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2099/10/06
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09:00 am

Lel Konn
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2099/10/06

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09:00 am

Lel Konn

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The Cafeteria

They never made good food here. Something I have failed to remind myself of over and over, but the fact of the matter is, it was true they never made good food here. Not. Once.

I stood in line just like everyone else. I got crummy food just like everyone else, you'd think being a Supreme Council Member's son had privileges for such things, I sat down in my silver spring chair with a group of friends, just like everyone else, eating who knows what is in this chum they called soup. But the only thing I was doing differently from everyone else was discussing about a weird signal, how we're gonna track down the signal and how I'm gonna beat Eddric for the fifth time in a row in the hundred meter dash.

"You can't beat me Konn, in away meetings yes, but not at home. At home I can't be beaten." Eddric says puffing out his chest. I didn't know if he was doing it on purpose or if he had that big of a chest. Eddric was right he did have a amazing track record of 9.77 seconds in the 100m. He was undefeated for fifteen home meets. He's practically the undisputed speed machine but - if I'm not mistaken I've beaten him in all of our away meetings earning number one on the leaderboard.

I looked at the leaderboard in the middle of the food court.

1: Lel Konn 1789 points

2: Eddric Stage 1783 points

I scoffed. "Please, your time is up. Stage, I hope you're ready to see your 9.77 record broken. I hope you're hungry cause you're gonna be drowning your sorrows in ice cream when I'm done with you."

"Why ice cream though?" Aries giggles moving her straw in her lemonade cup. She was one of the smart people who brought their own training food. Since we are here for athletics training after all but I didn't like the fact that we had to train even during our "artificial" summer break, I say artificial, because U.N.I. practically chooses when they want it to be summer since summer died when the planet did.

"Isn't that the type of food people eat when they're sad?" I answer skeptically, ruffling my curly hair.

"I guess..." Preston says not too sure. He opens his mouth but stops as if choosing his words carefully.

Aries, Eddric and I wait for him to elaborate he then closes his mouth as if saying forget it. Aries, Eddric, Preston and I are in the athletics team.

Aries does the 100m dash just like Eddric and me, followed by hurdles, Preston does Air ball but to be honest I hardly understand the sport myself it's like soccer and football combined, to add to its strangeness, the game is played in a gravity bending sphere, Eddric does 100m and 200m just like me and we make it our job to give each other a hard time when it comes to athletics even though we're on the same team.

"You ready?" Eddric shoots me a glance as if he's ready to enter war like those soldiers from the The Battle of The Wasteland when the Tier Rangers had to fight invading Wastelanders from trying to enter the Dome's. But I expect this from him since his dad is the general of U.N.I.'s massive Tier Ranger army.

I shoot him a quick nod, gulping down my chum. Hoping I wouldn't regret it later. We then leave the cafeteria, heading to the field. I look at my watch.