Chapter 1 – Tomumy, Saz's Last Emo
Tomumy, 17 years old, with a face that is eternally sleepy and a heart that is as closed as a Swiss bank vault, was going to school. A new school, by the way, because the family's old house was burned down by a pyromaniac criminal who clearly didn't like properties with unpaid property taxes.
But don't worry, that's not the worst part.
The real fire in Tomumy's life was emotional: his father disappeared, probably running away to live off Uber in Paraguay; his mother loves her nerdy 19-year-old daughter more; his sister loves the house dog more than her own brother; and the dog probably hates Tomumy too — which is worrying, because not even Scooby-Doo judged anyone.
Tomumy is the kind of person who thinks that people who vent on social media should be canceled in real life.
According to him, anyone who writes long texts on Instagram is weak. Anyone who posts a little crying dance on TikTok deserves a reality check and a lesson on "silence wins".
Tomumy doesn't vent: he keeps everything inside until it turns into nervous gastritis and a playlist of depressive rock from the 2000s.
His new school, called Saz (because "High School Hell" was already registered), was the stage for his new silent suffering. He arrived early — not out of responsibility, but because he was homeless, fatherless, hopeless and mortally hated the anonymous arsonist who almost burned his family to the ground.
He entered the classroom, looked around and — surprise! — no one paid attention to him.
The world turns, the Earth trembles and teenagers continue to ignore each other as if they were in a headphone commercial.
Tomumy sat in the corner, put his head on the table and decided to take an existential nap.
But then the teacher, the great motivator of youth, came shouting:
— GET UP, TOMUMMY!
Tomumy jumped up in shock, looking like a cross between an owl and a sleepy zombie.
The whole class laughed at him, as if he were a lost episode of Everybody Hates Tomumy.
The teacher, with his age-old wisdom of public education, issued the classic pedagogical threat:
— Fall asleep again and go to the principal's office!
Tomumy, with shame dripping from his pores, lowered his head and said the iconic:
— Yes, sir…
The class was still laughing. They called him "the sleepy weirdo from class C", which, let's face it, is already an improvement. It could have been worse. They could have called him "the frustrated pyromaniac".
Tomumy, of course, pretended he didn't care. But deep down, deep down, between his liver and his broken heart, he wanted to be noticed.
Not out of pity. Nor out of love.
But maybe... by someone who also hates TikTok.