Creating Haven

Ch 4: The Reunion

I was writing the ending lines of my subject change application. This was the most respectful shit I have written in a long while.

I felt Zayden nudging me with his elbow and I looked at him with a furrowed and angry expression. He pointed to my left and I looked towards the direction to see Mr. Kevin walking to my table and stopped right beside me. He picked up the sheet from my table and held it in front of him.

"Let me see what's so important that you didn't even heard me."

I sat with my head in my hands and he read the application for a good 2 minutes and then kept it down with a neutral face.

"Don't write it in my class...", that was all that he said before restarting the class. I somewhere knew that he wouldn't say anything. He's one of the only person in the school after Eliana who believed what I said. It's just that he doesn't have any authority to take any action.

"What were you writing? Why didn't he get angry?"

I rolled my eyes and folded my application and kept it in my bag.

"Application for subject change."

There was a sudden smile on his face. "You are changing your subject!?"

I raised one of my eyebrows and pursed my lips closed. "History."

There wasn't any remorse on his face but the smile vanished and he nodded before looking back in the front. He's such a bitch.

The class ended 10 minutes later and I quickly ran to the Principal's office.

"Ah! Ms. Sia Dien. I was wondering why you aren't here yet. Come, sit down my star student."

I ignored his taunt and sat down on the chair in front of his table and kept the application on the table.

"Is this the prescription for those medicines? Cause I-"

"Let's talk about that later! This is my subject change application.", I cut him in between, a little impatient since the first period after lunch break is history.

"Hmm...I didn't expect this..."

He opened the application and started reading it. I sat there as my legs tapped furiously and unconsciously.

"I appreciate your language Sia. It's impressive but..."

He looked at me with a guilty face and kept the application back on the table.

"If you change your subject, you'll have to study the last 3 year's progress in this year only."

He paused in between and then spoke again, "And seeing your last years' result, I can't afford to let you do that. You are barely passing your subjects, if you do this, you'll now start failing them too."

I stood there spell bound. I got up and banged my palm on his table, getting close to his face.

"Do you even realise that Mr. John is back. I can't have him as my teacher!"

"Sia, don't start again with that!"

I let my hands up with my mouth agape.

"I HAVE to start again with this! Because you let him join the school again!"

The door to the principal's office opened and we both looked that way to see Zayden peeking in.

"Sorry...to disturb you. You called me sir?"

He looked between us awkwardly.

"Zayden, can you come after 5 minutes? We have something important to discuss."