DoD in Highschool (English)

Chapter 6- Tuesday

Satan was trying to catch some sleep, as something hit his head. It was a ball of paper that fell down on the floor. Satan moaned annoyed and picked it up before he looked around. Lucy glared at him with a warning in his look. Satan smoothed the paper and read the message written down on it: 'Don't the fuck sleep, you lazy idiot. You got enough sleep today.', "You're a meanie, Lucy!" Satan grumbled quietly. He sighed and turned his attention to his Math stuff again. Minutes later, Satan slammed his pencil on the table. "Goddamnit, I want to crumble my damn paper and throw it right into the trashcan!!!" Kenji looked up alarmed. "Hey, calm down, man. What's your problem?", "What my problem is?! There's a Math rule that says if it seems easy, you're doing it wrong! I constantly get the wrong results and I just can't figure out, what I do wrong! Grrrr!!!", "Raiden Murakami!" The teacher said. "Could you please silence your voice? The others around you try to work and are just distracted by your loud tantrum." Kenji sighed and took Satan's paper. He overlooked the working-outs. "Hm... You wrote down a wrong number. The second equation says "5=3x-7y+8 and not 5x-7y+8. You copied the task wrong.", "Seriously?" Satan took back his paper. "Yeah. Then, it's logical you don't get the given result." Satan facepalmed himself. "I am too stupid for this sort of lesson.", "This all is just repetition of what we already had in lower classes. If we continue in subject matter, then you get totally lost.", "I know." Satan said through his teeth. "I CAN do equation systems... My brain is just too... nyag for it right now.", 
"Too 'nyag'? What kind of description is that?", 
"I don't know... think of something", he muttered dreadfully as he crossed out the wrong equation.

In the schoolyard, Yuki noticed that Satan looked a bit overwhelmed. "Wow, Satan... you look kind of.... tired.",
"Yeah... I know." He yawned. Lucifer just crossed his arms and closed his eyes calmly, as if he had nothing to do with any of this. "Maybe it would help if you had a cup of coffee in the morning or didn't stay up so late at night.",
"You're not my mother, Lu!" Satan protested. Lucifer just shrugged his shoulders. "It's your own fault for not getting enough sleep, so stop complaining already.",
"I'm not used to this, okay?!" he yelled. Lucifer opened one eye. "Dude, can you please stop yelling like that? I'm not deaf."
Satan muttered something. Then he looked at Lucifer. "Oh, by the way. You sicced Etana on me, right?",
"What if?",
"You don't answer questions with a counter question!"
Lucifer just rolled his eyes. "Yeah, I did. And?"
Yuki giggled. "What did Etana do to you?",
"You know the app Instant Button, right?",
"Yes, I do.",
"She put her phone right up to my ear at full volume and then played a fucking siren. I'm still half deaf from that.",
"Ouch," Hiko said. "Looks like someone tortured your eardrums pretty good.",
"Yeah. Ouch." Satan pouted. "Such a mean trick!"
A wicked smile appeared on Lucifer's face.
"Don't grin like that! That was really awful!",
"I guess I'll remember that one and add it to my list of cruel wake-up tricks.",
"Thank you for wanting to torture me!",
"You're welcome."

When the break was over, they went back to their class rooms. Satan was a little late because he had bought cookies in the cafeteria. So he walked up the stairs to the physics room on the second floor when almost no one was in the hallways. His footsteps echoed off the walls as he tripped over something invisible on his way to the room and fell to the floor. "Damn it!" he cursed. He heard footsteps approaching. "Shit, shit, shit!" He tried to get back up before anyone could see him, but it was too late. Keiko came around the corner and stopped when he saw Satan. He froze in his tracks and the two stared at each other for a few silent moments. "Did you fall down?" Keiko asked them.
"No, I attacked the floor," Satan replied.
"Backwards?",
"See? I'm freaking talented!" Satan did his best to get over this beyond embarrassing situation. Keiko laughed. "You're funny. Are you okay?",
"Of course! I was the one who attacked, so I didn't get any damage!" Keiko just shook his head laughing. "Okay. If you say so." He walked past him and entered the room. Satan grumbled and followed him. "That... was really embarrassing."

If he had known who was waiting for him there, he would have preferred to jump out the window. Irina stood there, chin raised in the air, and said casually, "You fell flat on your face?" There was a trace of fake pity and mockery in her voice.
"Keiko told you that?" he asked quietly. "And for your information, I didn't trip. The floor just looked so sad and I thought he needed a hug."
Irina started to laugh. "Are you serious?",
"Yes, I am," he said with an annoyed look on his face. This blonde bitch had the nerve to laugh at him? She was really quite a waste of oxygen for laughing at other people.
"Hahahaha... You're clumsy, Raiden! That's so funny!" Then she noticed his face. "Why are you pulling such a face?",
"Huh? Oh, sorry. I'm not responsible for anything my face does when you're talking." With those words, he walked to his seat. Kenji was flipping through his physics folder, going over notes on laws of gravity and electric circuits, when his desk mate sat down. He looked up. "Hello again.",
"Hello.",
"You look annoyed.",
"I am annoyed.",
"What happened?" Kenji put his folder aside.
"I fell down in the hallway because... I don't know... And Keiko saw it. And you know what? Irina is laughing at me for it.",
"And... that hurt your pride?" Kenji guessed with a sly grin.
"Mhm. I won't recover from that."
Kenji said nothing.
"...What is it?",
"I don't want you to bathe in my 'fake pity' as you call it, so I'm polite enough to withhold it." Kenji nudged him.
"Heh..." Satan smiled. "Yeah... Thanks, buddy. But really... why do you laugh at people for doing that?",
"Oh, don't pay any attention to her. She likes to be catty, from what I've heard...",
"Not to you yet?",
"No... Not yet.",
"Hmm... Good. It better stays that way."
Kenji glanced at his notebook. "Meh... Tomorrow is Wednesday again...." He sighed.
"Hmm... After Tuesday, even the calendar goes WTF."
Kenji had to laugh. "I sure know why... Say, Raiden, some people here don't really like you, do they? It's just a feeling...",
"I don't know, I've only been here for two days. But maybe it's because of my sarcasm. You know, there are two kinds of people. Those who understand and appreciate sarcasm, and idiots.",
"...Unfortunately, that's true... some people are really... peculiar...",
"Maybe it's because everyone has the right to be stupid. It's just... some people abuse that privilege.",
"...Apparently..." He sighed. Satan looked at him.
"What is it?",
"... It just reminded me of my mom. You know, she's incredibly religious.",
"Is that so?", 
"Mmm... The orthodox kind. I don't know what all is wrong with her faith community, but.... She didn't think you should read anything except books that were faith-based. I had a lot of books that had to do with computer technology and network administration.... I knew my mom was insane and always left the door locked.... Except... One time I forgot. And... when I came back, all my books were gone. She... burned them.",
"That sounds terrible.",
"Mmm... My book collection was my pride and joy. She said these books are demonic and corrupt my mind and turn me away from God, blah blah..."
Satan felt no empathy for this woman.
"She forced me to go to church in the beginning, but eventually I flat out refused. For that, she attacked me. Almost strangled me, to be exact.... My father then filed for divorce and I moved in with him. My big sister wasn't living with us by then so.... Lucky for her.", "How far apart are you? You and your sister?",
"Seven years.",
"I see... Your mom is really a... She's stupid.",
"Yeah... That's true." Kenji looked at him with a vague smile. "She didn't love me. As soon as something goes against religion, that person is like walking trash to her. Apparently, the same goes for her own family...",
"Was your father also religious?",
"Yes, but not as fiercely as she was. At least he could still think clearly... She was just... different.",
"That's putting it nicely.",
"The books were expensive... I locked myself in my room and cried for hours about it.... She stood at the door and meant 'now the presence of these devilish books will lead you into the light' and so on.... I threw the Bible she put in my book shelf against the door.",
"Who can blame you..." Satan patted him on the shoulder. "But you're going to be okay now, right?",
"Yeah. I don't have to see her outside of family gatherings anymore. She acts like nothing happened, but.... I can't forgive her for that. I paid for all those books myself.... I don't wish her any harm, but.... I don't want to have anything more to do with her.",
"I can understand that. She sounds like a sick psychopath.",
"You're the only one outside my family who knows that. I trust you, Raiden.",
"Kenji..." He gritted his teeth. After hearing that, he felt quite uncomfortable as a demon. His mother seemed to have really resented him, and he was very sorry.... He would never, never be able to tell him what he really was.... For him it would only mean trouble. But his friend changed the subject. "Ready for physics?",
"I... think so. I'm more awake than before... so ... maybe I can be used for more in physics than I was in math earlier.",
"I hope so." Kenji smiled, but you could tell it was hard for him.