Chapter 2
San Marino High School was the biggest school in Aileen's city, and also the oldest. The school was built in the 1700 and back then it had been a girls-only school. And since back then the Valda girls had existed. Valda was a girl society, or better the all girls' society. All the girls of the school were part of it, obeyed to the same rules, obeyed to the same queen. Nobody knew who established it, but it existed since the 1700, and the queen had been chosen the same way since then, had been chosen by the Stone. That's how everybody called it, the Stone, nobody knew what kind of stone was it, or how it did what it did, but the Stone had been on the floor of the East Room since the school was built. The Stone was literally on the floor, half of it buried in it, half outside. Around the stone there was a circle of ancient letters, meaning god knows what, and in the Stone a number shined. Right now and for the next 4 years that number was 6. That's how Aileen was chosen queen of Valda.
Seven months ago, the previous queen had called Aileen telling that she had been chosen by the Stone. The queen and her girls had figured out the life number of every freshman that was coming next year to San Marino HS, by doing some calculations with their birthdays, and the girls with the number 6 were only Aileen and the queen's little sister. They had competed and Aileen had won. And there she was, parking her car in the school's parking lot, and then walking toward the school, ignoring the gazes. When she entered the school she noticed that it was louder than usual, the students were gossiping way too much. "Maybe it's about that Eva thing" – she thought and joined her group of girls.
"Hey queen" – Oriana said. She and Iona were Aileen's real friends, since before she was the queen. The rest of the crew, well Aileen was the queen.
"Hey girls! So what's all these noise around? It's about the 0014 thing?"
"Oh you don't know. It's about that, but also because a new guy is coming today, I wonder if he's hot."-Carmen said.
"Whatever, - Aileen rolled her eyes, - this Eva thing is more important. What secret did she tell?"
"She told her boyfriend almost everything that is forbidden, you know where we have the meetings, what rules we respect, how you find out everything about everyone, everything from the 10 secret rules."- it was Iona the one that said this.
"Well the 5 points punishment is enough for her; I'm going to enjoy especially the first one. We have had so many fights about Albin, so I'm the one who's going to do it" – Aileen said this smiling. Then she added: "I'm going to meet Ms. Rebecca; there are some things about the Valentine's Day party that aren't ready yet."
And she left, headed toward the Teacher's lounge. There she saw him, talking to Ms. Rebecca; right in front of her there was Devin.
