Chapter 2
School's Out!
Kouji, Kouichi, Zoe, and Takuya were in History class, with their history teacher Mr. I. He was a bald headed guy with a calm voice, who always played his guitar before class started. This makes one think if he lived a double life as a teacher by day, and a rock band guitar player by night. Not only that, but her was a very strange guy.
"Class. Listen. Listen tooo meee..." he was elaborately moving his hands towards himself for attention, "Class listen. Listen to meee. Listen to Mr. I."
Meanwhile, Takuya, who was sitting in front of Kouji, looked around the class as everyone was either sleeping or not maying attention.
"How long do you think he'll keep say that?" Takuya asked his friends.
"I don't know. Depends. Last time it took him half the class period to finally get our attention." Kouji said with no emotion.
"Class. Listen. To me!" Mr. I. Said as he walked over to the board and grabbed the ruler off of it.
WAM! The teacher slammed the ruler against a nearby desk.
"Class!...... Thanks For Listening." he said with a settle smile. The whole class looked at him as if he broke the law of "don't-disturb-kids-when-they're-sleeping".
"Now class... please turn your books... to page..." he started looking through pages off of a students book, "123".
Everyone frantically flipped to that page. Everyone, except Kouji, who was slowly getting there.
"Now class... read the text and do the problems..." he continued flipping the students book, "1 through 100. Its due at the end of class..." he said in his calm mundane voice.
He then looked over at a kid who was "acting up" all of a sudden. The kid started bobbing his head at first. Then it got even worse. He started waving his hands in the air and bobbing like a bobble head. (what is this kid smoking?)
The teacher continued to stare at him for a while. Pretty soon the whole class was watching the funny site.
"Jimmy! Pay Attention!" Mr. I. Snapped as he clapped his hands to get his attention. The kid was in another world in his head as he snapped out of it and looked around the class in humiliation (true story).
"I know you want to dance with Pikachu some day, but not today!" he said as he walked to his desk.
Everyone busted out laughing at him. Even Kouji, who is not use to laughing at anything.
"How did he know?" Jimmy muttered to himself.
"What a moron!" Kouji yelled aloud.
"Class!" Mr. I. Yelled as he slammed the broken ruler on the desk again. "Get to work"
Within minutes, everyone was working out the hundred problems as if there was no tomorrow,.. 'cause there wasn't.
Already, one of the smartest kids in class was done and pretty soon the whole class was asking for answers. By the time he finished giving them all away, the class was finished and sitting quietly.
"Class!... Settle down..." he mentioned as he was grading papers. It was actually quiet. So quiet, you could hear the birds chirping on the outside of the school.
"Dude, what's he talking about?" Kouji asked aloud to anyone who was willing to listen.
"Beats me." Kouichi said as he put his pencil down to show he was finish.
"Kouji! Is there something you would like to say to the class?" the teacher asked with his eyebrows raised.
"Um... is that a rhetorical question?" he asked back.
The class began to chuckle.
"Ooooo... Kouji made a joke." Mr. I. joked. "Now class... has everyone finished?"
Papers went flying in the air.
"Great. More papers to grade." the teacher said with no emotions.
He made his way through the aisles in each row to pick up the papers
"Oh maaaan, I can't wait for this class to be over." Takuya mentioned cautiously as the teacher passed by.
"Why? You can't wait to be lazy?" Zoe teased.
"Har har!" Takuya laughed sarcastically.
Kouichi and Kouji chuckled.
"Sooo class... now that your done... well watch a movie... over, you guessed it,... history!" he said with a little hint of emotions for the first time all day.
Everyone sighed mainly because of two things. It was boring, and it also kept them from doing work."
The class began to chatter up as they realized they were going to have a break before spring break.
"Class! Settle down.... listen........... to PHILIP" he waved a remote in the direction of the TV that he named Philip, due to the name of the brand.
"Jimmy! Turn off the lights." the teacher said to Jimmy who was almost asleep.
"Oh! OK!" he said as he got up from the "river" that was on his desk. He then walked over to the switch and turned it off, as he wiped his face with the back of his hand.
The class began to make spooky noises as if it were a scary movie scene.
"QUIET!" the teacher said as he sat down.
The video began to play and down went half the class's heads on the desk.
"This isn't that bad." Takuya said humorously.
He looked over at Zoe and made his move.
"So Zoe..." he placed his arms around her, "Isn't this a nice movie. What are you doing after school?"
She looked over at him and took his arm off gently.
"Wouldn't you like to know." she poked his nose in a cute way.
"Uh! You two. Get a room. You're making me sick. Unlike some people, I'm actually trying to watch the movie." he motioned his hands between them as a sign of separation.
"And what's so interesting in the video?" Kouichi asked curiously.
"Uhmmm....uuuhm.... I don't know!"
They all giggled while Mr. I .came up from behind them.
"Enjoying the vid?" he asked sarcastically. He knew they weren't
"How he get behind us so quickly?" Kouji thought.
"Mr. I., I'll have you know I have nothing to do with these people." Kouichi tried to to protect his innocence.
"Yeah, me too. It's those two." Kouji pointed at Takuya and Zoe, "There the ones causing all this disruption."
"Nice try... it looks like y'all be spending part off y'alls spring break with me in detention." he said with a creepy smirk on his face.
"No! I didn't do anything!" Kouji insisted.
"I'm INNOCENT!" Kouichi pleaded in his head.
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After the bell rang, Takuya, Zoe, Kouji, and Kouichi stayed after school. Everyone else was leaving to start their spring break while they were staying in a demented classroom.
"QUIET! This class is too loud!" the odd history teacher yelled, even though no one was talking 'cause the students left.
As the door was closing, it seemed like the outside was calling their attention before it was shut away from them.
"Look what you did Takuya." Kouji whispered harshly.
"Me? What about Zoe? She was apart of this too." Takuya countered.
"Yeah... well... whatever!"
"Do I need to add more time/" Mr. I. insisted.
"NO thanks! We're good!" Kouichi saved whatever time they had left of the day.
They continued to stare at the empty walls as the time past by. After twenty minutes past, the phone rang. Mr. I. Went over to the phone to answer it as he looked back at the delinquents. He faced the phone again and answered it suspiciously.
"Hello?" he whispered into phone.
"Who is this?"
Takuya and Kouji were leaning forward to eavesdrop on the conversation. It was no use because they couldn't hear him. He was talking very low.
"Stop that!" Zoe said as she pulled them back into their seats.
"Uh huh... I see... right now?....fine!... ok.... just this once!" Mr. I. Had his hands cupped around the phone as if it would stop any information from leaking to the students.
He hung up the phone and looked at the four guilty kids.
"Well, It looks like detention is over early for now. You all got lucky." he said as he grabbed his briefcase and guitar case.
"Well see you kids, after the break. Don't do anything stupid and don't drink and drive." he rushed out the door quickly as if he was going to be late for something.
As the kids got their stuff to leave, they realized he forgot to close the door behind him, so they did it for him.
"Thar was weirder than weird." Kouichi mentioned, "And trust me. I should know."
"Well your right about that, brother." Kouji agreed, "but I don't see what is so weird about getting a phone call."
"I know, but it was the way he was acting... its was if he was hiding something." Kouichi pointed out.
"You guys worry to much." Takuya said as he walked off with his hands behind his head.
"Takuya has a point." Zoe said as she caught up with him.
"Oh well... I'm just saying." Kouichi persuaded his last time.
"What? Are you scared that he's some sort of CIA agent? Or even worse... a MONSTER?" Kouji started acting out a Frankenstein impersonation. He chased them for while, making them run into the teacher's parking lot.
As they stopped to laugh at each other, they couldn't help but see Mr. I. He was moving rapidly. They saw him start to change his dress shirt, exposing a bunch of tattoos. The kids eyes widened. He put on a muscle shirt as he combed his invisible hair. He pulled out his guitar and rushed into his car. The kids couldn't help but feel dumbfounded that maybe... just maybe he could be living a double life after all.
"Oh you guys are just over exaggerating. Anyone can dress like that, and still be sane." Kouji explained.
Minutes later, they saw the car drive off as they saw a hand, showing the "Rock on" sign, thrust out of the window.
The kids walked off home, pretending they didn't see anything.
"Mm hm! What do you have to say about that?" Zoe asked a dumbfounded Kouji.
(BGM: Schools Out for Summer, by ACDC)
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A/N: Haha, this is based off of a true story in my middle school years. I had a weird history teacher who would play his guitar before class. Not only that, he would talk in such a calm yet mundane voice that made you want to go to sleep. He even told the class to be quiet when no one was talking. I know, weird right! Well I just thought it would be nice and funny to write this chapter like that.
As for the guys, I thinks it's better if they don't judge a book by its cover... or a bald headed, guitar player, history teacher. Tune in on the next chapter were they start their spring break trip!
