After sitting in an orderly fashion at their desks, the students did not stop chatting as they waited for the teacher responsible for the class to arrive.
A short time later, a teacher entered. She was small and simply dressed.
"Good morning to all of you! My name is Renata and I'm the chemistry teacher responsible for your class!" She looked modest and peaceful in the way she presented herself. "The class schedule has not yet been presented, but today the class should be in the Chemistry Laboratory, but as we don't have any experiments and we don't even have a subject at hand, I will use this period to get to know each other better. Of the three class periods until lunch, this class only takes one and it will be every Monday until some change in management."
After finishing speaking, the teacher again asked everyone to introduce themselves. She was more understanding and let the students introduce themselves in a basic way, as they had already introduced themselves before. She couldn't help but be impressed by the beauty of Arthur and Beatrice, especially Arthur's. Those green eyes seemed to stare directly into her soul.
After that, she also spoke about the subject that would be given during the year and emphasized what would be the bimester and the contents that would fall on the test. The 50-minute class period passed that way.
After the teacher took her things and left, another teacher came in. She was tall and had a voluptuous body. Her expression carried a mixture of indifference and a little joy.
"Good morning to you! How are you?" She asked as she placed her things on the table.
"Well!" Students responded in a disorganized way. The boys were looking at her figure, so their voices came out a little after the girls.
"Hungry!" Arthur spoke softly as he took off his headphones. No one in the room seemed to have heard, but Beatrice in front of him gave a small laugh.
As if it were a combined cycle, the teacher asked everyone to introduce themselves and started talking about the subjects, even introducing the content to the students. The two classes were gone like that.
"As you know, it's lunchtime now. The coordination sent notice to you to pay attention to the order of the queue. At the entrance to the cafeteria is where the order of the line is, so don't try to jump in line or anything like that." The teacher spoke as she gathered her things and left.
The students stirred again and the friends joined to leave the room talking. It was at this moment that Arthur got up.
He approached Beatrice, who was busy putting her pencils and other things in her case. His hand went right to the back of her neck, close to her hair. His hands moved deftly and caressed lightly.
Beatrice's neck tightened at the moment of the touch and her eyes rolled a little before returning to normal. A wave of pleasure coursed through Beatrice's body at the moment of the touch and made her body go rigid.
"Going to lunch?" Arthur spoke as he stopped the caress. He just did it to get attention, but in a way he wanted.
After Arthur's hands left, Beatrice glared at him, "Don't do this anymore!"
"What's this?" Arthur spoke innocently and petted again. Beatrice tried to avoid it, but Arthur's hands were faster. At the moment of touch, Beatrice's body stopped moving again.
This time, Arthur did it with more intensity, but respectfully. He just stroked her head like anyone else does. But that alone was enough to leave Beatrice quiet.
She suddenly woke up from that daze and took Arthur's hand from her head. She got up and said, "Aren't you hungry? Let's go!"
Even though she stood up, her head only reached Arthur's chest. She tried to glare at Arthur, but he just found it cute.
"Ladies first!" Like a gentleman, Arthur put one hand behind his back and with the other led Beatrice the way. She was in front of him, so even if he wanted to walk, he'd have to push her aside.
"Humpf!" Beatrice ignored Arthur's manner and walked away. Even if she didn't want to, even the way she walked was graceful and the curves of her body swayed.
Arthur looked at the moving figure and a smile formed on his face.
He started walking and also called Aline to go to lunch. Soon, the three walked out of the classroom and form towards the cafeteria. Beatrice and Aline were at the front getting to know each other and Arthur walked behind, listening to music with both headphones playing on his ears. His look never left the two of them talking.
From a distance, he also noticed Gabriel and he was going up to the cafeteria. His surroundings were full of girls, probably from his own class, who tried to talk to him and were full of smiles. He responded politely but never showed any emotion.
Although it was the first day of school and the first years were always the privileged ones, the first in line was actually the third years. After them were the first years and the second years last.
The third years had already gone up and the first years were also going up now. In the courtyards and squares it was possible to see some students and they were probably from the second years, who knew it would take a while until their turn and decided to wait sitting in the squares instead of standing on the line.
Arthur and the girls then started up the slope that led to the cafeteria. It was at the back of the school, next to the gymnasium. It was a long way and many people walked.
Arthur and Beatrice drew a lot of attention and countless eyes were focused on them. Some even concluded that they had a relationship, and for the most dissatisfied, they thought about being brothers, because of their eyes.
Arthur continued walking as he kept pace with the girls. He was after them the entire time, but he no longer looked at them.
Shortly after they started to climb, they arrived at the cafeteria doors. It was a huge space, as it could hold six groups of students at the same time. It was full of plastic tables and chairs. The place was full of windows overlooking both the school and a neighborhood of the city and the trees and mountains in the distance.
At the end of the cafeteria the cooks were also lined up in order with food compartments in front of them. From the conversations Arthur caught and the smell that invaded his nose, lunch today would be braised rice, 'tropeiro' beans, fried noodles and stewed chicken. A typical Brazilian dish and very healthy.
When they arrived there were already some people at the tables eating, but the line was still huge. The cooks placed it carefully so as not to spill the food from the glass plates. They were almost the last in line and it would be some time before their turn arrived.
The line was close to the wall and many people were talking there. Arthur froze with his hands in his coat pockets as he listened to music. Beatrice and Aline talked all the time about different subjects. Every now and then Beatrice gave a smile that Arthur couldn't help noticing.
As they waited, time passed quickly and they were already in the middle of the line. It was at this point that the second years began to rise to the cafeteria as well. They soon arrived and completed the line. But, some people continued to walk, even though their classes were already lined up.
It was a group of six and they walked imposingly. In the lead was Charles, followed by Carlos and four others from the same class.
Arthur noticed the strong footsteps walking beside him, but he didn't even bother to look and just kept listening to music while admiring the landscape through the window. Beatrice and Aline faced whoever arrived like everyone else, but soon returned to talking. The other people in line were a little shocked by their boldness, but since they saw that they hadn't done much of anything yet, they kept their mouths shut.
Just as they were passing Arthur, Carlos stepped to the side and bumped shoulder to shoulder into Arthur. This was no big deal until he pretended to fall and crashed to the ground.
"Aaaargh!!" A scream echoed as the fall took place.
As soon as that happened, all eyes in the cafeteria were fixed on that area. It was also at this moment that other people noticed Arthur, as well as the three beauties.
"Who is that kitten?? How come we haven't seen him yet?" Madison was the first to speak and looked wide-eyed at the figure. She found that figure a little familiar, but she couldn't remember where.
Sara was a little more attentive and, even though she was also impressed, she still asked: "That person doesn't look familiar to you? I feel like I've seen him somewhere..."
Emily just stayed silent and left them both thoughtful. She had a great impression of Arthur, but she also liked to play with the two of them and make them curious about something, at least.
The other people in the cafeteria had different reactions too. Some held themselves back from laughing, others laughed, and some even more booed, as if it wasn't enough.
"Are you blind, man? Can you see there was a banana peel there?" A scream sounded from the back of the cafeteria, and no one knew who gave it, much less cared to know. The crowd in the cafeteria just started laughing. Nobody else could hold back.
It was at this point that Carlos got up angrily and looked out over the crowd before his gaze fixed on Arthur. He immediately went towards him while screaming.
"Did you put your foot down so I fell? Are you crazy, motherfucker??"
Arthur remained calm and spoke: "It really looks like he's blind. He can't even walk straight and want to blame others?" Arthur's voice was soft, but it was loud enough for everyone to hear. He didn't know what the idiots intended to do, but he didn't mind playing a little.
The crowd laughed again, and their eyes flicked to Arthur, sizing him up correctly. Many people were not unimpressed, especially the girls.
Carlos was immediately irate and went after Arthur. His arms were already in a position to grab Arthur's collar. Arthur continued to stand still without moving, as if he were authorizing the action.
Carlos saw this and hesitated a little, but then he went ahead again and grabbed Arthur's collar.
"You little shit, I'll beat you until you beg!" He even raised his hand in a punch. He realized that Arthur was helpless and thought it was because of fear, so he wanted to at least discount what happened that morning.
At that moment, a figure entered between the two and tried to take Carlos's hands away from Arthur's shirt collar.
"Guys, you don't need to fight! Please stop!!" Aline walked between them and tried to stop the fight.
Carlos looked at her and yelled violently, "Shut up, you little bit-"
But before he could finish, a hand grabbed his throat and a cold, cynical voice entered his ears.
"Say another word and I'll make sure you never say anything again..."