Chapter 57: A threat message

Hoy estamos teniendo un cuestionario pop," our Spanish teacher yelled immediately as he walked into the class. We looked at him curiously because most of us in class don't speak or hear Spanish. "¿Me escuchaste Dije que hoy estamos teniendo un cuestionario pop," he said but we didn't understand what he said. He sighed, "I said today we are having a pop quiz," he said then we all groaned. "That is right, pop quiz. And you all must answer all the questions in Spanish," he said.

One of my classmates stood up,
"Sir, what if we don't speak Spanish ?" he asked,

"What?" Our Spanish teacher said,

"I said what if we don't speak Spanish?"

"What?"

"I said what if we don't speak Spanish," he yelled,

"I don't understand what you say, you must ask the question in Spanish," he said,

The boy who asked the question sighed and sat down because he couldn't speak Spanish.

Mr DIEGO MATEO is our Spanish teacher, he joined us this term and he has started showcasing his annoying behaviours. He was born in Spain and he has never left the country until this year, he flew to the United state to teach us Spanish. He can barely speak English and he's so mean.

We all did the pop quiz and it broke all our hearts because we all knew we were going to fail. After the pop quiz, he marked our papers in the class and stood up,
"Así que la mayoría de ustedes en esta clase fracasaron," he said which was Spanish for "So, most of you in this class failed,".

He walked to us one after the order and shared our scripts to us. When I got my script, I had an F but I wasn't moved because everyone had an F too. Mr Diego was so strict that we never even took his class seriously. After school, I was heading home when Betty pulled me into the bathroom.

"What's the matter," I asked,

"Look," she said and showed me the text an anonymous number sent to her. I looked at the text,

it says,

"Betty Rollins, you're being watched. On the day I would finally remember you, you would regret the day you were born,"

After reading the text I looked at her curiously,
"Did you fight with anyone?"

"You know me, I do not have a problem with anyone .... Except Lola,"

I thought about it and it was true,
"That's right, you have the audio of her saying she was the one that played the prank last year,"

"But if she was the one I would know, this is an anonymous number," she said,

"Betty she could have used another number,"

"Oh my God, oh my God I'm freaking out," Betty said and scratched her hair,

"Betty calm down," I said and held her shoulders, "You'll be fine, just stay calm and don't reply to the text okay,"

"Okay, okay," Betty said,

"Don't be scared, nothing would happen to you," I said, "Now come on let us go home, I would ask Jones to give us a ride home," We both walked out of the bathroom and headed home.

While we were in Jones's car, we told him what happened and he was baffled.
"It's Lola, I'm sure she's the one," Jones said,

"But how sure are you, you know it would be a crime if you point fingers at someone innocent," I said,

"I know but you said she met you the last time and told you it wasn't over right?" Jones asked,

"Yeah she did," I said

"But ever since the day I got the audio she hasn't said anything to me," Betty said.

"She doesn't have to say anything to you, okay let me tell you two something, in my ex-school, there was a friend of mine that was attacked. He liked a girl and the girl liked him too, but there was this other guy in school who liked her, he was a bully and he asked him never to get close to the girl but he didn't listen. After two months the bully didn't say anything to the boy and in the third month, we heard the guy was in the hospital and we figured it was the bully who attacked him. Our principal asked why he attacked the boy and he said it was because he was with the girl he loves. So Lola doesn't have to say anything to you to make you believe she still has you in mind," said Jones

"So what should I do?" Betty asked,

"Okay tomorrow you would show Principal George the text and tell him everything that happened, at least now we would know you have someone in the administration that is aware of it, then you must be careful," Jones said

"Okay, on Monday I would tell Principal George, today is Friday," Betty said,

"Yeah that's right, that reminds me, Victoria invited us to a party in her place this night, are you coming?" Jones asked

I sighed,
"Another party?"

"Yeah, it's just a party," Jones said,

"The last time you said that, the party turned out so bad that I almost broke up with you," I said,

"Come on, it won't happen this time," Jones said but I remained quiet.

"So you two are going to a party tonight while I'm just going to lie lonely in bed tonight," Betty said,

"No, I said the three of us," she invited you too,

"She invited me?" Betty asked surprisingly,

"Yeah she did, lately we've been looking into Lola and Angie's case together so you both were getting along and even if she didn't invite you, we can't go without you," Jones said,

Betty smiled at me and Jones,
"You guys are the best," she said and looked at Jones, "Maybe you aren't so bad after all," she said,

"I told you he wasn't bad, now do you still hate him?" I asked,

"Hate me, wait Betty hated me?" Jones asked,

"Yeah, she did," I said,

"But why, I'm a good person," Jones said, Betty smiled, "Of course you are Jones, of course you are," she said.