"This place is amazing, man" exclaimed Nyx.

I was inhaling the view as we were entering a big hall. Unlike the other places on the space station school, it was made to look soothing and cosy. Artificial but beautiful wood was covering the place. A warm vibe was floating in the air. 

There were Rows of tables and chairs. Synthetic fire was burning in the fireplaces placed in every direction.

"Yeah bro; no objection" I smiled.

I looked behind and saw all 250 of us have entered the place. The door behind us closed itself with a loud hiss.

A tingling was going inside me. I searched for familiar faces, I found Nyx who was standing far behind me followed by Bill Lauren.

"I think everybody is here" boomed the professor from the speakers. He was standing at the front of our line. He waved his hand and half of us made another line.

"I must welcome all of you again". Professor Strane continued "You all must be eager to study," he said boringly.

"Don't you think his name is somewhat 'Strangish' I chuckled to Nyx on the call. I heard a small laugh in reply.

"Keep quiet, roll number 11 and 90," Strane said. Everybody in front of me turned around. His voice was monotonous so it was hard to identify whether he was angry or not, but I sealed my mouth anyways.

"I think by now you must have discovered some of the features in your suit," he said "You have a built-in A.I; also check your wrist and slide your hand on it.

I looked at my wrist unlike my collar which was somewhat hard than the rest of the suit, the wrist area showed nothing extraordinary but it had a thin black strip. I swiped my hand over it.

Digits appeared in bright white light. It took some time to understand them. They were for some basic things like time, temperature and some more features. 

It was 6:27 PM on Earth. Here in space-time does not matter sun or moon is always visible which are far more beautiful than the artificial ones.

"uh-uh," Mr strane cleared his throat.

Everyone's eyes turned towards him. "Now you all may take seats. On every seat, there is a smart device for you. Take it and after that, you will be provided food" Said a boring Mr Strane.

I looked at the table, something grey was on it. Everybody walked slowly towards the table and took a seat. A screen large as an A4 sheet was lying. I touched it and it woke up. Some words appeared. It felt like it was absorbing my fingertips.

"Fingerprints have been taken"

"I lifted the device, It was super light. It showed my specifics-

Name- Remus H. Fletcher

Blood type- AB+

Height- 5'2

Age- 13 years

Gender- male

Roll no.- 11

Likes- Food

Dislikes- knowing that he doesn't know.

Everything was correct including the last two things, I don't know why it showed it though. The screen blinked and a home screen appeared.

It had some apps with names of vivid subjects, I don't even know existed. A folder named games was also there, which seemed very tempting but I resisted. This device was a really high tech thingie.

I turned it around. 'SPORE' was written on it. It had a matte finish. I noticed a hinge was there, taking it as a cue I put some pressure on it and the device folded. Okay, this was cool.

"I think you all liked your devices," said a boring voice "Now fold it and keep it in your pockets. It is time for food".

I searched for pockets and found one on the lower leg I kept it in there. I felt the table in front of me moving, actually, all the tables were moving. Their tops were gone and the hall got filled with a beautiful smell. 

Another level of the table was coming from inside it. It was filled with loads of food. Fish of 6 types, pickled lemons, salads of cucumber, and platters of biryani, plates full of different cakes, grilled sandwiches and seasoned popsicles arrived. 

My mouth was intensely filled with saliva. Everybody was looking hungrily at the food. Even Mr Strane was staring at the food (which looked funny).

"The food looks good," said a girl sitting next to me.

I nodded in agreement.

"We shall start now," said the professor as he took a seat.

Everybody started wolfing the food down. I was relishing it down slowly, taking in all the flavours that my tongue can manage.

The tale of salmon was in my mouth when I looked behind me. Dextera was sitting there, eating a pastry delicately with her long beautiful fingers(lol).

She was wearing the roll number 001. But were two tables far from me. I don't know how but she was not sitting roll number wise, I guess nobody was.

She looked up and I blushed, turning my head 180 degrees.

The rest of the meal was finished really fast.

xxx

We were sent to our rooms after our bellies were full. We had to follow lights that were glowing in the corridor. 

We were free to choose our room. We entered a place that had many honeycomb-like structures. They were stacked one upon other up to three and were grouped in 15.

"System online Kiwi," I said as I saw other people using their suit's assistant.

"Hey boss" it replied in a mildly robotic voice.

"What are these things?" I said.

"These are your living quarters. They are a design borrowed from an old Japanese hotel. It was called the capsule hotel, but here we have improved them and turned them hexagonal and they are quite spacious.' 

this is the information I got from the archives of this school" finished kiwi

"Oh ok," I said thinking which room I should take, "call Nyx Kalra"

"Rodger that boss, should I add Nyx to your favourites," kiwi said and called Nyx.

"Yeah sure," I replied.

"Hello, where are you, man?" Nyx said.

"I was asking the same question," I said staring at the crowd of kids. "Okay I am standing near the gate" I wanted to have a room beside Nyx's.

"Coming," he said.

I ordered Kiwi to cut the call. I saw Nyx jogging towards me. 

"Which room should we take?" children had already taken many of them. 

"Those on the corner look quite good too me." He said 

"Okay" I nodded in agreement.

We headed towards the rooms. I took the highest one, leaving Nyx with the middle. 

"Okay so goodbye for now man; I think," said Nyx.

"Yeah sure, bye; good night" I yawned

I checked the time, it was only 8:19 PM. But the day was so tiring. the room was quite big. I could sit there comfortably, but while standing the ceiling almost touched my head.

I touched a button near the door and it closed. It was a led panel, it had many options. I touched the button where it said 'incognito'. The panel turned from transparent to glossy black giving a touch of privacy.

The room was 8 feet long, with a white bed. I sat on it feeling the softness of the mattress.

Somebody knocked on the door. I opened it.

"Hey, so you got this one" Dextera said, smiling at me.

"Oh hey, yeah I think I got this room" I winked at her.

"I just came for asking if we can just, hmm change our rooms, please," she said politely. "At my home, I never got to sleep on the upper bunker, my sister always got that."

"Ohky" I shrugged and then smiled

I got out, she said that she was left with the bottom-most. She bombed me with thank yous. I said it's okay. 

When she entered the room and closed the door. after some time I knocked on the middle one. 

"Hey man, do you need anything," said Nyx yawning.

"I was saying, can you, can you give me this room" 

"Why so, what happened to the upper one,?" he said suspiciously.

"I gave it to somebody else," " and you know; the lower one got more features" I lied

"whop, okay, this one's your," he said

I took the room feeling kinda bad for lying to Nyx, 

I closed the lights and slept. 

xxx

a note for the readers- 

hey folks I am back. I haven't written for so much time, I think it will take some time for me to get back into the flow

last time @Cute_Boba voted for small. That is why the rooms were small

Thanks, everyone for being with the story even when I haven't posted for more than a month. I hope this chapter was quite filling. Love you all.