She spends the entire first period sitting on the first bathroom stall toilet, curled up like an earthworm in moist dirt. Phone on her left hand, she scrolls down with her right. Her face scrunches into what can be deciphered as shock and disbelief. At least ten articles have been written about his death.

"Straight A Student Decides to Commit Suicide"

"Why You Should Be Worried About This Student's Suicide"

"Parents Wake Up To See Their Son Hang Himself"

Even Neru Akita, the freshman class's technophile, had written her own thoughts about Len.

"Was my classmate, the happiest person second to the class president, actually suicidal? I think not."

Rin lets out a hollow laugh at Neru's headline.

I bet the comment section is a mess right now, the blonde thinks before abruptly closing her eyes shut for a few seconds and then opening them. She does this for exactly fourteen times until her eyes are completely dry.

Although in her mind, she knows the articles might give valuable information about the situation, her thumb hesitates to tap even one of the links. After hovering over the screen for a few minutes, her thumb presses the home button and taps on the button containing her text messages. Two contacts are boldfaced: Len's mother and...him.

She decides to read his mother's text messages first.

"Rin, there is no easy way to say this but Len has passed away.

He died by hanging himself.

You are still welcome in my household,

as he always spoke fondly of you.

The funeral is on Monday.

Will you give an eulogy?"

Rin stares at the phone screen, slightly trembling, for a minute before finally deciding to tap on his contact and read his messages.

"I'm sorry, but I can't do this.

I can't let myself live anymore.

I hope you're happier now that I'm gone. "

Her heart feels like it's slowly cracking open, but she scrolls down anyway to see his very last message to her.

"I hope to meet you again once we reach 7/8."

It is then the storm that is Rin's emotions cannot be contained.

She flings her phone to the floor, which slams into the floor and slightly bounces before lying on the ground, the glass utterly smashed. The phone is abandoned as a teddy bear left in the closet.

She gets off the toilet seat to get her phone, only to just kneel on the floor.

Her right fist is repeatedly banging on the bathroom stall. The tears she'd been holding in rather well rapidly fall to the ground and Rin thinks to herself

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"Rin? Can I come in?"

Miku. Of course it had to be Miku.

"Go away," is all Rin can manage.

"Why?"

And before she can stop herself, Rin replies,"Because I hate you."

There is a long pause before Miku finally speaks.

"Come on Rin. Everyone is grieving for him."

"But do they understand how horrible, how terrible it is to one day think you know someone and then realize the next day you never know them!"

"Rin...I-"

"I knew him for three years, Miku. I lived in the same street as him, I walked to school with him, I've even visited his relatives with him!"

Rin pauses in order to control her breathing. Miku takes that time to speak.

"Rin, I know it's difficult, but there's nothing we can do. We just got to hope for the best and keep moving on."

Miku kneels down.

"If you're not going to get out of the stall now, you'll never get out," Miku says softly.

Miku must've struck a chord because it is then the blonde decides to get up and open the bathroom stall, albeit very slowly. Miku greets her with a faint smile.

"Let us go towards the worst English class ever," Miku jokes. Rin barely manages a smile.

Miku hooks her left arm with Rin's right arm, and as they exit the girls' bathroom, all Rin can think about are the memories of her walking to school with Len exactly how is she doing with Miku.

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