Grade 1
"Hi! I'm Fai! What's your name?"
"None of your business."
"Kurogane! Be nice to Fai, he's new here." Kurogane just scoffed at the nagging teacher.
"Why do I have to be nice? I don't want to. And, he looks like a girl."
"I do not!"
"Do too."
"Nuh uh."
"Yuh huh."
"Children! Both of you to the time out corner. Don't come out until you've worked out your differences." The two little boys went and sat in the corner for almost half an hour before they started talking.
"So your name is Kurogane? That sounds too scary. Your face is too cute for your scary name. Can I call you Kuro-chan instead?"
"No."
"Oh. Well how about Kuro-sama? Kuro tan? Kuro-chama? Kuro-ron? Kuro-poppo? Kuro-wan? Oh yeah! Kuro-wanwan~ because you're cute like a puppy."
"I'm not 'cute'."
"Yes you are~"
"Whatever. Why do I bother wasting my breath?"
"I'm Fai D. Flourite. And I think that we're gonna be best friends."
"Whatever lets you sleep at night."
"You know, I've never really had a friend before. I used to be home schooled, me and my brother, but when he got sick and died… my parents decided I'd be better off somewhere that I could meet new people."
"Y-your brother… Died?"
"Mhmm. He had Leukemia. My parents wanted to continue on with the chemo but… he told the doctors 'Just let me go. All this suffering will be for nothing in the end. I'm going to die anyway.' That was the week before he died. He told me… he told me that he never wanted me to cry for him, that I should be happy that I got to spend any time with him at all. Sometimes I got the feeling that he knew something I didn't. But I guess I'll never know."
"You… You went through all that… haven't you cried at all?"
"Not on the outside. But… sometimes I feel like I'm crying on the inside."
"You're an alright kid. Maybe we can be friends."
"Yay! Kuro-sama wants to be my friend!" The little blonde boy glomped the dark haired boy, and the teacher smiled back at them.
"It looks like you two have worked out your differences now. Go on out for the last few minutes of recess."
