Ordinary
Life at the Gen Ed school was rather ordinary, Ryotaro mused. You went to classes, you did your work, you turned it in. You could join a sport or a club, or you could just hang out with your friends. You did your homework, you passed your tests, you learned what you needed to know.
The music school, however, was anything but ordinary. If you fell asleep, people just smiled and glossed over the fact. If you told your teacher you'd been too busy practicing to do your homework, it was excused without a second thought. Drama and rivalries ran high, concours and exhibitions sucking up time and adding to stress, undercurrents of arranged marriages, true romances, and set fates humming throughout the school.
He kicked a can moodily. Life was just so normal, compared to theirs. There was nothing to separate the days here, nothing special or exciting at all. Life was boring, life was dull, and life was just so damned ordinary at the Gen Ed school that it made him want to scream.
"Ryotaro-kun-!"
Perhaps, he thought, his face slowly softening into a smile as a familiar red-headed girl ran toward him waving happily, being ordinary didn't really matter.
After all, all you really needed was someone to turn your life from ordinary to extraordinary