Fatat Al Jasus

The 'Teacher' Surprise

I feel weightlessness and also a bit dizzy as the lift is going up.

"Can you now tell me what are we doing here?" I ask my dad with annoyance in my tone.

"No." He paused for a moment and then continued, "You will get your answer once we reach there."

Dad had pressed the button for the top floor of this skyscraper when we entered the lift, which had made the whole trip to our destination more suspicious.

I am a very talkative person, but when I can't talk with anyone, like now, my thoughts start to blabber in my brain.

What if he planned a surprise for me!

No, silly me, It's not even my birthday.

What if he... Nope... no logical thought is coming.

But I missed school for coming here, which is a good thing because today I had P.E with Mr. Frazzer. This guy hates me. I don't know why! But his punishments for me are different than his punishments for other students. He makes sure to make me feel more embarrassed and more tortured than other punished students.

My trail of thoughts ended as soon as I heard the 'ding' sound of the lift, signaling us that we have reached our desired floor.

As the door of the lift opens, an open plan office came in front of my eyes. Employees wearing an all-black outfit and earpiece are roaming around the place.

My dad started walking out of the lift and I followed him. He was walking in such a manner which shows that he knows where to go. As I was following him, I notice that the employees are whispering something to each other while eyeing me. I avoided their gazes on me and continued walking. We reached in front of what seems like a waiting room.

"Stay here, I will be back in a couple of minutes," Dad said and hurriedly left the waiting room.

I sat on one of the sofas. As soon as I got myself comfortable, two men entered the room and sat on the sofas, both with a cup of coffee. They have the same outfit, black shirt, and pants, like other employees here, just their sleeves were rolled up to the elbow. They were whispering to each other while glancing at me after every few seconds. I felt very uncomfortable under their gaze and decided to get out of my 'Shell of Politeness' and be the real me.

"Do I look so beautiful?" I asked the two men with a sarcastic smile.

Both of them stopped whispering and looked at me with surprise.

"Um... No." One of them said while holding the same surprised expression.

I narrowed my eyes and frowned.

"Then why are you guys looking at me and whispering to each other?" I asked raising my voice slightly, anger and annoyance clear in my tone.

The other man who wasn't talking before looked at me with a straight face and said, "We were just discussing that, are you capable of doing the job or not? You are very lazy as far as we know."

I narrowed my eyes at them and asked, "How do you know that I am lazy? And even if I am lazy, why does it bother you?"

Both of the men stood up and the man who called me lazy said with a smirk playing on his lips, "You will get to know soon that why it bothers us."

Then they left the room, stuffing more confusion in my head.

This day is full of confusing and suspicious events.- My brain blabbered. This thing inside my scalp has a disease called 'Blabbering'.

Suddenly my dad stormed in the waiting room and said, "Come on, follow me." And then he swiftly exited the room. I quickly stood up and started speed walking after him. After a few seconds, we entered a room, more like a gigantic office room that CEOs of multinational companies have. The room had full-length glass windows on two adjacent sides, a set of plush looking sofas at a corner. The tiles of the floor were so clear that I could even see the reflection of the small pimple at the corner of my eyebrow when I looked down.

The sound of someone clearing their throat brought me back to reality. I looked up and saw dad looking at me with at annoyed expression. Then he shook his head and started to proceed towards the mahogany-colored table which was in the middle of the room. Someone is sitting in the chair on the other side of the table but is currently searching for something in the lower drawers of the table for which I am not being able to see his face.

"She is here." Dad said as he took a seat on one of the two office chairs which were on this side of the table.

"Oh, great sir, just a minute, let me take out the file." Said the man.

Wait a minute, this voice sounds familiar.

"Yeah, got the file." The man said and rose his head. My jaw dropped in surprise by seeing who the man was.

"Hello Taylor, I am so sorry that you had to see my face." Said the man with a smirk playing on his lips.

"Mr. Frazzer, what are you doing here?" I said in a tone full of surprise and confusion.