"Kagome! What do think you're doing?!" Sango cried out, keeping a firm hold on Kagome's wrist.

Kagome was starting to feel dizzy as she looked down to the ground that was eight stories below her. If Sango wasn't holding onto her wrist with both hands she wouldn't have failed, it would have been the one time that she would have succeeded in anything. For once, she wouldn't have failed.

Sango slowly started to pull Kagome up. It was hard but if she didn't she would loose her grip on Kagome. When Kagome was halfway up the ledge of the building she grabbed onto her waist. Sango looked into Kagome's tear filled eyes and Kagome collapsed crying in Sango's lap. Sango waited until her breathing evened out before speaking.

"Why would you do something so stupid?! You Baka!" Sango shouted at her best friend, who was currently staining her uniform with tears.

Kagome's shoulders shook, "That's right! I am a baka! I couldn't even kill myself correctly. I can't pass any of my classes, my mother hates me and everyone in this school knows that I don't belong here."

Sango slowly picked Kagome up and carried her in her arms. She walked to the door, moved one of her arms so she could open the door to the stair well. She carried Kagome all the way down the stairs to the first floor of the school. She tried to put Kagome down when she reached the front door but when she looked down, Kagome was asleep.

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Kagome walked into the classroom, three girls laughed at her when they saw her, her uniform wasn't ironed like the other girls' were. It had wrinkles everywhere. She took her seat at the far right end of the room next to the window. The laughter increased when they noticed that she was missing her math book.

It was true, Kagome didn't belong in the Atirokiyo Girl's School. She got in the school on pure scholarship. Everyone else in the school had rich parents that wanted the best for their daughters.

Sango sat down in front of Kagome, she smiled and turned around. Sango was one of those rich girls, but Sango didn't care that Kagome wasn't like her, "Kagome, are you alright?"

Kagome put her head down and nodded. Sango looked skeptical. She shook her head and dropped the topic anyway. Sango didn't want to admit it but she knew that Kagome was very fragile right now, after all she had thrown herself from the roof the school last night. That was the first time Sango had actually been inside of Kagome's house. It was just strange, Kagome's mother wasn't even in the house. Sango had left a note explaining everything, hell, Sango wanted to take Kagome to the hospital but knew that her mother would throw a fit if she found out her daughter was in the hospital. Sango didn't like Anna very much. Kagome's mother was a bitch.

Kagome looked up at Sango, " What's wrong?" she asked. Sango looked worried.

"It's nothing." Sango lied.

The teacher walked in and they all got and bowed, when he started writing something down on the board Sango handed Kagome a note.

Why are you here? You should be at home Kagome.

Kagome laughed then wrote her reply.

My mother wasn't home and I threw away the note that you wrote her.

Why would you do that?!

It doesn't matter.

Doesn't matter! Kagome you almost killed yourself!

Kagome raised her hand. "Sensei, I feel light headed, may I go to the infirmary?"

The teacher nodded.

Sango stood up, "I'll escort her there."

Kagome and Sango walked out of the room. Once they were on the first floor Sango dragged Kagome into the bathroom. Kagome leaned against the wall.

"Kagome, why didn't you tell your mother about last night?!"

Kagome turned her away from Sango, "She's still out with Kyo. She might not be home till this weekend. It would just piss her off that her daughter cut her vacation with her sugar daddy short."

Sango's eyes widened. Was Kagome really home alone in the ghetto district of Tokyo for weeks on end? Her mother was no where to be seen last night and yesterday was Monday. It would make sense.

Sango pushed Kagome back up against the wall when se tried to leave, "Is that why you tried to jump?"

Kagome shook her head negative, "It's better when she's gone, then she doesn't blame me for the hell that she threw us into, the only reason I'm never hit is because she knows I'd kill her if she touched me."

Sango let go of Kagome's shoulders. She had known Kagome for eight months and she never knew this. Everything made sense now, the times she would sleep over five nights a week, the borrowing lunch money from perfect strangers. The fact that Kagome always looked hungry. Sango wanted to kick herself for being so blind. With such a horrible home life coupled with how she was treated at school , of course she would be suicidal. Who wouldn't?

Kagome started to walk out of the bathroom but Sango grabbed her wrist, "Does anyone know this?"

Kagome laughed, a horrible sarcastic laugh, "They just don't care about the red headed step child."

"What?" Sango asked confused.

"It's a European term to describe someone unwanted." Kagome explained. With that Kagome walked over to the infirmary. Sango sighed, there was nothing else she could do… except, "Kagome!"

Kagome turned around.

"I don't care what my mom says, you're staying at my place for the rest of the week." Sango announced.

Kagome smiled then walked inside so she could lay down in one of the infirmary beds. Sango went back to class.

As she stepped inside the classroom Aiyuki, a girl with long black hair and completely even bangs, the most rich and popular girl in the school, walked up to her.

"Why do you hang out with Kagome, Osimai?" Aiyuki asked. "She's just using you."

'You don't know anything, do you?' Sango thought, "Kagome never uses people. Otherwise she wouldn't complain when I buy her lunch."