The doppelganger continued going up the stairs and started heading for Cale's Locker to get his stuff and then go out and meet Catrina.
Exactly like how Cale would do it
Click!
He reached the locker and opened it, starting to take Cale's backpack and putting his book Inside it along with the pen, the doppelganger then closed the locker again as if it were programmed to do so.
"Hm? Hey, isn't that Cale over there?"
A curly haired delinquent recognized the boy
"Huh? yeah it is him!"
The whole group of people recognized Cale, however the doppelganger didn't answer them because they weren't Cale's friends thus judging that he wouldn't want to speak to them.
"Hey Cale! how about you tone it down this year and not get beat up like in middle school!"
Hans Ruger spoke in a mocking tone
"...?"
The doppelganger only frowned at the sight
Hans was speaking as if Cale had done something at middle school that would warrant him getting beat up
For reference, the history of events that the doppelganger recognized had been laid out like this
[Ryl Laquir had been into a crash, by miracle he survived along with his family but suffered severe damage in the frontal lobe, ever since then the symptoms are as written, he has been reportedly grown more violent, short-term memory loss, personality has also been severely changed and flipped, coordination with his limbs have also severely been hindered, his decision making however is the most impaired out of all the symptoms mentioned above]
This was the fact and history that the doppelganger knew well, many people pitied Ryl, but they also avoided him in fear of getting beaten up and being next on the chopping board
And every time someone got beaten up with the changed violent nature of Ryl, it wouldn't be a pretty sight
Cale was only the last straw before the school decided to act and send Ryl to a psychologist and a known psychiatrist in town, it was there that they both told the school to expel Ryl from the school when they found that there was something more severe going on with him and that he needed immediate medical help, or well the psychiatrist who knew more about medicine was the one who pushed the matter more for the sake of safety for the students and Ryl himself
In short. Cale never did anything to warrant getting beat up, so it didn't make any sense in hindsight
That is why the doppelganger didn't reply. It quite literally was misinformation
But...
Tick!
The mental clock inside of the doppelganger ticked softly
Knowing that time was running out and that he couldn't waste any of it on even glancing at them as every second counted, the doppelganger needed to get away from them
But he couldn't just run away, because people were looking at him and he couldn't allow anyone to witness him running at an unnatural speed that made no physical sense, especially for Cale
"...."
The doppelganger thought and thought hard on what to do as he reached the stairs, the fluorescent light reflected deeply on his empty eyes
"Tsk, I can't see why everyone liked this bastard at middle school"
Hans Ruger, one of the delinquents cursed at him, seemingly angry about something in the delusional past he created
"Hey what do you think those snitches will do If we push him of the stairs"
He smirked but the others didn't
"!"
"!"
"?!"
"!"
Everyone was surprised by the ridiculous statement this man spouted, even the doppelganger was surprised but not of the reason the others were surprised, the doppelganger only had an enlightenment and an ingenious idea that came rushing through his mind like a waterfall.
"Woah woah, chill man we can't go that far he'd die if we push him of the stairs, we'd literally get arrested"
Everyone in the group tried to calm their friend from doing anything dumb and dangerous.
No one in the group liked Hans. To them he only forced his way through the group
They didn't support anything that he said, especially when he kept on feeding and telling the gentle Ryl to be more violent if was really angry
Of course the adults never listened to them when they said that Hans was partly if not all at blame for the stimulation and change of Ryl
Obviously they tried to kick of the bastard but he only forced himself more onto them. One of them at some point even beat up Hans, but he got in trouble and since then, they only half-heartedly agreed with him, never meaning a word and silently cursing him when outside the school premises
"He finally lost his damn marbles!"
"Hey get him before he does something stupid! Tackle him if you have to!"
"Huap!"
John jumped and tackled Hans, but he shook him off
"Screw off! If those snitches and school didn't intervene! my best friend wouldn't have gotten transferred to another school!"
His 'friends' tried to stop him but he kicked and pushed them and started running towards Cale. One of them got close enough to grab him but he was one inch short.
"Hey! stop!"
"Dude Cale, get out of the way!"
The doppelganger slowed its pace and turned his head and acted all surprised
'It was too late' they thought, however the next moment drove them dazed. It was a smooth series of events, with no delay and fluid movement
"Huh?"
Before Cale took a step down the stairs, he waited until the annoying man got close enough to push him off. So when he got close enough, he twirled his body around the extended arms of Hans and got behind him in a matter of seconds. Then, he lightly pushed Hans Ruger off the stairs.
If it was the real Cale, he wouldn't have even thought of this because it would have gravely Injured the man and wouldn't want to do that to him no matter how annoying he was. The doppelganger imitates Cale to its best of its abilities and it made the judgement that the man wouldn't die and would heal with no problem, But in the end it was just an Imitation of the real thing, an imitation striving to be the perfect Cale.
Crash!
Hans tumbled down the stairs but by a stroke of luck he grabbed onto the railing before any serious damage had been done to him, coincidently he also received no bruise or pain from the fall as if it had never even been hurt in the first place
The doppelganger had slowed its pace down to stick close to the railing and anticipated that the man wouldn't have been hurt as he'd flail his arms around grabbing the railing in the process. Thus Imitating Cale perfectly as Cale would never hurt anyone directly.
As everyone was astonished and completely stunned like electrocuted fish by what happened. Cale went out of their line of sight, walking behind the wall slowly and delicately.
"!"
"!"
"!"
"This bastard...."
Hans was furious and
Everyone had already snapped out of it and started running to Cale but-
"..."
"Wh-where is Cale?"
They laid their eyes off of him for not even a second but he suddenly disappeared.
Their faces turned pale, they thought he ran away very quickly but that wouldn't be possible as they would have at least heard his steps but nothing was heard and even if he did run away by somehow muffling his footsteps the stairs were still far away, far enough for them to at least glimpse at him but nothing, they heard nothing. Cale had disappeared without even disturbing the air.
***
"Cale over here!"
Catrina cheerfully waved her hands at Cale(?)
Cale walked over to her with a thin signature smile decorating his features, a giggle faintly and occasionally leaving his lips the more he stared at Catrina
"So what took you so long? I started thinking that you left me here..."
The urge of saying he really did think of leaving her here did surface in his mind, but in the end he decided against it
"Sorry but I needed to use the restroom too"
"Why didn't you tell me then?"
"You didn't ask?"
"..."
Cale said playfully, chuckling in the process
"What are you so happy about huh, you bastard!"
The petite dwarf riled up with anger
"It's nothing I just remembered something that I found funny"
"Oh yeah! then why don't you tell me why you started laughing the moment you saw me, care to explain that!"
"No I was laughing the entire way here because of something disgusting I saw In the restroom, wanna know?"
"Ew! no as if!"
Catrina turned around in disgust, staying 10 paces away from Cale.
The doppelganger stared at her for a little longer before finally closing its eyes and letting the gentle darkness consume his being.
**Meanwhile
"Damn it!"
Hans Ruffled through his hair
'How did he do that?! I knew he had a strong and sturdy body but I never knew he was fast!'
"No...there is still a shot"
If Cale reported this to the teachers. Hans would definitely be screwed but that's 'if' he told on him
'I just have to beat him up a little and tell him to forget about it'
That is all he had to do
Such a moron came to such a moronic and barbaric solution-No maybe even barbarians wouldn't do this
"Hey!"
He turned to his 'friends'
"Let's go beat up Cale a little before its too late"
None, not a single one looked at him seriously
"What are you guys doing?! Didn't you hear me!"
When he screamed at them again, the only response he got was this
"No?"
"...?"
'No? What does he-'
"Go do it yourself, we aren't your paid delinquents that go killing and beating up people because they looked at us funny"
The face of Hans turned to one of utter disbelief to the words that were forcibly ushered in his ears
"Wh-"
"Have fun~"
One by one they started to leave, tired of the nonsense uttered by someone they hated, interrupting his every word he tried to utter
Hans Ruger was a pathetic man, making many that had met him wonder what had gone wrong in his life that caused him to be such a crappy person in society
Before long. Hans was left all alone on the second floor of the school