That night Alex returned to the dorm early after dinner while Grey was meeting his friends and catching up. There was a small bag kept on the study table beside his bed. From that he took out a photo. It was of him and his dad. His dad seemed in his 40’s whereas Alex hadn’t changed much. It was a recent picture just before he had left for school.

Feeling a little sleepy he kept the photo back inside but just as he did his hand touched something strange. He grabbed and removed it, only to find a pentagon shaped wood. It was the same thing which had crawled into Alex’s bag from the old man’s suitcase.

Alex furrowed his brows observing it closely wondering how it got in his bag. After fidgeting with it for a few minutes he decided to give up on it and tossed it on the study table before drifting to sleep. 

Later in the morning.

"5 more minutes" Alex moaned and grabbed tightly to his pillow, at least that was what it seemed for him.

There was giggling between the boy's standing in order beside their respective beds. Suddenly he fell down from the bed which evaporated his sleep and what came afterwards was shock and pain.

The warden, Mr. Redfoot who came to wake the students and take their roll call at 6:00 a.m. in the morning was emanating fumes as his hand was just now used as a pillow.

The nearby boys started giggling uncontrollably trying their best to suppress their laughter as best they can, not wanting to become a target of the warden. Even the prefect's turned their backs and were trying to hold it in. Alex on the other hand was grabbing his head throbbing in pain. For some reason he saw a very weird dream last night which he couldn’t recall.

The warden grabbed Alex's collar and made him stand forcibly on his feet which brought his senses back to his surroundings. "Looks like a new face to me, still, I am going to make a perfect example out of you!" the warden said in a curt manner.

To this all the boys had fallen silent because everyone knew that if the warden wanted to make an example out of a person it would surely be horrible, aside from the punishment the humiliation itself would be too overbearing.

Alex didn't know whether to laugh or cry, not even the first day had started and he was getting into trouble. He then looked around for Grey who was clearly giving him a devilish smile. 'What a nice trouble maker I have made for myself' Alex thought to himself sarcastically as he recalled the events of last night.

Last night before returning to his room he had asked Grey about the warden' s roll call timing which was falsely told to him as 7 a.m. being it a first day and the warden going easy. Alex did feel it was a little strange but didn't gave it much thought with that straight face of Grey's and set the alarm for 6:30.

At lunch break Alex went to the cafeteria on the ground floor with his swollen knees. He was made to kneel down in front of the class for the entirety of the first three periods. He wondered if Redfoot was a warden for students or prisoners. As he was heading in the hall Grey put a hand around his shoulder and said "Want to sleep 5 more minutes huh, Alex boy."

"Sure, over your dead body" Alex replied in an uninterested manner.

"Oh, don't be like that, to your good brother, the warden never comes for the roll call on the first day, so I thought the prefect's will tug you a little and that's it." Grey said while nudging him. Though Alex was a little annoyed he wasn’t particularly angry at Grey. He wasn’t oblivious to how new students were sometimes given a welcome.

After that they took their lunches and were looking for a place to sit and suddenly someone was calling Grey. "Hey Grey over here buddy."

Both of them turned to look at the origin of the voice as Grey recognized his friend. "Let's go we'll sit there" Grey said while signaling him to follow him. Alex recognized the group; they were in his class at different periods today.

"Everyone this is Alex, Alex this is Tom Dice, Nova Light, Madison Blair, you can call her Maddy for short and Nina Kristen." Grey introduced as they took a seat at the table.

Tom was a little bulky having slight long black hair and a little taller than Alex at 5'7 wearing only his shirt with blue house tie and folded sleeves. Nova was a little shorter than Alex at 5’5 having blonde hair. His face gave a decent person like vibe. He was with his proper uniform of yellow house blazer.

Maddy, same height as Alex, was wearing her red house uniform along with a blazer too and she was having burgundy hair tied in a pony tail. She gave off a tomboyish face but pretty at the same time. Nina again same height as Alex, was also in her uniform being in the blue house with black hair having two tied knots.

"So how does being famous feel like?" Nova asked.

"What do you mean?" Alex asked confused from the question. Nova gave him an obvious look referencing the matter with the warden. Alex sighed "Does everyone already know about it?"

"Almost the whole school knows about it now but you don't have to worry you'll stay famous for about a month" Nina replied.

"But still a great way to make a first impression" Maddy commented making everyone laugh.

After classes were over at 4:00 Alex went to the resources department to get his greenhouse tie. He had been asked to come and take it after class today. The resource department was on the third floor. Walking towards it, Alex faintly remembered the directions. All of a sudden, he felt that it was too quiet. Unknown something unknown was creeping across the ceilings.