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Roseanne didn't sleep much that night, since she felt strange spending the night somewhere other than the Garden. This was the first time in nineteen years being there that she was sleeping outside the Garden. She spent most of the night looking up at the ceiling and thinking about random things half the time, and the other half she was watching videos on holotube. She thought about messaging Raven and maybe just spending the night talking to him, since he maybe felt the same way she did. They were both from the garden and spending the night somewhere new. But she didn't want to bother him. He was probably fast asleep in his own room and there was maybe even a chance that he didn't want to talk with her.

She also noticed when she looked at her holo phone that Scarlet hadn't replied to her message yet. At this point, it didn't even matter any more. They only had one more day of their weekend off and it seemed like her friends had chosen to go on a trip out of the Garden without them. She managed to fall asleep close to four in the morning and her internal clock woke her up at five, which was the time she always woke up back in the Garden. She had a routine that she followed every single day of her life without fail. She'd get up at five and immediately get in the shower. She was thankful that Scarlet liked showering at four in the morning, two hours before breakfast because she liked to style her long red hair into a braid and that sometimes took her longer than she liked since her hair was long and went down to her waist. Roseanne's hair was almost equally as long, but a bit thinner and a different color. Scarlet's hair was also straight as a pin, while Roseanne's fell down her back in soft waves.

Either way, the fact that Scarlet was up two hours early wasn't a problem for them because they had a bathroom to share between the two of them in their dorm room, but there was also a communal bathroom at the end of the hall. The only problem with that was that both the boys and the girls were allowed to use those and Roseanne just didn't feel comfortable getting out of the shower in her towel if there were any boys around. There were only two girls in their group and four boys, though their instructors said the admins were thinking of adding up to six more people to that mission. The boys were so loud, and bellowing comments about each other's intimate parts. Scarlet didn't really mind it, since she wasn't as shy as Roseanne was. But she preferred taking her shower in the morning. When Scarlet was already done changing and started doing her hair, the rest of the crew were barely getting up for the day.

Breakfast started promptly from six to seven in the morning, and then they had two hours of morning training. This was physical and strength training where they ran a couple of laps around the track in the garden and occasionally did some lifting weights. From nine to mid day they had their intelligence training, which involved classes on trouble shooting broken parts on a ship and doing virtual reality missions together. Mid day to one in the afternoon was lunch. From there, they went back to do three more hours of intelligence training. Their teachers tried to introduce new concepts to them every so often. At three they had an hour of free time to do whatever it is they wanted, and that went straight into their dinner time at four. They had their last physical training of the day from five to seven. Last they had three hours to do homework or anything else they'd like to get done before their mandatory curfew started at ten. That was when lights had to be out in all rooms and power was even cut to prevent them from blowing off their curfew.

It wasn't exactly the best life, but they didn't know anything else. There was also the fact that they were receiving free education, room, and board. They even had a small stipend each year that could be used on their one weekend of vacation a year. But they had been given away to the government until the completion of their first and only mission in space, and that would put them well into their thirties by the time of their return.