Apart from them, the surprised expression was still plastered on many of the students’ faces in the cafeteria. A surprised expression was still plastered on Dylan’s face as he was staring at Ryan.
The students sitting around the same table as Ryan and Dylan weren’t excluded, they also had that surprised expression plastered on their faces as well.
Of course, the bullies knew who Ryan’s father was and knew the kind of power he controls. In fact, it was part of the reason why they resumed bullying Ryan, the fact that he was from a prestigious family, and they weren’t from one.
Now, the bullies, including all the students in the cafeteria, were surprised when Ryan made that utterance for the same reason. The same fucking reason why Dylan was surprised and was still staring at Ryan up till this moment.
With everything that had been happening to him, he had never made such an utterance before, this was the very first time he was doing so…
And a lot would truly happen to the bullies if he reported them to his father and told him all they’d been doing to him. The bullies were fully aware of this, and they became scared a little when Ryan made that utterance.
This was the very first time he was making such an utterance, and for him to say this meant that he was really provoked. Now, the fact that he was really provoked might move him to report to his dad though he chose not to do so all this while.
..These were the bullies’ mindsets, and thinking about it was making them scared.
They just stood there glancing at Ryan, and by now, that surprised expression wasn’t plastered on their faces anymore. It had been replaced with a bit of fear.
Yes, they were scared that Ryan could actually do what he just said, and the fear was showing in their faces a little. Ryan noticed it, and his heart gladdened immediately.
He was still staring daggers at them, but he wasn’t angry anymore, he just chose to keep staring at them that way…
The surprised expressions on people’s faces were already vanishing little by little, Dylan included. Still staring daggers at the bullies and noticing the bit of fear on their faces, Ryan thought to himself,
‘Maybe this threat would be able to scare them off. I can tell they were really surprised when I said that, this is the first time I’m saying something like this. Look at the fear on their faces, they were caught off guard,
I hope this threat would be able to scare them off considering I said it with rage in my face’.
After that thought ran through his mind, he stopped staring daggers at them, then his voice resounded again,
“Getting reported to my dad isn’t something you guys would want at all, getting punished by him isn’t something you guys would want as well. So it’s best you guys stop all these and just leave me alone because you wouldn’t like what would hit you if you continue with this”.
Dylan loved the confidence Ryan was emitting. He was staring at him currently, he’d been staring at him for a few minutes now, but he took his gaze off Ryan after the passing of a few seconds and focused them on the bullies.
And the moment he glanced at them, he noticed from their faces what Ryan said got to them. He noticed they were a little scared…they knew what it would feel like getting punished by Ryan’s dad.
Taking things into his hands and dealing with them, it would be terrible…
So the once confident bullies weren’t confident anymore and were now walking away after staring at Ryan for a few more seconds.
They kept on walking until they reached their seats and balanced on them. Then what followed next was for them to resume eating their foods. Students in the cafeteria were a little surprised at how the bullies lost their confidence all of a sudden due to what Ryan said.
Well, since the scene was over, students resumed eating their foods. This was for the ones that stopped eating their foods completely to glance at the scene taking place.
There were some that didn’t stop eating their foods completely but were still glancing at the scene. Their attention was divided, they were eating and staring at the scene taking place.
..A smirk appeared on Ryan’s face after the bullies walked away and reached their seats.
His threat worked, look at how they scampered away. They were afraid to get punished by his dad, they were fully aware of how terrible it would be.
‘I just hope it would remain this way, I just hope I can keep using that threat to scare them off’. Ryan thought to himself with that smirk still plastered on his face.
The smirk vanished from his face after the passing of a few seconds, then he glanced at Dylan and saw that a smirk was also plastered on his face as well.
And seeing that smirk on Dylan’s face made that smirk that was on his face a few seconds ago want to appear on it again. While glancing at him, Dylan gave him the look of ‘Well done job’, which Ryan understood immediately.
And a little smile couldn’t help but appear on his face at that moment.
The smirk on Dylan’s face had vanished by now. Since everyone had resumed eating their foods, including the students sitting around the same table as them, Ryan and Dylan had to resume eating their foods as well.
Slowly, students started emptying their plates and leaving the cafeteria. And that was how it kept on going until everyone had finished leaving the cafeteria, and it was completely empty of students.
The cooks had to come back into the cafeteria and do what they’d been doing before, which was packing up all the empty plates on the tables. It was part of their job…
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Ryan apologized to his older brother, Kai, concerning what happened between them. Yes, Ryan brought Kai to his room to have a particular conversation with him but didn’t end up having the conversation with him due to his fear.
He only needed to ask him one question, but he was finding it so hard to ask him the question due to what might happen after asking him the question.
He knew asking him the question would definitely lead to a conversation, and he was afraid of what the conversation might lead Kai to do. He wasted Kai’s time, and Kai was furious at him.
He didn’t wait for too long to apologize to Kai. He apologized to him after they were done eating dinner and were in the living room. Now, did Kai accept his apology? Of course, he did.
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Being angry with his younger brother for too long wasn’t something he wanted.
But though Ryan apologized to him, and they made up, he didn’t end up having that conversation he wanted to have with him. He didn’t see any reason to.
Kai even asked what the conversation was about, but he didn’t tell him and gave him a valid reason why he didn’t do so. Kai didn’t take it the wrong way, he just respected Ryan’s decision not to tell him what the discussion would have been about.
Now, how were things for Ryan at school? Were the bullies still picking on him and so on? Well, they weren’t anymore after that threat that came from him that he would report them to his father.
He said it with rage on his face, he said it like he was going to report to his father on that very day. That was the very first time he said something like that ever since they started bullying him.
It caught them by surprise, and they were scared, so they’d been staying off him…
Even other bullies that were having the morale to resume bullying Ryan because they saw a particular group of boys had resumed bullying him didn’t have the morale to resume bullying him again due to what he said.
It wasn’t about what he said, but how he said it. He said it with rage and with so much confidence.
So for the past few days now, Ryan had been enjoying his stay at school to an extent. No bullying of any sort, and so on. And he kept hoping it would remain that way.
There were times when he’d be heading home with Dylan during closing hour, and he’d see the bullies, the four boys. And they wouldn’t try to walk toward him or anything even though they sighted him, they’d just keep walking out of the school compound along with other students.
Everything was going smoothly, Ryan was coming to school and leaving school every day without any kind of disturbance from anyone. But would it remain this way?
People were still staring at him as usual, the side-talks, and so on. Those were the minor bullying, he’d been free from the main bullying for days now.
So the question remains the same…would it remain this way?…
