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Len had been attending Ruckwind College-Preparatory Boarding School since he was in pull-ups, but even that had not given him any sort of advantage in the realm of social status, which bewildered even him to this day. Could one be such a bad person that, even after holding eleven-year-old bonds with everyone around them, they were treated worse than the empty Gatorade bottles that littered their gymnasium floor?

He had considered transferring schools on too many occasions to be healthy, but he had resisted each time, because certainly next year would be much better.

That's what he was told, at least, by his parents, who did not give a damn about him-not that he blames them, really, but wasn't it their job to make him feel loved? Or, at least, their job other than the ones they occupy that were the reason for his bringing-up to take place in a one-hundred-and-fifty-year-old school building instead of a home like the other kids?

But it wasn't. That was the teachers' job, for Ruckwind Prep is an "inclusive place where students feel at home and more loved than anyone else" (it's their official slogan, never mind how creepy it sounds). The school was doing something wrong, for Len felt anything but.

Rin came to their school in ninth grade, this year, as did many others who arrived just in time for high school, but she was able to blend into the crowd seamlessly, and it was not much of a surprise to anybody. She had seemed to make more friendships in her first two months than Len had made ever, period-in fact, Len had no friends at all, however unnatural it may sound, it was true, unless his World History teacher from the eighth grade counted as one. Thinking about it made his forehead ache, the subject of socializing did (That most likely meant that Len was an introvert, then, didn't it? No need for online tests, then-at least one benefit came out of it).

But enough of that. Self-pitying monologues, interesting as they are to compose, never make for healthy minds.

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While Ruckwind was a co-ed school, the segregations of the two genders made it feel as if it were anything but, a sad feat for many, including Len; no girls meant no Rin, and no Rin meant no happiness. Pity. They were able to see to each other on frequent but brief occasions, such as their orchestral ensemble practices (which, in fact, Len attended right at this moment). It was a good day. It was a good day, at least, up until Football Player Gakupo that, for the oddest reason, played the viola of all things, thought it was a good idea to ask Rin to Homecoming using the exact method Len had used the week before-or lack thereof, since all that was done was a simple question with nothing to accompany it. The audacity he had! And no, it was not only that he was fullheaded enough to believe that she would accept despite already having done the same to Len already...it was that she indeed had said yes to him as well.

It nearly broke him right then and there, and it was only the small sense of pride that Len held that stopped him. He was weak. And that was probably why, after sitting through the rest of rehearsal with clenched teeth and stiff posture, Len's spot in the left side of the piano section was vacant for the next few practices.

No one had questioned him about it, which was fine by him, even if it did hurt to realize that nobody really gave a shit. In fact, if he were to leave the school altogether, Len would not be surprised if there was a party held in celebration, if anything at all; he was so transparent that it seemed that it would be unnoticable. And maybe that was a good thing.

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actual rinlen interaction happens next chapter, so look out fot that :). this chapter was just something to get to know len.

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