Chapter 7

Chapter 9: Reasons

I was just outside the bathroom and waiting for Jayden to come out, I was also waiting for someone to suddenly enter.

I"ll punch Jasper later…

"Pr-princess." I looked at him who was done tidying up.

"Don't call me Princess." I told him

"S-sorry…" I sighed and just tapped her shoulder. She"s taller than me though.

"OK. Your brother is already waiting. " He bowed.

"W-while walking, C-can I tell you why I did this?" I just nodded. I grabbed her hand and we walked together.

Wow cross dressing is hard. She even sound like her brother but with a softer voice. I"m surprised I didn"t notice. I noticed his movements and appearance. Maybe because she had a twin brther that looked like her, I didn"t pay much attention because I thought ‘TWIN BROTHER". Not to mention she"s too tall for an average woman height.

"I'm flat chested." I was humbled by what he said. She looked at me and looked at my chest, tas suddenly blushed. "I wish I had a large chest like yours."

"Wh-What?" I blushed because of him, what is he saying ?!

"I always wanted to look decent." I stopped at what Jayden said. "I wanted to wear pretty dresses like normal girls, act like normal girls, and talk decent like normal princesses do."

I stared at her.

"But my appearance didn"t cooperate, I am flat chested. I am tall and I act like a guy. So when people saw me they thought I"m a guy. Then I decided to act like one. " Her storytelling. "In my family, my mother died when both Jasper and I were brought into this world."

"I have 3 older brothers, my uncles and my father who took care of us. They serve the Gem Empire and they were knights, since all of them are guys I was the only female in the family. "

"I was a child when I started loving swords and all, I love to fight and I wanted to be a knight just like my brothers. Then I see other girls wearing dresses and heels "

"I also wanted to try that but when I tried to wear a dress, I looked like an ogre. Other people and children would laugh at me. My brother tries to defend me too but I was scared they"d be in trouble. So I decide to cross dress and act as a guy instead. "

She shrugged and looked at above. Psh how can they say that? She looks beautiful to me without even wearing dresses.

"Also, I was afraid if they will know Im a female. I was scared because I was afraid I"d be a judge and- "now she"s crying.

"Shhh…" I grabbed his two cheeks and presented them to me, he was so tall. "I joined knighthood because I want to protect the Empire, who cares if Im a female? A princess? "

"B-But they"ll judge you and badmouth you .." she whispered

"Oh nonsense, don"t care what others think. Prove them wrong, so what if you don"t look good on dresses? So what if you"re a female who wants to be a knight? You can look good on male"s uniform. You can prove them you can fight despite your gender. " I said confidently. "You'll lose yourself if you continue listening to them."

She cried and hugged me. I hugged her back again.

"Th-thank you for encouraging me."

"I will be your friend, let's prove them wrong that we females can rock the world too."

* BLAGH* the two of us looked at where the sound was coming from, so loud it was as if something had fallen too big. He wasn't too far from us, we both looked at each other.

Tas Jayden and I ignored each other and just continued walking.

What is that?

When we got to where Jasper I was sitting, I immediately hit him.

"Why didn"t you tell me that you have a twin sister?" High eyebrows I said

"Araaayy namaaann" Jasper said. "Nah, maybe I'll get worse than twinny. Besides, you're not asking… "

He do have a point.

"Even. Why did you leave? " -me

"What though? you"ll find out sooner or later because you"re too observant. Taska so I left her because I can't enter the female's bathroom. It's good that only you can see. "

Jasper isn"t really that bothered when I discovered that his sister is a woman, its like he trusts me.

"Let me introduce myself again Pr- I mean June. I am Clea Jayden Harrison. " Introducing him to himself. "This is my brother Cleo Jasper Harrison"

"What?" that question suddenly came out of my mouth. "Cleo?"

"Yeah it"s his first name, though he doesn"t use it much since he doesn"t like that name. "-Jayden

"Of course I hate that first name, Cleo sounded like a girl's name or something." Jasper's complaint.

Wait, Cleo? THE Prince"s future knight? But didn't he go with Alistair and Graige? I mean they seem close in my previous life. I didn't see him much but I can feel that Alistair really trusted his Knight.

Where did they meet? At school? But Graige"s already close with Alistair even on the first day, isn"t Cleo?

"Yooo, June ok kalang? You just heard my real name, that was quiet. I know he's ugly ok? " He said frowning. "I hope everyone has a good name. Mine sounded like a Princess"s name. "

"There you can complain to dad." Jasper's mouth was shut when his twin said that. "Also this uniform's too big."

"I told you! Just use the other women's uniform, just the same style in case it's more fit. you still used mine eeehh. I don't have anything extra. The one you wore earlier has a hole in it. " - Jasper

"Is it my fault that you don't want to buy? Someone told you to buy a women's uniform. " Jayden's babbling ah, because maybe there's a visitor.

"Maybe they thought he was gay akooooo. You buy it, you wear it too. " Jasper sighed.

"I'm the oldest of the two, so I'll be the one to follow." Jayden replied.

"What are you? Excuse me not sure who came out first! papa forgot who came out first with the two of us! ! " so they began to quarrel. "Besides, I'm taller, so you're the youngest."

Jayden raised her middle finger, I laughed at what he did.

"Let's report to Papa." –Jayden.

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I am in the dorm now and resting.

Haysss it's not too tiring today. Maybe tomorrow or in the following days I will be busy. Also what does the teacher want from me now?

I stood up and opened my window. Wow the moon looks beautiful tonight.

I sighed and started staring at the moon, what am I gonna do now that my fate has changed? Cleo isn"t that close with Alistair anymore.

I need to prevent the King"s death too, since I was able to change mine. Maybe I can even stop him from killing me. My only clue is he died in a party, it was for Alistair party. Was it his 18th birthday?

If the King won"t be killed, the Queen Candidate won"t be rushed. Am I doing this for the King…? Or for the Prince

What am I going to do now?

While Sir was in class, Jasper was blabbering on, he had been complaining before because he didn't have anything to wear the next day because Jayden had already consumed everything.

"What is that! Buy that because…! " Jasper was like a child complaining.

"It's up to you, buy me." Jayden's short answer.

If they were kids, Jasper would"ve been crying right now. It would"ve been cute if he"s a child but since he"s a young man, yeah he"s still cute.
"Tsk! YES as long as you wash your clothes! The others still have penetration. " Jayden slapped Jasper and grinned.

"Thanks bro." Jasper just stared at him.

"CLEO JASPER HARISSON!" we were surprised when Sir shouted. "Why is that noise ?!"

"Sir kasiiiii, don't shout my full name." We all laughed, Sir Leo just shook hands with him. He really hates his first name huh.

"If you can answer my questions then I'll stop calling your whole name." Jasper's face suddenly lit up. "Give me the classes of Knighthood."

Suddenly, my male classmates began to murmur.

‘Hasn"t that been discussed yet?"
‘Yeah right?"
‘That"s a difficult question."

I raised my eyebrow, hard? There are only 5 main classes if other supporting classes are not included.

"Sir alin don? All or just the main? " Jasper said with a smirk. This guy- very proud indeed. If he"s asking for all then it"ll be hard.

"Just the main, supporting classes are difficult. Too many, I can't even memorize that. " Answer by sir.

"There are 5 classes in Knighthood. First class is the Grand Commander, he rules all the troops. Second class is the Chief Commander, they own each troops of Knights. Third class is the Commander, he trains the Knights, and next class is Knight I and last is Knight II. "

Sir smiled. And clap

"As expected from you." Tas laughed it off. "You learned it from your father didn"t ya child?"

Jasper nodded and sat down. After that the class continued. Good thing Sir's teachings are not too difficult and he is easy to understand. He told us that he also did not want to study before.

My male classmates always ask what happened in Sir's life. He was also asked if he had a child or a wife, so he spent the whole morning talking to Sir about his life.

I"m sure they did it on purpose so that sir wouldn"t be able to class. Sir really enjoys telling stories about what happened in his life.

"I"ll see you all in the training field. We"ll be practicing archery. " Sir says goodbye to us.

We went out and went to the cafeteria, he wasn"t too crowded yet. Fortunately, we sat where we were yesterday.

There were people sitting next to us and they were so noisy, I could hear everything they were saying.

‘Hey have you seen the large tree on the side of the bathroom?"
‘Why? What happened? "
‘The tree went down, when someone kicked it."
‘Who seems to have kicked? He"s so strong! "
‘There was another tree beside when it was kicked, it has a huge hole. It looks like a punch. '
‘Well he didn"t fall like he did before?"
‘He is very angry."
‘Who did it?"
‘No one saw it, there were classes except for the Knighthood course."
‘Maybe from Knight Course? They will be strong too "
'Maybe'
'Scary'

I don't know if I'm chismosa or not but their voices are really loud.

"Weren't you two near at the bathroom too?" Jasper asked. "Don't tell me you did that?"

We raised an eyebrow at Jasper.

"My stomach hurts too much to do that." -Jayden

"I'm floating there." -I said

"If not you two, then who? Didn't you see? " we nodded.

"Yeah we didn't really care that much." I agreed with Jayden, we were in a middle of drama.

We just continued eating because we had an activity later.

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We are here on our school field.

"Dang it Jayden! When I get hurt- THE FUCK! STOP! I DO NOT WANT ANYMORE! "Jasper shouted loudly.

We were practicing archery. We formed in a group of 3 or 2, one of which will hold the target board. We don"t have a target board stand since the upperclassman used a bag that hasn"t been returned. Sir had already gone so Jasper was the first to be held on the target board.

"You"re such a baby, come back! Di kanaman nasaktan eh! You are great. " Jayden's complaint to the brother

"No fucking thanks, I know you're not an archery expert." - Jasper

"So I'm practicing, right?" –Jayden

"Did you forget that time you accidentaly hit big brother"s leg?" Jayden shook his head at Jasper's story. "I remembered it so nope, no thanks! I don"t have any deathwish at the moment. "

They started quarreling again because Jayden really wanted to learn archery. I just hold the quiver filled with arrows.

"Vanderwaine, Harisson- I mean Jayden and Jasper." We were distracted when Sir Leo spoke.

"Come with me."

"So how was your training?" sir's kind question as we just followed him to where we were going. "I almost died." Jasper joked. "Haha, your sister's good at positioning her body though." We all fell silent when we heard that. He knew? How? I thought I'm the only one? "Now, now. I know everything about you all. " Smiling she said. "I was surprised I had two female students, and I was more surprised that they know how to fight. Like I said before, gender doesn"t define your power and skills. " We just quietly listened to him. I saw Jayden bow, so I tapped her shoulders and whispered ‘its ok" to her. "My wife's a Knight too you know." We all looked at him. "Re-really?" Jayden asked. "Of course, I met her in the battlefield. Sadly she passed away, she died protecting our land and I wasn"t even there for her. " Sir's sad storytelling. "So that is why I decided to teach students instead, she loves children." We just kept quiet, tsk we walked for a long time. Where are we going? We stopped at a large doorway in a building. I think we"re in the Political Building right now. "Astraea your righting moves were really familiar, did you get that from your father?" Sir Leo suddenly asked, I immediately stared at him. "You knew my father?" we were still outside the big door, I waited for Sir Leo to answer. "Of course, we were on the same batch. He was the Top 1 and everyone adored him, especially your mother. " He answered with a wink. I would have asked more questions because he had already opened the door. He let us in and there I saw Alistair inside, with Graige and some dude with blonde hair that I didn"t know. Who's that? There were also a teacher with them.They were talking about something, it looks like they were arguing. "You punched the tree because you were bored ?!" the female teacher shouted. "What kind of reason is that? And you two didn"t stop him? " "I'm tired." Graige replied "I was suppose to. But he might end up killing me so, Nah. " Said when turned blonde. Who the heck is this guy? I never seen him in my life, just now really even in my previous life. "Give me one valid reason why he did that?" I saw the blonde guy smiled and answered. "You know teach, it was this girl-" Alistair grabbed collar. "Hey Mariam, we've been here before." They stopped what they were doing, Alistair looked at me with a surprised look like he didn"t know I"d arrive. "Quit scolding them." The female teacher just sighed. "This troublesome- I'll remember you sooner." We saw that Sir Leo and the female teacher had a conversation so we just silently looked at them. "The prince punched the tree-" "Shhh- your blabbering, maybe you'll be the one to be punched by that eh worry." Jayden hushed Jasper, Jasper looked scared of Alistair so he just pouted. The three on the opposite side of us were also quiet, Alistair was giving the blonde guy some death stare while Graige looks sleepy. Sir Leo was still talking to her, and my foot began to numb. "Well kids, take a seat." The female teacher said that we immediately followed. Tas he confronted Alistair. "And you three, I"m not done talking to you. Meet me after this meeting. " "Tsk why am I involved? I didn't punch then! " complaint nung blonde guy. "Shut up." We have all settled down. Earlier we were really quiet, it feels awkward or something. I didn"t look to Alistair"s side… I just don"t know why. "So we're all here today, to start a student council" Sir began. What? Student council ?! This didn"t even happen before! "This is so we can discipline students inside the school." Sir added. "Thank you Graige for suggesting such a wonderful idea, and the owner approved of it too." Graige looked at me right away, did he ?! He suggested forming a student council ?! What does he know about this though ?! He is so lazy. I thought to myself, this didn"t happen in my batch in my previous life. EVER. Student council was created when we already graduated in this school, so why did Graige suggest that ?! Didn"t he know there was a lot of work to be done? Like school activities, parties and events? A princess told me in my previous life that being a student council is really hard. We already have trainings, we even have a student council. On top of that I think Alistair is going to be in this council too. "Graige also suggested that we should choose students that are one of the tops this year." Jasper scratched his head. "Top? Sir isn't there only one top 1 in every course right? Why are we involved? " Jasper asked, "June here is enough as the top student in knighthood course." I heard the blonde guy whistle, Alistair immediately kicked him. "You three are one of the top students in Knighthood course, we can't choose who will be the top 1 so we decided to choose all of you since you three are the only students that has potential in my course." Sir Leo explained. "Well same as my political course, there are two students that always tops my subject." A teacher replied. "I forgot to introduce myself. I am Teacher Mariam from the Political course, I am their adviser. Alistair still takes the lead at top- "How can I beat this guy who has all of the brains? It's even stronger. " sabat nung naka blonde. "Shut up, they're still talking." –Alistair Idk if that was a compliment but maybe? But seriously though, who is this blonde dude. I hadn't seen him on any course before. Only Alistair is the top student in the political course in my previous life. "Then the top student of the Magical course, he"s the only one who tops his own course. His teacher isn"t around here yet because there is a problem with their course building. " Sir explained. "The incident that happened in the Magical course is also the reason why we decided to accept Graige's offer." We looked at Teacher Mariam questionably. "What happened?" I asked. "Graige, explain-
"No, I"m tired. Teacher Merlin asked me to clean the whole room yesterday that I didn"t get enough sleep. " Graige"s complaint and isn"t he disrespecting the teachers too much? Teacher Mariam sighed. "There was a robbery incident that happened in the magical course tower." "What? Did that happen yesterday? " Alistair suddenly asked. Alistair confronted the sleepy Graige, he gave him a ‘what-happened-look" "We're not sure when that happened but that room was off limits because there were poisons and potions stored there." –Teacher Mariam. "No one knew until Merlin decided to get some potions for his experiment. When he entered, there were broken potion bottles and potions and poisons were missing. " - Sir Leo "The bottles that were stolen aren't named yet and they were also not sure what they were for."- Teacher Mariam. "And Merlin is the only one who knew what the potions were for, but he kind of forgot." "Yeah because he's already too old." Graige's comment. This expressionless bastard- "So we decided to create a student council to prevent such incidents again." Jayden and Jasper and I just looked at each other. "What are we going to do as a student council though?" Alistair asked, I just stared at him for some second. He"s handsome and hot as ever- I mean ano… basta. "You will all be in charge if there are events that happen, don"t worry this will give you more bonus for your points. This won"t affect your activity in school. " As explained by Sir Leo. "Of course we"re here to guide you all since this is the first time there is a student council in our school. Of course Alistair will be your leader. " Ugh, of course he is. Now we can no longer avoid not meeting every day.
"Now boys, introduce yourselves. I want your full name do you understand? " promise of Sir Leo. The three of them stood up. Jayden suddenly grabbed my hand, I think she"s afraid to introduce herself. I heard a loud thud in Alistair's band "Aray naman eh!" complaint nung blonde. "I'm not the one who blew- Araaayyy." "Boy's I won't repeat myself" the blonde dude was silenced when he complained when Sir gave them a warning. "Graige Sebastian Borne from the Magical course. Call me Gray please. " Said Gray as he straightened his long hair. "Hey! I"m Karston Cohl Sage from the Political course! Call me Art, and nice to meet ya! " he greeted us warmly. "Alistair Lament, Political course." Alistair's brief greeting. Jayden tightened his grip on me, she"s so nervous right now I can feel it. "Your turn." We stood together. "The name"s Cleo Jasper Harrison from the Knighthood department. I prefer if you call me Jasper, Cleo is just weird. " Jasper's start. Jayden just leaned over while holding onto my arm, I hold her hand. I feel like someone is staring massively at me when I hold Jayden's hand. I just shrugged it off and spoke. "Juniper Astraea Vanderwaine from the Knighthood course, call me June. Nice to meet you all. " I see Jasper tapping his sister"s shoulders. Jayden was still bent over but he let go of my hand. "C-Clea Jayden Harrisson." Jayden said shyly. "P-please call me Jayden." Tas bowed repeatedly. The massive stare went down when Jayden introduced herself. Who's that? The presence is very intense. We continue discussing about something and then decided to go back to our dorms since late. We didn't realize that it was afternoon, it was time to go home. Sir leo said we"ll be meeting every weekend for an ididiscuss. We all agreed to that and got rid of it. Jasper and Jayden and I went to the dorm together. Jayden went to the bathroom to change a napkin while me and Jasper just waited for her outside. Then suddenly the blonde dude showed up. "Hey Jasper! Wanna go by at the lake tonight? " The blonde said enthusiastically- I mean Art. "What? What are you going to do? " Art laughed and slapped Jasper's back, feeling close amp. "Take a bath of course! No one really knows don since it's behind the Magical Course building. Alistair and Gray are with us. " Smiling she said. "Your twin can come- "My twin is a girl." Jasper said rudely. "HAHA Just a joke of course" he laughed out loud. "Too bad Gray really wants to see her." "What- "Hey June wanna come? It"ll be fun! " when he invites me. "Uh no thanks, I'm busy." I refused. "Oh dear, just Jasper. Come later! " Moreover, Art left. He seems active and energetic in socializing. We had just met so much talk. Jasper and I just sighed, Jayden came out and we went home to his dorms. Jayden stays at the boy"s dorm, the room in our dorm is said to be the same size so it fits the two of them very well. I insist that maybe she"ll stay with me instead in case she doesn"t want to because there is no one to wash her brother"s clothes. I"m just sitting at my study table reading books, I"m so bored and too early to go to sleep. I heard a knock on the door. "Who is that…?" I stood up and opened the door, it was Jayden and he was gasping. "J-Jayden? Are you okay?" "S-Si Jasper!"

To be continued...