"Some people are weird."

11:47 AM

"Damnit. I can't be crying now."

Rin sniffled as she wiped her burning crimson eyes, her face reddening with anger and remorse.

"Agh..shit, shit, shit, shit...SHIT!" She yelled out abruptly, slamming her white knuckles against the porcelain surface of the sink as she continued to sob uncontrollably, her cries bouncing off the walls. "This is so stupid..stupid..stupid..STUPID!" Rin exclaimed with boiling anger, then kicked the nearby trash can as hard as she could with her foot and sent it flying across the bathroom.

The metallic sound echoed in the porcelain walls, but Rin was too upset and pissed off to even care in the first place.

"Stupid.." Rin sobbed.

Silently crying a bit more, she let out a frustrated sigh as she looked in the smudged mirror at her reflection. The mirror's cold surface was brushed by Rin's warm breath as she put her forehead on its surface. A scowl came to her lips, and she punched the wall of the bathroom with a fist.

"I fucking hate life." She was able to muster quietly, then sighed in exhaustion when all of a sudden she heard the bathroom door click open, slowly.

Rin froze.

She scrambled her trembling hands towards her face and hastily wiped the tears off her cheeks that were still rolling down her crimsoned skin helplessly, then sniffled before facing her dead expression back in the mirror.

"Ah! Are you okay!?" A familiar gentle voice yelled out abruptly with tremendous worry. Rin felt a warm hand gently stroke her shoulder, and she quickly turned around only to see...

Miku.

"What the hell!?" The blonde-haired female yelled out abruptly with utter shock as she flinched and hit her elbow on the ivory marble counter. "Wh-when did you.." The tealette smiled warmly, happy flowers surrounding her like bustling crowds of laughter and chatter. "Ah, well...I was just...going to use the bathroom," Miku states, pointing her slender polished finger towards the dull bathroom stall. "I didn't expect you to be here, though." She slightly chuckles, smiling.

Miku's small giggles echoed in the bathroom walls.

Rin abruptly grumbled under her breath with resentment, throwing a murderous glare towards the tealette standing innocently in front of her. "Whatever. Anyways, I'm fine. Why do you even care if I'm good or not anyway?" She mumbled relentlessly, flicking her thin strands of blonde hair away from her electric blue eyes. "Oh, um..." Miku hesitated, laughing nervously as her voice echoed through the monochrome bathroom walls.

Rin raised an eyebrow.

Well? I'm waiting.

"No reason, I'm just like that." The tealette smiles softly, before entering one of the nearby bathroom stalls and shutting the door, leaving Rin flabbergasted. "Hold up."

Rin had grabbed the bathroom door, and threw a deadly glare at the tealette whose eyes were widened with pure shock. "Stop avoiding the question, Megurine. There's a reason why you're asking me if I'm fine or not, and it's obvious that you're lying." Rin snarled, her nails digging in the surface of the stall door. "So, what is it? Tell me."

Miku's eyes narrowed for a second, and she opened her mouth to speak but retracted her words, hesitant. "Like I said, I'm just like that!" She reassured the slender blonde female with a kind, gentle smile. "I'm not lying, why would I be lying?" Miku says innocently, smiling.

"...To cover up something you're hiding, that's for sure."

Miku started to giggle, but her giggles sounded...off. Like she was nervous or something, or as if she had been...caught.

"I'm not hiding anything, Kagamine-san." Miku grins as her smile beams, an attempt to inform Rin that there's nothing she's hiding. Rin doesn't seem to believe Miku's lie. "I just wanted to make sure you were okay. You looked really upset, and I thought discussing it might help. That's why I asked." She smiled at the blonde-haired girl, a small smile on her lips being another attempt to assure her. "Me? Talk to you?" Rin blinked as she pointed a finger to the slender girl standing in front of her and stared directly at Miku's turquoise eyes as if she had just asked a dumb question.

Rin stared at the tealette relentlessly, then abruptly scoffed. Did Miku really think she was going to talk to some stranger she had met at school? Was she being serious? Out of all people, why would she talk to her?

Putting her hands inside her pockets, Rin scoffed. "Why would I talk with you?" she asked. "We don't know each other and I don't intend on becoming friends with you any time soon." Rin's voice was gnarled, pissed off.

Miku's expression changed rapidly, and her sweet turquoise eyes narrowed down into a stern expression of seriousness. "I never said we would become friends, Rin." She smiled eerily, her tone low and serious, yet bitter. Almost as if she was hurt. "...I was planning to, but you seem to dislike me for some...reason. So, I won't bother." Miku says, quietly. Rin was obviously confused by what she meant, and unexpectedly, the tealette had squirmed out of the stall in the small gap between the two. "Oh, and.." As Miku was about to leave the room, she quickly turned around to face Rin with a mysterious smile.

"I didn't actually need to use the bathroom. I just heard your crying and cursing, and after a good couple of minutes, I came in to check because I was...curious. I wasn't actually concerned. Sorry if I made it seem that way, just wanted to clarify." Miku smiles brightly. "I'll be going now, see ya after class, Kagamine." Is all the tealette says before she gracefully and elegantly leaves the bathroom, as if nothing happened.

Rin was...flabbergasted and angered by this. How could Miku suddenly act so delicate and sweet one second, and then the next act like she was a murderer?

"What the actual..." Rin's sentence trailed off as she rubbed her temple with her slender pale fingers, her breath shaking underneath her toppling words. "...God, she's so...weird..." Rin shuddered, shaking her head as she still was trying to process what had just happened.

What the heck?

"...I need...I need a break." Rin sighed heavily, leaving the bathroom as her shallow figure blended in with the rest of the students scrambling in the hallways. She stuffed her hands relentlessly inside her pockets as she hastily made her way towards the third floor where the lockers were. Rin lazily pattered in the empty halls, before realizing that Miku was also there.

What the hell? Is she following me?

Rin sighed and grumbled with frustration as she ran a hand through her blonde locks. She only walked slowly towards her locker, but her grip was interrupted by another gentle, warm one.

Rin glanced up, and her azure eyes went wide as she was met with Miku's turquoise ones.

"...Oh, is this your locker too?"

2:34 PM

During the next few minutes, Rin grumbled and let her head rest on the desk, repeatedly slamming into it. Her only desire was to hit her face and head against the desk until she bled like crazy and perhaps die.

"Why the hell do I gotta share lockers with her!?" Rin complained casually, groaning loudly as ever as the greenette sitting beside her began to howl with laughter, her stomach clenching with pain at the mere sight of Rin's angry expression. "R-Rin, please stop. You're making me laugh! Pfft- AHAHA!" Gumi continues to laugh uncontrollably. "What the hell, what is there to laugh about?!" Rin snarls, groaning. "Ugh, Gumi...I love you, but you're so annoying sometimes." Rin grumbles.

"Sorry, pfft. It's just...I really don't understand why you don't like Miku-chan." Gumi laughs playfully, wiping off a tear from the corner of her eye as she quietens a little bit and gently shakes her head. "I mean, you just met her, come on. How come you dislike her so much? She's nice." Gumi remarks, her mind filling with the image of Miku's soft welcoming smile. "She helped me with music class today, she's so kind."

Rin grumbled under her breath as she shifted her head towards Gumi's face. "She just...pisses me off, Gumi. She's like a little demon, acting all nice and sweet one minute and then acting like a murderer the next." Rin gags, her fingers slightly bouncing off of her desk as goosebumps rose in her body. "Come on, there has to be some reason why you don't like her," Gumi says softly, then pokes Rin's cheek for no reason at all. "I'll help you think. Let's see, um..." Gumi's sentence trails off as she begins to think, placing both of her thin index fingers on the side of her temple.

Rin sighed in frustration, "Well, first off, she's weird. Second, I hate her smile. And..well, third-"

"Is it because Len likes her?"

The hesitant stare in Rin's eyes glowed as she lifted her head from the cold desk surface. A few words slipped out of her as she reached a hand to her best friend and then withdrew it as she considered what to say. But she couldn't think of anything to say. Her reactions were awkward, particularly since she did not know why she did not like Miku so much. "I don't know, Gumi. I just-"

"Hey, Gumi-chan!" Len yelled after the greenette that was sitting on her desk. "Ah, yes, Len?" Gumi says as she stands up, facing the blonde-haired boy who was accompanied by Miku, Matsuri, and Fukase. "I was just wondering if you wanted to come with me and Rin to eat some pizza and fried chicken." He asks, catching the attention his sister. But her gaze wasn't focused on him, she was too busy focusing on Miku.

Is...the reason why I don't like her really because my own brother just has a stupid crush on her?

Or is there more to it?

"Pizza?" Fukase eagerly asked those crimson eyes of his that lit up every time the gang had mentioned food. "And fried chicken..?" Fukase spoke again, even just the mere thought of pizza and chicken wings made him drool in delight. "Yeah," Len responds, grinning sheepishly before Matsuri cleared her throat abruptly. "Ahem."

Miku glanced over to Matsuri. Yamasaki Matsuri had almost all the classes Len had and desperately tried to get closer to him. Rin constantly told her to stop, but Matsuri didn't listen to what Rin had to say.

You could basically say she was a female dog.

Matsuri twirled her red locks, her pearlish blue eyes gleaming with the soft light coming from the window. "I guess I can tag along too, I'm not on my diet anymore anyway." She says, smirking confidently and proudly.

'No one cares about your diet.' Is what Rin wanted to say, but she didn't want to waste time with a crappy girl.

Miku smiled softly, "I'll invite my sister, the more the merrier anyway." She says gently before grabbing her cellphone and texting her big sister. "I'll tag along too," Fukase replies, grinning brightly. "I can't turn down a good offer for free food!"

The rest of the gang looked at Gumi, who then blushed out of embarrassment.

Rin raised both eyebrows at her in a flirtatious yet teasing manner as she then focused her eyes on Fukase, making her redden even more. "I-I can't...I have work...today after school..." Gumi mumbled nervously, her fingers fidgeting with the ends of her black wooden pencil in her hands. "...I-I'll have to ask first..." Gumi hid her crimsoned face with her baby pink notepad, the cardboard surface of it gently brushing her reddened nose. "That's alright, Gumi! We might see you anyways, we're going to Lily's!" Fukase grinned brightly as he gently patted Gumi's head.

"O-oh." Gumi was able to muster without reddening even more, and the sight of it made Rin stifle a laugh as her own face grew red while she held back her laughter. "Th-that's...g-great. I'll see y-you guys there th-then?" Gumi peeps, stuttering.

"Hell yeah!" Len pumps a fist in the air, a fist of victory. "Okay, today. Six o'clock sharp." He grins.

Oh boy, was this going to be a long day...