Waking up to a computer screen every day

Hidden from the peers I once knew

Pretending to be learning

Yet playing video games

Yet sleeping the day away

Assignments were like digital mountains

The amount had kept me from working

I didn’t care

When I was finally back inside a building

With an uncomfortable mask on my face

I had secluded myself

As if nothing had changed

I had been alone for four years

I liked being alone

I don’t like depending on others

Then one math class

You had asked me for a song’s name

A song that sounded like honey

Next thing I know

We’re hanging out every day

And I didn’t mind

Because for the first time ever

I wanted someone else’s company

More than my own