Chapter 1 Chapter Text
Haku got to her knees and looked up at her attacker. Her vision was blurry from her tears of pain but she could still make out the face sneering down at her, framed by light blue hair.
"When will you ever learn that we don't fucking want you around, you dumb bitch?" The blue-haired girl then sat back down at the table.
Haku stood up, turned and slipped on the milk that had been spilt on the floor when it was tossed at her head. Her head smacked against the edge of the seat behind her and all the girls laughed louder at her misery.
When she did get to her feet, she ran for the bathroom, feeling dizzy. Haku pushed open the bathroom door and saw Iroha in there already.
Iroha seemed to know who it was without even turning around. She shook her head and snickered.
"Come to cry, have you? Typical Haku, always bawling her eyes out over a little teasing." She walked over to Haku and kicked her suddenly in the waist. Iroha took kickboxing and it was obviously paying off. She sashayed out the door.
Haku staggered over to a stall, locked the door, climber up atop a toilet and curled her arms around her knees.
She should never have listened to the principal. She should have just avoided the girls. She knew that trying to sit at their table was a bad idea, but she still had a glimmer of hope that they would accept her. Well, her principal had been so sure that all she needed to do was force her way into their group. He had been so insistent on it that Haku actually believed it for one sick moment, despite the evidence saying otherwise. The whole thing made her stomach hurt.
Haku wasn't quite sure what she had to done to warrant such behaviour. Had she said something? Done something? All she knew now was that not even Iroha the crazy neko-girl wanted anything to do with her.
The bell rang, signalling the beginning of the next period.
Haku waited until the sounds of footsteps and chairs scraping died away before exiting the bathroom and jogging down the hallway to English.
"Late, Haku!" Her teacher said as she came in, completely indifferent to the milk and food stains on her clothes, "third time this week. See me after class."
The girls sniggered.
It was only when Haku sat down at the back of the class when she noticed the girl standing at the front, whom she had never seen before.
"Now, as I was saying before I was interrupted," the teacher said, staring accusingly at Haku, "we have a new student. Tianyi, would you like to introduce yourself?"
The girl nodded. "Yes. Hi, I'm Tianyi Luo but I just like to be called Luo. I'm fifteen and I just moved here from Beijing, China."
"Very good...Luo. You can take a seat in the back next to Haku there."