"Did my dad really said this? I took a bath now and I just feel as I ate something bad and need to poke but I can't, what if my dad is right and I am really a weirdo and so antisocial, no he isn't right but beside that I begin to hate not having friends and being so unpopular; I give it a shot, in the new school I will try to make friends maybe even become popular but I don't think I can?!"
After a few months before the new year school year starts.
"Tomorrow starts the new school year I am a bit excited if I can really do what I planned, if I think back the last school weeks were ok, I acted as I didn't care and I felt pity for that girl; the good thing is the most believed it, I think I played it well but on the other hand the girls knew it was wrong, what shocked me even more that the girl was bullied already her first day to do it and she did it in the end, anyways I made a plan how I can become popular in the new school, I don't want to act as another person so I stay calm and not be loud and I will smile much and go up to as much people as possible and about my dad I distanced me much from him, he already asked me what's wrong I just said that everything will be fine."
"Did I wake up to late? No, I didn't I even sleep earlier to be in class as one of the first ones."
"MH, class 2-2 I think that's it, ok there are only three people here, one of them is sitting next to my seat, I think this will be the first one I go up to and to my luck I already learned Japanese since I am a child."
"Hello, I am Mercer Julian, what's your name!"
"I think it succeed, that was good from me I guess!?"
"My name is Endo Kaito, you are the transfer student, right?! Where are you from?"
"Yes, I am, and I am from America!"
"Cool, if I am allowed to ask, why did you transfer a year?"
"My farther is from Japan and he would go for a job one year here and he asked me to come with him."
"Nice, your Japanese is very good, were you already here?"
"And we actually still talked a bit until class began and in the rest of the day went more than just well I think I can become friends with everyone here, if this day would be a chess game you can say it was almost a perfect game of chess!"
"Next day has begun, I am excited and also nervous but less then yesterday."
"Mercer, wait for me!"
"Hu, is Endo living around there where I live, that's nice!"
"Hello!"
"Endo do you live around here?"
"Yeah of course why do you think I go here, ha-ha!"
"Then we are almost neighbors, cool!"
"That's nice but other question do you already looked for maybe some clubs?"
"No, I forgot but what clubs are there?"
"This school has so many clubs, I am sure there is a club for you!"
"Is there a chess club?"
"Yes, I even know some members and I think doesn't matter how bad you are everyone is allowed it, Hihi!"
"I almost didn't understand this sarcasm, close!"
"Ha-ha, yeah school ended now, I will just go now there, see you!"
"Hello this is the chess club, right?
"Do you want to join?"
"I would love to!"
"Ok nice, I am the president of the club, just write your full name."
"Could it be that you are the transfer student?"
"Yes I am."
"Ok cool, how good are you or did you ever play in your life?"
"I play regularly."
"Ok nice, do you want to play a match against me, my rating is around one-thousand-six- hundred."
"Of course."
"The president of the club had absolutely no chance against me, in the end every one of the clubs was watching us but the good thing there are still better players here."
"I said that she played very well and stayed polite and humble, getting arrogant would be poison for my reputation and would lower my popularity very much and would take long to recover from it."
"Do you want to play against me, my rating is two-thousand-one-hundred, I am the highest rated here!?"
"Ok, sure."
"His rating reaches me much further than the rating of the president, he might get me in trouble but I have to win, I already heard his friend group is the most popular at school even this huge school has over two thousand student, I don't need to say beating him can be good for my reputation!"
"I analyze the game right now at home, beating was very hard, I don't believe he is this rating he played like a rating of two thousand and five Hundert, but I still won; tomorrow I am excited if anyone knows about it?"
"This school day confused me much, nothing changed, and everyone still thinks that this guy is the best chess player in the school and the weirdest part everyone in the club said he is the best player at school, what did this guy? Did he maybe threaten them? No impossible, it was just a chess match, maybe should I just distance myself a bit from him and concentrate and getting more friends I don't need chess skills for friends, I just have a bad feeling about this guy!"
"Today is the fourth day of school, almost one week is over, in this one week I got much more popular than in years of my school back then."
"Mercer we need to talk.
"Yeah, sure is everything ok?"
"I am sorry but we as the chess club together and me as the president decided that you are not longer a member of our club, I am sorry!"
And she walked away.
"Are you kidding me!?"
"Was this the power of this guy but why and why does he has so much influence to kick me out?!"