Overcoming the systems

The expedition

When the day of the expedition arrived, the whole school had completely changed.

Luan was carrying two suitcases. He was nervous, his hands were shaking a little, he didn't know what he would find on the trip. From the few comments he had heard from the second year students, the place where they would be was a village.

He looked at his watch and went downstairs to meet the group in the small square. All his classmates were there. Several buses were waiting for them, all organized by classrooms.

Slowly the buses left for the airport. The director and the administrators were leaving them. From far away, the director and several people who administered the school were dismissed. Gradually they drove away from there, and began their journey.

The arrival at the airport was equally much more complicated for them. There were other schools there that would be going to the same place as them. There were more than eight of them and they were sorted by years. They put some kind of bracelets on their arms. Red ones for the second years and yellow ones for the first years. Where they would go on this expedition, there were only first and second year students. Specifically, class one and two would go together. At once they began to integrate them, they began to put them together and started with Alison, they sent him to sit next to the representative of class 1. He just moved forward without saying anything, while Alejandra avoided causing any misunderstanding. She had not participated in the fight between classes, but belonging to that class, she was nervous to be next to Alison. She didn't even try to look him in the eye.

Liz watched the scene without saying anything, hoping for a change of heart from the class. After this humiliation they were being exposed to.

Everyone was mixed in with that class, it felt a little uncomfortable, but we were all forced to behave. Since they were next to other schools.

The plane took off for town and turbulence started to be felt every minute.

Luan had to sit with a boy named Rivale, he was black-eyed and blue-haired, he had a somewhat updo, he seemed to dislike her presence. Unfortunately, the white-haired boy knew that he could not see anything in her system. He could only wait for them to arrive at the place where they would be staying. He still had time to do his daily mission.

Unlike the boys, the women of both classes seemed to have already integrated, giving the impression of getting along well.

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When they arrived at the airport, they had to get on a bus and were again integrated with other second classmates. Luan was a bit scared, if he did not arrive on time he would not be able to fulfill his daily mission.

The trip continued until they reached their destination. It was a mining town that was a little bigger than they had been told. They had to get their bags down and go on foot. They thought it would be a big house or a nice place but they found something like a military base.

None of them knew what to say, it was as if we were at war or doing military service.

Everyone without protesting had to take a tour of the place.

The dormitories were large rooms but they were given new mattresses for each of them. The floor looked cold and in this part of the country it was not long before winter. They were told that they would be integrated with a school where the majority were women, the name of the school was Junge Studenten. This was done to balance the rooms because at North Walt there were many men.

In the rooms there were 30 people, the teachers would also sleep with them. Time went by and when we least expected it was about 6:00 p.m. It was about 6 o'clock in the evening.

Luan decided to do his mission in that place without bothering anyone. There he did almost 50 sit-ups and 100 arm exercises.

Unfortunately for Alison they arranged them as they did with the bus and the plane, but now with another school.

We were being handed out. The white haired boy would be in a dorm with a group where most were from class 1, and some from his homeroom, and about 4 from another college.

No one interrupted Luan in his exercises, since for no one it was relevant, for everyone it was normal.

Alison reached Luan and went to him.

-What's the matter Alison," asked the white-haired boy.

- It's nothing important, we'd better hurry to choose a place in this room. Since no one knows where to place, the teachers are the ones who are going to supervise everything.

Suddenly two teachers and the rest of the students who were missing from the room came in.

Class 1 grouped together on the left side and the rest chose the missing places. Oscar a classmate in the room, who belonged to the rowdy group. He had talked some of our classmates into keeping Alison away from class 2, so he and his partner were left in the back corner.

They both put the suitcases in their respective places. The room was already spread out, but it was almost 7 o'clock at night, so everyone had to get ready for a shower after the long trip.

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A short time later the group of North Walt's men were assembled in the bathhouse, but they found the place quite a mess. There were dozens of men bathing in the showers and pools on the premises. It was a place ripe for any incident.

Alison was sitting on one of the benches, waiting for a few people to come out and take a bath, but gave up when she saw that this would take a long time. She decided to use her system and go to one of the strangest places there. Suddenly he got up and tried to leave, at that moment a girl opened the door, and some men were annoyed by this. He went out with the girl and everyone started to murmur, a few wanted to open the door from inside, but it seemed to be locked.

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In the hallway of that place, Liz and Lucia were looking for the women's restrooms, but they couldn't find them, they had separated from the group, and they were lost, a girl from another school was over there, and they talked to her.

-Excuse me, where is the girls' bathroom," asked Liz.

-In that door a few meters away," she said.

Lucia immediately listened to her and headed that way.

While the other one doubted the woman's answer, she began to analyze the gestures she made and came to the conclusion that she was lying.

-Don't open that door," Liz shouted, but it was too late.

When she opened it, a boy came out, and prevented the rest from seeing who it was. He slammed the door shut.

-Why are you trying to go into the men's room, are you looking for someone?

She had her head resting against Alison's chest. She was embarrassed and unable to look him in the eye.

-A girl...eh.... told us....this was the women's restroom...-she answered a little embarrassed.

-Okay, I understand, I'll take them there, don't be embarrassed, you didn't do anything wrong," said Alison.

Liz walked over to them and they went to the girls' bathroom.

He left them at the door, and the blue-haired girl was going to go in first, while Lucia stayed there, and started talking to Alison.

-Did you know what was going to happen?

-I didn't know, I was just coming out of the bathroom and I saw them.

-You know what bothers me the most about you, is that deadpan, perfect boy attitude you show, diminishing things, you know maybe someone will tell the teacher what happened and I'll get called out for it.

-No one else saw you, they only know it was a girl, but not how it was, and if someone asks, I won't say it was you, just be careful, there are a lot of unscrupulous people.

-Why are you doing all this, just because the director demanded you to help me.

-Lucia, you're my partner, I wouldn't want you to be bothered by those stupid people. And I'm not the perfect guy you think I am.

Alison, without warning, took off her shirt, revealing her scars on her body.

Lucia was silent for a while and asked her.

-Why are you showing me that?

-For several days now, I notice an indifferent behavior on your part towards me, you think that everything has been easy and simple.

The girl bent down and handed him her shirt.

-All right, put on your shirt and leave, I don't need you to tell me your story.

He put his hand on her shoulder and spoke to her.

-I know there is some discomfort because of the internal competition in the school, but Lucia, we are classmates, I will support you in whatever you need.

-Alison, let's not talk about it anymore, let's just pretend nothing happened," she said and went into the women's bathroom.

Alison put on her shirt and walked out of the hallway, very confused by Lucia's attitude, the competition between students was stressing the girl out.

Liz saw the whole scene and with a playful attitude started to tease the girl.

-What do you think of Alison?

-I still think the same thing.

-Mmmm, is it because of Adrian?

-Yes he's been right, about most things, so for now I haven't changed my mind.

-But I was watching you, curious to see him like this. I wonder how far the scar on his abdomen will go.

-Liz, you're a pervert," replied Lucia, blushing a little, because she had such a doubt about him.

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Alison returned to the men's room and was surprised by several boys, who asked about the woman who had wanted to enter.

-Who was that girl?

-I don't know who she was, she left as soon as I got out," he answered.

-We tried to go out to see, but the door was stuck for a while, you did it.

-I didn't do anything.

Several people grabbed him by the shirt, when they saw his refusal to speak.

-Hey, you're going to get in trouble, if he doesn't want to talk, we can't do anything," said one of the boys.

-Watch your back, kid," commented some of them and left him alone.

There weren't as many people as before so Alison headed for the shower. There she took advantage of the moment where no one was paying attention to her and started to look at a map of the place and strange people in the place.

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When bath time was over, everyone gathered in the living room.

Each school was made in a specific place and avoided meeting with other schools. There was a certain amount of secrecy among everyone.

Dinner was handed out by site staff on a tray with their plates and cutlery. Everything was tidy.

Alison was sitting next to Saul, at that moment a student from another school approached the table, and we were not wearing a uniform, but by their corpulence and size we could understand that they were sophomores, one of them was purple eyes and orange hair with blond tones and somewhat spiky hairstyle, and he spoke to her.

- You are Alison, right?

-Yes, I am," she answered.

-Well, half of the men would like to know who that girl was, who wanted to go into the bathroom, if it was the other way around, you can guess what would have happened. We just want to apply gender equality.

-I don't know, she left as soon as she saw me, the only thing I know is that she had blonde hair.

-You think we are stupid, obviously you know who she is, you locked the bathroom door to prevent us from going out to see who she was.

-Look through all the blonde girls and ask then," said Alison.

-We're a year above you.

The teacher who was there at the time intervened.

- Please, boys go away, if you keep bothering us we will file a report, to your school, for trying to harass a girl.

-Okay, we'll figure out who it was.

They left, but Lucia was showing her concern for what had happened. One stupid incident caused half the camp to split over something so normal.