After being led to the faculty lounge, they sat on the sofa across from the teacher, whose face hadn't shown even a hint of a smile since they first met.
"So, why are students from the central district playing around this far east?" Gerald asked.
Dennis, Daisy, Gary, Olivia, Jason, and Kimberly glanced at each other. Then, without holding back, they recounted everything that had happened, including the ordeal that had hit Daisy and Dennis and their reason for borrowing the showers at Willow School. Gerald listened intently with his arms folded across his chest.
Although his face remained stiff and expressionless—his mouth never turning up, always set in a permanent scowl—a flash of horror briefly crossed his face and flickered in his eyes. When the six of them finished their story, Gerald exhaled and looked at them with a slightly softer expression, particularly when his gaze fell on Dennis and Daisy.
