Richard could hear the sound of running close to him and turned around looking into the direction of the library.
"Ah, someone late again." he said with a grin, looking forward to confront said student.
He stopped a girl trying to run past him in her tracks. It was an unusual sight, the girl looked close to tears and had an overly proper look to her.
Nevertheless was clearing his throat very loudly to start his scolding.
"Young miss, where do you think you are going?"
"Oh.. oh dear, I'm so sorry!" Athena spoke up with a shaking voice.
"Is there a good reason for you to not be in class?"
Athena looked up into the face of the man. It was weird, he looked very familiar but at the same time, she had never seen him before. What was he doing in this school?
"I assure you, I have... but it's... I cannot... it's private, girls matters?" she stammered, she realized she lost her talent to come up with usually weird excuses on the spot. Instead a feeling of guilt was building up inside of her for not telling the truth.
"Well, Miss...?"
"Uh... uhm... DeVries? Athena DeVries" she said with a lowered head.
"Is that a question? Speak up and look at me while doing so.", Richard said with his voice getting more angry.
"Pl... please stop. I'm sorry..." Athena pleaded, now being incredibly scared of the man.
"Miss DeVries, I heard of you. But to encounter you in this manner is very surprising I must say."
"Can we maybe talk later? Please just let me leave for class."
"Who do you think you're talking..." he started before being interrupted by the school entrance doors being thrown open.
Karyn, a few minutes before, was on her way to the school.
"Come on... pick up..." Karyn said to herself while running into school direction looking holding her phone to her ear.
"Maybe he has found her and something is happening. Shit. I won't even notice the changes.", she said again and started running faster.
A few minutes passed and she arrived roughly 3 minutes after classes had started.
Heavily breathing, she looked back at her phone, then back up towards the school building.
"Seems normal so far... but I guess it might be looking different and I just don't notice."
She knew Jon was possibly in class now, but she started to call him again.
"Pleaaase, pick up..."
"Hiii, Hayley speaking!" it suddenly came out of her phone.
"Uuuh... who?" Karyn asked completely confused.
"Shouldn't you be the one to ..." the voice said only to be interrupted by someone in the background.
"...oh, sorry. I thought, like, it's something important? Yep, okay!...
...Sorry, I'm having class, so call back later or something, byyee!" the cheerful voice said and hung up.
Karyn looked at her display in disbelief. With a mixture of annoyance and fear, she turned up their chat window and started typing.
Karyn: Everything alright? Who was that?
A message, that was immediately answered.
Jon: Who is it?? wat do u want???
Karyn looked at her screen closer, it still said Jon. So whatever happened, his name was still there. But the girl called herself Hailey, so did someone steal his phone?
She noticed his profile picture though and tapped on it, only to be greeted by a blond girl blowing a kiss to her phone.
"Holy shit. Did they turn Jon into some dumb blonde? Why do I remember?! What the fuck is even going on!", she said massaging her forehead, looked at the school and walked in.
Karyn walked a few steps into the hallway only to see an old bearded guy wearing a suit with a crying bespectacled girl in front of him.
He looked at Karyn, whistled and waved her to come join them.
"Uhm... hello?" Karyn said walking up to the weird pair.
"You are late, Miss..." Richard said.
"Uh... Black, Karyn Black." she said compliant.
"Ohoho, Miss Black! I have heard of you too. A good student who rarely causes trouble. An unusual combination today!"
"Okay. Who are you again?" she asked the man.
"Huh, bold question regarding your position right now. Detention for you, both of you, have I made myself clear?!"
"Sorry sorry, I really am terribly sorry!" Athena said sobbing.
Another pair of footsteps caused Richard to turn around looking back in direction of the library.
It was Zelda, walking through the hallway.
"Mr. Whitefield! What are you doing here?" Richard said with a clearly friendlier voice.
"Going to class, obviously." Zelda answered.
"Whitefield?!" Karyn said.
Athena gestured something to Karyn to ask her to be quiet.
"Always admired by the girls, just as usual as I see. I'll excuse it for today, but hurry up to class." Richard laughed and walked towards Zelda to pat him on the shoulder.
Karyn only now realized the girl was holding the rock in her hand.
"I wish me and Karyn were outside."
"Ohoho, you can wish all you... want? Where are they?!" Richard said when he saw no sign of the two girls turning around.
"Uh... they just ran off towards class." Zelda said.
"Well, I'll go tell Mr. Sanders to supervise them for todays detention. You go to class as well now please."
"Will do, sir."
