Miss Amaya and the male teacher weren’t walking in silence, they were conversing while walking. Ryan could see smiles appear on their faces from time to time as they were conversing.
And you know what? He started getting jealous at some point, he didn’t even know the reason why he was getting jealous.
Ryan didn’t like that the man was walking alongside Miss Amaya. Put aside the jealousy, there was another reason for this. And the reason for it was that the man could ruin his plan.
Who knows? The man might end up noticing that Ryan was trailing them. And another thing was that Ryan didn’t know how long the man would keep walking alongside Miss Amaya.
Would it get to a time when the both of them would part ways? Or are their houses close to each other? So they’d keep walking alongside each other for a long time?
Ryan didn’t know…but if the case happens to be the latter, then there was a bit of problem.
Well, Ryan would keep trailing them and see how things would go. As time passed, the students around were reducing until there weren’t any students around anymore.
All of them had cornered one intersection or the other that would lead to their homes. It was only Ryan following Miss Amaya and the other teacher from behind as expected.
He’d become super cautious now, he was having this feeling that if he let his guard down a little, this man following Miss Amaya could notice that he was trailing them.
There were times when the man glanced back but didn’t sight Ryan because Ryan was too fast. Before he’d glance back, Ryan had already hidden…he was being super careful.
And it was just as he thought, if he let his guard down a little, this man would notice he was trailing them. And it had almost happened if not that Ryan was being super careful.
If he let his guard down, he would regret it to the very brim…
It got to a point where the man finally parted ways with Miss Amaya by cornering a certain intersection. Ryan’s heart gladdened the moment he saw this as a smile appeared on his face.
“Finally, he’s gone. It’s only Miss Amaya now”. Ryan muttered to himself not too long after the man parted ways with Miss Amaya.
He kept trailing Miss Amaya while still being super cautious. Yes, because the man wasn’t with her anymore doesn’t mean he’d stop being cautious.
If he doesn’t take time, Miss Amaya could catch him trailing her…
Throughout the time he was trailing her after the man parted ways with her, she never glanced back or anything. She just kept walking forward so elegantly.
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And Ryan liked it, he wanted her to keep walking forward without glancing back so he could keep trailing her with ease while still being cautious at the same time.
Now, after a few more minutes of walking, Miss Amaya arrived at a certain spot where horses could be seen everywhere. And the horses weren’t on their own, men were on top of them.
These men’s jobs were to ride you to your location with their horses if you don’t want to trek there. But it wasn’t for free, you’d have to pay them for riding you to your location.
That’s exactly what Miss Amaya was about to do and what she’d been doing most of the time when heading home from school. There was a particular man that do ride her home whenever she reaches here which she always had to pay for.
She was the man’s customer…and the moment she set eyes on the man in the midst of other men with horses, she began conversing with him.
And what was their conversation about? For him to do the usual which was riding her home.
Ryan stood from a distance glancing at her in the midst of all the men with horses, and it didn’t take long for him to discern what she was about to do.
She was about to get ridden home by one of these men with horses, most likely the one she was conversing with. He knew the jobs of these men…that’s why he was able to discern that easily.
‘Is this what she does? Trek some distance, then get ridden home by one of these men with horses?’. Ryan thought to himself.
After a few seconds of conversing with the man, Miss Amaya climbed on top of his horse sitting behind him. And the moment Ryan saw this, he muttered to himself with a bit of widened eyes,
“Shit! All my effort is about to go to waste. She’s about to get ridden off after all the minutes of trailing her. So she’d go just like that?”.
..He stood there glancing at her with his eyes still widened, not knowing what to do, he was confused.
But the moment the man began putting the horse in motion, an idea crashed into Ryan’s head. As the man was riding the horse out of the midst of the other men with horses, Ryan was running toward them.
And by the time he reached the men with horses, the man had already ridden the horse a few meters away from them. Miss Amaya was just sitting comfortably on top of the horse not knowing Ryan had been trailing her.
The moment Ryan reached the men with horses, he said to one of them while pointing to the horse Miss Amaya was sitting on,
“Can you follow that horse?”.
“Why do you want me to follow it?”. The man inquired.
“For a very important reason, I don’t have time to be answering questions right now. I need you to follow that horse, please. I’d pay you more than the amount you’re supposed to collect for the journey”. Ryan uttered with a worried facial expression.
He was worried the horse wouldn’t be in sight anymore soon. And once it isn’t in sight anymore, he wouldn’t be able to follow it.
All his effort of trailing Miss Amaya for minutes would go to waste…
“But that horse you’re telling me to follow is owned by a fellow horse rider like me. In fact, a fellow horse rider like us. I can’t just follow them without knowing your reason for telling me to follow them,
Who knows? You might have a bad intention of telling me to follow them”. The man said to Ryan once again.
All Ryan wanted to do now was to go meet another horse rider and tell him to follow that horse Miss Amaya was sitting on…this one here was wasting his time.
But he knew it would be the same case even if he met another horse rider. None of them would agree to follow them without knowing his reason for wanting to do so.
They were united in brotherhood. With the mindset that he might have a bad intention for wanting to follow them, none of them would agree.
Glancing at the man sitting on top of the horse, Ryan said to him,
“My intention for telling you to follow them isn’t bad at all. I don’t have any business with the man riding the horse, the reason why I’m telling you to follow them is because of the woman,
That woman is my class teacher, can’t you see that I’m a student? I want to surprise her at home with a very special gift. I want her to have no idea about what is coming, so she’d be very surprised when I offer the gift to her,
So that is the reason why I’m telling you to follow them. I’m being honest here”.
He said he was being honest when he knew some of the things he said was a lie. Well, as said, some lies would have to be told to accomplish his current quest.
The man glanced at him from up to down and confirmed what he said was true. He looked like a student, and the bag he was carrying was more evidence of it.
And right from the very start, the man could tell Ryan was a teenager. A lot of teenagers were still in the academies meant for getting the basic knowledge. The man didn’t have a single doubt about Ryan being a student with all these.
Now, he said the woman on top of that horse was his class teacher. Coming to think of it, she looked like a teacher, he could be telling the truth in that aspect as well…this was the man’s mindset.
And Ryan looked responsible, his dressing was okay, he didn’t seem like the type with bad intentions.
After considering all these, the man concluded he’d do as Ryan said. So he uttered to him,
“Climb the horse, boy, let’s move”.