Karma

Midnight

Our feet swiftly touched the ground, as we galloped through the woods.
The leaves rustled to our movements and I heard the panting of some people.

"How could we forget the time?!" Some girl hissed, and another replied back.
"Well we were watching a movie okay?!"

Some crickets made a chirping sound, and scattered when we all continued running.
"If we're late on our first day of training like this...Dr. Cory is gonna kill us." James murmured.

I nodded as we entered the barrier zone and spotted our academy.
I practically dived headfirst and everyone followed.
When we reached the entrance, we quickly scurried in like mice, and I pumped my fist in the air.
Yes, we were basically trying to get to training class because all of us were watching a long ass movie at Lilliana's place.

"4 seconds late." A stern voice said, and I felt my heart beat increasing.
Dr. Cory stood at the corner of the main hall, staring at us will cold eyes.

"800 pushups." She said, without a spark of emotion at all.

800?! Seriously? 4 SECONDS?!
After we just ran like a marathon.
No consideration at all.

I got down on my hands and feet, and started doing the pushups.
So did everyone else after they released their groans of complaint.

It literally was us on the ground for ten minutes, doing pushups.
I didn't even count how many. She just wanted us to suffer basically.

Then I felt something really heavy on my back.
I tried to shift it a bit and see what it was, until everyone gasped.
When I looked up, they all had buckets of water, filled to the brim...
On their goddamn back.

"If you spill any ounce of water, you'll have to do another 100 pushups."

I think I almost cried.
•••••
When our punishment for being late was over,
I felt like I was going to collapse of exhaustion.
My back was stiff, and I felt like all my toes were amputated.
And god forbid, my palms are in the most pain right now.

I'm pretty sure a human being would be in the hospital right now.

And of course Dr. Cory was going to let us rest right?
Well she did.

For ONE MINUTE.
A ONE MINUTE BREAK.

What is up with this academy..?
Why am I alive?

Apparently she thought that she was being nice with the break and all, that she started to sit there.
Smiling satisfyingly and eating a lollipop.

I want to snatch that lollipop and step on it, then throw it in a train track.
And I wanna see it get so badly run over by a train that it's smushed the smithereens.
Then I'll find a way to collect all those smithereens and burn it.

That's how much I'm in pain right now.
And the self-healing thing doesn't even work in this case. Apparently it only works when I receive a wound where blood is drawn.

Well, IF I CUT MY ARM OFF, WILL IT FEEL BETTER AFTERWARDS?

"Alrighttt, time passed, everyone get up." The evil lady's voice sounded again.
Already?
The one minute felt like three seconds.

My legs were now stinging and numb and I felt nothing.
I didn't even know I was standing until I actually saw that I was standing.
You get what I mean?