It was evident on their faces that they knew him, Miss Amaya had already noticed it. But it wasn’t everyone in the classroom that knew him, there were some that didn’t.
But the people that didn’t know him were very few compared to the amount of people that knew him.
Apart from the fact that his family was popular, and he was as well, he was a student of this academy before that incident took place. Many of them were aware of this…
“He was a student of this academy before an incident took place which stopped him from coming to school for a long time. But he’s back now to complete his schooling,
The people he was in the same class with back then have already graduated, so he’d be joining you guys since he was in this level of learning before that incident took place”. Miss Amaya’s voice resounded again.
Now, she knew many of them were aware of the incident that took place which stopped him from coming to school for a long time. In fact, they were aware of everything surrounding the incident, including the suicide note and all that.
But she still had to say it ’cause it needed to be in her statement…
Ryan just stood there glancing at the students, and he wasn’t left out, he’d already discerned that many of them had recognized him. All that was running through his mind now was how they’d treat him.
There were some empty chairs and desks in the classroom, and Ryan was going to be making use of one of them.
Miss Amaya pointed to a certain chair and desk before saying to Ryan,
“You’d be making use of those right there, that’s where you’d be sitting from now on”.
Ryan only nodded his head, then her voice resounded again,
“You can go to your seat”.
And with that, Ryan began walking toward the chair and desk until he reached them. And after reaching them, he took off his bag, dropped it on the desk, then balanced on the chair.
Then Miss Amaya’s voice resounded again, “Aren’t you guys happy to see a certain student of this academy resuming school again?”.
..She threw this question at the students, and the response she got was very disappointing.
The word ‘Yes’ flowed out of the mouths of some students, but they were very weak, they weren’t audible at all.
Miss Amaya didn’t say anything in regard to the fact that their responses were very weak and didn’t come from many students. She only shook her head a little before saying again,
“Be nice to him”.
And after saying that, she walked out of the classroom. The moment she walked out of the classroom, Ryan sighed, and murmurings began resounding across the classroom.
Students began conversing among themselves, and they were most likely talking about the fact that Ryan had resumed school…
Ryan couldn’t hear what they were saying specifically though, but he knew they were most likely talking about him.
It wasn’t everyone that was conversing among themselves though, some were just sitting in their seats without a single word flowing out of their mouths. Some even had books in front of them.
Ryan glanced around the classroom, and he saw many of them still conversing among themselves as murmurings kept resounding across the classroom.
The ones that didn’t know who Ryan was but wanted to know who he was began asking those who knew him. And the students that explained to them gave them a detailed explanation of who he was.
They even told them about the incident that took place, the suicide note, and everything surrounding it. They told them what they knew, whereas, there was still a lot they didn’t know.
Ryan just sat there as murmurings kept resounding across the classroom. And you know what? He was very uncomfortable. Why? Because the reason for the murmurings was ’cause they were talking about him.
It hadn’t even been up to 15 minutes since he became a student in this classroom once again, and things were already going badly…
This only means that all that Kai said would happen to him would most likely happen to him, he was already seeing the signs.
As time passed, the murmurings began reducing drastically until they stopped completely, murmurings weren’t resounding across the classroom anymore.
Something else was happening, and Ryan noticed it the moment he glanced around. A lot of students were staring at him with a kind of unpleasant facial expressions.
This was one of the things Kai said would happen to him, students would be staring at him awkwardly. There’d be a lot of side-glances, and it was already happening.
After conversing among themselves and having talked about him to their satisfaction without him hearing what they were saying, it was about time for them to stare at him.
‘They are definitely not going to treat me nicely, my stay here would most likely be unpleasant for a long time’. Ryan thought to himself.
He glanced around once again, and students were still staring at him weirdly.
‘This is bad’. He thought to himself once again.
Their weird stares lasted for some minutes without a single word flowing out of their mouths before someone suddenly said,
“Such a weakling, he attempted suicide ’cause he didn’t get to awaken an ability. Are you the first person that didn’t get to awaken an ability?”.
Now, this wasn’t a situation where the person’s voice was low or something. It was very audible, Ryan heard it clearly.
Not too long after the person’s voice resounded, another voice resounded,
“I agree with you, he’s such a weakling. Attempting suicide like he’s the first person that didn’t get to awaken an affinity. I mean, there are people in this classroom that didn’t get to awaken an ability, but life keeps going,
They didn’t attempt suicide, they didn’t try to harm themselves in any way. But he attempted suicide ’cause of it, such a weakling…disgusting”.
The people staring at him consisted of both males and females. And the statements that just flowed out of the mouths of two students pierced his heart badly.
Another thing that Kai said would most likely happen to him was already happening. Students would mock him, insulting words would be thrown at him.
Those statements from two students pierced his heart badly, they definitely hurt him. And this was the thought that ran through his mind at that moment,
‘I thought I braced myself for this since I’d already been warned they’d happen to me, so why did they hurt this much?’.
They didn’t stop, they weren’t done mocking him. This was the utterance that flowed out of the mouth of a certain girl,
“He jumped off a hill to end his life ’cause he didn’t get to awaken an ability, right? But he ended up falling into a comma. He shouldn’t have woken from the comma, he should have just died, so he’d accomplish the aim of jumping off the hill”.
And another person didn’t waste time to support her statement, “I agree with you, he shouldn’t have woken from the comma. Since he wanted to die, then he should have just died. The universe should have made his wish come to pass”.
And that wasn’t the only person that supported her statement, other people supported it as well…both males and females.
And you know what? They pierced Ryan’s heart badly. These even hurt more than the first ones.
‘Guess I didn’t brace myself well enough’. Ryan thought to himself once again.
..Yes, since these words were hurting him this much, that means he didn’t brace himself well enough.
It didn’t stop there, more students mocked him and threw insulting words at him.
“He shouldn’t have returned to school, seeing him is making me a little angry. The fact that he attempted suicide ’cause he didn’t get to awaken an ability is very upsetting to me,
This can influence the minds of others that didn’t get to awaken one ’cause of what he did. He made it seem like it was the end of the world”. A certain boy said.
And a certain girl didn’t waste time to back up what he said, “The same for me, seeing him is making me angry as well. He shouldn’t have returned to school”.
“Even if he wanted to resume his schooling, he should have done so at another school”. Another boy said.
And many people agreed with what he said by nodding their heads and with what flowed out of their mouths.
Miss Amaya told them to be nice to him before leaving the classroom, but they were doing the opposite of what she told them.
And all the people making these remarks were people with abilities. The ones that didn’t possess an ability didn’t say anything…