"In the last time my dad changed towards me, he became cold and indifferent but really only towards me, I think I ask him again, but I don't give up easily like the last time!"
After he came home, he decided to do it instantly because he thought that maybe later, he doesn't have the confidence to do it anymore.
"We need to talk; alone!" Julian said, in a subtle way you could see that he slightly holds something back.
His mother was also there so they went to his father´s home office.
"So, what is their son?" His father asked while having a slightly warm voice, but his expression stayed with this slight coldness and indifference in his face.
"I already asked you because of it, why are you so different now? And I see you are only like this if you speak to me, when you talk with her you are like always what´s wrong?" He said while raising his voice and lowering slightly his head to not look into his father's eyes.
"I don't know what you mean I am not different at all!" He said also raising his voice in a serios tone.
Julian continued asking him until he didn't raised his voice but started screaming, with time also his father started almost screaming, it was an endless cycle only that they became louder, angrier and that Julian needed to hold back his tears; Julian asked what's wrong, his father always said that everything was like always.
After time also his mother stepped in trying to resolve the dispute.
"You both calm down, now!"
The scene wasn't like in an anime or manga he liked to watch, where everything was theatrical in a funny and humorous way, he realized that it was serios; after she said that he was running to his room.
Halve an hour later he calmed down.
"T-this doesn't matter now I still have a goal, and that is to become the most popular at the school…" He thought sobbing and crying, even though he is pretty smart he didn't manage to realize that his goal to become popular was only a way to compensate for things, nothing more, nothing less.
"I am now in the top one thousand, it is now important to climb the top nine hundred!" He thought while distracting himself.
He thought for a while about his next concrete steps to take.
"I think I might have something, I am already the most popular in my class so in need to get outside my class, I think I start with me to nearest neighbor class, class 2-1 and class 2-3.
I am already thinking how can I become more popular in those classes, if I just go randomly in classes trying to begin a conservation it will not work, either I find some way or maybe someone from my class has friends in those classes?"
Julian decided to think about an way to get popular in the neighbor classes and while he thought about it in the schoolyard and going throw the forest he saw someone popular out of class 2-1 getting bullied by two third graders, the popular guy getting bullied was physical very weak and short, an easy target for bullies that are not physically above average.
He obviously stepped in.
"Hey you stop, this! What are you doing, let him alone!" He said in a raised serios voice.
They instantly ran away after he said this.
"Are you okay, are they doing this often?!"
"Thanks for helping me! But no, this never happened besides now, but again thanks! I want you to show you my gratefulness I buy you whatever meal you want in the cafeteria and eat together with my friends, they probably already worry about me!?"
"T-thanks, okay if you want sure but you don't need to think your forced to, right?!"
"I know but I want to!"
It wasn't going like Julian hoped it would go, it was far better, he would've help anyways but for this guy he thought "What if it is helping me somehow to get in his class?!" He didn't think that it would help so much that he could instantly meet his friends, this guy is Julian´s golden ticket for getting the class 2-1.
"Could I maybe get to know what your name is? Mine is Kangyo Sora." He said with a shy smile on his face.
"Mine is Mercer Julian."
"Oh, wait you are the transfer student, right? And you also competed at the relay race, right?" He asked fascinated.
"Yes, I am, hmm wait I know now from where I know you, you are in class 2-1 right?" He only acted as he didn't know him.
"I am but how do you know this?"
"I am in the neighbor class, 2-2, I saw you once or twice in the hallway, but how can it be that we never saw each other somewhere else?"
"This makes sense but I think why we didn't saw us so much is probably because I was very often sick especially this school year!"
"Is everything okay, it doesn't sound well that you were so often sick?" He said with worry in his voice.
"It's something chronical but the doctors say it's going to be better to older I become; we are already here!" Julian noticed that Sora tried to distract this topic, if Julian didn't notice that it makes him feel uncomfortable, he would've asked more about it, this could've potentially risked his plan.
In the cafeteria Sora pointed to his friends and said, "These are my friends, would you like to eat with us?"
"I would like to if it's okay for you and them?"
"They are very open they will for sure like your company" he said smiling.
"Okay three people are at the table Sora pointed at, I know who everyone is from this table, even probably the most popular in class is there, Sora is truly my entrance ticket."
After they bought something from the cafeteria they went to the table, Julian was nervous and careful because he didn't know them, saying something that´s normal for him could be misunderstood by them!