September 13th
Dear Friend,
Today was my first day at my new school, Namimori High, and I have to say, it was pretty crazy. Do you remember the senior I told you about? I saw him today. His name is Hibari and he truly scares me. He carries tonfas in his uniform! He beats people who break the rules or do anything to make him mad! He also calls everyone, even the teachers, herbivores. I'm going to try my best to avoid him, but I have this feeling that I'll be late more than once. He's definitely going to bite me to death.
I don't like my homeroom teacher, Nezu-sensei. He also doubles as my math teacher, which sucks because I get the feeling he doesn't like me either. He's definitely going to bully me in the future. Today he called on me thrice and I got the wrong answer each time. This caused him to call me "Dame-Tsuna." It looks like my nick-name is back. I was hoping that I could have gone a week without being called that, but it seems like wherever I go I will be called that. I guess I really am no good. For the rest of the day, everyone avoided me or made fun of me. It seems that news spreads really fast here too. I really hope that I can make friends here, even though I am now, once again, officially "Dame-Tsuna." Maybe there will be someone like you who won't make fun of someone even though they had the chance.
Throughout the rest of the day I made mistakes in every class. It was really embarrassing. It doesn't help that every teacher is now referring to me as "Dame-Tsuna." News spreads faster here than at my old school, Shimon High. I think I might actually want to go back. At least after the accident they started to become slightly nicer. I really wish the accident hadn't happened, though, even if everyone had become nicer. I'm going to stop talking about the accident because I'll start to cry if I continue mentioning it. The school ended up calling my mom about my "lack of knowledge" and recommended that I get a tutor to help me. After a discussion Mom agreed and she asked Dad if he knew of any good tutors. He said he had a friend in Italy that was a home tutor and that he's the one who tutored Giotto when he was applying to college. He'll be here in the next few days. Mom's been preparing a room.
Giotto called today, which made me really happy. He asked about my first day and I told him about it. When I told him about Hibari, he told me that he works with someone named Alaude, who is related to Hibari. I think that's kind of cool. Maybe there are more coincidences between our lives, though I highly doubt it. We live in two different worlds, after all. Giotto is the older brother who is everything I'm not. He's smart, handsome, athletic, and has a lot of friends. Sometimes he tells me all of these really funny and interesting stories about his friends who are also his co-workers. I don't like to mention it, but his stories make me jealous. I would like to find friends like his. I would just like friends in general. Even one would be nice.
Love always,
Tsuna