Light overwhelmed the cafeteria as the rising sun penetrated the transparent windows and touched the stainless steel fixtures of the kitchen. A morning fog wisped across the courtyard, flooding it with vapor that would rise inch by inch, covering the benches and tables, covering the school. All life inside would be stifled without a sound. Boys, girls, teachers, staff, everyone. Life would cease to exist within the walls of Lincoln-Sudbury. The suffocating pressure of the impending school year pressed upon the brains and spirits of the students about to begin their first year. Their experienced guide and mentor stood before them. He glanced at the page of notes that he had prepared and set it down wordlessly on the table before him. …show more content…
These devils continually punish the damned in two ways, by their heavy guarding of campus and their refusal to provide a max-ed card. As underclassmen, you can have no idea of how torturous the campus aids truly are. They heckle and ridicule the students whom they forced to stay on the Lincoln-Sudbury campus. The demons ask stranded upperclassmen questions of conscience. Why did you not complete your community service requirement? Why did you not listen to the advice of your advisers to do your community service? Why do you act in such a lazy manor? They prevent the upperclassmen without max-ed cards from leaving campus by monitoring the elusive parking lot and threatening them with further damnation in the form of a detention. Each day they are revolted by those upperclassmen who refused their responsibilities and must remain within the confines of the Lincoln-Sudbury Cafeteria. ---O, my mentees and future upperclassmen, may it never be that a single soul here is found among the disturbing few condemned to spend their lunch break within these walls. I pray that not one of us may ever hear ringing in our ears the statement of denial: You may not receive a max-ed card. Disappear away from me into the cafeteria and its encompassing tortures prepared for you by the