Before Dante could question why she was grinning back there, he noticed that the funds on his ID card now said $475. "She took $25 away from me when I was late 10 minutes?!" He couldn't let this bother him too much or he would just end up becoming more flustered to class. So, after putting on his big boy pants, he managed to find his classroom door. When he opened the door he was astounded...
As soon as the door swung open, Dante's jaw dropped and his eyes bulged. He could not believe how quiet it was in the classroom. He was expecting children to be screaming and dancing around frantically from his time in pre-school. It was also very different from when he was at the park, where the children would just scream, fall and chase each other around until they started bawling their eyes out or until their parents had to intervene.
This classroom almost had an eerie vibe, like everything was a facade. Dante slowly approached the classroom before he heard a stern voice stating, "What is your name young man?."
"My name is uh, Dante Ms. Nice to meet you," replied Dante.
"It's Ms. Brunsworth from now on got it young man," the teacher replied.
Dante felt his mouth dry and could barely utter the words, "Yes Ms... uh... I mean Ms. Brunsworth."
After this brief exchange between the two, what bothered Dante even more was that none of the children were laughing at all.
"Man are they dolls or something or have their parents not taught them how to laugh?" Dante thought to himself.
As soon as he sat in his seat Ms. Brunsworth immediately began to lecture. She explained how during the first day of class each child would be able to choose his/her profession today. Each child would be given 10 options to choose from, 5 of which would be based on their personal preferences and the other 5 would be pre-chosen based on the data and reports each child's parents have sent in. At that point the room erupted with noise as the children began talking amongst each other about what they wanted to be. Before Dante could even think about how they could their stoic personalities transformed into inaudible chatter, the girl next to him poked and said,
"Hey my name is Trinity, nice to meet you."
"Hi, I'm Dante."
Trinity immediately asked, "Can I ask why you were late to the first day of class? You know it's super important right?"
"Yeah..," Dante replied, "I decided to walk to school which was 30 minutes away instead of taking the bus."
Trinity just chuckled and said, "You're a pretty boy you know? I almost couldn't hold myself from laughing when you walked in with that shocked face on you. It was worse when Ms. Brunsworth started yelling at you."
"Wait wait wait wait. Okay good you can laugh right? I thought this whole place was crazy or I was crazy... I don't know it was weird to not laugh when I was as red as tomato," Dante replied in a frenzy.
"Yeah it's just Ms. Brunsworth was talking to us 5 minutes before you showed up that she would deduct money from our ID cards if we did not obey her rules," replied Trinity.
As the two continued to talk about how unreasonable the teacher's rules were, Ms. Brunsworth shouted at the top of her lungs to make everyone settle down. After the room became disturbingly quiet again, she told everyone that there would be a device under their desks which they could use to pick the 5 professions of choice.
Dante checked under his desk and there it was was. The device was little bigger than a phone. After he turned on the device Ms. Brunsworth said, "Now see that opening on top of the tablet? You insert your ID in there and your choices will be clear to you." It was no surprise to him that the 5 pre-ordained choices for Dante included being a painter and a musician as his parents were. However, the other 3 choices made no sense at all. They were: farmer, policeman and teacher. He didn't pay attention to them much at all since he was more intrigued with what he wanted to pick. From all the choices he had he picked...
To Be Continued...
