight: the hasty generalizations, the baseless insinuations, the almost fantasy like interpretations. Everything. And he hated the fact that he's listening intently...for the first time...to such stupidity.

As he waited for Gina's response, he couldn't help but contemplate on his actions. Why he did what he did? Why he kept on doing things these past few days that were totally out of his character? Why he had been worrying about things that he would normally just ignore? Why?

"Let's not jump to conclusions here. The reason why Knight is wearing Mavis' hoodie...", Gina began to her explanation.

Knight could now hear the sound of his own heartbeat. How will she spin this around?

"It's because....it has to be done."

What does that even mean?

"Sorry Gina, but what does that mean?", asked the anchor after murmurs enveloped the studio yet again.

Even Knight himself got lost with what Gina just said.

"Knight needs to be able to walk around the academy unnoticed. And what could be the best way to do that than wear something that every other student wears in the campus? A perfect camouflage, I say. But considering Knight's apparent dislike for the academy, you think he would want to have his name embroidered right under the academy crest? Nope. We all know that can never happen. So there's the IDEA hoodie belonging to another IDEA student to the rescue.", explained Gina so flawlessly, despite for every bit of it to be fabricated, it all sounded like solid truth.

"Oh. So you just borrowed another student's hoodie that Knight can temporarily use as camouflage while in the campus?", the anchor asked. "As expected of Gina. We can never be a step ahead of you."