The classes until lunch break, he tried to recover a bit for the show time after.
Dong, ding, dong.
"Well, it's time now…"
He walked to class 2-6; he already spends much time for this class "Its better paying itself out someday" He still thought with his dry eyes.
"Are you Shimizu?"
"Yes, but who are you?" His eyes calm and bored.
"Tanaka said you know very much about computers and viruses, right?"
"Sigh…you know, how you got that one?" He seemed very annoyed.
"A link."
"You know, you shouldn't click on random links, right?!" Julian got kind of annoyed by him, he couldn't help but to think of a weird combination from Matsuda and Saotome, he thought silently "And you shouldn't talk with a full mouth, Buster!"
"Ähhm, mmm, so, öhm, what we can do is that ähhhm…gazes into nothing…we can…we…you can bring me your laptop or if it's a computer…we…ähh…I could come to you?!"
"It's my laptop, I also have the laptop here."
"Okay good, we go now in the cafeteria, you bring it and eat with us."
"Okay, I quickly take him and then I come, see you soon."
Julian´s eyes were twitching; it looked like a vein in his forehead would explode.
"Is this guy fucking retarted or did he wanted to provoke me, the other guys sitting with him also hold their laugh back, did they hold their laugh back because of him or because he made such a weird joke?"
A few minutes later after taking his laptop he went to the cafeteria and found them.
"Hey here is the laptop."
"Oh, it's you again, thanks, you are allowed to go know." He said in the most nonchalant way possible.
"He looks small weak; I could maybe beat him up…" He mumbled; it was more an instinctive thought than a real plan or intension.
"How long you think it is going to take?"
"I am done, here."
"R-really, that fast?"
"Yes."
Julian was still standing there in disbelief.
"Do you have else a device with a virus?"
"No, thanks again." He walked away with his eyes twitching, his heart beating faster.
"Hey, wait, this was a joke come here." It was Shimizu, he suddenly wasn't nonchalant anymore, he had a gentle big smile on his face, Julian was walking back again.
"Is there still something, you want money in exchange?"
"I am sorry, Hihi, please sit down and eat with us!"
"Äh, okay."
"Why are you so different suddenly?!"
"I always do that sometimes, especially when I meet someone knew, this guys here can tell many stories like this."
"Sounds funny but why do you do this?"
"I find it funny, this guy here…points at someone from the group…it provokes him so bad that he began to launch chairs, even one table to me, Hehe!"
"A very interesting guy."
"So, this is also the reason why the others held back their laugh…"
When Shimizu was not joking around, he was actually one of the kindest guys that Julian met in this school, and he already met plenty of people here.
Ding, dong, ding.
"Looks like we should slowly head back, hey Mercer, lets exchange numbers, in which class do you actually go?"
"Sure, and I go in the 2-2, and you?" He asked that on purpose, everyone found it funny.
Shimizu talked less than Tanaka or Nakamura, he was less a stereotype, what made Julian happy.
"Well, we see each other another time, bye!"
"I like this guy, but still back before I found out that it was a joke I am surprised that I really didn't beat him up!"
After school was over and he wanted to go one of the guys that also were with Shimizu approached Julian.
Hey, you know that Shimizu like you?!"
"Why do you think so?"
"For the most people he never does this type of joke he did because he knows how most people react and even don't understand it after he exposes the joke."
"He, why do you say this to me?"
"Not because I want to reach something with it but because I only want to let you know, but anyways, I also need to go now, bye!"
"Hopefully he hasn't a crush on me,"
"But jokes aside, I think this is going to be done fast, then I can finally go on…sigh…finally!"
After the weekend was over, he still spent some days with them, all of them, sometimes they were all together and three days in the week he had this feeling.
"I feel as I am done!"
"I can go now to the next class, I already tried to find out the theme about this class, it has none, what I mean by that it looks as it is a normal class, like back in America when you go in a random class, this is an advantage and disadvantage at the same time, the advantage is that I better now how mixed classes work because in America all of them were randomly mixed, but this can also be my disadvantage because the more different the people the more different things they like, the nerd class for example had all similar people in it, that means they probably like also certain people the same, in such a class it can become quick a problem that some like, some hate and some are indifferent about me because they are all mixed!"
"But we are going to see it anyways, the best thing I can do now is just to become friends with one in the class, and beside that being the most popular in this class doesn't means much popularity, I remember that myself, back then even though there were popular in people in each class those are not extremely popular because there are many that don't like them, the reason is again is because they are mixed up."
"The only thing I can do now is becoming friends with the most popular in class and then take a closer look about how the class is."
"But now I am again at the same moment, how do I find connections to them?"
Julian began to fall into deep thoughts on the way home, he thought much about different ways and plans.
"I wonder how school is there right now? Still, months later I am sure that this was the right option…how could I not think of that, even though I was antisocial I observed very much, also the popular people, how did they do this that even though the whole class was mixed up that they all liked them? Jason, Jason, Jason, how did such a asshole manage to do that…Hehe…why didn't I thought earlier about this, the secret is to find something you can be popular in every type of group or human to be popular, this Jason, the girls loved is looks and the boys liked him because he could talk and be good with everyone, beside the fact that Jason got exposed that he had multiple girlfriends secretly and spread rumors about various people.
"This means I need to find something that they all like, who doesn't like someone confident and charismatic that I also very kind?"
"Not many people do not like someone like this, but still even though Jason was popular in our class he wasn't that popular in other classes not because they didn't liked him but because they didn't knew him really well, this is also my problem now, the true difficulty of being popular is not just that people need to like you but also that they need to know you, this can even be harder often!"
He decide to do something that maybe gets him ideas, he made his room as silent dark as possible, he was laying himself in bed with a thick blanked, there were no senses beside the warmth of the blanked, he tried to think and think, he was determined to get an idea, now, he already waste too much time on this class, how could he get an idea?
In this type of state, he was so long that he fell asleep and suddenly woke up.