Piece of the Moon - Part Two
As Mister Liang moved towards his student, Doug thought he saw his PE teacher’s eyes turn red and fangs emerged through his thin lips. Miss Yuet started to back away, slowly sinking into a web of darkness that was spreading outwards from Mister Liang.
Doug’s eyes were still fixed at the direction where Mister Liang and Miss Yuet had been, but his PE teacher was already behind him, moving towards the field.
“Doug!” Mister Liang’s voice startled him from his trance. He was amazed at how his teacher was one moment walking towards him in a demonic form and the next so far ahead. He shook his head in astonishment and ran after Mister Liang. He was midway when he remembered about Miss Yuet so he turned back to look for her. She was nowhere to be seen. She had disappeared into the darkness, Doug thought as he rejoined his classmates.
Back in class during the interval before the next subject began, Doug could not resist but to tell his closest friends what had transpired earlier.
“They were meeting secretly, I tell you. They never would have thought I’d stumble on them. I bet they have a conspiracy going on,” Doug whispered, eyes darting from Elle to Fang.
“I could feel something bad is about to happen!” Elle confirmed her suspicions. Whenever she was not doing anything, she lived in a dystopian fantasy that had conjured up from too much young adult fiction stories which her elder sister tended to read to her as bedtime stories.
“Then it’s up to us to find out what are they up to,” Doug said, mimicking Horatio, his father’s favourite character from a crime-cum-forensic television series.
With the burden of humanity’s future upon them, the trio of six year olds set out to scrutinise and tail the two teachers whenever they could, mostly between classes and breaks. They always met and discussed their previous day’s findings early in the morning before school started.
“Yesterday, after school, I followed Mister Liang. I was lucky that I let myself trail him almost a dozen paces behind because Miss Yuet appeared out of nowhere from a classroom and pulled him in,” Fang said. .
“What did they do?” said Doug.
“Did you see anything?” Elle was eager to know.
“I was scared out of my skin when she popped up like that. I am sure they would kill me if they had spotted me so I ran for my life!” Fang said, to his friends’ disappointment.
Very quickly they worked out that Elle should solely be the one to shadow Miss Yuet because the other two boys always lost her trail whenever she went to the ladies. Elle was sharing one such experience to the toilet, “I was following Miss Yuet to the washroom. She took quite some time in the cubicle and I had to pee. I wasn’t quite done when she hurriedly left. I tried to go after her as soon as I can. By the time I found her, she was already talking to Mister Liang at a dark corner. They were acting suspicious. I couldn’t hear anything they said except for the word dynamite! I bet they are planning to blow something up!”
“You guys know what? I think someone is paying them to destroy the moon!” Doug suddenly remembered the snippet of conversation between Mister Liang and Miss Yuet that had started it all many days ago. “Or they are paying someone to do it.”
To be continued...
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