A month after James' fifth birthday celebration, his parents bought everything he wanted, a small drum set suited for kids, acoustic guitar, electric guitar and an electric bass guitar. They are all small in sizes, though the bass was still quite heavy, he persisted.
As for his music teacher, since the teacher has no other choice, his parents acceded and asked the teacher to follow his wish. And so, the music teacher taught James all he knew about these instruments and since he was a great drummer in his past life, his drumming skills revived back as if it just needed some more push before he could remember every drumming skill he had. As for the guitars, though he had prior experience, with the music teacher's help, he improved it further, and after a few months more, he could do major and minor arpeggios and all.
The same thing happened to his bass playing.
As for his schooling, his parents hired a kindergarten tutor.
'Again, damn rich parents.'
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After reaching his 6th birthday, James has to attend an elementary school, so his parents arranged his personal driver, as well as being his butler, to drive him to and from his school.
Due to this set up, his classmate's parents as well as other kids viewed him with envy, but as an old man in spirit, he did not feel any annoyance, and just viewed these kids as "kids". Literally.
As for schooling, James did well and always scored high enough that his teachers for the whole year asked his parents, in a parents meeting, if they wanted him to accelerate and level up to grade 4. His parents were overjoyed by his performance so when they asked him, he said "Yes" to the offer.
'So next school year, I'll be a fourth grader instead of a second grader. That's cool. I can skip grades more and ask for a break later to "make" songs and recruit band members.'
'And maybe… ask my parents to set up a simple recording studio… well… I got to impress them first, right?'
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1977, September.
'Ah the start of my 4th grade life as a 7 year old!'
And so, James' classmates were quite older than him but it did not bother him the least and just listened to his teachers and did his homeworks.
Same routine, his butler will drive him from and to his home.
For other students who see him have this life, they could just die from anger and jealousy, who cares?
After his 8th birthday though, 1978, he was again asked if he wanted to skip grades directly to grade 6, of course, he said "yes".
'Who the hell wants to endure these easy subjects and immature kids!?'
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September 1978, the start of the new term in Ocosta Elementary School and James had just stepped out of the car after his butler opened the car's door. After he looked around, he saw the other students just looking his way for a few seconds and just turned their faces away and walked inside the school's gate.
He just shrugged his shoulders not caring about what had just transpired a few seconds ago. As for his butler, he has been used to such carefree stances of his young master as if he was serving an old man rather than an immature kid. He had reported this as well to the master of the house, James' father, and he was told to just go along as James was quite different from the other kids his age. He accepted the fact that since he was hired two years ago, all kinds of un-childly behaviors he could see from the young master has been the norm afterward.
Snapping back to his day dreaming, the butler bowed to James and drove off. James, again, shrugged as this kind of awkward behavior from his butler has been the usual since he was hired 2 years ago.
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At the classroom, he entered the room and just found an empty seat. Just like what had happened last year, his new classmates started staring at him as if he was an alien who descended from the sky. Everyone murmured, some were staring at him with interest, some were having bad intentions but he just closed his eyes, and did not talk.
As soon as the bell rang, the teacher entered exactly at the time the class should have started. It was a female teacher and as soon as she reached the table, she looked at James and started introducing him to the class, with pride and complete details of why he was in the class, as well as the very outstanding behavior he had portrayed despite all the accolades he just attained throughout since he started in the school.
James' classmates automatically clapped for everything and when he was asked to introduce himself, he said his name and where he lived and his age, that's it.
As bland as usual, just like last year.
His new classmates were taken aback, but some viewed it as his arrogance. But for him, these things were nonsense.
The class started after these shenanigans and when lunch break arrived, he went to the cafeteria and bought his lunch.
As soon as he sat, some kiddie group, quite bigger than him, were walking toward his table and when he ignored, but fully alert, they quickly sat at the opposite seat. The "leader" of this kiddie group smiled at him and called him "Freak".
James smiled at this "provocation" from a kid and just continued his meal. With some of the other students staring at his table, some were amused, some were expecting something and some were worried.
When James smiled, and continued to eat, the "leader" of this kiddie group's face turned to a sour one and continued provoking him with "bully" words, and after a few attempts, they were still ignored by him.
And when the "leader" of this kiddie group signaled to one of his "lackeys", the kid smiled and slowly moved his hands toward the tray where James' food was placed.
"Ooops!" The lackey pushed the tray to the end of the table and it dropped along with all the utensils.
"So, what now, freak?" The leader of this kiddie group smiled.
James looks at the leader with a blank look.
'Well, these kids need a lesson, why not use my parents' power right now? I wonder how these kids will piss their pants if their guardians will be the one to be implicated by their idiocy?'
And then from his blank look, he turned his mouth into a smile.
"Oh look at this freak, he could still smile!" The leader laughed along with his group of kiddie lackeys.
"You got something to say, FREAK!?" The leader added.
James started talking, "Just one thing, since you guys disturbed and upset my lunch, how would you like your houses damaged too? And if you hit me, I'll make sure your parents and guardians will be beaten up and they will spend more than 3 months in the hospital. How'd you like that as an offer?"
The kids, along with the leader, were surprised by his words and were suddenly silent. One of the leader's lackeys even started getting shaky and nervous when he heard his sentence about their parents and guardians.
"You think I believe you could do all that!?" The leader of this bully team asked back with slight aggression.
"Well, as you see, I'm fucking rich and you ain't. So? What will it be? Will you hit me too? I will give you once chance to scram the fuck off or bear the consequences of your actions. All of you will be implicated." James used some deep words to make it more serious, but in all honesty? He was fucking serious.
'I'd love these stupid kids to do it, and see the consequences of their childish actions, haha!'
The lackeys started shaking and asked their supposed "leader" to go. The leader was also scared so he just threw one more attempt and called him a "Fucking Freak!" and ran off.
After they got some distance from him, he stood up and picked up the utensils and put them back into the tray and walked to the place where the students should leave the used utensils.
The other students just looked at him with curiosity and amazement on their faces. Some even started having a crush on him. But whatever the case it may be, he ignored it all and went back to his classroom for the next class.