"Mom c'mon you can't send me here this place looks horrible," I said while sitting up from the back seat. "You should have thought about that before you attacked your teacher and got expelled. This place will reform you into a mature pillar of the community. Which you should strive for if you ever hope to find a man to take over the family business." My mother's voice wasn't like most mothers. I've always dreamed of having a mother with a soft gentle voice but instead, her voice was sharp and demanding
At least with me, I guess she thinks it'll help me be respectful or something but all it's done has made me completely despise her.
"Maybe staying here will shape you up into a fine lady instead of whatever the hell you are right now. No man will want some girl who acts like a boy and that is key. Become a girl a rich man will want to marry, his power is our power."
And the family business she mentions whenever I get into trouble? Anderson toy company. The biggest toy company in America, my older brothers were right to pursue other careers but me? I can't, I have no choice but to marry a rich man so he can become the CEO once I graduate all because of my mother.
Such a shitty situation. I want to become CEO but here she is with her internalized misogyny, a woman has no right being in the big business scene.
"We're here Eli get out of the car and get your bags from the trunk. Make good choices and for God's sake grow your damn hair out." Her voice interrupting me from my thoughts.
She drove off leaving a cloud of dust in her midst.
"Excuse me are you lost? " a woman's voice making me turn around. "I'm Eleanor Anderson, I'm supposed to see the headmaster?"
"If course, right this way miss Anderson, the headmaster has been awaiting your arrival."
She led me to the main building and upstairs to the office. "Wait here for the headmaster to see you."
*time skip*
I made my way to the girl's dorms only to be met with some girl screaming and running upstairs. I decided to go to my room to unpack when I heard a woman clear her throat, "excuse me miss but who are you?" the woman was old and her face was almost permanently annoyed "I'm Eleanor Anderson, the new student I was told to come here to get my bearings and stuff."
"I was not told of a new arrival tell me what name is on your luggage tag?"
"It's Eli Anderson, it's my nickname the bags are blue." she cleared her throat "Oh dear me I sent them to the boy's dormitory by mistake, you're welcome to grab them while I scramble together a uniform."
Boy's dorm it is. I walked across the cobblestone paving to the boy's dorms and opened the door and immediately
The smell of axe deodorant floods my nose, the smell almost overpowering.
"Jesus this place reeks. Good god, how hard is it to shower instead of packing on the swagger spray."
"Tell me about it, I've been here for less than 3 days and this place sucks already." A boy behind me says with a scowl, which quickly turns into a smirk of realization "you're not supposed to be here, boys dorm is off-limits to girls. "
"I'm Jimmy, I'm new here too. The only question I have right now is, why are you in the guy's dorm?"
"My luggage was delivered to a room here by mistake, I'm here to grab it and go back to the girl's dorms to get a uniform."
He nodded in understanding and motioned for me to walk with him
"I know I'm not supposed to but I really don't want to go back to the pretty in pink princess dorms, despite the smell this place seems a lot better than the girl's dorms."
