Passing by the crowd of students in class Bobby approached him. Shin was doing nothing other than observing others around him out of boredom, or so it seemed.  

"Never thought something like this would pop up when we first heard the rumors."

"Same, It seems like we need to prepare for the worst. As the process of shuffling is still unclear." Shin replied to Bobby, standing in front of him.

"Yeah, I too should check my home, if there is something that might need work. If by chance I am the unlucky one."

"Well, the same goes for me. But I don't think there should be much of a problem for me. Anyways, we won't be finding out what's gonna happen to who till tomorrow."

"Yeah, no point getting anxious over it now. I will send you the SS of my notification when I receive it tomorrow."

"Yeah, I will too, if… I remember."

Shin replied, but suddenly becoming aware of his lazy and forgetful nature, he became unsure.

"By the way—" 

"Ok everyone here! I have an interesting proposal!"

A loud voice interrupted Shin, not only Shin but the whole class; demanding everyone to pay attention to what it had to say. 

Shin, who already had lost motivation to complete what he was about to say, shifted his head towards the source of the voice; The voice belonged to a girl named Alice. The girl had short black hair, her voice had an aura somewhat of a leader, though it was too early to be called that. This girl was the class leader. Her nature, which was very much similar to any outgoing gal, reflected in her voice; at least for Shin it seemed like that.

"I have a great idea! As you know this month may be the last month we might be able to see each other's faces. And we are unsure what might happen to who. So! Let's say a proper farewell. I think there might be one in school. but! Do you really think an official farewell would be satisfying if you are not the ones who got to plan it from start to end!?"

"Yeah, official things would leave a not so satisfying taste in most of our mouths!" A girl, one of Alice's friends who might have pushed the Idea in her head, supported her, pushing others present in the room to share their opinion. A boy spoke,

"Yeah I think that's A good idea, we can even collect money. And then start planning during the free time we might get during this month."

Slowly others also started to agree to it, with words like, "Yeah, we should do it!", 

"It would be a one in a lifetime change and occasion.", " But how would we do it?", "It might be hard for people who will be busy shifting." " Um, let's discuss that!", " Yeah Let's start with that, I got a nice proposal for that!", "How about we create a group where we can discuss this." As more and more people started to join In, the voices got more and more indistinguishable. 

 Shin and Bobby just sat and stood there, respectively, seeing people make a crowd around Alice and her group. People started debating, arguing, agreeing; it could no longer be described by Shin, from outside it just looked like a mess. 

To which Shin thought,

—How do people even navigate in that!?

After some time, around 10 minutes, students participating in the discussion calmed down. "Ok everyone, please get back to your seats!"

Bobby had already brought his chair next to Shin's and was sitting on it; Technically, it was not his, but an extra chair back in their class. 

"I think we all or majority have agreed to this idea! As for the dates we would decide on that later in the group we will create today. We all will wait for tomorrow and then from them who will have the most free time this month will be given charge on it. So you need not worry for further details. As for funding we will do that on the group later. And yes! Please share the Screen shot of the notice you will receive to us through that group! That's all! Anyone who wants to discuss it and join us is free to remain after school today and we will decide the meeting spot tomorrow in the groupchat! If anyone has any doubt you can ask me after class." 

Just as Alice finished giving the details, the bell rang. All students started to get moving from their places; some went and joined their friends from different sections, some remained in class, some went straight out of the class, and all possible things that could happen. 

Shin and Bobby, with no reason to stay, got out of the school. They had things to talk about but it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. They separated at their stops and went on their way. At Least for Shin it was already fixed, the place he chose to return to without any second thought, his home. 

–– The rest of the day would be spent doing the usual stuff he would do regularly; while finishing his pending works so that it won't become a hassle.

***

NEXT MORNING, Bobby Texted him along with the screenshot. Shin was in the kitchen pondering what to have for breakfast, as today was an early morning for him. On sound of the notification he went to check his phone, but to his surprise it was Bobby. He had also been waiting for the Notification. So it was obvious for him to be expecting the notice by now. Anyways, He opened the messaging app through the notification bar and checked Bobby's text, it had a screenshot attached to it. Shin opened it, and it displayed the details of things that were told yesterday. As expected it went in detail to give information on what to do and contact information of teachers supervising it, in case the official number was busy.

Shin

Messaged* "Lemme check mine."

He went back to his home screen and opened his email. There he could see the mail on the top of the unread section; it was the mail he was waiting for.

Bobby* "Don't forget to send the screenshot shot."

Shin on seeing the message pop. And Remembered, he also had to send the screenshot to the group that was supposed to be made. 

Shin sent the screenshot to Bobby, and checked his invite request. There was a 5 hours old invite request, he accepted it and got greeted with a mess of screenshots. It seemed like all were In suspense over it. Now that it had been revealed. All were sharing it with no rest and so did Shin.

As Bobby had finished reading the contents of Shin's mail he messaged,

 

Bobby* "It seems we both are the unlucky ones, lol."

Shin and Bobby made it clear, this month was going to be truly the last in their surroundings they had lived in till now.

Bobby* "Will you be coming to school?"

Messaged* "Well, there is no point going to school, as the only reason anyone would want to go no longer even exists for our class."

Bobby* "anyways it won't hurt to go, just for fun"

Shin had no reason to deny, somehow he would not be satisfied if he didn't go; the feeling you get when you skip something and later get anxious over it if you missed something.

Message* " Fine... you decide the time"

Bobby* " umm, let's see… how about 10!"

Message* "Fine, let's meet at the canteen"

Bobby* "ok, see you there then!"

Shin put the phone down and went back to the kitchen. After preparing breakfast he read the mail he had received

carefully; from what he had read, it was now clear that he had to shift.

After checking the other details, he took another look at Bobby's screenshot then went through some random screenshots shared in the group. What he was looking for was nothing; it was in his nature to look into the information which interested his curiosity. Though, what he was doing now was not out of curiosity, but just plain boredom and hope that he would find something, which he didn't.

He had planned to meet Bobby at the canteen around 10pm. Around 9:30 he left his home. He reached the school's canteen at 10 o'clock sharp.

"Yo! Shin! Here!"

He was looking around, that's when the voice called out to him. On turning to the source of that voice he could see Bobby seated at the table having a coffee. 

Shin went to the place he was seated at. And took a seat in front of Bobby's. 

"I would have heard you without you needing to scream that loud." Shin complained.

"Now, that wouldn't be fun, would it?"

"So? What's the news." Shin ignored his words with no thought.

"Umm, So first we need to go to class to see how it's going over there. And then some 'socializing' with others, the term you love to use."

"Well, that is not my problem. The word I choose to use is just accurate, with no need to talk about the actions being performed to socialize. Isn't it just unnecessary to go into detail about something." Shin comically replied to Bobby's attempt at poking him with another author like words.

"Another author like—"

"Anyways shall we go now. How long are you planning to play with an already empty cup of yours." to Shin's comment Bobby stopped playing music with his cup and got up.

"Now, obviously! Let's go." 

Shin got up and walked out of the canteen and Bobby followed him.

The place was crowded but not on a level that it was hard to Walk, it was more like people were spread all over the campus. Shin noticed it on the way to his class. 

On his way, filled with chatter, Shin overheard two girls arguing. There was no reason behind it, in a crowd filled with chatter, it just caught his attention. He couldn't make out the topic of the argument as they passed each other in an instant.  

"We are here, let's see what's here for us."

Shin's thoughts were overwritten by the voice. Sound of chatter came back as he became aware that they had reached their destination. 

"Yeah"

After checking the boards it was the same things they had received in their phone; but only the Name of people who will be shifting, and their next destination was written there. Shin's class had around 35 students, from them 25 names were written there.

There weren't many students in class, around 7, and Teachers could be seen nowhere. Even when passing by the staff room Shin hadn't noticed any.

"It's the same, but less." Shin whispered to himself.

"Just as you said." 

Shin got out of the class and as soon as he was about to leave–

"Shin!" A voice called out his name. Before he could move a girl came running in front of him. Shin hadn't talked much to this girl but she was one of Wenic's friend.

"Hm?"

"Umm, have you seen Wenic?" Not even waiting for herself to catch a breath she asked, not only to Shin but to the person standing behind him, Bobby. 

"No we haven't yet. Why?"

This girl was panting and had an anxious look all over her face, she wasn't even trying to hide it.

Seeing her state Bobby interjected, " has something happened?"

The girl looked at him and the words that came out of her mouth–-