Chapter 96: My Own Gang
School life had completely changed, and it wasn’t just true for Max, it was true for the entire school. After catching up with Aron, Max had learned what had happened to Dipter and a few of the others who had been with him.
The packages they’d been caught with were enough evidence to pin everything on them and land them behind bars. Because of their age, they’d been sent to a juvenile detention center. And it wasn’t just Dipter, many of the school’s class leaders had gone down with him.
Snide and Ko, to name a couple. The police hadn’t managed to catch everyone, but that was never Max’s intention anyway. He only wanted to take down those responsible for what had happened to Sam, and to the real Max. In a lot of ways, he’d done just that.
The ones who hadn’t ended up behind bars were back in school, but the atmosphere had shifted. The story of what happened that day had spread fast, one of the bullied kids had finally fought back. And somehow, he’d won.
Without Dipter backing them, and with some students finally facing consequences, no one was acting out anymore. The school had gone quiet.
As Max sat at his desk, half-focused on the day’s lesson, he glanced at the seat beside him, still empty, still untouched.
"I’m sorry, Sam," Max murmured. "That you didn’t get to experience this kind of life. I wish I’d done something sooner."
With that, he rested his head on his desk and closed his eyes, letting himself drift into a quiet nap.
There was a strange sense of accomplishment, his fists had actually done something good for once. It felt... nice.
When lunch break rolled around, Max was getting ready to grab something to eat when he saw Joe walking over. He was the only person in the class who knew the full truth about everything that had happened.
"Want to grab something together?" Joe asked.