The Silent King's

School

I came home late last night, so I feel dizzy right now because I'm sleeping. I tried to be mediocre in front of my mother. I'm used to going out in the morning with my mom who also works at a hospital. This certainly makes me have a lot of time to prepare for learning. However, right now all I think about is sleeping. The condition of the school is still very quiet only seen a few school officials who passed by to clean the entire school.

I walked towards my classroom on the 2nd floor. "Call, Mr. Alex," said Mr. All. He is a school worker and has worked at the school for over 15 years. "Hi, Mr. morning. All," I replied. People call him Mr. All because almost all the work he can do easily. Essentially Mr. All is a multi-talented person and almost everyone at this school loves it. I rushed towards my classroom which was already visible from a distance.

Arriving in the classroom, I went straight to my seat on the left and came second from behind. My eyes were so heavy I decided to close my eyes and try to sleep. 

"ALEX!!" A deafening sound, to make me instantly aware. It was Aurel's voice.  "Oh my God, Aurel!! I'm trying to sleep!!" I answered with his behavior this morning. 

"If you want to sleep you shouldn't have to go to school, maybe you can go to a hotel!" I saw Aurel sitting in his place followed by Toni and a few other friends starting to enter the classroom. My eyes were instantly refreshed when my friends came, especially after Aurel's loud voice entered my ears. 

"You look so fucked up, you got a problem?"

Toni asked, while keeping the bag in her chair. 

"I just don't sleep,"

"Obviously it's a problem, what do you do all night until you're sleep deprived? You're not a kid who likes to stay up late, at 9 you're already sleeping" he asked while teasing me.

"Why do you want to know, this is my business!"

"Well I don't want to argue with you, my morning should be filled with cheerfulness instead of arguing with you who are so gloomy," Toni replied with a mocking laugh. My friends are notoriously nosy and like to annoy others including me.

The sound of the entrance bell rang out loud throughout the school environment. Students began to enter their classrooms, as well as teachers who began to come out of the teacher room and spread throughout the school to teach. Today's Physics lesson, Miss Angel is going to teach. He enters our classroom and begins the lesson. Everyone looked tense at the arrival of Miss Angel. He is famous for being strict and not reluctant to punish children who interfere with his lessons. I couldn't concentrate at the time, so I couldn't understand what Miss Angel was explaining. 

"Alex, you're listening to me, aren't you?" All eyes turned to look at me. "E-e-emm yes Miss," I replied nervously. Well then, try to answer the following question!" His orders while pointing at the blackboard. 

Matilda's POV

This morning was not much different from the previous morning, I left with Alex who was only a few hours ago to go home from the palace. He hasn't told me what happened, because when he came home I was asleep. Morning is important for my family, especially me. This is because I work as a nurse at Tamarxal Hospital and always go to the morning shift. I've been working here for over 8 years. When I worked here no one recognized me as the ex-wife of Prince Thomas Rafeld, although when I first started working there was another nurse who was a little suspicious of me, but eventually he moved so I was safe for now. Actually, I have not cared about it and throw away the thought so that I can focus more on working, but I couldn't shake the lingering misgivings when I thought about what would happen if our identities were both revealed. Although, I know that one day Alex will use the name Ezra and everything I have right now will just disappear. Actually, I'm sure someone might recognize me if I hadn't had plastic surgery in the past, changed some of my face shape so it didn't look like my real face. Actually the idea of plastic surgery came from the palace, but I feel the benefits because with this surgery people are more difficult to recognize me, he said, plus Alex and I are moving places making me even more untraceable to the media.

"You look tired, son, are you sure you're going to school? If you don't want to go to school, I'll tell your homeroom teacher" I suggested seeing Alex's seemingly exhausted state from lack of sleep. I don't know what Alex did last night until he was like this. 

"I'm fine, mom," she replied limply.

"Well, if anything happens you can tell me okay?"

Arriving at the hospital, I treated some patients, everything seemed normal at first until I finally got a call from Mr. Starni.  "Mr Hallo. Starni, did something happen?"

"Hi Mrs's. Matilda, I just want to tell you a story. I hope you didn't tell anyone except Ezra this because it's a very secret matter for now,"

"Well, I promise I won't tell anyone,"

"King Thomas Rafeld II has died,"

I couldn't say anything, I was really surprised. Is this what caused Alex yesterday to spend his time in the Palace, even to the point that he was sleep deprived? A lot of questions came out of my head, but the first thought that came up was Alex. I'm more worried about Alex's condition.

"Did Alex know this?"

"Not yet, I want you to tell me, lest the Prince hear the news of the death of King Thomas Rafeld II from anyone. The palace will announce the King's death, after you tell Alex. So I need you to call me after you tell Alex," 

"E-emm all right, I'll tell Alex,"

"Well thanks Mrs. Matilda." Mr. Starni hung up.

I was silent for a while, I was still thinking about what was going on. I rushed to call Alex, but Alex didn't answer. I was so scared when he heard this news from someone else. I finally decided to call the school, so Alex could take it.

Alex's POV

I was a little confused and unable to concentrate, although the matter Miss Angel gave me was not too difficult and I could also answer it. As I tried to answer him, there was a booming announcement throughout the school.

"Attention, to Alexander Cornellius Anre awaited by Mr. Gerard in the teacher's room." That grin I was silent for a moment, digesting whether I had not misheard when my name was called.

"You can find Mr. Gerard, but you didn't repeat that, you understand?" Ask Miss Angel. I nodded, a sign of understanding. I'm heading to the teacher's room. There's been a look Mr. Gerard is standing up.

"Your mother called Alex, you need to be patient, yeah,". Mr. Gerard left me and headed for his seat. I am still amazed at what he just said.

"Hallo mom, did something happen? You're okay, right?"

"Your father is dead, son."