The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella and Romeo) novel Chapter 626

Next morning, all the freshmen headed to the temporary training base set up on the back hill for some belly crawling drills.

As soon as Arabella arrived at the base, a bunch of classmates greeted her enthusiastically.

"Good morning, Bella."

"Hey Bella, rise and shine."

"Bella, you made it."

Arabella was left with question marks floating around her head. Did she know them?

"Bella, thanks for giving us a day off yesterday."

"We had the AC on all day in our dorm yesterday, it was bliss."

"Thanks for dealing with Noreen!"

A crowd of strangers surrounded Arabella, complimenting her on her skin and how pretty she was, all with friendly faces.

Jerome blew the whistle: "Attention!"

Everyone immediately stood up straight.

Today's exercise was belly crawling. The wide field allowed all the freshmen to participate at once.

"Let's go over the rules." Jerome glanced at everyone and spoke seriously: "As soon as you hear the gunshot, you'll hit the deck and start to crawl, aiming for the red flag at the finish line. There will be six instructors on the watchtower looking for targets. Your job is to keep a low profile and avoid making too much noise. The guns are paintball guns. If the instructors spot you, they will shoot, and anyone hit has to start over from the beginning."

So, unless they passed today's test and grabbed the red flag at the finish line, they'd be crawling around in the grass all day.

"Other schools have singing and dancing for extracurriculars, and we're here busting our asses every day."

"It's so hot and they want us to train in half a meter of grass; this is unbearable."

Jerome glanced at Arabella as if asking, Need to take a rain check?

Arabella just stared back at him and asked: Do I need to take a rain check?

She seemed like a tough cookie.