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“Zanyuu!” Aera calls out, Zanyuu looks up from his phone and tilts his head, popping his headphones out. His hair is dyed red, natural black roots showing at the very starts. He’s in one of his beanies, today is green, an oversized blue shirt with his typical flannel (once again green) on top, light blue jeans, and a pair of dark blue converse.
“Ye?” He replies, still sitting on his roller backpack, affectionately named Killer by his 7th grade English teacher because of it’s tendency to ram into everyones ankles. His attention has been caught back by his phone, until Aera snaps her fingers, he looks up blankly, sliding his phone and headphones back into his pockets. Zanyuu stands up from his sitting place, stretching. Aera blinks at the loud popping noises that follow.
“Aarsh is ready, let’s go,” Aera picks her own bag up, sliding it over her shoulders. Zanyuu follows and pulls up his backpacks handle, dragging it behind him lazily as Aarsh - Aeras twin brother - rushes out of the front door of his and Aera’s house. It’s the first day of high school. Man.
“Bro, I am not fucking ready.” Zanyuu groans as they walk out of their complex and down the sidewalk that leads almost directly to their new school, “Wasn’t Fareesh supposed to be joining us? Where’s his ass?” Zanyuu kicks at a rock as Aera ruffles his hair, Zanyuu quickly swats it away and makes a face. Aera laughs and Zanyuu kicks her in the shin. “I don’t like mornings”
“Well it’s funny how you’re a completely different person in the mornings, it’s okay, by the time French class rolls around the Zanyuu I know and love will be back” Zanyuu attempts to bite Aera and hisses, “There’s my Zanyuu” he holds his middle finger up and sticks his tongue out.
“We all know that Fareesh is no good with plans, he’ll be late for sure, probably not even awake” Aarsh finally adds in, interrupting Zanyuu and Aera’s bickering, one of the first things he’s said, as it’s usually just Aera and Zanyuu.
“I am not ready for school, I wish I wasn’t awake, I don't want to go to 11th grade” Zanyuu whines while dramatically making groaning noises. Aarsh punches Zanyuu in the shoulder and throws his arm around him. Which Zanyuu replies to with another angry hiss before bursting into laughter.
“C’mon you’ll be fine, you’re only in algebra 2 anyways, and we’re all in French together!” Zanyuu groans for the 70th time that morning. He notices another rock, and super kicks it into the road, sighing once again. Aarsh is still blabbing on into Zanyuu’s ear, which he has stopped listening to.
“I’m no good at algebra!” Zanyuu butts in so he finally stops his ramble, “plus I forgot all the fucking French I’ve ever learned during summer, I can’t even ask for a sandwich, Madame Ahmed would be disappointed in my guts bro” Zanyuu yawns despite it being 9 am, god he wishes he was sleeping.
When they finally walk up to school Zanyuu laughs, “Look! Hell and paradise for the next four years!” He tugs at Killer a little harder than usual as he walks in front of Aarsh and Aera. He twists around so he can take a look at them. Aera adjusts her bag and starts speaking.
“And now we part, don’t we? Zanyuu you have science first period, right?” Zanyuu nods making an exaggerated frown at her before switching into a menacing smile.
“For the third year in the row may I mention, see you guys in 4th period French then, let’s hope the teacher doesn’t send me back to French 1” Zanyuu laughs with a smile, face contorting into a frown the minute he walks away. At his feet he sees a spider, a rather big one actually. It has red and blue patterns on it and is fuzzy. Zanyuu leans down.
“You know,” Zanyuu picks the spider up, placing it on his hand to which the little animal responds with running a little before comfortably laying in the middle of the back of his hand. “First days of school are boring as hell l’il man, lets spend this shit day together” The spider looks at Zanyuu as if it understood his words. They make eye contact (as good eye contact as a spider and a human boy can make) as Zanyuu walks down the path to room Pch-01. “Aera tells me not to pick up random animals y’know, says I’m gonna get some disease, but its not my fault animals flock to me Disney fucking princess sty-” Zanyuu grits his teeth in pain as the spider sinks it’s teeth into his skin. “Bro, what the fuck? Thought we were bros!” Zanyuu throws it onto the ground, crushing it with the heel of his sneaker, he stomps on it one for time for good measure.
Zanyuu inspects his hand and notices greenish goop flowing out of the two puncture wounds which are already starting to swell. “First fucking day and I’m already going to the nurse?” He laughs to himself as he steps away, dragging his shoe a little to scrape the guts off of it. The spider twitching in a pool of green blood behind him. Zanyuu is half way through slumping to the front office to ask where the nurses office is when he feels a heavy urge to sleep wash over him. Which was less than usual, as he made sure to sleep at a reasonable time last night for the sake of not falling asleep on the first day of school. Zanyuu trips over his own foot, as he tries to get up, he feels the intense fatigue get stronger as he falls limply on his side. He tries to reach for his phone, but his hand feels too heavy to do so. Zanyuu has felt fatigue before, usually when his insomnia keeps him up for hours on end as the clock ticks, but never this intensely. Zanyuu lets out a final groan as he passes out. Eyes fluttering closed.