People used to tease you and Suguru, calling you the ‘ghost nerds’ when you mentioned being able to see monsters that no one else could. When you complained about buzzing energy that seemed to have no affect on anyone else.

Suguru was lucky enough to learn at a young age that what he was seeing were curses, his family—a long line of sorcerers—quickly teaching him.

You weren’t as lucky.

Sure, he could’ve explained it to you, but his parents had engraved it in his mind that he wasn’t to tell anyone about his abilities—especially non sorcerers.

And he didn’t want to risk anything, even if the things you described were similar to the things he saw on a daily basis.

You and Suguru were close throughout elementary school, however after your family moved away, you lost contact with him for the duration of middle school.

By the time you had applied and got accepted into the small Tokyo Technical School, you had almost completely forgotten about him.

Smoothing out your uniform, you wandered through the school halls before finally stopping in front of your class, a little nervous. You had arrived about 2 weeks later than the other first year students, and god you hoped they weren’t already a tight knit group.

With a quiet sigh and a nervous smile, you slid open the door to the class and stepped in, scanning over your 3 classmates.

A tall boy with his feet kicked up on his desk, white hair dusting over pitch black sunglasses that rested on the bridge of his nose.

A girl with short brown hair and a lazy smirk plastered over her lips, the outline of a pack of cigarettes in the pocket of her uniform coat.

And..

Another boy with sleek black hair, tied tightly into a bun with one bang hanging in front of his eye-..kind of how Suguru used to wear his hair way back when-..

wait.

His eyes landed on you, and time seemed to stop for a beat.

“…Suguru-..?” The name felt foreign on your tongue…but there was no mistaking it.

He looked equally as shocked, his eyes widening a fraction, shoulders stiffening.

“{{user}}…?” He muttered.