Fourteen year old Rika Ihara walked down the hall of her new school. She had just started 7th grade. New school, new people, new everything.
She lifted up her arm to take a look at the locker number that she had written on the back of her hand, reciting it under her breath as she counted down the rows of lockers until she found hers. "Ten, eighteen, eleven… Ten eighteen twelve!", checking the back of her hand again to make sure she had the right number, she set her hand on the lock and twisted it to the correct numbers until it opened. Her school books were already in her locker. As she picked them up and started placing them in her bag, another girl walked up to her right. She was slightly taller than Rika, with short brown hair with blonde highlights, a one-sleeve-cut-off white shirt, grey skinny jeans, and black boots.
Rika glanced up at her. The girl shot her head down, and Rika turned hers back to her books. The girl, still looking at Rika with distaste in her eyes, said, "Do you need something? Youre wasting my time".
Rika cringed at the girl's high pitched nasally voice. Trying not to blow up at someone on the first day, she turned to her and said, "No, actually, this is my locker". She slammed the door to it and began to walk the other way. The girl smirked and gave Rika an obnoxiously high pitched nasal laugh, "Remember what you just said when the school hates you, smartass~".
Rika paused for a moment, considering whether or not to beat the shit out of this girl. She simply turned her head and smiled, then she was off again, her long red hair following after her. She pulled the class schedule out of her bag, glancing back and forth between it and people walking around her. Most everyone was taller than her. "Two inches, damn it. That would be nice".
As she was arguing with herself in her head, she bumped into another girl. This one About her height, with light brown hair in a ponytail, a long sleeved light purple t-shirt, dark blue skinny jeans, and abnormally huge boobs. "Good shit those are huge. What are they, C's? She looks like she's only in seventh grade! How ca-"
"Ah! I'm sorry! I'll help you pick these up". The girl seemed more nervous to be in a new school than Rika did. Rika, still pondering to herself about the girl's C-cups and staring blankly into space didn't even notice that she had dropped all her books. The girl stood back up and motioned to give them back to her.
"Umm…. Hello? Miss… Redhead?".
Rika snapped back to consciousness. The thought of being called "redhead" or "ginger" or anything relating to her red hair made her cringe,"wh-what do you want?" Rika snapped at her in an angry tone. The girl winced and tried to talk through her anxiousness.
"y-you dropped your books…" She said, motioning back to the books.
Rika snatched them out of her hands, turned her back and began to walk away.
"I'm sorry!" The girl yelled. Rika stopped where she was.
"What are you sorry for? You didn't do anything…"
"Well, for bumping into you and dropping your books, obviously", She looked at Rika as if saying "you didn't know that?".
Rika turned around and gave the girl what was supposed to be a smile, it looked more though like she had just ate a lemon. The girl didn't know whether to be scared or happy. "I, uh.. Never got your name?" Rika said, trying to forget that she had just been rude to her.
The girl's face lit up, happy to possibly have a friend. "Oh! Uh, Vendetta!".
Rika's face looked twisted in fear, like she had just seen a ghost. "...Excuse me?"
Vendetta, with a confused look, said "Uhm.. Something wrong?".
"I had a friend named vendetta when I was seven. I could never pronounce her name. She eventually got mad at me always calling her "hey you" and she never talked to me again." Rika stared into space, sulking.
"well, its been..what, 6 years since then, right?"
Rika's attention went back to vendetta, "Maybe you can say it right now? Try it!" Another smile re-spread along her face.
"ven… vat…. vo….".
"she really cant say it…." A sarcastic smile crept onto Vendetta's face. "Just call me Shii. It'll be easier."
"SHUT UP. YOU MAKE ME LOOK STUPID! And how do the two even sound familiar?" Vendetta quietly laughed and raised her voice over Rika's, "come onnnnn~ we have to get to class. you cant rant all about my name later~"