White Online

”Yo. ” Marvin got seated on a cleaned-from-snow bench, where his friends were already gathered amid slight laughter.

”Hello. ” They greeted back, and the laughter died as the discussion turned from jokes to talking.

”Sigh… Should we just skip the school? ” Lionel suggested, and the only reason he was currently in the school sulking was that his mother forced him to leave the house.

”Nah, I have a hunch that this day might not be as boring as we first thought. ” Marvin said with a slight upward grin, ”Did you guys bring the helmets? ”

”Yeah. ” Lionel, Niko, Ins, and Derek nodded. A few of them demonstrated their open bags, which contained a VR Helmet buried among a sea of books.

Marvin grinned.

When the school bell rang, the students still on their way to the school building accelerated their pace.

Marvin and his friends stood up. They made their way to the school building, where they were greeted by an open glass door that led to the second floor. Once there, they found a large auditorium and sat down.

The auditorium was lit up with natural light, and there were over a hundred seats. A frozen lake and snow-covered trees could be seen through the large windows of the auditorium.

Marvin, Niko, Lionel, Ins, and Derek got seated in the last row. The seats around them remained empty— everyone else sat as far as possible.

Latecomers, however, were confined to the seats directly in front of them. A clear look of vigilance appeared on their faces, and they decided to keep their breaths as quiet as possible, hoping not to arouse the delinquent ’s anger.

Suddenly, the back door opened, and a middle-aged teacher with squinted eyes walked in with stacks of textbooks in his arms.

The door slowly closed on its own.