Yes, it didn’t last for long, it died down that same day it became a topic. And it was a good thing because it wouldn’t have been nice at all if the teachers heard about it while students were conversing about it.
It would be easy for them to hear about it if it remained a tending topic for days, so it was a good thing for the bullies that the topic didn’t last for long before it died down.
Why was it a good thing for the bullies? Because they’d be the one to get into trouble if the teachers heard about it…
So they were so happy when the topic died down. But just because students weren’t talking about it that much anymore, doesn’t mean they’d forgotten about it.
It was still embedded in their heads. Yes, it was still news that spread around.
The bullies did as Dylan instructed, they started informing all the other bullies they knew not to dare disturb Ryan and Dylan’s lives, and to stop disturbing the lives of other students as well.
They simply relayed to them what Dylan told them to relay to them…
As known, all the bullies had already heard what happened concerning how Dylan almost reported the bullies that had been troubling their lives.
So though some were hesitant after the information was relayed to them, they couldn’t help but say they’ve heard and would try their very best to keep to the instructions.
They made sure to tell them that Dylan wouldn’t waste time reporting them to the teachers the moment he notices they weren’t keeping to his instructions.
They said they’d do as they’ve been instructed. But some of them still had it in mind to continue bullying the other students they’d been bullying…they’d just try their very best to be cautious.
And they’d reduce the number of students they were bullying as well so it would be easier for them to hide what they were doing.
At least, these agreed to do as they’d been instructed though they were hesitant at first, and some still had it at the back of their minds to continue doing what they were doing while being cautious at the same time.
..Well, there were some that didn’t even agree to do as they’d been instructed.
They said it right to the faces of the people that relayed the information to them that they wouldn’t be able to fully adhere to the instructions.
Yes, they’d stay away from Ryan and Dylan and never cause any kind of distress to their lives since it’s even been some time since they last troubled their lives. Keeping to that would be easy.
But as for causing distresses to other students’ lives, which they’d been doing for a long time now, they weren’t sure they could stop that. Keeping to that instruction would be so hard.
They were bullies, troubling other students they considered as weaklings were part of their lives…they’d been doing it for a long time.
Bullying was part of them now, they couldn’t stop all of a sudden. Even the bullies that were relaying the information to them didn’t plan on stopping what they were doing.
This was something they’d conversed about. They’d keep bullying Ryan without Dylan’s knowledge, and they’d keep bullying the other students they’d been bullying without his knowledge as well.
They couldn’t stop so easily…that was exactly how it was for some of the bullies they were relaying the information to…
‘He wouldn’t waste time to report us all the moment he notices you all are going against his instructions. And reporting us to the teachers is something that he could do so easily, it has been confirmed,
We’d partake of the punishment when he reports you guys to the teachers though our hands are free of the wrongdoing. Is that what you guys want?’.
These were what they were saying to the group of bullies that refused to adhere to part of the instructions. But even after saying these to them, they didn’t seem to change their minds regarding their standing.
They were still telling them right to their faces that they wouldn’t be able to keep to the instruction of not causing distresses to other students’ lives anymore.
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‘They’re free to do whatever they want to do. They’re free to report to the teachers if they want. We can keep to the instruction never to trouble their lives again, but as for keeping to the instruction to stop troubling other students’ lives, we can’t keep to it’.
..Everything they were telling them to make them change their minds were just in vain, they didn’t plan on changing their minds at all.
And they were just stuck at that moment, they didn’t know what to do or what to say anymore.
The people relaying the information to the other bullies knew at the back of their minds that they didn’t plan on adhering to Dylan’s instructions fully…in fact, their own was even worse.
But they needed these ones to agree that they’d fully keep to the instructions so they could see the chance to keep doing theirs. They can’t be doing theirs, and these would be doing theirs as well.
And the worst thing was that they didn’t plan on doing theirs in secret, they didn’t plan on being cautious with it.
They were going to keep bullying other students just as they’d been doing it. But they plan on doing theirs cautiously, in secret.
So everything wasn’t aligning at all. They can’t be doing theirs in secret, while these ones would keep doing theirs openly…this would only lead to Dylan reporting to the teachers in no time which would also affect them though they’d been doing theirs in secret.
They had to leave the bullies that didn’t agree to keep to part of the instructions in the meantime. They’d tried convincing and persuading them, but it wasn’t working out, so they had to leave them for now.
They’d try persuading them next time and see if there’d be any changes…
But they were a little afraid because before they come back to persuade them, who knows whether Dylan would have noticed that they were still doing what they were doing and report all of them to the teachers.
It might be too late by that time. But there was nothing they could do about it, they’d have to go and come back later.
For the next few days at school, Ryan was at peace. Yes, those bullies weren’t disturbing their lives anymore, he was coming to school and leaving school every day without anyone troubling his life.
Everything was flowing smoothly…the same thing was repeating itself again.
This same thing had happened before after he threatened to report them to his father. He was coming to school and leaving school in peace until those bullies decided to resume bullying him amid the threat.
Now, they were staying clear off him again due to a particular incident.
But since they could resume bullying him back then after days of staying clear off him, it had happened twice, then there was a chance of it happening again.
These days of coming to school in peace and leaving in peace as well could just end one day. It had happened before, so it could happen again…and Ryan was always thinking about it.
‘I shouldn’t be too relaxed, they could resume troubling my life again just as it happened in the past’. This was the thought that was always running through Ryan’s mind.
But there was another thought that always ran through his mind most of the time after that one. And it was,
‘But the case is different here, Dylan has proven to them that he could truly report them to the teachers. So I guess that would be making them really scared, and they wouldn’t want to do anything stupid,
Their so-called leader made some promises to Dylan, and he wouldn’t want to go against those promises because he knows the consequences for going against them were quite unpleasant,
They’re fully aware the reason why Dylan took pity on them that particular day was because of the deals they made. So the case was quite different here’.
Yes, this was the other thought that always ran through Ryan’s mind to give him hope that the bullies would never resume troubling his life again though he always doubted it from time to time.
Well, we all know their plan, they were going to continue bullying Ryan…but this time, they wouldn’t involve Dylan in it.
Simply means, they’d be bullying Ryan when Dylan wasn’t with him. They’d find a way to achieve this though it wouldn’t be easy.
The only reason why they haven’t started was because they haven’t been able to persuade some of those other bullies to stop causing distress to other students’ lives.
The moment they’d been able to persuade them to an extent, they’d resume bullying Ryan and resume bullying the other students they’d been bullying as well…