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are you okay?

The day started off normally. Dee, Heavy and Nolan were standing at their bus stop, talking about what they did over the weekend. Nolan was talking about a trip he went on with his friends over the weekend when the bus showed up. The three of them got on the bus and Nolan continued his story.

"Okay, so, like, I had to share the bed with Katie and she's a fucking asshole when she sleeps, she kept kicking me off the bed. Like, literally, I fell of the bed a few times it was bad ahaha" though Nolan seemed annoyed that he was kicked out of the bed a lot, the conversation was very light-hearted and by the sounds of it, he had fun being in the city with some of his friends.

Dee was sitting in the seat with Nolan so he chatted with Nolan while Heavy talked to the kid he was sitting with.

"That sounds like it hurt." Dee said in response to Nolan's story, giggling slightly to himself about it.

"Hell yeah it did...my rib's been giving me hell ever since!" Nolan said loudly in response.

"Oh..are you alright..?" Dee asked, a little worried.

"Yeah, I'll be fine, it's not actually that bad, I'm just being dramatic" Nolan said, ending his sentence with a short and quiet laugh.

The rest of the bus ride to school Dee and Nolan chatted about whatever came to mind.

Finally, after 20 minutes the bus got to the school and they all got off the bus. Nolan walked up to the door and as usual it was locked, so they had to stand outside until someone let them in.

Eventually one of the teachers let them in and Nolan walked over to the bench he normally sat on in the morning. Heavy walked off to hang out with Anthony before first class and Dee followed Nolan, also sitting on the bench.

The two sat there for a while, Nolan trying to figure out what day it was so he knew what class he'd have first, Jess showed up. Nolan asked Jess what class she had first and she said O2. Nolan immediately groaned in response to hearing this and slouched on more into the bench. Jess also didn't seem to happy with it, but didn't have as big of a reaction.

After a while the bell rang and Dee, Nolan and Jess made their way to O2. Nolan sat in his seat, seeming to be upset and tired, while Jess at to the left of him, also looking tired but not particularly upset. Dee sat to the right of Nolan.

Their teacher, Mr. A, started complaining about one of the projects they were given, it was small and not worth many points, but he was upset anyway. Dee overheard Nolan and Jess talking.

"I got a 3/8 on that one..." Jess said, sounding dissapinted in herself.

"I...got a 2/8..." Nolan said, sounding exasperated and upset.

As Mr. A kept going on and on about this one little thing, Nolan kept looking more and more upset, Dee even saw tears in his eyes for a few moments before Nolan forced them away. Dee was now worried about Nolan, he seemed off all day, not having his normal outgoing, loud and cheerful personality, but this was the final straw that told him something was wrong. It was only first period and it already looked like Nolan was done with today.

As Mr. A finally finished with his long-winded speech, he told the class to fix the thing he was just complaining about, so the whole class pulled out their Chromebooks and started working, except for Nolan. Nolan had his chromebook out, but he hadn't touched it, it was just sitting there, open to the project that he had to correct. He was just staring at it with this blank, almost dead look on his face. Dee tried to do his work but couldn't help but notice how weird Nolan was being, so he ended up just watching Nolan do whatever it was that he was doing.

After a few minutes, Nolan started to type. He wasn't correcting anything, just adding and explanation as to why his work is so shit. By how it looked, it seemed that he deemed this whole thing a failure and not worth his time. Actually, looking at what he was typing, it appeared that he didn't care much for anything at all. That was certainly not what Dee was expecting, not from someone as happy as Nolan seemed to be all the time. Dee supposed that must have been some sort of act and that something caused him to have to drop the act for a little while. Maybe Nolan was too tired to do it? Or maybe it was something else? Maybe this was just going to happen anyway, I mean, there's no way someone could hold up a personality like that for an extended period of time without cracking at some point...right?