"Anyway, let's get back to the topic about Ariana." Sylvie said as she knew she would not be able to convince them.

"Yeah, you wanna talk about this after school? I mean we have a few more weeks until we're all able to live in dorms." Maria asked them.

"I have no problems with it, I don't really do anything after school aside from training anyway." Lance said.

"Me neither, all I do is just train as well." Elise seconded it.

"Well, all I do is sleep when I get home so… Yeah? I guess we could talk after school." Sylvie said.

"Alright then, make sure you don't tell Sam about this. Otherwise we will have a huge calamity on our hands." Maria warned the three of them.

"Alright! See you after school then." They all said to each other before the bell rung indicating for them to switch to their next class.

"See ya!" Sylvie waved her hands as she walked towards Ms. Aria's class.

"Ohaiyo! Ms. Aria!" Sylvie waved towards Ms. Aria as she peeked her head inside the classroom.

"Ohaiyo Sylvie, call me aunt from now on." Ms. Aria said.

"Aunt? Why?" Sylvie asked her.

"Because I said so, and pretend not to be a student in my class." Ms. Aria said.

"Why?" Sylvie asked her again.

"Because I said so. Just do it." Ms. Aria said.

"What if I don't want to?" Sylvie tested her.

"I'll spank you." Ms. Aria said as she looked at Sylvie sternly.

"Hii! Yes!" Sylvie said as she reflexively protected her butt with her hands.

"Now what do you call me?" Ms. Aria said with her hands on her hips.

"A-aunt…" Sylvie said with tears in her eyes. After saying that she immediately ran to her supposed desk and sit there as she hugged herself.

"Good morning Ms. Aria." Ariana said as she entered the classroom.

"Good morning Ariana. How are you doing today?" Ms. Aria asked her.

"I am doing okay Ms. Aria. How about you?" Ariana replied as she sat at her desk.

"I am doing fine as well. As you can see my niece is here and is alright. She won't be sleeping and will actually be listening today. Isn't that right little Sylvie?" Ms. Aria said as she looked at Sylvie.

"Yes auntie…" Sylvie said reluctantly as she did not reveal her face that was beet red. As she did not want to show her embarrassing look to Ariana who she considered as a friend.

"En, alright then Ms. Aria. Class is about to start so I'll get prepared." Ariana said to Ms. Aria as she looked at the time.

"Indeed, class is about to start. Alright, talk to you later." Ms. Aria said as the bell rung indicating class had started.

'Sigh, that was so embarrassing. I had to call Ms. Aria auntie in front of Ariana! Am I the one in deep pain or is it Ariana!? I need someone to save me!' Sylvie thought to herself.

'Sigh, I can't really keep this fake face on anymore. Otherwise I think it will become second nature to me. And that would be really bad if I were to have a fake smile on all the time.' Ariana thought to herself at the same time as Ms. Aria was continuing the story of the lost girl.

'I just can't bring myself to ask them for help… I don't know what's restraining me. I wish it would go away so I could ask them for help so I would no longer have to be bothered by this forced marriage to a lecherous man.' Ariana thought to herself as she clenched her fists.

'You should try to run away to another country so they can't force you to marry them.' Ariana's mother voice suddenly reappeared in her head.

'I don't want to run away though! If I run away that also means I'll be leaving everyone behind! And I might even implicate them! I don't want this to happen!' Ariana thought to herself.

'If only there was a way for all of this to be solved! I would need a backing that's even stronger than the Ragestride's family! There are countless ones but they all act weird or they are neutral. The Martel family is really neutral, so are those other two known ones. The other only fights for wars, and the last one is just weird.' Ariana thought about Sylvie's, Maria's, Elise's, Lance's, and Sam's family but did not know that they were actually people who were the children of that family. As many people could have the same surname.

'If only I could get one of the family on my side somehow… The Martel family is so neutral that they won't bother with human conflicts unless they are somehow dragged into it. Like four years ago when their daughter was injured by that perverted prince. He then got sentenced to exile by the King himself. One can see how much authority and power they have by that.' Ariana thought to herself.

'There is no hope in getting a healer to help join the fight when they don't really like violence. The battle samurai clan whatever will probably cause damage to the entire country instead of just the Ragestride's family. That family that literally interacts with the wilderness really only cares for themselves. And that last family, heard they have a bad influence of indulging their young master… Ugh… Why do the prominent families have to be so weird?' Ariana thought to herself with bitterness in her heart.

"Ariana, can you summarize what just happened?" Ms. Aria suddenly called out to her.

"Eh? Sorry what Ms. Aria?" Ariana snapped out of her thoughts as she looked at the teacher who was looking at her face to face.

"Hii! EEmm sorry Ms. Aria, I wasn't paying attention." Ariana said with fear in her eyes.

"Oh, it's alright. Just make sure you read this sometime to get caught up with class though." Ms. Aria said as she pardoned her.

"Yes…" Ariana said depressedly.

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Author : my body feels like im being tortured it hurts