“We’d stop causing distresses to him and Ryan’s lives, that’s for sure. But remember what we talked about before we resumed bullying Ryan if we get to confirm that Dylan could truly report us?
Yes, we’d stop bullying the both of them together, we’d stop bullying Ryan when he’s with Dylan. But we’d find a way to continue bullying him when he isn’t with Dylan,
As for his instruction to stop bullying the other students we’d been bullying. Well, we wouldn’t stop bullying them, we’d only find a way to be bullying them without his notice. We have to be really careful when doing this, so things wouldn’t get out of hand,
As for informing the other bullies in our academy not to dare disturb their lives ever again and to also do the same to the other students they’d been bullying, we’d do this. Why? Because the moment he notices they’re still doing as they’ve been doing, he wouldn’t waste time to report all of us,
Now, in case we inform the other bullies about his instructions, and they don’t listen, because I’m having a feeling they wouldn’t listen that easily, we’d try to instill fear into their bodies,
What kind of fear am I talking about here? Well, the fear that Dylan wouldn’t waste time to report them to the teachers the moment he sees them going against his instructions,
We would even try to exaggerate things just to instill more fear into them. There’s a very high chance they’d hear all that happened today in the next few days to come or even tomorrow, news spread fast,
Who knows? Some of the bullies might be among the students that witnessed all that happened today after closing hour. All these would make it easier for us when we relay Dylan’s instructions to them, they would try to listen and keep to them,
So what do you guys think about all that I’ve said?”.
Silence ensued after he was done speaking, no one answered his question for close to a minute as they were pondering all that he’d said…
For that time that passed without receiving any response from any of them, he was just glancing at them waiting for their responses.
One of the boys finally spoke after that duration of time passed,
“We’d continue bullying Ryan, but we wouldn’t be doing so in Dylan’s presence, we’d be bullying him when Dylan wasn’t with him, that’s what I understood from what you said,
So what if Ryan goes report to Dylan that we’re bullying him without his knowledge. Or let’s say Ryan gets angry and actually reports to his dad just as he threatened to do. Don’t you think that would be disastrous?
Any of them happening would be fucking disastrous, whether he chooses to report to Dylan, or chooses to report to his dad. There’s no way he’d report to Dylan and Dylan wouldn’t waste time to report to the teachers,
We went against his instructions never to disturb their lives again though he took pity on us and didn’t report us when he had the chance to. He’d be so angry, and no amount of begging would get to him”.
Another boy spoke after that one was done speaking, “I can’t help but to agree with him. Bullying Ryan without Dylan’s knowledge would be so risky because the moment Ryan decides to report to Dylan, there’d be problem,
Or let’s say he chooses to report to his dad. As he said, it would be fucking disastrous”.
The leader nodded his head after he was done saying that, then another one voiced out,
“And you said we’d continue bullying the other students we’ve been bullying though Dylan instructed us to stop. We’d simply be doing so without his knowledge, we have to make sure he doesn’t notice,
What if he notices even with how careful we are? What would then happen? That would be disastrous as well”.
One of the boys that had spoken before voiced out again after the boy was done saying that,
“What would make it worse was if both of them happened at the same time. Ryan reported to him that we’re still bullying him without his knowledge, and him noticing that we’re still bullying other students though he instructed us to stop,
We didn’t adhere to two of the instructions he gave, it would be fucking brutal”.
The leader nodded his head once again after the boy was done saying that. Then silence ensued for a few seconds before his voice resounded,
“Wow! When did you guys become this scared? Well, I understand all that you’ve said though and what you’re scared of. But I want to ask you guys a question”.
Their faces screamed ‘Go on with the question’ the moment he said that as they were listening attentively. Then he voiced out the question,
“Don’t you guys want to continue bullying Ryan and the students we’ve been bullying for a long time? Or do you want to stop? Maybe you aren’t truly interested in bullying them anymore because of Dylan’s instructions. I want to know”.
The three boys glanced at each other after those words flowed out of his mouth. Then they focused their gazes back on him before voicing out in unison,
“We want to continue bullying them, it’s fun”.
“Then what are you saying? Let’s continue bullying them”. Their leader’s voice resounded again.
“We are scared, a lot would happen if things go wrong”. One of them uttered, and the others didn’t waste time to nod their heads in agreement.
“Don’t be scared, let’s just do it. I have a feeling Ryan wouldn’t be able to report to Dylan or his dad when we continue bullying him. I might be wrong though, but there’s a very high chance he wouldn’t be able to report to them”.
“That’s just based on speculations. He might not even waste time to report to any of them when we continue bullying him after all that happened, and he might do it without us having a single idea,
We’d only find out when unpleasant things have started happening. I’m sure Dylan told him all that he made you promise, and Ryan would have kept them at the back of his mind,
The moment he notices anything funny, a lot of unpleasant things could happen”. One of the boys stated.
“You’re being too scared. So what do you want us to do? To stop bullying Ryan completely and to stop bullying the other students we’ve been bullying before Ryan even came into the picture?
Then where’s the fun there? We would just be coming to school, receiving knowledge, and going back home every day without having fun with some students? No, that’s just too boring,
You guys should trust me on this, things wouldn’t get out of hand, let’s do as I’ve said. Even if things were to get out of hand, there’d be a way to avoid them just as we avoided today’s own,
Stop being too scared, guys like us shouldn’t allow fear to cloud us too much. So, would you guys do as I’ve said?”. The leader uttered.
The three boys glanced at each other once again, then they focused their gazes back on him before responding to his question in unison,
“Yes, we’d do as you’ve said”. Experience new tales on empire
A smile appeared on his face the moment they gave that response, then he voiced out,
“Right answer, you guys made the right choice. Don’t worry, you wouldn’t regret this”.
..Silence ensued after he said that as they kept on walking for minutes without uttering any more words to each other.
******
The news spread around the next day, those that weren’t around to witness it heard about it. What news are we talking about here? The fact that Dylan almost reported the bullies to the teachers.
The fact that he even attacked some of them, fought their leader and came out victorious, and so on.
Yes, everything spread around…
These kinds of news wouldn’t waste time spreading around. But the teachers didn’t hear about it though, that would only lead to something else.
It was just as the leader of those bullies said, the news would spread around the next day or the next few days to come, and it happened exactly how he said it. It spread around the next day.
And the other bullies that weren’t around to witness what happened that particular day heard about it. Some were so surprised when they heard about it, while some weren’t that surprised.
The ones that were so surprised didn’t expect that Dylan would be able to take it that far, but now, they’d confirmed that he could take it as far as he wanted.
The ones that weren’t that surprised by the news already had the feeling that Dylan would be able to take it that far…
Students conversed about it after it spread around, it became a topic. They’d all been witnessing how the bullies had been causing distress to Ryan and Dylan’s lives at the cafeteria.
And some had witnessed it multiple times when they caused distresses to their lives at other places, that was the reason why it could easily become a topic.
..But it didn’t last for long though.