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Time is waiting
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Do you dare to know the truth
Do you dare to know what happened
Do you dare to tell
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Ready to serve you...
A not so amazing content
Written truly by someone
Who is an addict in theatrical performance
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Avery sat on her chair as she put her right hand and closed her eyes to relax herself as the classroom she was inside was filled with noises of the students who she didn't recognize since she was not a student of this school, in the first place. She was sent as an exchange student here in this institution that accepted international students and even pedagogues who wanted to share their knowledge about.
To be honest, being an 11th grader Filipino HUMSS strand student in a room that there are only five of them who speak in Filipino is going to be hard since mostly in her class always speaking in English since... this is an international institution. That's why she kept herself quiet before she felt someone nudging her shoulder, making her open her eyes to see who it was.
“Oh, hey, sorry.” She said as she rubbed Avery's shoulder as if she hit it really hard.
“No, worries, I am not that hurt much.” Avery said as the girl's eyes widened in shock since she spoke in her language which it was Filipino, making her immediately sit on the chair that was beside me and she looked at her.
“Oh my! I thought I was the only one who doesn't speak English! Hahaha! Hey, I gotta tell you something. What strand are you in since all I could see were STEM and ABM and there are like four of us who are HUMSS.” The girl says as she looks at Avery with awe.
“I am an eleventh grader, under the HUMSS strand.”
“Wow! Really?!”
Avery nodded.
“Pfft. Look at that, another loser has joined the loser strand.” She heard one of the international students say that she could see that he was from the STEM strand, making the girl beside her frown.
“Hey, our strand is not a loser! You just don't know the importance of it.”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever loser. Your strand is still a loser.” This made the girl clenched her fists as another one speaks.
“HUMSS is not a bad strand!”
He has clean-cut hair, and is the same height as the girl beside me since Avery was five inches taller than them as he stood up and put both his hands on his desk.
“Oh, shut your mouth, Mr. Custodio. Why don't you just go out of our classroom since you people, under the HUMSS strand are just annoying.” The same student who argued with the girl beside her said that.
“Why do you say so, Mr. Larson? HUMSS is also part of the strand where you understand about what people—”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever you said, Gutierrez, HUMSS is still a boring strand to everyone, like us.” He says as he stood up and went to the middle to face the smaller student who made the student beside him to stand up and put her hand in front of him.
“How about you the one to shut your mouth, Bernie? You're causing trouble as always as what the other students say.” It was also a girl like the one beside Avery.
“Oh, look! Even the aspiring lawyer stands up to fight for what is right. Isn't it wonderful? Haha, you guys are just stating your facts because you guys don't want to be called losers.” He says his statement earned some snickered from the students and it irked Avery a little.
“How would the four students under the HUMSS strand be the best of the best in this dungeon full of STEM and ABM strand students? They don't because they don't have the guts to do some fights like we always do.” Bernie says before he cleared his throat.
[Bernie]
In the halls of high school, where dreams are born
I thought that there would be only two strands up aboard
I thought STEM and ABM are the only ones that we can choose from (we can choose from)
But then I found out... (Then I found out)
Four students from different places and school
One language they speak through
And the strand?
Oh...
The strand...
And the strand they have is a boring one.
Who the hell wanted to study Humanities and Social Science?
If you could just be human, learn science and just talk?
Pfft. Pathetic.
[Ensemble]
We thought there were only two strands to choose from
There's another one
Roaming around the surface
Where they try to survive
In the land of battlefield
You guys are just outnumbered
How could you fight back
If there are two on the attack?
[Bernie]
Four students from different places and school
One language they'll speak through
To defend their boring strand
They'll do anything to attempt to stand
Just like you, a young dreamer
Your dreams will be crushed
And turn into ash
And your ambitions turn into trash
Where we could steal your stash
Of knowledge you have stored
Prepare to fight
Because you won't survive the night!
[Ensemble]
We thought there were only two strands to choose from
There's another one
Roaming around the surface
Where they try to survive
In the land of battlefield
You guys are just outnumbered
How could you fight back
If there are two on the attack?
[Bernie]
Learning History is boring
[Boy #1 & Girl #2]
That's why you are annoying
[Bernie]
Surely you guys are defending
The strand that you are in is boring
[Boy #2 & Girl #1]
Your attitude is making our blood boiling
[Bernie]
Is it because of my taunting?
I thought you guys were supposed to have patience
When it comes to arguing?
[Boy #1, Boy #2, Girl #1 & Girl #2]
Do you want us to see boiling?
[Bernie]
Are you threatening?
Because you are losing?
Avery rolled her eyes before standing.
[Avery]
What's the point of you talking?
If you are just taunting and testing?
Standing for nothing
You should have kept your mouth shut
Or else you'll get shot
By something you don't want
[Ensemble]
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh
[Bernie]
Who said that?
[Avery]
I was the one who said that
[Bernie]
And who are you to speak?
[Avery]
Do you wanna take a freak?
It seems like you are ready to break
Are you afraid to be picked?
[Bernie]
Take a freak? Take a break?
Of course I am not afraid to be picked!
Who am I to be scared?
Are you just like them?
Ha! You can't win in the battlefield I have set!
[Ensemble]
We thought there were only two strands to choose from
There's another one
Roaming around the surface
Where they try to survive
In the land of battlefield
You guys are just outnumbered
How could you fight back
If there are two on the attack?
[Bernie]
What you gonna do now, newcomer?
You just put yourself into trouble
Are you ready to treble?
Or would speak something unintelligible?
Or would you do something unpredictable?
[Avery]
How about you let me offer you some free advice?
[Bernie]
I'm getting nervous
[Avery]
“Talk less, smile more. Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for.”
[Bernie]
What?
[Avery]
Just like what he said.
[Bernie]
Who's he?
[Avery]
The one who shot Hamilton, dead.
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