"Take a look at this." She said handing the papers to Arion. She's at the point of blowing up. She wants to leave this place and just go somewhere where she can express her anger.

Arion reads that paper and he doesn't know what should he exactly feel about it. "Mary, if you want you can leave here and do something else to distract your mind." He suggested.

It would be best for his wife to have this whole day for herself and do something else to distract her mind from the problem.

"I would love that to happen. But unfortunately, I can't do that right now. The more I waste my time for myself, the worse things might get. Those d.a.m.n b.a.s.t.a.r.ds...!" There is not even a day when she can freely relax her mind away from thinking about the Ricci family.

"If you can't manage to keep yourself away from thinking about them, then what do you plan to do today?" Arion asked. It would be best for his wife to take a breather. Away from the topic of the Ricci family, his wife is just stubborn. She won't listen to him at this point. Right now, the best option that he has is to support what decision will his wife make.

"I'm going to call Leonardo and the others, I think it's time for our children for some personal training from them." When Mike said that whether she likes it or not, he will train her twins and his son personally. Mike also said that they can't afford to wait any longer than they needed.

"I see... then I will let you do that." Arion has a vague idea of what Mary is going to say to Leonardo and the others, but whatever it might be he will agree to it. He trusts his wife to do the best thing possible for the organization.

~~~

Meanwhile, on Anna's side. She is currently at Nathalia's place. She came with the purpose of wanting to get the words out of Nathalia's mouth. 'I'm doing what my brother told me to do. It's so infuriating that he is not willing to tell me, but I have no choice! I will just have to bear with his stubbornness!'

"So Anna, for what reason are you here for?" Nathalia asked. When Anna messaged her the other day that she is going to visit her place within this week, she was surprised. Usually, when they plan on meeting up with each other they would set the dare for next week.

For Anna to come all of the sudden must mean something.

"Is it wrong for me to came here without any reason?" Anna said with a frown on her face. Nathalia is somehow made her feel like she only talks to Nathalia when she needed something. And she doesn't like that feeling at all.

"No. That's not what I meant. You made a decision to come here all of a sudden, and it made me think that you have a reason to see me." 

Anna sighed. What the point of telling a lie when Nathalia already guesses half of the reason why she is here. "Well, I do want something from you. But that is not just the reason why I'm here. As your friend, I'm to ask how have you been doing?" 

Although it was her brother's chance to spend more time with Nathalia, Anna still felt bad that she couldn't come along when Nathalia is at her vulnerable state. And today is the way she would like to make up for it.

Anna would like Nathalia to share anything that she wants to share. After all, Anna is here for her.

"Well, thankfully my grandmother is not dying for at least a couple of months. So yeah, I could say that I am somewhat feeling great." Nathalia revealed a forced smile to Anna. She is hurting, deeply hurting. Her grandmother is going to die at any time, and she is still not ready to face that reality. Because if she did, she might lose herself.

Anna felt the pain that Nathalia is having now. In her past life, although she and her grandfather are not that close to each other, it does not mean that she didn't love him. When he died, she cried the hardest.

She could not accept his death to the point that she lost herself. 

Anna would like to tell Nathalia that she knows exactly what she is feeling, but that would only lit the curiosity in Nathalia's mind. She wouldn't want Nathalia questioning her.

"I don't exactly know what you are going through..." Anna lied, but she still managed to smile at her, "...but think of these upcoming months as your positive thoughts. You will get to spend more time with your grandmother. And as much as possible, don't show your grandmother that you are sad because it will make her sad." In the past, Anna never had that chance. So she would like for Nathalia to do the thing that she never had the chance to do so.

"I know, and I will do it." Nathalia is thankful that she has Anna by her side to her these words. Unlike the guys around her, Zen, Josh, and Aaron, all they know is to comfort her and that's it. They don't know the exact words that she needed to hear.

After calming herself down from her sadness, Nathalia glances at Anna and asked, "So, what did you came to see me for?"

"Since you asked, I'm not gonna stop myself from telling you what I want." After that sad conversation that they just had, Anna was thinking of telling Nathalia what she wants for another day. But since Nathalia is one initiating the conversation, then Anna will gladly bite. "How did my brother tell you what he felt for you?"

Hearing that question, Nathalia's face turned bright red. Anna was surprised to see her make that kind of face. Anna somehow wants to take a picture of her and send it to her brother. But if she does that, it might make Nathalia faint from embarra.s.sment. 

'Wow. She reminds me of what I was like when I'm around Kyle.' Anna inwardly said to herself.

"Why are you making that face?" Anna teasingly asked. If Nathalia keeps on making that expression, she will tease her nonstop. And she wouldn't feel bad about it.

"I-It's just that your brother... I'm embarra.s.sed to say it." Recalling what happened on that day is making Nathalia feel she's reliving what happened again. She shouldn't be feeling this way since she is not the one who confessed on that day, but still, it affected her greatly.

"Seriously...?" Anna is not even anymore if she could ever get the information that she wants. Looking at Nathalia, it seems to her that continuing this conversation is pointless.

Honestly said, what happened on that day is not as embarra.s.sing as Nathalia portrays it if Anna manages to hear the story, but for Nathalia and Aaron, it is way too embarra.s.sing.

"Look, I want to tell you. I really do. But you have to understand, I can't say it." If Anna came all the way here to ask her this, then that must mean that Aaron refused to say it. Nathalia could understand why, and she is thankful that Aaron didn't say anything.

"Fine! I'll stop asking." Anna said as she crossed her arms. Because of their unwillingness to share their story, Anna decided not to tell them any story related to her and Kyle. 'Let's see how you guys will beg me to share.'

As Anna and Nathalia continued their day conversing on each other, Leonardo came knocking on Nathalia's door. 

Nathalia let her father in, and there is something suspicious going on with the way Leonardo is smirking. 

"It looks like your days of fun are over you two. The others and I will start training you young ones personally everyday, after school." He declared and that made Anna frown.

"Every after school? But I am still under training with my Elder Martha after school. That schedule you just said overlaps with mine and my brother." Anna has no idea why all of this is happening, but she is willing to accept any training that is offered to her as long as it doesn't exhaust her to death or overlaps with the current schedule that she has.

Leonardo fell into deep thoughts after he heard that. He would like to say that Anna should try and fix her schedule, but he can't. They are talking about Martha, after all. "Well, I'll talk about that matter with your mother, but if possible have a talk with Martha." 

After that, Leonardo left the room and Anna is her thoughts. She has a lot of questions going on in her mind. Things have been way too different from her past life, and she is starting to worry about it.

'Is this a good thing or not?'