5 Chapter 5 Back to School

In the taxi cab, the driver was very quiet. Jake thought that that was because he wasn't talkative or just hated his life, either one worked. Stray thoughts aside, he began to explore the new features he unlocked. First thing he did was immediately check on the Newbie Package that was sitting in his Inventory.

Jake selected the package and [Congratulations! Host has opened Newbie Package. Package contains 1x Basic Strengthening Potion, 2 Lottery Tickets, and has unlocked the new ability, Hero Mode.]

He immediately looked at his new Skill and was pretty surprised that the System had such an amazing ability.

[*Hero Mode (Level 1, 0%) - A useful ability that allows the user to alter his physical appearance to 1 set appearance. Once appearance has been chosen, user can freely transform.]

"Good because I don't think that putting on a pair of glasses will make others think that I'm not Superman," he murmured. The taxi driver hears him say that, gives him a weird look, but then just shrugs it off.

"Fucking weirdos. I know it's all the damn Japanese cartoons that's changing our people. It makes them think they are in some kind of television show or that they are a main character in a book. Grow up," the taxi driver thinks in his head.

They pull up to the school and Jake quickly pays for his ride and walks into the office to report that he has been released from the hospital. He enters the office and all the people inside begin to talk about him.

"No way man! I heard from someone that he got hit by the meteorite, painting the rubble of his room red."

"Are you stupid? They obviously carried his body away in an ambulance but I heard that he was covered in blood. How has he been released so early?" One of the people in the office says to the previous speaker.

Another guy says to the two of them, "I hear that he broke several bones and the government performed experimental procedures to heal him. That must be the reason as to why he looks fine."

Jake hears these ideas and just shakes his head. People tend to like to gossip and think they know how things came to be when in reality, they have no idea and that leads to such exaggerated claims and statements.

"Jake Griffs?"

Jake turns his head and sees a short, balding man approaching him. The man looks to be in his mid fifties and seems to hate life based on the scowl permanently placed on his face. "That's me," Jake responds.

"Follow me."

They both walk into an office that smells like sadness, depression, and cigarettes. Jake passes a jacket that smells of alcohol and he realizes that maybe the guy has been going through some very tough times recently.

"Sit down."

He sits down in the broken looking chair in front of the desk where the guy sits down heavily in it. "My name is Mr. Wade, I am one of the Vice Principals here at Boston University. I know that you have been through an extreme situation but that was in the past. You have recovered and now you need to focus on your studies. They come first and foremost here at Boston University and you have a lot to catch back up on. Now, about your room. Since your last one was... dirty, we have decided that you will be getting a new room."

Jake looks at the man who was so shameless and absolutely lied out of his ass and sighed. He realized that being shameless gets people places and if you are shameless enough, you can even become a Vice Principal at an university apparently.

After being assigned a new room and leaving the room he now calls The Pit, Jake swears to never go back in there and heads to his room with the hopes of having no roommate.

Along the way, he notices that the campus seems empty and after seeing that the time is only a little after 1:00 PM, he decides that he is going to get something to eat as the cafeteria is before his room.

With no line and no one inside besides a few cafeteria workers, Jake quickly got his food and decided to eat inside. As he sat down to eat, all of a sudden a large crowd of students seemed to charge into the cafeteria to eat. One person who got his food first, saw Jake and stood there frozen.

"Hey man what's up with you? You look like you've seen a ghost," says his friend right behind him.

"Look over there. Tell me that isn't Jake the Ghost Griffs. I heard that when the building blew up from the meteorite, he was killed."

Another person came up and pushed through them and ignored the two of them.

"Who do you think you are? Can't you see us two standing here?" said the first speaker arrogantly but his friend immediately stopped him from saying anymore by kicking his shoes. "These are the new Jordans. Do you have the money to even kick them?"

"Bro, that's Gayle Wescott. He's the new 5 star recruit quarterback and it's been rumored that his family is incredibly wealthy. He is a part of the 6 untouchables. Also I hear he has been chasing after Marisa Collins and both him and Victor Rodriguez have been butting heads over her." He gets close to his friend and whispers quietly, "The funny thing is that even though both of them want to get with her but she has made it clear that she isn't interested in either of them."

"Oh that is funny," says a voice behind them that causes both of them to instantly feel a chill run down their backs. Turning around, they see Victor right behind them smiling at them.

After spending a few seconds becoming closer with one another, Victor walks over to sit down, leaving the two with bruises and black eyes.

Jake sees all of this and silently laughs until someone he never thought would talk to him, walks up to where he is sitting and asks, "Is it okay if I sit here?"