He wasn’t close to dozing off though like some other students, but he was really bored. Dylan was also bored as well, but he was trying his best to keep listening to the teacher’s teaching properly even though he was bored.
Minutes had passed, and she was done teaching by now.
‘Finally’.
That was the thought that ran through the minds of many of the students after she was done teaching and was preparing to leave their classroom.
This wasn’t the first time she’d be teaching them, she was a subject teacher and had taught their classroom numerous times. And whenever she taught, it was always boring.
So whenever she steps foot into their classroom to teach them, students were always like ‘ugh’ the moment they set eyes on her…
She’d walked out of their classroom by now, and they were so happy, the boredom was over. All they needed to wait for now was for break hour to reach.
Break hour reached after the passing of minutes, and students began standing up from their seats as usual and walking out of their classrooms heading straight to the cafeteria.
Ryan, Dylan, and a few other students were the ones remaining in their classroom, the others had left. They didn’t waste time leaving the classroom in mass the moment it got to break hour.
..It was just like all of them were so hungry and couldn’t wait to begin eating the food they’d be served at the cafeteria.
Ryan and Dylan were already walking out of the classroom by now until they finished walking out of it. It was always like this, they do head over to the cafeteria together most of the time.
There were only very few occasions where they didn’t head over to the cafeteria together, and there were reasons for that…
And it wasn’t a weird thing at all because that’s the way it was with other students who were friends. You’d see a group of friends heading toward the cafeteria together while conversing at the same time.
It can also be two friends heading toward the cafeteria together while conversing as well, it doesn’t have to be a group of friends.
Ryan and Dylan had already arrived at the compound by now and were walking on it while staring at the cafeteria though they’d have to walk some more meters to reach it.
They were still walking when Dylan glanced at Ryan and uttered to him,
“I wonder what meal the cooks prepared today”.
“Yeah, we’d find out once we reach the cafeteria and get served. I’m just hoping what they prepared today would be as delicious as yesterday’s own,
But those cooks are excellent at what they do, they’d never disappointed, I trust them. Today’s meal would be as delicious as yesterday’s own”. Ryan voiced out.
“I agree with you on that”. Dylan stated nodding his head a little.
The both of them kept on walking toward the cafeteria. And they weren’t the only ones on the compound, other students were on the compound as well heading toward the cafeteria.
They were still walking when Dylan noticed something. He noticed a group of boys staring at them awkwardly…their gazes were mainly fixed on Ryan though.
Dylan recognized the boys the moment he set eyes on them. Of course, they were students of this academy, they were at the same level of learning as them, and they were bullies.
They were part of the bullies that caused distress to Ryan’s life a little before he scared them off…
‘Why are they staring at us like that?’. Dylan thought to himself while still glancing at the way the boys were staring at him and Ryan.
Now, these were the boys that made a plan to resume bullying Ryan and confirm if Dylan’s threats were empty threats or not. They weren’t the only ones that had been making plans behind the scene to resume bullying Ryan.
But they were the only ones that had finalized some plans and decided to carry them out. They kept on staring at Ryan and Dylan awkwardly, especially Ryan.
And from the way they were staring at them, Dylan knew something was off. They had a plan, these were boys that had bullied Ryan a little in the past, maybe they were planning to resume bullying him.
..That was Dylan’s mindset, and his mindset was correct.
Ryan hadn’t noticed that a group of boys who had bullied him in the past were staring awkwardly at them right now, Dylan was the only one that had noticed.
And you know what? Dylan wanted it to remain that way, he didn’t want Ryan to notice. And the reasons why he wanted it to remain that way were good.
He made Ryan increase the pace at which he was walking and also increased the pace at which he was walking as well so they could reach and enter the cafeteria quickly. All these were for Ryan not to notice the boys staring at them awkwardly.
They’d reached and entered the cafeteria by now, in fact, they were already occupying chairs around a certain table waiting for when they’d get served.
It didn’t take too long before they got served, their plates of food were kept in front of them. And the moment that happened, the nice aroma of the food flowed into their nostrils.
They could tell the food would be delicious as usual just from the aroma…the cooks didn’t disappoint.
They didn’t waste time to begin digging in as other students were already eating as well. With just a single taste of the food, they confirmed how delicious it was…
And from there, they kept on eating without stopping. That was how it kept on going without anything serious happening, students just kept eating their foods and enjoying themselves.
The cooks had already stepped out of the cafeteria by now since they were done serving all the students in the cafeteria.
Not like it was a must for them to step out of the cafeteria after they were done serving all the students, it was based on choice. If you choose to step out after serving the students, your choice, if you choose not to, your choice as well.
Everyone was just eating in peace, some were eating and conversing. Ryan and Dylan weren’t the only ones occupying chairs around the table they were making use of to eat, other students were occupying chairs around that same table as well…all male students.
Everything was flowing smoothly, but that wouldn’t be the case anymore in the next few minutes to come…
Ryan was still eating when he felt someone tap his head with force, and his eyes widened immediately with a surprised expression appearing on his face.
This made him remember how his head was tapped with force more than once in the past by bullies in this same cafeteria. It’s been some time since something like this happened, but it had just repeated itself again.
That was the very reason why Ryan was so surprised after it happened.
The boy that tapped his head with force was already standing in front of him by now, and Ryan recognized him the moment he set eyes on him. He immediately glanced back to make sure he doesn’t get tapped in the head by other boys.
There was a very high chance his gang would be coming behind him right now with the aim of tapping his head as well.
And he was fucking correct, he sighted them the moment he glanced back. He’d ruined their plans by glancing back, they wouldn’t be able to tap his head again, so all of them just walked past him and stood close to the one that could be referred to as their leader.
Ryan was staring at all of them now, they were four, and he’d recognized this particular gang. Yes, they were part of the bullies that caused distress to his life in the past though it didn’t last for long.
‘Why this all of a sudden? Do they want to resume bullying me?’. Ryan thought to himself with his gaze still focused on them.
Ryan wasn’t the only one staring at them, Dylan was also staring at them as well along with the other students occupying chairs around the same table they were making use of to eat.
A lot of students in the cafeteria were also glancing at them, what they did had already grabbed attention. Part of the students staring at them consisted of other bullies.
‘I knew it, I knew something was off from the way they were staring at us, and they were most likely planning to resume bullying him. I was fucking correct’. Dylan thought to himself with his gaze still focused on the four boys.
He stared at them for a few more seconds before another thought ran through his mind,
‘Why did they choose to resume bullying him? Aren’t they scared of my threat anymore? Why can’t they choose to live their lives in peace and stop disturbing the lives of others?’.
Dylan couldn’t just seem to fathom how the minds of these bullies work…