Effigy

In the beginning of the end

You sit in the classroom. The humid and insufferable air lightly brushing over your cold hands as you describe everything around you, annoying you, on to the bright and slightly mucky screen of your iPad 2. The music that is resounding from your earbuds is playing one of your favourite game soundtracks, Skyrim:Elder scrolls. This particular soundtrack contains 53 songs to go with any situation and will play for 216 minutes without pausing.

The earbuds and the small cords connecting them between your head and your iPad 2 are slightly dirty as well with blue smudges suggesting that someone with freshly applied blue texta on their fingers or hands had picked it up to move it else where but realised their blue hands and tried to rub it off, only spreading the pigment along the white rubber. They probably did this hoping you wouldn't notice but you aren't colour blind and you don't like anyone other than you ruining your stuff. Well, you figure it was some other life form resembling that of homo sapien because your over powered, caffeinated, sleep deprived brain can't think back in your memory tray to the last time you held a blue texta, though you have been wrong about these things before.

The iPad 2 bears a black case with a rainbow space invaders design on it but the edges of the case have been mistreated and therefor have worn down past the print of the classic game, through a layer of white paint or plastic to the last layer of plastic. Especially at the edges are where the scratches are, but they are nothing compared to the ones on the screen. The scratch marks on the screen were put there by yourself. Not intentionally of course, but they are noticeable when the lights hits them at the correct angle. Well, it might not be on the screen itself but the protective cover, put there to protect it, but so far you have not pulled the cover off as to assess the damage properly and it doesn't bother you as much as if used to now that you have moved from performing and drawing art on you iPad 2 as much as you draw on paper and onto your laptop using your Intuous Pro. It is an amazing device and you have improved in talent since you received it from your supportive mother. Back to the scratched of the area of the screen. When you wanted to start using digital art you decided to get an app that would help you do just that. Your less supportive father helped you get the stylist that would be recognised on the iPad 2 so you could have an easier time drawing on it, since you we're used to drawing on paper. The stylist had the fluffy bit at the tip that would be recognised but the iPad 2 as the finger part but not so far away from that part was a small band of metal but there to hold the fluff in place and protect it. When angled and the wrong angle it would scrape against the surface leaving the many scratch lines that are there today.

A sad story but life goes on.

Your music volume is turned up enough that you can hear it clearly and it does block out some noise but still some voices pierce through the nonexistent veil of your loneliness and solidarity and disturb the sweet songs of violins, flutes and harps. The moment is ruined as you look up and around the classroom around you. It is a reasonable sized classroom with enough dull and vandalised desks and bad but practical plastic chairs to provide for the whole class and a few more. Some of the walls are painted an awful reddish colour that could never suit anything, not even your Nana. The windows let light in from the outside where a mixture of clouds are clear sky con-fuddle each other in an attempt to create a less complicated weather pattern but do not succeed and only let in a dull grey light. The replacement teacher for your current one wanders around the classroom making sure that none of the sort of smart but can't pronounce words but will look at my iPhone girls are not looking at their iPhones. They are. The wall to your right is the one in which people exit and entry though the large metallic door. On it it has several switches for lights, power plugs and Ethernet cables. The first set is labeled 'CB5' and it is the simple power plug connecter that has 2 switches and 2 plus holes with a red light for each to tell the local humans when it is in use and turned on and when it isn't. Though the set it labeled 'CB5' only the one on the left in the set is CB5 and the one on the right is 'CB6' but they have not labeled it this way and it both annoys and confuses you why someone couldn't have labeled them both. The next set is very close to the first one and is labeled 'CB7' and 'CB8', both of which are connecter holes for Ethernet cables used to connect laptops much like yours to the school internet,but no one uses them. Closer to the door is the last set that is labeled 'CB9' and 'CB10'. These are the light switches and that is why they are so conveniently placed next to the door. How kind of people to think this way.