"Hello, guys, looks were the first ones, ha-ha!"
"Hello , how are you?"
"I am good and you two!?"
"I think we're good right?!"
"Endo coming was kind of a save, the mood was changing drastically, in a bad way!"
"Yeah sure." Matsuda said in a slightly indifferent voice.
After a while also all the others came and then also the ones Julian didn't know about."
"So we are now for a few minutes in the liberty; one of those Matsuda brought with him is a guy that I think is unimportant, I think his name is Nagano Haruto or something, just unimportant but the other one is the girl that was explaining about the student council, I was thinking if she was doing that because she wants to stalk me or maybe a statement like: I am the one in control or am I interpretating to much?!"
"The studying was quiet, and I think if I tried to talk to everyone while studying it would be not so good but now in the café, I just give my best to make myself popular!"
"Now after the café everyone goes home, I am wondering if that girl was here because that's her friends or a plan, hu."
"Hello Mercer but could I be you are stalking me or trying to get close to me because what ever reason, only because I explained why you maybe got kicked out of the chess club or is it something different?"
"To be honest I thought you are stalking me or getting close to me, Endo introduced me to his friends and Matsuda was asking me if want to come for today."
"WHAT, REALLY? I'm sorry if that is true, this is uncomfortable now, hehe…"
"Everything is ok you don't need to be sorry, if you want, we just can go continue as friends and just forget, ok?!"
"Ok sure; oh, I haven't introduced myself, my name is Matsuda Kohara, if you we can exchange phone numbers?!"
"Yeah, sure but wait Matsuda, like the other Matsuda?"
"He is my brother."
"Ok, I need to get home now, you have my number, see you!"
"Interesting, this meeting today was not making my popularity higher but indeed gave me some insights, what can I do with those information's?"
"It is still early, and tomorrow is no school so I can play much chess!"
"I won a game!"
"Another one."
"Again."
"Again school, this is my second week here and I am already pretty popular and have many friends but Matsuda, I think he has in some way a suspect on me, the question is why and in what way?"
"Hi Endo!"
"Hi Mercer, I have that a student got expelled from school, did you also hear about it?!"
"No, I don't know anything about an expelled student does you know who and why?
"I don't him but he was attacking someone who is in the most popular friend group of the school the school says he had para-social relationship with the most popular girl in school but rumors are saying that she made him hope online for a date and relationship and in reality she only made it for fun and to destroy him mentally!"
"Weird! But do you think?"
"It is possibly that the rumors are true, but I don't think that much about it not because I don't care but because it doesn't change anything."
"But this also not matter for me now, I need to think more about how do I get more popular, maybe first step is to become most popular in class, being nice to everyone is maybe not enough I need to be there for everyone who needs something, I need to be as extroverted and charismatic as possible!"
"But how? I think I got a plan he-he; when I think about the most popular people in class what are they doing? Best cases I get friends with the most popular ones, maybe that is the way but what if people think I am just a random weirdo who wants to be friends with the most popular ones?
"The only way is to try it."
"So, this school day is over, hu, I why am there woman shoes at the front door?"
"Hello, Julian, I or more we need to tell you something, we are marrying !!!"
"What the fuck my mother died a few months ago and he not only dates or has a new girlfriend, but they also want to marry!!??"
"How long do you know each other?"
"Yeah, do you remember when I was sometimes was living in Japan a few weeks, I worked with her but now since we are again her, we found each other!!!"
"O-Okay, I go to my room okay, I have a lot of homework!"
"Sure, go if you want!"
"What is going on, I feel sick, so dizzy and… I need to go to the bathroom!"
"Ok I calmed down a bit the dizziness is becoming less but I poke; why just why?"
"And what scares me even more is that he said he knows her a long time ago from work, was there an affair or something?"
"I need to calm down I feel as I need to poke again, I-I just play chess, I need to distract myself!"
Julian played chess until the sun rose, normally now he would wake up for school; after being distracted and not feeling anything, he finally was getting out of this weird state he had never been and feeling suddenly all the tiredness and shock again.
"So, what now, I think I just go to school and act like nothing happened right?"
"Even I got this obsession about popularity I didn't think about it the whole time what is weird because I think much about it…"
"Speaking of popularity; right now, I got the idea of a kind of tool they could bring me lots of popularity, maybe it also has something good he-he!!!"