Despite my best wishes, most of the time nothing eventful happens in the mornings. We wait in the school, waiting to be let into form, and everyone is fine with it. The boys usually bring a football with them and mess around outside, while the girls wander around and talk.

I fit into neither of the groups socially, and so wander in the middle. Often, I talk to a girl called Aleezeh about whatever, that or I hope Lykan, one of my old friends from year 7, is early and lets me join in with the football games.

Unfortunately for me, he isn't in sight. Typical of him.

I throw him a quick text (“where the fuck are you”) and start walking around in the vain hope that I find Aleezeh anywhere. The squeaking of my rubber soles on the polished floor echo throughout the corridors. The corridors are weird. So first off, the G (green) corridor is filled with admin and design, then the O (grey?!) corridor is more admin, and so we have the R (red) corridor, filled with humanities and more admin, but then there's the B (blue) corridor, with IT and MFL, and outside there's the SEA (science, english, art) block, filled with SEA, and then finally there's the Y (orange?!) corridor, filled with maths and humanities.

Speaking of the Y corridor, I spot Aleezeh sitting alone with her phone in the corner near the careers office.

“Oi,” I shout at her, kicking her legs. She’s so engrossed in her game that she doesn’t notice me approaching.

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She slowly looks up from her phone, expecting to be surrounded by “roadmen”, when she realises it's me.

“Oh, hi Aya,” she says, putting her phone away. “I’ve, uh, been playing Enstars for one and a half hours”

“The school gates opened half a fucking hour ago,” I reply.

“Yeah, well, I’m pretty into the game. Did you know the new Kuro card was released? I’m so tempted to use money at this point. You know how rare it is to get? I love Kuro...” She goes on. That damn red-head anime man “Kuro,” half the time I don't know what she’s talking about. Who the fuck would obsess over a 2d redhead?

“You do you, I guess. Get up and walk with me.” I tell her. She reluctantly rises and looks around cautiously. Why is she acting like she has beef with people? They just don’t like her because she’s odd.

We continue walking ‘till the SEA block, where it's gracefully empty. Plus, there's a fence with a great view of the field and the school behind us. The icy breeze slightly pushes me off my feet. Oddly cold and strong for May, though with the way our planet is heading, I ain’t surprised. As I lean myself against the metal fence, I call for Aleezeh.

“I could jump off right now and die,” she says as soon as she looks over, despite it barely being a 10-foot drop.

“No, you couldn't,” I reply back. “Even if you could, what's stopping you?”

“Kuro.”

The bell rings just as she says this, and she quickly scurries away before I can figure out an insult to throw at her.

I hate her sometimes.