I Don't Fit In~ Ruel Van Dijk

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HINA

"Come on Hina!" My mom barges into my room. Jeez I'm on my phone, wide awake.
"HINA WAKE UP." "MOM IM AWAKE."
"Then get up and get ready for school."

I look away from the huge window in my room and see my mom. Her arms crossed. I make an annoyed look at my mom as she leaves.

"I'm awake you dumb ass", I say under my breath.

I go to the washroom to see that my bed head is absolutely awful. Wow. How can such human have this bad of a bedhead. Oh well, I sigh. I brush my teeth and hair.
I'm still not totally sure if my school allows makeup so I try to apply it the lightest I can. Some mascara, concealer, and lip tint is good enough.

"HINA, BREKKY", I hear my mom shout from downstairs. Jeez, how does my mom never loose her voice. I quickly change into my ugly uniform and head downstairs.

Yes! As usual, there is miso soup and rice. Yummy.
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As I walk out I see Ruel approaching me.
"Heyo", Ruel says with a bright smile. I- How is he so bright during mornings. "Hey", I smile back.

"Jeez what's making you go fire ball this morning"? I nudge his side. "I'm not sure. There's just some good energy today I guess?"
"Okayy."
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We arrived at the school and we put our things in the lockers. "What's your first class today?" Ruel looks over my paper. "AP Chemistry." "Ptff. I could never. I'm already bad at science and let along you going into AP?!" "Who said you're supposed to be smarter than me", I smirk. "Oh shut it."
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I'm sat at the back of the class. I made sure to get to class earlier than my piers. The back seats are the ones that everyone takes. People snatch em as fast as they can (like me). I see a crowd of boys entering the room. They look like the ones that I saw Ruel with couple days ago.
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  Great. Of course they would come sit back here. I am sitting next to these lousy ass boys. Some put their feet up on the desk. Jeesh. Ruel isn't like that right? I hope. "Hey Newbie", one chuckles. Ahh. My new name here. "Hello", is all I can think of. Ugh will I ever learn self defence!? They giggle. "You got Ruel all hooked up eh?" W.O.W. "Uhh what?" I am so confused. Do they mean I hooked Ruel with someone or am I the person that they think Ruel is with. "Look Newbie. Stop doodling like you've got anxiety. You think Ruel is cool? You know he's fake and a lier. Once your his friend, he just runs away and goes around the world to fuck around." Woah. First of all, I haven't stopped doodling. I don't have anxiety. Doodling is awesome and fun. I don't hear whatever he said at the end. I'm too puzzled and fluffed.

   "What's your name?" I put my hand out and smile. Since they didn't introduce themselves to the new student, I had to. It will also change the subject. "Huh? Andrew, you should know that by now", one of them says. Oh! So they are cocky little fcks. "Reid." "Ethan." "Kyle."  They were so mean and all of a sudden they are introducing themselves to me? Oh well. I just turn around to the gaze of the blackboard.

The teacher ends his lesson and soon enough I'm out of there. I approach Ruel at the lockers.
"Hey", I pant. "Hey." "Do you know Andrew and his guys?" I look down making any eye contact with Ruel impossible. "Uhh yeah", he scratches the back of his neck. "Have you talked to them before?" "Oh um. Yeah", I answer. He sighs and looks unsure about something. "What did they do?" "Are they your friends", I blurt our. Way to go Hina. "I mean... you can call them that but I don't." What does that mean? "Oh well. They just were rude", I look up and Ruel makes eye contact. "What did they do?" "Uhh-." What did they do?!" "They uh. I don't know. Called me names and-." "I knew I couldn't trust them. That's why I started to not a while ago." He starts down the hallway. Damn it. "Ruel! Ruel?"

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It's about time for lunch now. I walk past the library doors and see Ruel eating. Waiiittttt a minute. I walk backwards to the doors. Why is he alone? I decide to eat with him if he doesn't mind.

"Hey", I settle down. "H-hey." I look up to his face and see red eyes. "Are you okay?" I quickly give him some tissues. My mom made me bring portable tissues everywhere I went when I was little. I guess it's so if anything happens I would have them? If I had boogers id have them. If we needed to stop at the side of the freeway to let me pee I'd have my tissues. Gosh. Please tell me I wasn't the only one that peed outside when I was little.

   "Thanks", Ruel says before blowing his nose loudly. I- that was loud as heck. Ew. I can't help but giggle. "Stooppp", he giggles. "Okay. Tell me." "I don't know Hin-." I cut him off. "You can say anything to me." "Even if I tell you I've pooped twice today?" I emediately burst into laughter. "Okay maybe not that much but anywho. Tell me." "Well I've lost my quote-on-quote friends. Even if they were fake its just- there's a lot on my mind right now. But thankfully I've got you", Ruel hugs my side. "Ooh Ruelly patuni!.....WAIT. So you're telling me you've lost your friends?! Ruel im so SORRY. I'm sorry. shit. Just because they've done that to me. I'm sorry." "Well they were being rude towards you", I blush so hard. Gosh that's embarrassing. Not everything is bout me Hina! "Oh my gosh. Sorryyyy!" "Stop saying sorry, you Canadian. I'm just kidding. I value you more than them. So them being rude to you equals them being rude to me. I hate that. That's not sick at all." "Thank you, and sorry for saying sorr-. OH MY GOS-." Ruel puts a hand over my mouth because I forgot it was a library. "Sorry." "HAHAHHAHA YOU WONT STOP SAYING SORRY." This boy. He told me to shut up and now he's laughing his head off in a library. "Shhh Ruel!"

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It's the end of the school day. Ruel and I are walking home. "Are you free", I ask. "Yeah, why", Ruel asks, clearly knowing why I'm asking. "You wanna come over?" "Sure! I'd have to get changed and drop off my bag first though." "Okay!"