The English, taking a deep breath, teacher turned around and asked, “so, from which work should we start our class? Everyone sit down.” She proceeded towards the teacher’s desk.
The class erupted with different answers followed by rants by each answer’s support.
Akhidra screamed, “we should start with-”
Kirit interjected, “Moron, of course you will say start with ‘The beginning after The End’ and it’s vol-”
“Nobody asked you, to open-”, the boy behind Chakshas who spoke up, got hit with a rubber from Kirit.
“I think my answer is right. Starting with The Outsider by Lovecraft is per-”, Anna also shouted.
Fushi created a cone-shaped construct, mimicking a megaphone, about to say something when Priya broke it by whipping it with a whip using her inherited manifest, leaving only a whistling sound.
Priya spoke up, in that noise, “we should read the famous ‘The Tempest’, it has every-”
“Yeah as if, we are talking about comparing writing styles, so we should take any of the-”, Chakshas said, getting interrupted.
Fushi still perplexed at the fact his construct got decimated. Murmured to no one’s attention, “uh-huh. Nope, not getting involved.”
Akhidra retorted back to Kirit’s remark, “oh, no shit Sherlock. But. MACBETH!”
Slam!
The English teacher slammed her bag and the books she was carrying in her hand on the teacher’s desk.
She spoke in the calmest voice with a smiling poker face, “Either I give you a real telling of ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ or we have a vote like a functioning society should. Now, choose.”
The class was silent. She looked about the entire class with her smiling poker face. No one bated an eye, not a single one.
She sighed and said, “at least someone come up to the board and do the count of votes.”
Kirit stood up, stretched his arms. He went up to the teacher’s desk, while the necklace on his neck was glistening red through his school shirt. He picked a marker from the teacher’s desk as the English teacher looked around to the other students about to say something.
For apparently no reason, Kirit turned around and threw the marker he had taken, propelled forward with a chantless fire spell called ‘hollow blast’. The target? Akhidra Karna’s forehead.
Seeing the marker approaching Akhidra, Fushi and Anna both created a manifest to stop the marker. Fushi created plates of inert energy while Anna created a thick block of wood from one of the seeds she carries in her pockets.
Anna instantly spoke up, “did your brain fry from our intellectual arguments, Kirit?!”
Kirit responded, “nah, I just got bored, pointy.”
Akhidra having caught the burnt marker with his right hand, and putting his left hand on his best friend’s mouth, “thank you for choosing me to be the vote counter. I will make sure I don’t count yours, Kirit.”
Fushi wanting to say a remark but muffled by his friend, just kept muffling through pointing at Anna to get his mouth to open.
Akhidra looked at Anna and said, “everyone just needs some rest. It’s fine.”
The English teacher without turning around said, “you threw at quite a speed.” Turning around she stared at Kirit, Kirit looking outside the window, not moving from his spot.
Akhidra stands up and walks towards the class board.
Kirit finally says after few seconds of thought, “fine, give me homework for this.”
The English teacher says, “sure, go and do 10 rounds in the front school yard. No, make it 25. Now, hurry.”
Kirit leaves the classroom, looking back at Akhidra as he reached the board. Akhidra also stares back at Kirit.
After a few minutes of voting, the class comes to the conclusion that starting with a historical play from Shakespeare, then ‘The Outsider’ by H.P. Lovecraft and the seventh book in the series ‘The beginning after the end’ will be read for this period and studied.
The rest of the period went smoothly. Some students only partially falling asleep in between when the play by Shakespeare was being discussed, but the English teacher woke them up by loudly shutting the play’s book each time.
The next period bell rings at its designated time of half past ten in the morning.
Kirit who is just returning back to the class from his excursion to school gym as he had already completed his 25 rounds within the first 15 minutes of the english period. Each round just being near 200 metre.
After his completing of the punishment, he just went and crossed over from the front yard to the practical facilities and gym area on the other side of the school’s front yard and school’s road. He was spotted at the school building’s gate and going to the school’s gym by the English teacher as she sat in her chair during class.
When the English teacher came out and saw, Kirit waiting for her to open the door even when the door was never locked to begin with. She asked, “so, did you get the anger out? Or not?”
Kirit nodded and said silently, “thank you.” He entered the class back without looking ever in the English teacher’s face, let alone her eyes.
She left the class. Not looking back into the class after Kirit entered it.
Akhidra who was just having a chat with Fushi on how ‘The Outsider’ focuses more on loneliness while Fushi countered with arguing it focuses more on self-discovery, as Anna watched over at their conversation. None of them aware of Kirit’s entrance.
Kirit throws a small flame spell called ‘flame cinders’ at Akhidra’s head over the class in a parabola. A small flame starts up as somehow Akhidra has moved the notebook in time, he had rolled in his hand while talking with Fushi, right at the spot where the spell is suppose to hit Akhidra.
The spell hits the notebook, while Kirit walks to his seat casually as if he doesn’t know what is happening at the back. Fanakar enters the class room, yawning.
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