°•Glass Shards•° (Shinsou X Reader)

Chapter 10~ Friend

Y/N's POV
I reread the note, then glanced back at the person it belonged to. She was happily writing down notes in a swishy style with a brush pen. She looked pretty strange, but had this sense of kindness that fused with her queer nature. I looked back down at my book and tuned back into the lesson.
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Once class was over, I walked up to her, and tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around and smiled shyly.
"Did you get my note?" She said in a voice that sounded hazy and had a sort of echo to it.
I nodded.
She smiled fully now and picked up her bag. But there was something off.
"Where's your chair?" I asked, turning around to face her, then froze, shocked.
She was floating..?
Her legs were translucent like a ghost and her knees were bent slightly and touching, her feet hanging limply, giving her this shy stance. Her skirt floated upwards a bit to reveal half of her thighs covered by coherently translucent socks.
She looked to the side, embarrassed and said, "please don't stare there, it's uncomfortable."
I snapped out of my trance and gasped, "I-I'm sorry!"
She simply giggled and walked out of the classroom, beckoning me to follow her. Even though she could float to gain some height, she was still around the same height as me when in the air, so I knew that she was at least a couple inches shorter than most. Her curly but kind of messy light teal hair swayed and kind of bounced around her shoulders, longer hair swinging at the back and half of her face covered in soft-looking but spiky bangs. You'd think her hair was a wig, the way is shone in the light and by how smooth it looked.
As if on cue, she twiddled a strand around her pale fingers.
"Where are we going?" I asked, realising I'd been following her into oblivion, not paying attention to where we were going.
"To my special place, this is where I eat my lunch, I assumed you didn't want to go to the hall." She replied.
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She led me to a tree that had long, thick branches that reached out in all directions, the red and brown-autumn tinted leaves flicking off one by one in the calm breeze.
It was a struggle to climb up.
"Come on Y/N!" Suki laughed, as if she wasn't scared of the 12ft gap there was between us and the ground.
"I'll fall!" I cried out, gripping the tree, too afraid to look down. She hopped down from the branches she was one above perfectly and with agile balance, and offered a hand to me. I grabbed it and she helped me up the rest of the tree. I was shaking by the time we stopped, questioning how strange you must be to be able to climb 20ft in the air every lunch time, but with a lot of help we eventually got to a straight branch to sit down on, and a thinner branch behind us acted as a backrest. I shuffled next to her as she unpacked her lunchbox.
I looked up at the branches above us, the sound of birds overhead filled my ears but they were hidden out of sight, but the beautifully scarlet red leaves that floated around my head made me become slowly more comfortable at the height we were at.
"...Suki?" I asked, slowly.
She looked up, and hummed in response.
"Why do you want to be friends with me?"
She laughed lightly and smiled warmly towards me, handing me a box of bento and multicoloured mochi.
I licked my lips and picked up a pair of chopsticks.
"Because you don't have any," she said, "well except Shinsou, but I wouldn't really call you two friends at this point."
I spluttered, my face heating up. She laughed and patted me on the back.
"Sorry, I couldn't resist." She breathed out, trying to recover from her fit of laughter.
I wiped my mouth and picked the chopsticks back up. Suki took out an apple and began throwing it up in the air and catching it again.
We sat in silence for a bit, not awkward silence, just enjoying the view we were getting and the calming noises, well, Suki was more than me, smiling to herself and looking down to the ground, something I was way too scared to do. The day was surprisingly warm, unlike most days and the sun shone through the white fluffy clouds in the sky, they looked as if they'd been painted. In fact, this whole area seemed like an idealistic yet gorgeous painting. The leaves again let small rays of light pass through, spotlights of light dotting the branches and our skin. I closed my eyes and breathed in happily.
"You're very easy to be around Y/N," Suki stated, looking up at the leaves and swinging her ghostly legs and leaning back into the supporting branch.
"I can be my whimsical self and I don't feel strange about it."

"Really?"
I was flattered by this compliment, completely lost for words.
She hummed a 'mhm' back and started putting her stuff back into her bag then discarding it further down the branch.
"Do you want me to help get rid of the rumour?" She said, suddenly serious.
Up until this point, I had forgotten all about the rumour, seeing as I'd had such a great day, but as soon as the image of Kurasshu and the others popped into my head, my spirits came crashing down. I hung my head and played with the hem of my skirt.
Suki put an arm round me, and growled in a low voice, "he disgusts me, he really does. I don't usually hate anyone but recently he's really been getting on my nerves."

My eyes widened at the sudden seriousness of her, and she seemed to pick up on this because she returned to her normal inquisitive and out-of-it expression and finally bit into the apple.
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The bell rang, signalling the end of lunch and that the last two periods were to begin soon. I panicked and began rushing, putting my things in my bag recklessly and not noticing that I was slowly slipping down the branch, that was until I fell down and was gripping it with one hand.

"Y/N!" Suki yelled in panic.
I cried out in panic.

"Grab my leg!" She shouted.
"But it's-" I began, but then saw that her left leg was no longer translucent. I grabbed onto it and closed my eyes shut, until I felt us slowly floating downwards. I opened my eyes and saw that she was gliding down from the tree, our bags in hand and her other leg still see-through.
Soon enough, my feet met the ground and I collapsed to my knees, exhaling with relief as I held my breath the whole way down.
As if it was nothing, Suki's leg returned to normal and she skipped off, still floating slightly.
She turned around and beckoned me to follow her again, my bag also hooked around her shoulder.

I have made possibly the most craziest friend in existence I thought to myself as I clumsily clambered my way to her side.
But at least she'll be there for me.
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