The Brothel [Draken - Tokyo Revengers]

Chapter 32: Everyone Keeps Leaving

Chapter 32:

"Welcome back, Shimazaki-sensei! How was your vacation?" Erina-sensei greeted Sakura as she came back from her 2-week vacation, she entered the faculty room with dozens of paper bags and a new body tan. 

"Amazing! I brought souvenirs for everyone!" Sakura said as she started handing out gifts to everyone in the faculty room, everyone rushed towards her as she gave out keychains and small charms, I remained on my seat and continued writing my lesson plans for next week, "Oh no!, I forgot to buy you one, Haru-chan!" She fake gasped, I was fighting an urge to roll my eyes at her,

"I don't really care," I deadpanned, I haven't been feeling well and I was severely overworked. I'm under so much stress and depression, it's taking a toll on me. I kept getting sick and I was losing so much weight, every time I would file for leave, they would reject my request.

"Oh? So how was the funeral? Were you able to say your goodbyes?" She teased with that stupid condescending smirk of hers,

"I didn't go," I answered blankly, I didn't want this conversation to go on, I just want her to leave me alone.

FLASHBACK

I told Masaway-san and Draken that I'll be arriving late for Misaki-san's funeral. I didn't want to lose my job, so I thought if I could wrap things up early in school, I could make it to Misaki-san's funeral, but things don't always go according to plan.

The funeral ceremony was in the morning and the cremation was in the afternoon, I wanted to at least be there for the cremation but the school board was not happy with the meeting that took place. Well, not exactly the whole school board, just Shimazaki Kiyoomi, Sakura's husband and my mother's ex-husband.

"The hell is this garbage? Shimazaki-san said as he threw the  file at me, the other members of the school board just sat there with wide eyes, "Everything is all wrong!" He screamed at me, he grabbed the copy of the one seated beside him and started encircling a lot of parts in my paperwork, "This is wrong, also this one, and this!" He went on and on about my work, "Sakura entrusted you to do one simple task and you fuck it up, her work was way better than this crap!" Lies, everyone in the room knew he was spewing lies, I did good in my presentation and my work was well-written,

"Shimazaki-san, you should calm down," Shimazaki Kiyoomi's secretary tried to calm him down as she handed him a bottle of water,

"Calm down? With this half-ass work? Are you trying to ruin my school?" He continued to yell at me, "We should have just waited for Sakura to come back and do the meeting,"

"I did all of Sakura-san's work, how is my work now any different from last week?" I asked, I don't know what the hell was I thinking, I should have just kept my mouth shut.

Shimazaki-san got up from his seat, approached me, and straight up slapped me across the face. For an old man, he sure had some strength left in him.

"First, you submit garbage and now you're trying to take credit for someone else's work while they are not around? How despicable, and you call yourself a teacher?!" He screamed at me, "Get out of my office and fix your damn work! You are not allowed to go home until you've done it correctly!" 

"I--," I wanted to tell them I quit, I didn't want to miss Misaki-san's funeral, somehow Sakura-san threatening to fire me a few days ago feels like a reward now. I regret not taking it,

"Don't you fucking dare say you will quit, if you do, I'll make sure you'll never get to work in any school or company in all of Kanto region," He whisper-threatened so none of the other members of the school board heard him say that, "I also heard your boyfriend owns a little bike shop in Shibuya, you don't want him to lose his shop, do you?"