I was extremely drowsy when period one started, I was surprised I was able to drive to school at all. Eventually I laid my head down on the desk and tried to let my drowsiness drift me off to sleep, the ramblings of the teacher prevented that though. “If fifteen is x and twelve is y what would you divide 4 by to get z.” I wasn’t even sure if that was the sentence that I had heard, my mind seemed to be in 4 places at once, yet absent at the same time. I eventually drifted off to sleep. I woke up 30 minutes later to the sound of the bell and, to my horror, my teacher standing above me. He had a concerned look on his face and whispered into my ear, telling me to stay after class. “You know this is why you’re failing my class right, you keep drifting off to sleep and blowing off all your work,” He said. “I know this isn’t the only class you’re doing this in either buddy, are you doing alright?” “I’m fine.” I said. What I said was the reality of the situation, I’ve never really cared about school, or family, or my appearance, or anything really. Things had been like that for as long as I can remember, I had never really had a reason to care about any of those things at all. The rest of school seemed to just fly by, not a single memory of was made that day, I couldn’t remember anything significant for the life of me. "“Riiiiiiiiiiiiingggggggggggg,” The bell went off at 2:20 like it always did. I walked towards the school exit and was about to open the gate before I heard some light footsteps hitting the ground behind me. “HEYYYYY!” Charlotte yelled out at me, before jumping on my back with her full body weight, it took all I had not to topple over. “What’s up Ms. Mannequin,” I teased her. “Very funny,” she said, sarcastically. “You wanna watch me play tennis we’re going against Viper Valley it’s gonna be a fun watch, trust me.” “Sure why not,” I said. There wasn’t much for me to do in the after school anyway so watching her wouldn’t be very hard to do. I walked across our campus straight into the Tennis courts and sat on the little bleachers that they had next to the fence. I scrolled through my phone until a cold breeze got my attention, it had been 20 minutes and not a single person had even stepped into the bleachers, let alone the tennis courts. Something was off and I wasn’t sure what it was. Before my mind had any time to wander I saw a little humanoid shadow scurry through the side of my vision. I was getting bored waiting for everyone to come so I followed it. I moved 20 meters and turned the corner, there was another flicker of a shadow, another 20 meters and a left and I saw the shadow again, but it was a little longer than the other brief flickers I had seen of it. I kept following it for what felt like ages. I checked my phone, I checked my phone. I checked my phone? I had blinked for a moment when I went to reach for my phone in my pocket and was back in the bleachers of the tennis court, this time full of people cheering and Charlotte going against the Viper Valley player, I was stunned for a long period of time but just chalked it up to some kind of daydream. Charlotte then scored at that moment and I cheered.

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