39 Result 1 (1/2)
Like what the system said, Felicity didn't come to school. Flag ceremony and all morning classes ended with nobody seeing even her shadow.
Sofony believed it was for the best. The girl would not witness first hand how people talk about her dirtily, pointing at her nude and nauseating pictures plastered all over the campus. She would not be more heartbroken that way. After all, what the eyes cannot see would not be able to hurt the heart. Oh, she phrased it wrong. It was actually 'what the eyes can't see, the heart doesn't grieve'.
She remembered all that happened around 7:50, before the start of the first subject period.
''Should be the work of the student publication...''
Wendy's expression was very scary when Sofony arrived and passed by the entrance of their building where the bulletin boards were. Her best friend was there, standing near the rear end of the crowd, glaring at the sea of people feasting their eyes on the naked captures of Felicity and Floyd's whole gang. The school was much livelier and noisier than usual and the commotion was on a greater scale than when people were gossiping about the murder case yesterday.
”Sofony, don't look. It's bad news. A very bad one.” Wendy's tone was very low and icy.
”...I, already saw it.”
Back then, she stood next to Wendy with bowed head. She couldn't bring herself to really look at the scene directly. Her heart was not ready. The cause of all this nightmare was her.
She remembered the conversation that followed after she said that. Wendy became very furious and began to scold and curse everyone that she could. As her guilty best friend, Sofony didn't speak and only listened.
”This is a real stupid mess.” Wendy started, and she made out how every word was stressed with anger, mockery, disgust, and some emotion that she didn't know.
”Just yesterday, Floyd is being badmouthed for raping, killing and running away, but he's still on the run out there, because badmouthing couldn't help us get him caught and imprisoned.”
”And I don't know why I'm bringing that scumbag up in this damn conversation.”
”But look at this stupid bunch. They probably all watched the videos already. Maybe even relieved themselves as they did. And now, these stupid articles and pictures are up. I'm sure this is the work of that stupid publication that can never wait to make a huge gossip out of every little damn thing.”
She remembered, by that point, everybody in front of or near the bulletin board heard Wendy's voice. They quietened down and looked back to a girl so angry that her queenly aura was on full swing. Unfortunately, this same girl was so consumed by her emotions.
”So why am I ranting after seeing these wonderful photos and articles that everyone is dying to read and see, and even take pictures of? I don't know. I don't even know what I am saying. Probably I am just so annoyed and disgusted by what I am seeing.”
At those words, somebody courageously inserted a remark in between Wendy's raging speech, and said, ”R-right, this is really disgusting.”
A simple comment. It came from a sweet looking girl who later received a very scary eyeing from Wendy.
”You know. Everyone can see. It's disgusting! And everyone is loving it! Who can tell me why it's so contradictory? Eh? It's because it's the greatest scandal of the year? A very juicy gossip material?”
”The point is, everyone is not even asking why a video like that suddenly appear. Nobody asked if the face is not exchanged with some AV actress.”
Another one braved the lion, ”I-I am a video analyst, it's not been edited or magicked in any way.”
”Oh, then here's a dumbass goofily interrupting my speech. So then, why is nobody answering my first question? Who uploaded it? What is the motive? Why after that rapist murderer playboy disappeared? Heh, don't tell me no one noticed the dogs are the rapist and his gang? Wow. Tell me, how many of my questions can you all answer?”
Sofony that time bit her lip. The system taunted her that she perfectly knew all the whats and whys.
Wendy then continued to argue and pointed out that no matter if the video was real, funny, sexy, damnable or whatever, it should not have been posted this blatantly in public. She publicly, before the rushing teachers and staffs, questioned why this kind of immoral posts was allowed to be stickied into the bulletin boards. Was this what they go to school for? Wendy said, if it was, then she better drop out now to save herself from being tainted.
”No one knows the truth. I'm sure of that. Now, what of it if you saw the video showing how the participants enjoyed the act? Is all there is already the whole truth? You don't know the girl's side, those bastards side. What's the story behind it? And who's the son of the bitch who so kindly shared these atrocities to the stupid us that are now evicting someone to death just because of some dirty videos?”
'The person is not a son of a bitch... But the bitch herself... is next to you.' The guilty girl looked away, with her lips and eyelashes trembling.
Wendy did her best to stand up for her friend and succeeded to at least make the crowd try thinking deeply about the matter. A teacher ashamedly and madly directed to take down all of the scandalous contents.
Unfortunately, the video's speaking power was much greater. Every content was a solid slap to Felicity's already very stinky reputation. Inside and outside of the school, she was being talked about, in a very bad way.
'So... Her name is Felicity? The famous wench of Holy Child Academy?'
'Oh, yeah, the beautiful future AV actress, a prostitute who enjoys fucking with his boyfriend and everyone in her boyfriend's gang within the hidden room of their school. I wonder if she's open to common people like us?'
As all of these talks happened all around the premises, Sofony tried to see how Chris was doing, but when she questioned someone from Section B, the random person told her he was not around. Chris Meyer had even asked to be excused from the afternoon classes due to an extreme headache.
'I'm sure he already knows...'
<System: My dear stupid host.He must be blind and deaf otherwise. And surely, it's not due to an extreme headache, but heartache. Hehe. You know, even though I am not a human, my database has so many collections of information upon how brokenhearted guys react to situations like this. Why don't we have a bet? I'm sure that Chris, currently, is crying, angry and feeling betrayed. He must be thinking of suicide already, best if he's thinking of killing his beloved hated childhood sweetheart. Haha. It's so fun. I'm so proud of my imagination. I can imagine him joining your ranks after committing murder!>
'Have I told you how much I always want to kill you? You're the most spiteful thing I've ever encountered! There's never been a day that I didn't regret binding with you! Go to hell!'
<System: Sorry, even though I'm immoral, AIs don't go to hell. But I'm sure after you die, you'll go there unless you can reach the highest level of immorality. If you do, you'll make even the deepest pit of hell reject you. Hahaha.>
Sofony did her best to control her emotions. She couldn't let her insecurities and bad mood be reflected in her expression because there's still a person before her. She did her best to appear attentive to what Chris' classmate was saying and then after some time, she bid the person a farewell. Her footsteps were heading towards her classroom. Evidently, Sofony decided to ditch the afternoon classes. She only told Wendy before fetching her bag and disappearing from the school.
<System: Do you even know where to go?>
She stopped on the sidewalk and anxiously waited for a cab to pass. Before giving a reply, Sofony let her heart calm down first as she had been greatly made bitter by the system a while ago.
”I don't know. But system, I just realized last night. When you offered me information on how Felicity and Chris were doing, that was after we released the videos, you said it was a purchase... And I think it implies I can actually buy intel from you!”