I zoomed back out to the full school’s grounds: there was this massive gate centered along the bottom wall that the tour started you on, the pathway was wide and made of pale reddish-cream toned flagstones, soon after the pathway started it sprawled off the to sides: the right following the wall all the way to the massive gardens in that corner and to the left went along the wall to a massive capsule shaped building along the left wall which was the library according to the label. Off those two pathways sprawled towards the back to two mirrored L shaped buildings marked as classrooms and narrower in was a wedge shaped building marked as laboratories and a circular one on the other side marked as the theatre. A bit past that was the big plaza fanned out around by the houses…past the houses on the right was a very large almost trapezoid shaped building marked gymnasium and on the other side was an ovate building with a much shorter projection off the back that was curved into the shape of the building that was marked as the dining hall. A pathway went off to the sides between the houses grounds and those two buildings curling off to behind the L shaped buildings to mirrored buildings shaped like octagons with blue glass roofs that were both marked as lecture halls, there were all sorts of other plazas, parks and things marked about the grounds. There was a long rectangular building by the library marked as Study Hall and was connected to the library with a skybridge. There seemed to be at least a dozen tiny little other buildings sporadically through the grounds just marked as club. However, the entire back wall was encompassed by a massive elongated T: marked by almost tower like structures at the corners of the walls and multiple stories, maybe four-five stories along the entire wall, deep red brick like a handful of the other buildings, huge windows with green glass awnings above each of them, fluted white stone pillars and emerald colored tile roofs that were high and swept downwards with a slight concave shape and a flat line across the top adorned with metal decorative structures, tall spikes and spires on the turret roofs that were on the towers that sporadically spotted the building. The downward part of the T was wider than the rest of the building and merged to a curve front at the bottom, there were small projections along the bottom area and much shorter along the long side, marked as various offices and the entire building was marked as Classroom Proper.
There just…had to be more dorms somewhere in this school. The campus looked like it would be for hundreds, if not a thousand or so students…but the only dorms shown were the houses. There were no buildings marked as dormitory or dorms, I triple nay quadruple checked the entire map to see if there was dorms hidden somewhere…there was not. By the gardens there was a block of various sport games like tennis courts, a baseball field and a smaller building marked as an interior pool. There was a shorter smaller building between the various buildings and the library that was marked as Art Rooms….how many art classes do they offer?
I glanced over at the clock on the taskbar, I really…really should be getting to sleep, it’s going on three in the morning. I sighed as I closed the laptop, setting it back over to the side on the floor to recharge as I laid back on my bed, wrapping myself tightly in my moth-eaten frayed blankets, pulling my hoodie’s hood over my head tighter as I nestled closely to myself as I shivered in the early summer pre-dawn. It was still pretty cool for the year, not enough to have the heater or anything, but still cold enough that I was glad I had the space heater behind me, though because of the fact I found it at the junkyard, it doesn’t work that well and doesn’t get that hot. I sighed as I looked towards the wall where I let my mind wander across the texture of the stucco, just…letting myself drift off into my own mind. Dad didn’t go to college, so he had no advice to give me or anything, various people from my high school or work told me about all sorts of various stories from when they were in college ranging from crazy party stories to having to live on pizza, soda, alcohol and Adderall their roommate sold when they really should have been taking it. Dad just went full on panic attack about the idea of me being gone for so long, though a handful of people in the neighborhood told me that they’d watch out for my father, ensure he doesn’t get in trouble, he was still able to keep the apartment and that he wasn’t making himself sick from not eating or things of that sort. I wrapped my arms around my tightly as I tried to get warmer as my mind drifted away slowly dragging me into a deep rest.
“I wish…I wish Mom was here to help me.” I whispered as I drifted off asleep.
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