The students around weren’t hearing their discussion, they were the only ones that knew what they were conversing about.
“We shouldn’t care about that friend of his, Dylan, we should just do whatever we want to do without minding his threats”. One of the boys said as they were still walking.
“I don’t think that is a good idea. Do you know what would happen if we get reported? Worst of all, it is Ryan Howell we were bullying, the son of Warren. We’d get into serious trouble if his father decides to punish us himself,
Not to talk of the punishment we’d receive from the teachers and the head teacher. It would be terrible”. Another boy voiced out, he was only speaking his mind.
“Why do I feel Dylan’s threats are just empty threats? I feel he wouldn’t be able to report to the teachers, he’s just saying that to scare us off, and it is working,
We are bullying more than one student in that academy, both the ones we’re the same age with and the ones younger than us. Have any of them ever reported us? No, and we’ve been bullying them for a long time now,
So I feel Dylan’s threats are just empty threats”. Another boy voiced out.
There was one among them that was like their leader, you know, the one they do show a kind of respect to. The one that was always in front most of the time and the others would be following him from behind when they were walking and weren’t conversing.
He was the only one that hadn’t spoken yet, he had just been listening to what they were saying…
But after those words had finished flowing out of that boy’s mouth, he finally spoke,
“The ones we’ve been bullying at school for a long time, and they hadn’t reported are like weaklings. They don’t possess an ability, many of them are loners, and so on,
But I can tell that Dylan of a guy isn’t a weakling, and he possesses an ability. There’s a very high chance those threats of his aren’t empty threats, it’s evident in his eyes”.
The others nodded their heads in understanding, what he’d just said was most likely true. Silence ensued between them as they kept on walking, then one of them broke the silence by saying,
“Why don’t we resume bullying Ryan and make sure to confirm if Dylan’s threats are truly empty threats or not?”.
“Can you throw more light into what you just said now?”. The one that was considered their leader voiced out.
“Okay, let’s resume bullying Ryan the way we were doing back then before we got scared off. Now, Dylan is always with Ryan most of the time, and resuming bullying him would mean Dylan would start with that threat again,
Now, we have to make sure he’s so close to carrying out that threat but hasn’t carried it out yet before we’d pull back. It wouldn’t be like back then where he just said it and we were already scared,
As I said, we’d have to make sure he’s so close to carrying out the threat before we’d pull back. That’s the only way to confirm if his threats are truly empty threats or not”. The boy explained.
All of them, including their leader, nodded their heads to his utterance, what he said just now made sense…
Then one of the other boys voiced out, “What if it becomes too late? What if he carries out the threat without giving us a chance to pull back? It wasn’t a situation of him being close to carrying out the threat, he carried it out before we could pull back,
What would we do in that situation because it could happen”.
..He was directing this utterance at the boy that gave that suggestion to confirm if Dylan’s threats were truly empty threats or not.
“Then we just have to make sure it doesn’t happen, we have to make sure we don’t provoke him to that extent. And even if we provoke him to that extent and notice he was about to go carry out his threat of reporting to the teachers, then we have to find a way to stop him,
Stopping him might require us to tell him we wouldn’t dare bully Ryan again, stooping low enough to beg him, and so on”. The boy answered.
They couldn’t help but nod their heads to the boy’s statement again, he was making sense. Then the boy’s voice resounded again,
“If there’s a better suggestion on how we can confirm if Dylan’s threats are truly empty threats or not, and how we can stop him if the situation gets out of hand, and it becomes a sure thing he’s about to carry out the threat, then the person can voice it out”.
No one said anything, that means no one had a better suggestion. Then one of their voices resounded,
“I think we’d just go with what you suggested on how to confirm if his threats are truly empty threats or not and how to stop him if the situation gets out of hand”.
They’d all agreed on something now, then the leader’s voice resounded,
“So, let’s say we get to confirm his threats aren’t empty threats at all, and he can truly carry them out, what would we do next? We just stay off bullying Ryan ever again?”.
..He threw this question at the others, and he was expecting answers, but for the past few seconds, no one had said anything.
That silence lasted for a few more seconds before someone finally spoke out,
“Then we’d just have to find another way to continue bullying Ryan”.
“Do you have any other way in mind?”. The leader inquired of the person that spoke out.
“Since Dylan is the one making the threats, then we just have to find a way to be bullying Ryan when he’s not there. From what I’m seeing, Ryan doesn’t plan on reporting to the teachers no matter the amount of bullying he’s receiving,
And there is a reason for this which I can’t seem to figure out. But as I said, since Dylan is the one making the threats, then we just have to be bullying Ryan when he’s not with him”. The boy responded.
“And don’t you think Ryan would tell Dylan about it once we resume bullying him? I don’t think he’d keep it from him”. Another boy voiced out.
“If he tells him about it, then we just have to find another way or quit. But there’s a very high chance he wouldn’t tell him about it”.
They all nodded their heads to the boy’s statement, he was making sense. Then the leader’s voice resounded again,
“We’ve made plans, and we’d be carrying out the plans soon”.
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Today was another day of school, different students were trooping into their academies. Some were being ridden into their academies with horses, while some were walking into their academies with their feet.
That was also the same case with Ryan’s academy, different students were trooping into it for today was another day of school.
As usual, some were being ridden into the school compound with horses, while some were walking into the school compound with their feet…
Ryan was among the people that was ridden into the school compound with a horse…one of the guards rode him to school as usual.
After coming down from the horse, he just turned around and began walking toward the building where his classroom was situated without saying anything to the guard.
That was enough for the guard to know he shouldn’t bother about coming to pick up Ryan today during closing hour. This wasn’t the first time he was riding Ryan to school.
And whenever Ryan does this, he doesn’t want whoever rode him to school to come pick him up during closing hour.
The guard rode out of the school compound after staring at Ryan for a few seconds as Ryan kept on walking toward the building where his classroom was situated until he reached it. And by now, he’d already reached and entered his classroom.
Activities had already taken place by now. Different teachers had already entered different classrooms by now, taught them, and left.
Ryan’s classroom wasn’t excluded. Different teachers had already entered their classrooms, taught them, and left.
And there was even a female teacher in their classroom currently teaching them. After she was done teaching and had left, no teacher would be stepping foot into their classroom again until it gets to break hour.
Wouldn’t lie, the teacher’s teaching was a little boring…seems like the word ‘little’ would even be removed from it. Her teaching was plain boring.
Almost all the students in the classroom were so bored by her teaching, and it was evident in their faces…
Some were even close to dozing off. They couldn’t wait for her to finish teaching so she could leave their classroom and this boredom could end.
..Was Ryan among the people that were bored by her teaching? Definitely, he was a human with flesh and blood.