The night was cold, the sound of winters breeze blowing against the window.

During cold winter nights you tend to have the heater on regularly, I prefer having the AC on but we don't usually have that on during the winter. Heat is rather annoying, but it's not a bad thing if you look past its faults. When it's hot out you limit yourself on clothing, you can't wear jeans and long sleeves or you'll burn to death. But that means you're free to dress a little more loosely, I guess, I never left the house often so I wouldn't know.

Fall and winter are different. You can wear just about anything in the fall, and the winter you can enjoy the snow and the lights throughout the city. I rarely go out so it was rather pointless to me.

On the topic of the seasons, I love the thought of leaving school and entering summer break, even though I don't do anything all day. We all wait until the day we leave for two months, for others they often have plans, but for me, I stay inside all day.

I desperately waited for this day to come yet I'm doing the same things I use to do while I'm at school, I guess you can say it was a waste of time. But last summer I went to Chiba village and let's say, it was interesting to say the least. I enjoyed myself to an extent and I ended up destroying the relationships upon Tsurumi Rumi, I think I ended up helping her out.

Even in grade school, there's always a possibility of getting left out or bullied. For Rumi, her group ignored her leaving her by herself. I helped her in the worst way I can think of, and it went well. How is she I wonder? Loners often stick to themselves and don't cause drama, people see this as them being stuck up. It's not impossible for her to make a friend, but it'll be nice for her to find someone that accepts her.

Every morning I wake up and think about life, is school really worth it? Yea it is but I couldn't afford to miss any days so I force myself to get up instead of sleep.

I get a full eight hours of sleep every night, but I still end up being somewhat tired. I could sacrifice an hour or two to read or play video games, since I'm still tired and all, that would probably worsen it but that's why you have coffee. Coffee is a great beverage, especially Maxx Coffee. Feeling tired? Drink some coffee. Don't know what to order? Get coffee.

Consuming a lot of caffeine at this age is unhealthy, but I still do it. I usually have one cup in the morning, one at night, and a few bottles of Maxx at school. Indeed that's a lot, but I'm still alive and well so I'll keep at it.

Walking out of my room I stretch and make my way toward the kitchen.

Cold.

I know Komachi is up since she usually makes breakfast, I don't see any reason for the windows to be open. You feel like you've entered some ice dungeon and the boss greets you with a chill of wind, it feels nice though but still.

I see Komachi finishing up breakfast, is she not freezing?

"Ah, morning Onii-chan."

"Yep, morning." I said as I sat down.

Komachi has been cooking breakfast for me for a long time, I feel useless just sitting here patiently waiting. I could cook if I wanted to, I make a pretty mean curry, but Komachi is levels ahead of me in the culinary department.

One of these days really I'll have to teach myself to cook, when I enter university I'll have to make my own meals. Instant ramen comes to mind when I think of meals, but living of ramen isn't that healthy, my parents will definitely agree and they'll make me learn to cook.

Cooking doesn't sound all that bad, can't you just have some instructions on the side? That's easy for me to do, seeing Komachi and even mom cook I feel like they mastered every recipe ever known. I guess it's muscle memory or something, without instructions I'll mess up and ruin the food.

Komachi comes over and sets my plate and sets hers. Her food always tastes amazing, not as good as moms though.

Tomatoes though, I can't stand those and she put them in the food.

"You know I don't like tomatoes right?"

"Yup, that's why I put them in there." That didn't make sense, I will not eat this vile.

"And you know I won't eat them right?"

"Can't you just try them?"

"No definitely not."

She releases a sigh. Tomatoes are vile, they taste like a bad watermelon and the texture of them are horrific. I like ketchup though, but that's different it doesn't taste exactly like tomatoes.

"Fine, pass them over I'll have them."

Now my plate isn't infested, she's eating them so freely it's burning my eyes.

Many other people dislike peanut butter and I don't blame them, the smell, taste, and image of peanut butter is overall bad, but I still like it. Same goes for tomatoes, I dislike them while everyone else likes them.

I notice my phone release a notification, I don't get these at all since I don't use any form of social media. It's from the book store, a new volume of my light novel that I've been into is ready to get picked up.

I ended up preordering the new volume, the series is popular and I'm sure fans will storm every book store to get their hands the book, thankfully for me, I preordered it. Yep, I ended up spending a little more money to have a copy all for myself. I spent a good amount of money though, I would've probably saved some money waiting for it but it would've sold out.

"You got a message? You're talking to someone? This is new!" She said cheerfully.

"Uh no, my book is ready to get picked up that's all."

"Ah, well I guess I got my hopes up for nothing."

"And why's that?"

"Isn't that obvious? I want you to make friends Onii-chan!"

Did she forget about Yukinoshita and Yuigahama? For my sister's memory capacity to drop to such a state, I feel embarrassed for her.

"You forget about Yukinoshita and Yuigahama? They're still around you know." I said taking a bite from my food.

"So you consider them friends?" She said with a devilish smile on her face. I walked right into whatever she was scheming, not a bad ploy.

"No."

"And why's that?" Was she always this persistent?

"Don't worry about it, we have to get ready for school so hurry it up."

Her face beams up and she quickly finishes her food. I swear we would've been late if it wasn't for me, well I'm sure she would've noticed but I saved her right there.

Do I consider Yukinoshita and Yuigahama my friends? Well Yukinoshita already rejected me twice so she's out of the picture. Yuigahama... well yea it's possible but it's weird to recognize her as a friend, I never had a friend before. I guess I can say they're close acquaintances? That sounds dumb but it's what I'm coming up with for now.

As I finish getting ready I made my way outside and I unchain my bike.

Winters morning, well not really winter it's like late January right now.

Riding your bike in this weather is refreshing and it's slightly annoying at the same time. The wind is crazy cold and if you're going at an alarming speed, you'll probably suffocate from the amount of wind emitting from the speed of the bike.

I've been called lazy by my parents and sister for a long time, hell even my club mates too, but they should know I bike every day. Yeah I don't go out much and I stay in a lot, but you can't say I'm not a bit active. My physical endurance is really high but I'm not doing anything with it according to my mom. She does have a point but she does know I hate socializing, so joining any sort of sports club is out of the picture.

I made my way towards the school and I chained up my bike and headed inside.

Loud.

One word to describe coming to this building every day. Even in the morning kids don't seem to understand that there are others that aren't as energetic as them, it's annoying to be honest.

The front gate always has groups of kids talking amongst themselves, sometimes there's loud ones and sometimes it's small chatter. While you get inside that's where everything changes. Every corner you turn you see someone talking loudly, you see people walking slow as hell, lastly, you see kids that reek of BO.

Oh yes those kids, we all know those type of kids. When someone smells bad, you memorize them and hope to never see them again in your life. In my class there's no one that smells like ass, even during summer. Oh man, during the summer that's where EVERYONE smells one bothers to put on deodorant.

Even during winter some kids just smell bad, that's all there was to it. You walk past them and take a wift, you can smell a variety of smells, but the conclusion is always the same. You end up bullying them in your head and hope to never see them ever again.

I open the door to my class and I walk towards my seat.

Just how I like it, everyone ignores my presence. I hate attention, attention tends to lead up to socializing and lord knows I can't do that. I can talk to people, but socializing and having cutesy talks with someone is a no from me dawg. Yuigahama and her group seems to get use to it though, they always have a topic on their hands. Tobe, Ebina, and Yuigahama keeps the group lively from what I observed.

I wonder if they feel like they're forced to it, I'll try to explain. Some people can't take the awkwardness in a group setting, someone has to talk or they'll feel uncomfortable. Maybe it's like that for them? Will they feel different when everyone's mute? But that's normal, you'll eventually run out of things to talk about and you'll resort to staying by yourself.

Whenever Yuigahama runs out of things to talk about in the club room, she plays on her phone. So I guess she's fine with the silence, but she usually finds topics of interest while on the internet. She floods Yukinoshita with them and I chime in as usual.

Class begins with sensei introducing the new chapter to the lesson. Lectures are pointless to me, everything she's saying is in the textbook, I don't see any reason to listen to her. She complains that I sleep in her class but I don't blame her, it's kinda rude, I sleep in her class but I'm the smartest in literature right behind Hayama.

During the math and sciences lessons I pay attention as much as I can, but I just can't follow. There's too many letters and symbols it's confusing. The top students in math understand it but how? You probably have to study your ass off every night. I study often, but some students go beyond the call of duty and devote themselves to understanding everything. Their efforts weren't wasted though, Yukinoshita is the smartest one here and I'm pretty sure she study's quite a lot.

The first half of class ends and I find myself in the lunch period. The best time of the day for loners, you don't often get the opportunity to stay in your natural habitat in public places so we often use this time wisely. I usually eat outside since it's nice out, even though it's chilly out, I might try it but I'll move back in if it's too cold.

"Hikki, let's eat lunch together in the clubroom."

There goes my free time, I didn't sign up for this. Loners need time to themselves I can't devote my time to others, I already got myself into the club.

"Why?"

"What do you mean why? Because it'll be fun!"

Damn it all, I'm in no mood to banter with Yukinoshita, plus I don't have a lunch I eat the cafeteria food.

"Sure then."

"Really? That's great, let's go!"

Her enthusiasm is intoxicating, but that's one of her strong points. Compared to Yukinoshita, Yuigahama is more caring and nice towards others at first glance. Yukinoshita is nice and caring, but you'll have to break through her ice to do that, otherwise you'll get hit with flurries of insults.

"I didn't bring a lunch by the way." I broke the silence with a statement that could cause some backslash.

"You eat the school food right?"

"Yeah I do."

"Alright let's head there."

Surprisingly, she didn't mind that much, I expected some sort of insult or something.

School food isn't good but it gets us through the day. Our school is fairly cheap and we don't really get good quality food. In most cases our food is greasy, undercooked, or just nasty in general. The pricing is acceptable though I must say, but I don't want to burden Komachi by making a bento every day even though she'll be up for it.

We make our way to the cafeteria and walked towards the line. Yup everything here looks really unappealing, I'll probably grab a hotdog, bread, and a Maxx can.

The most important meals of the day are breakfast and dinner, I don't consider lunch to be important. So I eat whatever I want to get through the day, as long as I eat enough dinner I'm good. My diet for lunch is unhealthy so I keep eating like this I might get somewhat fat. There's nothing wrong with being fat, but it's just not healthy to eat these kinds of food every day.

We made our way towards the clubroom and Yuigahama slid open the door abruptly. Just how much energy does she have?

"Yahello!"

"Hey."

"Good morning you two." Morning? Isn't it the afternoon? I would rather not speak and get jabbed immediately, so I'll stay mute.

I take my seat and I set my food on the table. Compared to the girls, I have a bunch of trash. They bentos and lots of healthy and good food, the best thing I got is the coffee. But Maxx Coffee cancels all, this beverage is the delicacy of Chiba and it goes good with any meal!

They both start talking about random crap, cafes, really?

Staying in the clubroom isn't all that bad afterall, other than the noise they're emitting, it's pretty relaxing.

Since they're talking to each other I'm free to think to myself freely. Every loner has this ability, the ability to overthink and to think among themselves in any environment. Even when others are talking to me, I still find a way to space out, it makes me look pretty weird though according to Isshiki, Yuigahama, and Yukinoshita.

I don't like socializing even with the people I'm closest with, I like staying in my primitive state, alone. It's my first state and it still is, but I've made some acquaintances and grown closer with these two, so I can't stay like this and ignore them all the time.

I take a bite from my hotdog and I notice Yukinoshita staring at me.

"What?" I said nonchalantly.

"Oh, it's just that you didn't bring much. Everything you brought is completely unhealthy."

She picking a fight? I wasn't aware of this outing, if I knew this beforehand I would've asked Komachi to bring me a lunch.

"Well excuse me, I wasn't aware of this, Yuigahama told me to come last minute."

"Yuigahama-san, I told you to notify Hikigaya-kun a day beforehand, not the day of." She said putting her hand on her forehead in annoyance.

"Ah, well, it just didn't come to me! I forgot that's all, yup."

"That's a poor excuse." I said taking a sip from my drink.

"I agree."

They continue to banter after our talk, I don't see any reason for me to chime in, I'm going to continue to read.

My new light novel comes out today, honestly I'm a little bit excited for this. The last volume left us out on a cliffhanger, the author didn't end everything off so there's a new volume coming. The 14th volume in the series should be enough to seal it off, I want to know who the main character ends off with, and I hope I know how this ends today.

"Yukinoshita, I have to leave club for today, I got to pick up a book I preordered."

"Are you telling me or are you asking me?" This woman, just say it's fine to leave!

"Can I leave for today?" I said, I admitted defeat right here, I feel weak.

She's smiling, I knew I would admit defeat so easily, this woman will be the death of me.

"Yes you may."

The rest of our lunch continues like usual. We only have like 5 minutes left, they realize this right? I might as well leave because sensei would beat me if I'm late.

Yuigahama and I leave the clubroom and make our way toward the class.

We didn't do much after Yukinoshita let me go for today, the girls ended up talking about several topics that bored me. Yuigahama brought up so many random topics it didn't feel natural, who talks about mosquitoes? I haven't talked much in my middle school says, but not once have I heard someone bring up the topic of mosquitoes.

Class after lunch is mathematics, arguably the worse class ever.

Now math is no where near useless, it's used in every day life, but I don't need it. I plan to Major in humanities, I don't need any sort of math in my life. Even if I need math, that's why we have calculators and the internet. But even I know I need to bump my sciences and math scores up to get into a university. Even though I'll get a top score in humanities, I won't be able to get in any school with crappy scores in the other categories.

My scores currently are bad, I don't want to burden my parents with having them get me a tutor, so I have to improvise somehow. Perhaps Yukinoshita could tutor me? Heh, even I know that's impossible but it's not a bad idea. It would be cool to have all three of us to study together, even though Yukinoshita would be mostly helping us out. I need to get my grades up somehow, I can't get into university with a score of 3/100 in math.

I think about the future more than I should, time flies and I'll be in the workforce as soon as I know it. I always wonder, will Yukinoshita and Yuighama stay by my side years from now? They're close to me and they mean a lot to me, so I don't want to lose them over some distance crap. After we graduate we move onto university then after that is life, we don't have much time before we head in our own paths in life.

I guess thinking about the future is better than thinking about my past, my past was filled with misery and bad memories. Things got so bad I was thinking of moving schools, but I didn't want to have my parents get involved with the school, you should know how that goes.

Well if you don't, let me explain. If you're getting bullied and you resort to telling your parents, that's fine but if they come in the school it's all over. The principal will get involved and the kids who messed with you will get contacted, not bad right? The next day is when all hell breaks loose. The kids will bully you even more about having your mom at school, oh boy that won't stop. Now that hasn't happened to me, I could picture it from my past trauma. Those damn kids, luckily I made it into Sobu, or I'll have to deal with them in another school.

Classes end and I pack my stuff and make my way out and headed to the front gate. The bookstore that has my light novel isn't far from here, it's a 7 minute walk which is fairly short to be honest. With my bike, it should be a breeze as long as there's no traffic.

Traffic is a pain, I don't drive but I can see why people hate it. Now I usually bike around, so when things get packed up on the streets, I can just bike around everyone. For the people in cars, you're stuck until someone moves, if you're inpatient, you should have an object nearby to take your anger out on.

I made my way into the bookstore and I head toward the receptionist. I receive my book and I continue to walk around.

This place is packed to hell, the four cashiers are packed with people, thankfully for me, I was able to bypass all that mess.

I don't usually visit the bookstore don't I? I often stay indoors and I don't really go out to get books. This is a rare occasion, I left my domain to get a book, that's a good trade but there's always crowds.

Crowds, yes the thing every loner fears. Now every loner is different, but I think we all dislike crowds. Now crowds are similar to school crowds, except people move a bit faster so it's not as bad. Too many people makes me somewhat uncomfortable and it's annoying too, people are also rude so I'll rather stay away from everyone I can.

While I'm here I might as well try and pick up a book that interests me. I'm into romance and school life, that's because I'm a student. A good romantic comedy novel can show so many aspects of youth and I enjoy that since I'm basically in that stage.

I made my way towards the romance section, lots of books eh? The one book that stood out to me was the one on display, it stood out from the others.

The back was somewhat promising, the description was interesting, I think I'll get it. Now I don't know if it's a one shot or there's more in the series, more books in the series means I have to spend more money, so I hope it's a solo.

I pick up the book and I turn and make my way to the register but I was stopped by someone, a female to be exact.

She was of average height, brown eyes, long hair, she was beautiful too. Wait, what's this? What's this romcom development? I was just talking about this earlier, the gods blessed me but how? Did they read my mind?

Is she going to say anything? Jeez she's more awkward than I am when it comes to this sorta thing.

"Hey ar—" I was cut off abruptly.

"C-can I get your email address?" She says completely flushed.

Damn it all, the gods threw a stone at me, but I don't get it, this shouldn't be happening to someone like me. I should embrace this, it's not everyday something like this happens to loners especially me.

"Y-yeah sure." I said somewhat embarrassed, this is harder than it looks jeez.

"T-thanks. I'm Yano Mizuki, nice to meet you." She bows, she's formal, really formal I'm surprised.

"H-Hikagaya Hachiman and likewise." I said looking at her.

"I-I... I'll send you an email b-bye!" She says darting off.

She leaves the bookstore and I'm left speechless, what the hell just happened?

A/N

Yo. If you read this previous work of this story you can tell the quality dramatically increased. I ended up rewriting it after experimenting with many different aspects of writing and I learnt how to pace well and etc, so I want to bring this story back from the grave.

Now I know many people were disappointed on how I wrote the previous version of this, I was completely new to writing so I didn't know what to do in terms of anything! After rereading the light novels, writing a fic, and reading other fics, I decided to bring this back to life. This story has crazy potential according to previous reviews and I will do my best to make it work.

Expect a good and well paced story. To everyone who hated on this, consider giving this another shot, to everyone who followed this story, its back for good.