April 10, 2019

We had gotten back from our class field trip and returned to our classroom on the top floor. My group was one of the last to arrive. “You’re such a baby”, someone said as we walked in. It was already dark and everyone was picking up their things, ready to head home. Someone had packed my laptop into my backpack in my absence. I thought that it was probably because my things were in the way. I checked the time, it was 10PM and I was dead tired. The buses had long stopped so I had to walk home.

I walked through the city, lit up by the deep orange streetlamps, with the realization that I may be lost. I looked up at the large digital billboard, only to get rickrolled. I checked my phone again. People were posting scanned pages of a Darling in the FranXX artbook in the group chat.