Dario, Boor's older brother rushed into Boor's room and scolded in a very shrill voice "Boor why did you leave your darn phone in the bathroom?! It's been ringing for an hour!" he complained, cell phone in hand. Boor snatched his phone from Dario's hand "Give me that! Piss off!"
Dario grumbled "Ack.. My ears are already hurting from this message ringtone sound. Does he have a girlfriend or something?"
Boor, who tried to push Dario out of the room, bickered back to his words "Girlfriend? Rich coming from you!"
The door slammed shut firmly and Dario yelled loudly through the house "MAM! Boor doesn't know how to behave"
Boor yelled back "Mom ain't even home, idiot!"
Boor quickly opened his chatting app and refreshed it a dozen times.
"weird.."
The doleful Boor noticed that they were just unimportant messages, not from the certain texting app, a bit angry with the one who sent them.
"Which imbecile spammed me?"
Boor read the texts, his face growing more and more astonished by each message
<[ mam ]
<[ mam ]
16:05
<[ where are you ]
<[ pls tea ]
<[ mam tissues ]
16:49
<[ call taxcher ]
missed call ( 3 )
————-new messages————-
<[ where are yoi??]
[ wth ]>
Boon's eyes widened when he saw the reply
'Mom? that's so unexpected'
However his face went ashen when he glimpsed at the contact name and his sweaty phone started slipping from his hand again.
"Oh, No no no!
finally he got his grip back on the phone, his thumb pressing all the buttons on his screen.
<[ hjkm ]
<[ .. . . .▶️]
(1 sec)
<[ Don't listen to that!! ]
——
Boor's confusion grew even bigger. Although his anger too.
"So Dario had to make all that fuss and i got excited for nothing?"
———-
<[ hjkm ]
<[ deleted message ]
<[ deleted message ]
[ whats wrong with you?]>
<[ sorry! sorry sorry! ]
<[ that was an accident! ]
[ alright. dont bother me]>
[ unless its important i guess]>
—-
Boon was about to type "Okay" and stop texting until something would have come up that they would have to text each other again, however he stopped his fingers from typing his planned response when Boor messaged him about what Boor had noticed.
| Boor |
[ youre sick? ]>
—-
When Boon remembered that he sent those embarrassing texts he meant to send his mother,his face turned purple with shame as he reread the messages he had sent, imagining how stupid and pathetic he must have seemed to Boor.
'I can't believe I did that….'
Boon thought to himself, cringing at the memory of his awkward and embarrassing words.
—-
<[ Yes, I'm feeling a bit unwell ]
[ How weak. Especially when you even had the umbrella ]>
<[ its not that bad, just a cold ]
[ Hm. Sounds like you're just being a baby| [ Drink some tea and toughen up. ]>
<[ I know, I know. I'm sorry for being a bother ]
[ Ugh will you shut up? Is all you can say " im sorry"? ]>
<[ sorry ]
Boon facepalmed himself when he realized that he had done it again.
Boor, irritated, gripping his phone so tightly it might break: "This guy…"
[ Well, don't spread your germs to everyone else. ]>
| No, definitely not. I'm trying to stay away ]
<[ from people as much as possible. ]
[ Must be boring being sick and all. |
[ Do you have anything to do? ]>
<[ Not really, just lying in bed and playing games. ]
[ which games?? ]>
<[ hahah its all single-player ]
[ im not surprised. ]>
[ still, tell me. which games? ]>
| TheLastDungeon, grim quest, ]
<[ wacky warper and parasite days]_______
<[ oh wait, i do have a multiplayer. Blockstrike ]
replied to | TheLastDungeon, grim quest]
[ wacky warper and parasite days]
[ okay now im surprised ]>
<[ hahahahh! ]
[ what's so funny? stop laughing. ]>
<[ ok ]
————— new messages —————
[ i just looked your games up ]>
[ text r pg? story game? lame ]>
<[ i guess ]
<[ they're really fun to me though ]
——
[ we dont have any pets. i tried |
[ convincing my mom to get a |
| cat for us but she said we're too many ]>
<[ I'm actually getting a cat soon ]
[ WHAT ]>
——
<[ did your mom come home yet? ]
[ no. why do you ask? ]>
<[ mine didn't either ]
——
| i don't know. i only really watch movies ]
<[ when im in the cinema with my parents ]
[ You dont have friends. ]>
<[ … ]
<[ does family count? ]
[ no ]>
<[ i guess? i never thought about it ]
<[ i mean i did before but not recently ]
<[ i guess its become natural, peaceful. i don't mind ]
——
| Petchuk |
GloriousgGamer[ Where are youu??]
GloriousgGamer[ skipping again? you told me youd come ]
[ traffic jam ]>
Alex[ Excuses? ]
[ no ]>
—-
Finally Boor's tram had arrived, even though it was ten minutes late.
"Maybe i wont get into too much trouble if i hurry now"
He said to himself as he walked to the platform doors, lining up behind the crowd that disappeared into the tram in the blink of an eye. Suddenly, the doors started closing though it had barely arrived and he desperately clicked on the "open" buttons.
They slowly closed in front of his nose. Boor was sure he even saw people trying to open the doors from the inside. Stunned and most definitely angered by the audacity of the driver, Boor kicked the tram with his sky blue colored sneakers, feeling an ounce of satisfactory to the sound of his shoe against the tram.
The next tram wasn't going to come anytime soon so he decided to go to school by foot. He passed by outdoor walls used as art installations as he trudged, lots of graffiti sprayed on it.
"Nerds rule Taernsby!"
"If you are a Taernsby High school student, you must be a masochist"
"No freedom in Taernsby High school!"
Written over the wall, all with different handwriting. Boor paused to read the response underneath.
"The 'Freedom' in your school is not worth it. When i used to your school, the middle school one not high-school, i used to get death threats by kids commonly"
"Me too, we prefer strict teachers over bullies"
"As someone who goes Taernsby now but used to go middle school there,
my classmates almost convinced me to kill myself"
"well how would you know we went to the same school?"
"Aren't we all talking about the same one? I'm guessing you go to Louringau school?"
"Ack!"
Boor yelped when he read the last part
"That's where i go.."