by Friscofus » Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:24 pm
And as luck we have it, he got lost. It could have been worse, he supposed; but when the hallways all looked the same a place was remarkably difficult to navigate. How was he supposed to know the difference between one white-walled hall lined with silver lockers, and the next one over that appeared to be a direct clone? He did finally find the correct hall, of course. The only problem was that once he did 99% of the classrooms seemed to go in a rational numeric order.
Alexander had gotten used to the fact that he would always end up with that wondrously lucky 1%.
After finally spotting it (Room 202, at the end of the hall next to 231), Alexander’s hurried footsteps would have been easily heard had there been anyone in the now-deserted hallway. He glanced at his watch. He had about thirty seconds left, thankfully, but of course that didn’t matter as he walked in the room and found that he was the last person in.
The teacher turned around from where he was writing something on the chalkboard, and smiled as he saw Alexander. The man waved ushered him to his seat (directly in the middle of the room), saying words that Alexander didn’t really care to listen to as he was mostly focused on not making eye contact with anyone. It didn't really matter, as all the polite jargon would be translated in the other students' mind to something along the lines of: “This is Alexander Sykes. The new student. Everyone stare at him as if he’s the most interesting thing on the planet.”