The whole school would set eyes on him now, both teenagers and the ones that weren’t up to their teenage age.
And many people were aware of what happened to him. What do you think that would come with? A lot of mocking, weird stares, hurtful remarks, and so on.
We are talking about the whole school here, this wasn’t a situation where it was only in his classroom. Though it wouldn’t be the whole school that would be involved in it, a lot of people would.
Why? Because a lot of people were aware of him and what happened to him. The people that didn’t possess an affinity wouldn’t be joining hands to mock him, which was expected.
But the amount of people that possesses an affinity were many enough to make the mocking and all that brutal enough…
Students in Ryan’s classroom were already walking out with the cafeteria as the destination in mind. Ryan stood up from his seat, it was about time for him to head over to the cafeteria as well.
He had been a student of this academy before, so he knew where the cafeteria was situated.
‘What would the situation be like when I step out of this classroom and reach the cafeteria?’. Ryan thought to himself.
Yes, he was having the feeling he’d get mocked again, along with weird stares, and so on, once he steps out of this classroom.
And it would even be worse ’cause a lot of students were involved here…this was a whole school. And his feeling wasn’t wrong.
After breathing in and out, he began walking out of the classroom until he’d finished walking out of it. And right now, he was walking in the corridor.
And he wasn’t the only one walking in the corridor, other students were walking in the corridor as well. Some students were still coming out of their classrooms also.
And the expected was happening, students began glancing at Ryan with a kind of shocked expression on their faces. That was where it started from.
As known, many of them knew what happened to him, so they were so surprised to see him at school all of a sudden today. Slowly, the glances started turning into weird stares.
These weird stares were coming from people that considered him a weakling ’cause of what he did. It also consisted of people that were angry at him ’cause of that same reason.
Then hurtful remarks followed after that. People started talking trash about him, statements here and there…
Ryan hadn’t even reached the school compound yet, he was still walking in the corridor, and all these were already happening. He’d experienced them in his classroom already, but now that they were coming from more people, it hurt more.
He just kept walking until he reached the staircase and began descending it. It got to a point where he tried his very best not to be glancing at the people staring at him awkwardly.
..And even on the staircase, he wasn’t still safe.
There were students on the staircase descending it as well. So the moment they sighted him, the same thing began happening. Hurtful remarks, awkward stares here and there, and so on.
This kept on going until Ryan finally arrived at the school compound. And this was the thought that ran through his mind the moment he arrived at it,
‘Damn! This is brutal, it hurts like fuck. This is the disadvantage of being popular. Everything has its advantages and disadvantages, fame has its own as well, and they are really brutal’.
There were students on the compound, in fact, lots of them. So he hadn’t escaped by arriving at the compound, the same things kept repeating themselves.
He didn’t mind the people staring at him and saying trash about him, he didn’t glance at them at all, he just kept walking toward the cafeteria. The people doing this knew he was the son of Warren, but they didn’t care.
‘I didn’t brace myself well enough’. This same thought ran through Ryan’s mind.
Everything happening was hurting him to the brim, so he couldn’t help but acknowledge that he didn’t brace himself well enough again.
He wished he’d braced himself some more after Kai resounded those warnings into his ears. He didn’t know it would be this bad.
Well, he kept walking toward the cafeteria until he reached and entered it. Upon entering it, he saw there were students already occupying seats around tables.
Yes, the cafeteria was arranged this way. There were different tables in it, and there were chairs surrounding them.
That means a particular table would have a couple of chairs around it, another table would have a couple of chairs around it…and that was how it kept on going.
And Ryan wasn’t surprised to see students already occupying chairs in the cafeteria. Of course, everyone didn’t begin heading toward the cafeteria at the same time.
Some people left their classrooms for the cafeteria before others, so they were supposed to reach the cafeteria before others. And this cafeteria was meant for only students.
Teachers had their separate cafeteria where they do meet to eat during break hours. And it wasn’t close to the size of the students’ own ’cause students were larger.
So the cafeteria meant for students was far larger than the one meant for teachers…
Different foods were being prepared everyday by the cooks. And they weren’t free food, every student would have to pay for the foods they were eating at school each month.
There was a fixed payment for it…and it was part of the payment Warren made today when he and Ryan were inside the head teacher’s office.
After arriving in the cafeteria, Ryan began walking toward one of the tables that had vacant chairs around it. And the moment he reached them, he sat on one of the chairs.
Students were still trooping into the cafeteria since a lot of them hadn’t entered yet. It was evident from the amount of vacant chairs around, students needed to occupy them.
And even in the cafeteria, Ryan wasn’t still safe. In fact, it was even in this cafeteria that things would get worse.
He’d already noticed students staring at him again, both males and females. And though it wasn’t all the students in the cafeteria that were staring at him, a good number of them were staring at him.
And as more students were entering the cafeteria and making themselves comfortable on different chairs, the number of people staring at him were increasing…
Ryan bowed his head a little while sighing at the same time. And all of a sudden, the chairs around the table he was sitting close to got filled up by a group of boys.
According to what he was seeing, the boys were friends, and they seemed like rascals…the kind that loves trouble.
They weren’t in the same class as him, but they seemed to be at the same level of learning as him but in a different classroom. Yes, students at the same level of learning weren’t in one classroom, they were divided into different classrooms.
..Being in one classroom wouldn’t work out because all of them wouldn’t fit into it.
The moment they occupied the chairs around the table, one of them immediately voiced out,
“Look at who we have here, it is Ryan, the weakling”.
And the moment he said that, the others began laughing. They weren’t the only ones that laughed, some other students occupying different chairs around different tables laughed as well.
‘Shit! This wouldn’t be nice’. Ryan thought to himself.
And truly, it wouldn’t be nice at all…
The cooks were already serving the students. They were sitting in their seats as delicious meals were being kept in front of them.
Now, that wasn’t the only activity taking place, people had started making hurtful remarks about Ryan again, some people couldn’t take their gazes off him. They kept staring at him awkwardly.
And the boys that sat around the same table as him were disturbing the hell out of his life. Things were worse than they were at his classroom as expected.
The teachers and the students’ cases were different. The teachers were shocked to see that he’d woken up, but were also happy at the same time. And they made sure to tell Ryan how happy they were.
They knew what happened to him, but didn’t display a kind of attitude toward him because of it. They might talk about it behind his back, who knows? But at least, they behaved maturely in front of him.
But as for the students, they’d been displaying all kinds of attitudes toward him and saying all sorts of things about him. Using provocative words, insulting statements, and so on.
..They weren’t mature at all, this is what differentiates adults from kids.