From Another Horizon

Chapter 2

"Wha— what are you guys doing here?"

Those were the first words that I uttered. But the next thing that I could feel was a kick right straight at my face. All of the other people in the room were flustered. The man who kicked me bowed at the King and said,

"Apologies for the rudeness, but I feel like we should do this. We all came here together, but this man wasn't. Shouldn't we do this?"

The King nodded. At that point, I realized who that man who kicked me was. It was Richard Newman, a bully in our school. He looked at me and said,

"Stay away from him, Lisa. He could be someone that was just imitating Jack."

Lisa glared at me. I could feel it. There were doubts in her eyes. I said,

"No, it's me. Jack Harper!"

Simon appeared from the crowd and asked,

"Then why don't you start talking about your life. Right at the start."

"What? Why are you as— aggggggghhhh!!"

Another kick went straight at my face. Motherfucking Richard. But what was that? Why was there a blade in his belt? Is he suddenly a warrior? Why am I surprised, anyway? He was an athlete even back in our world. Simon approached me and said,

"Just tell me your story. I need to know."

"I name is Jack Harper. I'm 18 years old and a student at Hamville University."

"How did you get here?"

"I... I don't know."

"Jack, better start talking. Things are not good right now. But then our memories were also fuzzy when we first came here. So, I'm gonna help you. We were all at the science fair and then there was—"

"An explosion."

"Correct. However, you're not there with us."

"Wha—"

At that point, I remembered. I was not there. I looked at Simon and replied,

"Yes. You're right."

"I guess you do remember. You ran away."

"I did. Wait a minute... you all came here after that explosion?"

"Yes. So at least, we confirmed your identity. But I'm curious about a couple of things. We all arrived in this world after the explosion. But I saw you leaving the building despite you hoping to win the Science fair. Are you aware that the building will explode?"

"Wait... what? No!"

The people in the hall room started staring badly at me. But I'm not even sure what really happened. But then I saw Richard. He was going to charge me once more. He shouted,

"Motherfucker, do you have anything to do with us being here?!"

But Simon blocked him. Simon said,

"I'm curious, Jack. Tell me, why did you go out just before the explosion?"

"I remembered. I couldn't contact professor Garrick. I thought something might have happened to him."

"Ah, Garrick Chule, that dimwit," a tall and muscular man said. It was Professor Spencer Domer, an all-around asshole and pervert. He was the last person I wanted to be stuck with.

Simon looked at Spencer and asked,

"Sir, do you know that person?"

"Not really, I'm sure all of us here knew about him. He's pretty famous. A very known crazy and stupid idiot. But he's rich."