The trouble maker

Chapter - 38

I knew my luck was loaded to the fullest length when I found that Mr. Phil was already gone the moment Alex arrived where we met.

Mr. Phil didn't deserve any of Alex's wraith, he meant no harm, and I want no harm for him either. He was willing to leave the school and the least I could do was to let him leave with an untainted name. To let him leave as he truly deserved.

"Andrea?" I caught Ashlynn's worried voice and I looked back to saw her running towards me, with Simon and Levi. And for the first time in my life, I felt relieved to saw Simon and Levi.

"Where's he?" Simon asked, gasping for breath. And I pointed my fingers towards where Alex was, "There!" And he and Levi stormed off leaving me with Ashlynn. As soon as both the boys stormed off, Ash showered me with a tight hug, "I was so worried!" She stated, I accepted her hug for a few seconds and pulled back, "I'm curious to know how Alex know about my meeting with Mr. Phil." I looked into her eyes.

"I had no choice." She wailed, "They came back not long after you were gone and Alex asked where you are, I swear I tried not to give you away, but you know how Alex is, there's nothing I could do, and I was also worried since you were already gone for almost an hour, and then it just came out!"

I sighed, she didn't have any idea what she had done, "I'm really sorry, Ann." She whispered, "I was just so worried, the weather is extremely cold and-" She cut her sentence off and jumped into another sentence, "You should've seen Alex's expression when I mentioned Mr. Phil's name." She removed her front hair and tugged it behind her ear as she continued to talk about him, "His face was, I don't even know how to put it into words."

"It was as if someone murdered his whole family and he was out for blood? Yeah, I can imagine." I shook my head, agonizing more and more as seconds elapsed by. "Exactly!" Ashlynn jumped a bit, "I can't say how dangerous he look, his eyes alone could shoot out bullets."

While I was young, there were scarcely any day when there was trouble in my life, my parents did their best at giving me the best life they could provide, and the biggest trouble in my life was when my favourite characters in a book I was reading passed away. If I could say anything to young Andrea, I would probably tell her to enjoy her worry-free life to the fullest and not just obsessed over fictional characters because what she was going to face in her future was full of a stumbling block and troubles.

And now? The situation I was facing at the moment was a complete dumpster fire, and I felt like the fire just started and then it would burn the whole area in the next hours.

"Oh my God, now tell me why Mr. Phil asked you out? And why is Alex this mad?" Ashlynn was full of questions but I was not in the mood to explain anything, all I hoped was for Alex to calm down and sleep. I would not be able to breath properly until I was rest assured that Alex was sleeping and Mr. Phil was safe, from any possible harm.

"I'll tell you later, for now we have to find a way to shoo Alex's madness away."

Ashlynn showed me a worried looked as she said, "How do you suppose we do that? If that's possible, you would be the only one who could do it."

"Girls!" We heard Simon's voice from behind, "Go stay at the bar, you'll get sick in no minute if you continue to stay outside in this crazy brass monkey weather," He advised as he came towards us, "We'll come, in no time." He added, I tried to argue to stay there with them but I saw the look in his eyes, and figured that I should probably go inside and let the boys handle Alex, of course they would be the best to handle Alex's wraith, I had no doubt they had seen it frequently.

Ash and I both nodded as we watched him walk away, towards the dark where we can't see him anymore. "Now tell me everything." Ash demanded as we started walking towards the building where we stayed.

"I'm going to shorten it," I started as she nodded wilfully, almost too glad that I actually started telling her, "Mr. Phil... confessed his feelings to me-"

Ashlynn moaned before I even actually started, "I knew it! Damn, I was right."

"Right about what?" I asked, confused by her sudden changed expression, "I knew that Mr. Phil has feelings for you."

"What?" Confusion took me by surprise, "How did you?"

She gave me a sighed, "Oh Ann, it's too obvious, the way he always calls out your name in the class, the way he looks at you, the way he greets you every time even when you don't greet him first, wait, don't tell me you never question it." She gave me a pointed look as I shook my head to tell her that I never had any idea, maybe I was really that dumb? One thing answered me in my head, I was not dumb, I was just too taken away by everything that happened to me with my family and Alex in general so it simply didn't perk up my mind.

It was already 3 in the morning, and Alex and the others still didn't come inside, sleep was not even an option for me, Ash and I stayed at the bar, waiting for them to arrive, and hopefully nothing bad would happen to either one of them. Ash slacked off multiple times now, but she'd reject all my offering for her to hit the hay, so she was half asleep sitting at the couch on the bar with me.

I didn't do anything, I just sit, and think, as I always did. Then my attention was caught when a buzz from my phone disturbed me, I checked to see what kind of message I got at 3 am in the morning.

Breaking news : Mr. Philip Ronnie is reportedly fired by the school boards just now, the reasons for this is not yet confirmed but rumours has it that it's because he got into a fight with a student, and that student is no other than our school biggest shareholder's son Alexander Bilimoria, Mr. Phil won't be with us till the end of the trip, it's possible that he is leaving as you're reading.

Note that this is your student's president Francis Tenor writing and not some lame joke.

My mouth hung open as I read the news on the class's group.

Fired? Got into a fight? Leaving the trip now? At 3 am?

Ash was peacefully asleep as I jerked up from my sit and ran out of the bar, and into the courtyard, six or more students were outside too, probably wondering what bizarre thing had just happened, why they were not sleeping at 3 in the morning was the least of my concern. I spotted a bicycle parked at the side road and without thinking anything twice, I ran and hooped onto it, and started riding.

I had to find and get Mr. Phil back, I had to fix the mess, he didn't deserve to be fired like this, he had been, without a doubt one of the best teachers in the school, I can't let him leave as a bad one solely just because of me. And that too, because of a misunderstanding that Alex had, I should have known better than to sit at the bar waiting for Alex to return and hope nothing would happen, I should have gone to him, to do everything necessary to tame him down, he was drunk and he didn't care about anything other than Mr. Phil confessing his feelings to me which he declared was illegal.

My mind was full of hot mess until I reached two roads, I stopped and looked back and all I saw was darkness, I looked at the front and all I saw was still darkness, there was no single glimpse of light, or movements. I didn't know which road was the right path or the one which Mr. Phil took when a thought struck my head, Mr. Phil might have gone with his car.

I tried to take out my phone when I touched my pocket and found that it was empty, I groaned heavily, I was really winning the most ridiculous girl award here.

The howling gale and the snow that was falling made all my body went numb and soon, my legs gave up and I could not ride anymore. I dropped the bicycle beside the road as I sat down at the snow which was covering everywhere. Not even before minutes elapsed by, my body felt an unbearable ache from the cold, it was nothing like what I had felt before, it was freezing and my whole body was hurting from pain I couldn't describe with words alone.

I felt my body collapsing down at the ice, and I couldn't feel any part of my body anymore, I tried to gather all the efforts that my body still holds and open my eyes but it was no use, there was only darkness.

Is this the end? Am I dying? No, I still have so many things to fix, I don't want to die, I can't die, there were still so many foods that I want to try, so many places that I want to visit, a husband I'd hope and a family of my own, 17 years of existence was not enough, so not enough.

Is there anyone? Mother? Father......?