I wanted to be a good student and try to fit into this new life I was given. I didn't want to upset my new family of Andrew, Renee, and Imaxeyes, but at the same time I wanted to meet Lenore again, what could I do.? I had a few days to go before meeting Lenore so I decided to talk to Imaxeyes. Imaxeyes told me that it was definitely a girls' school at the other end of the park and that girls' had beaten them at every sport every year. The girls' weren't necessarily better, it was just that all the referees were the girls' teachers and the girls' played dirty if the boys got close to catching up to them.

The girls' school was built by what would later be called a feminiist lesbian.  She felt that if there was a boys' school their should logically be a girls' school. She wasn't interested in education or athletics only beating boys' at everything. Compromises were for wussies. The girls' school was 10 hours a day and five days a week. It was strict. Their day started with making their beds singing songs about defeating men, half hour of weights and half hour of stretches,  then classes. After classes cleaning the school and finally studying. On Sundays, their one day off they would go to church where God was a woman. Not much else was known about church., and in fact not much was known about the school itself since it was opened. They kept a lid on most acitivities and this information that was found out was from boys' from the school who were severely punished for trespassing on private property. The girls' themselves could be friendly or mean depending on that particular day.

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I think I've written this down before, might have to change this somehow.

 

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I told Imaxeyes that I had met a girl in the park, but I was unsure which path I took from the field outside our school. Imaxeyes asked me if I crossed a bridge or saw a bridge. I told him I hadn't even seen any water. Imaxeyes laughed, it was not a sound I ever wanted to hear again. I could tell he hadn't done it often. Imaxeyes told me it was the middle path he then asked me what kind of excuse I'd use on Andrew and Renee for being out so long.

Imaxeyes became silent. Then a slow sly wicked smile crossed his face and he told me I could do an experiment for him out in the field. I was to take a video camera, a metal ball and a remote control airplane. I was to fly the airplane around from noon to 6pm refueling it and checking for damage. It was to test how well the metal ball could see the plane through peripheral vision, how much detail and how lighting would affect it. I was to fly the plane into the park and run the path to where Lenore was to meet me.  Imaxeyes was wanting me to get something physical from Lenore this or the next time, so he would know I actually made it to her. It had to be something only a girl would have, it couldn't be a book or something.

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I have no clue. I was originallly going to have Harry run into Lenore during the second semester. I might just destroy this whole thing. I have this story so tightly khnit inside my head but it sucks when I try to write it out. GRRRR. Oh well beer makes it better. cheers!

 

Hmm, I seriously need an alternative to quittage. It has to be a physical game with three different ways to gain points. It has to be a game with contact, but not anything that would be thought of as openly sexual. Something with balls. What about a game of pool where the balls are the size of basketballs and each player must shoot them with cues. Three players on each team try to hit the balls into pockets, some try to deflect opponents balls from reaching the pockets. Hmm, there are three holes per team maybe each hole could have a goalee. Teams aren't allowed to physically touch the balls only their cues, except goalees who can use both sticks and their bodies. The black basketball is the one that gets the most points and must be sunk in a whole that's lit up. The goal will only be lit up for ten min. at a time, to keep it challenging, also the goalee won't know if he should allow it in because the light will be behind them. Gotta come back to this.

Lenore continued to practice her fencing and acrobatics, she was using her time between semesters trying to become more proficient with her balance so she could advance before her other classmates that would be arriving later. The whole time she wondered about Harry. Why did he start hichschool during the summer? Was he trying to get ahead like she was? Was the reason he was trying to get ahead the same as her's? She wanted to get ahead because she had been in the school longer than the students of her own age. Her parents had died whent they tried to cheat the Dons of the city the Pot-Head family. She had blown all her money getting a hitman named Gunther to try to teach her how to become a hitman so she could avenge the death of her parents, unfortunately, she realized she was too young too uncoordinated to be a hitman-in-training, and her parents deserved to die for trying to cheat the Pot-Heads. Gunther took pitty on her and used some of his money to get her into the school. He told her she had potential, but she should learn that there's more than one job that she'd be capable of.  It took her a year to crawl out of her shell and become accepted, and now she was trying to catch up and get ahead. Did something like that happen to Harry, what was his last name, would she recognize it? (did I mention his last name before? Crap! I'll have to change that, darn!)

Lenore waited for 15 minutes for Harry to show up, she sat and read her book and wondered if he would actually arrive.

 

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I'll make this one longer later, throw in some scenic crap, what she looks like, what the park/forest looks like to her, that type of crap. If anyone reads these I hope that they wonder what ethnicity these characters are and just which movies and books I'm stealing stuff from. For example this is slightly stolen from the movie Leon The Professional, but with enough obvious differences that I can't be sued, yippeee!  Hmm, getting sick of these photos, should take some more, oh well have a great day everyone!!

 

Been awhile since I did one of these. You see there's a bit of a lull in the story, and I've been trying to put together some type of action sequence with absolutely no luck.

 

Harry, continued to help Andrew work on small motors and clipping the hedges and learned some basic computer skills from Imaxeyes, and even some baking skills from Renee. Harry was getting pretty acquainted with his new life inside a private hich school. One day he decided to follow one of the sidewalk pathways that started half a mile from the shool. It took him past many hedges and trees. The path winded around many small streams as it slowly headed north. An hour or two passed and he wondered if it simply led in an oblong circle back toward his school or if it ended up at a baseball diamond or a soccer field. He found a bench and decided to take a break. It would probably be easier returning the way he came, he had come across many other pathways that intersected his, but it would be easy not to get confused about the correct path to take.

 

Suddenly a girl stepped out of the shadows of an intersecting path totally startling him, almost into fainting. "Wha- What are you doing here?" said the girl trying to get her breath back. "You're not supposed to be here!" she hissed. "I, I'm on school property. It's a boys' school, why are you here?" Harry tried to sound assertive, but his voice was trembling slightly. He had no idea if he had permission to be there or not. The girl opened her mouth to accuse him and then stopped she nodded her head slowly. "Neither of us should be here, this is the border between the two schools. Only, school hasn't started yet and some rules aren't enforced between semesters." She let her words sink in and then she continued. "My name is Lenore, this is my second year in this school." She smiled, "I haven't seen a boy in a whole year. What's your name?" She looked really cute in her uniform especially now that she was at ease with him being there. "My name's Harry this will be my first semester at Undaunted. Um, I have to get back...Is the way I came the fastest way back?" Harry said pointing at the way he came. Lenore nodded and asked, "Can you come this way on Saturday? I'll pack a lunch you can tell me what school you came from and what it was like there. It'd be great having another friend during the summer." Harry, liked the idea of seeing Lenore again and agreed to see her around the same time on Saturday as long as he didn't get into trouble being away so long. "Bye Harry, see you soon," Lenore said with a little giggle.

 

Harry arrived back at the school after supper and Renee and Andrew were a little worried when they asked where he went. Harry told them he was walking around the edge of the field and was wondering about the different sidewalks that entered the forest. Andrew looked at Renee, who immediately left the table and into the kitchen without a word. Andrew then, kindly asked for Harry's hand and pulled him off his chair and into the hallway, shutting the door after them. "Look! I don't know how far into the forest you went, but it's not a good idea to enter into it! It's easy to take the wrong path. Pranksters threw out all the old signs and afterawhile everything starts to look the same." Andrew was trying hard not to yell the viens on his head were throbbing. "There's also another school somewhere out there and there're a pretty vindictive bunch full of harsh rules, they've beaten up some of our students. So just stay away, okay?" Andrew took an unsteady breath and then continued. "You'll meet them on civilized ground three times a year once you know how to be civilized around them."

 

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Yeah, I chose the name Lenore from the song of the same name by Yunyu

I remember reading something by Franz Kafka about making sure you weren't transported to another reality or something by looking around your room and making sure nothing had been changed or moved. I've been living in Undaunted High School For Boys for five days now. My mind starts to swim as I continuously scan the room looking for a sign that I'm still living with my parents in our house. But, I'm not. There is nothing here that's mine, nothing to remind me of them or my life before five days ago. Nothing in this room is mine except me. And I'm wondering if somehow that will also be taken from me.

Andrew the caretaker was told by the principal that my parents died. I just couldn't say the words, I didn't want it to be true. I've been getting up everyday at 6am to have breakfast in the kitchen with Renee the head chef. Every once in awhile she tells me a short story about the school and then tells me to explore a small section of the school. She says if I do a little of this everyday I'll become more familiar with the layout of the school than most students and this should help me get some friends when school starts.

I've met Imaxeyes, I'm told that the teachers call him a stellar student because of his work in trying to find alternative ways to see. And the students call him a cellar student because he spends most of his time working in the original wine cellar of the school a section that isn't accessible to the rest of the basement. I'm starting to get used to wearing the schools clothes and having to wear a tie everyday. But a whole spring and summer without anyone to talk to is going to really suck.

 

okay, going to have to change the tense. Or this isn't going to work.

 

After my first two weeks I had learned the layout of the school and been to all the rooms all students are permitted in. And for the first time at 6am Andrew was eating breakfast with Renee. I joined them staring at each of them wonderinf which one would politely ask me to leave. Andrew had done his best to stay away from me after hearing about my parents. I guess he felt bad about yelling at me the day he picked me up at my house. After breakfast he told me that since I knew the layout of the school I should know the layout of the land. Renee smiled and said it was a good thing to get a bit of sun.

Andrew and I walked in silence, every once in awhile he put his hand on my shoulder then realize what he was doing and would stop.  I could see a hill about a mile away with a fence on it. And Andrew stopped and took out a stop watch. "Let's see how fast you can run a mile. Kid." So I got into my running stance and waited for him to say go. After he yelled go I ran up the hill to the fence. It was a cemetary. Not too many headstones, but two very new ones in the middle. I walked around to see what the names and dates were. It was the names of my parents. I walked back to the edge of the cemetary I came from to see Andrew slowly walking up the hill. "I figured you'd like a place to remember the past. A secret place. No one ever comes here unless someone dies." He exhaled a long breath and continued, "You can call this your secret place, just like Imaxeyes has one."

 

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Luckily I started this story with a highschool instead of a university or I'd be taking some serious pot-shots at the 1st Nations University with their illegal and unethical firings of staff. I'd probably call that story the Native Crab Buckets. Okay, we whiteys oppressed you and stole your land, but do you have to oppress yourselves and mess with your students and faculty on like a monthly basis. You want rights, but then you just screw yourselves over? Sorry, but come on!! Make rules and stick with them if you don't follow any code of ethics or responsibility then the terrorists have won...Sorry what was I talking about again.?