It was a lazy Friday: it was cold and cloudy, perfect for skipping school and sleeping in – but of course Nick's mom wouldn't let him miss it. So there he was at seven in the morning in that cold chair staring at the chalkboard.

Unlike his annoying mother, his classmates' parents probably let them skip school, because there were only five students in the second year class! Seriously, almost everyone skipped that shit...

So, the teacher decided to combine the two classes, since the other one also had very few students, and now there were nine kids in the room. Mr. Smith could have taught the literature subject to those few students, but he was also too lazy... In an act of mercy, he let the students free to form groups and play board games! Yay!

Nick groaned internally. Seriously, he was going to spend the next few hours playing Monopoly when he could be at home eating popcorn and being a lazy bum? What a pain...

He snapped out of his complaining thoughts when he saw one of his classmates actually open that damn Monopoly box. No, he refused! The boy quickly looked around, seeing a girl in the back of the room alone. He picked up the 'Jenga' and went over to her – in fact, he didn't remember seeing her at school, she was kind of cute.

"Uh... excuse me, do you want to play this with me?"

He asked, and suddenly he felt like he was back in daycare, but it was much easier to make friends back then. Simple times of eating playground sand and calling strangers your best friends...