The bell rang, Midori quickly put back her water bottle and wore her backpack. She went to the door, throwing the snack bag into the trash before leaving the French class. Walked to her locker, she took out her lunch box and went downstairs to the cafeteria.

Finished her lunch like any other days before, she went back upstairs to be in Study Hall. However, when she sat down in the room she used to go to for Study Hall, the teacher took attendance but she hasn’t been called.

The teacher asked, “That’s all, right? Did I not call anyone’s name?”

Midori glanced around and heard a girl spoke up, “You didn’t call me.”

“What’s your name?” The teacher checked for her name but found that she wasn't supposed to be in this class.

“But I went here every day before.”

The teacher then explained, “Today is the start of Second Semester, the schedule changed. Did you check your schedule?”

The girl was surprised and checked her phone. Midori’s countenance was no different than the girl as she also checked her schedule on the website.

“...”

The girl figured out where she should be and left while Midori was left speechless. Her train of thoughts froze as she slowly processed the fact that—

Lunch and Study Hall are now in sixth period and gym is fifth!? Right now is fifth period…

She packed up all her homework and strode to the teacher’s desk. Her lips were slightly pursed into a small smile. “I am not in this class.”

“Then what class are you supposed to be in?” asked the teacher.

She asked, “Which room is Mrs. Schultz’s?”

The teacher told her the room’s number then Midori asked with uncertainty, “Is it okay for me to go to Gym now, it is still possible for me to make it there, right?”

She stared at Midori and said, “Well, get going. The period doesn’t end until 15 minutes later.”

Trying to make her face calm because she was standing in front of the classroom, she strode out of the room and started running. It was uncomfortable running with a backpack, so, she ceased running and proceeded to the gym as quickly as possible with large strides.

When she was in the gym hallway where there weren’t as many people like in the cafeteria, her expression was amusing for all the camera to see. Had she known this early, she wouldn’t be galloping to the gym like she was being chased for her life.

Though it was my ignorance for not checking the schedule...But who would have thought that the schedule for the second semester would change?

...Almost everyone? It seems like I’m the only who is in such a dire situation.

Midori comforted herself. She had not forgotten about the girl that was supposed to be in another room for Study Hall. However, for someone who was striving for perfection in her education, she had never gotten herself into a situation like this.

She had been late for school before because of oversleeping, but not once had she been late to class due to a cause that she had complete control over.

Blaming herself for not checking the schedule and the school for not noticing her were utterly useless.

Next year, I will definitely check my schedule once the semester ended.

She noted in her head; even though, her schedule for next year would definitely not change because all her classes were the full-a-year type and not the one-semester.

No, not next year. My sophomore and junior year will both have full-year courses. It’s the senior year that I have to make sure not to show up late to class.

Despite the fact that Midori was a freshman in high school and was told that she had all the time in the world to think about her future years’ plans in school, she already envisioned her courses for later years.

Her schedule was organized and fixed, but also consistent. There were more than a handful of courses she wanted to take, however, she would not let herself thoughtlessly choose something that could be outweighed by another.

She wanted to try taking a cooking class since she thought it would help her in the future when she had to move out. Taking both psychology and sociology would be promising for her future. Accounting and business classes were definitely beneficial for her. A course about laws was also rewarding.

Regrettably, she couldn’t fit all of those courses all in her schedule; the schedule only had time for eight periods. She already had required courses in four fields that left her with only three periods for elective ones; three because she couldn’t skip lunch.

Students didn’t need to have a half-period Lunch and Study Hall when they ceased to be freshmen. However, that didn’t mean they have the half-period free, they had to have a full-period Lunch “course.”

She absolutely did not want to quit learning French and was determined to play the violin all four years. With those being set in mind, she only had one period freed each year to have a real elective course.

She was told that if she wanted to learn about Business, she should take the Intro to Business as her first Business course. Unfortunately, she didn’t have space for it and its benefits wasn’t really heavy enough to be prioritized compared to the other Business courses. She took quite some time appraising the assets of the different Business courses and whether she should consider taking Accounting.

Alas, she chose to take both Accounting courses, which took two years. Midori did some researches and figure that it would be better to take them in high school rather than university. As for the courses in Business, she would be taking a class on stock and investment, and a class named “Executive Business Management.”

It was not like the others were inadequate, but comparing them for days, only those two were of most value. It was not worthwhile learning something that could be self-taught.

For the field of Social Studies, she had a few choices other than history-of-something classes for her senior year. She chose to take law and sociology instead of full-year psychology. She could have dropped her fourth science class—since it wasn’t required to have a fourth year of science—to take psychology, but she wanted a honour diploma—which required four years of science.

I can just take psychology at university. Sister said that every student was required to take psychology at least once, so it is a waste of time to study psychology only to relearn it a year later. I can save a bit of money not take sociology in university, too.

Her schedule for all four years was really easy to remember—Math, English, Social Studies, Science, French, Orchestra, and the electives.