Chapter 23

PIERRE POV

Time elapsed in a fraction of a heartbeat, and slowly yet profoundly, I found myself warming up to the entire Z4 gang. I should say, serving them was not as bad as I thought it would be, and not because they were treating me as a part of them, but because they were humans with flesh and blood like me and everyone else.

Outside their posh, extravagant lifestyle everyone wished for, they were still teenagers. Stupid, stubborn, hotheaded, and sometimes downright annoying. They did all the crazy and typical things any normal teen boy would do in the last year of his high school life. They dated (especially Romeo who seemed to be living up to his name by changing girls almost every hour), they drank like lunatics, and well, they were pretty fun. They were the total opposite of what the whole world and all of Empire Academy painted them. And I was really gratified to come to the knowledge that they were not all glittery even in their comfort zones.

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