Chapter 5 Are you hitting on me?

Author's point of view...

"It did make some sense, didn't it?" Mr. Yates said with a deep understanding and Dave couldn't help but laugh internally.

That girl just now, wasn't she just sixteen or seventeen years old, she easily fooled her teacher and he actually believed her.

She was quite brave.

"Yes...! I think that too..." Dave replied, amused. Though he didn't believe whatever Thea said, he never doubted a sixteen year old girl could beat up those girls either.

Besides, Dave saw those girls from the senior section. They were all grown ups with quite a personality like fighters and Thea was nothing but a chubby girl.

How the heck could he even doubt it...!

"So, what do you think we should do, officer?" Smacking him out of his chain of thoughts, Mr. Yates asked.

"Leave it to us, Mr. Yates, I think some outsiders might be involved in this matter. We are still investigating and soon we will provide you with a good answer"

Mr. Yates nodded, gratefully and Dave walked out.

As soon as Thea walked into the classroom, she noticed the bustling class had silenced. They looked at her as if they were seeing a ghost.

Thea heaved a sigh and ignored them completely. When she stood beside her desk, she saw a question paper lying on her desk. She rolled her eyes.

"What is this?" She asked the girl sitting next to her, her desk mate.

"What? You don't remember? it's math test"

Thea exhaled, annoyed.

"Damn...! Now I have to answer these silly tests? Aghh it's so hard to be a student...! I should have chosen some other host instead" she thought before slowly sitting on her desk.

Amelia Harlow, her desk mate was a topper in her class and unavoidably an introvert too.

Even though she wouldn't support the kid's bullying, she would never help anyone with anything either.

Yep, the kind of mean girls who have nothing to do with anyone in the class. She would only look out for herself.

"Do we have to complete it now?" Thea asked again, she was sleepy and didn't want to write a test.

Amelia nodded her head and covered up her answers with her hand, worried that Thea would sneak a peek into her paper. Thea noticed and laughed sarcastically.

It was just a maths paper and for her intelligence, this was not more than a child's play to her.

"After you left, Mr. Thomas sent the math test paper over. You need to finish the test as soon as possible." One of the other students chimed in and got back to his work.

Thea sat down and looked at the paper in front of her. She could easily solve all the questions. She simply took a look, picked up a pen and started filling in the answers.

Within just a few minutes, she stopped writing and yawned. She was too lazy to write the answers. She threw the pen away and decided to take a nap on the desk.

As the bell rang, the kids handed over the test papers to the class monitor and walked towards the cafeteria.

Thea woke up, still in a daze only to find the boy who answered her earlier, standing near her desk.

"Were you sleeping without answering the test paper?" he laughed and Thea felt it wasn't necessary to answer him.

He grabbed the paper and started reading it.

"Did you just pin down those alphabets randomly? Ha...ha... you are quite something..." He mocked and the other kids were present in the class, all laughed.

Thea was indeed a bad student. No matter how hard she studied, her grades were always bad.

Every time, she would rack her brains, only to get the answers wrong.

After the results were in, she would still be mocked and laughed at by other kids. She heaved a sigh, ignored the boy's mockery and walked out of the class room.

She wasn't hungry so she slowly walked towards the playing ground. Looking at the kids playing and running, she sat near the stairs.

Soon she heard some noises coming from somewhere. When looked around, she found a little husky staring at her.

That small dog was injured and was so scared of her.

"Hey...!" Thea took a step ahead but the dog instantly yanked back. She stopped raising an eyebrow.

"Did you recognise me?" she asked in a serious tone. The husky wagged its tail. Thea was stunned. The dog might have recognised the other worldly aura around her.

"Come here." she called it, her tone commanding. The little husky was so startled that it followed the command but didn't dare make any sound. Thea kneeled down beside it and slowly reached out to scoop it into her arms. The husky felt better, it's former fear subsiding.

"How did you get yourself injured?"

It howled in a low tone as if talking to her, explaining its situation and Thea actually understood everything.

The husky said in its language that she was caught by a bunch of four street dogs and was injured while fighting with them.

Thea was surprised to see that she could actually communicate with the husky. After all, she didn't lose all her powers.

She went to the school nurse and asked for a bandage and some ointment for the dog. After applying the medicine and bandaging her leg, Thea gave the little husky some food.

"You can rest here for now, but don't go out for a while" she instructed the poor little thing and left her beneath the staircases.

Just as she was about to turn around, a familiar voice rang into her ears.

"Were you just talking to the dog?"

Thea turned around to see the same handsome face, Dave, smiling at her. He was now dressed up in casual wear, looking more approachable.

"Is it a crime to talk to animals, Officer?" Thea asked wiping her hands with tissue paper.

The smile on his handsome face spread, turning into a friendly grin. He looked away then shifted his gaze back to her.

She is so different.

"Do I look that unreasonable to you?" he asked, extending a can of coke towards her. She stared at the free treat then to the man before accepting it.

He walked over to her and asked in a cool tone,

"You haven't eaten yet, right?" Thea looked at him, surprised.

"Let's grab something to eat"

Thea rolled her eyes, unable to understand the unusual attention she was getting from him.

"Uncle...are you hitting on me?" she blurted out, directly. Dave was dumbfounded.

This girl was so straight forward.

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