My walk home has always been quiet. No laughing children, no barking dogs, not even birds. But now, that's changed. No more, was I living in the peaceful, quiet, mountain. No, I was living in a neighborhood now. And oh! How horrible this is—all this noise is giving me a headache. Correction, making my headache worse. By the time I reached the neighborhood, my head had already been pounding from the street vendors, cars, lively chatter from fellow citizens.

Sadly, the sun hasn't set yet.. so no getting any help from Libra—it'll have to be darker out. I began to mumble, "Stupid city.. stupid neighborhood.. stupid everything!.." kicking some rocks away. By the time I reached home, all I wanted to do was sleep. Sleep until this dumb headache is gone.

Unlocking and opening the front door, I yelled, "MOM!! I'm back! With those groceries and whatever!..." No response—great—she's probably off doing God knows what. Trudging to the kitchen, I saw a note. It read,

"Need to attend to very important business.
Will be back in couple days @ the least.
Help yourself to food & whatever.

-Mom"

Great! I don't even know how to function like a normal member of society in my bedroom. Oh well. Guess I'll do what I always do in my room.. after I put away this stuff.

And so, I quickly put away and sorted all the groceries mom had me buy. Sighing, I went to my bedroom upstairs. Once I did that, I lowered the AC temperature to 35 degrees Fahreinheit. My mom never understood why I like it so cold. In my opinion, it's very calming and relaxing. Soothing. I guess... it could somewhat have to do with my quirk, it relating to outer space—but who knows? I've never even left the planet Earth.

Inside my bedroom, the lights were dimmed—enough so I could still see, yet also enough so that it felt like nighttime. I just flopped down onto my bed, took out my my phone, and logged onto Kasei—or as it's more recognized as, Mars. (Basically my own lil' version of Discord.. the names below are all courtesy of the unreliable google translate oof)

I had 15 unread DMs. Before reading those, I read up on my missed chat history on a couple different servers (which didn't take too long). Turning to my DMs, I saw they were from Aisuaisubebi (Aisu; Ice Ice Baby), Shinku (Crimson), Zappizappu (Zap; Zappy zap), Watashi wa Surudoi Meinudesu (Tashi; I'm an Edgy Bitch), and Betsu no Bakuhatsu Shita Konpyuta (Baku; Another Exploded Computer).

I first checked with Baku. It was just some pictures comparing computers—opinions on which one would be more "explosion-proof." I picked the sturdiest looking one—though, I don't think it'll make a difference.. I only met Baku about 5 months ago. In that amount of time, he's gone through 68 computers—not including the one he broke yesterday and not including repairs. The one he broke yesterday is currently being looked at, but judging by how messed up it looked, it probably is gone for good.

I then checked Tashi. She was asking me about a game I have, and whether or not it's worth buying. I quickly sent my opinion and went on to take a look at Zap. He apparently got a bunch of duplicates in the last packages of Pokémon cards he got, and was wondering if I was interested. I obviously was—since he had hella good Pokémon.

Shinku, was just wondering what time I'd be able to play tonight. I replied, "Sorry.. got a pounding headache from my walk home... if I end up waking up later tonight and it's gone, then maybe?" I doubted it though, I sleep like a rock (at least—when I do end up sleeping). Aisu had sent the minority of my missed DMs. I lightly tapped his name, opening up the DM.

Aisuaisubebi
'Naka..
Can we talk once you get on?..

He was still online—so yeah, we could. He usually called me Mayonaka, since my online alias is pretty easy to get down. He only called me "'Naka" when he really wanted/needed to talk. I replied.

Mayonaka
?
What happened?

Aisuaisubebi
It's my ass of a father again. Robbed me of an experience I was looking forward to.
He recommended me to the high school I wanted to go to.
Now it feels stupid and pointless knowing I got accepted because of somebody most likely pulling some strings.

Mayonaka
WOWWWWWWWWWWWW
didn't he know you wanted to take the entrance exam??

Aisuaisubebi
Yep..

Mayonaka
Oml
I feel like punching him.
Can you send a picture for me to print out
I wanna tape his face to my punching bag

Aisuaisubebi
I would buttttttttttttttttttttt......
Ye you'd freak out.

Mayonaka
Hmph
O well I guess I'll have to virtually punch him..
*punches Aisu's bitchy dad*
Der

Aisuaisubebi
there's more

Mayonaka
Don't tell me your dad was even more of an asshole and grounded you for no fucking reason again

Aisuaisubebi
Sadly...

Mayonaka
REEeeeEeEeeEEeEeeEeeEEeEeeEeEeeEeeEeeEEeEeeEeeEEeEee
Fucking bitch he is.
Thinks the whole entire world revolves around him.

Aisuaisubebi
Got that right..

Mayonaka
When did all of this happen?

Aisuaisubebi
About.. 2 hours ago.

Mayonaka
Damn.. did he do anything else?

Aisuaisubebi
...

Mayonaka
Aisu.. did he do anything else??

Aisuaisubebi
...
...yeah

Mayonaka
What did he do?

Aisuaisubebi
...
He's abusing me again.

Mayonaka
tell me your fucking address right now i wanna fite this bitch

Aisuaisubebi
I doubt we live in the same city.. or close-by.

Mayonaka
Uggghhhhhhh

Aisuaisubebi
Don't you live in the mountains, too??

Mayonaka
I moved to a neighborhood
Have to live closer to potential high schools

Aisuaisubebi
Like..?

Mayonaka
Ketsubutsu..
Isamu..
U.A....
You get the idea.

➖(⁎⁍̴̆Ɛ⁍̴̆⁎)➖

My breath remained calm as my mind began to run rampant. After all, it's not every day you realize that you could possibly meet one of your closest online friends. In fact, the sad truth is that most online friends never meet in real life. Whether it be for one reason or another, it's still true. After a few more seconds, my mind calmed down a bit. I continued to talk with Mayonaka—though, I have to lie about a couple things... after all, it is the online world. Built on mutual trust.

Aisuaisubebi
U.A... wow. You're lucky to live by that place lol

Mayonaka
I know I should feel lucky, but with all this noise I consider myself unlucky atm..

Aisuaisubebi
Don't worry, you'll eventually get used to it.
If you do enroll at U.A...

Mayonaka
??

Aisuaisubebi
Please..
Stay in touch.
Preparing for that exam is gonna swamp your schedule
And if you do get accepted
Please keep in touch

Mayonaka
Of course Aisu lol
Why would I ever ditch my oldest online friend for school?? 😂  lmao you worry too much tbh
You think too far ahead

Aisuaisubebi
I can't help it (>_>)
It's the way I was made..

➖(*'ω'*)➖

Mayonaka
If you say so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Five minutes later.

Mayonaka
Aisu??
?
?
.
.

Aisuaisubebi
Sorry 'bout that...
My dad had to tell me he has to "attend to extremely important issues"
Apparently gonna be back in a couple of days at the least..

Mayonaka
Oh~?? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
In that case.. maybe I SHOULD visit your place.. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Aisuaisubebi
/
.
.
.
wat

Mayonaka
Oh yes~ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Aisuaisubebi
who the fuck are you and what have you done to mayonaka ('⊙ω⊙')

Mayonaka
😂😂What if that was Mayonaka??

Aisuaisubebi
Then... I'd be half surprised? I always felt like you had a dirty side

Mayonaka
Damn you got me
I can't help it lol
Just my dirty Scorpio side

Aisuaisubebi
You have a lot of sides...

Mayonaka
Because of my quirk.

➖ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ➖

Now that I thought about it.. we never really talked about quirks. Weird.. I don't even know her quirk. She doesn't even know mine..

Aisuaisubebi
What even is your quirk?

Mayonaka
Secret ;)

Aisuaisubebi
I'll tell you mine??

Mayonaka
I think it has something to do with ice.. since your username. So I'm good.
Besides, we don't need to know each other's quirks if we're online friends

My reminder to work out went off.. Dad'll get angry if I slack off while he's gone...

Aisuaisubebi
Awh..
I gtg....
Dad'll probably get angry if I slack off while he's gone.

Mayonaka
he like dah big bad wolf!! :cc
dat shall
huff and puff
and
uh
idfk
😂😂

Aisuaisubebi
😂😂😂
'Cya Mayonaka

Mayonaka
'Cyaaaa

➖(*ﾟ∀ﾟ*)➖

what the fuck have i just written