can't keep eyes open!

Life is like a deck of cards, we have an ace- the excellent ones, the jack-the constantly bullied one, a queen- everyone's beloved, a king- oh the ruler, queen's sweetheart, or anything you call under breath- the fucking cheater! But, rest we are common cards- yup, the number cards which come and go, who cares?!

However... There's one card rarest of all, in a deck of 52 only one to be found- the joker! This card has been a show-stopper, which was be anything- I mean ANYTHING- a king, queen, Jack, ace, or a common number! However, many people underestimate this very brutally! Until they know it's worth... But that's a long way, isn't it?!

*Present day, Sherinmin Academy*

"Abe Menick! Abe Menick! " Miss Daisy, the teacher of politics, brutal and unforgiving was her middle name, that she had earned in her 20 years of peak career, cried as she plunged her fist at its highest potential like an asteroid crashing onto that dark wooden bench in the right-most dusky corner of the political lecture room that she had owned for all those years, the table with the craft line of its edges eroded and a thick layer of dust coated,

Who would wish such a table to sit on?!

Well... "...mmm...What is it?... " asked the boy with the absolute pitch black hairs, all uncombed, spread over his face in all directions in no orientation at all, as he rose his head off the dark wooden table, over which he was napping a very sound sleep with a cradlesong of political theory hummed by some lady in her forties who in two-three second yell- 'is this clear?!' until an earthquake occurs- cracking his peaceful sleep at once,

rubbing one eye with his fingers and another still shut, he looked with utmost puzzlement and innocence over the lady with her face redden in rage, and somehow familiar and still in her forties,

The thought took rebel inside as he brooded to himself with a snort-

'they are hiring all the aged women, have all the young generation buried themselves off?!'

The drool, which was thick white yet transparent in color travels off the corner of his lips of rose gold shade, but he sat like the most innocent pup?!

She couldn't bare this, not one more sight!!

Just The sight of that, her chest begin moving faster up and down and a stinking feeling rose inside and her lips pressed to each other as if they were glued, although she seem ready to speak, or else should I say- she was dying to scold! 'But, what is the fun of scolding like that?!' She scoffs to herself as she grins ear to ear,

she folded her arms onto her chest as she commence very delicately -

"Abe Menick, what do you understand with the term political theory? "

'Now is the showtime! ' excited as she seem, she truly was! That has been a little fun the teachers find in such a boring job-

' a little bullying is alright, this will make other students stay attentive' She pushed the reason to the justification of her unsanctioned act, expecting the usual!

The child will go blank, then she will scold him and send him to the principal office, and the middle name, she achieved will glee more!

The tension spread inside the room, everyone glancing at the boy with a thin long neck, drool dripping from his face, and hair spread like any hippy, still sitting silently rubbing his eyes carelessly,

'He he... no one can take that away from me!' she said very proud of her act but...

"political theory, hm... It is a systematic study of politics that deals with ideas and principles that shape socio-political life"

Her mouth was left open, and who can blame her, rest thirty-nine chairs were also awestruck,

Everyone saw him dozing from the beginning of class but he has given the perfect definition of all without any doubt!

"... Can I go back to sleep? " he questions yawning with the biggest of his mouth, to her, and his eyes opened or closed- still that dilemma revolves?

But she was still not back from her shock!

This boy has crushed the pride of that 20-year experienced teacher of politics!

'You can get away with insulting me?!' she thought and grit her teeth, whose sound was audible- "Stand up! " she yelled, and abruptly, the boy recognized the voice and the lady- she's that 'Is that clear?!' lady but didn't move a nerve otherwise except yawn and rubbing his almost closed eyes which were filled with universal sleep!

"I said stand up! " roaring like a wild animal, she bang her fist a second time onto the same table that was on the brink of breaking anytime from now as it shiver in fear- an earthquake revealed,

'Oh, that was an earthquake' he thought to himself but now stand up on his thin-line knees very lethargically, and still careless about anything,

"Now get your ass to the principal office! "

Everyone dazzled, and heads twisted to look at the scene-clear and properly but,

"Fr wh crim? (For what crime?) " he asked yawning,

"For sleeping in class and disturbing the rest of the class with your snoring! "

He chuckled at the allegation and started to pack his stuff- as if anything was out. But still pretending to zip in and then out of his dark theme blank bag with no study books inside,

"Is there any problem Mr. Menick?! " she asked very offended,

"...me?! No, nah... " he raises his both hands as if a thief saying ' see I don't have anything ',

"hurry up, you are wasting other's precious time here and apparently, yours too" she commented very low in the air, as if she never said next lines and veer around without looking at that disgusting boy again, and started walking towards her lecture stand, with her straight spine-

"So, who is going to tell me where we left?!"

The whole class drew silence!

No one was laughing anymore, or gossiping anymore - the same terror returned, and it give her some satisfaction, 'the fun is still up' she thought, but...

"Jean Jacques Rousseau's quotation 'freedom is the fundamental right of humankind' on page 5 to the end of the last paragraph before mahatma gandhi's quotation "The disgusting boy, answered in his deep voice with unexpected confidence, wiping his drool off with the sleeve of his blue denim he wore leaving everyone in another astringent!

"How?...why? .... When?... "

The first shock wasn't yet recovered and the second strike was so unexpected it felt like her skull was already crushed,

'He didn't have a book, he was sleeping the whole time, how he knew?! '

But, she took her astonished inside -

"Abe Menick, you are still here?! " and words leave through her teeth, as she blinks her eyes twice to calm herself of all that rage,

He lower his head and took his bag flew onto his left shoulder, and started to walk at the tortoise's speed, slowly-slowly, all eyes moved with his movement like that Chinese technique with the man enchanting the snake?!

Yes, that one from Karate Kid...

But, he wasn't doing some technique, he was already at the brink of sleeping any time now! eyes so heavy that even keeping onto the ground for keeping foot right was even hard, until-

*bang* he falls right onto his face! Everyone broke into laughter(even the teacher too), all his work that was supposed to become legendary was vanish in a snap!

"Hey, watch your step, sleepyhead! " all because 'The king' has put his leg into the matter! The king, Teren De Siv, the most popular and hot guy in the school, the one who is supposed to be a legend how can he let any lazy tortoise take his head? Not possible!

"Hey everyone, silence! " miss daisy said with a smiling face and look at the king, he avenged her? ' Oh he's truly a king ' she thought,

But, Menick didn't rise his head! Leave head, he was drop dead! Not a single movement!

"Why isn't he moving? " the girl with pink dye hair asked looking around and yup, terror was booming,

"Hey, Menick? " panicking the king move his thick dark boots of leather to the sleeve of the lifeless body of The disgusting boy,

But... "Oh no, you killed him! " the boy with thick brown hair cried pulling his hair dumbstruck, causing more panic!

"Calm down, everyone, I will call the infirmary, no one goes near the body, understand?! " miss daisy, herself was alarmed and frightened - as she calculated this was going to be the decline of her peak career, as she was about to rush out of her room-

Abruptly, "Kherr...kherrrr... zzz..."

Wait! What's that sound?!

Snoring?!

The khressing sound was originating from the dead-like body,

'Is it his ghost?!' the king thought,

still panicked but now knowing something was alive, the king jumped off his seat showing his fearless image-

"James! " he call his minion in a yellow shirt and pointed at the chap lying on the ground,

Without any delay, James guy turned the body of the disgusting guy very gladly,

' At last, the king commanded me, now I will be his BFF ' that person thought proudly flying in thin air but, on the ground only to find,

that person's breath which was stuck in his lungs for so long, caused traffic at his throat-

"He... He... " he struggled to convey but, King pushed him by his shoulder to look at the disgusting boy examining with his admiring grey gaze,

"Sleepyhead, can't even keep his eyes open! Haha!!!! " and bust into boots and boots of laughter and panic just puffed off, even miss daisy smiled and took a relaxing breath-

'I still have a peak career'

"Everyone, shush! Someone Take him to the principal office! " she declared still giggling at the scene, ha, how far she could hide her happiness?

Today, she felt she was reappointed to her beloved (money-money) job!

That boy who was sleeping didn't even wink his eyes, not even off the noise or some three two people (one of whom was a king too, how could he leave such opportunity) dragging him to the principal's office, he was peacefully in his sleep and busy snoring!

****

In the political room, still, the students sat gossiping and laughing, and the teacher held her head in her hand-

"let's continue! " she said and started to write some quotations on the blackboard while others were still busy,

But... In the same dark corner, where that shaking table sat and thick curtains were drawn to restrict the light inside -

The dark shadow started to move and form a female figure with a sleek touch of the goddess as she sat on the same desk, that disgusting boy sat, oh sorry slept!

She touched her throat and speak-

"Sir, we found it...Joker is here"

"Good, the jewel shade is scheduled tonight, do krrhhh.. think he can make it?! " he questioned in the waving sound,

" Tonight?! I thought it was in a week?! " baffled she cried, but in a whisper remembering where she was,

"The timeline is changing, but the question krrrh. Is...he Rdy? (Is he ready?) "

"He's in the worst shape expected, sleeping and sleeping like a drug addict! " she squeezed her throat,

"He's on drugs?! " the voice questioned,

"No, No, he's on a sleep cycle like hibernation and activation combined! How can a sleepyhead win the game of our existence ?! We will surely vanish if he will fight from our side!"

Abruptly, Miss Daisy looked in the dark branch direction as if she heard someone screaming in whispers and movement, but the whole class was quieter at her glance and the bench... It was forsaken!

'Gods, my mind' she flicks her head and again focuses on completing the quotations from the famous figures of history,

And in shades, of thick curtains, neon-shining eyes open like two light bulbs,

" Just come back...He- He will know everything once it begins..."

"Aye," she replied and release her throat, and vanish into the shades,