Chapter 4 School Starts

Finally the days pass by and school's starting today. Marconi has a good night's sleep and he just ate breakfast. He hectically packs up his backpack and sneakily packs up his good old portable gaming device, spare battery pack, headphones and the charging cords.

"Are you ready Marconi?", his mother yells.

"I'm good to go" says Marconi and they head off to The Opportunity Academy of Everything. It's a short drive that Marconi could probably walk it

In about 20 minutes, but his mom wants to send him off in a car just like all the other parents. "Good luck sweetie", his mom says, "bye mom" Marconi replies and he heads into the entrance.

There are signs pointing to the auditorium for the speech by the principal, here they call him the Headmaster. Marconi walks in and takes a seat, he looks around and for a middle school, there's about 300 incoming students.

A man walks up to the podium. He's a slightly older and mature man with a weirdly shaped nose. He has a slight beard and a fierce gaze that all strict principals have. His eyes emit a calm demeanor.

He then proceeds to speak, "My name is Vincent Gagliano, today we have two guest speakers from different schools, Principal Peter Prickly and Principal William Sturgeon. I am the main headmaster for The Opportunity Academy of Everything but we do at times switch and manage different schools, so you'll be getting a taste of different teaching styles and classes.

We provide students the Opportunity to do and learn anything all you need to do is put in the hard work, hence our school name the Opportunity Academy of Everything. My only advice for you is make friends, ask questions and be ready to learn. Your class schedules will be displayed behind me momentarily. I'm going to have everyone sit here for two minutes, take a picture with your phone, before I'll allow you to head off to your perspective classrooms.

Two minutes start, now!"

Marconi, pulls out his phone and takes a picture. He sees around the room are tables, which can get you a paper copy of the schedules, and he just got a digital email for his schedule.

His schedule is as follows,

Morning (50 Minutes per class)

1st Block: Advanced Math

2nd Block: History

3rd Block: English

4th Block: Music Theory

Group B Lunch

Afternoon

5th Block: Earth Science

6th Block: Physical Education

7th Block: Advisory

and a weird 8th block open time slot".

Oddly enough there is no time or classroom numbers, just class names. 2 minutes go by and everyone starts rushing to the exits.

There are approximately six exits to the building and all of them are jamming up. Marconi, is instantly reminded of the lines exiting an airplane and becomes amused at observing the chaos of students trying to get out.

He suddenly sees a large chubby girl blocking up the entrance and he gets on the stage to video tape the whole thing. Oddly enough, when he approaches the stage, the guest speaker principals, who are giving a speech at the end of the day and the headmaster disappeared.

Marconi decides to do a short 10 second video to post on social media. Just as he's about to get off the stage, he sees an exit sign at the end of the stage and goes out that way. He walks out the door and viola, he's in the headmasters office.