2 This One's First Day of School

Less than two hours passed.

I woke and get up from my bed. I looked at the clock that says it's 6 a.m. then at the calendar that shows me it's the year of 1998 and the month of August.

I tidy up the bed and went downstairs. I decided to cook for something but I remembered that I'm still so small to use a stove, and it might cause my mother to panic and will rush at me that can cause her to some accident after seeing me fiddling things in the kitchen, that will be bad, right?... Then how can I lessen her works even in this house?... Hmmm...

Maybe I prepare the ingredient and wake her up? But... That's what I want in the first place, let her wake up naturally. I already turned off the alarm clock beside her bed. *Sigh

I went upstairs again and started to go to every corner and splashed some droplets of my blood to create a spell diagram to watch my mother carefully. Hmmm... I can add some barrier spells for the house, offensive spells to eliminate some hooligans, defensive spells for my mother, teleportation runes for me to appear here instantly and lastly the signal spell to alert me even I'm on the opposite side of the Earth.

"Glenn? What are you doing?"

I heard my mother asking me and I turned my head to look at her just to see her wiping her eyes indicating that she just woke up.

... I didn't activate the diagram yet. I need to distract her...

I went to her side and cover her with the bedsheet and hurriedly made five hand signs to activate the said diagram.

"Glenn!?"

She was surprised but I ignored her. I focused on making the outlines of connecting the droplets faster. If I don't activate this spell now, those droplets will be noticed by her. She's a bit superstitious and that will be the end of me. I don't want to trigger her to think of me of some kind of devil that doing some evil ritual stuff.

"Why I can't take this off!? Glenn!?"

She's panicking, this is bad. I shouldn't go to sleep earlier and focused on stabilizing the mental and spiritual powers first, and now, I'm so slow to activate just a simple diagram. Tsk.

While I'm activating the diagram with my right hand. I used my left hand to release a mist to control to affect my mother to return to sleep again.

'Sorry, Ma. I need to do this because I'll be gone for my schooling for more than six hours away from your side to watch over you. With this, I'll be relieved while away. Add that you will be all alone here while I and Kuya are at school, that's a very bad thing.'

Now, that I can do my things more freely. I added more spells, surveillance and sensor spell to determine the danger level inside of this house and fifty meters in diameter outside of this house. Spell to create an Earth Golems if necessary, for more protection to my mother.

Hmmm... Let's add a spell that can regulate the temperature inside suitable for pregnant people like her, and a spell that can release an air cushion once my mother slips in any part of this house and fifty meters away from this house, and other stuff too.

I'll accept if they called me paranoid, but if it means to protect this family, then all is fine... I didn't feel the warmth from other individuals while I was sitting on that throne for a very long time. And now, that I'm back for being a mortal, that had a family to be loved and love them back... I'll take care of everything... Then I can live leisurely once I'm satisfied, right?

Half an hour passed. I finished the diagram while having a smile of satisfaction on my face. I looked back at my mother and Kuya that sleeping peacefully, then I decided to cook for them. Now that I have a sensor spell inside of the house, I can carefully watch my mother for her not to panic if he saw me handling knives and other dangerous stuff in the kitchen.

Another half an hour passed. I'm done preparing our breakfast and noticed that my mother is waking up, again.

With this delicious aroma of foods, I'm sure that she will be fully awake and will hurriedly go downstairs. I think I need to intercept her first before something bad might happen on the stairs...

Those stairs can sometimes cause incidents and accidents for pregnant women. Tsk.

"Morning, Ma. Kuya."

"Haaaaaa~ Ten more minutes..."

"Morning, Glenn. Wake up now, Aaron. You'll be late for school." My greeted me and went to my Kuya's side, nudging him to be fully awake.

"Breakfast is ready and I'll go take a bath, now."

"Huh? What breakfa-... Hmm... Smells delicious... Did some neighbors send us food?"

Hmm? Different from what I thought. I really should start stabilizing the mental power first before the spirit. So, I can remember all of this body's memories in one scoop too. I rolled my eyes and fetch my bath towel and said. "Nah, I cooked them, and before you can hysterically shout at me, Ma. I can handle those stuff carefully."

"... Did some ghost possessed you?... Are you sick? Are you having morning delusions?" She pulled me and searched my whole body again, then stopped. "Speaking of delusions, I think I dreamed of you doing some weird stuff and covered me by my bedsheet..." She said while massaging her chins.

This made me nervous and I distract her. "I need to take a bath now, Ma. You can eat with Kuya, so when I'm done, it will be his turn to take a bath while I'm the one who's eating my breakfast, to save more time."

"... You're more mature now... Than your Kuya..."

"Please, Ma. Don't make your forehead deeper than any valleys in the mountain regions and glare at me like that. I'm not possessed by any demonic creature or ghost. If I am being possessed then, it will be weirder if I acted like this now, no? I'm one and only Glenn Talleon Monteverde. Second son of Cheryl Arellano Talleon-Monteverde."

"... You're really weird..."

*Sigh "Just think all you want... I'm going." I reached downstairs and shouted back. "Just always be careful on the stairs!"

"... I will."

As time goes by.

I and Kuya said bye to our mother, and we're on our way to school now.

"What happened to your skin? You're paler than yesterday."

"I don't know. Already happened like this."

"Hmmm... Make sure that you won't give her more problems. You already made her workaholic just to cure your Bronchopneumonia last year, and now that she's pregnant and staying in the house to care herself, she's more relaxed now." He looked at me seriously. "Lift your grades more. Even though you can't go to Section One, Section Two is better than Section Three. So when the time comes, we can graduate with higher chances to apply for higher school and stop studying at public schools."

"It will make our Mama more workaholic then."

"... I don't know what happened to you. But I think it's a good one. Normally, you will ask me endlessly for what I'm saying but now, it seems that you can understand me."

I shrugged that made my Kuya raised her eyebrow but let it go and continued saying. "... The reason why I'm studying more harder to sustain my position as top 1 in my class, is to get a scholarship to enroll in one of the prestigious secondary schools. So, when I graduated from the said secondary school, I'll have a higher chance to attend De La Salle, University of Sto. Tomas or Ateneo De Manila." I noticed his clenched fist that he tried to hide.

This is my Kuya... Still the same as the original... He was a nerd in my very first life, a bit ambitious when he was a primary student and graduated in this primary school as a Salutatorian, but unfortunately. In his secondary and tertiary school, he was influenced so badly by his friends that he was dropped down to a normal student of section one every year.

I was reminiscing my first life when I heard him saying, that made me returned in this reality. "Ma gave us fares to use pedicab. She's generous today, huh? Normally, we will walk and it will take us 20 minutes or more to reach the school... We will save this. Walk faster, we still have enough time not to be late in the flag ceremony."

"Sure." I simply said and waited for him to take the lead. But I noticed him, standing there while staring at me. Flabbergasted? "What?"

"... You really changed, huh? Every time that I will suggest this, you will ask me to divide this money for both of us. Bu-"

"You need to hold that saved money and future money as well." I interrupted him while smiling.

"... If you say so. Let's go."

I think he is acting for what should his age is doing when he is around our mother... For her to say such 'I'm much more mature than him.'... Why he is hiding this maturity?... Is there a problem again with our father?...

I put these thoughts to the side as we reached the ground for the flag ceremony today. I'm in Grade One while my Kuya is in Grade Three...

Hmmm... Isn't the test for the accelerated class can be taken by soon Grade Four students?... I remembered that he took this test and was accepted to the class and that's the reason why there's a gap of three grades when we were in secondary school, instead of two... While I failed...

Ugh! Thinking about it, it's another shameful thing again for this One... Tsk.

I shall take that test too... Again... Or maybe I can do something with my Kuya's brain, for him to be smarter this time and avoid those soon to be friends that caused him to fall?

Because if I decided to show off my intelligence... Which is compiled things of eight lifetimes... There's a chance that it will trigger my Kuya to be resentful and envious of me.

Human minds are so fragile if it comes to emotions. Tsk. So, hard to dodge those death flags. *Sigh

We reached the ground and split up on the way because the lines of each section in Grade One are always in the front and higher Grades will be at the back.

"Oh. Look who's here~ Our great protector, Lord Glenn, arrived!"

I heard one boy shouted and went to my side, which made the other boys clapped.

I rolled my eyes after noticing that these kids don't have malice, and only playful... Based on what they said, this body of mine now is their playmate too. But there's something hidden for what he said...

"What's the problem?"

"The usual, Glenn. Boys of Section Four are picking a fight with us again for who's more braver than who."

Hmmm... Picking fight? Lord Glenn? So... This body is the hooligan!? *Facepalmed

"So, what kind of fight it is?"

"Huh? Did you bash your head on the wall and forgot that we're talking about ghost hunting?"

"Ah... Ghost hunting... I know. I was-" I'm going to explain myself but was interrupted by this boy.

"Did some upper-class girl took a crush on you? Ayyiieee~ Our Lord Glenn is a man now, boys!"

"Woooaaah!" Cheered by the other boys.

"Can you please stop teasing him, Llyod?" I heard a girl said and I turned my head to her... Just to be sighed again internally. I don't know all these kids' names as I didn't settle the things about mental and spirit yet.

But thankfully for this Llyod boy, I know now for who is she. I drank a little water from my jug, but I think that was a bad idea...

"Czarina, Czarina, Czarina~ Are you alone? Don't have any girlfriends? Why are you always getting on our nerves?"

"You-!"

*Pfft *Cough *Cough *Cough

I didn't know that this kid can be so ruthless... Wait... He said 'on our nerves'... So, I was included with this boy being ruthless at her... *Sigh Kids are so innocents... That I don't know if it's a bad thing or not... Tsk.

"Okay, Llyod. Stop that now. There's no-"

"... I didn't think that you will change, Glenn... Go with your girl now! We're not best friends anymore! Hoes before bros, huh?" Then walked out on me...

I want to say something but I stopped myself. "Wha-...". '... How did he know that phrase?' And... Now, I can say for sure that kids are so painful for the ass. *Sigh

"So... What's wrong with great Glenn now? He said it, you changed. Care to tell me why is that? This is my first time experiencing for the great Glenn to side on me." She asked, that made me looked at her, just for me to notice that she raised an eyebrow and she's crossing her arms on her chest while looking at me.

And I noticed too that most of my classmates near me are looking at us.

I shrugged and simply stated. "I'll be a Kuya in month times now, and I need to change my attitude towards girls, you know."

"Oh... Don't want to be hated by this younger sibling. eh? I bet this baby is a 'she', no?"

"Right, but 'they' are 'girls'." I corrected.

"Ahhh... No wonder..."