"What's he doing here?" Tamara asked, pointing at Chase and making everyone finally realise that there was still someone else in the midst of them. before anyone could answer the front door opened and an overweight middle aged bold teacher stepped inside and sighed at the kids.
"You kids haven't gone home yet?" he said as he furrowed his brow.
"No Mr Mkpoin, " Alex started as he stood up from his chair, " We were planning on leaving."
"I mean, " Mr Mkpoin said, scratching his cheek, "At least don't hang around school for too long." He concluded.
Mr Mkpoin was a history teacher and was good at his job. The students in his classes had good grades even though his methods of teaching were a bit strict. He hated kids and was never popular with the ladies and someone might even say that he hated them causing him to have never been married or even hold a child of his own.
As he prepared himself to leave, he noticed a blue haired boy sitting up painfully against a bunch of fallen desks.
"Oh, You're here!" He exclaimed as he looked at Chase. "Good, Ms Macrina wanted to have a talk with so follow me to the staff room." Mr Mkpoin said as he started leaving the classroom. Chase said nothing as he painfully dragged himself up to his feet and slowly walked towards the door.
"Hurry up!" Mr Mkpoin said as he came back into the classroom and forcefully dragged Chase with him.
"Hold up teach!" Lucas shouted after him and walked towards the door.
"What is it Lucas?" He asked, knowing the reason for the hold up. He sighed and pushed Chase to the ground before stepping back a bit to make sure that he wasn't in the middle of it. "Go on then,
" He said as he pulled out a lollipop from his trousers' pocket. "But make it quick."
"Thank you for understanding sir." Lucas said whilst getting himself ready and grinning at Chase like some devilish kid.
Chase braced himself as he received a savage blow to his stomach followed by a kick to the face and hit targeted at his ribs. he tried to protect himself but it appears that it was not working as Lucas' blows were cutting through him like paper. Everyone watched but no one cared about what was going on: Mr Mkpoin had nearly finished his lollipop and was biting off the rest and the rest of the MTF were carrying on with their conversations like nothing was happening.
The hits continued for another minute before the teacher stepped in between them and ceased Lucas' relentless attacks before dashing his now finished lollipop into a nearby bin.
"Alright Lucas, " He said as he clapped his hands together, "As much as I enjoy seeing this I don't want Ms Macrina screaming in my ears about why he's badly injured, so wrap it up."
"Bummer." Lucas said whilst sighing as he threw Chase from side to side three times before throwing him towards a nearby desk. Chase was curling himself into a ball shivering in pain on the floor tasting blood in his mouth as well as a great deal of stomach and head pains. Tears rolled down his eyes as Lucas approached him and in his hand, he held the bin which he used to dump the trash inside it onto Chase causing Chase to curl himself in tighter hoping that the rubbish wouldn't touch.
"This is all you are." Lucas snarled, "Nothing but trash!". He threw the now empty bin onto Chase and sat down at his seat whilst all the others simply did not care and Mr Mkpoin was clearly delighted at the fact that the boy he hated the most was covered in trash, blood and tears.
Chase tried to the fight the urge of smacking Mr Mkpoin but needed to control himself as there was nothing a weak person like him could do. it would have resulted in him getting a rougher treatment tomorrow in his History class. Lucas had been lenient on him, probably because his girl was sitting right there and didn't want to keep her waiting or because he didn't want to have anyone yelling at him for injuring students.
Now Chase was starting to regret not involving Ms Maria in this but the small pride left in him took over and here he was on the floor weeping like some kid.
"Alright, " Mr Mkpoin said as he tried to pick up Chase but thought otherwise, "Let's go." when he told you to go, he expects you to be right behind him or a punishment would be issued and since it's Chase that we're talking about here, it will be much worse.
Chase got up painfully and found himself limping behind the teacher and holding his ribs in agony.
"See you tomorrow Cheesy!" Lucas said brightly as he turned back towards a tired Iris and immediately forgot about Chase.
Chase tried to keep with Mr Mkpoin despite his limping but Mr Mkpoin was walking extremely fast to avoid the kid behind him.
"Better hurry up or you'll be punished!" He warned as he took a sharp left into another building. Chase groaned quietly as his ribs started hurting more and more and he had lost sight of the teacher but, he knew the way so there was no problem.
He finally arrived in an almost empty staff room with only two teachers there: One angry and another worried.
"Why are you so damn late!?" Mr Mkpoin furiously asked as he tightened his fist.
"But sir-"
"No buts!" He said, furiously slamming the table. "Do you have anything to say for yourself?" He asked Chase, menacingly. Chase said nothing as he knew better than to argue with stupid people and daydreamed about the new game that his aunt had bought him and how hyped he was to be able to play it.
"I told you to be right behind me but you wasted everyone's time and came three minutes late you worthless piece of-"
"I think that that's enough Waren!" Ms Macrina angrily cut in as she forcefully led the teacher back to his seat. Mr Mkpoin tried arguing but Ms Macrina had the upper hand and she calmed down the teacher.
She turned back towards Chase before and caught a whiff of him. "What happened to you Chase?", she asked worryingly.
Mr Mkpoin eyed Chase menacingly causing a fear in Chase. "I just hurtled a bin by accident.", he said casually as he took a seat in front of Ms Macrina's desk. She sighed and took a seat behind her desk as she knew that Chase was not going to tell her anything and that she would rather have the boy go on home quickly to take a shower.
She sighed again and when she spoke, it was in all seriousness.
"So Chase, the reason I wanted to see you was to talk about your grades."