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Chapter 3 - Meeting Link and 'The Social System'

—-Chapter 3—-

 

Meeting Link and 'The Social System'

We walked out of the changing rooms and outside to the track. We sat on these benches that they normally used when they had an athletic event happening at school, and that's where parents would sit and watch. Our town was so small we never needed it, everyone just stood in a small clump. I saw Miss Trainer stand in front of us to get everyone's attention and start the lesson.

For today they were just going do races around the track and record how fast everyone went. It sounded like a boring lesson but Lucas and Ninten seemed so relieved. I guess they weren't big fans of sport, but then again neither was I. So the entire class waited for their turn whilst Mel called each student up one by one and recorded how fast they went. She was doing it in alphabetical order but we had to do fifty meters, then a hundred, then a hundred and fifty, finishing with two hundred. Of course we only did fifty then someone else got called up so we didn't end up dying from exhaustion or anything.

I say 'we' but I didn't even take part in it.

Lucas, Ninten and I all sat by ourselves, away from the rest of the class. That was perfectly fine by me in every way.

Lucas and Ninten were sat next to each other whilst I sat on the other side of Ninten. It felt weird him not wearing the cap. It's like meeting a person wearing glasses the first time you see them but when they aren't on it just feels really unnatural. Or vice versa.

"So, Villa. What was your old town like?" Lucas said, trying to include me in a conversation.

"...Religious." I muttered.

"Religious? Like how?"

"A lot of people believed in God. I had to go to a Catholic school with all the other kids. The only other kid there that was an Atheist like me was my best friend Ai. She moved to town when I was about nine and we just hit it off in an instant."

"What's a Catholic School like?"

"Like an ordinary school really. Still had lessons and assemblies. But in assembly we'd sing a lot of hymns and the headmistress would always reference the bible at some point, saying what lessons could be learnt from it. Also in the first and second year I attended, you know how a teacher would normally read a story to you? Yeah well ours would get out a book that had all the stories from the Bible numbed down so young kids could understand."

"Was it boring?"

"Hm...It was for me and Ai but only because we aren't religious. I had to be christened when I was younger since my dad was vicar of the church. He isn't anymore, he left my mum and went to a new town and became their vicar. My mum said if she had the choice she wouldn't have let me be christened because she was an Atheist too."

Both Lucas and Ninten stared at me with slight shock. I didn't see what was so surprising, that's just how life goes. When you're an infant your decisions are left to your parents.

"Seriously guys, it was nothing. I don't get what's shocking you."

The pair only shrugged. Shaking my head I looked across the huge field. There were a few flowers dotted here and there, I guessed it was where no one had trod on yet.

"Wait, who's Ai?" Lucas suddenly asked. I turned to face the two who had questionable looks on their faces.

"Ai was my best friend. My only friend actually. She was really kind and sweet. When she first moved to New Leaf, a load of the kids wanted to be mates with her. More boys than girls but yeah. Anyway we became good friends when she came up to me and asked if I was okay sitting alone. She said I seemed pretty lonely but she didn't get why. Anyway about a year ago she said that when she met me she had a crush on me, which only grew as the years went by."