A middle-aged woman with dark brown hair with a white shirt and dark blue jeans calmly opened the door. She began making his way toward the man unhurriedly. The man continued his grading as if ignoring her existence.
After a long few seconds, she arrived at the head of the table. Without even pausing she said in a demanding tone "Ensen Fuentes, the princ.i.p.al would like to have a word with you, please follow me."
Ensen Fuentes looked at her confusingly, slowly muttering "What is the matter secretary?"
"Just follow me Ensen, you will find out soon." Without further interaction, she turned around and began to head towards the door. Ensen took a deep breath and got out of his chair. He quickly tucked in the old mahogany chair and walked quickly to catch up. He promptly opened the door and exited into the hallway.
'Wow, she sure is dramatic. Can she not even tell me what is going in? I deserve more respect from her.' Ensen muttered under his breath, but still obediently followed her to the office. He glanced around the hallway. The hallway was quite beautiful actually. Vibrant green plants were spread erratically throughout the hallway, with benches uniformly placed at equal distances. Hanging on the wall were pictures of various awards that the private academy had won. Ensen stared at one in particular.
It was a picture of three students shoulder to shoulder holding a golden trophy over their head, in the background was the private academy, SilverLeaf Academy. Ensen shook his head lightly with a smile and kept walking behind the secretary. Within a few minutes, Ensen was in front of the princ.i.p.al's office. With hesitation in his heart, Ensen steeled himself and opened the door.
The first thing Ensen saw when he opened was the large brick fireplace with a couch a few feet away from it. On the couch was the current princ.i.p.al, Emilia Wells. Emilia was a very beautiful woman, with dyed red hair, a charming smile. She wore a light grey long blouse with a light shirt and a grey sweater.
Emilia heard the door open and quickly turned her head, showing a light smile towards Ensen. Without even a word, she pointed to the couch. With little hesitation, Ensen slowly walked towards the leather couch and sat down.
They sat in silence for what seemed like an hour before Emilia opened her mouth. "Ensen, let's talk. I know it's been hard on you since the school has turned into a girl-only school."She said and then paused.
"I know you've been doing your best since, but... the parents want you gone," Emilia said in a gentle and somewhat sad voice.
With a gentle sigh, Ensen paused and seemed to be in deep thought for a few minutes before responding. "I understand Emilia. I have done my best though, you know that. The students know that, and everybody knows that. Math has improved dramatically after I came here."
"I know Ensen. I've been doing my hardest to keep you here. But the parents are being too stubborn this time, I'm sorry."Emilia stated weakly.
"I understand, how long left do I have?" Ensen questioned.
Emilia looked directly into Ensens eyes, before averting her eyes. "You have until the end of the day. You will be paid for the next 2 weeks and have a severance package after that, my secretary will be temporarily taking over your cla.s.s until a proper replacement is found."
With heavy steps, Ensen got onto his feet and slowly walked towards the door, his footsteps echoing throughout the silent office. When Ensen got to the door, he turned around one last time and said calmly "Goodbye Emilia."Ensen then walked out and firmly closed the door.
Emilia sat on the couch staring at the door for a few minutes before sighing and heading back to her desk.
Ensen listlessly walked back to the teacher lounge, a few of his students greeted him while he was walking in the hallway, but he didn't even hear them. After returning to the teacher's lounge, he glanced at the scattered mess of a.s.signments to grade and calmly put them inside a bag for the next teacher to handle. Letting out a heavy sigh, Ensen laid down on the couch staring at the ceiling for what seemed like ages.
*Ding Ding Ding*
Without warning, 3 loud bell-like sounds resounded across the school.
Ensen slowly opened his eyes, with a sigh, Ensen muttered: "I need to get to cla.s.s."
He gently got up to his feet and headed towards the cla.s.s.
"Hey Mr. Fuents, how are you today?" A girl with blond hair, big gla.s.ses, and formal clothing asked kindly.
"Oh, h.e.l.lo Ada. I'm... good, have you done your homework for today?"Ensen asked with a forced smile and fake confidence.
Without a hint of suspicion, Ada smiled widely and said proudly "Of course, I did teacher, I worked super hard on it too. I bet you'll be impressed when you mark it."
"I'm sure I will Ada, now come on we need to get to cla.s.s," Ensen said once more, trying to avoid further talking.
Ensen quickly arrived at the door to the cla.s.sroom with Ada by his side. He paused for a moment, staring at the door.
"Umm, everything alright Ensen?" Ada said out of both curiosity and concern.
"Yeah, I'm okay," Ensen said, before opening the door and slowly walking into his cla.s.sroom for the last time.
Scanning the cla.s.sroom, he was surprised to notice nearly every chair was full. Ensen walked up to the front of the cla.s.sroom and began today's lesson.
After an hour and a half, the lesson was done. The students were beginning to pack up and get out of their seats.
"Excuse me if I could please have everybody's attention, I have an announcement I have to make." Ensen waited for his students to be looking at him. With a deep breath, he continued. "Thank you for coming, this will be my last cla.s.s as your teacher, the princ.i.p.al's secretary will be taking over for me until a replacement is found."
He paused and scanned the cla.s.sroom, upon seeing everybody frozen he began saying his final words. "It's been lots of fun being your teacher for the past few months, thank you for doing your best in my cla.s.s... that's all, you're dismissed."
Without waiting for a reaction, Ensen left the cla.s.s. Looking at the pictures on the wall for one last time, he began heading for his car in the staff parking lot.
"Wait!" A sudden shout came from behind him. Turning his head, Ensen saw Ada standing there staring at him. Ada stared at him and said just a single word, "why?".
Ensen looked at Ada calmly, trying to think of what to say before deciding to just be honest with her. "I was fired, I'm the only male here in a now private girl academy. It's surprising I made it this far honestly, I thought I would have been gone sooner."
Ada kept staring at Ensen, not taking her eyes off him for even a moment. After staring for a few seconds, she asked in a sad tone "Then what are you going to do next?"
Ensen paused, he never really thought of what he was going to do now honestly. He looked at her and stated "I'm not too sure, to be honest, but I should be going, Ada. Do your best in school for me, okay?"
"Okay Ensen, I promise I'll do my best, goodbye," Ada said, not bothering to hide her sad face.
Without another look, Ensen turned his back and walked to his old rundown car, turned it on, and made his way home. He drove for around a half an hour to a decent-sized business park and went to his decent-looking apartment building. He slowly made his way to the door of his apartment.
'Wait, when did I get here? Well, whatever.' He thought to himself as he entered his decent apartment. Ensen threw his bag on his black couch and quickly went to his bedroom. He seemingly collapsed onto the bed. With a heavy sigh, he was about to doze off when a bright blue screen appeared before his eyes.
[Welcome to the Supreme Academy System]
