1 Socialization Problems

Yuki walks slowly towards his house, head down with sadness in his eyes.

when looking ahead he sees a group of children standing on the sidewalk near his house in the distance, "oh no" he thinks, "i will have to pass them if i want to go home".

they are talking, playing with something that looks like a card game, "will i have to pass them, will they laugh at me? will they look at my appearance? can i wait for them to leave? when will i have to wait? why does it have to be in front of my house? these idiots no longer have the what to do? why are they not at school like I was?"

your heart is racing, your mouth is dry, millions of questions go through your mind. he inhales and exhales, it takes courage, he goes slowly towards home, each step is a nightmare, keep going forward, trigger his head, everything that happened in the morning comes back to haunt him, "the way they look at me, with contempt, I hate it". his eye starts to water, he keeps walking, he gets closer, and the other kids look more and more frightening, arrived in front of the gate, this is a relief, Now just go home.

"HEY!!!!" says a high-pitched voice.

Yuki's hands go cold, he doesn't react.

A hand touches yuki's shoulder, he turns slowly with his head down in fear of what comes next.

"Won't you say hi to me?"

"Ah it's just Dhon" thought Yuki with relief.

'you passed by a little slowly with your head down, I barely saw you" Dhon said with a small smile on his face.

"ah, s-sorry D. I didn't see you there" Yuki said in a shaky voice.

Quickly changing the subject Yuki asks "haven't you been to school today again?"

Dhon's little smile changes to a serious appearance, with a little bit of embarrassment, "so...yeah haha" said blandly.

"if you keep missing class every day, then you will repeat school year" said Yuki in a tone of mockery and superiority.

"Ew, you're so anticlimactic, it doesn't even look like you were crying now, what happened, did the other boys hit you again?" Dhon said with a mean look of irony.

"I-I- I WASN'T CRYING"

the other kids nearby hear Yuki say it out loud, he sees it and quickly his super pale skin turns extremely red with embarrassment, "and nobody bullyed me," he said, this time in a very low voice.

"right, right haha" said Dhon rubbing Yuki's head.

"so, what are you doing with those people?"

"those people?" said Dhon a little confusedly, "well, they are my friends, we are playing cards.".

"I thought I was your friend" said Yuki, with a little jealousy.

"Well I have other friends besides you" said Dhon laughing.

"so good, right?" said Yuki sympathetically, but a little disappointed, he quickly turned to the door ready to enter the house.

"WAIT" Dhon screams and holding Yuki's shoulder.

"Come here later, play with us"

"Play?" Yuki says that, and looking over Dhon's shoulders.

There are five children sitting on the sidewalk, Yuki doesn't know any of these children, except for a boy, Jonhy, whose Yuki never got along with. Unknown people and someone you don't like, Yuki, suddenly starts to sweat, he is too shy to join these people, and too shy to say no, Powerless, it is very rare for Yuki to say no to someone, because he has afraid of what people will think of him, especially Dhon, the only person who still has patience with him, he gets more and more nervous as he realizes that there is a girl among the children who is looking at him suspiciously. His voice fails and his mind flies, an awkward silence hangs in the air, while talking to Dhon, Yuki felt safe, but the idea of ​​him having to socialize with other children does not please him, as much as Dhon is there, he is afraid of what others will think of him, he knows that at some point he will have to talk to the other children.

"n-n-don't know" it's the only thing that comes out of Yuki's mouth, stuttering and half dragged.

"You never leave the house, come here, it'll be cool, you need to get out of your cell phone a bit, we are playing Alchemy" A type of Card RPG, "it's like those games you play on your cell phone, only outside your cell phone haha."

"aaw, I can't say no to D. I'm sure he does it on purpose" thought Yuki.

Yuki makes up an excuse "I will ask my mother if she lets me go, if he says yes, I will".

"don't worry, your mom left just now, then i talked to her, she said you can".

"What? did you talk to my mom"

"Yes, she went out to throw the trash away so I asked where you were and she said you were at school, I asked if you could play with us when you arrived and she said yes".

"Damn, how long has he been standing here in front of my house?" Yuki thought scowling.

"So are you coming?"

"Ew,ok ok"

"Cool, i'll wait for you"

"Damn mom, why didn't you say no?" Yuki thought with disgust

Yuki goes through the gate, enters the backyard of his house thinking about how it all happened, how silly he is, and how he can't say a simple "no" he opens the door of the house, throws his backpack on the floor and takes a deep breath and says: "It's just a card game, what can go wrong?".

After Yuki finally entered the house, the children on the sidewalk continued to act normally, Everyone is playing cards and having fun, in the middle of them there is a girl with a sulky face who asks: "So...who was that fagboy?"

"W-What?" Asks Dhon, a little surprised by the tone.

"The effeminate boy you were talking to, who he is". Asks the girl a little rude with a joke tone.

"He is a friend of mine" says Dhon a little uncomfortable.

"Friend? Okay, I didn't know that you were with these kind of people" Says the girl with debauchery.

"Kind of ironic that you say that Tina, after all you look like a boy" Dhon said with a serious look and a little smile.

"Tcss" makes Tina with her mouth, with Anger, when realizing that the other children are holding on to not laugh at her face.

"Sorry Tina, I didn't mean to offend you, I just think you should be less inconvenient."

"Whatever," says Tina, pretending not to be angry while holding a deck of cards.