The girls then laughed and calmly walked to get food talking about their respective experiences. The only people left were the Eram, and the other two.
Eram was the first to walk, quickly, followed by Michael and Ryker. They walked to the food stand and grabbed noticeably less food.
'I cant believe we lost that badly. I didn't understand how weak I was till that moment.'
Ryker looked around, frequently twitching. He grabbed him some chicken and dumplings, while filling his plate with fortune cookies. He looked at Eram and Michael with a sort of crazed look then followed the group to the table.
Everyone walked to the table except Michael. He was staring at two separate meals, then decided to grab both. His plate had a steak, with a side of cereal. He quietly sat down.
Eram played with his food trying to decide what to do with it. Michael decided to take a bite of the steak then shovel some of the sweet cereal in at the same time. Eram stared in horror.
" What the hell, gross."
He looked at the group of 9 kids around him and continued.
"I'm not too hungry, though. I just wanted some spaghetti"
Alexander looked at him like he just spoke the devil's language
" Are you insane how are you not hungry!"
" Well to be honest with you guys… I don't know maybe I'll talk about it later."
Eram said while still staring at the meatball.
Yuki looked worried.
" Whatever is on your mind you can speak up."
Ryker stared at his meat in the same way.
"It's more complicated than that."
"Well just know where here for you."
" Yuki stared at her food and decided to open up
"My family wasn't exactly good, so I know what sad people look like. So don't think you can bottle it up."
Ryker was starting to look like a caged animal.
" Can it, or I'm going to kill everyone here!"
Everyone looked at Ryker, and shut up seeing the desperate look on his face like he was cornered Ryker couldn't stop thinking about how he couldn't escape trouble it just seemed to follow him around.
'Fuck I yelled oh shit fuck damn-it I just need to breath take a second and calm down.'
He took a breath.
" Sorry I'm just a little overstimulated I need to take a step outside."
He walked out of the cafeteria leaving everyone there startled.
Taylor looked worried as she saw Ryker's fleeting figure.
"He had a rough past. We lived in a dirty shithole that was a home for all of the drunkards and criminals. We have lived our whole lives in a survival of the fittest thinking the next day would be our last. He spent the last two years protecting me and Ren from the local thugs."
she looked at her plate as she spoke quitter
" Though I've never seen him this scared."
Kalla looked at her worriedly,
" He is a good person though right?"
After seeing Taylor and Ren smile and slightly nod, she breathed a sigh of relief.
" I don't want to wake up one day being abused by him."
"Don't worry too much."
Taylor looked at Kalla and then gave a huge toothy smile and a thumbs up.
"I'll protect you. Us women have to look after one another."
The group continued eating and talking.
Eram and Michael ate more than they thought they would while Ryker was still nowhere to be seen. Once they were done eating. They began to stand up and leave until Ryker showed back up..
"I ate some food, don't worry guys."
He looked at Taylor and Ren.
"Cedric is coming back to tell us what we will be doing and give us Class schedules. Before you ask I was going to step out into the hall and there was a paper plastered to the door that said so."
He hissed out Cedric's name.
Right as Ryker finished talking Cedric appeared standing at the front of the cafeteria.
At the wave of his hand around 25000 pieces of paper appeared out of nowhere and floated towards each of the students with pinpoint accuracy.
" Tomorrow classes will start and you will go to a few of them as a group. When you get your paper compare it to those in your party and see when you all will meet up. For those that are in 3rd and 4rth year, thank you for coming back and passing.
He smiled while making two billboards appear with pictures of islands.
"For the 3rd year, you will go to Mino, an island that is isolated and always protected for training purposes. For the 4th year, you will head to an island I named Bell, it will be harder to live in than last year as it is in the 4th ring so it will have a higher pho density so be prepared."
Eram heard a new word and tried to figure out what it was.
' Pho what is that, I've never heard anything by that name.'
"With that, I am going back to my office to prepare for later things. Thank you all for listening to what I had to say."
And like a ghost, Cedric vanished.
Once Eram got his schedule, he looked at it in depth. His first class was Pho theory, followed by Spell casting basics, Core theory, Guardian Specialty, Lunch, Team Practice, Combat training, and lastly spearman basics.
Eram showed his group and had the first three periods as the same lunch, and team practice as the same classes. Though Ryker and his team had no matching classes with Erams' group.
"Damn, I wanted to have some of the same classes as you Taylor"
Lila said with dejection.
"I know right this stinks. At least we live in the same dorm."
Taylor said happily.
Ren and Alexander were grinning ear to ear when they remembered the words 'separate dorms'
Michael and Gunther were talking together about the similarities between their abilities in gravity manipulation surprised at how close they were to being the same. Kalla was getting along well with Yuki, they were talking about some of the famous boy bands from where they lived. The only people who seemed to be empty-headed were Ryker, Eram, and Michael.
The groups parted ways. As they walked down the halls Eram thought.
'I miss my family.'