The Last Place

CHAPTER 5 Back to School — Seven B Class

"You freak!"

"That's the weird kid who lives on the plantation, isn't it?"

"Why is he here?" one of them said.

"Hey, you don't belong here."

"Strange boy! How dare he go to school?"

All the ridicule continued to echo in Reagen's ears, as he walked down each corridor of the school. It was the first day of school, after not going to school for a long time because of being bullied. The decision not to continue school was not Reagen's wanted but the decision of Reagen's mother, Alena.

The woman could not bear to see her son continue to get into worse situations with his friends. She couldn't accept it every time she found her son got several wounds all over his body when he came home from school. Finally, in desperation, Alena did not send Reagen to school anymore. It was for the sake of Reagen's mental and physical health. Even though it would be a very difficult decision, it was the best.

Reagen actually did not want to obey his mother's request to quit his school because he still wanted to try to make friends even though it was challenging, like looking for a needle in a haystack. While his mother's decision had strong binding.

Alena really couldn't stand the behavior of all of Reagen's friends, who always bullied her son. At that time, Alena also ran into some of Reagen's friends' houses and asked the child's parents not to bully her son. Her efforts were in vain. Alena even got ridiculed by her parents and was cornered by many people.

Even the school never once supported Alena and Reagen. They seemed to close their eyes and ears about what happened to Reagen. Alena was very sad at that time, it felt like she had given up, yet Reagen always encouraged him to get through this with passion.

But, after all this time, Reagen finally returned to school, although it was too late. Reagen's determination to return to school was great. Since he has not attended school, Reagen was still learning independently and spending more time with his father's books.

After persuading his mother for a long time, today was exactly the time. Alena agreed with Reagen to return to school. By now Reagen was seventeen, a teenager who usually spent time having fun with friends. But, whatever Reagen's power, he didn't have a single friend. The boy wanted to go back to school to make friends. He thought maybe now someone would be willing to be friends with him.

Alena actually disagreed with Reagen's decision to go back to school. For Alena, it was not important, the woman was also afraid that Reagen would be bullied by his friends again. Shadows of the past still haunt Alena. She did not want Reagen to experience that again. But Reagen kept reassuring Alena that it wouldn't happen, even though Reagen's self was still not a hundred percent sure.

This morning, Reagen would face the headmaster and report that he would continue his education there. He was supposed to be in high school now. Because he hadn't gone to school in the past, Reagen had to repeat the junior high class.

Two days ago, he had to go back and forth to school to take care of the admission process. Today he was finally able to go to school. It seemed very strange to him. He hasn't been to school in a very long time. Especially now that he was in full uniform, Reagen felt very proud.

Right now Reagen was sitting in the principal's office, waiting for that person to arrive. He rubbed the toes of his shoes because he was tired of the waiting. He also fiddled with his fingers nervously. It wasn't the first time Reagen had sat in the room, but somehow he felt very nervous. The boy still remembered the jokes he had heard in the school corridors. Reagen firmly believed that his childhood events would repeat themselves, but this time Reagen had prepared himself for all that. Now that he was an adult, he didn't have to cry anymore when someone mocked him.

"Sorry for making you wait so long." A bespectacled man walked into the room, then landed his butt on his chair.

Reagen immediately straightened his seat. "No problem, sir."

"Okay, it's your first day. I hope you can adapt to this new environment soon. And because you're older than your friends. I hope you can handle it well."

"Okay, sir."

The man nodded twice. Then he tilted his head to look at the person behind Reagen. "You come with the teacher, he will take you to class."

Reagent looked back. He found a man in a teacher's uniform waiting for him in the doorway with many books in his hands. Then Reagen nodded at the headmaster and stood up from his seat. He drew closer to the teacher, and he stretched out his hand for a shake, but he didn't reply and the teacher immediately turned around and walked first. Reagen, who felt so neglected, could only exhale slowly. He didn't know how to react to this situation anymore.

"Where is your father?" was the question that first came out of the teacher's mouth.

"I don't know where dad is, but I'm sure dad is still alive," Reagen replied in a more subtle tone.

"You must learn about your history, you have not to be like him, so that you may be accepted by your friends'’ The teacher's statement irritated him, but Reagen realized he had to keep himself calm at this time.

He fully understood that he was affected by the gossip of the people, while he must have never met Reagen's father. He naturally didn't want to blame this person. When walking, the teacher also didn't look at Reagen at all, he just focused on walking toward the classroom.

Finally, Reagen started to follow behind the female teacher. Along the way, all pairs of eyes looked at Reagen. Not infrequently, after that, there was gossip. Reagen had thought this was all going to happen before he decided to go back to school.

The teacher stopped right in front of the class, which was when Reagen saw the sign that read 'seven B'.

"Please come in, your class is here," said the teacher curtly.