Chapter 45
The final school bell rang and I could not be more relieved. Pretty much every class I have been in today was just geared towards the quarterly exams. The unbearable amount of repetition these people needed to get just a fraction of an answer right. Today alone, I had been subjected to three practice exams, an oral recitation, and another period dedicated to reviewing the previous lessons. In all honesty, I pitied the school children of today. Back in the 1800s, you did not have to study even those ideas that have become obsolete since nothing solid had been really disproven. Now, everyone had to learn hundreds of years’ worth of information.
Laurie was waiting for me by my locker, hair in utter disarray and his usual bright eyes were bleary. His backpack was looped through on
