9- Perks

Skyler, Peter and I continued to look around the building until lunch. We discovered that the rooms and floors where set in order of importance, at least in the societies' eyes. The lower floors had rooms for jobs like agriculture and construction, slowly building up to things like mathematics and officers. Of course, at the very top was the city society. The quality of the room also varied depending in which floor it was on. It was interesting, Skyler was in agriculture, so her room was on the 1st floor. It was very basic. Still a very nice dorm, but not as fancy as Peter's or mine. She didn't mind though. She said it felt very hommy.

At 12:30, we made our way down to the cafeteria, which was on the first floor, behind the lobby and front desk. The food was set out along large counters in a sort of buffet style. There was a long line of students along the counters and continuing across the cafeteria. I made my way to the end of the line.

"What are you doing?" Asked Skyler, as if I had done something wrong.

"Waiting in a line...?" I said, a bit confused.

Skyler rolled her eyes and smiled, putting her hands on my shoulders, she guided me out of the line up and along it, right to the start, where students where picking up trays.

"But-" she didn't let me finish.

"Don't worry. Peter and I will come find you when we get through the line. Don't wait up." She said before heading back to Peter.

I exhaled and turned to the line. A tall boy inched backwards and indicated for me to take his place. I grabbed a tray and stepped in line, smiling apologetically. I knew that the society deserved special treatment, but it was still a little difficult for me to get the grip of.

The food smelled amazing. There where all different sorts, and I didn't know where to start. I picked up a red apple. It looked real enough. I don't think it was even rehydrated, just grown and preserved. I put it on my tray and continued. There was a steaming pot of something on one of the counters, and I instinctively lifted the lid to see what was inside. It looked like some sort of mushroom soup. It smelled so good, before I knew what I was doing, I had a bowl of it on my tray. I continued down the line and picked up a bottle of lemonade before finding a table near the black of the room.

I wanted to wait for Peter and Skyler, but I hadn't eaten much that day, and I was ravenous. I sat down and emediatley took a spoonful of the soup. It was warm and flavourful. I hadn't had anything like it for years. I took another mouthful, and another. It wasn't like I didn't eat enough at home, it was just all packaged and rehydrated. It was better then some ate. My mom would actually boil it in a pot, while most would just boil a kettle, or stick it in a rehydration machine.

Soon Peter and Skyler came to join me, and we joked and laughed as we ate. When we where done, we put our trays on the counter and headed off to our classes. My class was, again on the top floor, in the educational building.

I found my way fairly quickly. I got to get on the first elevator, without having to wait in the line and when I reached the top floor, there was, one door in a short hallway, similar to the hallway to my room. The door was silver and strong looking. I stood there for a moment, taking my time, I wasn't sure what this was going to be like. I didn't know what they where going to treat me like. If it was anything like how the other students treated me...

I smiled, placing my hand on the handle and pushing the door open.

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Sorry for the short chapter. The next one will be longer, promise.

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