2. Their Life

(January 1st, 2090 CE. Newcastle Royal Academy, Newcastle, England, Imperial Monarchy)

*RIIIING* That was the sound of German Class starting for the the fourth years students of Newcastle Royal Academy. Yes\, German Language was studied in most countries in Europe\, including The Imperial Monarchy. Other Foreign Language taught in this Academy were French originated from Republic of Saint Louis and Spanish originated from San Angelo Empire. German Language was not that hard but it’s not that easy either but since The British language\, English were in one family with German language\, The Germanic Language Family\, It was the second easiest language in the Monarchy other than English\, even beating the local Scottish and Welsh

Henry was not much of a Language Student but he’s fine with it and he did like English other than his favorite subjects, History and Geography. His Girlfriend, Sarah though was different. She’s a Language and Science Student especially in English, French, (Hence her Canadian preference) and Biology but she’s fine with History and Geography. The two made a good team everytime they have a project, just like how Tea and Sugar. Without Sugar, Tea tastes bland. Without Tea, Sugar is just a thick overly too sweet powder. But without Sarah, Henry is nothing and the same goes for Sarah too.

And that’s where these Soulmates are in their 5th Period of the day at 12 am, in the German Class with Mrs. Alina Engel, fresh from Black Eagle Federation. She graduated from The University of Bradensburg, majoring in German Language and Literature (Deutsche Sprache und Literatur) who is not yet entered the class. So the Students, Boys and Girls, Friend to Friend, Sibling to Sibling, and Lover to Lover were just chatting with each other while waiting for their German Teacher’s arrival to the class. In this class there are only Henry and Sarah out of all Henry’s small circle of friends but he was thankful for that, even grateful because these two can spend their times together without the teasing and embarrassments from their friends. Don’t get them wrong: They loved spending times with their friends, but sometimes they’re just a hunk of loudmouths

Henry and Sarah were sitting on the same seat and they were just talking, to kill some times before Mrs. Engel arrived in the class. Henry was wearing a ultramarine blue t-shirt with picture of British 'Keep Calm and God Save The Queen' Poster and  a cup of Tea, dark blue jeans, a pair of gray sneakers with black stripes, and a pair of deep sky blue socks with white stripes while Sarah was wearing a slightly grayish white casual dress, short pink skirt, a pair of tiger orange sneakers with white stripes, and a pair of pink socks  “Ah, so it’s just us together again without our friends huh?” Henry said, leaning back on the chair’s rail, placing one arm on the left side of the top rail and his other wrapped around Sarah’s waist who had her hands holding her Clementine uPhone, playing around with UniGram, an app or site where you can look and search for images, photos, and videos of your desire or upload your own to show it to the word

Sarah looked up from her Smartphone to her boyfriend and gave him a warm smile “Yeah, they always loved pestering in our relationship and I’m really uncomfortable” Henry chuckled at her remark “Don’t get me wrong though, I loved hanging out with them as much as I loved hanging out with you all the times” She continued before looking back at her phone again. Suddenly she let out a soft ‘aww’ and giggled when she sees a particular cute video

This got Henry’s attention and curiosity as he looked at her Girlfriend who’s giggling at her self and her phone “What’s so funny, Milady?” He asked her in curiosity, calling her by her nickname. Yes they did have nicknames for each other. Henry called her ‘Milady’, classic for a Brit like him and She called him by ‘Dear’, sounds like as if they were married, well they will, but not yet anyway but don’t ask the writer here, ask her if you wanted to know

She stopped giggling as she turned her uPhone to her Boyfriend, showing a video about a cute and small Feline, a Munchkin playing tug with a medium-sized Japanese Dog, a Shiba Inu. Oh yeah, He remembered her love for almost all animals, especially Cats. She has a pet cat named Jacques, a Male British Shorthair back at her house Henry himself was not a Cat-person but he’s okay with Cats. He’s more of a dog person as he himself  has a dog named Nicole, a Female Siberian Husky

“Ah, animals of course. Another thing that you loved other than me and your Parents” Henry half joked while watching the video of the playful animals. Henry had to admit: A Cat and Dog playing around with each is somewhat a cute thing because usually Cats and Dogs didn’t get along that much with each other. That is truly one of the rarest thing to happen in the animal world, even The Mother Nature knows it

Sarah giggled at Henry’s joke as she turned her uPhone back to her “Well, can’t blame me for being an Animal Lover, Dear. You know how Canadians are” She said, smiling at Henry who smiled back at her

“Yeah Yeah, I know, Milady” Henry said dryly. After that they talked about random things

Some times later while the two teenagers and other students were talking, The Classroom Door suddenly opened followed by a stunningly beautiful middle aged woman in her 30’s with white skin, shoulder length bob blonde hair, a pair of ocean blue eyes, diamond shaped face, and slim built wearing white collared shirt, black mini skirt, black high heels with black leggings covering her legs, and carrying some study books, walking inside the Classroom, towards the Teacher’s seat in front of the class and stood beside it with black chalk board behind. Soon, the class stopped talking and turned their attention to their beloved German Teacher whom had given her Students a warm smile

“Guten Morgen, Class. How are you today? Vell, I hope zhat you all are good und vell und I’m also grateful for you all to be able to join me in zhis lesson” She greeted her students with her thick German Accent

She then walked in the middle of the room and clasped her hands together, observing all of her student with a smile directed for them “Sooo, as usual… without further ado, let’s get started…” She said as German Class finally begins and lasts for an hour and half…

(One and half hour later)

The German class ended with the ring of Lunch Bell with the entirety of the 5th period being as usual for the students and Mrs. Engel who really likes to share her knowledge about her language and home country to her students: pleasantly comfortable and fun yet educational for the students because of how Mrs.Engel could adapt with the behavior of the nowadays Teenagers. Soon, the students have either gone to the Cafeteria their Lunch or having brought their own lunch on parts of the Academy after Mrs. Engel dismissed the class and excused herself to have her own Lunch with his husband who is also the Counsellor of The Academy named Mr. Karl Engel and her friends who were her fellow teachers

As for Henry and Sarah, they went to the Cafeteria for their lunch. They walked there hand in hand like how a strongly bonded couple would. Over the course of the years, their bonds and love for each have grown strong to this day. Of course, In a relationship there’s always argument and disagreement but they handled them pretty well with common sense and they never let themselves easily misread or misunderstood a situation. Nothing could stop these two soulmates away except death, but even that won’t stop them loving in the afterlife

When they arrived at The Cafeteria, it was as usually filled with dozens of student. But fortunately for them this time, there aren’t that many students at the cafeteria and the Serving Line itself doesn’t have so many students waiting in line to get their lunch. Their friends aren’t here yet either. That’s because of the schedule and periods they have. Henry has most classes with Sarah and so is Sarah but for the rest of his friends are probably just about one or two periods with them, but other than that, it’s just the two of them together

They walked towards the Serving Line to pick up their Lunch. The employee of the Serving was also, like always there too, giving the students their Lunch based on the menus of each days. Because today is Monday the menu of today’s lunch meal were: English Beef Sausage for the appetizer,  Classic Chicken Stew for the main course, Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce for the side dish, Choco Chips Cookies for the dessert, and Whole Cow Milk with sugar in a Carton for the drink. A classic combination of complete meal for Lunch, made by The school’s best Cook and Culinary Teacher, Miss Laura Trent

Henry and Sarah got their own trays of lunch after waiting in the tray line with three queues with Sarah going first to pick hers and Henry got his after Sarah’s turn. They were given their trays of food and set of flatware (plastic spoon, fork, and knife). They walked with their trays of Lunch to an empty Cafeteria seat with two long bench without the back and the arms and a long table in the middle. They sit on one of the chair together and place their lunch on the table. Usually they eat with their friends even if their friends have different periods and sometimes different lunch hour, but this time though, they still have a class

So they shrugged it off and started eating on their own while enjoying others company by talking, discussing, and joking in the middle of each time they take a bite of their food or a sip of their milk. It was a delightable lunch much like their regular romantic dates they have every Sunday per week. Most of their dates were a dinner in Bistro or a walk in the park

When they were in the middle of enjoying their lunch, three people suddenly came to their seat and on the empty bench across them. They stopped eating when they looked at the three people across them. These three people people were their friends with their own trays of lunch and set of flatware: Owen Reese wearing long sleeved black t-shirt with the picture of Queen Victoria's crown printed on it, dark blue jeans, a pair of black shoes with blue stripes, and a pair of plain white socks sitting on the middle. Then Oliver Duncan wearing a t-shirt with Scotland Flag printed as its motive, black trousers, and a pair of brown skin shoe-sandals sitting  on the right. And Evelyn Gardner wearing plain white collared shirt, classy black short skirt, a pair of black high heel shoes, and a pair of white socks sitting on the left. The couple smiled upon seeing their friends

“Oh hey Guys!” Sarah greeted them with a smile “You’re finally on your lunch break huh?”

Owen nodded and rubbed his back “Yeah, Math is surely a lot of pain today. Mrs. Fleming” He commented as he opened the tub his carton of milk before taking a sip of it

Oliver laughed before speaking “Yeah, the same here with Chemistry. I almost blew up some sort of a chemical after mixing it with another chemical I don’t know about” We all blinked at him after hearing that and looked at him like ‘Are you serious!?’ He was taken aback by our looks before asking “Huh, what is it!?” He asked, oblivious about it

Evelyn sighed and slapped her forehead with the palm of her right hand “Did you just mixed liquid Nitrogen and liquid Oxygen” She asked him, unbelievable about his act

Oliver widened his eyes before chuckling nervously “Um probably… maybe…” he said, sheepishly. This of course made Evelyn even more frustrated and displeased by his act and glared daggers at him

Sarah and Henry noticed the change of expression on Evelyn’s face and in unison muttered “Oh Boy”

“Wow! Oliver. That’s just Wow! That could kill the entire class you were in” She retorted, pointing accusing finger with her right hand

“Hey! At least I stopped when Lewis warned me about it before it could happen” Oliver argued to defend himself from Evelyn

Owen sighed, clearly annoyed when these Her Girlfriend started bickering with Oliver. But this time though he looks to be more annoyed by Oliver instead both of them. So he stepped in to put a hand on Evelyn’s shoulder who stopped bickering with Oliver and turned to her Boyfriend “Darling, please… If you wanted to argue with Oliver, at least wait until we’re out of school. You don’t want someone to record you like that and post the video on UniGram, do you?” He said to her, trying to convince her to stop arguing at Oliver “And we all are friends, right Eve? Oliver?” He then looked at Oliver with pleading eyes, also wanting Oliver to stop arguing with Owen’s Girlfriend. She considered this before looking at Oliver and then back to Owen again

“Yeah...” They mumbled loud enough just for them, Owen, Henry, and Sarah to hear

Both Henry and Sarah smiled and nodded approvingly at the trio as they continued their lunch, now with their friends

Soon the intensity between Oliver and Evelyn are gone, replaced by the laughter, grins, and chuckles between the group of friends, enjoying each others company. They talked about stuffs (both school and personal stuff), telling each others joke like when Oliver telling his joke “Can someone explain to me how I got juice in my pants”, and discussing more about their favorite stuff that were mostly about Fashion, Food, & Hollywood Movies for the girls and Cars, Games, & also Hollywood Movies for the boys. This kind of thing is classic for Teenagers their age but this group is more forward-minded and mature (well, some times) than the other Teenagers in this Academy. The lunch lasted for 30 minutes before the next period’s bell rings. The next period is History Class and here in The History Class may have some answers for the unfolded future events that we have yet to witness…

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