"Hello, Mr Jin..." A boy who appeared to be around 17 years old said meekly with an unnatural smile plastered on his face.
"This is the fourth time in 2 weeks..." Jin said as he looked at the lad who was locked in the toilet a few minutes before.
"I'm sorry...it just so happened," The boy apologised.
Jin just glanced at him and got back to his work. He didn't want to get involved in this thing.
The boy had been pondering something for a long time and couldn't help but ask Jin about it now, "Aren't you curious about why they do this to me?"
"Do I need to be?" Jin responded.
"You don't...but still isn't it normal for an adult to enquire about these things?" the raised another question.
"You're way too talkative for someone who is being bullied," Jin paused and met his gaze with the boy for a few seconds before continuing with mopping the floor.
Under Mr. Jin's gaze, the boy felt unnerved and he quickly apologized and said before going back to the classroom, "Just like before...please don't tell anyone about this matter," He bowed and left.
"Even if you wanted me to I wouldn't," Jin said under his breath.
A few hours later it was time for lunch like usual.
During the lunch, the staff ranted about how the children were becoming rowdier with time.
Auntie Julie suddenly reminded Jin, "Jin you need to be careful with these children, you're young so its normal to act impulsive but nothing good comes from getting involved in their matters,"
"Auntie this is the 7th time you're telling me this," Jin smiled at her.
"Sigh...I can't just help it. With what happened with your predecessor it is only natural for me to keep on reminding you," Auntie Julie said as once again talked about what happened to that person.
Jin could just listen to it once again for the nth time. He knew that she was worried about him so he didn't cut her off and let her explain the same story to him once again.
The person whose post-Jin had taken was a man in his late thirties. Wanting to help a bullied student he reported his findings to the teachers. Actions were taken by the school staff and the bully was suspended soon after. The man was grateful that he could be of help and continued with his job as normal.
A few days later a girl student approached him. Long story short, he was later framed for molestation and was terminated from his post and was now serving jail time.
The school administration naturally took the girl's side because molestation charges were a serious thing and could very negatively affect the school's reputation.
Many students came out as witnesses aswell which only made things worse for the man.
The staff knew that the man could never do such a thing. They had known him for years and were very clear about his character. They could only sigh at their powerlessness to help him.
'No matter how many times I hear this it still sends a shiver down my spine...kids these days are scary,' Jin thought to himself. The more times Jin listened to her the more firm his decision of not meddling in the student's affairs became.
The break was soon over and he left to do the remaining work. It was his turn to throw trash today. Collecting the garbage bag from the cafeteria he walked towards the back of the main building to dump it.
It was a secluded place mostly because of the dumpster which was placed there. Students had a natural disgust towards such area so they kept their distance.
However, that was not so the case today.
When he arrived at the place he saw two students being intimate with each other. The boy had his back towards Jin while the girl was leaning her back on the wall with her hands wrapped around the boy's back.
The boy was ravishing the girl's neck like an animal while the girl hugged him tightly and enjoyed the process.
Sensing someone's arrival she opened her closed eyes and looked at Jin who was wearing the cleaning uniform with a garbage bag in his hand.
"Ah!"
She immediately pushed the boy off her and ran towards the main building in embarrassment. The boy looked towards the running girl with a confused expression before his gaze turned towards Jin.
He soon understood what had happened and he was annoyed. Annoyed as hell. It was clearly shown on his face.
"Trash!" The boy said and spat towards Jin and made his way out.
His spit landed a few centimetres away from Jin's feet. Jin didn't look bothered by this as he watched the student disappear after a right turn.
Jin sighed.
'This incident won't snowball into something big right?.." Jin dumped the garbage in the dumpster as he made his way back to handle other tasks.
Another 2 weeks passed by without anything major happening. Just like Jin had hoped the incident didn't turn into something big. In fact, he never encountered the boy and the girl after that. The school was big so that was quite normal.
He had received his salary today and was very jubilant. On the way back from school Jin bought a a barbell and a few weight plates.
Luckily, the sports store was close to his place. After going back and forth four times everything was finally at his house. He made space for the barbell and placed it on the rubber mat which he had bought along with it.
With that, an exercise corner was all ready for Jin. He looked at it with excitement written on his face. Carrying the weights home was exhausting as it is so Jin could only postpone working out with them until tomorrow.
He trained with his shadow dummy for half an hour or so. After freshening up, he had his dinner and went to sleep.