It was rare to have someone walk beside me so you'd know my surprise when I realised that Rein and Bright had joined me. Walking hand in hand laughing; what a sight. A grin swept across my face.

'What, you guys dating or something?' I teased.

Now you know, I was only teasing about this. I didn't have any thought that this could be true. It was totally a shock for me when I saw those two turning their faces from me, failing to hide their bright red blushes.

Oh wow. Things were happening fast.

'Hey Shade!' an energetic voice called from behind.

I didn't even turn around to know that it was Fine. Oh great.

Then I had someone else join me in my 'happy' walk to school.

-school-

Upon arriving to school, the group of four started splitting up into their own ways. Bright was immediately surrounded by a group of girls and he left them.

That left three people. Shade, Fine and Rein.

Down two corridors they went, not a word was shared between the trio. Not that Shade minded this silence. It's what he revolved around.

Rein just bowed her head slightly, never lifting it up.

Fine waved and smiled politely at everyone she passed.

Finally having had enough of this silence, Fine burst, having had always been surrounded by friends and people she didn't like this silence. She started shouting around the both of them, starting conversations, pointing at various things along the way and even waving her hands madly in front of their faces.

But it didn't work. All Shade did was stare at her and shrug.

All Rein did was put her head even lower than before. That was not a good sign for Fine.

'Geez, talk you guys!' she pouted. She hoped desperately for a good reaction, but knowing deep in her heart that nothing would be different from what they did before.

Soon they went past an old tattered store room. The door was only half closed and the lights were off but you could tell that it was pretty packed with overused boxes that had probably been kept for years. Spiders who had spun so many cobwebs and who knows what could be lurking in the shadows of that room. The school had hardworking cleaners who made sure picked every piece of trash and crumbs and wiped off every speck of dust. So it was pretty easy to see that there was one particular room that the cleaners had not paid much attention to.

'Ew, look at that storeroom, it's so creepy!' Fine pointed.

Shade didn't even bother to look. It wasn't even as if a dirty old room was supposed to catch interest to him.

But that's when Rein perked up, raised her head and looked at that room.

Fine, totally happy that someone had shown interest in something that she had pointed out, tried to start a decent conversation with Rein by rambling on about how scared of spiders she was and how that they was sure to be about a million of them in that room.

She was totally oblivious that Rein had suddenly clutched her fists tightly by her side and grinded her teeth a bit.

Then humbly, Rein excused herself ad shuffled away from the group.

Shade just readjusted himself from what was happening around him and then shrugged.

This guy is so boring, was probably what that enthusiastic Fine was thinking.

'HEY SHADE!' she shouted into his ear.

Seriously, this girl is really bothering me, go away. - you can guess who thought that.

Not surprised about this guy's reaction a small thin smile appeared across the red haired girl. It was time to shuffle things a bit here, it was getting too boring.

'You see-' she began.

Shade quickly turned his head around, clearly not interested.

Fine pouted.

'About Rein…' she continued.

Somehow this perked up his interest. Well, being her friend, it was good to be bothered by something about them wasn't it?

'I wonder what she's doing. I mean, as her friend you must know that she has some kind of secret right?' She asked with a tint of evil that just couldn't bear to be kept in anymore.

That was it.

'Um, sorry Fine, I have something to attend to…..bye!' he quickly excused himself.

'Oh it's ok,' she replied, clearly enjoying how things were going. 'And don't worry; I know just where you're heading at.'

With that, Shade headed straight back to the storeroom.

The beaming light shone through from the half closed door of the storeroom. It had been turned off by someone. And just by a few steps away from the door he could hear some weird shuffling noises.

Now if my hunch is right….

Cautiously he opened the door, and the awful squeaking of the hinges alerted the person who was hiding. Hiding something very precious to them.

'What are you hiding….Rein?' he asked, sighing.

The blued haired girl had been caught red-handed! Like any other person would do, she started thinking of excuses to divert the conversation.

'No use, I know you're hiding something,' Shade stated.

Rein just really couldn't take this anymore.

From behind her back, she pulled out a small, ugly doll wearing an over-frilly black and white dress.

'Was this thing called a Lolita doll? It's the absolute most hideous thing that I've ever seen.' Shade exclaimed loudly in his head. He was overcome by this sudden confession.

'So now you know…I love Lolita dolls!' she exclaimed bowing her head with shame.

She looked up and flinched at his unmoving stare.

'I won't tell anyone, chill.' He said simply.

'THANK YOU SO MUCH! But you can't tell Bright, he doesn't know' she said, jumping down with joy but not before breathing with a sigh of relief.

-Flashback: Rein's past-

Since a while ago, a certain blue-haired girl had taken an interest into Lolita dolls. But nobody liked them. They looked so creepy and weird. Anyone who was found playing or simply touching them was immediately left isolated.

So you see how this girl was in a very complicated position.

She had a lot of good friends, whom she all held dear to her heart. She couldn't bear to lose them just like that.

So ten minutes. That's all the time she needed to spend with her precious dolls.

She was so happy and enjoying her time that she didn't her the pattering footsteps that went down the hall and not until she heard the screeching of the door that she finally noticed that she had been noticed.

She gasped and loosened her grip on the door she was holding. Silently, it tumbled to the ground.

Her secret was out.

The news spread like wildfire and soon the whole school knew about it. Rumors were spread and she was forced to go through each day alone.

This blue haired girl wandered aimlessly down the hall. A lot of whispers and grumbles echoed wherever she went, nobody bothered to sympathise her.

She couldn't accept her fate. She had been caught at the wrong moment. Just why had they had to bombard the classroom like that?

Each day she went and cried herself to sleep. It was like the world had engulfed itself into darkness and there was no hope or light that was daring to shine through and rescue her through this predicament.

Crushed and tossed around, you can imagine how distressed she felt and decided to escape. But soon she was going to transfer schools.

But at her new school it was no different. Some group of girls, she faintly recognised because they had come from her old school had ambushed her about sticking too close to Bright. He as the most popular guy in the year and every girl would dream of being friends with him.

So you get story. Rein was at a new school, as a consequence of the horrible treatment she had suffered though. Now she was confronted once again? But as the story goes, a hero must come and save the girl in times of need right?

And that's what happened. To put it simply, Bright came and saved her and then to protect her, they started going out.

It was a lot to take in for Shade.

'Wait a minute, I need some time to think about this,' he said.

And with that he left Rein in the storeroom after she had fully recovered from this strange event.

Outside he found someone waiting for him.

'So…you know the secret now right?' she said gleefully.

He jumped back, startled. To his horror, he saw something that he least expected:

A red haired girl, whose eyes had lost its innocence and now her sly eyes could not hide her bad and malicious intent.

I dedicate the Lolita doll idea to Ellsweetella as she was the one who thought of it.

Thank you so much for reading!

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