47 Welcome gifts (1/2)

As everybody began walking over to the table in the center of the room, some of his students' behavior stood out to him.

Brian was seemingly hiding behind his sister as they slowly advanced. Unexpectedly, Warren completely ignored the table in favor of rushing towards the two siblings at maximum speed.

Feeling slightly worried, Ensen said strictly ”Don't run inside Warren, it's dangerous.”

Not wanting to upset the principal, Warren slowed his speed slightly.

Mentally face-palming, Ensen sighed quietly in defeat.

A few moments later Warren arrived in front of the siblings and said proudly ”NIce to meet you guys, I'm Warren.”

Confused about why he was so proud, the siblings remained silent.

Deciding to help end the awkwardness, Ensen spoke ”We will do introductions at the table in a moment. Just head there for now.”

With the sibling's nod and Warren's defeated steps, they began heading towards the table.

After excusing himself for a moment, Ensen walked over towards the teacher's lounge to pick up the gift bags.

Noticing that Gerhardt had still not arrived, he began to doubt if he would be coming at all.

With five bags in hand, Ensen returned to the cafeteria.

Opening the door slowly, Ensen immediately noticed the awkward atmosphere that engulfed the room.

None of the students had ever attended a school before so everything that was happening was new for them.

'I imagine some of them may be overwhelmed. Well, I think the introductions and gifts would help a bit hopefully.' Ensen thought to himself.

Gradually approaching the table, the students began to take notice. Nearly all of their eyes shined in curiosity when they saw the bags.

”Wow! Are those for us?” Warren shouted.

”Yes, there is one for each and every one of you. But first, we will do introductions, so no peeking in the gift bags.” Ensen said lightly.

Taking a seat in one of the remaining two seats, Ensen gently rested the bags on the ground.

”Why is there still an empty seat? Is there another student?” Leah said after thinking for a moment.

Already prepared with an answer in case anybody asked, Ensen said calmly ”That's for the English teacher, although he is pretty busy today so I'm not sure if he can make it.”

Leah nodded in understanding as Ensen spoke.

”Anyways, let's introduce ourselves in the order going clockwise from me. I'll go first.”

Pausing for a moment, Ensen continued ”So I'm your principal and also your teacher for a few subjects. If you have any worries or anything like that just talk to me and I'm sure we can get it sorted out. So Brian, your next.”

As silence engulfed the room, Brian sat there in nervousness for a few seconds before beginning to speak softly ”Umm… I'm Brian and Leah is my sister. I… I like soccer too.”

'That was… short. But for Brian that's quite good I think.' Ensen thought after hearing Brian's speech.

With a light clap, the introductions continued until everybody had gone.

”I'm Leah, like Brian said I'm his sister. Older sister, remember that part. I've always been interested in writing music.”

”Hey guys, I'm Warren! I've lived in an orphanage most of my life and-”

After five minutes Ensen finally had to step in and stopped Warren's essay-length introduction and let the next person go.

”Anabella, I like reading.”

'That was… good? Certainly the opposite of Warren huh?' Ensen thought.

”Hello, I'm Stephen and I've always loved the idea of helping people. Whether that be as a mayor, police officer, or other stuff I'm not sure.”

'Oh, that's a good goal.' Ensen thought.

After everybody had gone, the atmosphere of the room began to gradually become more inviting as everybody knew slightly more about each person… except for Anabella, she was still as mysterious as always.

”Alright everyone, you all did great on your introductions. I can already see everybody staring at the gift bags so let's open those now.” Ensen said in amusement.

As soon as everybody had heard that nearly all of them leaped out of their seats except for Anabella and Brian.

”Wait, everybody sit back down. Each gift bag is different so I'll hand them out.” Ensen said quickly, not expecting that quick of a reaction.

Unwilling to sit down, they all reluctantly returned to their seats as Ensen got up and picked up all of the bags.

”Tell you what, let's do this. The first person to answer correctly will get their bag first. Now, who was the person who said that they loved writing songs?” Ensen asked happily.