-Tomorrow
The four was in the car, driving on the highway and stuck on a traffic jam.
The fight last night, left Aaron exhausted and Sermon; but Sermon had no choice but to come with Hendrick and Angela along with Mr. Johnson's maid named Marie.
Marie declines any snacks that Angela offers her by shaking her head without saying anything.
"Don't force that brat if she doesn't want to eat." Sermon said sounding angry.
Angela looks at him and pinched his ear. "Aww!!" Sermon yelled.
"We get the point that you're really mean, but you don't have to go this far." Angela said with a firm tone.
"You let Aaron get his good rest after the fight except me, Do I even have to come with you guys?" Sermon said.
"We can't let Aaron take a step at the church since he's a half demon, to be honest? I don't know if he'll get burned or taken by the higher ups," He took off his hands on the steering wheel and placed it both on the back of his head. "Who knows? We should try to be careful."
"Why are you getting so cautious right now?" Sermon asked with a puzzled look.
Hendrick narrowed his eyes. "Is it just my instincts or..."
Sermon remained looking at Hendrick, waiting for his next word.
"Nevermind." Hendrick said.
"If you want to say something just say it, you're making me die out of curiosity." Sermon spats as he leaned his back against the car's seat.
"But to be honest, Aaron left me so surprised." Sermon added with a low distinct voice.
Hendrick looks at him. "Surprised?" He asked.
"Last night, Mr. Johnson sliced off Aaron's head and separating it from his body, I thought it was over for him but out of a sudden, Mara was controlling him...," Sermon narrowed his eyes. "...It was like, Mara replaced Aaron's head."
"Mr. Johnson was scared, I saw him backing away from Mara."
Hendrick began stepping on the gas. "What do you expect? Mara's the queen of the abyss."
"By the way, what happened to the school and to Mr. Johnson?" Angela asked.
"...The school had been shut down due to the destruction and the kids are fine now and sadly Mr. Johnson is already dead before me and Aaron had even talked to him." Sermon explained with a firm voice.
"Whoa... So that wasn't Mr. Johnson anymore, you're currently talking to a demon that time." Hendrick said with an amused tone.
"Yeah, So that maid brat at the back was serving and protecting a demon. Demons are good at luring people, tricking or manipulating them," Sermon said as he opened the car's window and spits outside. "But I can't blame her."
"Oh? You've become so nice right now, are we really talking to Sermon?" Angela said, jokingly as she tries to tease Sermon.
"No..." Sermon replied with a cold tone.
They stopped at a hospital, parking the car at the parking spot behind the hospital; the four stepped out of the car, the blazing heat of the sun caused them to sweat. "We better hurry inside." Hendrick said, as he starts rushing to the hospital's entrance.
"Now we got a hospital to baptize this brat... That's a thing?" Sermon said to Hendrick.
"Now, we're meeting someone here, a person that you know." Hendrick replied.
"Argh... Fuck that Hiratsuka guy again." Sermon said with a look of annoyance.
"Don't you wanna meet your best friend? HAHA!" Hendrick laughs as he covered his mouth. "We're here to ask for his guide to the church, we can't do this without him."
At the reception, Hendrick was talking to a gorgeous nurse, while the three was left sitting at the waiting chair. "Well this would take a long time for that old man to get finished." Angela said with an annoyed look.
"Well, what do 'ya expect? Our old man is a playboy." Sermon replied with a stoic look, it seems that he is used to this.
"Hey brat, stop thinking about that Mr. Johnson guy, you're really his lapdog huh? Well I can't blame you or can I?" Sermon crossed his arms from his back. "You got attachment issues or something?"
Marie, still in shock, can't process any words that she could reply. "I-"
"You what?"
"Sermon that's enough." Angela interjected with a concerned look for Marie. "That's normal, since she's very attached to Mr. Johnson."
"Tsk, suit yourself." Sermon hissed, his voice sounded almost like a whisper.
Sermon and Angela looked at Hendrick who was walking towards them. "Good, he's finished flirting." Sermon said.
"Well Miss Beauty right there said that Doctor Hiratsuka is at the second floor, we got no time so we have to hurry." Hendrick said.
Later at Hiratsuka's office, inside was very tidy and the stuffs are well arranged, The four sat down as a white haired doctor approached them, he was wearing glasses and a white coat with a stethoscope wrapped around his neck.
"What's good Sermon? Damn, you look pissed." Asked the white haired doctor named Hiratsuka.
"Oh shut up, just tell him what you want and we can get this over with." Sermon grumbled.
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"You have a lot of explaining to do Mr. Aaron, you've been gone for 2 days straight and you missed a lot of work and projects," Said the female professor wearing a red turtle neck sweater with a firm tone. "And also I haven't seen Alex, he rarely comes to school, what happened? Have you been fighting?"
"No not at all Miss Smith, I was just doing my uhh... " Aaron ponders for a bit. "M-money making opportunity!" He chuckled, awkwardly.
"Well do you even have any time to do your projects? Because you've missed a lot of works to do, You know that college doesn't have any remedial classes don't you?" Miss Smith mentioned as he looks at Aaron in the eye.
"Am I going to fail?" Aaron asked, shakily
"I'm not saying that you're going to fail but I hope that starting tomorrow, You'll be able to do other projects, because as you can see here." He turned the laptop to Aaron. "You only missed 2 activities in your math and all of the previous days are complete, I'm not saying that you'll fail your math but the grades I would give to you isn't high as you expected." Miss Smith explained, her voice direct and calm.
Aaron sighed out of relief. "Well that's fine as long as I'm passing then that's good."
"...Then you may leave the office now." Miss smith said.
Outside the office is a long hallway heading to his classroom, just to add, Aaron is currently at 3rd floor, He started walking, his footsteps echoed in the hallway, when suddenly, someone jumped on his back.
"You root beer addict!" Shouted the familiar voice. "You've been seeing girls don't you?!"
"W-What the-?" Aaron stammered as he wrestled to reveal who's the person that jumped on his back.
As he free himself, he turned around to look at the person; when he finally saw him, Aaron, chuckled. "No I'm not, you missed drinking drinks with me aren't you?"
"No, I've been looking for you everywhere but I couldn't find you, I was gonna ask for help with my project and I did it alone." Alex said, his voice enthusiastic.
"Well since the classes has ended, why don't we get ourselves with drinks, I can pay mine," Aaron pulled out his wallet from his pocket. "I missed the taste of root beers."
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"Well the baptism had begun," Sermon said, as he stand and watching behind the glass window. "My mission at the Woodlake Academy really exhaust me."
"You couldn't do it without your partner huh," Hiratsuka said with a long smirk on his face. "So tell me about that guy..."
Hiratsuka placed his hand over Sermon's shoulder. "I bet he was a good partner, don't worry Sermon you can trust me about it.
Sermon looks at him with suspicion yet cautious look, Sermon, then looks back at the glass window. "Wait until Hendrick gives me permission to speak."
Hiratsuka shudders then moved his hand from Sermon's shoulder. "You're no fun, but I bet that guy is interesting." He said, his smirk growing bigger.