Sector 42

Transfer Again

     The screen had showed a list of names again in different columns. Each column had a certain category, leadership, gunslinger, technology, health, and self defense. The man in all black had left the podium and went back to sit on the bleachers. A new man came and every student noticed that he was very young, almost two or three years older than all of the students in there who were only twelve or thirteen years of age. He was wearing casual clothes, unlike the man before. He was blonde with an average height for his age. 

     " Listen up!" He said with a stern and deep voice. "I am going to direct you to your designated categories. There is one leader per category. For the ones who had gotten 100%, you get to have your own designated leader. Now, let's begin. Turn around and the leaders should have a sign with their categories on them." Everyone turned curiously, searching for their category leader. "As for the students who got a perfect score, you're stuck with me.

     "Now go follow them to the bus where you will be escorted to the institution." All of the students got up with excitement to go to the place while others didn't want to go on the bus again.  As the students started to get out, that sophisticated was glaring at Sydney and the other two students who had scored 100%.

     The only students who were left behind were the four students who was waiting on the blonde leader who was still standing on the podium. It was silent until the man suddenly burst out with, "For your information, my name is Gene Curtis. You can just call me Gene," he gave a small smile and his sense of firmness was lost, "No need to be proper anymore."

     The rest of the students started heading to the transfer bus. Sydney had sat in the back while the other three were scattered around the front and the middle of the bus. Not even a few minutes later after the bus started to move, when a boy stood up hastily and yelled to the leader, "What about our luggage?!"

     "The luggage was moved to this bus before we got in. Do not worry. And damn you guys are anti- social." The same girl who asked all the questions blurted out, somehow offended, something that all the students wanted to say, except for Sydney.

     "Don't you think we are just shocked about all the information that has been thrown on us? We aren't anti- social, we are just surprised." The man was turned around and seemed to say something, but he just turned back around to the front and paused.

     "Is that really how all of you feel?"

     "What do you mean?" asked the girl, wondering what he could possibly mean by all  of the students.

     "Well I mean... I'm not supposed to tell you this now, but Lillianna, can I call you that? Well, Lillianna, I know your results on your tests and it calculated that you are 90% more likely to be in the Leadership category. Leadership students usually have a sense of what the students around them are probably like or even think. It is a unique ability of just observing the people around you without noticing. It becomes a habit as a Leadership student."

     The girl, Lilliana, was surprised and dumbfounded. She did not expect an answer like that to come out of him. She sat back down and thought, why she wasn't able to predict that to come out of him. He was a tough subject. "Ahhh, so I see you have already noticed that skill, and that it was hard to observe me." He had another smug smile on his face and continued to talk after a small pause. "Now, I will ask again, is that really how all of you feel?"

     Nobody answered. Sydney looked around and expected for someone else to speak up too. Was she really the only one who thought this? She got up and simply said, "No."

     Gene smiled again, "Good."