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When Klara woke up she was back at home, or rather her temporary home that she spent 2 months in. Her parents are scientists, and pretty good ones at that, so her family isn't exactly low on money, that way they can afford a vacation house there in the US. To Klara its like a second home, as she spends most of her days there. Home schooled.
Klara got up and checked her phone, where she found Tayanes text.
Hey! I hope you enjoyed the party. You fell asleep so I took the liberty of carrying you to your parents and putting you into the car. The hard part was putting on the seat belt haha. I hope you got home safe and sound. Or wherever you might be staying.
Klara smiled at the text as she quickly replied.
I had a blast! It was quite fun and honestly, I hope I can go next year too...also thank you, for being the best roommate one could ask for :)
Tayane sent her the text at around 1am so Klara guessed she was still sleeping. Assuming she's as much of a sleepy head as she was at camp.
Klara opened her laptop to check her email, until she found the one she was looking for. She clicked on it and scanned it over until she found the one piece of information needed.
Klara shot up from the chair which she regretted the very next minute as her leg was still in as much pain as before if not worse.
Either way she took her crutches and went downstairs as quickly as she possibly could.
"MOTHER! FATHER!"
"What is it sweetie? You don't have to yell, we hear you just fine"
Her mother replied while looking at her from the table.
"Good morning Klara. How are you feeling?"
Is the first thing her father asked, but Klara completely skipped his question. She was about to burst with excitement.
"I did it! I got into the international genius school, and directly into the Robotics course!"
"Wow that's amazing sweetie!"
"Good job! I knew my girl could do it, I'm so proud of you"
Klara smiled with excitement.
"I see you're so full of excitement, I guess you don't want your breakfast waffles do you? Also where is this school exactly? Could you remind me?"
"Don't you dare touch my breakfast! And as for where my school is. It's in the US actually. But the thing that confuses me is that I got in through recommendations...meaning..."
"Meaning what?"
"Meaning I don't need to pay the tuition fee, and since I was recommended by the headmaster I get to stay in the dorms free of charge as well...but I don't understand. How did I get such a high level recommendation?"
Klaras parents looked at each other.
"I have no idea sweetie, but since it's a good thing I won't be complaining much" her mother answered with a smile.
Klara nodded and happily sat down at the table, where a plate of her favorite breakfast waffles was waiting just for her.
Klara returned to her room as she still had yet to unpack from her trip. She opened her backpack where she found a note.
'What's this?'
Klara opened the note and carefully read through it.
Hello there,
I'm the father of the little girl you saved, her name is Emelie. I went to the hospital with her and my wife for a visit in hopes of being able to hand you this letter and a thank you in person.
Anyways I wanted to give you a reward. However I didn't know how and as it seems I recognized you somewhere. It was your picture that was filed together with your registration form for the enrollment into my Academy for young geniuses, or as you might know it: the International genius school. I took the liberty of accepting your form and put you under recommendations from the headmaster himself. You won't be getting any special treatment from the teachers, so don't blow this chance alright?
I wish a fast recovery for you, and you have me and my wife's gratitude.
- Mr. Bavery
At the bottom of the letter was the official prove- a seal on her letter of recommendation, that was taped inside the note.
Klara in nothing but pure shock took off her glasses, stared into nothing for a moment and then continued to process what she just read by putting her glasses back on and reading it over and over and over again.
After that she put the letter down and unpacked whatever was still left. She started her studies in 2 weeks.
There she was. 2 weeks passed in a flash as she was preparing everything. She took her notebook...well that one, and a reserve, just in case. She brought 3 pens 4 pencils 2 pencil sharpeners and 3 erasers.
-you can never be too prepared-
As she likes to say.
She got to the academy yesterday to settle into her dorm and fill in the form of her stay.
The dorms give you freedom to decorate your room however you want, and it's a single room. However she was gonna be transfered to a shared one starting today. Besides the Robotics course it also has the science course, sports course, math and physics course, language/literature course and an art course.
She was standing infront of the door that led into her homeroom classroom. HR03 (homeroom no. 3)
she took a deep breath and entered. There were mostly empty seats since she was 15min early. Besides her there were 3 other students in there. 2 of them were talking about their theories and one was starting at their notebook. Drawing.
She decided to take up the seat in the middle row next to the window. There seemes to be 15 seats total. Which ment 15 students per class.
At first she thought she should try talking to some of the other kids there, but then decided on the other option of minding her own business. Instead she decided to open her notebook where she had everything about her latest project written in order to find mistakes in her calculations that she could fix, or add a few things, as it was still a work in progress.
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15minutes passed a little slow but nothing she wasn't used to. Though it was boring.
The bell rang and a few moments later their homeroom teacher entered.
"Good morning students my name's Sabine, but please call me Doctor Sabine, as it's the only proper way to address one of higher status. Anyways. Let's take ro-"
"EXCUSE ME! SORRY! I'm a little late, but you won't mind right? I got a little lost hehe"
Klaras eyes grew wide as what she just saw was her team leader and even more shock struck her as she heard an even more familiar voice.
She turned around and saw Tayane. Right there in the flesh. Infront of her very eyes. She cleaned her glasses with 2 quick breaths and a bit of wiping from her shirt before putting them back on, in order to make sure she's not going delulu.
But Tayane didn't disappear. It was actually her apologizing, as Sabine gave her quite the scolding, during which Tayane noticed her and waved with all her happiness growing bigger and more evident.
She finally took her seat right behind Klara as she whispered a quick hello.
"Tayane. NO. TALKING."
"Right! My bad!"
Sabine sighed.
"Let's continue..."
As they finished taking role Sabine got more serious and took a pile of papers into her hands.
"Now then. Onto the more important business."
Everyone got curious as she said that.
"Firstly. It seems everyone arrived even if a little TARDY"
She glanced over Tayane shooting her a sharp look.
"That said. We need to choose a class rep. So please raise your hand if you want to suggest someone or volunteer, and make is snappy. I don't have all day."
Klara didn't raise her hand. Infact she didn't really care about this stuff as long as she isn't involved. However, a certain someone right behind her raised her hand.
"I'd like to nominate Klara!"
Everyone turned around towards Tayane, who pointed at Klara with one hand and had her other one raised.
Noone else raised their hand but at the same time they had no clue who Klara was, so some of them didn't know what to think.
Realizing that Tayane spoke up.
"I know most of you don't know but I think the role suits her, after all she's super smart and even built her own little robot! I think it's a good idea, unless you have any better ones?"
Everyone went quiet.
"Then it's decided. Klara you're the class rep. I'll let you know when and where your meetings will take place, so you don't have to worry. Now then. Since it's your first day, go around the clubs and check out your dorms. Don't bother me unless it's important. You're free for the rest if the day. Class dismissed."
Klara was lost.
'What...just happened-?'
"HAHAHA! Wow you should see your face, you look like a lost puppy"
"Tayane. Let me remind you. This is your fault. And because of that I'll make you my '2nd in command', meaning...you will join me at every meeting."
Suddenly Klara had a large smile of satisfaction as she took revenge.
"Oh common! That's so mean."
Klara rolled her eyes.
"You started it"
"Right right. Anyways. You're staying at the dorms right? Or?"
"Yup! I still need to get my key though"
"Alright then let's do that! I'm kind of in the same boat"
They headed towards the secretary office, knocked on the door and entered.
"Hello I'm Tayane Alves and this is Klara Böhringer, we're here for the dorm keys"
Tayane flashed a small friendly smile while Klara just stood there awkwardly.
"Ah yes Tayane and Klara, let's see here. Ah you guys are lucky. The dorms are randomized for everyone but it seems you guys both got set in the room 034. Here are your keys. Oh and please sign these. It's a contract in which it says you will pay for key replacement in case of losing your own"
They both signed a contract and headed with a quick thanks and bye to the secretary.
"So 034 means 3rd floor? Or?"
Tayane looked at her holding the map.
"Nope. It's ground floor 3rd hall."
"This campus is huge...and there's 2 dorm buildings just to separate genders with each having 3 floors...that's 300 rooms each.."
Tayane chuckled.
"Well yeah. There are many students from all over the world and with so many courses it's bound to be quite packed. But there's only so many students the academy accepts every year you know."
"True....actually what course are you even taking?"
"Robotics. I'm guessing you aswell?"
Klara looked at her suprised.
"What? I never told you huh? I guess not. But I like working with Robotics and mechanics aswell, I just don't have any of that fancy equipment, so most of my creations fall apart in a big boom! But I swear I will do better. Maybe."
'Now that I think about it. I don't know much about Tayane. In that case...I should find out as much about her as I can while we study here."
"We're here! Room 034."
they unlocked the doors and entered the room.
The room wasn't that big, but it wasn't small either. It had 2 beds on one side separated with about 1.5m of space between. Above the gap was a window they could open and close, while under the window there was a mini fridge which was empty at the moment, but will come in handy in the future. On the other side of both beds there was an end table. On the opposite side of the room there was a long desk with 2 lamps and 2 chairs having 4 drawers on each side. In the corner 2 large closets were placed. 1 for each student. They were large enough to hold all their clothes, not to mention under the bed there was enough space to crawl under and sleep. To the left of the entrance there was a fully equipped bathroom. Shower included.
In other words the first thing Klara saw when she entered the room were the 2 closets and the desk on the right. When she entered and looked to the left she saw the bathroom door and if she walked further down she saw the 2 beds on the left with a mini fridge between them.
"I call dibs on the left bed!"
Tayane ran past her and flopped onto the bed closest to the entrance.
Klara rolled her eyes as she was finally able to see her suitcase which the people here took to her room before she even got the keys, which they told her where and when to get them.
As they were unpacking Tayane stopped for a moment.
"Hey Klara. Come here."
Klara turned around a little confused as she came closer in order to take a peek as to what Tayane was holding.
It was the seashell from the camp! It looked nice and shiny with a letter K written in pretty cursive writing. On the top of the shell there was a hole with a string running trough it. Tayane turned it into a necklace.
"Here."
Tayane put the necklace around her neck and then pulled out another one. But that one had the letter T ingraved into it.
"I have one too! Now we can match. K for Klara and T for Tayane!"
Tayane smiled brightly.
And so did Klara.
"Hey Tayane?"
"Hm?"
"Let's spend as much time together as possible alright? I don't want this to just end you know? I don't wanna waste it."
Tayane nodded.
"Yeah. Let's do that."
~the end~