[Kai POV]

It was a few years ago now.

All the students began leaving the school. I made my way to the lockers a little bit later to avoid the main stream of people leaving the school.

I was putting books into my bag at my locker when I realised that I had left my pen on my table. There was a very high chance that it was probably either stolen or destroyed considering my reputation. I decided to go back into the room and check anyways just in case.

To my astonishment, there was a brown-haired girl standing at my table. At first, I thought she was just vandalising my table, however, once I got a closer look, I noticed that she was holding a cloth in her hand.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m not doing this for you, as a member of the student council, I can't have students vandalising school property.”

“You really don't have to, it's fine.”

“Didn't you hear me the first time? I said this wasn't for you. I don't care what you think.”

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“Oh, well did you see a pen on the table?”

“A pen? Um, I'm not sure, I saw a lot of garbage on the table so I just decided to throw it all away.”

“Well, that's fine then, uh, do you want me to help you?”

She looked up at me and thought for a little while.

“I mean, this is your table so I guess so.”

She opened up a little bag she was carrying with her and pulled out another cloth. She also grabbed a spray bottle off the floor and handed it to me.

“This ink is really hard to remove, keep spraying and wiping until it comes off.”

“Okay.”

I kneeled down and sprayed some of the cleaning liquid onto the table. A little bit of foam gathered and I wiped it off with the cloth. Once I looked again, I noticed that barely any ink had come off. I looked at the area that she was cleaning and noticed that the ink was almost completely gone.

She must have been doing this for a while.

We continued cleaning the table for quite a long time before most of it was gone.

“That should be enough, thanks for the help,” she said.

“I should be thanking you.”

“I’m just doing my job.”

Huh.

“By the way, I don't even know your name,” she continued.

“I’m Kai.”

“Well, nice to meet you then Kai. But let me tell you something. As much as people like to say that bullying is unavoidable, you don’t have to suffer it.”

“What do you mean?”

“You get bullied because of the way you act. Fix yourself, Kai. There are few things in like that you can’t change. Dye your hair or something, go join the football team, people only bully you because you’re an easy target. Stop being one.”

…

With that she walked off without another word. I also decided to make my way home, I wanted to go to Haven and see what's up with the shop and missions.

The walk home was relatively un-extraordinary.

As much as her words sounded distasteful, they were all I needed to hear.

[Kai POV END]