94 Shopping in the First District 1 (1/2)

By the time we had the luxury to look outside the window, the school was already a far distance away as it resembled an ant.

”I thought we weren't going to make it,” I said with relief.

Both Ellen and Shelly had yet to settle into the bus as they held onto the bars on the chairs.

Ellen leaned against the wall of the bus while Shelly got out a water bottle from her marble.

”Yea that was a surprise,” Shelly commented on my sudden change in direction.

”You know Luke would never let me shop properly and it would even worse when Alex joins us,” I answered why we took the hover bus.

From my time with changing partners when I first entered middle school, Luke didn't seem so strict anymore. Alex nagged me more often before I got sick as he scolded me severely to live up to his 'family name'.

Shelly agreed as she nodded her head pitifully with her gaze looking down onto the floor of the bus.

I almost went crazy from living with Alex for a week, but it was different with Shelly who was likely stuck with Alex for her entire lifetime.

I spotted a big facility outside the window that was a outdoor mall but protected by a barrier to prevent the rain or severe wind from coming in.

The barrier resembled a large glass covering but with hexagonal shapes as a pattern to decorate it.

You could tell what kind of barrier it was by seeing the pattern that was on the surface of the barrier.

The doors of the hover bus opened as we stepped down its stairs.

”Wow,” I gasped as I looked around my surroundings.

Each store had projections to advertise what they were selling and the robots greeted everyone that was passing by.

I had never seen this kind of scene before as I finally understood the first district's nickname as the futuristic one.

Everyone shopping here were wearing casual clothing unlike my designer clothes I usually wore that were given to me by Luke.

However, Shelly and Ellen did not look as fascinated with this place as much as I did.

”Did you visit a place like this before?” I asked them.

”Most stores in the first district are like this,” Ellen admitted as she took a glance to see what stores there were.

I was shocked. None of the stores I went with Luke were like this!

”But none of the stores I went with Luke were like this?” I questioned what kind of places Luke was bringing me to all this time.