The complains of the students of class 2-3 circled around the room when their English teacher suddenly announced a group project. At first, they were excited to pick who they wanted to be with. But when Sakagami-sensei announced that she already planned the groupings, the complains started.

Even Megumi, who was the most silent student and do not actually give a care to anything, mutter a complain after discovering she and Kenma weren't together-since Kenma was basically the only person she was close with, and they haven't been talking to each other frequently after deciding to be the club's manager.

Practice was too hard, the players had to stay in for a couple more minutes wherein Megumi chooses to go home because her father rages whenever she goes home late.

"Tomorrow we won't have a discussion so you can all discuss the project with your groupmates. So now, let's continue our discussion yesterday."

"Gumi, I'll go on first." Kenma said, carrying his bag as he gets ready for practice. He waited for Megumi to nod before leaving the room.

She decided on staying as she was fully aware that she didn't have anything to do as the manager of the volleyball club. When everyone in classroom left to go home, that's when she started writing ideas for her group's English project, even though she was fully aware that her ideas won't be acknowledged, although since everyone knows she was the best in English, she has a hunch that her groupmates will leave the project to her, and her only.

"Excuse me," A familiar female poked her head out to check if there were still people in class 2-3. "I'm here to borrow a—Megumi!" Marian smiled, knowing that she was able to see Megumi once again after their meeting at the faculty room.

"Senpai. Hi." Megumi flatly responded, her shyness taking over her once again.

Marian sits on a chair next to the female's and looked at her, "How's life?"

Megumi avoided eye contact, she never got the hang of it, even though she had eye contact with Kenma countless times.

"I'm fine, same old." She replied in a soft voice, playing with her hands.

The third year female was a talkative person. Completely forgetting the reason why she even visited the class, she kept going on and on about herself, much to Megumi's interest. And after mentioning her boyfriend, the topic went on with—"So, do you like someone?"

"E-eh?"

"Do you like someone? A boyfriend? Or maybe those typical one sided love thing?" Replied the older female with excitement.

Megumi had to think twice, thrice, for times... Who knows how many times, before deciding on actually telling her the truth. Because her eyes aren't like the bitches or jerks in school. Her eyes were sincere, like Kenma's.

"... Kangen... Yuuma-senpai."

Marian's eyes widened in complete shock after hearing the name. "Yuuma-kun? Seriously?!" It was after that, she decided to laugh. Megumi tried shushing her after almost yelling her crush's name.

"I've known Yuuma for a long time," She said with a smile, Megumi's eyes lighting up. "He's been my classmate since middle school up till now. He was this transfer student dude from Kyoto. I guess ever since that, we never separated from each other in terms of class. I never became his best friend, but I know a lot about Yuuma-kun."

The face Megumi was giving out was obvious that she wanted to know more about Yuuma, why not? Marian smiled even more knowing that the younger female trusted her about things like this. She then started talking about Yuuma. From his likes and dislikes, to the girls he has been with—but never worked out.

"Her best friend's name is Faith. Yes she is a foreign transfer student, and yes she is a total bitch." Marian rolled her eyes just thinking about the blonde haired, brown eyes female. Apparently, she has been best friends with Yuuma since they were 9, when Faith visited Japan and they met by accident. Since then, they still talked in means of video calls until she decided to stay in Japan for good because of her father's job.

"They became together one time,"

If Megumi was drinking something, she would've spit it out. "But, Faith had this kinda flirty nature. Yuuma didn't like the way she acted with the other guys here at school, so they broke up."

"But they kept being friends. For some reason, I don't know..."

Megumi felt relieved yet hopeless in a way. Because:

1. Even though they broke up, they're still friends;

2. He may not be that popular, but Yuuma has a few girls out there that like him; and

3. Megumi has no chance in terms of face and body already.

"I have no chance, senpai." Megumi slumped with a sigh. "I have no chance in the first place. I'm fat, my face is full of imperfections, and I just suck at talking. How does one even like me?"

"Everybody has their own beauty—"

"I'm so sick of that shit, to be honest." Megumi had to say it. Because it was true, she was sick and tired of being comforted by things like that. Face it, she's not pretty. "I'm sorry, I should not have said that."

"No, no. It's okay. I understand. I was just supposed to borrow an amplifier chord for Yuuma's bass guitar but nobody's here."

Megumi could only smile and apologize. After Marian decided to leave, she too decided to go home.

Just as Sakagami-sensei promised, she won't be discussing today to give way to the students' discussion for their group project. Everybody had already grouped themselves from what their English teacher grouped them.

Kenma was doing fine with his group by ignoring them and fixing his attention to his phone, nobody really cares. They know hoe anti-social Kenma was.

Megumi, on the other hand, was feeling pressured. Her groupmates just finished talking her out to doing the whole project since she was the only one who excelled in English best, and she was also in good terms with their teacher. The female agreed, but right after that they started pressuring her about doing a good job so they could all get a high grade.

"Come on, Chiyo. You're really responsible and good at English. If you actually have your hopes up on us helping, we won't do it obviously."

"Yeah, why would we even exert effort at doing something we're not good at?"

"We're counting on you, Chiyo~"

"You know what you'll get if you screw this up~"

The fake smiles they were giving made Megumi nervous. Her heart started beating fast and she just nodded. After that, they all grouped together and started talking to each other, leaving Megumi out of the circle. She could hear their conversation, and she knows it was about her.

She stayed at the corner as her heart continued palpitating, as she starts overthinking and obsessing about what her classmates told her. It was stressing her out and that's when she started hyperventilating.

Stupid.

You never do anything right.

You'll fail either way if you actually do it or not.

Stop acting like you're good a something when you actually don't.

There it was again. She knew what was coming as those voices started showing up. She hugged her knees, burying her head down as her focus on the surroundings were getting blurry.

She was used to having an anxiety attack, but her sensitive nature made her well up tears. At that moment, she felt like nobody cared about her well-being. Not even Kenma who was on the other group, fixated on his phone.

But Megumi was wrong. When Kenma heard someone crying, it was her he immediately thought of. He scanned the whole room to find her, and quickly caught her in the corner crying. The way she acted, he already knew what it was.

He stood up and rushed to Megumi, ignoring the calls of his group mates, pulled her wrist and made a run for it to the clinic. She was already hyperventilating, and running was actually not advisable since she's already having breathing problems. But she held onto his hand.

Arriving at the clinic, the nurse was out for the day and the teacher in charge was nowhere to be found. Nonetheless, Kenma made Megumi lay down on the bed after a few minutes of fighting over that she was fine sitting down. He then sat at the chair next to the bed.

"Are you okay?"

She didn't answer. Of course Kenma, in what way is she 'okay'?

"Gumi... I'm sorry, I—"

Kenma was cut off when Megumi pulled him into a hug. "Just for a short while... Until I calm down... Let's stay like this."

He hummed and carefully hugged her tighter just to remind her he has always been there. His heart started beating fast, knowing the thought that he hasn't been hugged by a girl before.

Megumi fell asleep after that. They didn't really talk about it that much, but Kenma was sure she'd vent it out, because that's how Chiyo Megumi acts.

He stayed the whole time. He didn't want to leave her in that state becausd he knows how it feels to be left alone, feeling anxious and depressed about things. He tucked some stray hair out of her sleeping face, how angelic she looks like when she's sleeping. It made him smile.

"Kouta..." was what escaped from Megumi's lips and left Kenma confused about who that person was.