It's 2025, and everyone in math class is either asleep or snoring. Meanwhile, I'm raising my hand like a normal student. "Can I… go to the bathroom?" I ask, trying not to sound desperate.
Luckily, I make it there without incident.
"What is this piece of dog shit?!" I muttered. This place looks like it was cleaned by six year olds.
On my way back to class, I notice my friend hiding under a table, apparently skipping class.
"Wtf are you even doing under a table?" I ask.
"None of your business, useless little monkey," he whispers.
"Uh, yeah, sure… but this is NOT how you skip class," I mumbled, watching him dig around for his gum.
sigh "It's been working for like 40 minutes," Merx replies.
Of course it did nobody even came down the hallways, I thought. Shaking my head, I walked back to math class like a normal student.
"HEY! Sillue!" Fia whispers.
"Huh?" I turn, still catching my breath.
"There's a surprise test coming… worth 50% of our grade," she whispers urgently.
WHAT?! NO! NO NO NO! I wanted to scream, but then I noticed the teacher giving me a death stare.
"Oh c'mon… who would have thought there'd be a surprise test in London at 09:45," I thought bitterly. The teacher looked at me like I had just committed a crime.
"Now, Sillue," she said with an almost too nice smile, "I'm taking 10% off your grade because you shouted during a test."
Oh crap. I hadn't even studied. Grade 9 math? As if I was ready. Holding back tears, I muttered, I'm so cooked. What am I even doing here?
Fia leaned closer. "Hey… you know the answer to 2d, right?"
I looked. And… wow, it was easy. Nearly cried for nothing.
"You just need to do x = -b + √D / 2a or x = -b - √D / 2a," I whispered, feeling like a genius.
"OKAY, TY!" Fia whispered back. "IMMA COOK THIS TEST!"
Twenty-five minutes later, I finished.
As I walked out, I spotted Merx again.
"I did NOT get caught!" he said proudly.
"Yeah duh, nobody even checked on you," I replied. But then… This is exactly why your dad left you, I thought.
"Did anything interesting happen?" he asked.
"Yeah duh! Math test… totally crushed it!" I said confidently.
"Teacher?"
"Well… I saw your grade," the teacher interrupted.
"Yeah yeah, it's an A+, right? Don't bother telling me I know I'm too smart for 9th grade math!" I said.
"Well… you passed with a D+," the teacher said calmly.
"What?! NO! I THOUGHT I NAILED IT!" I screamed internally.
"Chill, it's a D+… and I saw you nearly crying. You would've gotten a C+ if you hadn't randomly screamed," the teacher added.
"CHANGE MY GRADE," I shouted at my teachers face.
Merx hid under a table, unnoticed. I shook my head. I had been so confident… for a D+.
"C'mon, it's not that deep. At least you passed," Merx said.
"You don't get it! I always want the best, I'm competitive—"
SLAP! He slapped me. And I just looked with a death stare
"WHY DID YOU SLAP ME?!" I screamed.
"You never know how to chill out, man!" he shouted back.
"I… okay, fine," I said, standing up. "Let's play chess."
We went to the library. He moved his knight to F6… and then the bell rang.
"NOOOO! MUSIC CLASS STARTS!" I screamed.
In music class, we were told to form a band and perform a theatre piece in groups of five. My heart sank.
"Group A: Sillue, Fia, Merx, Jaspie, Finch," the teacher announced.
No. NO. NO. Finch? My greatest rival? Everyone knew it. The staredown began immediately.
Fia claimed piano. Jaspie… attempted samba. Merx grabbed the flute. Finch picked guitar.
"NOOO! THIS IS THE ONLY THING I CAN DO A BIT WITHOUT SOUNDING LIKE A TREX. I screamed, kicking his gut.
"I can't play anything either! Chill," Finch yelled.
"YOU'RE ONLY DOING THIS TO HINDER ME!" I shouted.
He gave me the guitar, that really was not a Finch action but uhm, okay.
And then everything changed.
I disappeared. The classroom, my classmates, the entire school… gone.
I was somewhere else. A world that looked nothing like London.
"Okay… I'm dreaming," I said, slapping myself.
Nope. Not a dream. Not hypnosis. I looked down. I had a guitar in my hand, and in the distance, someone who looked like a Roman slave.
"What is happening?!" I thought.
I ran towards a poor looking guy and asked, "where are we? which time is it? Do you know Jesus Christ?" And he looked at me as if I just asked him to jump off a bridge and die.
"What is the clothing you are wearing, what are you asking about? Of course who doesn't know that brat Jesus? Why are you confused about where we are? Why do you have red hair? From where are you?" he said confused and scared.
I guess learning Latin was useful after all, "The only country I know speaking Latin was.. THE ROMAN EMPIRE!" I told myself.
"Wait how many years ago was it that Jesus Christ died?" I asked curious.
"...307 years ago?" He said while looking at me with a death stare.
"307 AD huh?" I mumbled. But at that moment, Tens of roman soldiers came to me and I.. was scared, I left the man and ran for my life.
As I was parkouring around the city, people looked at my modern clothing style and shoes and my red hair I dyed.
Boom! A soldier wearing sandals caught me while I was running for my life. "No! I can't die this fast in Rome and you know what the bigger question is? HOW DID I TIME TRAVEL IN THIS PLACE."
"You are coming with us little boy!" He shouted at me in Latin.
"OH FUCK NO" I screamed and elbowed his belly and used my guitar as a weapon.
"Is.. that a Cithara?" The soldier asked.
"What no? It is a guitar.. oh wait this is 307 AD of course nobody knows what this piece of shit is.."
"I don't care! You will come with us!" He shouted as he was grabbing me by my shirt while I was protesting to get out.
A few minutes later he thought I stopped protesting and went with him, but I am a history nerd and I knew I was in big trouble.
"Hey would you like to hear a joke old man?" I said proudly while being grabbed.
"Uh.. sure I guess" He said wondering what in the freak he would hear from a boy 14 y/o and looking like an alien from another timeline.
"Knock knock!!" I said. "Who is there?" "Not me on an execution BITCH"
*At that moment I instantly used my thaiboxing skills from my time and kicked his face and he got distraced and then BAM I threw two stones into 2 of his eyes and I sprinted away*
What in the ass am I doing in Rome. Why am I hear *sobs* What is happening am I going to die? Will I just die like that? Not have an entire storyline like the other anime MC's who time travel? AND I DONT WANT TO MISS MY FRIENDS WHAT ARE THEY SEEING RIGHT NOW? A random kid with a guitar who just vanished randomly?
As I was sprinting away some soldiers came after me with horses but I saw one of Zack D films his videos so ran behind a building and waited until they were gone. "My mom, My dad, ALL MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS GONE.. AND WHERE TF AM I" I muttered to myself while sobbing and hiding behind a building.
As I was hiding behind the building, I heard the words.
"The mysterious kid is here" And they grabbed me and I wasn't even trying to escape. I just let myself be grabbed. I didn't care anyway.
But I was still curious, what is going to happen to me now? Will I be executed or will I wake up from this dream? I surely hope it is the dream:(