After Jessica begs for Selina to stop, Stacy and Chloe are still absentminded about the revelation that Selina is from a powerful family.
Nyarai quickly stops Selina and the conversation continues, or it would have if Selina knew what to say.
She actually does not know what to say, or how to say it; not to say her education is so bad that she can’t even communicate properly, but her family has rules on secrecy.
Or rather than rules, let’s call them soul sealing pacts and contracts; that will kill like a death curse when you reveal too much information.
So the group awkwardly sit and try to talk, but Selina just can’t formulate what is what so they oddly wait for Ashley to maybe say something…
BTW if you are wondering then they are studying by themselves, or socializing; as long as their scores are good miss Jones is fine with them having a little chill time once in a while.
After a while Ashley appears back in the classroom, miss Jones asks her how she is doing and she tells her it was nothing.
Miss Jones stares at her, but accepts her excuse; sometime you just need to give your students some space, but she will remember this if something happens.
Ashley returns to the group and is lightly asked some questions, which somehow she answers some of them, but she looks like she is about to puke…
After not really getting anywhere Selina motions for Chad to come over as he is good at answering in half truths and he is not bound by a contract/pact.
(Chad:)”You want to tell them about your family? Why?” Selina appears unsure of why, but she quickly remember that she was threatened by Jessica to tell so she grits her teeth in anger.
(Ashley:)”Chad, you know?” Ashley seems horrified, truly traumatized and the other girls look at her in worry; Jessica did not expect to open this can of worms.
(Selina:)”He does.” (Chad:)”Yeah, Selina sucks at explaining things so for some reason I am here to help. You guys started this so you will have to live with whatever happens.”
Jessica, Stacy and Chloe are very much on edge now, why does this seem to be such a big deal and why is Ashley completely broken and Selina is… just weird.
(Chad:)”So explaining what sort of family it is is not something I will do, for very weird reasons, but I can make a fake explanation that is approximately true.
Their family could be considered powerful, not from a monetary stand point or political… or maybe their politics are just too foreign.
Consider them as a royal family of some off shore country settling in Farlong, but their internal politics are fucked up, like really fucked up, assassination level fucked up.
Like they would actually… make whoever you send to investigate them disappear, I am telling you specifically so you won’t do something that stupid.
Do not investigate this family, for your own safety’s sake; not only are they powerful, but they are pretty insane and possibly evil if I would say so myself.”
Chad takes a couple seconds to breath and the group looks at him oddly, but when they glance at Ashley who is trembling they feel the weight of Chad’s words even more.
(Chad:)”So no investigations, they dislike that; I have some connections to their family, my rich relative married someone in that family…
Which is where most of my knowledge come from, my relative was considered strong enough to not have to worry about their actions, but you guys are not ready for what will come.
So do not investigate, they will not only silence your spies, but also you and your closest family.” Chad says incredibly seriously.
The girls around look back and forth between him, Selina and the shell of a person Ashley; what the fuck did we just hear and for some reason Chad is staring at Jessica.
(Jessica:)”What?” (Chad:)”You are the only idiot, proud enough to court death so…” (Jessica:)”You think I will investigate when I obviously should not?”
Chad nods and so does the remaining girls, Ashley who also comes to this realization a little slower than everybody else, looks at Jessica as if she is dying.
Jessica humphs to herself. (Chad:)”I know you are great and all and you will be fine no matter what happens to this world or whatever, but for your family’s sake.”
Jessica tries to not care about what he says, but gives in from his and the others pleading gazes. (Jessica:)”OK, I promise to not be a dumb bitch this one time OK!?”
The rest of the group sighs in relief. (Chad:)”OK, there is probably a little more info if you want it, just felt like I should start with the obvious DANGER sign.”
Jessica sighs. (Jessica:)”Go ahead, we are this far, might as well learn a little more.” Chloe and Stacy nod, but they are not as confident as Jessica.
(Chad:)”OK, so from what little I know; some aunt of Selina got another aunt killed and horrible things have been happening.”
(Selina:)”Wait, which aunt are we talking about; most of them are the reason for some other’s death… so which aunts?”
The fact that she had to ask which aunt who killed another aunt speaks loudly of how fucked up her family situation is.
(Chad:)”Did not want to get into too specific info, just wanted to make sure that they know your family are bloodthirsty dangerous creatures to come across.
You know to make sure that Jessica would definitely not investigate like an idiot… I mean just going through your family history and seeing who killed who would take too long.”
Selina nods and the rest of the group look on like WTF, they can’t be serious? But looking at Ashley who nods as confirmation to this, they coldly sweat in fear.
(Chad:)”Also fun detail, let’s not only talk about the bad things of this family; there are some fun and or interesting parts of it.
Like that they are extremely matriarchal, only women can have high positions in this family.” Chad tries to end his sentence on a high note, but they can’t ignore the murder part…