Cesar's legs were trembling while he was walking, with his eyes wide open as if he has seen saw a ghost in front of him.
Mr Simmons saw that he was dilly dallying and shouted at him,"Hey, Cesar why are you walking too slow? come here, FAST!"
Cesar already knew in his mind what was going to happen to him but he knew that there was no way he would be able to save himself at this moment, there was no other choice, even if he scared, he has to face it.
Cesar knew that there is no escape for him.
He built some courage and went to Mr Simmons with his notebook.
Mr Simmons looked at his notebook and said, "Hand me your notebook."
Cesar moved his notebook forward but his hands were trembling.
Mr Simmons snatched the notebook from his hands and opened the notebook, he turned some pages to look where he had done the homework.
Mr Simmons saw that there was not a single problem solved in his notebook, it was completely all blank.
For two minutes he was stunned before he slammed the notebook on the table and angrily asked ,"What is this!? Why this notebook is empty just like your brain?"
Everyone was grinning and smirking as they exchanged gazes with each other, Cesar was numb, he didn't say a word and was looking down at his feet.
Mr Simmmons was waiting for an answer from him but he was losing his patience, he again asked him in a ferocious tone, "Cesar! don't stand there as a statue answer me what I am asking you."
Cesar tried to speak but he under the pressure he couldn't help but stutter, " I …that ..Sir…"
Mr Simmons was getting impatient and finally couldn't hold it in , every year there was a moron like him who would test his patience, he raised his voice and lashed out at him "WHAT IS THIS, I …SIR, I…. SIR HUH? WHY DIDN'T YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK? LAST NIGHT, GOONS ALSO BROKE INTO YOUR HOUSE?"
Cesar nervously shook his head in denial, even if he were to say the truth he would only be treated as a joke.
Seeing that he couldn't say anything, Mr Simmons couldn't help but scowl at him, this student of his was a complete idiot nor could he study well nor could he bring any gifts to him, basically he was a complete waste of space in his class. "Cesar what do you think is this some kind of joke for you, Am I doing a skit here?"
Cesar said nothing but shook his head .
Mr Simmons reached his limit after dealing with Andrew he was already losing his patience and now whatsoever was left of it snapped as well, he fiercely glared at Cesar and roared at him, "You do this every time, EVERY TIME! You almost, never do your homework and every time you make silly excuses or stand dumbly in front of me and every time I have no choice but to scold you, don't you feel even an ounce of shame when you don't do your homework and get yourself humiliated by me again and again."
Cesar's eyes were burning due to embarrassment but he took a glimpse of his classmates, they were smiling and giggling and as for Mr Simmons it was safe to say that he was looking at him as he wanted to gobble him up for lowering the class average.
Mr Simmons picked up his notebook and clicked his tongue, finally he couldn't hold it in anymore, dangerously lowered his voice and snapped, "Cesar, you know what —— I think your interest in studies and academics is already dead and that's why it is kind of surprising not just for you but for everyone how in the world did you manage to come this far, how can you be in high school? personally I think your education should have ended after kindergarten and you should have been working somewhere in a junkyard as a person who picks up trash from the sewers."
This insult from Mr Simmons was enough to hurt Cesar's self-respect and everyone in the class laughed out loud, some students were so thoroughly amused that they banged their tables and hollered, " Hey trashy mind cleaning the classroom after school?"
" Hey, didn't you hear what teacher said? He is only worthy of picking trash from sewers, shouldn't he be cleaning the school's restrooms?"
Usually Mr Simmons would have stopped the bullying but he was too angry to pay attention to what the students were saying and because he was angry, he couldn't help but get even more crass with his scolding. "Tell me one thing truly, Cesar does your mother have any sort of relationship with the principal of the school? Because that's the only explanation as to why, the principal is willing to promotes you every year because I don't think you should be continuing with studies much less continuing this school for so long."
This insult hurt Cesar to the core—— this time, Mr Simmons really crossed all the limits when he brought her mother into this.
Cesar raised his eyes and looked directly into the eyes of Mr Simmons and the latter noticed the anger in his stare.
Mr Simmons also knew that he went too far but he didn't want to back down either, he was his teacher for goodness sake so what if he made a slip of tongue?
Raising his voice he glared at Cesar and said, "Why are you looking at me like that? Are you going to hit me? Is that what you are going to do now Cesar? Ok do it hit me, c'mon hit me."
Mr Simmons provoked Cesar but Cesar maintained his rationality and lowered his gaze, Mr Simmons also thought that he finally got the upper hand over him, so he threw the notebook viciously at Cesar's face and told him to leave the class.
Cesar silently picked up his notebook from the floor and went outside of the class.
Everyone in the class was enjoying the drama but Rosie wasn't enjoying it like others she said, "Oh God, I feel bad for him."
Her friend who was sitting next to her was surprised and asked her, "What you seriously feel bad for that loser?"
Rosie was surprised by her question and immediately her cheeks flushed red as she clarified, "Shut up! Are you out of your mind? Why will I feel bad for that moron, I am glad that he got what he deserved, I am feeling bad for Andrew, because of my mistake he has to stand outside with this moron. Nobody would want to stand with him for a second but now Andrew has to stand with him for the rest of the period."
"Oh! I am sorry." The girl apologised to Rosie.
Andrew was standing enjoying the view outside of the window but suddenly when he saw Cesar coming out of the class, he got annoyed .
Cesar was about to stand next to him but Andrew shoved him away and said, "Hey! You moron don't you dare to stand next to me, just stand somewhere else."
Cesar then shifted from there and stood in front of him and blocking Andrew's view, seeing this Andrew rolled his eyes and said , "Hey! are you insane or what, you think I want to see your ugly mug? You are blocking my view get away from there."
Cesar looked over his shoulder and sighed, the view only consisted of the barren playground with a lone tree but he didn't say anything and stepped aside, standing at some distance away from Andrew's sight.
Andrew was annoyed and bored, seeing Cesar standing there doing nothing, his eyes lit up…he wanted to tease this idiot a bit more, he strode forward toward Cesar but then he saw a teacher stepping out of the class.
Immediately he stopped he knew that if he was to do anything to Cesar in the presence of other teachers, he would get into trouble so he stepped back and stood where he was, waiting for the period to get over.