Chapter 3
Max
Max Tate smiled at his students. He loved being a geography teacher.
Max had grown taller. A lot. He was taller than Tyson now. His blonde hair had become darker and he wore specs. Teaching had given him much pleasure as well as confidence. He had learnt not to doubt himself. He was still very much the charmer though.
Max has chosen a profession very different from what people had expected from him. Everybody, including his mom, had expected him to join the PPB enterprise. Succeed in Judy Tate's footsteps. Even he himself had thought so.
But when he had been a milliemetre close to fulfilling everybody's wishes he had understood that he didn't want to do it. In fact, he hated it. It wasn't what he chose. It was just a thrust-into-my-hands job. One night he had been thinking these exact things, sitting on grandpa's dojo's roof, trying to muster up the courage to tell everybody what he thought and not to let his mom down.
"Max, it won't kill anybody if you didn't become PPB's Director someday. It may save some lives, on the contrary," said a deep voice from behind Max.
"Kai!" asked Max, turning around.
Kai remained silent. "What do you mean?" asked Max.
Kai moved out of the shadows and looked at him with a cold gaze. "You know what I mean."
"But how will I tell everyone? How will I tell mom?"
When Kai didn't answer Max continued, "It's what everybody's always expected me to do."
"What do you want to do?" asked Kai in a tired voice.
Max smiled, suddenly looking like his normal self, "Want to do something with Geography. Maybe become a teacher."
"Then what are you waiting for? Go ahead and do it. After all its your life," Kai said turning away, going below.
Max watched him speechless. Kai turned at the very last to look at him with a smirk, "And personally I never expected you to become a Director, Blondie. You don't have the brains."
But Max's smile just grew wider. That evening Max announced his decision to his teammates and everybody was happy for him. Later, when he told his mom, Judy looked at him in surprise and asked, "Didn't you want to become something else?"
"No," Max replied, smiling. "This what I want to be."
Judy smiled back and said softly, "I am glad. I know you will do well, son."
"James, point out Kenya from the map," Max asked one of his students. Yes, he did love his job.
Though it still hurt him to think that he was not in touch with the person who had given him the push for this job. Five years was a long time and the Bladebreakers had drifted apart after their last title.
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