Recruitment drive?It hit me when Chris reminded me about it.“Got it. I’ll wash my face and head over now,” I yawned while saying.“Don’t just wash your face before coming over. The interviews start at ten, so you should dress yourself up properly. It’s important that you take this seriously! I’m telling you now that all our other classmates are putting in a lot of effort for this school recruitment. Everyone is coming in with suits and smart wear. How are you supposed to be hired if you come in looking like a mess?”Chris babbled on and on about it.He made it sound like he was the one taking part in the interviews, and not me.However, I was still pretty touched that I had someone so concerned for me.“Alright, got it. I’ll make sure to clean myself up nicely before heading over.”I went back to sleep for a little while more after hanging up the phone. It was just past nine w

My mind was filled with questions about what Nadia might want from me.Right at that moment, a snigger suddenly appeared on her face. “Freddie, I’m gonna make you pay twofold for the humiliation you caused me.”“What? What do you mean?”I was baffled by her random words, but Nadia was not planning on answering my question.She sneered and left after saying those words to me.“Crazy woman!”I cursed at her and continued playing basketball.When the class came close to an end, the Physical Education teacher got the entire class to gather around.He would usually just let us go after class, but today, he chose to gather suddenly everyone together with a grim look on his face.I knew something serious must have happened.Just as I had expected.When everyone was together, our Physical Education teacher, James Richardson, said with a serious expression, “Class, I’ve gathered every

“I don’t think you have the power to expel me,” I sneered at Charles.I knew very well that Charles Lincoln had no right to expel me.The school had set up proper rules about expelling students. To do so required the dean’s stamp of approval or a unanimous agreement of the school’s upper management in a meeting.That was how I knew Charles was just trying to intimidate me. He had no power to expel anyone at all.“I don’t have the power? You’ve stolen something from your classmate, and you think you’re above the law by beating up the school’s upper management in public. These two actions alone are enough for you to be expelled a hundred times from this school.” Charles began laughing wickedly.He seemed confident that expelling me was a sure thing.I began laughing along with him. “Is that so? Well, let’s get the dean to be the judge of that, and we’ll find out who gets k

Dean Franklin Stone stepped onto the lectern amidst the students’ chattering.He swept his gaze across everyone and said grim-faced.“A terrible thing has happened in our class today. I, and many other upper management from the school, would like to express our anger at what has transpired. After having a discussion about this, we have decided to cancel the student status of all those who were involved as a punishment.”The class erupted in exclamation after Franklin said this.Chris was filled with panic. “Freddie, what are you gonna do? You’re really about to get expelled…”“Stop panicking. The dean didn’t say it was me. What if it was Howard and the others?”“How would that be possible?” Chris looked at me with disbelief, thinking I must be scared silly.I did not explain any further as I looked calmly at the lectern.Franklin was knocking on the blackboard from the le

“Why are you here?” I frowned.The person in front of me was none other than Nadia, who had just been expelled.“You wouldn’t have come if you knew I had called you here,” Nadia said, dejected.“What do you want?”“Come in, and we’ll talk.” Nadia moved to the side, indicating for me to enter. She closed the door behind her.“What exactly do you want?” I asked impatiently.“Freddie, we’re classmates, after all. Do you really want to be so hard-hearted and allow the school to expel me?” Nadia’s eyes were red. It looked like she had been crying.“Me? Hard-hearted?”I smirked angrily. “You framed me more than once, and here you are claiming that I’m the hard-hearted one. You were the one who started it!”“Those were just harmless pranks…” She tried to talk her way out of things.“Pranks?&r