In which there is a principal surprise
Baekhyun suddenly jerks away from snoozing in assembly when there is an outburst of chattering and exclamation.
Also, Chanyeol suddenly stopped licking on his ear. For that to actually happen, it must be something serious.
Although at the moment, Baekhyun can’t tell exactly what’s the cause of the commotion. All he sees is a guy standing on the stage talking (or trying to talk amidst all the noise). It is an admittedly handsome man and he looks entirely unfamiliar -a new teacher? But if that were the case, then only the girls (and the happy people) would be chattering - not the entire school, and not to such a large extent.
As Baekhyun is puzzling this out, Vice-principal Lee suddenly stands up and yells. “QUIET EVERYONE! LISTEN TO WHAT PRINCIPAL LEE IS SAYING!”
The vice-principal must have been fed up with all the chattering about the new teach- what? Baekhyun blinks in the middle of his thoughts before his eyes widen and his jaw falls to the floor. The very helpful Jongin, who is sitting in the role in front, picks it up and hands it Sehun who, wnsitting on Baekhyun’s other side, helps to hinge it back on.
“W-w-wait… that’s the principal?” Baekhyun stares at the handsome man with the firm jaw, shiny smooth hair and mischievous twinkle in his eye and he cannot comprehend how that is the same person as cuckoo with the wandering look in his eyes and tea-dipping beard that Baekhyun had met before.
The principal sighs, looking around at the students, all of whom have varying degrees of ‘what the hell?’ on their faces and realizes he can’t continue with his speech unless he gives some sort of explanation.
“I had the beard and moustache because it made me look smarter.” The principal runs a hand through his hair and Baekhyun’s eye twitches when all the girls let out a love-struck sigh. “But the dragon I’ve been nursing has been going through a rebellious stage. He refused to wear the pink bonnet I bought him and shot several balls of fire at me. Unfortunately, I wasn’t fast enough and he singed off half my beard and moustache… I wanted to come with just that, so that at least I looked half smart, but someone cut of the rest of my beard while I was asleep.”
Half of the girls send a gazillion mental e-mails of thanks to whoever had done that. The other half just swoon. Baekhyun’s eye just continues twitching, his brain seeming to have stopped. Kyungsoo is judging because, hello? Didn’t anyone hear the principal say he tried to put a pink bonnet on a dragon? Junmyeon is trying not to cry because that is so sweet of the principal to look after a poor dragon and to even buy it clothes. Sehun doesn’t think much so he has no thoughts on the issue. Jongin just thinks that it’s no wonder the vice-principal has been looking as if he had a stick stuck up his ass all this while.
There are only two people who are unhappy with the principal’s transformation. The first is Chanyeol, who had thought that the principal had looked way more badass with his long beard and pencil moustache.
The second is actually, vice-principal Hyukjae, who now looks like an even bigger stick was stuck up his ass. He had seen the way the Practical Magic teacher, Choi Siwon, had looked at the principal and he hadn’t liked that. One. Little. Bit.
His principal. His.