Getting to Class...

With a smooth, sighing whirrr, the glass doors opened, and Elsteba entered the pure glass sphere known as the main transportation room. There were many glowing openings in the sides of the sphere, all color coded. The main desk floated like a balloon in the center of the sphere with thousands of courtesy hoverboards orbiting it. When summoned, these boards take off to assist the less-than-wealthy students travel to their next classes. Elsteba began scanning the sphere for a green portal, which would take her to her next class. Soon, here eyes fell on the portal and she zoomed through the opening and into the selection chamber. Green meant science, and Elsteba had biology. I hate that class...

First thing she noticed was the panel had been 'upgraded'. By this, it meant she did not have to select her destination as usual. She merely stepped it to the transparent cylindrical room and the computer did the rest. It programmed her path of travel and destination based on her school schedule. She had quickly realized that this new update was going to make it much harder to skip class or hang out with her friends at the library. Of COURSE the Board of Education would do this. Their goal this year was, after all, 100% attendance. I hate school...

-->A lot of students thought it was a dumb idea, but since when did the Board of Education ever listen to the lowly students? They only ever care about students if the parents start getting involved.

I punched my name into the terminal and stepped into the tube. Usually there is a line for the tubes because of everyone trying to get to class, but since I was late, most everybody was already in class. Score one for the tardy student.

I went off like a rocket, catching glimpses of other tube users every now and then. For the most part, though, I had my eyes closed. I had long since learned that it wasn't beneficial to classroom performance to be dizzy off of vertigo.

Eventually I stopped moving. I opened my eyes to see the tube completely fogged on the inside and frosted on the inside. When I touched the tube, it was freezing. Strange...