It would be really greedy for them to be eating every meal alone without the servants and guards eating from them.
Though Warren was paying both the servants and guards well, he still wanted them to be eating from every meal prepared…that’s how it’s supposed to be done.
But the thing was that they wouldn’t join the Howell family in the dining room to eat each meal, they’d eat separately. But they didn’t care about that at all.
The Howell family gathered in the dining room to eat breakfast, and they were already eating by now. Ryan was eating when Sofia walked past and their eyes met.
The moment their eyes met, Sofia gave him the look of, ‘Remember our plan today’, and Ryan nodded as an indication that he remembered.
They kept eating until they were done eating, then they began leaving the house one after the other…
Ryan was sitting on top of one of the horses on the compound right now, and one of the guards was sitting in front of him. Yes, he was about to ride Ryan to school.
It was that same guard that rode him to and fro from school yesterday.
“Ready?”. The guard uttered to Ryan.
“Yes, ready”. Ryan stated.
And with that, the guard put the horse in motion riding it out of the compound. They were in the City Square right now riding past different people, and some people on top of horses were riding past them as well.
As they were in motion, Ryan was thinking what his experience would be at school today. Would the things students were doing to him reduce? Or would they get worse? Or remain the same?
This he didn’t know, he’d have to arrive at school to know after he’d experienced them again.
He was on his way to school right now, and he was a little afraid…can you believe that? How could he be afraid of the place where he was being taught? That wasn’t how it was supposed to be.
He was aware of this, but there was nothing that could be done about it. He was afraid due to the things that would most likely happen when he reaches school.
The hurtful remarks, awkward stares, mocking, and so on. These things would happen to him again, they can’t stop just like that? Students were too immature to put an end to them that quickly.
He had an option to report to his dad so everything could come to an end, but he’d decided not to. So he has to bear everything befalling him like the fear he was feeling now, and so on.
The guard kept riding the horse until they finally arrived at Ryan’s academy. After riding into the compound and causing the horse to stand at a particular spot, Ryan came down from the horse.
And upon coming down, he remembered the fact that he was supposed to meet Sofia at the Ackland inn today after school. So he said to the guard,
“Don’t bother about coming to pick me up from school today”.
The guard coming to pick him up from school today would ruin everything, he wouldn’t be able to meet Sofia at the inn. Why? Because the guard would ride him straight home.
And he can’t dare tell the guard to ride him to the Ackland inn that he wanted to meet Sofia there…that would only lead both of them into trouble.
Now, even if the guard rides him home, he can simply make his way to the inn by trekking. But he considered that to be too much hassle, and he’d waste Sofia’s time.
So it was better for him to branch to the inn from school, that’s the best…
“Why?”. The guard inquired of Ryan after he told him that.
“That’s because I feel like trekking home from school today. Apart from that, according to what we were told yesterday, we’d be spending a lot of time in our classroom ’cause of the different things we need to engage in,
And I wouldn’t be able to leave the classroom along with my classmates when it gets to closing hour due to this. I don’t want to waste your time, don’t bother about coming to pick me up, I’d trek home from school”. Ryan responded.
“You don’t have to worry about that, I can still come to pick you up even if it means waiting for you to finish whatever you’re doing in your classroom. It’s my job, waiting is nothing”. The guard uttered again.
“As I said earlier, don’t bother. Apart from the fact that we have a lot to handle in our classroom today, I feel like trekking home from school today as well, so please, let me enjoy trekking home from school”.
The guard nodded his head a little before saying, “Okay, if you say so, I wouldn’t be coming to pick you up today”.
Ryan’s heart gladdened the moment he heard the guard say that. Then the guard’s voice resounded again,
“I’d be leaving now”.
And with that, he rode the horse out of the school compound. Ryan wasn’t the only one arriving at school now, other students were arriving as well.
Some were being ridden into the school compound with horses just as Ryan was ridden into the compound with one, while some were walking into the compound on foot.
Ryan was walking toward the building where his classroom was situated by now. And while walking toward it, he was thinking about the things that would happen to him today…yes, this thought hadn’t left his mind.
He was still walking toward the building when he thought to himself,
‘Whatever comes’.
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The same thing that happened to him yesterday happened to him today again. Yes, everything repeated themselves from the awkward stares, to hurtful remarks, mocking, and so on.
..Teenagers can be so immature, teenagers would always be teenagers.
The only thing that hadn’t repeated itself was bullying. No one had hit him or something, no one had touched him physically.
He was still in his classroom, he hadn’t left it since he entered it. So the bullying would most likely take place again once he leaves the classroom.
He’d braced himself some more, though he was a little afraid while heading here, he came more prepared. So though those things repeated themselves again, they didn’t hurt as much…
They definitely hurt, but they didn’t hurt as much as they hurt yesterday, there were big changes.
Teachers had already started trooping into their classroom by now to teach them. They didn’t come to school to sit down, converse among themselves, look, and so on.
They came so knowledge could be impacted into them, and that’s what the teachers were doing. Now, all the teachers that stepped foot into their classroom to teach them didn’t have a single idea what they were doing to Ryan.
They just taught and left…if they knew what Ryan’s classmates were doing to him, they would definitely do something about it.
Just as teenagers can be really vicious, they can also hide what they are doing and pretend to the extent you wouldn’t suspect them of anything. So they didn’t leave a single clue of what they were doing to Ryan for the teachers to notice.
And Ryan doesn’t plan on reporting to them as well, so it would keep on going like this for as long as whenever it chooses to stop.
It hadn’t been that long since a certain subject teacher left their classroom after teaching them, and the next teacher that stepped foot into their classroom was their class teacher, Miss Amaya.
Ryan’s eyes lightened up a little the moment he set eyes on her. Remember he’d always had this liking for her in the past, well, the feeling was still there.
She didn’t step foot into their classroom to teach them or something…as a matter of fact, she wasn’t a subject teacher to them, but she was a subject teacher to some other classes.
She was only their class teacher, and the reason why she stepped foot into their classroom was to make a certain announcement and relay some information to them. Murmurings were resounding here and there in the classroom, but the moment she entered, they stopped.
They greeted her, which she responded to, and right now, all eyes were on her. Ryan was just glancing at her with those lightened eyes waiting for her to reveal the reason why she was here which other students were also waiting for.
She glanced at everyone in the classroom before she began speaking. She read the announcement to them first, then she began relaying the other information to them.
..Students were paying rapt attention as she was talking.