You weren’t exactly well-liked among your classmates, preferring to be by yourself. So it barely mattered about whoever ended up sitting next to you.

Except it did. Gaming, a certified chatterbox was seated next to you. It was only the first session, and he’d somehow managed to bring up his cat 5 times already.

“Yeah, and then my little brother literally broke the vase!” He grinned. He didn’t want to annoy you, you supposed it just came naturally to him.