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Summer break is finally over, Jude’s nightmare will begin again soon.
Whispers were heard all the way through the hallway, footsteps echoed as Jude walked through. It was another day of school,
of course it was.
He didn’t hate school, oh no he didn’t. In fact, he loved it. He just didn’t like the people, especially the fact that many other students would be willing to pay hundreds of dollars to Jude to get test answers instead of studying on their own.
Jude continued walking in the hallways, until someone gripped his shoulder from behind. “Yo Jude!” It was Parker, basically one of the only three friends he trusts. Jude looked back for a moment, smiling slightly before turning back, “Oh hey, haven’t seen you in a while.”
He continued walking towards his locker, ignoring all the other students that are in his way. Parker pulled his hand back from Jude’s shoulder and walked beside him, “Yeah bro, that weekend felt longer than it should have been honestly. Also, there’s a new student enrolling mid semester, isn’t that weird?” Parker exclaimed his hand went to his pocket to grab his phone, probably wanting to show Jude something.
Jude’s ears picked up as soon as Parker said a new student, especially mid semester? Who’s crazy enough to do that? “Really? Why tho? This year is almost over, why now?” He was definitely interested from his body language and his words, Parker knew that.
As they both reached their lockers which were coincidentally right next to each other, Jude grabbed a few textbooks from his locker. Meanwhile Parker’s eyes were still glued on his phone. He looked like he wanted to show Jude something, and surely enough, he did.
“Finally found it! Sharpness Morozov Conexion, eighteen years, majoring Chemistry.” Parker immediately showed Jude his phone. Jude looked at Parker’s phone, there he was, a photo of the new student ‘Sharpness.’ He has medium blonde hair, green emerald eyes, and looks quite tall for someone his age.
“That’s him? He looks so far from what I have expected.” Jude exclaimed,
“So when is he coming?”
Parker stayed silent for a bit, wondering about the answer, “I’m pretty sure next period. Heard he was in the same class as you.” Jude’s ears immediately perked after hearing that. Oh he is interested and Parker definitely knows that.
Jude tries to play it off cool and nonchalant, looking back at his locker and pretending to look for something but in reality he was rethinking his life choices (nah jkjk idk what to write).
The bell rings before Jude can even process what’s happening on his mind, Parker dabs him up for a moment before heading out to his class, which was coincidentally the furthest from Jude’s. Jude slowly moved away from his locker, strapping his backpack on one shoulder and immediately headed to his class, which was mathematics, the one he liked the most.
While he was walking, his mind wandered off to that new student that Parker mentioned earlier. He definitely looked good, Jude thought about that. Before he even realized it, he reached his classroom after a few minutes. He opened the door, being greeted by his usual loud classmates. Jude went inside and sat on the corner of the second furthest row of the class, his usual spot.
Eventually, the class did quiet down a few minutes before his professor came. Jude has always thought that math in school was always boring, since he’s used to more complex questions and equations. In short, he’s way too smart for his class and everybody knows that.
That’s why they would always try to get Jude’s trust so that he’ll help them with math. And like any other day, the lesson for today? Yeah Jude already learned that shit back in 7th grade. He just sat there doodling on his notebook while ignoring the teacher rambling about some advanced algebra type shit.
His ears then perked up, he heard footsteps in the hallways. Which is quite rare since no one really dares to go outside mid lesson even if they want to go to the bathroom. Not even the teachers dare to go outside, they’re scared that they’ll interrupt a lesson with the sounds they’ll make.
Jude immediately knew it was probably the new student, he pretended to keep doodling on his notebook while trying to keep his long ears down.
There was suddenly a knock at the door, there he was. The professor, still holding a book in his hand shouted ‘come in!’ to the new student. The student slowly opened the door, Jude’s eyes were locked onto the front. The door opened, revealing a quite tall slim guy with medium blonde hair with long strands at the front and green emerald eyes.
This was the guy Parker showed him. The teacher placed down the book and sat down in his chair again, “Everyone, this is Sharpness. He’ll be joining our class from today. Sharpness, you may introduce yourself.” He gestured to the front.
Sharpness walked into the class, stopping just right next to the teacher. “Uhm… hello everyone, my name is Sharpness Morozov Conexion but you can call me Sharpness-“ before he could continue any further, the teacher cuts him off “Alright that’s enough, please sit next to the blue haired bunny boy at the second furthest row.
Jude’s ears perked up again, literally everyone was staring at him and he knew why. There was one thing, the seat next to Jude was always empty. Because every time someone would try to sit next to him to talk to him, he would either ignore them or be really dry. Which was why no one dared to even come close to him.
“I’m a rabbit not a bunny…”
Jude thought to himself, staring at the professor with an annoyed expression.
Before he could complain, Sharpness was already sitting right next to him. Sharpness looked at JudeLow happily with a greeting expression which seemed to annoy Jude slightly for some reason.
At this point basically everyone had their gaze on Jude and Sharpness, curious to what their interaction might look like considering Jude’s personality. For most of the lesson, Jude would ignore Sharpness but he would sometimes answer Sharpness’ questions with a genuine tone and interest which Sharp was quick to catch.
The bell rang, signaling it was time for the next class. Jude’s next class was with Parker. Sweet, someone he could actually talk to and not be annoyed by? How amazing. As Jude stood up and packed his things to go to the next class, Sharpness suddenly gripped his shoulder.
Jude turned back to see Sharpness with a pleading expression on his face, “Can you at least guide me around the school, or just guide me to my next class real quick?” Jude looked at Sharpness dumbfounded, does this guy not understand his body language when they were in class!?
Jude abruptly stopped in his tracks before looking away and continued packing his stuff, “I’m busy.” He replied coldly to Sharpness before pushing Sharp’s hand away from his shoulder and walking away. Sharpness immediately ran to catch him “Just tell me the directions to the Chemistry class, and I won’t be bothering you ever again-“
“From this class, go left and it’s the furthest one right in the corner next to the principal’s office.” Jude replied coldly, standing still for a couple of seconds before continuing to walk to his next class. Sharpness looked at JudeLow with confusion yet gratefulness in his eyes, this bunny- sorry, i mean rabbit cannot be real bro.
As Jude went into his next class, History. He met up with Parker in the hallway, waving slightly to him. Parker saw Jude waving at him, he walked up to Jude and greeted him with a smile. “Yo Jude! How was that Sharpness guy like?” He spat, walking next to Jude to their next class. Jude stared at Parker with an ‘are you fr’ expression like he just asked the dumbest question possible.
Parker immediately responded with “W-well I mean if you even did talk to him—“ Jude looked away from Parker before responding with “Well, I did talk to him, kinda.”
“What do you mean kinda?” Parker looked at him curiously.
“My teacher assigned him to sit next to me and he kept trying to talk to me. Lowkey just ignored him most of the time but occasionally… I did answer his questions.” Jude confessed, looking back at Parker.
Before Parker could respond any more, they both reached the front of their class. Jude realized this first and quickly opened the door, heading in first before Parker. They sat down at the furthest row, Jude avoiding any socialization meanwhile Parker was greeting everyone that waved at him.
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Sharpness reached his next class, “From this class, go left and it’s the furthest one right in the corner next to the principal’s office.” Or at least that was what Jude told him. The door in front of him apparently led to chemistry class. He gripped the door handle hesitantly, bracing himself to do another introduction.
Before he could come inside, another guy with medium white hair seemed to be going to the same class. He walked passed Sharpness and opened the door himself before looking back at Sharp and signaling him to come inside with this weird warm smile.
Sharp seemed a bit hesitant before entering the class alongside that random guy, why is he being so kind. As they walked into assigned seats, Sharp couldn’t bear the silence and decided to speak up “So… w-what’s your name…?” Fuck, he should’ve asked a better question. Now he will probably make a fool out of himself.
The white haired guy looked back before answering “Saparata, but you can call me Saps. I heard you were new and since we’re in the same class, I thought I would show you around the school later after class. Well, obviously if you need me to.” Saps replied with a warm tone that seemed to gain Sharpness’ trust. He sat on a chair in the front row, signaling for Sharp to sit right next to him.
Sharp looked a bit surprised, obviously because his last interaction with another student (JudeLow) was complete bullshit. He realized he had been staring at Saps for like 30 seconds before immediately sitting down next to him and grabbing his books from his bag.
This class wasn’t that special, Sharp thought. Introduction, chemistry shit he didn’t understand, people staring at him like he was some sort of artwork? The only thing that was interesting was definitely Saparata. He somewhat felt grateful for someone guiding him around the school, unlike some other person. (ok no shade to Jude pls)
Right now, Saps was showing him around the school, where the classes are, directions to the gym, teacher’s office, and basically everything you could name. Sharp took note of everything. Saps then grabbed his hand and spat “Since it’s break, I’ll show you the cafeteria. I saved this one for the last since you’re probably hungry after all that walking and memorizing.”
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Jude was on his way to the cafeteria with Parker. He was doom scrolling on his phone while walking. Before he knew it, another person approached them, it was Chuck And DoomedCow. Chuck and Doomed were a great friend of Jude, if not one of the best. These four would always go to lunch together and today was like any other day.
At lunch, the four of them sat together. Parker, Chuck, and Doomed were talking about god knows what they’re talking about. Meanwhile Jude was lost in his own thoughts, his mind going back to that new kid a few hours ago. What was his name again…? Saber..? Sharper..? No, he couldn’t remember. He never remembers anyone’s name.
Jude looked at his lunch hesitantly before grabbing the spoon and picking it up slowly. He then spotted Sharpness with another boy, Saparata walking towards the cafeteria amongst the crowds of people. ‘He got friends already?’ He wondered in his mind ‘that’s crazy rare in this school.’ Before he could continue his thoughts. Parker interrupted him-
“Who’re you lookin’ at Jude?” He spoke, looking at Jude with those damn curious eyes.
Jude snapped back from his thoughts before replying back to Parker “That Sharp guy has friends already, that’s surprising.” Chuck and DoomedCow also looked back to see what Jude was staring at.
Parker sniped back at Jude “Well to be honest, it isn’t really that surprising. Sharp is a very talented figure skater, that’s probably the reason why many people will try and befriend them.” He stopped talking for a second before continuing “If those people can’t get popular themselves, they’ll try befriending the popular ones to get a good school reputation.”
Chuck looked back at Jude before speaking up “People nowdays are so weird, mfs only care about their reputation. Saparata is an exception, he’s literally friends with everyone.” He said before nudging Doomed slightly to stop staring and going back to eating his food.
As Sharpness and Saparata entered the cafeteria, Jude saw Sharpness staring at him closely. He didn’t think much of it and just ignored Sharpness and went back to eating and talking to his friends.
The cold windy air blew at Jude, his hair slightly pushed back by the wind. As he left the school gates to pursue going home, he spotted Sharpness getting into a fancy car. ‘Dang, no wonder people tried befriending him, he’s rich rich’ he thought. He continued walking while carrying his heavy ass backpack on his back.
His home wasn’t that far off, or at least that’s what he thought. It was only a few kilometers away, a nice distance to do some jogging. Jude has been telling himself that everyday knowing damn well how far his house actually was.
When Jude reached his home, he immediately went to his bedroom. It was messy, of course it was. What would you expect from the great JudeLow? Jude grabbed his badminton racket to practice some more with some of his friends near the park. That was always his routine, nothing entirely special.
As Jude reached the park, he spotted some more of his friends, LettuceK, Loppezz, and Shadow. They all seemed to be waiting for him to start playing. Shadow waved at him first before the other two followed it up. Jude waved back at them and immediately ran up to them. He greeted the three of them before pulling out his racket from his bag.
The badminton game eventually started with everyone getting into position and starting up. Jude was paired in a team with Shadow meanwhile Lettuce and Loppezz were in the second team. As the game continued, Jude was basically dominating the entire time. It wasn’t too surprising, Jude is a national player and perchance soon to be international if he even wants to continue Badminton as a career.
The game eventually ended with a draw, Jude going easier than expected. He high fived Lettuce and Loppezz before setting back into the cold grass next to Shadow and grabbing his phone to doom scroll again probably. Lettuce and Loppezz went and left earlier to study since they both had a mid semester exam in a few days. Leaving him with Shadow alone, watching the sun slowly set off.
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The sound of sharp blade skating through the ice could be heard. Calming music playing quietly in the background. Sharpness’ hands refusing to touch the ice every time he made a jump.
He stopped at the middle of the ice to take a silent and small break. Sure, having a whole ass skating area in your house felt like a fever dream, but not for Sharpness. Every time he would practice there, it was always too lonely or too quiet. That’s the reason why he prefers to skate in public skating rings even though the ice was shitty.
He skated to the exit slowly before grabbing his phone and seeing a notification pop up. Messages: ‘You have been added to a group ‘classes of 26.’ he clicked the notification, he was added to the school’s groupchat. He looked at the details and saw there were over 300 students in the group. ‘That’s a lot’ he thought. He scrolled through all of the student’s contact info before one of them caught his attention.
‘Jude LoLasso Calavetta’ hey, he recognized that name from today’s first class. He clicked more on the contact info and saw that Jude didn’t have a profile picture nor a bio. ‘Mf be thinking he nonchalant or some shit’ he thought.
Sharpness silently saved Jude’s contact. You know, maybe one day he needs to contact him or something. As Sharp looked at Jude’s info more, he saw the link to an Instagram account. Without much to do, he clicked on the link.
He was forwarded into an Instagram account named ‘J’ with a few tens of thousands of followers and 5 following. How did this guy get so many followers? Was this really Jude’s instagram or not? He clicked on the profile picture and surely enough, he recognized it.
It really is Jude in the profile picture.
He scrolled down to check his posts and only saw a few posts only about his trophies and medals. Sharp hesitantly clicked the follow button and went back to his messages. Damn, that Jude guy was actually an achievement collector?
As he was scrolling through Jude’s contact info once more, he decided to message Jude at least saying a short ‘hi’ or ‘hello’ to somewhat break the tension. He typed in ‘hi this is Sharp pls save my contact’ with no hesitation before pressing sent.
Sharpness quickly regretted that message and deleted it immediately, dang it Sharp. You could’ve just said ‘hi’ or not sent Jude anything. He exited the ice with a groan full of regret before untying his skating shoes and going back to his room.
He was hoping Jude wasn’t able to catch his message.