I was in a room in the high school I had gone to for my first two years of computer science classes, with three classmates. The room had a red door (this high school has different colors depending on the floors). We were all sitting down in front of computers, and the room was arranged in a similar fashion to what I think was room 6301 IRL, but much smaller: the tables were arranged in a rectangle around the center of the room, where 4 rectangular plastic pipes were used to provide the power and ethernet plugs. It seems I was back from some kind of trip.

I sit down and look at my OnePlus One phone. I also take another smartphone out, with the same shape and user interface as my old BlackBerry Q5, without its physical keyboard. I tell myself I miss this phone and I try to turn it on to check whether it had LTE and MMS support, before thinking this ‘might not be relevant’.

When touching this phone, I felt some kind of rectangular shape in the back which I quickly identify as the lithium battery that might have gone bad. I quickly try to open the phone’s battery case and find the battery to indeed be a spicy pillow. It explodes when I try to take it out of the phone, without hurting anyone and without breaking anything other than the battery itself, causing a hole of a centimeter in diameter in it.

I then remember seeing everyone put on a thin headset, with my female classmate trying to explain to me that we had a new project with a client that uses some videoconferencing software that would be too complex for me to install when it’s 5pm, the time of our daily meeting.