The Academy

Mark

I woke up in a room, of course not mine. My room is not plain white, like this room is literally white, which made it plain to my eyes. White walls, white sheets, pillows, and ceiling. Where the fuck am I? I squeezed my eyes when I sat upright as I felt nausea hit me, maybe due to iron deficiency. I put my fingers on my ear to stop it from ringing, as searing pain rang through my head. I couldn’t really remember how I got here and what happened before. But the question is still ringing in my head. Where the hell am I? I roamed my eyes again in this white room. I deduced that I was in some kind of hospital or clinic.

I let myself be comfortable in my surroundings and started thinking hard on what got me lying in this room. I ransacked my brain to remember the information I wanted to know. It took me a minute to collect my thoughts to remember what happened. That handy-mandy girl! She electrocuted me! I can handle a normal shock but that girl busted me with a high voltage burst of electricity right when she was on top of me. Like, that girl is freaking crazy! I calmed the shit down before I could destroy this room into dust. I was taking deep breaths while eyes closed to calm the shit down that I didn’t notice someone entering the room.

“Hey, you’re up lil bro!!” my freak ass loud brother yelled upon seeing me, eyes wide awake. He swiftly got beside me and inspected my whole body to see if I had some injuries or whatever. “Are you okay? Did you hurt your arms? Can you still walk? And can that thing….” he trailed off his words and roamed his eyes from my legs to the thing between my legs.

“...still, you know, work hard, play hard?”

I glared daggers at him. “Can I punch you?” annoyed by his mere presence. I rolled my eyes and tried ignoring him. This is guy is fucking annoying, does he know that.

“Damn! Bro you really are okay!” he beamed. He proceeded to be annoying while I am ignoring his existence the best that I can. This guy needs more medical attention than me. Then I remembered that he’s like that the moment he came out from my mother’s uterus. I reminded myself that he’s still my brother and I need to accept his annoying ass. He continued to annoy me with more questions that almost got my patience pushed to its limits.

“Can you stop? I might get blood in my ears by your loud voice and annoying questions'' I'm almost at my limit and it's better to talk this guy out. Instead of heading to my request, he proceeded to annoy me more.

“You’re good as fuck!!” he beamed once again which made me more annoyed. Can this guy just shut up?!! This brother is fucking annoying. Dad should’ve sent the other one. I clicked my tongue. Should I call him?

“Can I hug you?” he asked with bright eyes and arms wide open.

“No!” I said with much annoyance and it made him pout. Fuck, can someone remind me that he is brother! I shooed him away from me when he still tried to take a chance to hug me which offended him.

“Wtf! Shoo? Mark, I'm not a dog!” he yelled.

“You act like one,” I replied boredly. And that made him act like a dog who’s upset about his food. “Hey, Mark, let me get this straight. Don’t forget that I am 2 years older than you. You’re still 18 and I’m 20. You don’t shoo me like a dog” he nagged me with various emotions painted on his face. This guy is trolling me again. I hissed at him while he snickered and snuggled beside me. God, help me. I stayed there like a stiff mannequin for a good minute and got up like nothing was hanging like a koala on me.

“Hey bro, where're you going?”

“Somewhere you’re not” I replied. “That kid did not change a little” he just sighed and mumbled some words I hardly heard.

I walked straight through the door and wrapped my hands around the knob to open it. Just as I was closing the door behind me another annoying creature appeared in front of me. Well, she was also holding a knob connected to a door across mine, but still, her face annoys the hell out of me. She has brought me tons of unpleasant things since this morning. First, she made the others doubt my identity and told them I was a false all-element controller, which is fucking not true. Second, she electrocuted me because of her clumsiness. Third, she brought me to this god forsaken place which I freaking hate. And I don’t know what other unpleasantries she would serve me as I stay in this place.

I creased my forehead and let my cold gaze met her guilty ones. Thank god I calmed down before I got out of that room because if not, I don’t know what I could do. I didn’t waste more time infront of her and walked away from her. I paced more quickly as I heard her calling me and wanting me to wait for her. Huh, she thought. I was raised not to hit a girl but it doesn’t mean I would always be the gentleman and always heed to their unpleasant requests. I followed the signboard hanging around the corridor and the signes led me to the exit.

I walked out of the building and did not look back as I maintained the pace of my walk. I calmed down when the cold breeze touched my skin. I took a breath of fresh air to calm my nerves but my self care was interrupted when a familiar small frame with long hair appeared in front of me. I eyed her with a cold gaze.

“Super speed huh, not bad. Sorry to burst your bubble but I am not impressed” I dismissed her and continued my night walk. Oh right, where am I headed? She grabbed my arm and forced me to face her. “We need to talk,” she said in a serious voice.

“As far as I remember, I have no business with you” I said coldly that made her show her weak guilty face. I hate that. But she composed herself and once again I saw her that determined she showed a few moments ago. Then a smile crept on her face and she tilted her head. I told you right. She’s crazy. I shook my head, she’s unbelievable.

“I believe that you have” she showed two things on her hands. I automatically checked my pockets and found out that she stole my phone, wallet and the envelope Dad gave me this morning. I closed my eyes and tilted my head. This girl and the frustration that she’s giving me. I scanned her from head to toe. A small pretty face with pale blue eyes, black straight locks, small frame with little to no tits, and proportionate body. In short she looks good, enough to make a whole soccer team go riot just to own her.

“What do you want?” I asked bored and impatient.

“A little bit of your not so precious time” what the fuck do she mean by that?

“My time is precious, handy-mandy” I replied. She eyed me with disgust. “Oh my god, what?” I shrugged my shoulders as a reply to her. Can she go straight to the point? She rolled her eyes and proceeded to talk about her business with me.

“Well….. I want to say sorry to what had happened to you” I waited for her to continue but she did not add more sentences to what she had said.

“That’s it?” she nodded. Fuck, I wasted my time looking at her face just for her to say that. This girl is nowhere near normal. I smirked and met her gaze. I don’t know what to say, maybe thank you? “Thanks, now give me my things” I said while walking towards her.

She rolled her eyes as she handed me my things. She made a face as I stared at her small frame. I turned my back against her and started walking to god knows where. Yeah, right, I don’t quite know where this place is, is this still inside the school? If yes, this school is huge. They have a fucking hospital inside the school premises and that alone is impressive. I heard footsteps speeding up to catch on me. Ugh, what does she want again?

“I assume you don’t know where you are headed. Let me show you around as a peace offering” she said while trying to walk at my pace. I didn’t reply, it would be wise to have her escort me to this foreign place. We walked for quite a time. No talking and the awkward silence engulf us. I didn’t mind her quite a bit, not until she broke the silence between us.

“Can you please slow down? I get that you have long strides, daddy long legs. But can you be a little bit considerate for this girl” I looked at her as she was struggling to keep up with my pace. Her small pretty face is now sweaty as she struggles to find her breath. I stopped and let herself catch her own breath before we continued walking to these pathways where beautiful plants are organized. And what did she call me? This girl is really something. I looked at my own legs as she, arms rested on her knees, still catching her breath. These legs do really go for miles. I made a face, impressed by my own legs.

I let my eyes roam the place. We walked for quite some time now and I did not really appreciate the place. Now that I looked into it more intently, it was awesome. I saw a night I have never seen before. There are fireflies beneath the beautifully maintained trees that are shining brightly as they flicker into different colors while leaving a sparkling dust. There are also nesting birds where the center of their body glows as they breathe. I noticed that there were no lamps in this pathway as not only the moon, which shined brightly lit up this place, but also the glowing animals who made the whole place magical. I looked at my companion again, which I think is now ready to walk now.

“You good?” I asked. Which she only replied with a small nod. We resumed on walking a few more blocks. Later on, we saw the exit out of this tree dense pathway we are walking on some time now. We still walk in silence but with lesser awkwardness. I think both of us found the serene place comfortable despite the both of us being silent. I looked at her and I think she’s also enjoying the serene view. We exited the forest-like pathway and we were greeted by the familiar soccer field I saw outside the window of the canteen. There were still some kids who were playing and some other people watching while food was in their hands. We walk past the field and straight to the wall of the huge ass mansion-like building where the classrooms are located.

“Are you hungry?” I was about to say no when my stomach answered for me.

“I guess that was a yes, let’s eat. I know some place” she smiled and walked ahead of me. Fuck this tummy, that was embarassing. In front of a girl? Really. I shaked my head as I nagged myself internally. I wonder where the hell she was headed, I only know the canteen as the place of food. I jog towards her and look at her with a cold gaze.

“Your expressions don’t really change. Is that your default face?” she asked while looking ahead. I did not answer her and just continued walking beside her. Surprisingly, I wasn’t annoyed at her at all. I thought she would be the talkative and annoying rich bitches who annoy the hell out of me. Maybe, she isn’t really like that.

“But he smiled with her brother though. That is already evidence that he’s human, right?” what? I furrowed my eyebrows as my head instinctively turned in her direction. She stopped walking as she realized that she just said her thoughts out loud. I made a face, I took what I said. She’s annoying, maybe not to the extent I thought she would be, but she’s annoying.

“Hey, I didn’t mean to offend you. It's just that you rarely wear any emotion on your face aside from the smirking, seriousness, anger, and disgust. You look like a mannequin” a mannequin really? I faced her, shocked about what she said. “Well, that right there is a new one” I quickly collected myself and gazed at her coldly. Face devoid of any emotion. I am getting irritated again. I continued walking but apparently stopped as I was surprised to see a park and tall building located inside the academy.

Local street foods are here as well as the familiar building I was accustomed to at home. The students who were walking held the food that I was used to eating from home. Yellow lights and lamps are scattered around the park as well as the benches. There is also a huge fountain located at the center. My stomach rumbled upon smelling the good food being cooked around. Where the hell am I?

“So this is the academy. Welcome to the Academy’ she said as she walked past me leisurely and got to a stall to order some food. This school is cool as heck