I'm Popular (or at least i used to be) Antes Story [gxg]

Chapter 17

I walked down the main road, the checkpoint supposedly ahead of me. The dense forest around our school seemed to come down here as it was on my left. A field filled with dry grass was on my right.

A couple minutes passed and I could see the checkpoint clearly. When Yuka's aunt said checkpoint I kind of assumed it would be bigger, maybe even prison-like. This checkpoint was merely a police car by one of those arm things you see at train crossings. I can't lie, I was a little disappointed.

I walked up to the police car's window and peered into the window expecting eyes to be staring back at me. Instead of staring, the officer was on her phone playing Candy Crush. I decided to just knock.

When I did, the officer looked up at me slowly. She had an annoyed expression on her face. She lowered her window.

"What do you need?" She said in a bored tone.

"I'm just trying to get off campus. I heard I was supposed to show you my slip." I explained nonchalantly, matching the older woman's tone.

"Ok. Let me see it."

I showed her the slip in my hand.

She looked it over for a couple of seconds.

"You're cleared to go. Just walk around the crossing gate." The officer said while slowly rolling up her window.

She must be trying to get back to her game. I heard those Candy Crush games could get pretty intense.

"Alright." I said to myself as the window was already up.

I put my slip in my pochette and started walking around the gate.

The safety of hundreds of students is in good hands.

Maybe it's karma for always bad mouthing my parent's security detail. If anything ever happened here I know what I will be thinking.

Dina, I'm sorry for always calling you a hag. Save me...That made me sound kind of sad. Pretty sure she spit in my coffee a couple of times too. You know she doesn't deserve anything from me. How can you be 50 (that's being nice she's probably like 70!) and not know how to make a Vanilla Latte.

The road continued on for a while without much deviation. This allowed me to think of things I'd tell Dina if she wasn't fired two years ago for spying for a rival company.

If anything, at least Dina was interesting to talk to. The new security my mother hired were mostly silent. It was boring.

On that note I had made it to the bus stop. It was an uncomfortable-looking grey bench with a red sign to the right of it. The sign read "47 ET".

I stood by the sign and looked to my left where the bus should be coming from. The school was also in that direction. From here it looked like tiny squares on the dry grass-filled horizon.

I wondered what Emma was doing. Probably reading. She was a bookworm after all. Has reading the weekends away been her routine for four years? What's the average routine for a student here?

If you think about it I'm the deviation here since most of the girls at Coraline Miller's go for all four years. Four years doing the same thing...I wouldn't be able to do it. I would get insanely bored. But, then again I couldn't be the only one here who gets bored easily. I could imagine a student trying to talk to her dorm neighbor or maybe trying to run one of those Flash games I've heard Shanice talk about to make things interesting. People could also leave like I did.

Do they though? I imagine that whole sign out rule being a pain, even for students with the most normal of nuclear families.

Not like there's much to do in this town anyway.