Your report card came in, the letters all written in bold.

Ds and Fs all down the chart.

you'd never been the smartest kid, so academic success was pretty much out of your reach, except the principal refused.

"You're familiar with Kamishiro Rui, yes?"

Rui. The smartest boy in the entire school. Who didn't know him? Some envied, some begged for his tutoring, and some felt resentment.

And so that's how you winded up being tutored against your will.

After class, you slowly opened the library door, the brown oak making almost no sound as you entered the library.

books lining up and down, reaching to the ceiling, a large sitting area in the middle.

Where Rui was waiting, quickly scanning over a few textbooks, glasses sat perfectly on his nose, face focused.