Mikeal had finished up unpacking and now he was just sitting around looking at his room, there was nothing much around the room was pretty empty. Apart from the single bed and counter, nothing seemed relevant.
He looked around and saw the familiarity of the room with the same apartment that he used to live in before coming to the military apartment, yes the military room was more bigger and had enough space to put anything he ever wanted after all it was suite, unlike the apartment he is used to.
The part he really took an interest too was the walls, to him it was dull and hallow so it needed something but he just couldn't remember where he'd put it, Mikeal went through his belongings and savaged through everything that he had pack away and neatly.
"Where the hell is it?" Mikeal now desperate.
From the neatly and clean room that Mikeal found the room like, it wasn't like that anymore now it was filthy with his clothes all over the floor, his white sheet duvet made bed was now unmade, his drawers were open and single paired socks out.
Mikeal grew in frustration the same thing he was looking for was nowhere to found, and he was certain and sure that he packed it away and didn't make that mistake of losing it or worse what if he had forgotten it. And if he did leave it behind.
How the hell would he even get it back, because even if the military did allow them to leave the premises and step outside there was no way he was going to know which way he was supposed to go, given the military closed the bus windows with lead and drugged them.
Hector was outside hearing all the banging of things and the frustrations thrown by Mikeal in his room, so he decided to check up on him.
"Knock, knock, Mikeal are you doing okay bud?" Hector let himself in.
Mikeal caught off guard, "Hector, how did you get in?"
Hector trying to push whatever was blocking the door, "I'm sorry I let myself in, after knocking so many times without no response."
Hector managed to succeed in pushing whatever was blocking the door, to his unexpected surprise. He found Mikeal's room all untidy.
"Woah did you have some kind of party?"
"Huh?" Mikeal couldn't hear him.
"I mean what's with your room looking like this? Your clothes all over the place?" Hector asked.
"Oh, sorry I was just looking for something that means something of importance to me, but I can't seem to find it." Mikeal sits on his bed.
"You want assistance in looking for it? I'm done with everything myself so I'm bored out of my mind." Hector picks up a few clothes on the floor.
"Nah, it's okay I probably misplaced it somewhere I'll find it later, I'm sure." Mikeal feeling kinda disappointed.
"O-kay, since we are bored and out of our minds how about we go and get something to eat, I'm starving." Hector trying to cheer up Mikeal.
"I'm not really that hungry, you can go on ahead I might catch up with you later." Mikeal picks up his clothes on the floor.
"Okay, I guess I'll see you later then." Hector feeling down.
Hector did actually leave Mikeal's room but it didn't even take him a full minute and he was back.
"Is there something you forgot?" Mikeal surprised by his sudden return.
Hector blocking the door and lowering himself, uh, look I understand that you just want to be left alone and I get that, but I just heard Alexia telling Celine that she's coming to you, she needs some answers."
"What?"
The second Mikeal heard that he didn't have a choice but accept the invitation of going to get something to eat with Hector, not because he was just afraid of Alexia or trying to avoid her at all cost. It's just that he didn't have all the answers himself.
And from knowing how she gets when she's looking for something, she wouldn't let go she was like a dog with a bone.
He too still didn't understand what was going on with him, the sudden memory blackouts, him being able to do something so impossible that no ordinary human being is able to do. And it wasn't like the military had given them the serum of making them ready for the front line fights.
"Has she come out of her room yet?" Mikeal crotching.
"Nah, but I can hear her trying to open her door." Hector peeping through the door.
"Okay, let's get ready to run." Mikeal whispered.
Both of them made sure that they carefully opened the door so slowly that it didn't give any sound alerting someone that it was being opened, not that it could do that the room door was noise resistance so it didn't make any sound or what so ever. Even if it was banged no loud sound came.
They walked out slow and steady Mikeal talking to Hector in hand signs, they were sneaking to the elevator they Alexia's door was opening. They ran back so fast running down the stairs. All they heard were voices in the hallway.
"So do you really think he's hiding something?" Celine talking to Alexia.
"I don't know but he's acting a bit strange even for Mikeal." Alexia responded.
Both of them were walking to the elevator, Mikeal went to check for the coast and saw them inside the elevator.
"Okay, I think we are safe for now let's go."
They didn't want to compromise themselves so they took the stairs instead, the stairs weren't something to be messed with they were so long a whole thirty minutes was nothing when they were taking them.
Finally they reached the first floor.
"Phew, I've never ran so much in my whole entire life." Hector trying to catch his breath.
Mikeal didn't look like someone who felt like he just ran down a two hundred kilometres run, he was actually fine unlike Hector who was sweating.
Hector looks at Mikeal and sees him standing without showing any signs of someone who is tired at all.
"H-h-how, are you not dying right now. Hector trying to catch his breath.
Mikeal shrugged, "I don't know."
Just as they were waiting for Hector to feel better and back to normal they just saw the stairs move down like an escalator, then one of the grade fours came down.
"Hey guys." They greeted as they walked away.
Mikeal nods at them then sees the swiping card slot that was written ' Escalator Option'
"Seriously?" Mikeal gives Hector a look.
"What? What?" Hector trying to catch up to him who was walking away so fast.
They were out of the accommodation building and the outside was full of students who looked like they were all going to the cafeteria to get something to eat, while they passed Mikeal and Hector saw many of the students; chatting, laughing and being friendly with each other.
They entered the cafeteria outside it was the smallest building in the whole academy but once entered inside it was so big, it stretched out as long as those stretched out libraries.
"Woah, now technology of this place is awesome." Hector stunned.
"Oh come on." Mikeal led the way.
The cafeteria was fully packed and the line for student to get their food was not that much than expected, it was like they just stood where they ordered the food and within seconds their food was given to them.
These two got their turn to order food but first they had to choose first from the variety that was shown floating on top of their heads.
"What do you feel like getting?" Mikeal asked Hector.
Hector still thinking, "Mmh, I'm really not sure there's so much to choose from."
Hector wasn't playing when he said there was much to choose from they had a variety of options from hotdog to all kinds of different cakes.
An old woman came to take their order her name was Sharon, she was in her mid to late sixties, she had grey hair, wrinkly skin and a mole that was sticking out.
"So what can I get for you?" She asked the boys.
"Uh, I'd like Pizza please and make it a large one." Mikeal ordered.
"Woah are you sure you can afford that?" Hector looking at the prices.
The prices were not a laughing matter a large pizza went to like about eight hundred credit points, and the students were given a certain amount of credits each.
"Oh, don't worry sweetie since you guys are grade fives you can afford anything." Sharon told them.
The smile on Hector's face said it all, now they were sitting down and Hector was eating everything that he ordered which was almost the whole menu.
Mikeal on the other hand wasn't eating anymore he took a bite of two to three slices tops and just stopped eating.
"Hey, why aren't you eating?" Hector with food inside his mouth.
"Nah, it just tastes so tasteless." He said.
Hector couldn't understand what Mikeal was talking about so he took a bite at Mikeal's pizza and to him it tasted fine.
"What the hell you are talking about it tastes normal to me."
Mikeal thinking maybe his food needed some kind of source, he went and ordered as many sources as he can and put all the sources on his pizza.
"What are you crazy, do you know what runny stomach with you get from eating that?" Hector complained as he watched Mikeal eat his pizza.
Mikeal obviously ignored him, thinking that maybe since he has put source in his food it would taste different, but he was wrong it still tasted the same and awful.
He just pushed his plate aside and decided to take a sip of soda, it too tasted off.
"Hey, Hector what do you know about systems?" Mikeal trying to pick Hector's brain.
"Systems?" Hector confused.
"Yeah." Mikeal responded.
"Oh you mean, game systems?" Hector assumed.