On Monday, Ben woke up at 6:30, doing his morning routine. He took sports gear as today he had a gym lesson and he also planned to meet up with the tracer group in Stuttgart.
Ben went to school with a happy face due to the fact that he just became a millionaire and additionally created his first skills. If other people even had just one of these achievements, they would cry for happiness as it was the same as having succeeded in life.
Sadly, he still felt dead tired from the skill creations. On the way to school, he took a guarana pill to stop feeling tired. Guarana is a dried paste that is made from the seeds of a South American climbing shrub, that contains caffeine and tannin, it is often used as an alternative for coffee.
In the first lesson, he couldn't concentrate enough to work and ended talking with his friends about everything and nothing.
Alex: "I just can't believe that Dave Farrell died of cancer."
Tobi: "He just became 54 last February. It makes me almost cry of sadness."
Ben: "The destiny of a star is often early death."
Amadeus: "How come stars live so shortly, can't they stop drinking or take drugs."
Tobi: "The entertainment industry makes just too much pressure on the stars."
Thankfully today was Monday, he just had German, English, and Sport today.
During the lunch break, Ben was happily eating with his friends in the canteen.
Jonas: "Guys, don't eat too much. We still have to do sport."
Alex: "Why do we have to do basketball? I think it is a boring sport!"
Tobi: "Don't say that in my presence. I love to watch basketball games."
Ben: "Strangely, you are as bad as us despite loving basketball."
"What is happening to you, Ben? Today, you are so talkative and nasty. Can't you stop." Tobi asked Ben puppy-eyed.
"Does this mean you want me to stop talking or just lie to your face?" Ben laid into Tobi without thinking. Ben was talking due to the side effects without thinking, which made him a lot more talkative and sarcastic. His friends knew of his sarcastic and cynical tongue, but hearing him destroy them with his comments so often was still a considerable surprise.
"Can't argue with that question?" Said Jonas and laughed about Ben's counters.
"Guys, how far did you come with your house building? Does anybody need help to finish?" Asked Ben concerned.
His friends were almost finished and so declined his help. Having finished eating, they went to the gymnasium.
As all the male students changed in their sport wears, a strange discussion resulted.
Alex said passionately: "Wow, Ben, since when did you have a sixpack?"
"Since the day I was born." Ben answered arrogantly without batting an eye.
"Did a new competitor appear in our school? Don't think that you can seduce more girls than me!" Toby turned his head and joked.
"Don't joke around. Look at Ben's sixpack. If I had to compare him and you, then the biggest difference would be that he trained and you just thinned down to the point that your weak abdominal muscles became visible." Alex compared sincerely.
"Don't be jealous of Ben and me. Everyone is created by god. The only difference between us and you is that we can decide who we want to go out with and which one we will marry." Toby dissed Alex with no ill intent and made Alex purposeless feel ashamed of his fat body.
At that moment, a classmate, who just came in the changing room, shouted from the door:
"Guys, don't talk so much b*llshit! The sports teacher is opening the door."
The students first warmed up and then they played basketball. This was the last lesson before the gym teacher would evaluate their basketball skills.
As Ben was playing, one could only see average basketball skills. In truth, Ben had the energy to easily run and dribble faster than everyone, but sadly today he faced his mental limits due to the side effects early. If he gave 100%, he would make even more mistakes as his brain wouldn't keep up with his movement and his sight. Ben often threw the ball incorrectly, over-dribbled, or let the ball fall on his foot.
In the meantime, a girl group was passionately gossiping about the boys.
G1: "Eren just shoot 3 hoops in succession."
G2: "He looks so handsome while doing basketball."
G3: "Look at the other guys. They are just doing the minimum!"
G4: "Not everyone can be as good as Eren!"
G1: "Who do you think are the 5 best build men in our class?"
G3: " We are just talking about muscles? Then probably Paul, Fabian, Eren, Tobi and Peter."
G4: "Why did you place Eren after Fabian?"
G3: "Fabian is going to the fitness studio, you can see a difference at the biceps."
G6: "Shouldn't Ben also be in the top list? He has at least as much muscle then Tobi."
G1: "Don't believe that!"
G6: "Just look when he jumps for the basket!"
G4: "Not bad his muscles. Was he always that packed?"
In the break, Fabian went to Ben and asked him:
"Hi Ben, how are you?"
Ben was slightly confused, he never talked much with his classmate Fabian.
"Hello, I am feeling fine. How are you?"
"Also fine. I was curious, what you did to train your muscles so well."
"Ohh, I stopped tennis and began doing calisthenic and jogging. You play football and you go to the fitness studio, right?"
"Exactly! So calisthenic… It isn't the most efficient way to build more muscles."
"Yes, I know. I like Calisthenics as you learn to control your body and you can also brag about which exercises you can do."
"I see. So which exercises can you do right now?"
"I don't want to reveal too much, I can already muscles up, handstand, do diamond push-ups, and so on."
At this moment, the teacher whistled. The hall was then separated into two fields and the students played a basketball game on each of them.
The basketball teams weren't balanced well and so Ben's team lost pitifully. Ben wasn't concentrating on the game, he was constantly looking at the watch hoping it would point to 15:40, he wanted to meet the tracers. This was the most important thing to do today and surely be more interesting.
The side effects were beginning to weaken slowly.