Denezius put on his earphones, the online class was about to begin, he had done his homework for college and now he just had to verify it with Mr Smith. Den went to the freezer and picked up a can of Red Bull from inside, he had finally gotten sober and had replaced his collection of Jack Daniels for energy drinks and protein shakes, and occasionally as he called it, milkshakes.
He was about to be lost in his flurry of thoughts when his phone beeped and he saw that Mr Smith had sent the joining GMeet link in the WhatsApp group.

For context, Den had been taken to the hospital and then to the rehab by Zach who now visited him every day and who also had become his gym bro, Den relished the physical exhaustion that gym brought with itself. He had to apply ointments on his cigarette burns everyday, he even now sometimes had the urge...