The School Director

-CEDRIC-

Later that night, I was so busy sulking on my bed in my newly-acquired dormitory room that I don't have time to examine its interior design. The more I think about what happened between me and Andrew, the more I'm getting depressed about it.

Man, this is literally worse than break ups. Not that I have a girlfriend in the past either.

*Bzzt bzzt*

My attention was swiftly diverted to my phone which I heard vibrated just now on top of my side table. I hastily sat on my bed and picked it up to read any message I've received.

The moment I saw I was added to Alpha Section's group chat in messenger, my forehead instantly creased. My confusion was added more when I saw Kylie's message on the group chat.

"Guys, meet up at the com.lab... ASAP."

Even though I was a bit confused by the message and didn't feel like coming, yet since I felt that this is kinda important, I dragged myself to leave my bed and went out of my room in my plain white shirt and khaki pants.

***

As soon I was able to arrive at the com.lab, I swiped my ID in the code detector before the door swung open in front of my eyes. I was a bit surprised to see everyone gathered here as well in front of a PC unit.

I hurriedly went near them, thinking that they were watching something important on the screen, but to my disappointment I saw the PC unit was turned off.

"What are we doing here exactly?" I said, confusion is all over in my tone right now.

I turned to my right, only to find my egotistic jerk classmate who's having a world of his own as he sits two chairs away from the group and is currently busy typing on his laptop.

"Well, I've asked you to come here so that we can freely discuss our thoughts about that thing that we just witnessed earlier this morning." Kylie was the one who answered my inquiry.

That immediately sparked my attention.

"That's actually pretty cool. To think that we have supernatural powers? Just... wow." both of the twins said at the same time before they gave a high five to each other.

"They're right." I heard my brunette-haired classmate chimed in sarcastically.

"We can actually use our powers for our own benefits. That makes us superior over others."

But then, Kylie butted in.

""However, don't you think it won't cause us any harm? And what does the school know about this? Are they going to experiment us one by one?" she asked continuously in a hysterical manner.

We then saw Mitch suddenly stand up from his seat and grinning from ear to ear.

"You mean, we will be like X-men? Or Teen Titans?" he said enthusiastically.

"That's what you get if you're too fond of reading garbage such as comics." I heard that brunette-haired girl said with a sneer.

"I bet your childhood is super boring, Sasha." Mitch countered and made a face in front of her in which the girl called Sasha answered by rolling her eyes.

"All the things you're thinking right now doesn't make sense."

We all paused for a moment as we heard Elise suddenly speak, who's currently seated at the far end corner. I was a bit shocked to see her here joining us.

However, it was then that our attention was diverted to our egotistic jerk classmate when he loudly cleared his throat all of a sudden for us to hear.

"You idiots are nothing but fools. Try to watch this for you to be well-educated on our current situation." he said as he placed his laptop above the desk where the PC screen was also placed.

We all became silent as we saw what's on his laptop screen. I can't believe that we're actually watching a live footage of Mr. Cruz being in a room painted in grey with one floor-to-ceiling window. On his right was a grey desk placed in which a desktop computer sat and a stack of papers sitting under a turtle-shaped paperweight.

In the middle of the office, there was a swivel chair which a mysterious man is currently sitting in front of our adviser. We can't be able to see his face since the back of the swivel chair was the one facing Mr. Cruz right now.

"Hey, how did you--"

"I put a micro spy cam in the form of a sticker and pasted it on Mr. Cruz' frequently used pen." Before I could even ask, Warren was able to answer it right away.

"So shut the f*ck up, and watch the whole scenario."

After that brief chit chat with the jerk, I chose to remain silent and tried to concentrate on his laptop screen.

"So how's the progress of your Alpha Students, Mr. Cruz?" we heard that mysterious man spoke for the very first time in his cold formality.

If I'll judge his voice, I'd say he sounds like someone who's age is between 30's to 40's.

"One of my students, Dwayne Gonzales, was my first student to discover his property for this batch. The rest of them are yet to discover theirs." Mr. Cruz reported to this man like he's his boss or something.

We then looked at Kylie over here who suddenly rose up from her seat.

"I knew it. They'll be experimenting us!" Kylie commented but the rest of the group shushed her which made her fall back to her seat once again.

"What do you suggest in planning to do next?" asked that mysterious man, whose face is still not revealed due to the swivel chair being not turned around yet even up to this moment.

We heard Mr. Cruz made a long, pronounced sigh before responding to the director's question.

"I say, we'll wait for others to discover their properties. I think it's just a matter of time before they can discover it."

What the hell is this talk about properties? What do they even mean by properties anyway?!

"If that is the case, I will leave them in your care then Mr. Cruz. You may now go."

As soon as our adviser was dismissed by this mysterious man, we saw Mr. Cruz slightly bowed his head to him first before turning his back on him. By that, we all thought that we somehow succeeded in eavesdropping their conversation without them noticing and Warren was just about to smile in triumph…

However…

"Wait."

We all heard that mysterious guy spoke again, which made Mr. Cruz instantly frozen from where he's currently standing and turned to look at this guy once more.

"Give me your pen." that guy said in his full authority.

Mr. Cruz somehow got confused but willingly obliged to this guy's command. We saw a hand getting the pen, with the spy cam on it, out of his polo's side pocket and gave it to this man.

As he hands his pen, we notice that the camera went to black and white mode for a split second so we all thought it ran out of signal.

"Oh no. I think we're busted." commented by one of my classmates.

I felt my own heart beating abruptly as I felt the atmosphere shifting from being calm to being tense all of a sudden as we waited for the signal to go back on Warren's laptop.

It seems though that the heavens heard our plea, since several minutes passed after that guy got the pen from Mr. Cruz, the signal went back once more.

As soon as it went to normal, we were instantly greeted by the smiling face of a slightly bearded middle-aged man who's jet black hair was brushed up 'till the ends of his scalp, and who's wearing glasses at the same time.

"Hello, my dear Alpha Students. I am your school director, Mr. Eric Salviejo." he said, trying to be gentle as he speaks.

I can tell that this man is also trying his best to flash a friendly smile in front of our eyes, but for me... it turns out to be a really weird, and creepy, kind of smile.

"I know that right now, you have so many questions about yourselves and wanted to get those answers right away, thus leading you to put a spy camera on your advisor's pen." No one dared to talk since we all know we've been busted.

"Very clever move, Warren Santiago."

I turned to look at the jerk who's now seated on my right, who's face right now became tense as he heard this guy call out his name.

This mysterious man, who introduced himself as the school director, pushed his glasses upwards before proceeding to speak again.

"First of all, you can rest assured that we will not perform any weird experiments to all of you, as you may have thought by now." With this statement, I noticed Kylie heaved out a sigh of relief .

How the heck did this guy even know about what we are currently thinking on the other side of the screen?

"All we want from you is to have the best experience here in Eastwood High and for you to develop your hidden skills. So I assigned Mr. Cruz over here to take care of each one of you. So do your best, and work hand in hand with your class adviser to develop your hidden powers. You'll have a bright future ahead if you'll do so."

This was the director's last statement before we saw him stretching his hand forward and removing the sticker out of Mr. Cruz' pen. Once again, Warren's laptop screen went into black and white mode with that weird hissing sound along with it.

We all remained silent after we heard all of the director's words just now... that is until Sasha chose to break this tensed silence.

"If what the director said is true, then there's nothing to worry about, right guys?" she said while arching one eyebrow to us as she waits for our response.

All of my classmates agreed to her statement... except for me.

I think there's something mysterious about our school director.

In my perspective, our school director definitely looks like someone who has many hidden secrets under his sleeve and behind those creepy smiles of his.

And I'm certain that those secrets are yet to be discovered in the future…