He was talented but alone, shunned for the facial scar that stretched from his forehead to his left cheek. He was used to being treated like a monster, though, as his parents neglected him from a young age. Books were the only friends he had for the developing years of his life, so it was all the more important to him to find you, his academic rival. Sure, he hated sharing the glory of first place just as much as you did with him. But here you were, transferring away. How could you?