It is the following week, Monday morning and Jeremiah is at home in his bedroom contemplating what Dr. Weiss and his dog really are.
"He eats electricity? He eats electric circuits? They both eat them. People don't eat, people can't eat electric anything." Jeremiah says to himself with an uneasy, you could say anxious laugh.
"Clearly all of the red flags Dr. Weiss has given off already, it's pretty clear he isn't normal, to say the least." Jeremiah continues to think to himself.
Jeremiah decides to give the spying idea one more try as if he hasn't learned a lesson from last time, only this time, he would be prepared for something much more dangerous.
Jeremiah heads off for school. He had never truly been a perfect attendance kind of student, but instead growing use to his lone wolf position and social anxiety, he has made it through the years in a slight isolation. This could be his chance to change what use to be.
He makes it to the school building with a long day ahead of him. He stands in the front of the classroom, wide open, he's an easy target and at this point, Jeremiah's heart rate speeds up. He looks at all the judgmental faces and all of the laughing. He sees students sitting on the tops of the desks, smirking his way and pointing. They began chasing each other around and throwing papers at each other.
"Hmmhh" Jeremiah clears his throat. He is so anxious, you can see it on his face, as clear as day.
"Excuse me…" Jeremiah couldn't even finish his sentence.
"Ahh shut up, who is this guy… ughh you a substitute or you that new teacher we been waiting forever to get?" A student disrespectfully yells out and interrupts Jeremiah.
"I am Mr. Ly….." again Jeremiah could not finish his sentence.
"Hahahah I don't care who you are, I am not about to listen to a baby, a young-an and we not doin any work today, or tomorrow or the whole year, you hear me?" The same student obnoxiously continues.
The whole class gets loud again and begins to cheer in agreement because who actually likes school work?
"Yeah for sure, smirks not wrong." A different random student says.
"Is that your name? Your name is smirk? Why?" Asks Jeremiah.
"None of your business, everyone calls me smirk, just call me smirk." Smirk says in an annoying voice.
"I'm sure smirk is not your actual name, what is your actual name?" Jeremiah continues to ask.
"I already told you it's smirk." Smirk repeated.
"Look, I'm going to have everyone's real name anyway, what is your real name? You know what never mind." Jeremiah says.
"They call him smirk because he made a teacher run away in tears on his first day teaching the class in 9th grade year." Says a student.
"Ok what's that…" Jeremiah began.
"And all he did was smirk." The student continues.
"So do you know his real name?" Jeremiah asks that student.
"Nope. I don't know why but he won't tell anyone." The student explained.
"You know I can just pull it up on the monitor?" Jeremiah points out.
"Don't tell anyone!" Smirk pleads.
"Huh, what was that?" Jeremiah taunts smirk.
"Don't tell anyone my name!" Smirks says again.
The class starts to cheer and everyone agrees that they want to know smirks real name.
"Ahh, smirk it's my first day and you seem to be very popular, should I tell everyone what your real name is?" Jeremiah threatens.
"No! no teacher has ever broken that respect." Smirk said in an over bearing tone.
"I'm not your average teacher, I do not care." Jeremiah says calmly after an afternoon of nervous fidgeting.
"Of course you're not, you're younger than me, weaker than me, and you're trying to teach me? You?" Smirk says.
"Than of course I will tell everyone that your real name is Elizabeth poindexter." Jeremiah blurted out.
There was a silence…..
Then the entire class began to laugh hysterically.
"I have tears in my eyes…" another student said while smacking the desk.
"Oh my gosh, is that your real name? Hahahah" a third student says while covering their mouth.
Just then smirk storms out of the classroom.
"I had actually been nervous to start this job, only to meet someone with a name like that." Jeremiah says.
The class finishes introducing themselves one by one and they learn a little bit about the life of their new teacher. The bell rings and Jeremiah has 5 more classes to meet. Jeremiah goes on lunch break after period 4 and he heads to the teachers lounge.
He hears movements in the computer room that is down the stairway right beside him. On floor one which is the basement and where the computer room is located.
Jeremiah peeks his head in the computer room, this very scene is quite similar to a previous scene found in a previous chapter. He peeks his head in and sees that Dr. Weiss is actually in the computer room.
"Ugh, he's eating it again? Eww!" Jeremiah thinks to himself.
As he notices that Dr. Weiss has still yet to notice him, Dr. Weiss seems to be in some sort of a daze.
Dr. Weiss suddenly flinches and regains consciousness and he packs his things and heads out of the room.
However Jeremiah notices a computer mouse Dr. Weiss has just bitten from and he sees that it is still glitching.
"Why does he eat this? What does it do?" Jeremiah sits in the room and contemplates whether he should even be so curious in the first place or not. He just can't seem to understand Dr. Weiss's abilities and his very odd behaviors.
"Should I take a bite as well? No! What am I thinking? This is weird." Jeremiah thinks to himself.
"You should have some. What will it do if you eat it?" Dr. Weiss suddenly says out of nowhere as Jeremiah hadn't been paying attention to him anymore.