Everything's Almost Fine (Reignfinite)

Tyler paused, a fry between his lips. "Wait, what?" he asked. "I'm sorry, did you say six floors?" He was shocked. He didn't know that Starlight Academy was that big of a school. 'I mean, sure, the school grounds are pretty big,' he thought to himself as he swallowed another fry, 'but for a dorm to have six floors? For only college students?' Tyler wasn't even sure that there were only six floors.

He stayed silent as he took a bite of his apple pie. "Just... how big is Starlight Academy? I mean, that's a lot of floors for just college students? Is there only six floors or are there more?" he asked Adam, still a bit disbelieving.

"Oh," Tyler said. 'That made a lot of sense,' he thought, thinking about the different inconvenient physical powers like The Thing's or Hulk's. He wondered if some students had powers like The Thing or Hulk. Maybe some student was like Cyclops. Or Jean Gray. Maybe there's a Professor Xavier in the school. 'What if I'm on X-Men island?' he mused. 'That would be so cool.'

Tyler looked around him. If he was right, then they should reach the school grounds in ten minutes or so. When Adam told him that they didn't have any neighbors, Tyler's shoulders relaxed a little. No neighbors meant less people he had to worry about when leaving the dorms. "That's alright, I guess."

"Hey," he looked at the taller boy sideways curiously. "How about dorm parents? Do we have any?"

"Sure," Tyler replied, trying to sound enthusiastic about meeting Adam's other friends. It's been a really, really, really long time since he had hung out with any group of people. During the past six years he spent trying to control his powers on his own, either he avoided people or people ignored him. He was known as the quiet kid who sits in the corner, trying to just become invisible. It worked for the most part, but now that he had an actual chance of interacting with other people, it just made him nervous and just a teeny bit scared.

"I'm... actually not that sure," he told Adam honestly a few moments later. "I mean, you not included, it's been a long time since I've actually had anyone I could actually talk to like this." Tyler kept looking ahead when he said this, now able to see the school gates from their current location. They kept walking at a casual pace, not wanting to tire themselves.

"Actually, why don't we go to the dorms first?" Tyler suggested. If they went now, there would probably be fewer students lingering around, especially since lunchtime was nearing. They would probably be out eating or something. "I-if that's alright with you," he added as an afterthought.

"Have you checked out the dorms yet, by the way?"

Tyler shook his head. "The only part of the school I've actually checked out is the admissions office," he admitted. And he had only checked it out just a few hours ago, which was right before he met Adam.

"Do you think they have a school map on the campus?" he asked Adam as they approached the school gates.