No Honor Among Thieves

Chapter 2 - "Call me Unimportant."

A few days until the end of the first term, it came to his attention that a classmate's phone went missing. The owner, Maria, saw the invisible man for the first time and asked him if he saw her phone at all.

"No."

Maria was about to break into tears and he couldn't care less, but he always had a soft spot for ladies and believes that every woman should at least have someone to help them, so he says "Calm down now. I'll help you out."

Maria then managed to hold back the rain, "Thank you. It means a lot."

He nods and asks, "Who else knows about your missing phone?"

"Just you and Shaira."

"That's good but I think everyone should know so that if they find it, you'll be the first person they tell."

He immediately rushes to the class president. "Dylan, I need you to call a meeting while everyone's still here." As Dylan was about to ask a question of why, he went on and said "Now, please."

Dylan went to it right away and asked assistance from the vice president of the class, Elle. They both announced that there is an urgent meeting in effect and managed to keep everyone inside. Dylan stood to the front the class and began to speak.

"Alright, listen up. Uh..." Dylan gestures to the now visible man, and realizing he doesn't even know his name, "He has something to say."

Then a classmate at the back asks the visible man as he steps into the light. "Who are you?" He asks with obvious traces of sarcasm.

"My name's not important, so you can call me Unimportant; but right now we have more pressing matters to discuss, so unless you want to keep wasting everyone's time asking irrelevant questions, I suggest we get to it right away."

The whole class went so still and quiet you'd hardly see them blinking or hear them breathing, and since they saw just how serious Unimportant is, they maintain the silence and listens on without further distractions.

"A classmate of ours lost a phone just now." He then slightly turns to his left and, while keeping eye-contact with his classmates, whispers to Maria. "What's the phone's brand?"

She whispers back. "iPhone 6 Silver."

He suddenly whips forward and speaks in a louder volume than before. "An iPhone 6 Silver!"

 The class was surprised, either because it was an iPhone 6 that was stolen or just because of the way he said it. "She told me a while ago that she just left it on her armchair for a moment and when she came back, it was gone faster than you could say 'thief'."

Everyone begins murmuring and their voices was so low I swear it was like they were all inside my head. "Hold on now, I'm not done yet." They fell silent once more. "We tried calling it, but it doesn't ring, meaning the phone is turned off."

He continues, "We, whoever would help, need everyone's cooperation if we want to help Maria recover her phone, alright?"

Everyone nods in silent agreement.

"Now, the thief's first course of action would be to get rid of the phone," Says Unimportant.

Henry asks, this time, without traces of sarcasm, "What, like, throw it away?"

"No, not really. They're gonna want to pass it on to other people's hands, to sell it, the moment they leave the room; but they'd need to remove whatever security the phone has before they can hand it off to someone else, so they're going to someone who 'jailbreaks' phones."