The Commander's Story

Chapter 5

Alia and I decided this because if the guards checked her bag, they would only see clothes. I couldn't breathe, so I moved some of the clothes away from my mouth.

"Are you ok in there?" Alia asked me.

"Yeah, I will be fine!"

I heard the ding of the elevator,so I tried to be as quiet as I could be. Alia's and my parents came into Alia's room and I heard my dad say "Well champ, ready to go?" My clone didn't say anything, instead just walked to the elevator like I would have if I was depressed. This was going absolutely perfect, almost too perfect.

It felt like forever until Alia's dad tried to lift me but failed. "What do you have in here Alia!" he exclaimed "I will just have to get one of the butlers to do it. I heard him press buttons on his remote that he always carried with him. Soon the elevator dinged and one of his butlers grabbed the pod I was in. He took me down to the back of their hover-truck. After a while of flying we stopped. Alia's dad had one of the unwanted robots, that always sit on the sides of the roads, help him unload the pods including the pod I was in. I was jostled a little when the robots put me with the rest of the students luggage in the storage compartments of the space craft. After that I feel asleep and didn't wake up till we got to Space School.

The flight attendants brought the students into the school and left the pods in a pile by the students the pods belonged to. Alia kicked the pod I was in and I got out standing next to her. As I looked around I saw a lot of kids standing around. Some of them looked really scared and others really bored. I felt bad for the kids who looked scared, they probably had never left home before, poor souls. The kids who looked bored though got on my nerves like, why are you bored! This is the best school in the universe, literally, and you are bored!

Walking around were people wearing lime green jumpsuits that reminded me of puke. We found out later these people were the leaders of every group. They were assigning people bunks and group rooms. I was the last one the got to so they said "Well your name must be Cahalie."

"Yup, thats me," I said remembering the poor kid that, when we asked for me to take his place, practically begged us to. He was most likely one of those kids who had never left home before.

Alia and I had been assigned the same group and bunk. When we got there, a tablet was on each of the beds in the bunk. I grabbed mine and it said to sign in with my student ID so I grabbed the name tag one of the leaders gave me. On the back was a number, I was guessing, was my student ID. I typed it in and sure enough it was. Something popped up saying Nickname: _____________ so I typed in June.

The rest of the girls were opening up the pink lockers next to our beds and putting in there clothes, make-up and other products. I grabbed what little clothes and shoes I had and put them in my locker. Then I got my tablet and took a few selfies with Alia because we love taking pictures of ourselves.

All of a sudden a tall, muscular, and rough looking lady stormed in, wearing a lime green jump suit with a hot pink butterfly embroidered on her shoulder, banging the door against the wall next to it as she whipped it open. " I am your group leader, Jasmine," she bellowed "and I am going to set some ground rules." I could barely keep myself from laughing and I could hear other girls and Alia doing the same. I wondered if her parents knew she was going to be so... manly when they named her.

" Rule one: curfew at 10 every night. That means lights OUT!" Jasmine all but yelled,

"Rule two: When I am talking you are silent," she said looking around the room but settling her eyes on my leading me to believe she knew I was giggling. "And finally Rule three: You may ask me or talk to me about anything. Consider me your new mom for the time you are here," Jasmine said showing her sweet side. Jasmin saying that made me feel a lot more comforted. She handed out our new black jumpsuits with hot pink butterflies on the shoulders just like her's.

" Now, let's go down to the mess hall to eat some lunch," she said turning around and walking out the door. I quickly changed,grabbed my tablet and followed her with Alia right behind me. When we got down to the cafeteria all the other groups were there already eating what looked to be slop. I was first in line so I got the bottom of the container of food that was left over from the other wave of kids. My slop was cold and I had a feeling that it tasted better warm considering all the other students were enjoying theirs.

After I go my food I had to find somewhere to sit. All the other students had sat at the table with their group animal on the table. There was a snake, an elephant, an owl, and of course ours the butterflies. All of the animals were also different colors. The elephant was gray, the snake was green, and the owl was brown. I sat at one of the pink tables with a butterfly on the end that matched ours'. many of the other girls in my group sat by me but there were a few that sat by themselves at another table. My slop was cold and I had a feeling that it tasted better warm considering all the other students were enjoying theirs.

When we were done with lunch we went to our class and when the teacher, Mrs. Collie, called out our names for our seating arrangement, I almost forgot I was "Cahalie". So when she called Charlie for the second time Alia had to nudge me so I said "here" and the teacher put me front and center of the classroom.

" Um, m'am, if you don't mind I would like to be called June," I said trying to save myself from another accident.

" Well, is your name June?" Mrs. Collie asked with what seemed like genuine concern.

"No but-"

"Then I will not call you June because that is not your name and I only call students by their names in my classroom," she said making me completely lose hope.

For the rest of the class we just reviewed and learned the rules. I was starting to think there was a lot of rules in this school. More than at my other school which might be really hard for me. I was never really good at following rules. Which got me into some trouble but since I studied so hard and got perfect grades the teachers let it slide, most of the time. I had the feeling the teachers here wouldn't let that happen any more.

Our class was three hours long so once we got out I was ready to sleep, but all the other girls wanted to go to the rec. room to find the boys. It didn't sound very appeasing but I also didn't want to sit by myself in the bunk even if I was sleeping.

As we walked into the room I saw the most gorgeous boy I have ever laid eyes on. His hair was as bright as the sun and his eyes were like the ocean. He was using the simulator but I just had to know his name. So, I walked over to him and tapped his shoulder. As he turned around his smell wafted over to me and I all but jumped into his arms. "Hey, what do you want! I was just about to beat my high score!" All of the lights and halos disappeared. This guy was a jerk! I spun on my heel and walked away shouting over my shoulder " Go ahead! Didn't mean to bother you in something SO important!"

A/N

Two in one day!! boyah!!