You sighed and tapped your pencil impatiently on the surface of your desk. It was almost the end of the day and your biology teacher was still dragging on the lesson. You were bored out of your mind, you just wanted it to be over already. You peeked over at the clock on the wall, the hand counting the seconds was ticking away. There was only a minute left of class, so you braced yourself to grab your backpack from under the desk and speedwalk out the door.

   The school bell rung and you swung your backpack onto your back, not paying mind to your teacher yelling reminders to do homework out the door. You didn't care, you just focused on running upstairs to your locker, grabbing your coat, and running out of the school to catch your bus ride home. It was hard to catch the bus when your last class and locker were on the other side of the school from where the buses were, but you did what you had to do.

   You climbed into the bright yellow vehicle and looked at the rows of seats, all of which were taken by students fortunate enough to have a locker or class closer to the busses. Damn, you thought, not again.

   "Excuse me, may I please sit next to you?" You asked the nearest lone-sitting person. They shuffled over to make room for you as you sat down and put your backpack on your lap.

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   When you got home, you slugged upstairs to your bedroom and swung your bag on a nearby chair before flopping onto the soft mattress on your bed. You were completely drained of energy from school, which was a normal part of your life.

   You actually lived a fairly normal, average life. You lived with your parents and older brother in a quiet suburban town, you had two close friends and a decent circle of acquaintances at school, you didn't have horrible grades and you tried to keep them at at least average score, and you spent a lot of time doing regular hobbies like playing the guitar, browsing social media, or reading books. Your life, for the most part, was really average. There would be the occasional day that you witness a fight at school or you went somewhere special like a theme park, but you lived a very typical high school student life. And although this life was great and you were very grateful for having a pretty nice life, it got boring really quickly.

   Your daily routine was almost the same; wake up, get dressed, eat breakfast, go to school, come home, do homework, and sleep. There was odd nights where you'd hang out with your friends after school or give up on doing homework, but those weren't very out of the ordinary. You just repeated the same actions every single day, it made you wonder if there was really more you could do with your time instead of wasting it away like this.

   Whatever, you thought to yourself, maybe I'll just be doomed to a life of eternal routine. That's how most people's lives end up, it's not like I'm special in any way.

   Before you got too caught up in thought, you phone started to vibrate on your desk. You looked at it and turned it on, realizing you had a notification. It was a message request from one of your classmates, Korekiyo Shinguuji.

   Weird, I've never talked to him much before. What would he want from me? You pondered, opening the message.

korekiyoshinguuuji731: Excuse me, I hate to be a disturbance since we haven't talked much before, but do you have the answers for last night's geography homework?

hyperjuggalo: yea

   You sent him a picture of your homework from last night.

korekiyoshinguuji731: Thank you so much.

hyperjuggalo: np

   You turned your phone back off and went back to contemplating your boring life in bed, not thinking much of Korekiyo's homework answer request. You got people in your DMs asking for homework answers all the time, it wasn't really out of the ordinary.

   This was before you realized the spiral this interaction would send you down.