Why Can't I Live In a Quiet Peaceful Life?!

Episode 4: Mr. Lonely

It's been a few days ever since Val has found out that Neos and Kaleb are both gods. Her quiet, peaceful life was soon going to waste.

Val sat down gloomily in her chair, thinking about her hopeless future.

"Hey, are you alright Val?" asked Jazz.

Val replied, "Yeah, I'm doing fi—"

Val noticed what Jazz was wearing. It was a DTS hoodie. It was like her wardrobe only consisted of DTS merchandise and that she was purposefully flexing these clothes to the whole school! It was really easy to tell how passionate Jazz was.

Something else had caught Val's eye. Brian was on his phone, wrapped into whatever was on the screen while Styx and Jak fought in front of him. Val didn't think that Brian was even paying attention to the fight because of what was on his phone. Val leaned over to take a peek when—

"Hey," said Brian, turning his phone off, "Mind your own damn business."

Why did you have to say that? Now Val was filled with curiosity. This was definitely going to take her mind off of the recent events that had happened earlier this year.

Day after day, Val observed Brian and what he did. After observing, she had noticed that Brian was usually by himself. He'd always be a jerk to people, with an exception to Jazz because she didn't really go near or talked to him. Whenever someone had passed his desk, he would trip them, as if he was asking for a fight.

"I'm not taking shit from anybody," Brian replied when he was confronted about his actions.

The more and more Val observed, the more she had gotten curious about Brian. Not only that, but whenever she tried to inspect what Brian kept looking at on his phone, he'd always turn it off.

"Can you stop trying to look at my phone?" asked Brian.

One time, Brian even threw his phone at Val, almost knocking her unconscious. It was clear that Brian was getting irritated from Val's observations, so she decided to postpone it until he had calmed down.

The birds started chirping on a Monday morning. Chirp chirp! Chirp chirp! Val found it really beautiful that when lunch had started, the birds would chirp. Then again, it was still morning when lunch had started.

Neos, Jak, Styx, and Val looked at Jazz and Kaleb, listening intently to what the conversation was about.

"Orcas are dolphins!" said Jazz as she began to scroll through her phone.

"No way!" replied Kaleb, "They're whales. That's why their nicknames are Killer Whales!"

"That's just a nickname!"

"It has lots of meaning to it."

"Look here, Kaleb. Coming from this Mikipedia article,

The killer whale or orca (Orcinus orca) is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of which it is the largest member.

See that? Oceanic dolphin family! Largest member!"

"Look closely, Jazz. It says that the orca is a toothed whale!"

"Toothed whale sounds dumb. Plus that doesn't matter since orcas belong in the dolphin family. That makes them dolphins!"

"But they're toothed whales."

"Think about this Kaleb," interrupted Styx, "Toothed whales can't be dolphins, but dolphins can be toothed whales."

"What are you trying to imply by that?" asked Kaleb.