Once more He woke up early in the morning by the sun's rays shining through his window, in thirty minutes the alarm clock would ring and then there would be  only half an hour left to get ready and reach school.

His crude movements as he got up and went to the bathroom to throw some cold water on his face woke his brothers whom were still sleeping.

They shared the same room as their family wasn't that well off to afford them seperate rooms for each of them, probably like most average families can't.

He then took the clothes his mother had prepared for him beforehand and begun getting ready to go to school by taking the school's program and looking through the books in his rather outdated large schoolbag that looked like those used in the 80s, he simply liked how it could fit all the numerous books given out by the school in the first days of school while most other people needed to carry them in plastic bags they brought from home.

After going through the books he left only the necessary ones inside and begun for school alone, before even the alarm rung.

It wasn't as if the early bird got the worm, more like he disliked the crowdiness and stockiness he experienced when his two younger brothers got up and begun rushing around to get ready.

You may ask why didn't he wake them up early like himself?

The answer was, it was pointless, they would simply lay in bed and wake up with the alarm wasting his good deed and time.

Christopher had a strange way of thinking and his own rules. He was sixteen now and in high school, but he had made rules for himself that he liked to follow.

Of course arriving early at school there was nobody else there thus he begun reading the textbook for the first lesson.

You might think that he was some excellent student from this, but truth was that he was only average, in all his years at school he could only score 15/20, which some of you might find good, but it was far from his goal of becoming a doctor like his mother desired of him.

The school grounds slowly got crowded as students begun arriving to school, of course he greeted those he knew or had a good relationship with, whom then passed him by and begun grouping with their friends and begun to chat.

When the gathering bell rung, all students begun forming lines in the courtyard, each class having a preset location thus making a large Square formation in the courtyard.

The School's principle and teachers were present at the front and the day begun with the principal's announcements for the day and then the morning prayer, which were said by the same individual each day, mostly because most simply couldn't remember it by heart or didn't want to go up the pondium, feeling somewhat afraid of the crowd.

After the prayer ended the students begun charging towards their classrooms like a swarm of ants each taking its own way. The stairs were the most dangerous location in school at the moment as people were pushing to go up.

Christopher's classroom was of course at the third floor, something that was rather troubling and his heavy bag made it a little difficult for him to climb up, non the less he was again one of the first from his class to arrive to the classroom, he then waited next to the door to await for the teacher to come, students whom sat at the front rows like himself liked to do so, for reasons that I will explain later.

All students then entered the classroom, most of them simply ignoring him on the side of the door and sitting at their preselected desks, it wasn't like tall students sitting on the back or anything like that students simply selected where they wanted to sit, well those with bad eyesight liked to sit closer to the blackboard and students that didn't really care about school and learning stuff at the back of the class.

Christopher greeted his only friend from his own class, whom was called Nicko and like always was a little late and wasn't present at the morning gathering, many students were late for the gathering or deliberately came late as to forgo the crowdy gathering and the pushing at the stairs.

The greeting was a short "hi" as Nicko went inside, Christopher saw all his classmates inside and after the teacher entered he closed the door behind and walked swiftly towards his chair next to Nicko.

A few minutes into the lesson the classroom door was opened and tardy students begun apologizing to the teacher as they came in.

Alexxa was one of the usualy tardy student, but she was also one of the most popular girls in the class, she and her two friends always came to school together, thus coming late together.

Christopher had a hidden crush on her, of course the reasons why could be explained from some events in the past, but he liked to explain it as love.

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After all he couldn't explain why his heart would pound faster when he got closer to her. Another reason he liked to stand next to the door was to let girls go in first, after all saying "after you madam" in their modern society would make him look like an idiot and become the target of unwanted attention, although deep inside this was how he felt.

Christopher had an unwriten code of chivalry, he liked to help the weak, give his seat to the elderly although it didn't go as deep as to help the elderly pass the road, mostly of course because they would feel insulted if a student tried to help them, after all they weren't that old or so all elderly people think nowadays.

The teacher Mr.Gold after scolding the late comers for a few brief minutes begun repeating himself once more for the tardy.

He was a good Teacher and honestly Christopher respected him a lot as a teacher, unlike others whom simply taught by the textbook, Mr.Gold would go into depth in the subject of ancient greek language and modern language.

He was an adept philologist and a real scholar of the language, later he learned that he also knew latin quite adeptly, although he only taught at the theoretical direction.

For those that don't know what I'm talking about, well generaly at the second class of high school in my country you are asked to choose one of three direction, Positive science "meaning mathematics,physics,biology" for those that wanted to follow the professions of doctor, mathematician, physic etc... 

Theoritical science for those whom wanted to become philologists, philosophists and most importantly reporters and writers and other professions of course.

Technological science for those whom wanted to study electronics and programming later in their lives.

Of course Christopher was walking the Positive science path, while his beloved Alexxa was walking the Theoretical one. Nicko on the other side was in the Technological path.

Latin was a subject only taught to those in the Theoretical direction, although Christopher would have loved to learn Latin from Mr.Gold, his lessons were simply worth being present for even if you don't know Latin, his explanations are always simple, but if you think his words over you will discover some in depth and profound things, like words you didn't understand before becoming more concrete in your mind in their use or simply adding to the word's meaning through some examples that really helped him in ancient greek as a subject at which he sucked.

Of course there were multiple reasons as to why he was so bad at ancient greek. First of all being that they were supposed to have created a foundation from middle school on ancient greek, like rules and conjugation of verbs and objective, something rather special in greek language that makes many people troubled when learning greek.

Of course the reason for his weak foundation was first and most important that he didn't like linguistics at the time and found it useless studying a dead language.

Second his teacher was one of the so called textbook teachers, not really caring if the students understood anything at all. Lastly the teacher wasn't too adept in ancient greek to begin with thus many questions ended in deaf ears and were disregarded.

The same thing happened in mathematics where an accursed teacher whom was even worse than the philologist took charge, he of course was an adept mathematician, but a real idiot of a teacher, all he did in class was talk about aliens and the supremancy of the greek race and how they are the descendants of gods.

Christopher hated how he lost time, but most students loved to have a break from studies in his classes.

Of course Christopher would at first read the book like the teacher said, a sort of self study sort of class, but as time went on his powerful foundation in mathematics and geometry build from junior school begun crumbling and fell to dust as they had the same teacher two years in a row.

You will say what's the problem there he could simply self study, but was there a drive to make a 13 years old kid to study when everyone whom was in the class was passed without even a test.

Simply speaking that accursed teacher had a creed that tests and classrooms were a creation of the foreigners to make people into zombies or slaves.

In ancient greece there were no classrooms and education was a privilage of those whom wanted to educate themselves and it begun with philosophy and the study of the human and the world.

The philosophers would go on walks with their students and simply observe the world around and explain to their students what they understood of the world and how it worked.

His teacher in reality wanted to implement this principle, but in practice he was simply wasting two years of their time and simply passed them at the final test, where he allowed them to open their textbooks and notes to solve the final test.

Of course the whole class passed with 18-20/20, almost full scores, which the students liked very much.

Lets return however to the today and to Mr.Gold's lesson, which would last for two hours, or more accurately one and a half since the gathering and the waiting for the students to arrive to their classes ate up half an hour from the actual lesson.

Ancient Greek is very different from its modern form, don't think that simply because the children learnt modern greek the ancient would be easier. Well maybe some concepts appeared the same and were easier to accept, but in general it was an entirely new language to them as well.

Not all however shared Christopher's enthusiasm with Mr.Gold's lecture. There were dozen of others whom silently goshiped about their own news and what they did yesterday or will do later today or even making plans for the far future.

The teacher was somewhat patient with them, since he knew full well that it was early in the morning and many of them were still sleepy and couldn't focus, of course the first part of class was translating an ancient text into modern language.

After school he gave them copies of the text and the translation, something that he did on his own accord, it was an act of kindness towards the sleepy students and those that didn't understand much about ancient greek, the thing of course was that on the last page was homework, so not everyone was happy about it.

Before however the bell rung for the first break of the day a strange phenomenon occured.

Dazzling lights blinded teacher and students and the phenomenon didn't stop at a simple classroom but spread to the whole School.

When the Light went down, the people in the classrooms discovered that multiple students had gone missing.

One classroom however was the most miserable, which was Christopher classroom where of the fourty students only six remained, in other classrooms only one or two people disappeared at most, but for Christopher's class B4, even the teacher disappeared.