The Earth After Rebirth

After a day full of emotional turmoil it was time for the boys to go back to the academy. Freya promised to take care of Kiyoko, so Hiro was a bit comfortable leaving his mother behind.

"Are you gonna tell Saanvi?" Kiro asked as they stepped out of the train.

"I mean it's impossible to tell her without revealing too much." He pondered, he hadn't thought about telling anyone about his father.

"You can just tell her what you told your mum, I don't know if you can really keep that from her without creating distance between the two of you."

"Who are you and what have you done with my best friend? The Ki I know sucks at this love thing," he asked seriously shocked. "But she'd see right through me. She's too smart."

"She'll see right through you either way, girls can sniff out secrets." Ishaan offered his own advice.

They all looked at him strangely, never expecting Ishaan to have any sort of experience with girls. But when your family is part of the richest in the country, people of a lower status tended to suck up to them.

"What would you know?" Felix was quickly on his case, giving him a look of wonder.

"I'm not a virgin like the rest of you."

They could literally feel his pride swell up, his shoulders were suddenly broader, his stride more damaging to the concrete floor. There was finally something he was ahead of and it brought him immense joy.

The other four looked at him dumbfounded, though Hiro and Saanvi were very close even they hadn't gone that far yet.

"Dammit, spill, how was it?" Kiro was truly the most curious of them all.

"I don't kiss and tell." He smiled broadly.

For a moment, they were just teenage boys messing around. Chasing Ishaan through the station to force the answers out of him.

He tried his best to run away but he was still very much behind on fitness against them, that's why Nikolai lunged at him. He fell on his stomach, and Nikolai on top of him.

And it just happened, the rest of them just jumped ontop to make a pile. There was laughter from them, while people looked at them strangely, never having seen young adults act the way they were.

"Okay, I'll tell, get off." Ishaan shouted from the bottom of the pile.

Slowly they got up, still grinning and laughing. Ishaan remained on the group, joining in the laughing too.

"Ahh, I think I cracked a rib." He said rubbing the side of his stomach gently.

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"We're minutes away from the medicare, you'll be fine. Now spill."

He wasn't direct about everything, nor was he explicit. He kept it PG but told them to always have condoms on them if they didn't want kids. That's why they could be seen leaving an adult shop after an hour of browsing in there.

Of course they'd all been taught about safe intercourse but they didn't think they needed them because they weren't active, and were without girlfriends, most of them.

But Ishaan told them that anything can happen that's why they needed to be prepared always. As someone with more experience than them, they listened.

Hiro was very glad of the distraction, the images of his father dying plagued his mind, they clung on his very being like a parasite that wouldn't leave him no matter how much he tried to get rid of it. Maybe one day he'd be able to live one with them but at the moment, they were a bother for him.

They didn't need to produce their academy IDs at the gate, the security had gotten extremely friendlier since the first time they'd met him and they didn't hold a grudge against him.

"How's your business doing by the way?" Kiro asked him.

"Pretty great, I can't believe the money I'm raking in monthly. To think I was poor not even two months ago, I'll always be grateful to you thay you forced me to buy the game."

They hadn't even settled in when they got word that the dean wanted to see them. They were confused as to why because James should've filled him on everything. Tired as they were, they decided to go see what he wanted.

When they entered his office, it was turned into a conference room. James was already there, at the dean's left side. They quietly sat and waited, they were so mentally tired they forgot to even greet the man.

"There's one more coming but I think we can start without him. Do you mind telling me about everything?" He started.

"Sir, I thought James would've filled you on everything?" Kiro wasn't quite sure what the dean wanted.

"Yes but that was just his perspective, most of all how did you get to have such information?"

"First of all you invaded our trust by putting a tail on us, now you're interrogating us?" His anger was definitely misplaced, it was anger he didn't know he had.

He wanted badly to blame them for his grandfather's death. They knew he was a lower district citizen but they allowed him to risk his life the way he did for information, this pissed him off.

"That's quite—"

James was interrupted by the dean's hand, telling him to remain quiet. The atmosphere suddenly changed in the room, Jesús Silva couldn't have picked a worse time to enter the office.

"I understand your anger—"

Kiro's eyes fell on Isla's father, he was feeling more cornered now. He didn't understand what was going on, he thought the Silva were part of the sanctum and as the elderly male in his family, he was probably in their midst.

"You don't understand anything old man." He spat. "What's he doing here? Isn't he part of the sanctum?"

"We'll get to that later, but I do understand your anger. You feel we should've done more to protect Eldric, but I don't know how much you remember of the man, he was quite stubborn."

"Don't tell me what I remember." He retorted, realising how childish he was being but he couldn't help it.

"He was a man who didn't trust anyone, that's why the information fell into your hands instead of ours." The dean continued.

"He clearly trusted someone." Kiro mumbled.