1 Ch. 1 Just another normal school day?

Narrator's POV

August 17, 2022 start of the school year.

Inside a classroom on the 3rd floor of a school building, a boy in his teenage years is going through his phone trying to look busy.

"I hope I don't embarrass myself during orientation." thought Alfred

Looking around the classroom, he sees a few familiar faces, but he didn't find who he was looking for.

"Seems like she took another strand." thought Alfred while sighing

A few minutes after, the classroom was filling up with students and a teacher comes in.

"Good morning class, I am Mr. Miller, your substitute homeroom adviser for the 1st quarter." the teacher said while setting up the table.

The school bell rang signifying the start of the flag ceremony, we all line up in the corridor, looking around, he sees friendly faces in other classroom next to his and he sees her.

Alfred's POV

Madison Gundesaelf, black shoulder length hair, black eyes, fair skin with few blemishes but that makes her all the more perfect, standing around 178 cm. with a dainty build and is my crush all the way back to grade 8 or 2nd year of high-school to up until now.

She has a boyfriend when we were at grade 8, I don't know if they are still together though. Sad thing was, her boyfriend knew I had a crush with her but that didn't really make us awkward with each other, well I was mainly avoiding contact with their friend group though and didn't interact much with each other during that school year.

"Pathetic right, all I could do is watch her from afar, I just hope she doesn't find it creepy." thought myself

The flag ceremony ended quickly and we entered the classroom, after a few words of the teacher, we proceeded to do introductions of the students starting with me, since by Alphabetical order, I am first.

Standing tall at 181 cm. with snow white skin, black hair with strands of white due to my mother's gene, a bit chubby and nowhere near enough muscle due to my slothful routine, and dark brownish eyes,

my name is Alfred Arche, age is 16 years old and thats it.

"totally nailed myself in the cross with that introduction huh, and to think I am supposed to start with this preamble. I really am boring huh." thought myself

After a few thoughts ran through my mind, the introduction of the whole class was finished, next was the seating arrangement.

My seating arrangement was near the window with my one close friend in this class behind me

Ian Brenhin, standing at the same height as me but much more skinnier due to daily exercise, not much muscle but he is definitely more fitter than I am, he has black eyes and hair, and fair skin.

The classes passes by and soon it was recess and I met up with my friends at the other sections, ate our meal quickly and headed back up to the classroom, it was a really, really dry morning, to the point that the dirt was almost cracking.

The 2 hour classes after recess which typically starts at 9:40 am and ends at 10:00 am, passes by and the sky darkens to signify that the sun was setting.

Wait, the sun was setting? but there was still 30 minutes before lunch, no even if it was lunch, the sun wouldn't set that quickly, something is weird?

I quickly notify Ian who was seating behind me that something was wrong with the sky by a note, telling him to get permission to go to the infirmary due to his convenient headache and I to accompany him.

"Miss, may I go to the infirmary, my head hurts since this recess?" questioned Ian

"Sure, just make sure to come back as soon as you know what the problem is, who will accompany Ian to the infirmary?" said the teacher

I raised my hand and left as soon as we got approved, when we passed the door of the classroom, me and Ian felt like there was a slight resistance?

I looked at Ian and he looked back at me like he wants to question me something.

My other friend in the other classroom noticed us walking by, and he came out after asking for permission, I guessed his excuse to get out was to go to the bathroom?

Anyways he was, Hans Doyen, a tall fella at 190 cm. despite being so tall, he managed to be stout too, he has brown eyes and black hair with a bit of white hair, still not as much white strands with mine though, he was bronze colored and has a few pimples here and there.

We gathered and got to the bathroom first to discuss what was happening.

After finishing our respective ceremonies, we got out of the stall and started washing our hands.

"So why are you out here?" questioned Hans

"Something is weird, the sky suddenly darkened." I said

"Are you sure that isn't just clouds? he retorted

"No, just look outside, it looks like the sun is setting with that orange glow." I said, "By the way did you guys felt that slight resistance when you got out of the classroom?" I followed

"I felt that, it's like I passed through a bubble film." Ian said

"You guys felt that too, I thought I was imagining it." said hans

Weird, I felt like I was being pushed back by a slight air current, not passing through a bubble film?

We talked about things that might be the cause, whether it was backed by semi scientific explanation like it was due to climate change or completely fantastical like an alien invasion or like something was wrong with the source code of our world, we laughed at our completely illogical conclusions.

At any rate, all we know is something is wrong with nothing we can do about it and we got out so we can just talk about it freely and to exploit my friend, Ian's sickness to get some free time out of that boring class.

Just when we were getting ready to go out of the restroom, one of our completely illogical conclusion and our suspicion that something was weird was confirmed to be true, by a sudden shift in my vision and a sudden blue screen appeared before my eyes.

Something you can only call a system.