New Eden

The Beginning

I wake up to the buzzing of my alarm clock. I hit the snooze button then the radio kicks on some news station as the seven day forecast is being discussed. I yawn, stretch then see that it is 6:32. There is a knock on my door, "Jesse you're gonna be late." My mom calls from the other side of the door. My parents are not my biological parents and told me that I was adopted when I was twelve, kinda figured that out when I knew canines don't come from felines, if you catch my drift. I throw the covers off and jump out of bed, "I'll be just a second." I call to her as I try to find descent looking clothes. I find only a pair of black jeans and a red T-shirt with a dopey band logo of a dog with a mug of some sort of alcohol and the word Afterlife underneath, I then grab my phone, wallet and bag. As I go to open my bedroom door I hear my dad yapping at Amber and Jammie,"Shit he's up." You see me and my dad never got along because of the whole 'Ain't no son of mine gonna be a canine' deal and considering I'm adopted you can put the pieces together. I sigh then make my way to the front door, the smell of breakfast makes my stomach growl. My dad is sitting in the recliner glued to the TV screen, but he notices me, "About time you got your ass up." I cut him a look as mom shakes her head at me, I just shrug my shoulders. My mom is the complete opposite of my dad, sometimes I wonder how they met. "You staying for breakfast Jesse?" She says to me as I start to head out the front door, "No mom I'm in a hurry." I say as I grab my hover board, "Not only is he a bum, but he doesn't want to eat his ma's cooking." My dad says, I let out a little growl at him then leave. Not much is different from our schools and the humans schools, or so I'm told. We learn our people's history, learn how to read and write, pretty much the basics. Only difference is that we graduate at the age of 16, only a few weeks until I'm on my own. The high school I go to is a 'Co-race ed' which, in a nutshell, means any alien race can attend. So with that said you can make a variety of enemies, or endless friends.  I toss my hover board on the ground then it extends and hovers a few inches off the ground. I hop on it, tap my right heel twice then head to school.

I get to school and to my relief it's 7:02 and class hasn't started. The school courtyard is like a downtown plaza instead filled with teenagers of different races. I hear a familiar redneck accent in the crowd in front of me, "Hey Jesse!" It's Daryll. Daryll is a canine breed, like me, with a caramel and brown coat pattern resembling mine except mine is a snow white and ash grey pattern. He is wearing a red flannel with a worn pair of blue jeans and a pair of black work boots. He approaches me with a big smile, "What's new with you?" he ask trying to make conversation.  I haven't seen Daryll since his mother passed, ever since then he was 'living off the grid', "Nothing much what about you, you finally decide to show up a few weeks before my graduation?"  Daryll shrugs his shoulders, "Been busy my old man wants me to go enlist, but my girl wants me to stay." I chuckle a little, "Looks like you got your hands full." I hear the bell ring then Daryll and I head for class, "No kidding, you gonna join the fleet?" Daryll ask, I shrug my shoulders,"Don't know I don't think I'm trooper material." Daryll looks me over and scoffs, "Quit bullshitting yourself you'd be perfect." And he wasn't wrong. I had the build of a trooper and the brains of a master engineer. I sigh,"I don't know, maybe I'll get stupid one day then the next I'm the captain of a Dreadnought." Daryll laughs and pats my shoulder as we part ways and head for class.