— Past; context 🪷.

Yeah, Russell probably isn't the most handsome guy, or the most athletic, or the smartest, or the most popular, or even the one with the best grades, or the best Sonic player, but one thing's for sure, he's a good guy, and probably a simp, oh well.

— "Seriously, Sincerity is the worst girl in the world!"

Or so he always heard his friend Mimi say. The truth is, Russell had a bit of a crush on that pink-haired, bad-tempered girl, Sincerity, but he realized she only used him because he was good with the camera; she didn't even remember his name. Did it hurt? Yeah, sure, it was like a punch in the balls for the blond guy, but oh well.

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— Present; 🪷

— "Seriously, Mimi, I don't think I'll ever fall in love with another girl again. Never! No, no, no."

The boy said as he walked into school carrying his backpack alongside his friend Mimi, who rolled her eyes and looked at him out of the corner of her eye as if he was exaggerating something, before reaching for the lockers and starting to open them.

— "You're exaggerating. You just need to find someone who treats you well, and not like a dog."

Mimi replied, but the words hung in the air, because when she turned to see her blond friend, he was looking in another direction, amazed, even dropping his books along the way, her, a new girl, a pretty new girl he'd never seen before.

— "What a pretty girl..."

He said, looking in the direction of that girl across the hall, to which Mimi raised an eyebrow and looked between her blond friend and then back to where he was looking.

— "Hey, but what about Sincerity?"

The short-haired redhead asked as she closed her locker, to which Russell smiled slightly and turned to look at his friend.

— "Who's Sincerity?"

He answered, before closing his locker and deciding to go talk to that new girl, tripping on the books he'd dropped along the way, falling in the middle of the hallway as several students started laughing at him.