Young Writers Society

Chapter l: The beginning.

Saturday, January 31st, 1993. Sunrise was starting and it seemed like it would be a beautiful morning and day as well. In New York, United States; There was Seiji Skylenther, a nerd and lonely boy, who was about to start attending college (Pace University, New York) Due to his desire of increasing his knowledge, he ruled himself to wake up every day at 5 a.m. in the morning. It was Sunday in the morning and his mother was watching the news, as typical. Since they only had one TV he had to get used to the fact that he always had to watch the news as well. The news was broadcasting a report about people being killed, 7 people who were not identify. After watching the news, Seiji started to read some books about robotics because he wanted to create something huge. He interested in building something that has been in wonder of so many people.

There was nothing which did not cross his mind. He was interested in creating an arm, but he thought that it would not be that huge. Then, in the book he was reading, he found something that grabbed his attention. And it was a Time Machine. He realized that it was something really big and controversial around the world. That is why started to read blogs about “How to build a Time Machine.” He said that it was going to be a long way and that he would give his best because he knew it would worth it. Then at midday, he had his lunch and watched TV; he had to prepare his own lunch because his mother was out buying supplies for the coming week.

In the afternoon he kept searching for more information about building a Time Machine. During the reading he came up with a name for it, which was X-fly. He did not give to himself a break; he was only focused on building the X-fly. He spent the whole afternoon studying. Even though he was so clever and organized, his work was sort of lackadaisical. When it came the time to put his hands into working, he was not really good at it. A couple of hours later, he had his dinner. After dinner, he firmly tidied all his stuff up and pulled out from his wardrobe the cloth that he was about to wear in order to be presented at college. While reading, he started to nod off and due to that he went to bed.

February made its appearance and it was the day, the day to appear at college for the first time. He woke up at 5 o’clock in the morning and began to put on his cloth. When he got dressed, he had his breakfast and watched the news as always. The reports about people being assassinated were getting very common in New York. Looking at the bright side, all these murders were only people who were involved in illegal acts. In a few words, these people were bad. Seiji was ready! His mother wished him luck and he said that he was not going to need such absurd thing. He waited the bus for a short period of time. When the bus stopped at the bus station, he had in mind that he was going to be by his own.

Lonesome he was; no friends he had; the best he thought it was though. He arrived at college and stared at it for a while. He began to see many things such as different people, clothes, girls, and so on. He went to administration so as to get his schedule and the name of his teachers. After that, he went to the first class, where he saw the different groups that were being set up the Freak, the Popular, the Badass, the Nerds, in which he belonged to, and the rest. He was not good at talking to girls and boys, because he had never had neither of them as friend.

“This is going to be like the other times in the School and High School with no friends, no fun, nothing,” Seiji said.

Annoying people are always everywhere and here it was not the exception. The group called “Ragknaro”, which was the most vexatious group in the entire university, did not show up. These guys neither care about their academic status nor their professional profiles. They almost never attended classes; they did not care about that whatsoever. The group is integrated by stupid boys from 4 year and these crappy boys loved harming, making fun of, and bullying boys from the 1st and 2nd years. They are basically from 1st and some from 2nd year but they have been there for four years; they have failed in sundry subjects. That is why, they are Seiji’s classmates. Thus, it was quite calm the first day.

“How was your first day?” Seiji’s mom asked.

“Pretty well I think. Seiji responded.

Seiji kept working on the X-fly; rather, searching for extended information since he arrived from college at midday. He, as always, focused on the reading of lots of books. We know that he was so sluggish, so it means that he was just reading and not putting his hands into action. The reading thing wrapped it up for that day and the second day came into view. Seiji woke up at the same time and got ready to his second day at college. Meanwhile he was having his breakfast; his mother asked him if he had made any friends.

“You already know that I am not good at talking to people mom,” Seiji responded.

The second day arose and being by his own is what he was accustomed to. It was a normal day for him, since he dealt with nothing unusual. His History teacher assigned him an assignment. Once again the Ragknaro guys did not assist classes, so it was going good so far, although they were outside classes, annoying other boys.

“Is this homework?” Seiji inquired to himself. “This is as easy as eating pie,” Seiji also said.

According to Seiji, days without challenges are half-days, so the two first days at college had been half-days. Due to his days of hard working, he felt sort of low battery while he was in classes. However, his classes were the easiest one ever. Hence, it was not an issue whatsoever. He kept on the reading the whole week.

“There is no stepping forward on this Machine, I need to put even more effort on this thing if I want to discover or create something. May be later,” Seiji said.

During his reading, he realized that he needed some artifacts and tools in order to start, but he did not have the enough money to purchase them. As a consequence, he went to his mom and obtained the money.

“You should get a job,” Seiji’s mother said.

“I do not have the time to work or even to be wasting my time trying to get a job,” Seiji said.

“Then I forbid you to ask me for money again, I will only give you your allowance and no more,” Seiji’s mom said.

“Fine,” Seiji said.

The first week had been so normal for Seiji so far. Nothing relevant happened during that week. He kept reading, studying and increasing his wisdom. His laziness did not permit him to advance in anything; he was too lazy, lonely and bored.