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Chapter 1 : Transfer.

     It was the start of the school year. Year 3 of high school to be specific. A part of me wanted to be excited, to try and make things better for myself this year. But I was still a bit nervous when I remembered my past school years. Even if I don't make any new friends, I'm going to try and get better grades. It's the least I could do.

    I checked the clock which read 7:26 AM. Good, I still have plenty of time to get ready and get to school. I put on my uniform that I had bought the week before. The school for some reason had changed the uniforms. I straightened my hair, added a black headband, and attached my name tag on my blazer. I quickly checked myself in the mirror, grabbed my backpack, and headed out the door.

    Our school finished building the dorm rooms we stay in over the summer so it only takes me about 15 minutes to walk to my home room class.

    I put on my airpods and shuffled a random playlist.

I started getting bullied by the popular students. They usually make me buy them snacks or write comments on my desk but they wouldn't physically harm me. Well, the worst they've done was push me to the floor. But that was only once. I only have 2 friends: Kim Sunoo, who is my absolute best friend, and Nishimura Niki, who I've known since I was little. I wanted to tell them what was happening to me, but they were always busy with sport practices. So most of time I have to rely on myself and no one else. I kind of got used to it.

    I reached the field in front of the school where there were already students doing their morning practices. The main sport of our school was soccer and track, so everyone was already preparing hard for upcoming games. I've never actually been to a game before because I'm not too interested in watching people run around for a few hours.

    I was about to walk up the stairs to the courtyard when a couple of students ran past me knocking my shoulder. I was heading straight to the ground when I felt someone grab my waist.

    "Are you okay??" a voice said said infront of me.

I slowly opened my eyes where I met another student I've never seen before. He had black hair and doe shaped eyes.

Once I realized he was still holding me, I quickly got up and softly pushed him away.

    "I'm fine, thanks." I said, avoiding eye contact.

He picked up my phone that I had dropped and handed it to me.

"I wonder why those students were running so fast." He said breaking the silence between us.

I quickly processed what he said and checked the time on my phone. It was 7:58 AM.

Oh shoot.

"I'm sorry, I really have to get to class or I'll be late." I said starting to turn around.

"Wait, what class are you in?" He said grabbing my wrist.

"Class 107. Why?"

"I'm in that class too!" He said smiling. He started running up to the courtyard with me, still holding my wrist.

    Soon, we reached the outside of our class. I walked in first and bowed to the teacher.

"Why are you late to my class? It's the first day of school, you should know better." A few people giggled at me.

Just as he was about to say more, the boy I came with walked up to him.

"It was my fault sir. I'm new here and she was just showing me around the school." Wow, I didn't expect him to stand up for me as we just met a few minutes ago.

"Oh, I see... y/n, why don't you go have a seat first?" I nodded and quickly glanced the class for an empty seat.

There was two empty ones in the back near the window. I saw Sunoo and Niki. I'm actually really glad we have class together this year.