Chapter 21: Hidden

It was a blazing new day, Kumas had awoken form his deep slumber, with out having a bad dream, or having any dream at all, this made him happy as last night, he had an uncanny dream.

When he awoke a second time on his couch, he sighed deeply. Normally he would just simply wake up when he has only just enough time to arrive at school. However, he woke up earlier.

To go over what happened yesterday. After he finished cleaning, he went home after he dropped of the keys of at the receptionist. He had gotten a look from her as she was listening to music.

He just walked off, so he went home. He did the usual at home, while thinking for words to open it.

He looked at the time and was happy he did not need to rush. He slouched around his feet, putting his clothing on, this time, somebody else was in the shattered house with him, another relative.

He looked up and checked if it had rained as he was cared he had slept too nicely. He opened the door cautiously and saw nothing, he sighed happily as if so, he would have a problem.

He got ready, grabbed the note book he had nicked from the teacher's room.

'Let's hope she doesn't need it'

"Let's go," he completed his tasks and left.

While walking down the road, he still came up with words, he was careful to avoid the pedestrians. He had brought his trusty pens that he gets from the floor, and the paper he writes on provided by the teachers, but the one he took, they did not.

He moved in a specific pace so he could easily manoeuvre through the catastrophic human traffic, it's like a dance. It was effective and he could concentrate on the words much easier.

As he walked to school as well, he thought to go around Billy.

'If he comes at me, then I am dead, I have to avoid him. The best thing to do would be to either, not go to class and-'

He avoided a person on a skateboard by doing a twist.

'Crap that was close. I don't really have a rhythm for this, oh well, I have to avoid Billy as much as possibly, maybe with a hat, in lost property, that should be g- '

He did another swirl, swing around a pole, and skid through two.

'I know what to do.'

He had arrived at school after a few looks were on him for his disguised dancing. He dashed through the teacher at the front who screams at people (like the one in the dream).

He slowly entered the premises and went to the teacher; people were crowding as he told them off. He scooched through and waited patiently as he had all the time in the world.

When the teacher noticed him, he almost jumped out of his shoes. "Sir," he said, "do you know where lost property is?"

He blinked and pointed down, "just go to the teacher's room and knock, they should show it to you," he was against the gate, waiting for him to leave, he strode past him.

'Ok, this should work, if I simply ask for it, I must find a hat to disguise myself.'

He felt pumped up and rushed over. Students were everywhere, however, he swiftly moved through. He had stopped at the teacher's room inside the hallway, with the broken light. He knocked on the door, a person arrived, an unfamiliar teacher.

"Can I look into lost property, I lo- "

"Alright, alright, I will get it," he grumbled back, he wore a long jacket, too bog for his size with the reflective lining on it.

He moved and he followed behind.

'He must be the caretaker.'

He followed the man, and while they were in the hallway, he checked the time.

'Five minutes left'

In the hallway, it was one of the locked doors, camouflaging to the wall.

'I never noticed this.'

Kids were moving a lot more as it was closing onto the first lesson. He unlocked the room with his keys, doing a lot of fiddling. The man huffed and straightened his back for the first time in which Kumas was with him.

'He is kind off like a dwarf, that's cool.'

The room which emerged had apparently a door sign on the other side.

'Janitor closet, why don't they put it on the other side, that's stupid.'

"Here it is," he got startled by his croaky voice. He pointed at a box which was at the end of the room. It wasn't large the area, but there were so many tools and objects that it was hard to get, and the lack of a light source as frustrating.

He left the room by squeezing through Kumas, which was easy because of his skinny body. He even gave a delirious look when he noticed his body.

'I need to eat more, but I don't have any- '

He ignored it and tried looking for a hat. He was also looking around the room, in the presence seeing a spider web in the corner.

'You have it lucky buddy.'

He sighed and he analysed which hat would cover his face the best. H found a black cap, with a hole in it at the top.

'These looks like bite marks…

'Perfect for me, it must be easy to hide it from people.'

He grabbed it and left, once leaving, he moved out. The caretaker saw him leave without a bag, thinking he had lost it.

'Wait, so the kid never had a bag, how does he car- '

He shook his head and started closing the door quickly.

"I want to have my break," he grouched.

Kumas made his way to the classroom, with the hat on. The black hat went well with his hair. He was running as it was closing the time.

He entered the room, everybody was talking and simply messing around. The first lesson of the day was always a lesson where your class teacher not always be on time as she would have been somewhere else, taking her time.

His first lesson was English, he did not despise, but he saw it as a useless subject.

'If I can speak the language, then why study it.'

He sat in the corner at the back, in every single lesson. He walked over, the teacher arrived, and everybody quieted down and got to their seats.

Kumas had still his hat on, he did not know if he should keep it on or to, so he just simply put it in front of him on the table.

'It's a risk, but now that it is off, then…'

He had Cindy and Ray in this class, they were not in. He sighed in relief. They would arrive late, as mostly they would, but he took it lightly. He looked around as he was able to move around, he was looking for a dictionary. He would be able to search up the word.

'With this, I am able to do this.'

Knock* Knock* Knock*

He heard gasps and surprised sounds, this made him feel scared. He looked up but he didn't see them.

'Thank g-'

"Hello, I am looking for Kumas, can I speak with him?"

The woman sounded familiar, he made eye contact with her, others were looking at him, some puzzled, some whispering about it.

It was the receptionist.

'Crap'

"I am only looking for him for some accommodation of what happened yesterday," she said, as if she knew what they were whispering about.

He got up and grabbed his hat, even though he was with her, he still wanted to hide that he was in school.

"Alright then," he said, people avoided looking at him altogether. He followed the luscious lady outside as people just stared at her.

Chatter happened when she closed the door. The teacher spoke loudly to her class, "everybody be quiet, I don't want to hear any noise!"

It could be heard outside the room, he smiled awkwardly. Once they stopped, breathed out, calmed own and looked at her.

'I was invisible, so she couldn't see me, so whatever she asks me, I am going to be fi-'

"Why did you take that document?"

'Double Crap'