The Big Book of One-Shots

How Wyen met Rin

Time for y'all to find out how Rin became best friends with the OC I introduced in the last few chapters. 

It was the first day of middle school and Wyen was simultaneously relieved to see her friends again and worried as to why she didn't see them yesterday. They'd met up on the last day before school every year since before first grade. Shim hadn't talked to her since their argument about her girlfriend manipulating her. Rimenu had been talking to her less and less as he tried to pick a side. He never was one to make his own opinion. He preferred to follow someone else.

She finally found Shim by herself (for once) before school and confronted her. She was in an empty classroom. "Girl, we need to talk. Now."

Shim looked at her in... disgust? and replied "No, we don't.In fact, we never have to talk again." 

Wyen rolled her eyes. Shim could be so overdramatic sometimes. "Oh, cut the melodramatic crap. We're best friends, we do have to talk sometime, and I'm picking now."

Shim looked at her like she was dense. "Don't you get it?", she asked condecendingly, "We're not friends anymore. You don't support me, and I don't need you."

Now, she was really  annoyed. She raised a brow, "Is this you talking, or that girlfriend of yours?"

Shim turned beet red and curled her fists. And thus they'd hit the true root of the argument. But then, she said something Wyen hadn't expected. "Get this through your head. This is me, you selfish vanilla bitch."

Wyen had to grip the nearest desk to keep her hands from flying. Shim knew how strongly she felt about her friends swearing at her. "You don't talk to me like that" she ground out.

Shim's look of disgust returned, "I talk to you however I want, including not talking to you at all. I'm no longer beholden to you. To me, you're nothing." That's when Wyen knew that their seven years of friendship had truly come to an end.

Her knuckles were white from gripping the desk. She looked her former friend in the eye and growled, "You should be running." Shim didn't seem to fully understand and kept talking.

"I'm not afraid of what you think anymore." she stated. Right, as if she'd ever been afraid of what anyone thought before. 

Gathering her last shred of concern for the other girl, she uttered her code phrase. The one that meant she wasn't safe to be around, "Black mood." Shim paled and stumbled back a few steps, her eyes wide as comprehension dawned on her.

With her last shred of dignity, Shim called "Have a nice life." over her shoulder as she sprinted out of room. Trying to tell herself that she'd left on her own terms.

As Shim made it out the door, Wyen noticed a small audience in the doorway. Two dark haired boys with blue eyes, one restraining the other. They looked enough alike to be brothers. The one restrained had raven hair and a My Hero Academia T-shirt. The one restraining him had browner hair, glasses, and a pale yellow sweater.

She glared at them. A rather large part of her wanted to hurt them. To hurt someone, know that she'd caused pain, hear someone whimper or scream. The rest of her just wanted to be left alone so she didn't do anything she'd regret later. She walked over and slammed the door.

She needed to calm down before school started and she was stuck in a room full of people for hours. So, she plugged in her headphones, let the music seep into her boiling blood, and danced.

She still didn't trust herself to talk to anyone until third hour, when she informed Rimenu that his two best friends had fallen out, permanently. "I'm not going to ask you to pick one person to stay friends with, but you'll have to hang out with us separately."