The pill

I

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. The clock went on slowly as I started at it. In 10 long minutes the bell will ring. And when it rings I will be free. Forever.

"Geez Adahliah , if you stare at that clock any harder your eyes are gonna burn out." Someone whispered to my right. I swivelled my head towards my best friend Minaz who was chuckling quietly.

We had been together for as long as I could remember. Our FM creators had been delivering us at the same time. Almost. Minaz was about ten hours older than me.

It's both our last days of school. Well the whole class' really. Tomorrow Minaz will be taken to the waiting room at precisely 5:46 am and I will be taken at 3:52 pm. Then after 24 hours of solitary confinement we will each be taken to receive our pills.

I don't really know about the rest of the class' time. Not that I'm not friends with them or anything, just not all super CLOSE friends. Like Minaz. Well MOST of them are friends.

"Shut up. This is our last day of school before we get our pills. I'm so glad they don't make go to school  on our dates of birth!" I whispered back excitedly. Minaz laughed at me again.

"Ahem" We swivels our heads to the front of the class to see our teacher Mr. Ratichan staring at us grumpily. " Yes you will be going to the prep. Station tomorrow but please talk about it in 8 minutes when class has ended." He said.

Our teacher had taken the Orange pill quite obviously. You could tell by the metallic triangles on the backs of his hands all the fireproofs had.

We smiled politely to our 45 year old teacher. He had been sectioned by the meezsters and meezes the leaders for this job. He never looked like he enjoyed it, but hed asked for an exchange of jobs so I guess he liked it.

Finally after 8 excruciating minutes of hearing him talk about the natural 'powers' of squid, the bell rung. Everyone stood up to leave but Mr. Ratichan motioned for us to sit.

Suddenly Minaz plopped her head on her desk and groaned. "Oh right. Well. At least it's 100 times better than squid." She murmured. I looked at her with my head tilted slightly in confusion before I remembered. "Oh right." I copied her, and put my own head on my desk. We were both faking it. What came next we actually enjoyed hearing about.

Mr. Ratichan spoke up as soon as all 35 of the people in our class were seated again. "Well, I'm sure most of you have forgotten, but before you leave, you are going to be spoken to by Meezter Richardson, about your special day. He will be arriving in," He looked up at the clock before speaking again. "About five minutes. Free time until then." He finishes and waved his hand dismissedly.

Immediately the class erupted into noise. Myself included. "Oh my god Minaz! We're getting our PILL tomorrow!!" I shrieked excitedly. "Well, you before me, but whatever!! And technically the day after that but whatever!"

Minaz nodded and smiled, " I know!! I sure hope we pick the same one! It wouldn't be the same without you there."

I reached over and gave her a hug. " Even if we don't we can always talk by holocall or just use the new typing system." I said. It still wouldn't be the same...

"Dude let's stop talking about this sad business and get back to the original subject." She paused in suspense even though I knew perfectly well what she was going to say. "The pill!!"

We smiled and started chatting enthusiastically.
"So which one do you want?" She asked me "Yellow, green, blue, red, pink, white, black or orange."
I stared at her blankly. " Do you REALLY expect me to know? I mean serio-" I was cut off by a booming voice at the front of the class.