Terms and Conditions

Finally, the bus made it to the entrance of the school.

With that everyone stood up and exited.

Once I got off the bus I could get a good view of the academy. At the front where we got off was the main entrance. There were two sets of double doors to the right and left.

'This must be the segregation,' I notice as the people in red uniforms go to the left while those in black uniforms go to the right.

Lakewood is famous for its brilliant students and extreme education. But it was just recently that three years ago Lakewood became one of the most renowned schools for athletics. This made the school the best in the entire region as it was second to none.

The problem though was that people dislike change. The academic part of the school was the reason it was so popular in the first place and it's the roots of the school. Thus, the students who come to learn feel that they are better and that the athletes are below them. While the athletes believe that they are the way of the future and are saving the school that the studious students ruined.

Both are right, which is the problem.

The academic part is truly better as it has only been three years since the addition of sports. The teachers are much more educated and the people who graduate can get a job in any position that they want.

Then the sports department is really changing the school for the better. Lakewood will become a well-respected and influential school all over the world. Before the academy was known to be a preppy rich kid school for the gifted. Although it still is that, the wording has changed to the best school that only the best of the best can get into.

The students are slowly beginning to accept each other. But it's only something that can be achieved with time.

Plus it's not my business as I have nothing to do with trying to help the school fix the problems that they created.

Heading towards the wave of black I make my way towards the double doors.

The reason I am here is because of the deal I made.

'If you promise to save the school I will let you rule over it,' I repeat in my head what the man told me as it brings a smile to my face.

Let me ask what is the point of school?

Depending on the person, people will give different answers. Each of them is right as there is no set purpose. So once a person understands the reason they can truly enjoy it.

People will say to learn new things, to get a good job, to make friends, to play sports, and more.

The answer that a person gives, will instantly tell someone about their personality.

For example, a person who says 'to make new friends' might be an elementary student or an extrovert. A person who says 'go get a high paying job' often won't find the true joys in school as they have their eyes set for the future rather than the present.

Then there are those who find no purpose in school.

Some claim to be like me even though there is no one that can do what I do.

They will say that they learned all that they can and they want to go out into the real world and make a name for themselves.

At times they will be successful but more often than not they will come to realize just how naïve their thinking was.

There are also those who have no choice and I can only say that I commend them.

But only those whose words are true.

The ones that give up I truly look down on as incompetent.

Those that have to quit for financial problems, problems at home, health reasons, and others have my respect.

I wish them luck in the cruel world that we were born into.

Another sort of person like me, is the rich.

Elementary and middle school is learning about how to be a functioning member of society. What comes after that is useless.

High school is just memorization of unimportant information for the sole purpose of getting into a college or university.

Then the reason for getting degrees is to get a good job.

But why go through all of that if someone's parents are rich? I could live three lifetimes only spending money and still have enough money to sustain generations after me.

Anyways want to know my answer?

A person that can't learn anything more from school? Knows the answer to every question? Can understand things that people have yet to even discover? Couldn't care about making friends? Had endless amounts of money? No reason to spend time working?

My answer is simple, 'to have fun.'

So what better way than to have fun by taking over the best school.

I already had my previous school in the palm of my hand and it was getting boring so I have high expectations for this so-called best academy.

The terms of the deal between the man and I are simple.

In this world, there is a test that every student must take at the end of the school year. Each test is different and has fluctuating difficulties.

An incredibly smart person could get the easiest test while a person who has rocks for brains can get unsolved math theories and vice versa.

But each person who passes moves on to take a new test.

The way they determine how someone passes has yet to be shared with the public. This is fair because those who get impossible questions will still have the ability to move on.

Thus, the better and better you do the more and more tests you take.

The better the school's students do determine just how good the school is.

In this world placement is everything.