In the afternoon, the school dismissal bell rang.
Matt and Steve both turned down their classmates' invitations to hang out after school. They wanted to check on Chen Hai.
As for Andrew, no one invited him to play after school. Before he gained telekinesis, he had even been bullied by some school thugs.
After gaining telekinesis, with popular students like Matt and Steve hanging out with him, not many people dared bully Andrew anymore.
Even those who did dare would somehow end up in a miserable state after Andrew used his telekinetic powers on them. They could only consider themselves unlucky, and came to believe that getting close to Andrew brought bad luck.
Matt, Steve, and Andrew met by the lockers and walked out through the school gates together.
Just as they stepped out of the gates, Matt's Ford drove out from around a corner.
Matt's heart skipped a beat.
After they had hit that Asian man last night, they had left the sedan at the scene and taken the Asian man away.
Matt was almost certain that whoever was driving his car had come looking for him.
Andrew and Steve exchanged looks, both sensing that they had gotten themselves involved in serious trouble.
"Hey, Matt, over here." The man driving his sedan was a Black man in a black leather jacket, with a lip piercing and a distinctly streetwise air about him. Another Black man sat in the passenger seat, bobbing his head to the DJ music and constantly tapping out the beat with his fingers.
"I can't hang out with you today. Go home first. That's it." Matt looked at the driver of his car. He recognized him as a gang member from the neighborhood near his home.
Matt was acquainted with him. The man had hitched rides