I looked at him curiously “What kind of rumours?”

“The kind of rumours that would make me extremely worried if you were to join that club.”

“Grandpa, can you stop talking in riddles, please? What really happens in that club?” Asked Lexi.

“They are innocent until proven guilty so I shouldn’t spread any rumours about them until their investigation is over.”

I gave him a look. Investigation, innocent… something messed up is happening there … I will have to make an investigation of my own. Maybe Misha and the rest of the girls will know something about the rumours.

Grandpa expression changed from the serious one of his latest interventions to what seemed to be his usual one. He then restarted talking. “Anyway, are you girls ready for the dance on Saturday?”

“Dance?” Lexi and I said at the same time.

“Every first Monday of the month, all the schools in our community organize together to make a dance were everybody dresses up like if we were in a high society party at the start of 20th century. Didn’t Robbie told you that? It’s in one of those parties she met Éleonora. ”

Aunt Robin kept a lot of details out of our conversations, a lot of them…
“She didn’t tell us a lot of things …”

“Ah … so she is as forgetful as always.... Do you have any friends to go shopping around for the dance?”

I thought about Misha, Ash, Brynhildr and Esmeralda. Would they be up for going shopping Friday afternoon? I answered grandpa: “Perhaps…”

“Well if you don’t find anyone, I am sure that Juliette, your grandma, would love to take you out shopping. By the way here’s your schedules.” Grandpa handed Lexi and I some papers and restarted talking “We have given you math, French, English, Spanish, physics, chemistry and history of the western civilization. You share all those classes, so I hope you like each other. The only class you don’t share is tennis. Because of Alex condition she is going to use that period to see our school therapist.”

So he did know about my status, weird, I would have thought he would have made it more obvious that he knew about my status, I mean hearing about what he did to Aunt Robin.

“Go to class now girls, your teacher might be annoyed if I keep you around any longer.”

We headed in direction to French class.

Lexi and I started talking.

“Alex, do you still want to check the literary club after school?”

Honestly, yes but if I only said that mama bear Lexi wouldn’t let me. I had to include her that was for sure. “Only, if you come with me.”

“We will check it out then, I am also curious about it... Do you think the girls in our dorm will be down to go shopping with us for ball gowns?”

“I don’t know, but I hope that yes.”

We made it to French class and knocked on the door.

A tall black man opened the door. “Oh, you must be the cannadienes. I am monsieur Jean Maka, Professeur de Français .Entrez, entrez, we were waiting for you.”

French class was nice we didn’t have time to make new friends, but Mr.Maka was nice and had a very nice smile. We were to read “Le Dernier jour d’un condamné” by Victor Hugo by next Thursday but the book was only 80 pages long and multiple copies of it were available at the library of our neighboring University.

We had English next and we were in the same class as Misha. We didn’t really have much time to so we just decided to wait until lunch.

Lunch came and Lexi and I had the first look at where Lunch happened in this school. Misha, Bryn and Esme appeared and led us to a restaurant at the top of the school, it had a view on the lake and the surrounding places of learning. We all sat in a table and ordered our food.

Lexi started the discussion. “I have been wondering… How much does it cost to go to this school normally? All of this is lavish, way too lavish for it to be a few thousand bucks.”

Esmeralda answered “You don’t know? It’s about 150k a year.”

“In what, American Dollars?”

“No, In euros!”

I choked on my drink. “That much! Well I will have to thank grandpa and aunt robin then, because we would have never been able to go in this institution if it wasn't for them.”

“Grandpa?” Commented Misha.

Lexi answered “Our soon-to-be grandpa is the principal.”

It was the other girls turn to suffocate on their drinks. Brynhildr talked this time. “Monsieur Alphonse Lafronde is going to be your grandpa? Lucky you! He is so goofy and kind-hearted.”

Not towards his daughter… I thought.

I changed subjects “Grandpa told us that suspicious thing happened in the literary club, do you know anything about that?”

All girls looked confused “The literature club? “Said Misha.

“Yes.” Lexi answered

“I haven’t heard anything about them… they are mostly comprised of people who aren’t in our school, so we don’t really hear about them. I mean, I have had glances at them in the community center where all the club activities are done but they didn’t look that bad. I will even say they look quite good, really good even…”

“Misha! Stop dreaming about Magnus!” Said Esme.

“Magnus? Who is Magnus?” My sister and I said at the same time.

Brynhildr answered. “He is the most handsome guy at the boys school the other side of the Lake. He has a twin sister named Kristina who goes to La Nova Academia and they both live with their parents on the lakefront. His dad owns a bank or something. ”

“He is so dreamy…” Misha said.

“Yes and so mysterious… ”Said Esmeralda “He has been going to this academy since he was six yet nobody knows that much about him… If the both of you ever befriend him while going to his school could you present us to him?”

“Yes, of course” Said my twin.

“By the way,” She added “We have just learned about the dance Saturday. Tomorrow, being Friday do you want to go shopping with us?”

The other girls gave each other a Look and answered at the same time “Yes, of course!”

“Is Ash invited too?” Asked Misha.

Lexi and I gave each other a look similar to the one the girls gave each other and we answered at the same time. “Yes, of course!”

We all started laughing at the same time. We laughed so much in fact it was as if a troop of hyenas had been dropped off in the middle of the restaurant.

“How was your first morning at school? “Asked me Misha as our laughter quieted down.

“Fine, but there was this blond girl who didn’t stop giving me nasty looks in English.”

“Did she have green eyes and long bangs?”

“Yes, why?”

“That was Simone don’t worry about her, she simply doesn’t like it when people take the attention out of her.”

“Has she ever you know…Bullied anyone?”

“Simone, mmm … I wouldn’t call it bullying but her gang likes to gossip and badmouth people. Don’t worry about her though, she is not going to say anything about you, she is in my cheerleading club and my eldest step-sister, Siobhan, is the coach.So if she tries anything with you and she is going to be out immediately. Her little brain wouldn’t be able to stand not been in the cheerleading squad so she is just going to let you go. ”

We finished our meals and went back to our classes.

The afternoon was really a pain in the butt, we had one hour and a half of physics and another of math. I hated those subjects even though I could handle both of them quite well. Maybe I was so annoyed because I was excited about discovering what the hell was wrong with the literary club.

Today was kind of nice. All the classes were really interesting and the fact that there were only fifteen students for each teacher would probably mean that I would get more attention from the teachers. Although I hadn’t really spoken to anyone I hadn’t met yesterday, I had quite a good impression of most of my new classmates.

Now, I had to deal with my reckless sister and her probably dangerous quest for the truth. As soon as the bell rang the end of the day we entered the communal centre were club activities were held. We asked the receptionist for the room we were searching and a few minutes afterwards we were standing in front of the club’s door.

We knocked on the door and it opened.

I was awe struck. Both twins were like the girls had just said, as the door opened it was as if I had caught sight of two angels.We were greeted at the door by 2 blond twins, a boy and girl, both slightly taller than Lexi at approximately 1,9 meters. They were both extremely attractive to the point were my knees were weakening just from their sight. The guy who I assumed was Magnus looked like a rugged lumberjack with a 5’o clock shadow and his short curly hair. The girl had everything of a Nordic beauty with her beautiful long braided her. Damn… These people had done something wrong? I could hardly believe it and so did my sister who had stupid smile on her face.

Two pairs of blue eyes stared at me, the girl started talking. “Well, hello ladies. May I ask what are you doing here?”

She had a voice that went with her appearance, it was soothing, really soothing I could hardly pronounce the words that came next. “W…w…we are new at our school and clubs being obligatory we thought about joining y…y…yours.”

“New? At this time of the year?” Said the boy with a voice that oozed testosterone.

Damn, last week I would have thought of him as a threat but right now I couldn’t help but be under his charm and his sister’s too.

Lexi answered for the both of us. “Our Grandpa is the principal of Louise Larivière and our aunt not feeling very well we were moved here.”

At the mention of our grandpa being a principal they both crisped a little but I didn’t think a lot it. I mean everyone would have had the same reaction, right? I hoped that yes, because honestly right now unless what they had done was murder or rape I couldn’t care less about whatever the investigation was about.

I don’t curse often but, damn, Magnus was attractive! I think that our investigation might have been postponed to oblivion because Alex seemed to be thinking the same thing as I and I was thinking that if he had a skeleton in closet I didn’t want to find it.

Kristina made us sit in a couch near a coffee table while Magnus slammed shut the door to a cupboard and locked it with a key.

I started talking with female twin. “Is it only you in this club?”

“No, we have other members, but they are all boys and they are probably down the hall watching a TV show or something… They always do on Tuesday afternoon.”

Magnus sat right beside of me. I was flustered and I could see myself become as red as Alex who by now looked like she was about to pass out any minute now. My little (secretly older) sister seemed thrilled to be near Kristina.

“So if I heard well, you want to join our club?”

“Yes!” We both said nervously.

“I’m going to need you to do something then…hum…”

“I am Lexi and she is Alex.” I said while pointing to my sister who really looked like she was about to pass out.

“Well then, Lexi, I would like you to go to the dance with me while my sister goes with your sister. Would that be fine? ”

Was that even a question?

“Yes, of course!” I said with Alex joining me mid-sentence.