Chapter 43 - everything new?

Dad left the house a few days ago to inform us that he has another meeting in KL, which I don't care about, but I respect him a little because he has talked to mom about what really happened and he has found ways to solve his problems. Sylvia is still wary of Siti as a result of the incident a few nights ago. But my new family consists of Sylvia and Steward, and the house is expanding. Tama has returned, and this time she has learned common sense, as she is less likely to walk naked in the toilet than before. Our midterm results have been posted in school, and the PMR and SPM trial tests appear to have been given. I checked my own result, and it is on the list.PMR Trial test (mid term test)

3 Buccaneers Alexander Imran

Bahasa Malaysia (C), English (A), Math (B), Islamic Studies (C), Geography (A), Life Skills (A), Science (B) (A) History

I go over Mariam and Amin's results.

Mariam Binti Junaidi 3 Buccaneers

English - A, Bahasa Malaysia - A, Maths - C, Islamic Studies - D, Geography - C, Life Skills - C, Science - D; History - B

Amin Amiruddin Bin Faruq (3 Buccaneers)

Bahasa Malaysia (A), English (A), Math (A), Islamic Studies (A), Geography (B), Life Skills (B), Science (A). History - B

Amin is the smartest of the three of us. Amin is currently ranked in the top ten of PMR trial test student performance. Mikhail and Peter are among the top five. I'm in the top 30 at my school. While Mariam is in the bottom 40.

Mariam went to see her results, but she was uninterested in them, despite Amin's efforts to try and convince her to improve her grades. Amin suggested that we study at Mariam's house because there would be no distractions from other families.

"Is that all of it, or is there something else?" I'm being sarcastic to Amin because he made excuses about how much time he spends with Mariam.

"Um, maybe it's not a good idea because instead of studying later, I'll be messing around with the studio." Mariam is probably hiding something.

"Yeah, her place is ideal because she is the only one there."

Mariam gives me the middle finger and responds sarcastically.

"Would you like to watch live porn?" Where did that come from? She's keeping something from me. There is a huge commotion in the classroom when we arrive. George and Hanim wanted to know where one of them is charging at me.

"Hey, Alex!" I've heard there's a new girl at 2 Catsy named Siti!!" What now? "It's a huge cat fight now!!" Even Priscilla is on her way!" I'd rather avoid it now. Until Tama shouted back, "Alex!!"

"Uh, yeah?"

"They're having a huge fight right now, and the seniors of Catsy are trying to keep it under control; they need your help!!"

"Sorry, I'll pass."

“Huh?”

"It means I don't want to get involved in their stupid affairs or whatever they were planning to do."

“Mariam?”

"Uh...let me handle this," Mariam said as she kicked me in the head.

“Dumbass!!” She went straight to Catsy in class 2. I did warn Sylvia about it first thing in the morning, though. But I was really worried about this. "Dude, that's cold blooded," Amin said. "You know you're going to have a reputation."

“Whatever….” I kept studying my papers. Suddenly, the intercom makes an announcement.

"The craziest girl, the most outgoing babe I've ever met!!" What the hell happened? That is my voice!! Is that what I'm thinking? Amin couldn't say anything, so Mariam made the announcement while Amin looked at me.

"I'm pretty sure that's your voice, dude" oh shit!! Every student is paying attention.

"She is the one and only for me!!" It's actually my voice!! I dash into the media room in search of Mariam. Don't do it!! I ran as fast as I could, ignoring my thoughts and my rage towards Mariam. She continued to deliver her announcement. Right now, all I can think about is killing her. Some of the students were staring at me, and the announcement was repeated.

"Another babe is with another crazy girl who has big boobs. She does, however, have a mean kick. Another is a tall girl with a mean punch. Now another cute girl is crazier than the others" son of a bitch!! Don't say that again!! When I got there, I only saw a recording of the voice, but I know I didn't say that. I'm not sure how she managed to make my own voice. I start looking for Mariam while yelling at her,

"HEY MARIAM WHERE ARE YOU NOW!!!!" I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!” Another announcement, where the hell has she gotten all this equipment?

“KUKUKU!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!! ASSHOOLEEEE!!!! "

If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to get her!! I walk out of the media room with a sharp kick to the face. I took off and slammed into the wall, that now hurts. But it's Sylvia who turns my rage into fear, while Priscilla and Siti smiled at me. I just saw Mr Rahman being dragged by Priscilla while he was saying something to me.

"Run away, Alex....they're going for the....kill..." He's passed out.

"Uh, relax, that's Mariam doing her shit"

"Is that so...darling?" Sylvia looking at me (yandere mode) oh shit

“Babe!! "What is it with being insane?" Priscilla clenched her fist and looked down at me, "Honey....is that what you think about me?" Siti (Yandere mode) trying to intimidate me with a cricket bat. The only thing on my mind right now is running away. Not again!!

“Sorry!!” I jump off the first floor and try to find a place to hide until I find Mariam. What the hell, I'm going to be beaten up by a bunch of girls on the very first day of school!! I found the only place where they could not find me. And by chance, I just happened to see Mariam and Amin together; they appear to be planning something while I listen in on their conversation.

"I don't think it's a good idea right now, Honey."

"that stupid moron!!" I'm going to teach him a lesson he won't forget if he runs away from this problem."

I sneak up behind them, fist clenched. Pummeling them up while carrying them and tying them up with a rope. I hung them in the school halls while I wrote a note there.

'Look who it is!!' 'The insane couple!!'

I tried to hide myself while they passed out. When some of the students saw the two being hung, they began to yell, "Eyarhghhh!! Help!!!” That will teach them a lesson. I went straight to Hana's class, where they never expected to see me at this hour. Hana and the others were puzzled as the teacher looked at me.

"Err, senior students?"

"Err, just keep teaching teacher, I'm going to listen, don't worry about anything," Hana said to me. "Big brother is hanging out with me!!"

“Hana!! "Be quiet!!"

“Okay!!”

While the teacher ignores me, I sit between the classrooms, attempting to blend in. Another announcement comes over the intercom, this time from Mr Rahim, who says, "To the student of 2 Catsy!! And three Buccaneers!!! You're all going to detention after school!!! If you do not return to class!!" Then I heard a disturbance behind the intercom.

"The Captain is escorting the entire crew to the planks!!"

"IT'S MR RAHIM, YOU'RE DEAD!!!"

Hana's teacher shakes her head as she looks at me.

"You seniors have a lot of free time, don't you?"

"Yeah, I'd rather be a normal student in this classroom."

"Would you be interested in attending another class?"”

“uh..would you be interested in being to another class?”

“Yeah but please continue teacher”

“Uh okay…”

I stayed until lunchtime, while Hana and her friends followed me. For a while, I hang out with Hana. While she is playing with her friends, I sleep on the bench because it is more peaceful than class. Mariam and Amin are probably furious. Someone has a firm grip on my shoulder.

"Hey Hana, I'm sleeping right now."

"Oh, my darling..." Oh no, it's Sylvia. I slowly open my eyes, then close them again, hoping it was all a dream.

"Get away from Big Brother!!" Bad girl!!!! Grr!!!” Hana is standing up for me.

"Don't worry, Hana; Big Sis is helping him.”

I just close my eyes and hope she runs away. But she's still there, angry. Shit!! Simply get out of here. I suddenly felt something soft come to the fore from my head, and I could hear Hana yelling at her.

"Get out of Big Brother, bad girl!!" "You're getting really close to your big brother!!"

"No can do because he isn't waking up... right darling," I think. Is that her boobs squeezing my face? Is there anyone who could help me? How the hell did she find out I'm here? Is she a medium?

"You think I don't know that darling, the only place you could hide is you little sister?” She's tightening her grip on my thighs. While she asked, "You know darling, I know a lot of ways to make you cry," I did not respond and went to sleep. Oh, damn it, I feel her mouth smooching me!! This is the goddamn school!! What the hell was she thinking?

"Bad girl, stay away from big brother!!" Hana said as she pulled her away from me.

"Sorry, Hana," I heard something knock her down. I heard a loud commotion and opened my eyes slowly to see Hana sleeping like a cat. Something has caught my attention and I began to ask some questions.

“Why the hell the first thing come out from your head, you suddenly started fighting with her?”

"Well, I'm just annoyed with how she suddenly declared to everyone in the class that she has a commitment with someone she cares about, and tells me that I know as well."

"And you just charge in without even thinking?"

"Yep, that infuriates me.”

"Uh huh…" Siti is either a typical antisocial girl or she lacks common sense in social skills when she picks a fight with Sylvia. If Siti and Mariam become best friends, that would be the worst kind of coalition in school.I open my eyes and see her teasing me through her eyes. While she is stroking Hana's head.

"Kinda feel sorry for Hana to put her to sleep" yeah, I'm intrigued where you learned to knock people like that?

"Mariam forced me to settle it, but she only makes things worse."

"I didn't ask for help because I really need to teach her a lesson about bragging about it right now."

"I know that, which is why I don't want to get involved."

"Anyway, it's time to go back to class; you carry Hana to class, then we walk back together, and you escort me back to class."

“Ceh!!” I sneered at her while Sylvia laughed. When we dropped her off at her classroom, her classmates approached me and asked, "Hey Big Brother Alex?"

“Yeah?”

"Do you think you could lend a hand?"

"What exactly is it, kid?"

"My big sister is from 5 Catsy, and someone from Borneo College always bullies her whenever she returns to school."

"All right, but I'm curious who she is."

"Her name is Radiah!! If you find the bully, could you please ask them to stop bullying my big sister?"

Sylvia kneels down and smiles at the little girl.

"Leave it to me because I believe I know who bullied your big sister.”

“You know them?”

"Yep, I've been waiting for this moment," she says, fist pumping her fist and asking with me to leave her alone. Something big could be going on. When I returned to class, I saw Mr Rahim hanging Mariam and Amin alive, while Priscilla was doing the squat while holding both her ears as punishment. Mr Rahim then points towards me and says, "ALEX!! FOR YOUR PUNISHMENT!!, YOU ARE GOING TO CLEAN THE SCHOOL'S BACK PARK!!, MAKE SURE IT'S SPOTLESS CLEAN, WHILE THIS STUPID COUPLE IS GOING FOR DETENTION TOGETHER”

Mariam slowly points a middle finger towards me, served you right for being an ass. When the school bell rang, I went straight to the back yard to begin cleaning it; damn, it's filthy and full of trash; why the hell did the students not clean this place? To pick up the trash, I brought a plastic bag and a grass sweeper. While I was doing this, I heard a noise on the other side of the wall. While having to clean, I slowly climbed up the wall and viewed what appeared to be our student and a group of Borneo College girls who surrounded her and began shouting at her.

"Bitch, you seem to enjoy yourself at that school!!" One of the girls removed her hijab while another mocked her, saying, "You know, you're not cute!!" Radiah started crying after she slapped her face. But then a guy came in, and it appears that they are gathering. Are these losers doing this behind our backs?

Then one of them decided to rape her. "She looked cute, let me have fun with her," he tried to pull away her panties below, shit!! I can't take it any longer. Suddenly, Sylvia appears and kicks the guy in the balls while he collapses in pain. That hurt, especially the kick from Sylvia. "Bitch!!" I could hear them say. “You're Halim's babe!! What are you doing here?"

"I don't know, Jana, maybe this will refresh your mind?"

She knocked herself out with a kick to the head. She's really good; she's knocked out some of the guys there, but one thing is certain. Maybe I could have some fun with the thugs who are gathering behind the school. I leap off and drop kick one of them, knocking him out cold. One of them looked at me and recognised me right away, so he drew back and yelled at them.

"That dude!! I recognise him; he was the one who single-handedly defeated gangs a few months ago!!"

One of the terrified people began to flee. But I punched him right away, and he flew off into the bushes. Some of them didn't recognise me and ran off to beat me up; they really annoyed me, so I grabbed one of the guys' fists and swung the guy around like a weapon, throwing them off. They don't waste time and have begun to bring weapons to a fist fight. One of them lunged at me; I managed to grab hold of it and break the guy's arm, dislocating it; he screamed in pain as I punched him and slammed him to the ground. Their expressions were terrified, and one of them began to piss himself. One of them attempted to kick me, but I grabbed his legs and slammed him against the wall. I could see them freeze in terror. There is no mercy for such people. While I beat the crap out of them. I make a beeline for Sylvia. I could only see the carnage that Sylvia caused; she is enraged at them, and even the girls are not spared by her brutal fighting methods. When she saw that girl, she wanted to kill her.

I had to stop her until I was able to pull her away at the last moment. And Sylvia exclaimed harshly, "Alex, let me go!!" I'm really looking forwards to this moment!!" Sylvia is furious with this girl; something they did in the past must have caused Sylvia to beat the crap out of them.

"Well, you did a number of them, including the first day of school”

"Alex, just shut up for the moment" she is dead serious. She is going to warn her by glaring at her.

"This isn't the first time I've noticed you doing this," she says as she slaps her. One of the guys told her.

"Don't be arrogant, I've got backup bitch!!" Nothing happens when he whistles at them. I ask directly of the fella.

"Do you mean that group over there?" I pointed to the location of the group I had beaten up. The guy is shock to see them laying down on the ground.

"Who in the world are you?!?" There appears to be someone they are unaware of. Sylvia started telling me about the dark side of Borneo College.

"Because of their parents' influence, some of them did not even attend class. So they have been doing whatever they want at that school, such as this." I had never heard of this before. But, according to Mr. Rahman, this school keeps such a close secret that no one ever finds out. One of them yelled at me, "Hey!!" someone stood on the top of the wall, Sylvia became terrified and told me about this guy.

"He is one of Borneo's top elite students, and most of us avoid him." Sylvia began to get overwhelmed of this. When one of them approached her and punched her in the gut, she passed out. I glared at him, and he smiled back. He suddenly kicked my head, but it didn't hurt. He is, however, taken aback. I carried Sylvia out and called Radiah to bring her back to school.

The man who assaulted Sylvia introduced himself to me.

"My name is Luqman!! "Who are you?" I gave him the middle finger and asked Radiah to come back to school. While I stare at the group, she carries Sylvia back. I ask directly of Luqman.

"Do you know Sylvia and Radiah?" Luqman looks at me and says,

"Why do you need to know?" I immediately pull his hair back and look him in the eyes.

"Perhaps it depends on how I respond," my heart is racing fast because I can't wait to beat the crap out of this guy. One of them tried to attack me, but when I kicked him, he flew off the wall and landed on the other side. Some of them were terrified by this.

"They are Halim's bitch," Luqman says, "but Halim warns me about it because he still thinks the two are her woman."

"Really?" I let go of his hair, and he immediately tried to punch my gut with a metal knuckle, but I couldn't feel anything because of my adrenaline.

"That's insane, a normal guy would have fainted on the spot," this guy was desperate to see himself fly. I give him an uppercut right to the jaw, he flies away with some of his teeth broken to pieces, he faints and hangs from the school walls. I turned to face the others and said to them.

"Would you mind giving me a tour of this school?" One of them tried to run away, so I carried one of the unconscious students and threw at him, and he was hit and slammed against the wall. I really wanted to let loose this time, so I jumped off and carried Luqman while screaming,

"HEY!!! HALIM, WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!!!?”

Because it is after school, no other students or teachers should be present. However, some of the students appear to be present and see me, and they recognise me and enquire.

"Hey, that's Luqman. He's a troublemaker at this school. How did you catch him?" It appears that they have a problem with troublemakers as well. I'm not sure what's going on. I had to lie to them because if they discovered that I had beaten him, I would undoubtedly face disciplinary action.

"Well, he jumps off and falls off the fence by accident. He broke his own tooth while slamming on the floor, poor bastard, even though I had to carry him because he always muttered Halim "

"Well, at least he has been nabbed, but Halim is unavailable because he is currently competing in an international competition." one of the teachers called us.

"What the hell is going on here?!?" It appears that I was previously taught Bahasa Malaysia by a teacher.

"Hiya, is that you, Alex? How are you doing?”

"Yeah, I'm fine, how about you, sir?”

“Yeah, everything appears to be fine as usual, but isn't that Luqman?How did you get him even when I couldn't find him?” the teacher is taken aback to see him.

“Uh...hahahaha, he got into an accident and fell from the school fence”

“Darn, he looked really bad, so let me send him to the infirmary, we have a dentist on standby”

I handed Luqman to the teacher, and the two students introduced themselves.

"My name is Kallie Norman, and this is Mark; we are Form 3 students here."

"Heya, hello" Kallie asked me again, and I shake hands with both of them.

"You know you're famous in this school because of your accomplishment in bringing the basketball team to the semi-pro level, even the old coach was dismissed as a result, and now they're looking to rebuild the team" wow that bad huh. Things appear to be improving. Mark then goes on to explain

"For the time being, Borneo College is divided into two factions because one supports merging with SIGMA due to performance and SIGMA had a lot more fun rather than some of the stupid traditions that are not only not making us grow but are making us worse by every point!!" The other faction is the loyalists, who wanted to prevent people like us from making a change." It appears that I could get along with them. They appear to be friendly, but I had to be careful because of my previous experiences with Borneo students.

"Does that mean Mr Rahman approached you guys?"

"Yes, he invited us to join the class."

"Would you like to join us for our class?"

“Really!!” Their eyes began to sparkle with hope, as if they were small children. I invited them to my class. We tried to sneak into the class, and it was Ms Sahara's class today, so I brought them and sat behind them while Amin and Mariam stood in front. George asked about them.

“Hey!! "Are they from?"

"Heck yeah, from Borneo."

"What's going on?"

"Yeah, thanks for allowing us to take this class."

"Of course, have fun."

Mark and Kallie become active participants in class. As soon as lunchtime arrived, Amin and Mariam inquired about them. I introduce myself and explain why they are interested in this school.

"Hey Alex, your class is even more interesting than my boring school session."

“Right?!” It appears that Mr Rahman is planning something from here. I recall Sylvia passing out and ask Mariam to look after them.

"What exactly happened?"

Radiah sent Sylvia to the infirmary after she fainted." Mariam kicked me and tried to accuse me of something.

"Did you do anything to really make her happy?" What the hell is that question? Plus, I didn't do anything at all. Radiah unexpectedly called me.

"Hello, Alex!!"

“Yeah?” "Thank you for your help me!!" she bowed. I realize how hard it is as a direct consequence of it."

"Thanked your little sister then because she is the one who told us about it," she says as she walks towards her younger sister's class and I walk towards the infirmary. Sylvia is still unconscious as a result of the punch. I sat there, waiting for her to wake up. The nurse asked whether she was sleeping peacefully while I waited.

"Is she looking for a fight?" The nurse asks what happened, and I respond,

"Uh...nope, is there a problem, ma'am?"

"Yeah, because her abdomen is swollen, but nothing to worry about because we did an x-ray."

"Well, that's a relief." Sylvia is still in discomfort, and the nurse asked for details about her.

"Do you know who she is?"

"Yeah, she's like my little sister," the nurse said before suddenly offering me a medicine.

"All right, then! I'm busy with another student who is sick in another class; I needed help applying this medicine to her abdomen." I believe she misunderstood what I meant, and she left the infirmary right away. But, dammit, I see her in pain. I had no choice but to handle and manage the treatment. While applying the cream, I slowly open her blouse. She is moaning in pain, and tears are streaming down her cheeks. I applied it, wrapped the bruise, and buttoned back her blouse. Mariam is smiling at me as she does it. Nothing worse than another misunderstanding,

"Kukuku, did you do anything with her?" It's really embarrassing that I threw a bottle at her while she was trying to avoid being hit, and it hit Amin. He passed out instantaneously, and when Sylvia regained consciousness and started to look around, she called me, "Alex?" I called her back, and she smiled with relief, but she noticed that her abdomen was wrapped in bandages, and she wondered what had happened. I don't want to tell her the truth only to have Mariam immediately show her what happened. Sylvia's face flushes and she avoids looking at me.

I told Mariam what had happened, and she hugged her while lecturing her, saying,

“If Alex hadn't been there, god knows what would have happened to you and Radiah” Mariam was furious when she asked me what had happened to the guy.

"I sent him flying with a broken tooth," Mariam mused, holding my shoulder.

"There's nothing like a good old-fashioned instant revenge!!" While Sylvia's friends come and meet her, I exit the infirmary and proceed to Mr Rahman's office. Melissa and Mr Rahman are also present, as if they were expecting my arrival.

"Good, we've got our own special guy here," Mr Rahman says as he grabs my shoulder.

"We need to discuss something."

“Yeah? Why didn't you call Mariam as well, she's the presidential candidate, right?”

“You could say I need to tie up some loose ends before passing on to Mariam. I don't want our old problem to resurface unexpectedly during her presidency.” I sighed, knowing this was going to happen. When I asked her what I needed to do, she told me about the incident with Radiah.

“Ever since Radiah's attack is not uncommon with this because Micheal is handling it with the Borneo College student that support us. However, it appears that the other faction is threatened by this because their tradition is about to change and their way of life at school is in jeopardy.”

"What do you mean by that?" I have a feeling that this was Mr Rahman's original plan, to merge Borneo College and SIGMA before the end of the year. It was only a dream at first, but it was getting closer to the goal that Mr Rahman had set for himself.

"Yep, it appears that we have finally gained support from Borneo College students who wanted change, particularly the elites," someone calls us and introduces himself.

"Hello, Mr Rahman and President," said an elegantly dressed man and woman in a suit. An elderly man also enters the office. Now that it appeared to be an official meeting, they introduced themselves as the PTA of Borneo College's second faction. Their hopes are to see a change in the school system now that the project and Borneo College have received attention from the Ministry of Education.

"When we received a report from the Ministry of Education indicating that some of the funds given to the school had been misused by the administration. The question of a beach resort stay in for the administration and school councils is one of the records in the audits. They also learn that the embezzlement did not stop there. The link between Halim's father and the elites, which involved a large sum of money, was used for other purposes. Using Sylvia's father's authority to conceal their activities. However, thanks to your efforts in launching SIGMA and Alex's indirect act in breaking the scandal, a new chapter in Borneo College has begun.”

Mr Rahman burst out laughing, while the others were puzzled. Melissa helps explain to me, "Mr Rahman already anticipated this, because the principal of Borneo College did not listen to his words of wisdom and it took another turn in his favour" "Simply put all of this under his palm" I'm wondering to whom villain is right now, and I feel bad for Borneo College in general. But I kept my mouth shut and listened to their conversation.

"The plan of merging Borneo and SIGMA will estimate after SPM and the result of both PMR and SPM including STPM. Borneo will be reborn as BORNEO-SIGMA Academy once the project was done.”

"It appears to be an intriguing plan, but what are your plans?"

"The class will be the same between SIGMA and Borneo, but the course will be different as planned; we are going to shake up education right now."

This is way above my head; why am I involved in this? I became dumbfounded, but Melissa clarified things for me, and we both left the office for the library. She wanted to explain what happened during the school semester vacations.

"Are you telling me you ended up spending the holidays at this school?"

"With that out of the way, it's my turn to ask you. I'm now seeing how much of this is a coincidence, because after you came to this school and suddenly responded in kind to the elite, everything changed instantly. "Alex, tell me what you think about this."

I agreed with her; this is far too coincidental. When I returned to Malaysia, Mr Hawk suddenly and unexpectedly asked Natalie to accelerate her education, and Mom became deeply involved in research and development. As if she planned all of this to ensure that me and Hana had an interesting school life or something. This sparked my curiosity and I wanted to find out what Mom was up to. We kept talking about it until William entered the library with their child. William suddenly started asking questions.

"Did you talk to the Zhaos?" Must the incident with Sylvia and her family problems be recognised?

"Yeah, Melissa, you didn't tell me you and Sylvia are a Chinese Mafia family!"

"Uh, I did it, didn't I? Because I told you you didn't want to be involved with us."

"Uh huh" I don't want to go into too much detail about their family. "And you, I know your personal history, are you from the Shariful Ahmad family!?"

William is surprised, and I'm not sure who told him, but I'm sure Mr Rahman explained it to them.

"It was just a name; I never really liked it."

"Oh, because Mr Rahman told me that you were supposed to replace the elder as the candidate for Family Head."

"No, not my style because I prefer not to get involved in their complicated family issues; however, just having mum, dad, Hana, and Sam is enough for me.”

"What a waste, but it's your life; no wonder the Zhaos' family matriarch accepted you without hesitation."

“Huh?”

"They changed their minds and wanted Sylvia to be near you, but she refused."

Damn, you must be very concerned about this.

"Anyway, thanks because now I'm not an outcast but rather a member of the family, but forget about me because I'm concerned about you."

“Huh?”

"I have a feeling you're being used," I admit for the first time, but I couldn't help myself because I don't know what's going on. I keep silent about it while Melissa explains it to me again.

"I wanted to investigate this Borneo Foundation one of our main sponsors and its not a small amount of funding they provide to us is just that there is one division that intrigues me, and that is Research division," that is my mom's workplace.

"I asked Hazlan about it, and one file project pops up when he's attempting to hack" are you attempting to break into my mother's workplace? Talk about Hazlan being the ultimate hacker.

"Project Lilith," they called it? Now that's an out-of-this-world story; I couldn't believe it, but I had to find out about it later, and I really need to change the subject.

"Whatever you want to say to me, President?"

"Sorry, we're going to support them, the faction that supported our movement, and you'll be our usual muscle."

"What if I want to decline because I'd rather have a normal life than your crazy ideas, Melissa?”

"No other option because Mr Rahman stated that you are critical to this project," not me again! This has really annoyed me. Melissa explains the plan, one of which I really wanted to simply ignore: convincing the second faction's elites to join this project without question.

"Isn't this the symbol of a tyrant?"

"For this kind of group, only strength and power, especially money and position, they listen, and since you have a strong reputation among the hooligans from this town, no one will dare if you stand as a member of the student Councils," that is the perfect word to use, rather than question my mom is using me. She's also a sly character, so I have to be extra cautious around her or I'll have regrets later in life. Perhaps I should just go with the flow.

"Whatever, but once you have all of the information, just fill me in on the details."

"Yes, where are you going because we have a PTA meeting?"

"Not my problem," I say as I walk out the door to meet Mr Marcus for more training. Mr Marcus explained that with the usual heavy training, my body began to show muscle, and my strength with carrying a heavy military bag is nothing compared to the first time.

"You're getting stronger, and have you noticed how rarely you get angry right now?" I realised that even when confronted with a large group, I didn't get blown up by beating them senseless again. But Mr Marcus asked for a favour, and he asked me to lend a hand in one of Mat's football clubs due to his injury during the qualification game against KK Highschool.

"How long will it take him to recover from his injury?" Mr Marcus sighed and replied, "About a month, due to a shoulder injury sustained during a collision with one of the players."

"Uh huh…

But I'm not very good at soccer."

"Didn't you play before?"

"Not at this level of competition!"

"Just help them out for the next four games." I became initially reluctant, but since Mr Marcus asked for a favour, I had to agree to it.

"Fine, but only for four games."

"Thank you, kid, but what position did you play when you were in America?"

"Winger, full back, or wing back"

"Interesting, because the funny thing is that most of our players are not even well-seasoned wingers, maybe we could use this," he is getting over in his head, I’m not a great player in soccer though. Mr Marcus immediately led me to their training pitch. One of them is familiar to me. Sani recognises me and waves.

"Hey, Alex!!"

"What's going on?"

“Coach!! "May I ask directly as to what is going on right now?"

"Could you tell me what you're working on right now?"

"We're talking about changing tactics without Mat because he's our main attacking force."

"Well then, I've asked Alex to join us temporarily until Mat returns to fitness." Mat greets me.

"Hey, Alex."

"How's it going, what happened to your arm?"

"Some idiot collided with me and pushed me aside, but he got a red card for it and we won it, but look at me now" It's amazing how much Mat has changed from a delinquent to a professional athlete. Mat is one of the players being scouted for the Malaysian National Team. He really is a good looking guy to begin with.

“Well then I need to catch up in soccer then”

"It's FOOTBALL!!!!" Everyone is agitated, but they make fun of me for being an American. We started with the basics after the introduction because dribbling with my feet is different than dribbling in basketball. We practise passing, long passing, lobs, and crossing. Mr Marcus summoned us to a simple sprint to assess our fitness. Sani and the others were performing admirably in their 100-meter dash, clocking times ranging from 14 to 16 seconds. Then it was my turn, and I sprint as usual, reaching a speed of 14 seconds. Most of them are exhausted from the sprint, but I manage to maintain my stamina because that's what I'm good at.

“Damn man, you really strong, maybe we could have a good winger this time.” Mat approach me and said that I had to practice my passing and crossing, because to be a good winger I need to be good in passing, and running with ball and breaking the defence on the wing. Looks like I need more time for this.