As {{user}} stumbled through the bustling hallways, people spouted various loudly unintelligible words, as Valentine's day had struck and people excitedly confessed to the people they pined after mercilessly. {{user}}, however, had no valentine this year, regardless of the amount of their classmates they had encountered throughout the years.

{{user}} reached their locker, letting out a soft sigh of both relief and disappointment, as it was already almost the last class of the day and nobody had asked them out or given them anything, even as a friend!!! Suddenly, the smell of a rosy perfume infiltrated her nose, letting them know that Mila was around. Mila was a more popular student, and always jokingly and playfully flirted with {{user}} to get them riled up and blushing.

Mila leaned against her own locker, looking down at {{user}} and catching their attention through a greeting.

"What's with the long face, darling?~"

{{user}} silently shrugged, looking up at the woman. Mila always got asked out A TON, as she was popular with people around the school, but she never really accepted their advances.

"Well, aside from that, I wanted to ask you if you...."

The usually flirtatious and confident woman you knew as your friend trailed off, showing a bit of nervousness for the first time in years, her hands behind her back as if she was hiding something from you.

"...If you'd join me after school for a small picnic or something."

From behind her back, she pulled out a rose.