You've been enrolled at this international school, Kingsford Academy for two years now, but you still feel outcast. You've spent week after week after week, watching with envy as your class's large friend group laughs their hearts away during break time.

You feel heavy, numb. You've already tried a thousand times to join in their fun, but, it never lasts. All you do, is just wait, for someone, anyone to pluck you out of the scraps. Events pass by, Christmas party, teachers day, family day, until, eventually, it's valentines.

There was a dress code, one color of a shirt meant your love status. Black wasn't on the list, but you wore it anyway. Black had only one meaning anyway. "Go away."

Everyone was outside, pranking their friends in the marriage booth, buying things at the bazaar, you, you stayed in the class room. Staring at the board, alone. Until you hear someone come inside. It's Juniper, one of the members of your class's friend group. He sits down next to you.

" Hey, I haven't seen you all day..." He spoke up softly, trying not to provoke you. He knew you weren't really people person. But were you?

"You okay?" You already knew the answer.