Over the next four years, I had been homeschooled by hand-picked tutors because it was unsafe for me to be seen in a public school and because private school was much too expensive. I’ve learned a lot about my country’s history, along with the interminable conflict between the Humans and the Hybrin. I have also frequented the library and spent hours poring over books that chronicled the chaotic and even blood-stained trail that corruption had left on the pages of history.
Now that the Hybrin Youth Education Act has passed in congress and is signed into federal law, it is now seemingly safe for me to go to a Public School. The new set of laws made annual flea treatment mandatory for all Hybrin, pretty understandable. Because of our superior physical abilities, we have to follow a modified and more strict scoring rubric in P.E.
Oh, and there are many other laws that I either don’t know about or am simply not in the mood for explaining right now.
But now, I am fifteen years old, it had been almost five years since I lost my parents. I still feel a pang of fear and guilt whenever I thought of them. I am now buried under various blankets, happy as can be, at least until it’s time to wake up.
*BEEP BEEP BEEP*
I slammed the sleep button on my screaming alarm clock and buried myself alive under my blanket mountain. But only a few minutes later, my mother knocked on my door…
“Ronan? Sweetheart, it’s time to get ready!”
I replied…
”But mom, it’s only six!”
“Yes and school starts at seven thirty, we have to be swift about it.”
I groaned as I rolled out of bed…
*Fwump!*
But I forgot to pull my blankets off first, so I found myself entangled in my blankets. After I freed myself, someone knocked on my bedroom door.
“Hey, Ronan, what’s going on in there, you doing naughty things?”
That was my stepbrother, Carl, we always sling jokes at each other. I thought hard about a way to reply, I was too tired for this.
”No, just wrestling under blankets.”
So I got dressed, packed my bag, and went out into the kitchen. I took out the cereal and milk…
Mom came rolling on out…
” Sorry Ronan, we don’t have time for that today, put it away. Oh, and did you remember to brush your hair and your tail?”
A shiver went down my spine…
”Uhhhh…I uh…”
”Thought so, get me the brush.”
She must have seen the look on my face…
”Look, I know your tail is sensitive, but it would be easier if you brush it.”
I got her the brush, and she sat me down and ran it through my tail.
[One painful minute later…]
Carl approached me as I got ready to start the walk to school
” So…is Mom done taking care of your fluff stick?”
” Yeah, she just finished brushing my very sensitive fleshy noodle sticking out of the area right above my ass.”
Mom heard me and snapped at me…
” Language, Ronan!”
I was now completely ready for my first day…
” Oh- I almost forgot!”
I grabbed my headphones and my music player, music had always been one of my simple pleasures. I shifted into my human form and began to walk to school…
” Ahhh, nice.”
It was a foggy morning, I’ve always enjoyed the fog and the peaceful atmosphere it radiates. After a couple of blocks and turns, the school gates came into view…
” Here I go…”
I took my first steps into the school…
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