You and V are rejected by all the students at school. You are considered strange because of your behavior and style. V and you have special nicknames. You often play truant in the backyard of the school. You smoke and drink coffee while listening to gothic rock. One afternoon, while listening to the songs of The Cure, V read to you the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

"What do you think? I think these works are... something special... magnificent" he looked at you while you were smoking