There’s something weird in your watch.

You’re sitting silently in the teacher’s office during the second recess, recalling once more the events of the day so far. Again, no matter what you do, you can’t get the students to work. You teach 4 junior classes and 4 seniors classes, and while none of them are as bad as your class, they still don’t give a damn about you being there or not. Your words aren’t heard and your instructions are ignored. You’re air no matter where you go. You always knew this wasn’t for you.

“There you are again, looking down as always. What’s got you down this time, Simon?”

You hear the voice of the science teacher as she sits beside you. The 40-something year old teacher almost sounds annoyed as she asks.

“It’s nothing, Mrs. Kelly. I’m just tired, is all.” You answer with a **** smile, but she seems to buy it.

“You’re way too young to be getting tired so quickly. It’s only 12:00 on a Monday, and you’ve only been here a month.” She chides you. “Drink some coffee to get you going.”

You smile wryly. “I think I will.” You sigh mentally. You think understand where she’s coming from when she says that stuff. She’s been doing this for years now, and here she sees a new teacher already overwhelmed. Still, you’re not in the mood to hear stuff like that.

You stand up from your seat, get your mug and walk up to the cupboard with the common coffee pot. Thankfully there’s still some left there. You’re pouring yourself some when you hear your watch make a short beeping sound.

That’s odd. You don’t have an alarm set up.

You grab your mug, go back to your seat and look at the watch on your wrist. There, you see words slowly sliding by the small screen.

AFFECTION MULTIPIER ON! ENJOY!

You read the sentence several times as it keeps on sliding by just to make sure you’re reading it right.

Affection Multiplier on? What the hell is this feature? This is just a cheap digital wristwatch, it barely even has a calendar. And there’s nothing else other than that one message. You press a few buttons and your watch is back to normal.

Shit! It’s 12:08! Only two minutes left till third period!

You drink you coffee as fast as you can manage with it being as hot as it is, burning your tongue a bit in the process and leave for class with the seniors.