Chương 517: Why me?

During their free period in the afternoon, Numba decided to go off ahead on his own, heading towards the dormitory. Having found out what his father was going through, he couldn't get it off his mind. A part of him was afraid that if he stayed around the others, there was a good chance that he would just blurt something out by accident.

Before Numba had met the others, he hadn’t really been someone who would filter his speech, a trait which hadn’t exactly gotten him a lot of friends in his life. Exactly for that reason, the last thing he wanted to do was get his new friends involved into his family’s mess. On his way, a student with a beanie was standing in the hallway, leaning up against his room.

“Hey, you’re Numba, right?” The student asked while chewing a piece of gum. “My name’s Mike. Miss Patel sent me to fetch you.”