It's a festive day with twenty school within the district competing with different sports event. It's held in the city's sports stadium that can hold up to one hundred thousand It started with a parade showing all the team participating for each school with their muse and mascot. The parade lasts for at least an hour. After, all the participants line up in the stadium for the opening program. Intermission numbers from different schools was shown.
Libby and her schoolmates sat at the audience area of the stadium. Only fifty students per school were allowed as an audience. In their section only Libby, Mimi, Dan, Kate, Martin, and Nikki were selected. The teams that were allowed by the school to participate were - cheerleading team (they had to replaced Jacob, good thing Jon has a background in gymnastics so Jon became a part of the team), swimming team, volleyball team, soccer team, a few track members (from a team of twenty five they were down to ten). It was unfortunate that some of the sports team can't play due to the fact that many of their members was guilty of cheating but they accepted that's it's part of the over all solution to stop the scheme.
After the opening, the first event that is scheduled is the cheerdance competition. Ten teams will compete in this category and the reigning champion is St Paula Academy. They will be the last performer. Everyone watched with bated breath. The stunts this year was more spectacular than last year. But in this event, medics were all over and an ambulance is on stand by. Then came St Paula Academy's turn. They started strong, fierce, their music wanna make you dance with them, their stunts were superb, executed perfectly.
"Wow, May did an awesome job with the team," Mimi told Libby.
"Yeah, it'd be a pity if they didn't compete today. Good thing, they had replaced Jacob immediately," answered Libby.
"Hey, have you seen Jon?"Dan asked them while pointing at the cheerleading team. He looked so proud. "Oh man, this is the first time I saw him like that. But boy, he is so good."
The team finished their routine flawlessly with a thunderous applause and cheer from all over the stadium. They clearly are the fan favorite.
May is so happy. Her team did not disappoint. He is also thankful that Jon had agreed to replace Jacob.
After the cheerleading competition, next event would be basketball so the audience stood up to head towards the basketball court. There will be twelve participating schools for this event. But since St Paula doesn't participate in this event, and it's almost two o'clock in the afternoon, they were allowed to return to school now.
Libby and the other students of St Paula walked towards the other side going to the parking lots for their school bus. As they were walking, she felt a spine tingling sensation that made her looked around. A man is walking behind them with his head down, wearing a cap. It's Coach Bradley! When he noticed that Libby saw her, he ran going back to the stadium. She told her friends about what she saw and they carefully proceeded towards the school bus. St Paula provided their players and audience two school bus for their transport. They alerted the bus drivers of the situation and the older students from the two bus. When everyone is counted and they are complete, they drive away.
When they reached the school, Libby and her friends went straight to the Headmaster's office where they reported the incident.
"This is bad," the Headmaster said looking worried. He sighed then looked at the group of students in front of him. "I want everyone to be careful. When Coach Bradley was apprehended last time, he told the security officers that he will come back for his revenge. Honestly, we just dismissed the thought because we don't know that he's capable of violence. I actually had a talked with Coach Smith, his dad, last week, and he said that he sent Coach Bradley in the province as penance, so that he could reflect in his wrongdoings."
"What shall we do Headmaster?" asked Dan. Dan is actually worried because he served as the prime witness for Coach Bradley's case.
"I will call on the police station to ask for guidance. Since Coach Bradley already post bail, I will check for ways so that he can't approach us. Will request for a restraining order if we must. I will also contact his dad. Let me check if he knows that Coach Bradley is here. And I'll have a meeting with our security officers to tighten the security within our school's. And I'll also call all your parents. I think the best solution for now is to car pool all of you, or I will assign a van to pick up and send you home everyday. So don't worry too much okay?" Headmaster De Jesus assured the students.
Libby and the others nodded in silence. They felt reassured. She doesn't want to think about this incident so much because she has Prom to think about also. After the meeting, they went to the cafeteria for coffee and snacks to calm their nerves. Libby received a message from her mom informing her about the school service that will be implemented. The service will be waiting for them at the gate every five o'clock in the afternoon to send each of them home. Mimi, Dan, Jon and the rest also received message from their parents.
"Hmm.. this is serious guys. Even though the Headmaster assured us, I think we need to be more careful than usual," Libby said. "From now on, no one is going anywhere alone."