Chapter 1. Rain

Ia walked to school as usual, school was important to her, but the rest of the students were nothing she liked. In fact, she hated everyone and everyone hated her. She often asked herself why? Why did they hate her? She had no answer to the question that so often echoed in her brain. She had learned how not to show emotion, she believed that everyone hurt her since they wanted her to be sad and angry, and by not showing emotion they would slowly stop hurting her. She had almost no friends, her only real friend was a girl named Gumi, they had been friends for about a half year. Gumi was also low on friends, mainly because she was a pyromaniac and no one dared to be her friend. By being friends with Gumi one could at any moment be framed for helping Gumi incinerate something, Gumi didn't frame other people, but everyone just assumed that she didn't burn stuff alone. Ia looked at the blue sky, clouds soared around up there. She looked at her watch and noticed that school would begin soon. She ran towards the grey building, she entered the yard of the school. As usual a lot of people was walking around there, most of them was people who did not care enough about school to end their conversations in order to get to class in time. Ia suddenly noticed that the ground beneath her no longer was solid, no there was no ground under her feet. She had tripped over someone's leg, she knew that the intention of the person had been to cause her to fall. The ground came closer and closer, she accelerated towards the hard concrete floor that now was so close that she couldn't be saved anymore. She successfully prevented any serious damage but landing on her hands but her head still hit the ground. She rose up and felt humiliated, the person who was to blame had already disappeared into the crowd of students that still stood outside of the school building. This was nothing unusual for her, every day was like this. She grabbed the handle to the school door and pulled. The door opened and she walked in, she still had one minute to make her way to the classroom. The distance wasn't the factor that would make her late, the problem was more that she knew that behind at least one corner someone would stand, waiting for her. No one ever waited for her for any other reason than to hurt her. Luckily her paranoid thought remained fiction, no one stopped her from reaching the classroom just in time. During class she felt safe, so far no one had ever bullied her during class. Gumi wasn't there, Ia assumed that Gumi was in trouble for burning something as usual. When the lesson ended she sent a text message to her.

From: Ia
To: Gumi
Where are you?

A few minutes passed without an answer, after five minutes Ia phone beeped, she had received a message.

From: Gumi
To: Ia
I'm sick.

Ia was happy over that Gumi wasn't in trouble but the sad part was that now Ia had no friends in school at the moment, this was a clear negative side of only having one friend, when she thought more about it she didn't find a single positive side of her lack of friends. Ia decided to try to make more friends since she had nothing else to spend the brakes at. The only place where she even had a slight chance of finding a friend was at the outcast's part of the school. They usually hanged out just behind the school, mainly since they weren't wanted anywhere else. Ia had never before considering joining them but now she felt like she was out of options. Rainclouds had begun stacking up at the sky, Ia didn't really mind. She felt the hateful glares of her classmates following her. She knew that any second someone could walk up to her and punch her in the face without anyone caring. Something similar happened, she was knocked down on the ground, and as predicted no one helped her up. As she rose up she was knocked down again. She tried rising up again only to be knocked down to the gray floor. This time she stayed down for a little longer, when the density of people around her had decreased a bit she dashed out of the hallway. She left the building and headed for the corner of the yard where the outcast hanged out. Without anyone noticing she fused with the group. The group was quiet, the ones who spoke used a low voice not to destroy the silence. No one had yet noticed Ia, she was relieved that the reaction of the group wasn't negative. She had expected not to be accepted here either but she was wrong, nobody cared who joined the group.
-Your new here right? Someone asked, he had white hair and red eyes.
-Yes, I was hoping to find friends, Ia replied.
-Well, it's hard to say if you came to the right place or not, the boy left and disappeared within the crowd. Ia didn't know what the boy meant with what he said but she decided to not think too much about it, the people around her wasn't her enemies, at least not yet. No one of they had attempted to hurt her so far and she wished that it would stay the same forever.
Water begun dropping down from the clouds, it turned into rain. Ia followed as the crowd entered the school, it was for the greater good, the next lesson would begin in five minutes anyway. The rain kept falling down from the gray clouds that occupied the entire sky. During the second lesson the rain had increased, there was no signs of an end to the rain. Lunch break, it was long enough for Ia to be tormented enough to break down mentally. To avoid contact with the ones who wanted her to be in pain she reunited with the outcasts. As expected no one noticed her presence but Ia still felt safer with other outcasts. Lunch break was frightening to her, since she knew that it was impossible for her to spend an hour in school without being either on a lesson or being bullied. The lunch break went slowly by, she succeeded with eating her lunch without being attacked, she was in fact fine until ten minutes before the next lesson. Ia was knocked out into the rain and the door got locked from inside. Of course there was more than one entrance to the gray school but Ia had a feeling that the other doors was locked as well. She decided to try getting in from another door anyway, she was wrong, the other doors wasn't locked. She made it to the lesson in time, during the lesson the persons who always made her life worse than it already was, the same ones that had knocked her out into the rain earlier today, just sat there like nothing would have happened. At the end of the lesson she left the classroom and carefully, avoiding as much people as possible, made her way to the outcasts. They were currently positioned around a table in a hallway as far away from most of the classrooms as possible. The mood was the same as always, quiet and boring, with the rain falling down outside of the school the mood seemed even worse. The entire break was spent listening to the droplets of water hitting windows. Ia looked at her watch and noticed that she one again had to move to a classroom, this was the final lesson for the day. She didn't mind the lessons but since she got to get away from the students in the school she was happy over that is soon was over.
This lesson wasn't as peaceful as the other lessons, her teacher had forgotten a lot of papers somewhere so he left the room. This made Ia an easy target, she was immediately targeted, if the teacher hadn't returned quicker than expected she would have been in serious trouble. When the lesson ended she returned to her home as quickly as possible, she had had it with all the people treating her like nothing, it was time for revenge. Ia knew she wasn't strong enough to stand up for herself, but she wasn't doomed yet. She opened a box, containing a knife, owning a knife wasn't something that special but the will to use it as a weapon was something that not everybody had. I will get even, she thought, she prepared a dark outfit, she almost never used dark clothing, but it would just be perfect this time. She looked at herself in the mirror and knew, she was ready.