Megan walked down the halls, heading to her class. She was in class 4/2. She moved from Canada a few months ago to live with her older sister, who was studying languages in university.

The Class 2 kids had pretty decent stuff available to them. Not as nice as the Class 1 kids, but good enough that it was similar to back in Canada.

Not like the Wi-Fi at her old school ever worked well, anyways. It was almost an upgrade.

Megan was surprised when she got in to Ritdha Wittayakom, given that it was a very prestigious school and when she applied her Thai was awful. Honestly, she was afraid it hadn't improved much.

Then she was jolted from her thoughts by a boy bumping into her as he ran past.

"Sorry!" he yelled quickly, before turning the corner and disappearing from her line of view.

A teacher ran past her, grumbling about 'stupid Class 8 kids'.

Megan shook her head and continued towards her class.

Everyone was getting stressed, as their chance to move up was coming up fast. The Class 2 kids were only one spot away from the top- if they could just do well on the test, they would make it.

Well, two spots away from the top. There was, of course, the Gifted. Megan hadn't been able to find out much about the mysterious program, she just knew that they were the best of the best. The elite. The- well, gifted.

Upon arriving at her class, she slid into the seat next to her friend Ohm. He was one of the kindest people she's ever met. Forgetful, clueless and silly, but very kind.

"Hi, Megan! Have you been studying?" Ohm asked excitedly.

"Of course. Although, I'm so new, I doubt I'll be able to move up." Megan replied.

"Oh, come on. Don't think like that! I'm sure you'll do great. Besides, you're not that new."

The teacher entered and they all fell quiet, paying attention for once as she started the lesson.

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When Megan and Ohm got to the cafeteria for lunch, there was a commotion in the center of the room. Curious, they weaved their way through the cafeteria and got close enough to see what was happening. Luckily, only the 1's and 2's had been released for lunch so far, so it wasn't very crowded.

Two boys were facing off. One was a Class 1 student, the other wasn't wearing his badge. She jumped a little when she realized that the boy without a badge was the one that ran into her that morning.

"That's Wave," Ohm whispered, pointing at the Class 1 student. "He's a math and tech genius. Everyone's expecting that he'll be in the Gifted program."

"Thanks," Megan whispered, cursing her minimal knowledge about the other students.

"The other one....I don't know."

"He ran into me this morning," Megan whispered back. "He just apologized and ran off."

"Huh. Small world."

"Yeah," Megan said, frowning slightly. It was odd.

"Anyways, I don't think it's really our business," Ohm said.

"Agreed. Let's just go eat lunch." Megan said, pulling Ohm towards an empty table. Time to move on and forget about it.

But she just couldn't shake the feeling that something was off.