Moon Angel

Chapter 11: The Meeting

Chapter 11: The Meeting

It was eleven in the morning. All the candidates and the guardians had congregated in a large room that had been set up to make an assembly hall. I sat next to Em amongst all the other candidates. All the adults stood around the back of the hall.

Miss Dunn stepped up onto a raised platform at the front of the hall that acted as a stage.

"Can everyone at the back hear me?" she called across the room. I was surprised at how far her voice carried in the large space.

The children in the back row of seats nodded and waved their thumbs in the air to show that they could hear Miss Dunn clearly.

"I'll get started then," Miss Dunn said smiling. "Welcome to the first section of the Omega programme. For those who have not met me, my name is Miss Dunn. I will be overseeing the whole programme. First I will go over some housekeeping, then I'll pass you to Mr Carter. When you arrived either yesterday or today you were given a room. This will be your living quarters for the next three months that you are with us. We will have routine room checks every now and then, so keep your room tidy and your bed made. The boys are on a floor in the west wing and the girls are on one in the east. Under no circumstances should a girl be found on the boy's floor and the same goes for the boys. Here at Omega, we believe that phones or electronic devices are just distractions. We ask that all phones, laptops or any other devices you brought with you to be handed in to your floor warden at some point today. He, or she, will have a box to collect them in. If you do need to send an urgent message to your guardian or caregiver, we do have a landline that you can use. Otherwise, you will be able to collect your items for use on Sundays. Also, if you have problems or questions about anything at Omega, you can ask your floor warden. For the girls, you can talk to Miss Lane and for the boys, your man to go to is Mr Rodgers.

As we will have training classes at Omega, a training uniform will be provided for you that will allow you to train comfortably. At Omega, the same daily routine will be maintained from Monday to Saturday. You will be expected down on the training field at 6 am sharp. When you wake up to be able to be ready in time is up to you. Everyone will be put through an exercise regime until 7, when breakfast will be served. During the day there will be four two hours slots with a lunch break in between. Lunch will be at 12pm. Your individual timetable will determine whether these slots will be training or academic classes. Your timetable will also let you know where your class will be held. These classes will be finished by 5pm. You will be given an hour of free time to relax after class before dinner is ready at 6. We ask that you don't wear track pants or training gear to dinner. After dinner, you have free time until you need to be in your rooms at 8. Lights out is at 8.30pm.

On Sundays though, the daily routine will be a different story. Breakfast will be served later at 8am to allow everyone a little longer to sleep in. You will then have a whole day free to do whatever you would like to. Other meals and curfew will be at the same times as the rest of the week." Miss Dunn finished talking and looked over a piece of paper in her hands. Coming to the conclusion that she had nothing more to say, she looked back up at the attentive audience and introduced Mr Carter to the stage.

"Today, three months from now, everyone will be sitting in this same hall being spoken to by the same people. What will be different is that each of you will have gained new skills, extra knowledge in multiple areas and an increased fitness ability. I know most of your stories, your backgrounds and I know that most of you didn't have the happiest childhoods. You don't think you're anything special. But believe me when I say this; you are incredibly special. You are unique, set apart even. Omega presents an opportunity to everyone here. An opportunity that isn't given to just anyone. You were handpicked for this programme and there is no mistake that you are here. In three months' time, another opportunity will present itself. An opportunity to move into the next sector of the Omega programme. Thirty-two candidates will walk through those doors, but only eight will move into the next sector. The candidates who perform their very best in all areas of the programme and get the best results in their examinations. Those will be the candidates who move through. And I assume that everyone here wants to be one of those candidates. So I will give you a tip; work to the best of your ability and use your time wisely. You never know if you're being assessed," Mr Carter told the assembly. He glanced down at his watch and continued speaking, "Right now, we'll split into four groups of eight for a tour of the grounds. The candidates sitting in row one can go with Miss Tomas..." A woman standing at the back, who I presumed was Miss Tomas, waved her arm in the air to alert her group to where she was. Mr Carter continued speaking, giving the groups instructions. Row two was to go with Miss Dunn, row three with Mr Rodgers and row four with Mr Carter. Em and I were in row two so we would be following Miss Dunn. At Mr Carter's request everyone stood up and filed along the rows of chairs and towards their chosen teacher or trainer.

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"...and here we have the training grounds..."

For the past half an hour Miss Dunn had walked our group around the large estate. First we had been shown through dining hall, the candidate lounges, the classrooms, the library, the gym, the study hall and the nurse's office. Then the group moved outside where we were shown the swimming pool, the tennis courts, the playing field and the archery and shooting range. The last place on the tour was a large grass area next to the playing field that Miss Dunn introduced as the training grounds. That was where we would meet every morning for the exercise regime and also for a few classes. Eventually the tour came to an end and we were allowed back to our rooms for an afternoon off. The programme would start first thing in the morning. We would be given our timetables and our training uniform when we went for dinner.

-A/N- Hope you enojyed another chapter of Moon Angel. Nothing much happens but it is necessary for the story line :) Please vote and review :)