The sound of shoes echoed through the empty hallways of that afternoon. A person wearing a black overcoat, a black and gold wristwatch, and green earrings walked calmly through that place, heading to meet someone.
Stopping in front of a door labeled "Principal's Office."
He opens the door elegantly and, sitting in his chair with a drink, the school principal, Elboges, responds, turning his chair toward the man and speaks coldly:
— You arrived right on time, as usual. Well then, now that the children are gone, it's time for the adults to play a little.
Anano was going home with her driver in a black car. She looked outside with a sad expression, watching the houses pass by. The driver, who wore black glasses, looks at the rearview mirror and asks Anano:
— Was the day bad, Miss Anano?
She stays silent, only looking through the car window with a distracted look. They were getting closer to the mansion little by little, with the shine of the windows reflected in Anano's eyes. The driver stops the car in front of the large golden gates and says in a calm voice:
— We've arrived, Miss Anano.
Anano takes her bag and gets out of the car slowly. She gets close to the gates and, in seconds, they begin to open. Anano soon heads inside the property. The driver watches from afar through the rearview mirror, her entering the property, lights a cigarette and speaks while blowing the smoke:
— It must be difficult to be in a family like that, where everyone lies to each other just to keep appearances...
The driver takes his last puff of the cigarette and throws it on the ground, and drives the car to park it in the mansion's garage. Before disappearing with the car, he says one last thing:
— Anano, you are the only hope for that rotten family that is the Peleno.
Anano approaches the mansion door and stops in front of it, and after 3 long seconds, a maid opens the doors, speaking warmly to her lady:
— Good afternoon and welcome back, Miss Peleno.
Anano enters her house and looks around, and soon thinks, observing her servants:
— "Two maids and one butler. My father is really firing everyone... I hope Moy doesn't get fired too..."
A maid with short black hair says to Anano, lowering her head:
— Miss Anano, dinner will be served in one hour, at 8 o'clock at night. You must be exhausted, we have prepared your bath in your room.
Anano listens to everything until the end and only begins to go up the stairs with red carpets to go to her room. After climbing each step, she enters the long corridor, with huge windows that reflected the orange color of that afternoon. She observes that sunset while walking, then someone calls her attention:
— You finally arrived, my daughter!
Luanis Peleno, her mother, was coming from her quarters. She found her daughter by chance in the corridors. She approached with a big smile on her face, then warmly extends her arms and asks for a hug from her daughter:
— Come, give your mom a hug!
Anano approaches slowly and gives her mother a hug. Luanis squeezes Anano with a strong and warm hug, what seemed like a warm moment between mother and daughter. Anano did not see that as a lie.
Luanis lets go of her daughter and begins to walk in the opposite direction, and soon says goodbye to her daughter, as she was going to solve something. Anano watches her mother walk to the end of that long corridor, then she speaks for herself to hear:
— This is just a role that we play just to maintain the coherence of the family, it is something totally disgusting and inhuman, to treat others only by their classes. This is the true reality in the world of the Society of Elites.
She continues to walk to her room while looking forward as if she was facing something, and says a serious line:
— In the world of the Society of Elites... Only the strongest survive, even if that means stepping on the skull of the weakest.
Yory arrives at his house, tired from pushing his bicycle, with the tire punctured. He looks at the door of his house and sees his "mother" waiting for him leaning on the door, then she speaks looking into Yory's eyes:
— Welcome back, son.
Yory looked at her and, with a serious face, responds looking into her eyes:
— Good afternoon, aunt.
The two stare at each other for long seconds, then Yory begins to head inside the house. When Yory passes by her, Jyan asks:
— You really will never accept me as your mother, will you?...
He responds coldly, with empty eyes, taken by the thirst for revenge:
— My only mother is called Yadia Madeira, and no one else will take that place except her.
He enters the house, then Jyan looks at that night sky and responds:
— You really will never accept that she is already gone?... Yory?
Yory enters his room and soon throws his bag on top of his bunk bed. He looks at the table of the room and sits on the chair, then begins to remember when he was at school cleaning the pool, soon diving into thoughts.
Remembering the words of Luara:"Using people in that way... must weigh a lot on your mind."
After remembering that, he responds while thinking:
— "It's not like I wanted to use Anano like that, but... in the Society of the Elite, only the strongest are able to survive. My goal is simply to climb up to that podium and be as recognized as possible, and then... I will finally take revenge on "that person", who is at the top of the most rotten of this trash of the Elite. So, if I simply need to use people to climb the podium, I will use them without any hesitation."
Diogu enters the room and tells Yory, who was sitting on the chair:
— Dinner is on the table.— Right, I'm coming.
At that moment, the families were at their dinners. Anano, in her mansion, dining with her father and her mother, ate her meal without keeping eye contact with each other. Yory, Jyan and Diogu also ate their meal without maintaining eye contact. Two opposite families, but with similarities that defined their personalities. The silence of lies and secrets that kept the taste of the meat fresh for those meals.
On a new morning at the Prestigious School Moraes de Ednan, Elboges observed the students entering the school, staring at them seriously while stroking his goatee, a look that clearly showed anger about something.
In another moment, Anano was walking through the corridors with her backpack in hands, ready to enter the classroom. She asked herself while looking at the ground:
— "I need to discover all possible ways to stand out among everyone. Do plays or something that shows that I have presence... but how exactly am I going to do that..."
She walked lost in thoughts, then someone passes by her side and they end up bumping into each other. She almost falls to the right side and quickly apologizes:
— Ah, I'm sorry! I wasn't paying attention...
She observes the person with that black coat and a golden watch. He just responds with a calm voice:
— Ah, you don't need to worry, little one. I was also distracted with something. Now, if you excuse me, I have matters to resolve.
The strange person turns around and begins to walk away, but those long hair catch Anano's attention, who stares from afar and asks herself:
— I feel like I saw something familiar but I don't really understand... who is that person?...
She turns around and continues walking towards her classroom. Opening the classroom door, she finds Yory sitting in his chair, reading a book. Both begin to stare at each other as if they had plans for something.
— "I will defeat him... and enter the Elite's podium..."— "I will use her... to enter the Elite's podium..."
That was no longer about a war of love or egos.It was a war to decide the future of their objectives.
To enter the Society of Elites.