The very next day, Leon woke up still sleepy but his phone was vibrating. He yawned as he slowly got up and grabbed it without looking. He squinted his eyes as he saw a text from Nicole. He sat up from his bed as he opened his inbox.
The text reads, "Hey, did you get an email today?"
Leon was confused as he scratched his head and replying, "Whattaya mean by that?" He waited for a bit until he saw that Nicole was typing...
Seconds later, she replied, "You gotta get your butt over here ASAP."
Leon shrugged as he got up from his bed and walked into the bathroom to get changed. Minutes later, he was back in his room as he was about to bring his bag but suddenly felt like his heart was pounding hard.
'That's odd,' Leon thought to himself, 'Maybe I should slow down in eating my meals. Either that or I feel like something's gonna happen,'
Leon then walked out of his room closing the door behind him as he walks downstairs to find no one else around but a note was seen on the door. He picked it up and it read, "Hey, honey. We're off to the groceries. Your brother came along and we had to bring him to his friend's place for a sleepover. The meal's on the fridge for you to eat when you get back. Love you! From: Mom"
Leon smiled as he placed the note on the table beside the couch as he leaves the house and noticed that it was a bit cloudy and windy. He pulled out his umbrella from his bag and held his hand up to see if it would rain but didn't feel any drop of water coming down so, he wore his jacket as he walked up to his bike and rode off.
Around thirty minutes later, Leon arrived at school and parked his bike at the side with the bicycle racks, and walk inside the school building but all of a sudden, he was instantly dragged by the arm and then put into a closet.
Leon was confused, "What the--"
But before he could finish his sentence, his mouth was covered by someone's hand. "Quiet! Someone would hear you." a voice spoke,
Leon was annoyed and removed the hand and walked over to the light switch and turned it on. To his surprise, he found Nicole standing there arms crossed, "Nicole?" he said, "Okay, can this day get any weirder? What exactly is going on?"
Nicole rolled her eyes and said, "Did you check your emails?"
Leon looked at her confused, "No but not gonna lie, the way you asked that sounds a bit creepy," he replied as he pulled out his phone and looked through his inbox and found no new emails as of today. He showed it to her and Nicole let out a sigh of relief. "What exactly is going on?" he asked,
"I overheard that someone was planning a revenge against you," Nicole said, "And that it'll start by an email."
Leon scratched his head as he was confused by all that, "Who would want to do that anyway? And who was it that planned this?"
"Remember those guys you trashed yesterday?" Nicole said,
Leon nodded but then his eyes widen as he realized what was going on. "You don't mean--"
Suddenly, the speakers turned on and a voice spoke, "Attention: Leon Garcia. Please report to the principal's office immediately. I repeat Leon Garcia. Please report to the principal's office immediately."
Leon and Nicole heard it and she cursed under her breath, "Looks like you're going in for a long haul." she said,
"And I bet that those guys planned this." Leon continued,
Nicole nodded, "I think you should go. I'll meet you back in class in a bit."
Leon nodded as he went out of the janitor's closet quietly, walked down the hallway, and right into the principal's office. He carefully closed the door and turned around to find the same guys from yesterday sitting on one side of the room while the principal was sitting in front of the desk as Leon stood there in confusion.
The principal looked up and saw Leon and calmly said, "Please take a seat, Leon."
Leon quietly sat down in the chair opposite the guys but didn't say a word. The principal was looking through the screen on the monitor beside the desk then looked at Leon and asked, "Do you know why you are here today?"
Leon was calm but looked at the principal confused and replied, "No, sir. I don't."
One of the guys scoffed and said, "You know why you're here. Look what you did to us!"
Leon looked at them and was a bit surprised by the bandages and arm slings they were wearing as well as crutches. 'Jeez, did these guys get into a car crash or is it surprising that they had a lot of money to buy all this stuff or they stole them or I don't know,' he thought to himself.
He sighed as he scratched his head and replied, "Okay, first of all, I barely punched you guys and secondly, you're the ones who started the mess,"
The guys gasped as if they were shocked to hear that and one of them said, "No, you were the one who started it!"
Leon sighed as he placed his palm on his face, 'Wow, give these guys an Oscar for being overrated actors.' he thought to himself,
The principal turned the monitor around towards them and showed a clip of the guys and Leon battling it out while his brother was standing in the distance. "So, Leon, you said that you haven't punched them? Well, from the look of the video it seemed like you were fighting them,"
Leon watched the video carefully and noticed that the video was missing some key parts and then asked, "And I'm guessing that those guys showed you the video?"
The principal nodded as he then replied, "They asked permission to show the video though I was a bit skeptical to believe any of this so I wanna hear it from you directly, Leon."
Leon sighed and explained the whole thing. When he was done the principal was taking notes and then replied, "So, about your brother, where is he now?"
"Well, today's the start of his semester break, and…" Leon replied but then he widens his eyes as he realized what was going on. He looked at the guys who were snickering. 'They planned this from the start,' he thought to himself,
"Unless you could bring him here to defend your statement, I'm afraid that I'll have to suspend you or rather have you expelled for such an act," The professor said,