Student Book 2 || Weirdie Stars

Chapter 16: The Squad Meeting

"These scars? Ah, they're gifts from my father. They're eternal."

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"I'm here! What happened?!" Falhan, in the speed of light, opened the door aggressively and burstes into the room, soft pants after running from the parking lot to the hallway, to the 3rd floor, and to the classroom wasn't stopping for a few moments. He only found his friends Nathaniel standing by the window looking outside at the sky from the 3rd floor, Risqhi sitting on one of the chairs in the middle row with his eyes focused on his phone, Caron concentrating on reading a book, Kenneth leaning sitting on the teacher's desk with one of his hands supporting his body weight while his other hand holding a phone, and Frederick standing, leaning onto the wall next to the entrance door, folding his hands, which surprised Falhan a bit that he saw his months-lost-friend again standing relaxed next to him. Their eyes were now staring at the music teacher, showing bits of relief that one more member arrived in place.

Falhan himself, looking at the man standing safe next to him, was full of relief and thanked the gods that Frederick was still alive and well, and pulled him into a tight hug, burying his face on the crook of Frederick's shoulder and almost shedding tears of happiness if he was a bit more of an emotional person but in fact he wasn't, so he just squeezed the taller man in his arms earning a little sigh before feeling that Frederick also hugged him back slowly. He ended the warm hug after a while and sandwiched his palms on both sides of Frederick's cheek, making him to look at him in the eyes.

"GOD! Where have you been?! Dude, do you know how much we were worried about you! You're so troublesome!" Falhan exclaimed, now completely took his hands off the taller man. "Where the fuck did you go for a freaking month?! Were you planning on running away from reality and from all the troubles we'll be facing and-"

"Hush there. Niel already told you that he'll explain everything when the rest has arrived, so chill," the latter answered, "Even Niel wasn't that dramatic when he saw me again, so why would you?"

"Right. Professor Falhan was too hyped just like an anime girl," Risqhi commented, showing Falhan eyes of fake disgust as a joke, but the professor ignored him knowing that it's a way to annoy the younger. Falhan then noticed the bandages on Frederick's arms and furrowed his eyebrows in a concerned matter, taking a few steps behind to scan the other's outfit to cover the bandages and visible wounds. "What are those bandages?"

"Hey, remember that we are here, too," Kenneth jumped into the conversation, interrupting the two as he walked closer to them with his usual smile. The other members arrived one by one until they were all gathered in the classroom, sitting on their choice of seat but not too far from each other to listen to Nathaniel's explainations once everyone was focused which didn't take long after the last member, Nara, arrived.

"As you have known, we've grown suspicion on that new teacher, Chris, whose fullname wasn't revelaed to us. That alone is enough to make me suspicious and soon the suspicion was spread among the squad and now here we are, going to talk about this matter," Nathaniel started, looking serious as if he was in a presidential meeting. "Let me tell you this: Once I was confronting him in the rooftop, he showed his true personality and guess what? He stopped the work of my brain and I couldn't think clearly that time. I've never felt so much pain in my life except for that time. Kenneth was originally there too but I told him to go out and I'm sure he was eavesdropping from behind the door so you can ask him about that as I'm going to let Frederick to explain where has went to, so..."

Nathaniel shot a look to Frederick who got the connection he meant. He repositioned his sitting pose to a more comfortable one before starting to explain where he went that made everyone's attention focused on him. From him exploring the quiet and peaceful village of the legendary old house of the so-called cursed family to the part where he was attacked by a group of men during his way home until he managed to walk miserably in the middle of the night with his body badly injured to Nathaniel's home. Everyone listened carefully to each of the P.E teacher's words from the beginning to: