Chapter 2: A Closed Book

"Saiki's thoughts"

"Telepathic speech"

"Others' thoughts"

The class went into an uproar at the announcement, and the teacher was bombarded with questions.

"A new student?"

"What're they like?"

"Where are they from?"

"Are they a guy or a girl?"

"Yeah, are they a guy or a girl?"

"Come on, tell us!"

The teacher was annoyed, but didn't show it.

"Honestly, who cares? The new student'll come into the class in like a minute anyway! What's the point of knowing like a minute early?"

Oddly enough, Saiki and Teruhashi were thinking the exact same thing. Fed up with the constant barrage of questions, the teacher quieted down the class.

"S-settle down class… Uhm… because it seems like you all want to know, I'll tell you- in return, PLEASE be quiet. The new student is a guy..."

The guys in the class groaned. Meanwhile, the girls in class were cheering. The teacher sighed.

"What kind of hormone driven class is this? What the hell?"

She looked around the class, and noticed that only two students in class were seemingly unaffected by the news of the new student's gender. And they were sitting right next to each other. The teacher held back a smirk.

"I mean, I've heard rumors, but I never believed them…"

Saiki sat back and exhaled deeply. Sure, he was surprised at first about the news of the new student, but after hearing all of the details of the new student through the teacher's thoughts, he simply didn't care anymore. He listened into the teacher's mind again to check if he had missed something. The teacher was now thinking about something extremely frivolous involving him and... Teruhashi.

"It'll never happen. Ever.", Saiki remarked in his mind.

Speaking of the new student, where was he? Saiki couldn't hear his thoughts, so he couldn't be that close- what the hell was he doing? He was going to get called in soon! Saiki sat back up in his seat.

"Eh, whatever, that's his problem. Nothing to do with me."

Teruhashi was too transfixed on Saiki's posture to care about a new student.

"He never looks that nervous!"

Saiki was simply shifting his posture because he was strangely uncomfortable in his seat, not because he was nervous- well, maybe he was a bit nervous. He still couldn't pick up the location of the new student, meaning that he wasn't near.

"If he isn't here, why is the teacher acting like she's just about to introduce him to the class?"

Teruhashi tried to act as if she cared about the new student, but even to a non esper, (the teacher) it was pretty obvious that she didn't. She occasionally stole glances at Saiki to check on him, a bit worried in her own way. She immediately looked away when he looked her way, terrified of being questioned by him. Saiki, being an esper, had already noticed the glancing anyway, and decided to ignore it, so there was really no fear there.

The teacher was shocked that the class got louder after she told the students in the class the new student's gender. Being an experienced teacher, she should've predicted it, which she did, but was still shocked anyway that her prediction was spot on. She really wanted to be proven wrong about the nature of hormone-driven teenagers. Fed up, the teacher raised her voice.

"Class! Please be quiet!"

The class didn't seem to hear her. The boys were still groaning that another hottie wouldn't be introduced to the class, and the girls were shrieking in excitement that possibly, just possibly, a hot guy would be introduced to the class.

The teacher inhaled deeply, and tried again to quiet the class, a lot louder, and a lot harsher this time.

"CLASS! SHUT UP!"

The class immediately fell silent- except for Nendou, who was too stupid to notice that everybody went quiet. He eventually shut up after Kaidou put a hand on his mouth. After taking his hand off of Nendou's mouth, he pulled out a bottle of hand sanitizer from his backpack, and applied a very generous amount to his hands. Saiki glanced at Kaidou.

"Yeah, I'm still never going to touch your hands ever again. I don't want to catch 'idiot' from Nendou."

The teacher bent down, put her palms on the podium and sighed in exasperation.

"That took enough time… damn teenagers."

She looked up at the class and started talking.

"Ok… now that everybody is quiet, I can introduce the new student- well no, he'll introduce himself."

She paused and looked towards the door.

"You can come in now."

The person that walked in could only be described as regal. He had flowing blond hair, stunning blue eyes with a gaze that seemed to stare into one's mind. He was extremely good looking- certainly not at the level of perfection that Teruhashi was at, but still extremely good looking nevertheless. He walked to the front of the class and introduced himself.

"Hi," he said in a silky voice. "My name is Jean Dupont. You can just call me Jean."

All of the girls, excluding Teruhashi started screaming.

"OH MY GOD! HE'S SOOOOO CUTE!"

"His name is Jean! Is he from France?"

"This is so exciting! He's probably super rich! Maybe even richer than Saiko!"

Luckily, Saiko was not in class to hear that.

The guys groaned. He was like a male Teruhashi! ...well not as perfect, but still. How the hell were they going to compete?

Saiki didn't care for any of this. After all, he had already seen Jean through the teacher's thoughts. However, he was still in shock.

"I... I can't read him."

Hi, it's the author, and I'm here to say that Jean is pretty damn scary. You'll... find out just how scary he is at some point.