Ace's point of view.
"Don't ever try to be in a relationship, don't try to spoil the mission I have worked on for my whole life".
Those are Fada's lines, and they kept ringing in my head for lots of minutes while I sat down having thoughts of what my sisters and I had done.
We all know Fada is a hot-tempered type, although he loved his family so much. And he was not putting the mission stuff in his head like before.
Because I was startled for a while, Mince was forced to say something. "Won't you say anything?" She asked.
All that came out of my mouth was a repeat of me just opening my mouth and saying nothing. I really don't know what to say at the moment. It was beyond my thinking.
And then, a knock was heard on my door. It was Fada that came knocking. He couldn't find Vesta so he came to ask me.
"I couldn't find Vesta, do you know her whereabouts?" he asked.
"No Fada, let me check around" I replied.
He added, "No, I am going to a friend's party with your mother. Tell her to organize water-test training for you".
He closed the door and took his leave. Damn, water-test training. More headaches have been added to my head.
None of us girls like that training. But I think it's time we faced reality. I would definitely seize the opportunity to discuss the relationship issues between my sisters.
When Fada mentioned water-test training, I knew in our next mission, we would need it. Because Fada did give us training that had to do with our next mission.
We have been hiding things from ourselves, and we just need to speak with each other to fix the growing relationship issues that are happening currently.
I asked Mince to stay with me so we could talk about the stuff. But I let her know it wouldn't be just the two of us that would talk about it. She was mad, and said she came to me because she didn't want anyone else to know about it, and she couldn't keep it to herself, only for me now to expose her.
So I made her understand that it was way more than she thought.
I asked her to trust me. We both looked around for Vesta. We found her and informed her about what Fada said. She called all of us together, and we started training.
Most of us were not putting attention to the training. Clearly, we were not in the mood, and we were just messing around with the water we were supposed to train with.
Vesta was angry, she was so angry about our body language, and she had to stop the training until Fada came back to see into it himself.
When she stopped the training, Mince, Helen and Swiss started leaving immediately. Oscar got mad, and she was shouting and claiming she would report to Fada when he came back.
I called everyone back. I told them we needed to talk. They wanted to refuse in the first place, but I managed to bring everyone back together to the training ground.
It was only Vesta who refused to come back.
"Please Vesta, I need you for this discussion". I said, and she came back to join us.
I was going to make us face reality. When I first called them back, I was full of confidence. I was going to deliver a harsh message, but when they came back now, they were waiting for me to state the reason I called them back.
Nothing came out of my mouth, I was stammering.
I summoned courage, and said I had done what Fada never wanted, and would perhaps break the unity in this family.
When I said that, four of my sister's eyes were locked on me. The eyes of Mince, and the eyes of Swiss. I believe they thought I had exposed what they did.
"What did you do wrong, Ace?" Oscar asked.
Frankly, I replied to her that I am in a relationship, and I don't know what would be Fada's reaction to it.
Vesta asked me if I was mad to have done that, but I was just being straight. I told her it was not just me. I let her know that many of us here were trapped in the same situation as me.
At this point, others could no longer hide when Vesta asked who else had a boyfriend.
She asked, "Who among you had a boyfriend and who among you did not?".
None of them was in or out. Vesta would ask again, and I stepped forward. "Who else?" She asked.
Mince followed me, she was followed by Swiss, and so did Helen. Vesta was amazed and curious. She burst into laughter.
To my surprise, Oscar stepped out too. I never knew Oscar also had a boyfriend.
Vesta's laughter increased when Oscar also stepped out.
We were all looking at her, and in my mind I thought Vesta's craziness would make her inform Fada. But she was thinking about something else.
As we kept looking at her, she asked "What, you want me to step out too?".
She was so angry and confused that we all had boyfriends when she had none, despite her being the eldest of us.
We skipped the training Fada asked us to do, and we were called out one after the other by Vesta to come out and narrate how we met our boyfriend.
Every one of us narrated how she met her lover, and after that, she asked us if any of us were still a virgin.
When no one past the virginity test, I was really baffled. It was only me that still remains a virgin.
Vesta too was no longer a virgin. She had no boyfriend, but she had lost her virginity.
Vesta told us she had a boyfriend when we were still in college, and she stopped when the mission fully started.
She said she had to do that so she wouldn't ruin the mission.
It was Oscar that jeopardized everything. She said she think she's pregnant. I almost fainted when I heard her say that.