Suspicious [Completed]

Weird...

I was sitting in front of a desk, chatting away with my friends when I saw a man with tan skin walk into the classroom with long strides. A friendly smile was plastered on his face when he looked around the classroom at the students present before settling his bag and books on the desk as he stood on the podium.

"Good morning, class." The man said with a cheerful voice and the students that were slumping on the desk sat up with small grunts.

"I know, I know, you don't like morning classes. But we still have to get through it." The man said and the other students could only nod their heads defeatedly. I was looking at my friends and they were also grumbling under their breath, annoyed to have to attend class early in the morning. Most of the students aren't morning people and they hate morning classes but I'm perfectly fine with that since I'm most awake and energetic in the morning.

"Let's start our class, we'll be talking about mutation in cells today." The man or I could say, the lecturer turned on his laptop and projected a PowerPoint slide before flipping open his book and starting the lesson for the day.

I was jotting down some notes in my book occasionally while staring at the slide as the lecturer explains the lesson. I always like this particular lecturer, Mr. Kongpob, among other lecturers. His lessons are always engaging and interesting and he has a really cheerful personality. My classmates like him too and most importantly, he looks really damn good.

I always heard from my friends that Mr. Kongpob would hit the gym at least thrice a week and students would most likely bump into him and the friendly man would always talk to them and even became friends. Some of the girls are even drooling over him and started to fantasize when they found out the lecturer was still single and only a few years older than us.

The class ended after two hours and I was already excited for Mr. Kongpob's next class this week which is a lab class.

"Come on, dude. Let's have some lunch before the next class." My friend dragged me out of my seat while I attempt to keep away all of my stuff. During lunch, I was still preparing notes for my next classes, most importantly, Mr. Kongpob's lab class since he would sometimes come up with a pop quiz and I didn't want to do too badly. His class is in two hours and I've just enough time to go over the lab manual and notes.

After two hours of cramming, my friends and I were rushing to the laboratory across a building that was five minutes away from the library. When I was there, the time was still early so I took my time to place my bag on the shelf and grab my books and stationery. When I was done taking my stuff, I looked up just to find Mr. Kongpob coming out from the prep room with a rather wide smile. Behind him was the lab assistant who looked quite annoyed as he glared at Mr. Kongpob's back. Mr. Kongpob stopped on his feet in front of his desk and grabbed the tray that the assistant was carrying and placed it on the desk.

"I could've done it all by myself, you know?" I heard the lab assistant say and saw him roll his eyes.

"I know, Arthit. Just wanted to help, can't I?" I was stunned a little when I saw Mr. Kongpob winking at the lab assistant.

"Tsk, whatever, it's not a big deal preparing these slides anyway." The lab assistant muttered, turning away and I heard him say, "You should've used your break to finish your assignment, your test is coming up too."

I always knew Mr. Kongpob was still in his last year studying for his master's degree since I'd heard from him and the other lecturers that he was really busy and would sometimes need to take a lift to attend some of the classes and finish up projects. The authorities of the university are always lenient to lecturers that are still in postgraduate programs, even more so to Mr. Kongpob since he's one of the best lecturers that is teaching freshmen and usually got good feedback from students.

"You're busy too, our assignment is due in two days and you told me yesterday you haven't even written half of the proposal yet. So, I thought I could help you out with work and you could finish up the proposal sooner." Mr. Kongpob said as he walked to the lab assistant, standing by his side as the watched the latter arranging the equipment on the shelves.

"Yeah, I know." The lab assistant nodded, taking a look at the microscopes on the shelves before turning to Mr. Kongpob, "Thank you."

"That's the least I could help, Arthit. But if you insist to repay me, you could-"

Mr. Kongpob wasn't able to finish his sentence as one of my friends, Tao barged into the laboratory, startling the lecturer and the assistant. I followed suit, entering the laboratory with my other friends.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Kongpob." I could only sigh as my oblivious and insensitive friend gleefully greeted the lecturer and took a seat at his usual bench. Mr. Kongpob briefly nodded his head and turned to the lab assistant, whispering by his ear and I saw the lab assistant's ears turn red before half-yelling at Mr. Kongpob.

"Hey!"

Mr. Kongpob chuckled and gave a teasing look to the lab assistant before saying, "I'll get back to work."

"Yeah, yeah, shoo." I gave them another look before settling myself beside Tao. He was flipping through the manual, humming when I pulled the sleeve of his shirt.

"Hey, did you feel something weird?" I asked when my friend looked at me. Hearing me, he turned to look around for a moment before replying.

"No, what's wrong?" I shook my head when he ask and proceed to go over my notes for the lab class.