The Popularity Switch | ✔️

18

CH 18 |

Aaliyah was right. This is no ordinary fight.

And I can't believe it either, not even after seeing it with my own eyes.

Ordinary fights consists of fists getting randomly thrown at each-other, pushing and shoving like five-year-olds, but this fight is certainly something else.

The entire school is crowded around the scene. Students are standing on tables and chairs with their phones out and mouths repetitively chanting the violent word, "fight!" Hah, literally a violent word..

I look over to Phoebe, who is a few meters away, watching the fight like she's watching a car crash. Her hands ball up and she steps forward to intervene, but Will quickly holds her back. I watch his mouth speak the words, "Are you stupid? I'll take care of this."

Phoebe quickly grabs his arm back and tells him, "They're going to beat your ass, dumb-ass."

As I walk towards them, their conversation becomes more audible.

"Well they're going to trample all over you, you poo!"

"Shut the hell up, asswipe!"

Will smirks. "Make me, Godzilla."

Logically, if Phoebe were to be Godzilla, how can two guys trample on her? Deciding to be smart and keep my mouth shut if I don't to get into a fight myself, I instantly interject when Phoebe grabs his collar.

"Woah guys! One fight is enough," I laugh nervously, slowly unlocking Phoebe's hands from Will's collar. They share one more intense eye-contact until Will rolls his eyes and Phoebe turns to me.

I smirk. They are soooo in love with each-other.

"Summer, you're here!" Phoebe exclaims, a smile making it's way onto her face.

"Hey!"I wave a greeting, smiling back. However, the smile fades as realisation of the situation slowly sinks into my head again. "So uh, what the hell is happening?"

"That's what I'm still trying to figure out." Phoebe's teeth starts to grind audibly. "Why the hell did my freak-show brother pick a fight with the dude who almost lit the principal on fire?!"

Will and I simultaneously put our hands on each side of Phoebe's shoulders, getting ready to hold her back. Damn, is she breathing fire right now.

My eyes slide back to the intense fight. Theo steps onto one of the chairs and leaps onto the table, landing in a handstand before his legs reach out to kick Vincent's head. Luckily, Vincent slides sideways quick enough and avoids it.

Damn, I knew Theo was good, but never in a million years would I have guessed that he's this good — and that his opponent is on the same level as him!

Wait a second... It all makes sense now: Why Theo suddenly appeared behind me at the night of the date when the ninja suddenly disappeared, how he taught me only two secret moves and I was instantly able to kick all of Hamish's gang's butts, how he got so alarmed and spitted out his food when I brought up "The Ninjas"...

... Oh my God. Theo is the ninja!

"Okay seriously," Will instantly snaps me out of my intense thoughts with his voice. "How the hell are there no teachers here when the entire school is here screaming "fight" at the top of their lungs?!"

"Uhhh..." Phoebe stammers, watching the incoming elderly man with wide, horrified eyes. "Maybe because the principal is here!"

"ENOUGH!"

With this one, dominant command, the entire crowd immediately silences and jaws drop as we all stare at the superior man in awe. No one has ever really seen the principal of Hems' College before, so the fact that he has personally came here is a massive statement.