5 Refreshing discovery (1/2)

The next morning, Ensen slept in quite a bit. Since he couldn't get much sleep at all yesterday, it was a pleasant change. After he had woken up, he simply laid in bed on his phone, leisurely playing a game and checking various real-estate sites for new posts. But nothing caught his eye.

After a while, Ensen got out of bed and walked over to his kitchen while trying to hold in a yawn. He grabbed a quick glass of milk and began heating the stove, deciding he wanted to make a simple grilled cheese sandwich.

He began sloppily combining the ingredients. After a few minutes of cooking, he took the slightly scorched grilled cheese out of the pan and ate it quickly, wanting to get on the road. Ensen was slightly hopeful towards this new plot, and he was also extremely curious about it.

This particular plot of land was vastly different from the others. It was just slightly out of town, near a lake. It was a vast amount of land compared to the previous 2 plots, and there was a bonus... or drawback depending on how you saw it. There was an old school built on the ground, it wasn't a big school but any means, simply a few rooms but it was still something. From the pictures in the listing, it seemed pretty well maintained but you could never trust those pictures. So while his expectations slightly rose, he tried keeping a level head.

Ensen quickly got dressed and made his way to his car, driving through multiple districts of the city before arriving just outside the city borders. In reality, this area was not as bad as it seemed. While it was slightly outside the city, the upper-class district was located very close to this area. Keeping this information in his mind, he soon arrived at the potential plot.

The first thing he noticed when arriving at the plot was the sheer size of it. The plot dwarfed the others by several times. This was for two main reasons, first, it was outside of the city and in a slightly inconvenient place. But the second and greater reason was because of the school building itself. While Ensen considered it a possible asset and benefit in buying the plot, almost all other people thought of it as something that needed to be torn down.

In addition to this, tall trees surrounded the plot, leading to a private and enclosed feeling. This would be very advantageous for what Ensen envisioned for his private academy.

The plot itself was obviously not well maintained. The grass was heavily grown and places and there were small animal footprints scattered about the place. But on the bright side, they seemed mostly harmless. Ensen got out of his car and approached the plot. The pavement stretching from the road to the school had long been reclaimed by the earth, in its place was grass. The pavement was barely peeking out from the earth as if trying to reclaim its former glory.

Ensen looked at the small building in the center of the lot. It was nothing like the pictures at all. In fact, Ensen wondered if they took pictures of a separate school. The yellow sidings were falling apart, seemingly ripped off by... something, most likely kids fooling around. In the front, the steps were visibly rotten, This was most likely because of no maintenance and general bad design. Trying to ignore the obvious mess the school would have inside, Ensen decided to take a look around back before entering the building.

When Ensen turned around back, he noticed the gorgeous lake was quite close to the building. Only around 50 feet away. While there was no indication if the coast of the lake would be included in the property, he sure hoped so. It would be a beautiful addition if he could build benches and such near the lake for the students to study. But he was getting ahead of himself, he hadn't even seen the interior of the school yet, and if the exterior said anything about it, then it would be a lot of work.

After staring at the lake for a while with a look of longing, Ensen decided to enter the rundown school. Approaching the entrance, he noticed the windows were slightly crooked as if a testament to the age of the building. Trying to ignore the fact, he quickly opened the squeaky, barely working doors. He first entered a surprisingly wide hallway.

The hallway itself wasn't too bad when compared to the exterior. The walls were old dark oak planks that were seemingly taken from the surrounding trees. There were a few that were either damaged or fell off the wall, but most were in relatively good condition. Turning his attention to the floor, he noticed... there wasn't one.

The floor had been ripped up, leaving small bits of broken wood on the ground, with cheap plywood concealing some of the worst spots as if trying to mask the safety hazards for potential buyers. The floor in this room needed to be completely replaced.