I opened my mouth to say something but the words were stuck in my throat. My heart was beating so fast and hard I felt like it was just going to explode. This was officially my first job and boy I am excited to leave this damn house. I skipped joyfully to my closet and grabbed a bag from a vacation a few years ago. I was packed within five minutes, I practice once a week during the whole senior year, preparing to leave this cursed house and head to college.
The next morning I had told my family but I didn’t tell them I got a shady job and was being paid 5 million dollars to do it. My mom was crying waterfalls while my sister just sat there eating her cereal and looking at her phone. I took a deep breath in and just said to myself “It’s my day and I’m not going to let her ruin it”. I had called a cab to the house and said my goodbyes.
Skyline University was actually in the middle of no where, It was on the border between the United States and Canada, in a really dense forest of really really tall trees. It was like the xavier mansion for the x-men but the downside was the cab was super expensive and practically wasted almost all of my spending money for the summer. The University had a huge gate that blocked the entrance and in the guard booth was an old guy in sweatpants and a sweatshirt saying “SU” in bold. He had gray hair with a receding hairline and half closed eyes.
“Hello?” I knock on the window of the guard booth and the old man just disappeared like my life and I swear
I heard a voice in the distance saying “Wake me up inside!!”
“What do you want kid” I accidentally let out a high pitch scream out in the dark forest and echo’s of it could be heard in the distance. I put a hand on my heart and calm down my breathing, “Please don’t scare like that.” I angrily ask, he shrugged his shoulders, “Again what are you doing here kid?”
“I came for a job offer from Dr. Seno I believe.” I calmly answered the old man. He walked over back to the guard booth and picked up a tablet and scrolled through it nonchalantly like he own the world. After about a minute of scrolling, he looked up to me with his half closed sunken eyes “You can go.” The raven black gates with the University’s name inscribed on it slowly opened and I walked through it but... where was I?!
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The skies were bright blue, sun smiling down on the earth like the raisin bran cereal logo. You could feel the nice breeze on your skin, there were tons of people walking around chatting to their friends or playing a game of 2 hand touch football. What the fuck was this? I mumbled. I walked on a cobblestone trail leading to the campus and all around me were just people having a good time. Wasn’t I just in a place that was in some forest with that creepy old man?
The doors leading to the campus were huge like the black gate of mordor… I say again huge. I reached to the doors and tried to push it but it didn’t seem to budge at all.
“Hey man the door for you is on the right” I turned to the voice to see a man with golden hair and blue eyes point to a smaller door on the right which seemed much more normal to the gigantic door I was trying to open. “Thanks” I thank him and awkwardly opened the door and opened to me and I let out a sigh of relief.
Inside the main campus building was the most beautiful thing I ever saw in my entire, it was like a cathedral. There was a dome overhead with a huge glass chandelier, illuminating the insides of the building and I can only imagine what it does during the night.
All around were all different kinds of people walking around or flying around in some cases. And there was this one guy who had literal angel wings on his back but the color was a vibrant dark purple that had a metallic shine to it. The whole time my mouth was in a “o” shape while looking at this new and exotic environment.
I walked up to the information and ask for instructions to get to Dr. Seno’s office. The reception was quite the beauty, she was about half a head shorter than me but she had a confident look in her eyes which I liked, she had brown hair and hazel eyes that brought a certain kind of warmth when you looked in her eyes. Her lips were thick and had a sharp nose with tan skin.
She happily pointed out where I should go and damn that smile just made my day. I took an elevator to floor 10 and carefully looking for room 222. The last door on the floor had multiple posters on it including a nuclear fallout sign, a bright red stop sign, and many more. And what do you know it was room 222