What is Time Travel?

Chapter 5

21st Century

I woke up rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. I looked over at my alarm clock and saw it was 6:30...6:30! My lessons don't start till 9, meaning I have another 2 hours and a half to do absolutely nothing. Suddenly ladies bustled into my room, carrying expensive clothing. They had expensive looking skirts, dresses, shirts, T-Shirts and I think I also saw a playsuit.

"What are you doing?" I asked still not fully awake. One of the maids looked at me.

"We are here to prepare you for your day. We need to hurry because breakfast starts in half an hour." The maid continued to lay out clothes.

"What!?" I was surprised breakfast was soon to start.

"Get out of bed and washed we don't have long Mr Prince is already ready." I quickly got out of bed and washed my whole body in the bath. I got out wrapped a towel around my body and brushed my teeth twice, just to make sure. Once I walked back into my room, I was bombarded by the maids. They held many different types of outfits up to my body. One passed me a purple bra and underwear. Quickly, I slid them both on trying to not show much. Then they gave me a bundle of clothes.

"Go put theses on...and quickly!" I opened the bundle and laid the clothes out. The top was red cotton, off the shoulder with a pair of short black shorts. Inside the bundle was also black tights and black mid thigh socks. There was also some jewellery: A gold love heart necklace and gold bangles. I slipped all of these on; the maids gave me a pair of boot lace up heels. They then sat me on a chair and my hair. They curled it and put it over one shoulder. Finally the maids gave me a brown satchel and sent me on my way.

At 6:59 I made it to the dining hall where Evan, Professor Dempster and Wesley were sat down eating. Evan caught my eyes instantly. He was wearing brown-black trouser jeans, with a white un-tucked shirt and a light brown jumper. Over that he had a darker brown cardigan, the cuffs of his shirt could be seen and the top two buttons were undone. On his head there was a red-brown beanie and a pair of sunglasses rested on his head. On his feet were black boots; by his feet was his black and brown backpack. He took my breath away. Evan saw me staring and announced my arrival "Well, look what the cat dragged in." I snarled at him, Wesley looked astonished and the professor, well he was unaffected.

"Well the same could be said for you." I retorted Evan raised a perfect eyebrow. He looked me up and down and laughed.

"Are you kidding me? You were the one that couldn't stop staring at me." He replied, at this moment Professor Dempster decided to intervene.

"Miss Fitzgerald please sit down, you have a busy day. Mr Prince, same goes to you." The professor continued eating, I looked at Wesley. He wasn't even looking at me. I looked for a seat; the only available one seemed to be next to Evan. I sat down with a groan; today wasn't going to be my day at all.

Over breakfast we were filled in on what are day would run like. First I had History of Time Travel, with a Professor Harper. Professor Harper was an eccentric lady. She wore a weirdly patterned green dress, or what I think was a dress. She wore round sunglasses, much like Willy Wonka's and red elbow length gloves. I looked at Evan, his face bore the same expression as mine, and his also contained the emotion of disgust. He was like a little brat that made things always go his way. Anything out of the ordinary he would frown upon. Anything that made him different he thought he was God.

"Welcome children, you must be Miss Prince and Mr Fitzgerald no?" She asked shaking our hands.

"It's MR Prince and MISS Fitzgerald." Evan corrected quite rudely I thought. Unlike me the professor didn't seem to be affected.

"Oh sorry my old age you see." Through my eyes she looked like she was in her mid thirties, she didn't look old at all. I sat down at the only desk, Evan sitting next to me. "In this lesson you will be learning about the first time travellers and the many after them. Do either of you know the names of the first travellers?" Neither of us knew the answer. "Okay, their names were Cecily Funteyn and Nicholas Latham. They weren't the founders of this school but they were the first known travellers. Do you know what was so special about these two, apart from them being the first?" I raised my hand and she pointed at me.