Hey guys! Sorry for not uploading in the past week, but that's okay right...? :3 Anyways. hopefully this story will be more exciting. And I will try to use Len's side of the story more. :)

DISCLAIMER: VOCALOID. IS. NOT. MINE.


Len's POV

I drag Rin all the way to my school since it's a Tuesday. Yes, I literally drag her. Rin looked so frightened back at the house when I told her we had to go to school the next day. She looked as if she had never been to this 'school' before and it was some jail for serial killers and charged criminals for grand-larceny.

"I-I...d-don't wanna g-go..." she whispers through her chapped lips.

"Well, you have to," I sigh. Next, I tell her that we had to go see the principal and office administrators since she is new to the school.

"Please look at least a little presentable, Rin," I gently plead her.

Slowly, she raises her hands and dusts herself off and combs her hair with her pale fingers.

"Mr. Principal!" I address when I see the huge man dressed in a XXL-size office uniform with a tee-nee name tag pinned to his chest, "Uh, this is my friend. She's going to be a new student here."

"THAT'S WONDERFUL!" he booms.

I feel Rin flinch and duck her head behind me...too late though. The principal already spotted her.

"So, pretty girl, what is your name?"

She stumbles. "R...R-R-R-"

"Rin. Rin Kagami," I answer for her.

"Oh, and where are you transferring from?"

"..."

"..."

"Len do you know?"

"Nope. She didn't tell me."

"Well, judging by the looks of her uniform, she must come from the Kyoto area."

Rin makes a small, high-pitched whimper that only I could hear. She's so scared! Why?

The principal huffs a little and rolls over on his chair to type things into the computer.

"Well, I'll figure out something. In the meantime, I'll contact Len's teachers and tell them about Rin's situation. So...I guess for today, Rin, please just follow Len to his classes?" he looks at the helpless girl tugging her sleeve.

She barely nods.


Rin's POV

"Who is she?"

"I think she's new."

"What a nerd. BLACK GLASSES!"

"Why is she holding her arm like that?"

"Dude, look at that gnarly bruise on the back of her leg!"

"Dude!"

"Eghk! She's clean, but she's not."

"What the hell does that mean!?"

"Moreover...why is she walking with Len-sama!?"

Sh*t...Len's a popular boy.

I push the glasses up my nose and duck my head as I walk behind Len into the classroom. But these glasses are fake. I always wear the plastic lenses to school so maybe I can cover up a little of my face.

"LEN-KUUN!" a girl with long, silver hair flashes by me and tackle-hugs Len.

"Huh, wha-? Tei?" Len mumbles I don't catch, but it sounds extremely exasperated.

"LEN! Len Len Len Len~!" this Tei cries at the same time snuggling against Len.

"NO FAIR TEI! I want Len!"

"Same here!"

"TEI YOU DEVIL WITCH!"

Suddenly, a mass of fangirls start pouring upon Len and I lose sight of him.

"L-Len!" I cry, only to get elbowed in the face by one of the fangirls.

"Rin!" I hear his muffled scream.

I crawl to the desk where Len had placed his bag and sit on the edge of the chair, trying to cast shadows around my eyes.


It's time for lunch.

As soon as the bell rang, I had rushed out of the classroom like a bitch on fire and made several random turns, whichever suited my whim, and now I'm lost, walking in the halls.

I want to avoid Len so I can avoid those crazy fangirls at the same time.

...What am I supposed to do now?

I trudge through the vacant halls and eventually walk up a flight of stairs to look out a window at the sakura blossoms.

The school's scenery was nice, airy and fresh. The lush grass fields were dotted with dandelion flowers and stray sakura petals; the students sitting on the grass happily chatted to one another and searched for new things to laugh at.

"What are you looking at?"

Startled, I whip around to find Tei Sukone and two more girls standing behind her. Tei's red eyes shine darkly under the shadows.

"Heard you're Len's friends, huh?" she hisses while the other two smirk and walk over to me. They grab my arms. The girl on the left takes hold of me where my scar still remains. They botch punch my abdomen causing me to gasp as my knees meet the ground. I wince at the ever-coming pain.

"Well get this through your thick head," Tei growls, leaning over to deliver another blow, "LEN. IS. MINE!"

"A-Ah!" I scream as she socks me in the stomach and grips my hair, pulling several strands out in the process.

"KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!" she slaps me across the face.

"Why...Why are you doing this to me?" I ask.

"Huh?"

"Why do I have to take this?!" my voice escalates, "You dumb bastards, thinking you can get whatever you want. Len will never be yours!"

Gritting her teeth, she kicks me in the chest and I cough the rising blood out but I don't cry. The crimson-colored drops fall onto the floor. My glasses fall with a sharp clang.

"I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!" she smashes the black frames and the plastic lens.

It went on for another 20 minutes, the shouting. The screaming. The beatings and blows dealt to my stomach and head.

Lying on the cold floor, I tremble as my eyes start to give up on me. I see someone coming up the stairs...


I gasp.

"W-Where am I? W-who..?" I finally spot a girl with teal pigtails sitting on the chair in the corner.

"Oh! You're finally awake, thank goodness. I found you lying unconscious and I just-"

I ignore the girl's babble and feel a strange sense of deja-vu. And don't tell me this is another fangirl! I swear...

"Anyways, I'm Miku Hatsune, I'm proud to say," she grins, "You're friend Len should come in any-"

"RIN!" the door flings open.

"Moment..." Miku finishes her sentence just as Len runs towards me. Me who's lying on this bed in the nurse's room, me who yet again needed the help of a stranger that just happened to pass by.

That dream was right. I am a toy, just being picked up by one child after the other.

They should just stop looking at me altogether, better to rot in the wind. That's what you said right?

Len throws his arms around me and starts spilling out panicked words.

"I was so worried! You just ran out of the classroom and then I couldn't catch up to you! Then I didn't know where you went to, then I started looking everywhere for you until Luka-senpai came up to me and said you GOT HURT! And then, and then I ran over here as fast as I could and I come here to find you in this condition!? What did I take you in for!? You passed out again!? And this time you coughed out blood!? Rin, Rin! Please don't ever leave my sight again! You have to swear to me you won't! Do you know how worried I was running here!? Do you? DO YOU!?"

I try blocking out his voice but his words get processed through me brain and all I could do was shake my head. Not a word. Not a single 'sorry'. Because what do dolls have to be sorry for?

I ignore his constant pushing and nuzzling my shoulder, though he touched where that hidden scar lay on my broken skin. Instinctively, I flinch.

...But why does Len care about me?

Miku slowly leaves the room and let's Len have his time with me.

"Len...why do you care about me?" I whisper.

"W-what?" he says, his forehead pressed against the side of my head.

"Why do you care about me? A toy like me shouldn't-" I cut off. I was just about to say my true feelings; I was just about to excavate the mound of lies and dig into to find the truth.

"Shouldn't what?" he asks.

"..."

"...tell me Rin."

"S-shouldn't be...worth...anything."

"..."

An eerie silence, only broken by the occasional creak of the bed. The silence was so loud, it seems to last forever.

"It's because you remind me of someone."

Someone? Who?

"You remind me of my sister," he whispers.

"You have...you have a sister!?" I'm astounded. I would have NEVER guessed that Len had a sibling!

"Yeah, but she disappeared, suddenly. I don't know where she went."

So I'm just a replacement...but that's better than being degraded down to nothing. At least I have some kind of purpose in this life.

Len held me for awhile longer but I'm not used to it.

I hastily push him away and clutch my shoulder, averting my gaze from his. But even though I don't see his eyes nor his face, I can tell that my rejection of his hug hurt him.

I don't like the hug. I hate it. That ambiguous for of affection where you squeeze each others body for warmth. Len had hugged me when I first came, true, but it was short and gentle. This time, it's like he doesn't want to let go.

"Sorry Rin," he apologizes.

"It's okay..." I mutter, "It's just that...it was my first hug."

I feel Len tense up.

No one has hugged me before. No one since...


Yeah! 'No one since...' SINCE WHAT SINCE WHAT!? heh-heh stay tuned for next chapter which will be...*checks calendar* hopefully this week! If not, next Monday. :3 Apologies for long waits.

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