Friendzoned (LukaXMiku)

Chapter 1

Lights flaring. Half empty beer cans everywhere. Scantily clad girls. People dancing.

I didn't want to come to this party. Yet, here I am, stationed against the corner of the table with a trademark red solo cup in hand. It's empty, but I'd like for people to label me as "popular," no longer the shy girl, so it sits there, alone.

The room is mostly crowded. The "dance floor" is just a short walk from where I am, but I don't want to bother to talk to people. Plus, house parties tend to be entertaining from a third-person perspective as I've been told by the upperclassmen. And if the cops come I can scram faster, since I'm only a foot away from the door.

I don't know a lot of the people here. In terms of my social life, I tend to be quite boring, so I just sit back and watch. I could name roughly 40% of the people in this room and their birthdate, but I have no idea what they're like. I can probably tell you their best friend, personality, phone number, etc., but they don't know who I am. And I'm fine with that.

I go to Crypton Academy, or called by the majority, Crypton High School, one of the biggest private schools in the world. There are about 6,000 students here, throughout the school system.

Several of the people here I don't recognize. However, this is a party for just the freshmen- us, so I am acquainted with several of the pour souls here.

Merli and her new boyfriend, Gumiyo have just entered their first stages of foreplay. I'm oddly entranced by the whole ordeal, until I realize that I am literally watching them have sex. I throw up in my mouth a bit.

Kanon is headbanging to death on the other side of the room. She's the only one I know here, besides a few kids from uni that I know and the drug dealers I befriended on my first day back to Crypton High. I want to go talk to her, until I notice she's right next to the most popular girls in school. Plus, I'd rather not get squished half to death by the crowds.

So far, only two people have noticed me. Kanon and another guy, Kaito, who I think is a college professor. I met him at a meeting where I work, an outreach project for the kids at university. I am completely fine with me being invisible, I just wish this wasn't such a drag.

"Hi... uhm," a girl who I assume is the host of the party, and someone I do not recognize comes up to me. She has short blonde hair, messily tied in a bow at the back of her head. "Uh... M-Miku," I stutter. The girl smiles. She has makeup that looks like someone threw up death metal all over it. "Nice to meet you Miku. I'm Rin Kagamine."

I nod suspiciously. I could question why she's talking to me and nobody else, or why she has the same surname of the suspended kid in class 2-B who stink bombed the hallways and then was caught changing all the staff's computer screen savers to porn screenshots. I choose the second one.

"Are you by chance related to Len Kagamine?" I ask. Rin doesn't skip a beat answering my out-of-context question. "Yeah- sorry about my brother. He's a retard sometimes. Anyways, welcome to my party!" Rin skips off, leaving me alone again. I would later wonder how often she had to hear that question to answer so quickly.

I have several ways of reacting to that. One, I could act shocked she's the brother of the kid who fucked up my social life. Two, I could react with anger that her brother fucked up my social life. Or three, agree with her he is a retard, act neutral about her shitty party and stand there for a brief five seconds trying to comprehend what she just said. I choose the latter.

I sip my cup, but am only greeted with the leftovers of ice cubes and a small trickle of water that melted. I grunt. Kanon is still dancing while thankfully the lovey-dovey couple on the other side has retreated to the bathrooms. Bless their heart.