When Tad got to school that morning, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. There wasn’t another fight outside in front of the school like there was the other day, and everyone seemed to be getting along. After saying goodbye to Amy, Tad headed to his first class in the morning.
When he walked into the classroom, Tad noticed that there were already a few people here, about ten at most; five girls and five boys. He found this a bit odd, as there were never usually this many people in the classroom before him. Most people talked with their friends out in the hallway and headed to their class once the warning bell rang. They all seemed to be talking about something and getting rather into the discussion. The young Werewolf decided that he would mind his own business, and he proceeded to take his seat at his desk and laid his head down.
Not even five seconds later, there was a tap on his shoulder. Turning his head, Tad saw that the person who tapped him was one of the girls that had been talking with the people in the large group beside him.
“Hello...uh...it’s Tad, right?”
Tad lifted his head up and nodded. “Yeah, that’s me,” he said.
“Okay cool,” the girl said. “I need to ask you a question.”
“Uh...what’s up?” Tad asked.
“What’s your opinion on the reveal?”
Tad did his best not to let out a sigh. Part of him had expected for something about the whole “big reveal” to come up today, but he wasn’t ready for it this early in the morning.
“I’m not sure that it’s a good idea to talk about this,” Tad said.
“Aw come on man!” One of the guys in the group said. “We just want to know if you’re on the right side here!”
“Right side?” Tad repeats. “There’s no ‘right side’ to this! You can believe whatever you want to believe. If you think the reveal is a good idea, then that’s fine with me. If you want to believe it’s a bad idea, that’s also fine by me.”
“...so then you think the reveal is a good idea?” the boy asks.
Tad sighs. “I think it’s a good idea. Yes, there are flaws, but I think that they can be worked out. That was, we can create a world that’s-“
“HA! I told you I was right!” The girl said. “He just called the reveal a good idea!”
“Well you guys are wrong!” The boy said. “The reveal isn’t a good idea and it won’t get off the ground!”
“That’s not true!” another girl chimed in. “Normals nowadays are much more accepting of the paranormal. They’re more fascinated by it than they are afraid of it!”
“Doesn’t mean revealing ourselves to the world is a good idea,” another boy said.
“Says you!” the first girl said.
As the entire group began to bicker with and yell at each other about who was right and who was wrong, Tad shook his head in frustration. Occasionally, the side that supported the reveal would stop and turn to Tad for advice in their argument, and since they wouldn’t leave him alone unless he said something, Tad reluctantly helped.
After about five minutes of this, the teacher walked into the room with a coffee cup in her hand. When she noticed the loud group of arguing students, she turned to them and began shouting.
“What is going on here?!” she shouted, making everyone involved in the argument stop talking instantly. “I leave for five minutes to refill my coffee in the teachers lounge, and I come back to a meeting of the Debate Club?! Enough with this petty arguing! I do not tolerate debates like this in my classroom!”
The ten students all stopped speaking and quickly moved away from each other, sitting in one of the various desks in the room. When it went quiet, the teacher sighed in relief.
“Thank goodness that’s over,” she said, taking a seat at her desk. “Now, I’m willing to forgive all of this if we can all be tolerable people today.”
As the teacher opened her lesson book and began to prepare the day’s lesson, one of the boys from earlier, who was sitting next to Tad, tapped him on the shoulder. Tad turned to face the boy.
“Thanks for your help showing our side of the argument,” he said. “You were kinda like a diplomat!”
“I really wasn’t…” Tad said with a sigh.
This isn’t really how he wanted his day to start.