Just because a particular person graduated when he was 16-years-old doesn’t mean the next person would graduate at the same age. The next person could graduate at the age of 17.
And another person could even graduate at the age of 18…it was just like that.
“I’m 17 years old as well, we are age mates”. Ryan said to Dylan.
“Wow! That is nice”. Dylan stated.
The both of them were bonding more and more without noticing it. They hadn’t reached the cafeteria yet, and look at how many things they’d already talked about.
Now, students walking in the compound along with them noticed Dylan conversing with Ryan. Not all noticed though, some didn’t care at all.
But the ones that noticed had thoughts running through their minds here and there. They were wondering why Dylan chose to go start conversing and bonding with Ryan when others were displaying trashy attitudes toward him.
It was only running through their minds, they didn’t walk toward them to disrupt their conversation or something…
After a few seconds of silence, Dylan got to realize that he’d bonded with Ryan to an extent. They’d conversed about some things, they’d gotten to know some things about each other.
So he uttered to Ryan, “Did you notice that we’ve bonded to an extent? We’ve gotten to know some things about each other”.
Ryan nodded his head a little before saying, “That’s true, I wasn’t even realizing it at some point”.
“So does this mean that we are friends now?”. Dylan inquired of Ryan.
“I think so”. Ryan retorted.
A bit of smile appeared on Dylan’s face the moment Ryan gave that response, then he stated, “Nice”.
Ryan said that but still planned on confirming the things he needed to confirm later on. He was only being cautious here due to what happened to him in the past which caused a lot of damages.
Not like he hadn’t accepted Dylan as his friend in his heart, he’d done so. But he wouldn’t be satisfied until he’d done what he planned on doing.
Doing that would then determine if he’d fully accept Dylan as a friend in his heart, or if he’d cancel him as a friend both in his heart and in reality.
“Since we are friends now, then let’s sit at the same place inside the cafeteria”. Dylan’s voice resounded again.
“Aren’t you afraid of the things happening to me? If we sit at the same place inside the cafeteria, you could share in the things happening to me, maybe even worse,
I think you becoming my friend is enough for you to share in the things happening to me. Are you okay with that?”. Ryan uttered to Dylan.
“That is nothing, I’m ready to share in the things happening to you. Who knows, I could help out in putting an end to those things happening to you. Maybe me becoming your friend is enough for them to come to an end or reduce drastically,
They might choose to stop seeing that you aren’t alone anymore, you have a friend now”. Dylan said.
“What if they don’t stop even after seeing that I’m not alone anymore, what would then happen?”.
“Then I’d just partake in the things happening to you and keep partaking in them until they come to an end”.
Ryan chuckled a little after Dylan said that, then his voice resounded, “Easier said than done”.
“Don’t worry, I’d prove it to you”. Dylan stated.
“Your life in this academy has been quiet, right? You’re a loner and don’t have friends, but you don’t have people bugging you and disturbing your life. Now, imagine all of that changing all of a sudden ’cause you became friends with a particular person”.
..Ryan was only trying to make Dylan see the clearer picture and understand what he was talking about properly.
“I understand what you’re talking about, but I’d prove everything I said to you”. Dylan uttered again.
Ryan didn’t say anything else concerning that, he just kept mute.
The both of them kept walking without uttering any more words to each other until they reached the cafeteria and entered it. And upon entering it, they saw students already occupying seats in it as usual.
“Don’t forget, we are going to sit around the same table”. Dylan reminded Ryan.
Ryan only nodded his head…Dylan was really serious about sitting with him in the same place. The both of them were walking toward a certain table that had vacant chairs around it currently.
And the moment they reached them, the both of them occupied two seats around the table…in fact, they were sitting really close to each other.
Ryan was sitting on a particular seat, and the one Dylan was sitting on was right next to him. So they were basically sitting right next to each other.
The moment they sat down, eyes were already on them. And side-talks had already started resounding across the cafeteria due to the fact that Ryan came in with Dylan, and they were sitting right next to each other.
Not everyone in the cafeteria was glancing at them and engaging in the side-talks though. There’d always be people that wouldn’t be interested in these kinds of things…
But as for the ones that were staring at Ryan and Dylan while conversing among themselves, they were doing it wholeheartedly. These were the talks resounding across the cafeteria, some of them even from their classmates,
“Isn’t that Dylan with Ryan? Are they friends now?”.
“Look at how they came into the cafeteria like lovers, and they are sitting next to each other like lovers as well”.
“If their friendship has been solidified, then he might have an ulterior motive for becoming friends with Ryan”.
“Seeing them together is making me angry”.
..Yes, these were some of the talks resounding across the cafeteria.
Humans would always be humans, teenagers would always be teenagers, they were so immature.
Now, it wasn’t only teenagers that were in the cafeteria, there were kids that weren’t up to their teenage age in the cafeteria as well. None of these kids were adding to the statements resounding across the cafeteria.
But many of them were glancing at Ryan and Dylan as well. Ryan focused his gaze on Dylan and uttered to him,
“Are you hearing the comments flying around about us?”.
“Yes, I am”. Dylan retorted.
“Are you sure you want to keep sitting together with me around the same table?”.
“Yes”.
Ryan didn’t say anything else, he only took his gaze off him and focused them on where they were before…
Now, though there were a lot of students attending this academy, both teenagers and the ones that weren’t up to their teenage age, the cafeteria was large enough to contain them all.
That’s to show how large the cafeteria was both in size and length.
Though a lot of students were already occupying seats in the cafeteria, there were still lots of vacant seats in it, which means there were lots of students that hadn’t yet entered the cafeteria.
The cooks had finished cooking minutes ago. They should always be done cooking before it gets to break hour. What they needed to do next was to begin serving the students around.
Slowly, the vacant seats in the cafeteria started filling up. And the cooks had already started serving the students one after the other.
As usual, students were just sitting comfortably in their seats as delicious meals were being kept in front of them. The vacant seats around the table Ryan and Dylan were sitting close to had already been occupied by students.
And all the students that occupied the seats were all males. From the look of things, they weren’t friends, in fact, they weren’t from the same classroom. And they didn’t seem like troublemakers as well.
It didn’t seem like they were interested in making hurtful remarks about Ryan, and so on. They were the kind of students that didn’t care about such things.
So Ryan was sure to have peace though they were sitting close to him. It wasn’t like yesterday where those boys sitting close to him were disturbing the hell out of his life.
So it was a situation of being disturbed by a lot of students in the cafeteria, and being disturbed by the surrounding boys. It was terrible…
Ryan was still sitting in his seat when one of the cooks dropped his food in front of him. And not too long after, Dylan was served as well along with the other boys sitting around the same table as them.
The food had such a nice aroma, so Ryan didn’t waste time to begin digging in after it was kept in front of him. Dylan didn’t waste time to begin eating his food as well along with the other boys sitting close to them.
..Now, the hurtful remarks, weird stares, mocking, and so on that had stopped for a while resumed again.