Written in the Stars

Chapter 1: Jayce

J watched the creature prowling outside the gate around his school. He was on his dorm "doing homework." He wasn't even trying very hard, or at all.  Now technically the school was a "helpful boarding school for kids in need." It was more like a painful prison for trouble kids. The school was called Brookwater Academy, for the troubled. Basically, if you are a Juvenile Delinquent who doesn't need to go to prison, you go here. It looks nice on the outside, with ivy growing all over the pretty wall around the school and pretty roofs just peeking above the wall, but that was just to make parents feel better about sending their "little babys" here. Once you get inside, the buildings connected to the pretty roofs are anything but. The buildings are made out of concrete and definitely cold, emotionally and physically. All the windows have bars on them and the doors are electronically locked at night. Men with strange glowing eyes and staffs stand guard at the main doors of every building and the gate at night. I think the strange symbols on the staffs and around their eyes made them glow. I'd read everything I could get my hands on that was scientific and might explain the glowing staffs and symbols. I, eventually, gave up. There was not even a small reference to the glowing. There was literally no writings on the subject. Speaking of writings, I should tell you another thing about this academy. We don't use any electronics, at all. Our stuff was seized as soon as we stepped onto the school's property. Later, after all of it was searched thoroughly, we found all of our bags waiting on our bunks. At first there was a little confusion when we all realized our phones, computers, iPads, etc. we're missing, but we were told we would get them back by the end of the week, with new mods too. When we got them back we realized something else. The mods just limited what we could do and when. All of our passwords had been changed and if we wanted to surf the web we had to get a staff signature on a special app and get approved by the school board. Then the board would open whatever we wanted to do up for us for two strict hours. If we went over the program shut down and we needed another signature. The signatures could never be forged either. Even the best haker kids here couldn't fake the signatures. They were under the topmost security in this world... and probably beyond our world too.