Jo leaves Tom and Iuustin and walks off.
Tom:”I hope he won’t do anything stupid. We need people we can relate to.”
Iuustin:”I don’t really get what you’re saying, but do you want to play tic tac toe in the sand puddle, next to the dorm, small…building thing?”
Tom:”Sure.”
They get up and walk while walking to the dorm.
After a few rounds, Tom and Iuustin hear Jo yelling something in the distance. They turn around and see him running towards them.
Jo:”Come, Come! I have news for you two!!”
Jo has finally come close enough to be heard and stops and walks normally while Tom and Iuustin were also approaching him.
Tom:”What happened?
Jo:”I tried to ask them if I could go see other kids, they just told me to get the rest of the kids in front of the building where the soldiers rest and do stuff. So, yeah I’m kinda disappointed into their lack of ability to respond to my questions.”
Tom and Iuustin are a bit surprised by the amount of confidence he shows, but they just walk it off and announce the gathering to the rest.
After this a noisy crowd of kids, some running, some walking, some that refused to walk so they will be carried by someone else come in front of the building.
There a rather respectable looking man waits for everyone to arrive, with his hands in his pockets and the kids that caused the commotion earlier that day.
All kids were now standing in front of the building while two guards were trying desperately to keep a good distance from the man.
Somehow they manage to arrange them so they all have good view of what was about to happened.
The troublesome boys were weeping, while the man started to clear his throat.
Man:”Listen here kids, when we took all of you here we expected for you to cause some trouble, but there is a limit that can be surpassed to everything. These boys did exactly that by shoving Marcel’s head into your camp’s toilet breaking it and endangering his life. I don’t know if anyone has told you, but you can get kicked out if here if you don’t keep up or refuse to cooperate we will find you a new place where nasty kids like them will go and be put to better use!” said the man yelling.
The kids that were whispering before now their dead silent probably not understanding much of the complicated words and concepts he said.
After that they were told to say “good bye” to them and resume their activities.
While Iuustin and Jo did not think too much of it afterwards, Tom’s imagination ran wild, thinking that they were going to be killed or something.
At the end of the day while Iuustin and Jo were chatting in the dorm, Jo sees that Tom was quieter than usual sitting on his bed looking thru the kids as they changed into their pajamas.
Jo:”Are you ok, Tom? Something happened? You are way too quiet today.”
Tom:’’Nothing…Why?”
Iuustin:”Well you do have a look on your face…hmmm…how should I describe it? Like you are foreseeing your funeral or something.”
Tom:”Kinda, yeah. That dude who talked us with those idiots crying next to him sounded like those boys were now just some trash.”
Iuustin:”Well what do you expect? To treat them nicely?”
Tom:” No, but… I mean… I don’t know… He sounded too serious too be talking about kids.”
Jo:”Well, you should get some sleep, since no one thinks anything of it. Maybe you’re just tired.”
Tom:”Yeah.. Maybe..”
After that Tom goes to sleep without changing his mind.
Tom:”The hell do they think they are going to do with some children? They make the perfect lab rats, since their parents probably took them here, knowing that they will never see them again. Therefore no one cares about them. Or, they will be overworked in some factory, since this place gives me 1940’s vibe. God! I hope I won’t have to fight in some crazy war!”
Tom is concerned since in 1940 the second world war broke up in our world.
He is woken up by their teacher that was walking around the beds yelling, so everyone would wake up.
Tom while he rubbed his eyes, wanders how the teacher can still talk, since he yells them out of bed, at training, at lunch and he barely ever even heard him speak in a normal tone.
They eat breakfast and walk to the training course, where they practice the boxing moves they learned a few days ago on a mannequin and start to do some pushups, squads and pull-ups for the first time there.
Tom caught quite the attention of the teacher, as he got used to this kind workout at his mother’s house before she was murdered.
Some hours later, they are all soaked and Tom, Iuustin and Jo were catching a breath after changing the sheets of half of the dorm they were staying in.
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Jo:”Well I asked the teacher about visiting other camps.”
Iuustin:”Yeah and?”
Jo:”And he told me that we can go to other boy camps, but not girl camps. Which is cool and only when we have free time, wich we don’t.”
Tom:”Well that’s a bummer.”
They chat about how to approach the new possible friends they may encounter there and reach no conclusion.
At some point the teacher came and told all the kids that in the near future they will do classes with the other boys, which was perfect since they didn’t have much time to go around exploring places because of the busy schedule.
Another few days pass and the training got a whole lot more harder.
Another day arises and Tom wakes up with stiff shoulders.
The teacher was waking children up.
When everyone was woken up, their teacher excitingly says: ’’Who’s exited to meet your neighbors?”
Jo:”Me! Me! Oh, I am!” sais Jo and some other boys”.
The rest of the kids looked either exited or confused since most of them were half asleep. Or because they already forgot about the other camps of kids they said they were supposed to meet.
Tom sights as he barely stud up from the muscle fever he got from the extra training he was put to do because he usually finished too fast. In the mean time he was thinking to himself that he won’t be able to keep up and be send “somewhere else” he believed would be straight into a grave yard or a dead end life.
Teacher:”I know yall are exhausted from the training in the previous days, but today you won’t do any physical work! Today we will learn how to read and write!”
They have breakfast and take on a paved road, guided by the teacher.
When they arrive they are welcomed by an assembly of buildings that had lots of windows, painted white from the second floor up with an almost flat roof made out of thin metal boards.
Tom looking at it, he was reminded of some of those building that are turned into a museum once they are restored after 100 years of negligence.
They are guided to a rather small building block compared to the other settlements there.
This one was also not as heavily guarded as the others, but separated by a barbed wire fence, with a tall, menacing siren somewhere next to the building.
When they get near it Tom starts to hear a crowd of kids talking and yelling at each other, as his lack of social awkwardness started to kick in.
As he kept approaching the building, he felt like running away from all the erratic little kids, but he couldn’t cause he thought that he could be send away if he did that.
Iuustin seeing him all frustrated put his hand on his back and pushed him slowly when Tom slowed down and seemed like marching in another direction.
Entering there Tom realizes that the noise was coming from the classrooms, so he waits there till he is called in the one of the rooms to start studying.
He was seated at a few benches in front of Iuustin and Jo, who managed to sit together in the back of the class.
A woman enters.
Woman:”Hello kids! From today I will be your teacher. I am hear to train your little minds! My name is Zoya Khristina, but you can call me Zoya. Nice to meet you all! Now it’s your turn to introduce yourselves!”
The kids start to yell one louder than the other as they all say to say something all at once.
Zoya:”KIDS!!! KIDS!!! NOT ALL AT ONCE DAMN IT!”
The kids quiet down and Zoya points at a boy that was sitting next to the door.
Zoya:”You will start to say your name and something interesting about yourself. You there! You will start and then the boy behind you will do the same and so on. Understand?”
And a couple of kids nod after hearing the statement.
Zoya:”Allright boy, you can start.”
She sais while pointing once more to the boy next to the door.
Boy:”Uh..Uh….My name is Alex Zamfirescu…”
Every one introduces themselves and when Tom’s turn arrives he barely mumbles out a few ”uh…” and “um…”, till Zoya asks him what is his name at which he responds with “Tom” and awkwardly sits right back down.
After every one introduces themselves and almost all of them said something completely blown out of proportions at the “say something interesting about yourself” part aside from Iuustin, Jo and Tom (that got too anxious to continue talking),were two other boys.
Tom thinksto himself:”I wonder why didn’t the teacher told the kids to say something at least a bit more normal when they were asked what was interesting about them. It will blow their ego out of proportion! I just hope they will be corrected someday, since I don’t have the energy event to think to put up with some egocentric bastards when they grow up… If I will live long enough that is.”
After this Zoya draws on the chalk board the “a” letter, that Tom and Iuustin already knew very well, and starts to explain how it is pronounced correctly and do pronunciation exercises with the whole class.
Tom has no idea how much time had passed pronouncing a basic letter and a bell rings.
It sounded a lot like one of those bells you’d hear from school and Tom, Jo and another kid stand up and prepare to go out immediately the bell rings.
Zoya sees them and stares them back into their desks.
Zoya:”So, I see that we do have some pretty documented kids in this class, so it will be even more of a pleasure to teach you new and exciting stuff! As for the bell you just now heard it means you get a break into the yard of this center. Don’t get too close to the fence! And when the bell rings again you will all come back here in silence in the desk you were before!”
Tom is not sure of how many children heard what she said, since almost all of them stormed out of the door the moment she said “break” and others that wanted to listen had a difficult time hearing because of the commotion, if they heard at all.
Jo went out with the rest of the kids and Tom, Iuustin and two boys were still in their desks.
At least Tom was repelled by the noise the kids were making outside and didn’t wanted to do anything with them.
Tom turns around and sees Iuustin still standing in his desk, still deciding if he should go or not.
Zoya:”Are you seriously not going out to meet and play with the other kids? You’ll be missing out on life at this rate! Go out now!”
One of the boys that Tom and Iuustin have never seen before sais on a calm tone:”But if I we want to stay here we won’t bite, as you can see.”
Tom: Damn he is pretty sharp for a three year old looking boy! Or he is just simply isekai’d like me. I mean… it is good that we will have people to make a quicker and stronger bond because of this, but the magic of getting summoned to a new world kinda fades if there are so many of us. I hope this world doesn’t get full of us.
Zoya:”Well I will have to prepare the class for the next class, so… You will have to leave whether or not you behave well.”
Boy:”Ah! he said on an understanding tone”
He get’s up and leaves.
Zoya:”Hey! Are ya’ll deaf! I said get out!”
Now they all exit and Tom sits down next to the naked brick wall of what he thinks will be his school for a while now.
Iuustin sat next to him for a while, but get’s bored and goes to see what Jo was up to.
Tom sit’s alone for quite a while till he remembers that he had to see what the other kids were like.
He gets up and goes after Iuustin and Jo.
Looking around he finds them pretty easily and sees them talking to a couple of kids.
Jo is the first one to see Tom walking towards them, just to stop at a distance big enough to only be able to hear each other if they yelled.
Jo:”Hey! That’s Tom! Come here! These guy’s are cool!”
Jo:”So this is Stefan and this is Edward!”
Edward was the boy that spoke up to Zoya some time earlier inside the class.
Edward steps forward:”Hey! What’s your name?”
Tom:”It’s Tom. So it seems that we are in the same class.”
Edward:”Yup, it seems like so.”
Jo:”And I am disappointed that these two are isekai’d like us! We are not common at all! For crying out loud! But, hey! That means we could get easily acquainted!"
Iuustin:”Well they seem like fun people.”
Stefan:”Hello! Nice to meet you! Don’t stay there! Come closer!”
Tom, now, is slowly walking towards them.