"Thank you!" Ian looked down at his hands folded together between his knees as he spoke. He was surprised that these group of young people whom he admired in silence for having such a good and admirable friendship through all these years are among his friends online. He called his followers friends although they were all just connected online because they were the friends who never bullied him. the ones he got to interact with in person had more of them enjoyed bullying him so he had long decided to never physically interact. But seeing how good their friendship were, it made him sometimes wish he was among their group, joking around, having lunch in one table - where sometimes even of the seats weren't enough for the five of them because there would only be four chairs on every table- the
