Hope's peak days | SOUDAM

First day Breakfast

|Souda's pov|

God... why did this have to be so awkward- our groups just don't seem to mix. I'm a loser, Gundham's living in his own fantasy world, Chiaki is as social as a rock, Akane is way too intense. Chihiro and Sonia seem like they're trying to force some kind of friendship between us all but I don't know how compatible we all are.

Whatever, I'll just go grab some food, it'll give me a minute of time away from them. I made my way to the food line and looked at whatever options Akane didn't devour, so I was basically only left with vegetarian options. Fine, not big on bacon anyways I guess. I just grabbed a couple waffles and put them on my tray. But when I turned to walk back to the table, my seat was somehow already taken by some kid with messy brown hair. He seemed to be talking to Chihiro, so I just grabbed an empty chair and pulled it over to the table, I guess I looked annoyed though because he decided to speak up about it
"Oh, sorry man was this your seat? I won't be here long promise, I just wanted to talk to Chihiro real quick cause I ran into him"
"It's fine-" I mumbled, he kept talking though
"I'm Makoto Naegi! Me and my sister got in as ultimate lucky students, we were walking around the school and I saw Chihiro so just thought I'd say hi real quick"
I looked up at him confused "you and your sister both won the lucky student lottery?"
"Yeah, unbelievable I know- but I guess that really does mean we're lucky huh"

I looked behind him and sure enough, a girl who looked like him with better hair was standing there, she smiled and waved to us "I'm Komaru Naegi"

I looked to her side and noticed some shy looking girl with purple hair and glasses standing behind her "uh- who's she?" I pointed at her with my fork

"Oh!" Komaru turned her head smiling brightly "this is my girlfriend! Toko Fukawa, you might've heard of her, she's the ultimate writing prodigy, and has had multiple best sellers!"

I noticed Gundham staring at the girl "hmm... I think my mother's owned some of your work"

Toko began to bite her thumb and look away nervously "y-yeah... my biggest demographic is lonely middle aged women..."

That seemed- randomly rude, Gundham didn't seem to appreciate the comment either "my mother is not lonely..."

Toko gripped her hair and groaned loudly "M-Maru... can we please go now- I don't like being stared at by such ugly degenerates..." she mumbled pointing at- AT ME?!
"Hey! First of all I'm not staring, secondly I think most would consider me rather attract-"

"HA! N-not staring? I can feel you undressing me with your eyes!"

"W-WHAT?! I-I would never what the hell are you-"

"G-Get your eyes off of me you d-disgusting perv!"

"I AM NOT A-"

Just as I was about to start screaming at the girl Komaru grabbed her into a tight hug and shushed her "Toko, Toko, no..." she sighed sadly "Sorry- sorry about her she gets nervous around... most people" she sighed and began walking off with her "Makoto- sorry I gotta take her somewhere she'll calm down, we'll catch up don't worry..." she left the cafeteria while rubbing that crazy chick's head

"Jeez... what was her problem?" Even Akane looked uncomfortable after they left
Makoto looked just, embarrassed though "s-sorry about her- she's really nice when you get to know her I promise she's just- uh... standoffish" yeah that's one way to put it...

I nervously looked at where Gundham and Sonia were- they were looking at me weird- oh god they think I'm- "I-I'm not a pervert by the way!"
... why. The fuck. Did I yell that????

|Gundham POV|

Why- why did he feel the need to clarify that? "Uhm... alright-" I looked away from him awkwardly. I simply leaned over to my Deva's cage and fed them carrots through the bars, that strange scholar girl had just, added a very uneasy aura to the room that had made everyone silent, but I did at least get to retreat to my Deva's if I ever felt uncomfortable, they kept me sane in a way. Whatever, it seemed like any possibility for insightful conversation was gone now. I stood up and grabbed my Devas' cage before egressing the room

"Wait Gundham!  Where are you going?" Miss Sonia called out to me
"I'm just continuing my walk, you can stay with your friends" I responded before sighing and leaving the room. That was... ungodly uncomfortable, I wasn't going to talk to any of them anyways, but that weird purple woman and her unneeded comment about my mother just, made me want to leave, immediately.
And Souda, that fool, letting her words get to him, and engaging in an argument with her, just making himself look like some sort of fool. Then feeling the need to defend himself after she left. That moron, I already knew you weren't a pervert. Well not fully. But I remember you, k remember how you'd stare at girls you liked in middle school, you were never secretive, your pupils practically shifted into hearts when you saw them... never me though-
What-

What the hell was I just thinking? Why would I- whatever, stupid intrusive thoughts, putting weird, unneeded thoughts into my brain.
Like I'd ever want that moron to stare at me the way he did the girls who caught his eyes.
Like I'd ever want to receive one of his stupid, cheesy letters I saw him write in his notebook before tearing out and throwing away flustered...
I could pretend I didn't care about him in middle school- but I remembered him very clearly... I remember wishing I could've... been closer, he always just had a... very sad energy to him, that I kind of wish I could have tamed.
Whatever, I have the next three years of my life with him now, if I want to be his friend I'll have plenty of time
... friend, nothing more... that would, that would be silly.

(Hey- sorry sorry I know I was gone for, way too long, I keep forgetting to work on this with everything else in my life, but I promise I'll never just abandon this work, chapters may not have a consistent release schedule, but this story will be finished eventually I can promise that)