Digital Happiness

This Is Why I Dont Socialize

I quickly rushed into my room and grabbed a backpack. An empty notebook was on the nightstand from where I'd left it the previous night. I grabbed that and a few empty flash drives, you never know when you'll need them. I filled a flask and briskly walked out of my apartment, making sure to lock all four locks.

Why does he need four locks?

Didn't you read? There's a drunk neighbor so obviously he's not in a good apartment situation.

Quickly running down the apartment complex stairs, I pulled out my phone and typed a number in.

Oi, I'm headed to school now. You better meet me at the entrance or I will jump off a bridge.

                                                                                                                      What?

Wdym what

                                                                                                            Who is this

Ryden?? Did you get amnesia????

                                                                                               I don't know a Ryden

Ok who is this.
                                                                                                            Who are you??

I asked first.
                                                                                                         Technically I did

And I answered, now who are you

                                                                              Not who you're trying to text

If you don't tell me I'll hack your phone

                                                                                                        You can't

You sure?

Who am I texting? I thought this was Emuri. I looked up at the subway station sign, I had fifteen minutes till it came.

Ok, I won't
but only cause I have somewhere to be.

                                                                                             Yeah yeah, keep telling yourself that.

I rolled my eyes, this stranger had some nerve. I could totally hack them in under five minutes. I checked the number at the top again, ah shit, it really is the wrong number. I opened a new chat, typed in the right number, and sent the same text.

Oi, I'm headed to school now.  You better meet me at the entrance or I will jump off a bridge.

                                                                                                   Yep, see ya then

I thought back to the stranger, they seemed... arrogant. Wonder who it was... No hacking random strangers, Ryden. The voice in my head sounded a lot like Emuri, but, they were right, I couldn't just hack a random stranger cause they annoyed me. Ringing of bells signaled that the subway train was here. I got up and waited near the tracks, in line with other people and students respectively. I was gonna be late for orientation but who cares. Once the train came to a full stop, people hurriedly boarded. I snagged a spot in between a man in his mid thirties and a nice looking elderly lady. Since it was 6:27 in the morning nobody wanted to converse, and I was fine with that. I'd rather not socialize anyway.

Within fifteen minutes I was standing outside Midtown highschool. Now, I was apparently offered a scholarship at the famous Recurse center, but I wanted to stay low-profile so I chose a not-so-popular-but-still-has-good-education school. I applied to Midtown and they accepted. Bada-bing bada-boom. Normal school. Anyway, that doesn't matter, what does matter is that Emuri was not outside waiting for me. So I turned on my foot and started to head to the nearest bridge, well, I would've but I bumped straight into another person.