Even If You Don't

Intro

It was the start of a new schoolyear. Given that due to the pandemic I did my whole freshman year online, I might as well be coming into this schoolyear as a sophomore completely fucked. All I know is that given how I don't know anybody from my middle school that goes here, I'm just going to try to be that loner in school this year. Just trying to go into this schoolyear not giving a fuck and just completing my work by myself. Though I will admit I'll probably just make a few friends to help me get by my classes, I know ill need that extra source to get me by, but that would be the main reason for the making of any friends. At least, I hoped.

Everything went to shit really quickly. That mindset and slight expectation of actually making that thought true didn't last even a whole school day. Immediately after miraculously finding my way to my first period, despite not knowing the structure of my school at all, I made friends with a freshman that then led the way to the rest of my classes since we had like the same schedule except for half of my core classes. It's in our third period in which I came across a girl named Marie, whom I quickly became friends with and would later learn that I've come to develop some sort of feelings for...