MISFIT

Chapter 3: Carnival of Doom

Time for some boring shit. The next few days were very uneventful for Arthur, making him feel relieved that maybe what happened to him was a one-time thing. How wrong he was.

Before he knew it the week went by quickly filled with review upon review of schoolwork for his exams at the end of the month. Saturday came with the promise of sunny skies and mild winds. Didn't really seem fit for the school's event they were all going to that day.

Every year at winter Arthur's school puts on a winter carnival to help give the students a chance to relax and even go home early to de-stress from all things school related. The funny thing was even though it happened to be January it hadn't snowed once this year.

That never stopped the over preppy school's student body, properly named BOSS (don't ask why cause no one really knew what the acronym meant or even cared), from putting on the best carnival they could. You gotta give them credit for going the extra mile while having a small budget to work with. Still didn't mean that Arthur wanted to go when he could be doing what he usually did on his weekends, like watching cartoons and reading.

His brother's though were all going so naturally they half coaxed and half dragged Arthur into Tommy's car and drove to the school. Arthur sat there looking out the window thinking why his brothers found the carnival so much fun.

Maybe because they weren't as socially awkward as Arthur was, or because they had friends to see, or the rides were actually more then he thought. For whatever reason it made him feel more self conscious for being mentally challenged. It's not his fault he had autism these things happen, but it sucked how much it affected his life compared to everyone else he knew.

Ten minutes later they all arrived at the school with Tommy parking his blue and white mini cooper in the back parking lot. There many parking lots dotted around the school but the back one happened to be the largest. A massive stretch of parking spaces about half a football field in length that allowed all the kids who owned cars, which happened to be almost everyone with a license, to park wherever they choose to.

Arthur's school is had a weird history behind it. Although it is a public school, they way it looks make people think otherwise. Once a hotel back in the late 1930's it was turned into a school in the early to mid 60's for the chance for children to be able to have the best education possible.

The odd thing was the founder of the school never had his name recorded in the history books. People just referred to him as "The Guy". Literally that's the name inscribed on the plaque at the base of his statue in front of the school. If that wasn't enough he named the three buildings that make up the school at random. Best founder of anything ever.

The three buildings were named, Maslow, Levy, and Jenkins. The Maslow building is the main building, which has the main office, nurse's office, registration, cafeteria, front entrance, auditorium, computer lab, and A.P. courses.

Levy building has the back entrance, the student parking lot, and holds the compulsory and some elective courses the school offers including math, English, chemistry, biology, physics, history, geography, and visual arts.

Jenkins building holds the gym and the rest of elective courses like family studies, creative writing, philosophy, and automotive. The five siblings got out of the car and made their way to the back of the school passing between the Levy and Jenkins buildings.

The sounds of happy students echoed across the backfield reaching them as they made their way to the carnival. With Tommy in the lead and Arthur bringing up the rear the five brothers reached the entrance signaled by banner hanging over head connected to the posts of the field goal.