The Academy

Katara didn't sleep even a blink, she can't help but to think. She's starving, her head is spinning because of reading books and now Mrs. Smith is changing her corset and tieng it tightly as much as she can so they can see that she's fit and look freaking sexy.

She took a deep breath, another layer of dress Mrs. Smith wanted her to wear. She doesn't have any choice, after almost five hours of preparing her appearance they finally finished and now she's outside of the Mansion waiting for the royal carriage to arrive. She's hoping that there is plenty of food in the academy after they arrive there, she'll not really care about others.

She badly wanted to eat but the Duke was still observing her. She needs to be obedient so that he will send her mother to the hospital immediately, a minute later the Carriage of the royal arrives. It stops in front of the Mansion of the Duke and then it opens. There are more than ten knights around, maybe of course to protect the noble.

"Greeting to Duke, and Duke's Daughter." The Royal knights said, Katara raised her chin and nodded.

"I'm Diago the Royal Knights who will escort the Mistress to the Academy, please to you."

"Please meet you too, I hope you take care of my daughter." The Duke smiles, he is fake.

It didn't take long for the greetings, Katara was escorted by the Duke to enter the carriage.

"Do your job well or else your family will pay." The Duke whispered, Katara just ignored his threat but still couldn't help but to feel irritated.

She sat in the carriage seat and bid a goodbye, she fakely smiled. As the carriage went her face became serious, she gritted her teeth. Damn! That old man is really testing her patience, killing him would be easy. She is already thinking of 102 ways to kill him without anyone knowing…

She taps her foot in the carriage, she looks around and the carriage is truly owned by Royals. It's almost made of gold and the fabric was silk. The seat she sits with is comfy and soft too, she opens the window and feels the air blowing.

Katara didn't realize she was already asleep not until she felt the carriage stop from running, she looked to the outside and she saw the view of the Academy. She heard a knock from the outside so she opened the door and saw a man wearing a white prince suit, she immediately recognized his face.

'So he's really handsome in person huh?'

She can't help but to think, the Prince offers his hand and smiles at her. She looks at him from head to toe, she can see how the Prince was surprised by her action. Obviously he hates her, maybe all of them. His eyes are telling her everything, the way he looks. The way his eyeballs moved, she smiled at him back and accepted his hand.

She looks around as she lands in the ground, the Carriage line and each of them is a nobles. One by one the Prince escorted the ladies to go down from the carriage. They are in front of the Academy, she can't help but to be amazed.

The Academy is such a massive one, maybe even if she takes a tour for a whole day she will not see everything completely. She took a glance at the other ladies, they were all beautiful and stunning. After the Prince helped every one of them, he stood in front of them and took a bow.

"Greeting to all our noble ladies, I am glad to meet you all. I am Prince Deimos Montigomeri, I am thankful for your safety. We are glad that you are here to attend our selection, you may enjoy staying here and feel this like your home." The Prince smiled again, all of them smiled back and took an elegant bow.

"Please Ladies follow us at the banquet area of the school, I am Adelia the Principal of the Academy. We are welcoming you and hope you have a great year." Everyone nods and smile, after that they follow Mrs. Adelia who is more likely in her sixties already. She's wearing reading glasses and holding some cane to support her body as she walks. She takes a breath and then follows the lines.

"As you are here in this Academy you will not be treated specially, you must follow rules and regulations. I'm sure you all know ladies that your performance will have a big impact on the selection, the one who will be continued to be selected will have a chance to enter the palace. You will be taught how to fight, about politics, and many more. I hope you will learn a lot from this Academy…" Katara looks around as they walk, the wall of the Academy is more likely a vintage one. She heard this school is more than a hundred years old, the ceiling is high and she saw a lot of paintings hanging on the wall. She even saw the massive portrait of the Royal Family.

They reached the banquet hall and saw students seated there, as Katara saw different dishes the circle of her eyes turned into heart one.

"Please take a seat ladies…" Katara didn't waste any seconds, she immediately grabbed herself a seat. There are five tables in the banquet hall. She saw the Prince take a seat in the middle together with his friends she thinks. She looked at every student on the table and she saw no one eating, she knotted her forehead.

Why is no one is eating?

Now she's hesitating to take some foods even though she's really starving, she bit her lips together to prevent herself. She look around again like a spy, the Principal at the front continue talking. When she feels everyone is busy, she did a ninja move and get some chicken legs and eat it whole. She open her fan and use it to cover her mouth and then chew the chicken inside in her mouth. It's heaven, food is really the best.

She picks some chicken again as she looks around her eyes and the crown prince meet, she blink her eyes for few times before eating the chiken while he's looking to see his reaction. She chew the chicken wing like a angry hungry gangster she saw on t.v in her previous life and split the bone from her mouth. As expected the Prince reaction is priceless, he was startled and don't know what to react. It's amusing watching him changing her facial expressions, she thought she'll have only that gentle fake facial expressions on her face but now he was showing a disgusted expression.

"Pffff…" She can't help but to laugh, the noble besides her glace at her as she laugh but immediately go back from listening to the Principal in front.

She didn't know that, he was that easy to provoke. She thought it take many attempts before he changes his facial expressions, that was fun to watch. She smirks at the Prince who's now glaring at her silently.

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