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Chapter 21 - CHAPTER 21: A STRANGER IN HIS OWN LIFE

Zyric is still unaware of the fact that a dangerous insect is sitting on his back, capable of eating anyone up in an instant. Unaware of this, he continues to move forward quickly. The insect was stuck to Zyric's back and was inside his shirt. It was completely resting on his body in such a way that Zyric couldn't even tell that something was on his back. Zyric keeps moving forward.

 

Zyric had noticed one thing--his bag wasn't with him, nor was it in the lab. "I wonder where it went," Zyric thinks to himself. But for now, he had to reach his school on time. Otherwise, he definitely wouldn't be able to get into class. He was already three minutes late. He was sure he wouldn't be able to go in. But yes, he just wanted to try once--to enter his classroom and have Miss Grace show him some pity.

 

Zyric reached school quickly, and after taking a deep breath, he entered. Everything around looked quite changed. "Who painted the school overnight?" he wondered. "The school looks quite nice like this," Zyric thinks to himself and keeps heading toward his classroom. When Zyric reached his classroom, he saw Miss Grace in front, busy teaching. Zyric gets there and then says, "May I come in, Teacher? I'm just a little late," scratching his head as he speaks.

 

Everyone suddenly turns toward Zyric after hearing his words and starts looking at him. Miss Grace is also very surprised.

 

"Oh look! he has come back," many people started to say at that moment.

 

"What are you doing here?" Miss Grace asks Zyric.

 

" Sorry, Miss, I did not arrive in time, I know it is late, but you can try a little, right? How much could you have taught in this much time? I mean, I'm so sorry I'm saying this to you, but--" Zyric was still speaking when Miss Grace interrupted, "What are you doing here? Will you tell me that?"

 

Miss Grace says to Zyric again, angrily.

 

"I am so-- I am so sorry, Miss. I'll come tomorrow," Zyric says this much and was about to leave.

 

"Why will you come tomorrow? What do you mean?" Miss Grace asks Zyric again.

 

"Well, I was late today, so I'll join the class tomorrow. What else?" Zyric says normally, and all the children start laughing. Miss Grace then grew even angrier.

 

"I didn't know a boy like you could do drugs too. Now that was all that was left in your life--missing for two years and now suddenly coming back and acting here..." Miss Grace says, and Zyric looks astonished.

 

"Miss, what are you saying? Two years? I just went to meet my sis-- I mean, someone. After that, I came here immediately. How two years? What are you saying? You're joking, right? Yes, I am naive. I'm useless. But I'm not that much of a fool," Zyric says to Miss Grace.

 

"So, you mean to say that I am lying?" Miss Grace says, looking at Zyric angrily.

 

"You were expelled from school, Zyric, two years ago. You have been missing for two years, and you think you can rejoin here now by putting on this act? Get out of here. By the way, some doctors had come here looking for you. But no one knew anything about you. And because doctors came looking for you, it means you probably went crazy in between. You must have run away somewhere, and after that, you came here, and maybe your mental balance is really disturbed." Saying this, Miss Grace takes out her phone so she can call the doctors.

 

All the children there, along with Miss Grace, had connected these things. Dr. Diana had sent some doctors here to look for Zyric. Because of this, everyone was thinking that Zyric was undergoing treatment, and that was why the doctors had come looking for him. And Zyric had run away again and come to school after two years, claiming he had just left.

 

As Miss Grace made the call to the doctors, she looked surprised.

 

"What are you saying? There's no patient named Zyric? There's no such person," Miss Grace says this and looks back at Zyric, who had already left.

 

Zyric didn't understand anything. He was taking long breaths. He quickly reached his house. As soon as he opened the door upon reaching home, the door didn't open.

 

"What is this? Why won't this door open?" Zyric says this and swipes his key card again. The door had a fingerprint lock. Zyric tries to open the door with his fingerprint too, but the door was still not opening.

 

Zyric knocked on the door. Here came a man out of in and said, "Yes, tell me, what do you want?"

 

"Pardon me, it is my room," Zyric tells the man, then looked at the room behind him: everything he had earlier scattered now apparently was in order, and the room appeared to be clean.

 

"Your room? Look, kid, if you've come to joke, my mood is very bad right now, understood? Get out of here." Saying this much, the man shuts the door right in Zyric's face. Because of this, Zyric took two steps back and fell.

 

"What on earth is happening? So two years--was I really missing for two years? Could all those things be true? No, it can't be," Zyric thinks to himself.

 

"Who should I go to?" As Zyric says this, he remembers Dr. Hazel. "Dr. Hazel... yes, I'll go back to school," Zyric says this and starts to leave.

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