Breathing heavily at the entrance to the class, Dale could see through the window that there have already been a few workers working on the new home for the snake.
Entering the classroom, everyone turned towards Dale, slightly startling him.
"W-What's the matter?" he asked in confusion
The girl who suggested keeping the snake stood up from her seat all of a sudden, even the snake got startled this time.
"Before we leave for P.E, shouldn't we decide for a name for the snake?" she said enthusiastically.
Then suddenly 8 girls got up, again, startling both of them this time.
"WOULD YOU STOP DOING THAT?!" he yelled but the girls ignored him and walked over to the board, all writing different name suggestions and giggling to themselves but then one of the girls turned around to face Dale.
"Is it a male or a female?" she asked with an unnecessary serious tone and a stone-cold pokerface.
"..Female" he answered, feeling defeated and tired of dealing with everyone, acting like they're in some sort of.. anima? anemia? he forgot what it was called again..
What? he was an average novel enjoyer, not an anemia fan.
⟨Endurance Lvl. 8 →Lvl. 9⟩
Now they started murmuring and whispering to each other mid writing on the board.
Multiple names were on the board.
Ziggy.. Ivy.. Naga.. Noodles.. Medusa.. Eve.. Layla.. Luna.. It went on.
Even the guys wrote a few names here and there but all of the girls declined them because they were "too hardcore for a cutie" as they said.. such as Rexy, Zilla, Rat Eater 3000.. yeaaahh.. no.
"So.. what do you pick?" one of the girls asked, looking at Dale with anticipation.
"Me?" Dale counter-asked in confusion, and even turned his head around to see if anyone was behind him, even though there were only the doors.
"Duh.. you are the one who found the little noodle girl" a random girl replied.
"...Do not call her that-" Dale said but another girl interrupted him "So what's your choice?" she said.
He contemplated looking at the many names and then at the little snake in his hand.
"Scratch all those options.. how about Nessie?" he offered.
Looking at the dumbfounded snake, she didn't seem to understand what the concept of naming was, so she probably won't express her displeasure if the name was utter garbage, but in Dale's opinion, it fits.
"It sounds good!" Jade declared all of a sudden.
The rest of the class looked at her and then she realized she just supported Dale and felt embarrassed.
She just supported Dale.. the one she humiliated and even almost killed.. maybe not by her own hands or on purpose but still.. she felt disgusting, suddenly siding with him.. was it because of the snake?
Then a few more girls supported her to make it less embarrassing, making her forget about it and just focus on now.
"Yeah I agree!"
"Me too"
"Nessie sounds like such a cute name!"
And so the name for the little serpent was decided, as the ratio of girls and boys in the class was 6:4, 6 being the girls, and all of the girls absolutely adored the name, so even if the boys said otherwise, as the minority, their voice won't count because the majority determines.
Staring at him with jealousy and anger, Jacob was leaning on the wall, like a predator hesitating to strike at its prey.
He was always the center of attention, and he craved attention.. but now someone who was once invisible gets all the attention, and Jacob gets none of it? absolutely un-fuckin-acceptable!
Jacob didn't think that Dale deserved such recognition or attention, and to think even Jade is siding with him, just because of a snake.. A SNAKE! He was going crazy thinking about it.. how the others must have definitely lost it.
It's just a snake yet everyone was swayed by it.. swayed by a snake..
Are they insane, or is Jacob the one losing his sanity? it doesn't make sense-
⟨Code Yellow Detected⟩
⟨Silencing 'Jacob'..⟩
-RRrrinnNnGggG!!
Then.. the bell rang, and he woke up from that trance, catching his breath.
Dale looked back at Jacob's direction, towards the window that appeared for a split second.
'..What was that?' he thought with uncertainty, he almost thought that he was hallucinating because of how fast it disappeared but he was certain that there was no hallucination, that window that appeared.. it was real.
For some reason the system was trying to "silence" Jacob.
Why though? And what the hell does that mean?!