Chapter 3
Flashback of Scene 1
"Creep! Creep! Creep!" shouted the crowd
"I didn't do anything. Why don't you believe me? "was the thought running in Rey's mind.
He looked up at Lina with the last sign of hope hoping at the least that one person would believe him. But Lina's expression towards him changed with the crowd shattering his last hope.
"No! No! Ms. Lina I was about to submit the assignment" tried Rey even though he was completely frightened and shaken. But Lina turned away from him while crowds continued to call him a creep.
"Do I really have to continue to live as a human. I hope I was never ever born" thought Rey as he fainted from despair and shock.
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In the nurse's office, Rey slowly opened his eyes.
"So you finally woke up, huh? How long were you planning to sleep?" said the annoyed school nurse.
Rey was scared shitless by the nurse. She had an aura telling people not to create mess for her. Rey knew deep in his heart that the nurse didn't like him.
His image of kind and loving nurse vanished when he locked his eyes with the devilish nurse.
"Is she even a nurse? She isn't a minion of devil right? Or is she a devil herself?" wondered Rey gulping his saliva with fear. Rey was on his defence preparing against the nurse's offense.
"So… so" murmured Rey
"Speak up. I can't hear you" said the nurse.
"What are you, a drillmaster?" thought Rey
"Ok. So how long was I out for? What time is it now?" asked Rey cautiously without trying to worsen her mood
"Are you sure about asking that question? If it weren't for some person, I would have been at home watching my favourite drama series at the moment" said Ms. Elena with an elegant smile.
Rey was terrified by her smile. He could see that smile concealing a menacing, malignant anger and frustration. He knew now that he had hit a red flag. But still instilled his courage to ask the next question
"What happened to me?" asked Rey sheepishly cautiously Ms. Elena's facial expression.
"There's no need to be that terrified. No way am I gonna eat you" assured Elena as she saw shaking Rey
Seeing that her expression, Rey sighed a sigh of relief and his body unconsciously stopped shaking, "Safe!"
"You just lost consciousness. Thanks to a certain someone I brought you here with some assistance. If it weren't for her, I would have locked you in here and watched my favourite show." said Elena angrily tapping her fingers on the chair she was sitting
Rey' expression changed to a state of extreme terror and he hid under the school's blanket.
"I was just joking! I was just joking!" laughed Elena.
"If it weren't for her that someone, she would have definitely done that" thought Rey looking at Elena like looking at a demon. "But who could that person be? Was that Ms. Lina? Was it her one last favour? Or was it someone else" pondered Rey but skipped that thought deciding to investigate later as he looked towards the demon in front of him.
"Ha! Ha!" laughed Rey awkwardly observing Elena's facial expression.
"So why were you trying to grope a girl?" asked Elena directly like a bullet.
Rey's mind was not ready for that question. He tried his best to delete that memory but in vain. He could still feel all those voices looking down at him as a creep and his last hope Lina turning away from him. Rey ran away from Elena shutting his ears tight with his fingers.
"Don't think you can run away from me" chased Elena.
Rey ran up the stairs running as far as he could from Elena. "I didn't do it. I didn't do it" murmured Rey.
"Lost him huh? Don't think you can hide from me" said Ms. Elena chasing after him roared Ms. Elena. She started searching for him. But after 10 minutes she had to give up.
"Damn! Why is he so good at hiding? The trauma's worse than I thought. Maybe I shouldn't have been blunt" thought Elena. But just as she was about to leave, she saw classroom's door partially open.
He can't be in here, can he? Let's make sure just in case thought Elena as she entered the room. There wasn't anyone in the room. But she could hear low murmurs. In the blind spot of the room, Rey was squatting closing his ears. He was shivering and murmured "I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I just bumped into her by accident."
Elena stood there for some time. She took a deep sigh and said, "How long are you going to mop around there? Don't be a crybaby? Get up, let's go."
"But I didn't… I didn't grope her. I.. I was just trying to submit my assignment" cried Rey
"So are you talking about this crap over here?" asked Ms. Elena holding an assignment.
"So you really feel that you are better off being a toy than being a human huh?" said Ms. Elena.
Rey's body turned into a stone. He slowly turned his head shaking in disbelief.
"How? How did you get your hands on my assignment?" asked Rey nervously.
"This one? Lina gave it to me. I hope I could read this in front of the entire assembly" said Ms. Elena.
"Liar!! I didn't submit that assignment to Ms. Lina. I put that paper in the secret compartment of my bag" shouted Rey.
"So what did you write in order to hide it in your secret compartment?" Elena asked playfully.
Rey's face turned completely red. Rey dove in to catch that piece of paper. But Elena pulled back.
"Give it back. Give it back." Shouted Rey
"Oh! You can talk normally can't you? Why couldn't you talk normally from the start?" said Ms. Elena
"What were you thinking when you were writing this assignment?" asked Ms. Elena
"Is that assignment the assignment I planned to give or the one which I had written earlier? It couldn't be the earlier one right? She can't find out my secret compartment so it must have been in my bag" wondered Rey.
"I thought… that I was.. I was sad at the system and society which discriminates against people. I wanted to bury my sorrows in my writing" answered Rey seriously.
Rey kept looking for changes in Elena's facial expressions slowly gulping saliva down his throat.
"Did she buy it? She must be moved by my sad life. Yes, that's definitely what this silent means" wondered Rey.
Ms. Elena stood there without uttering a single word. She waved the paper at him and started reading it.
"Humans, the worst ever creature bred my nature. It feeds on the nutrition of weaker humans to flaunt their superiority. Thus the food chain follows to the bottom to the socially anxious, socially in-adept people whose nutrition will be sucked till their day of their deaths. Working and living in society can only cause depression and unhappiness all the ways of one's life. The anxiety of life can cause the people on the lower level of food chain to forfeit their lives. Thus I wish I could skip these species in order to be a toy. Thus there would be no need for further procrastination about their duties and responsibilities because you can abandon it altogether. Abandoning and sloth is the only way for humanity's true freedom which would be impossible in this terrible society….
"Stop it! Stop it! Embarrassing! Embarrassing!" said Rey closing his ears. He wished to drill himself in a hole.
"I'm not done yet" continued Elena.
"Therefore instead of changing and uprooting society's norms, I would like to transcend into a toy. Toys don't need to toil to work hard for their foods since they don't hunger. As an observer to the intense food chain of humans, it can look down on all the stupid mortals. You get the ultimate right to complain and whine about the ignorance of the society. One wouldn't need to worry about other's feelings when you talk and the best thing is complete liberty from the stares of the masses and cattle. Life of a toy is the life of a supreme king." Said Ms. Elena
Rey couldn't take it anymore. He started rolling down on the floor chanting that it was embarrassing.
"I'm going to be reading this in the assembly for you. You have no objections if I read this in tomorrow's assembly right?" asked Elena.
"Ms. Elena. That... that's blackmail. Can a teacher blackmail her students by taking advantage of their misfortune" said Rey. I told you not to read it.
"Blame yourself for not answering my questions. Honesty is the best policy. And by the way I'm not a good teacher. So answer all my questions if you don't want this to be read" blackmailed Elena. "Now tell me what was going on in your mind when you wrote this essay?" asked Elena.
"You're a bully" retorted Rey but Elena's demeanour made him flinch. Rey bowed his head to the ground slowly stuttering "I.. I.. just wanted to impress Ms. Lina. I thought she would like me if I wrote things different from others" answered Rey honestly closing his eyes. "But this won't happen anymore. I'm done with trying to impress someone and making them have faith in me" thought Rey
"See you can talk just fine, can't you? If you have done nothing, you can answer without wavering right? Don't worry, I won't read this in the assembly" said Ms. Elena.
"Wait, did she divert this conversation to ease my anxiety. Even though she is rough on the outside, I don't think she is a bad person" thought Rey.
"But I'm gonna keep this assignment paper with me. You'll know what happens if you don't listen to me right?" said Elena.
"No she's evil. She just enjoys others plight. Security threat level 2" thought Rey.