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The faint rattling noises of my mother's old car gently awoke me from my slumber.

It took a moment for my vision to adjust to the light that was now flooding my view from the window to my right. Slowly, the blurriness in my sight started to fade.

I yawned softly as I sat up in my seat, resting my arm on the door handle.

The scenery outside changed at a fast pace, from green parks to towering skyscrapers and small alleyways covered in the pink of the cherry blossoms.

In the last year since I woke up in an unknown hospital, I had come to realize that I was in fact reincarnated into another version of myself , seemingly from an entirely different universe.

It took me weeks to accept the fact that I would most likely never be able to return to my former life, and the thought of practically living on in another person's body scared me greatly.

Apart from that, I learned that the strange Interface that constantly stained my view was in fact some sort of menu that allowed me to check information on myself and other people.

It was extremely odd, as other people didn't seem to have one themselves and weren't able to notice mine either.

It was still all a mystery to me.

There were days where I would still try to convince myself I was simply dreaming.

But of course,that wasn't the case. I was Y/N L/N back then, and I still am here. There was no such thing as running away from this world and myself. I figured I had to accept this reality and instead use the knowledge and experience from my past life to make the best out of my life here.

And indeed, those words would prove to be truthful.

It was late in March,the perfect season for the cherries to bloom and also the time when each semester comes to an end.

It was the same for me,who was now going to become a second year in Highschool. I gulped slightly at the thought, not feeling ready yet to dive into both the stress and excitement that Japanese high school life has to offer.

'Well,that is assuming that I will make a bunch of friends this year...' ,I thought glumly to myself, thinking back to what my school life of the past year was like.

It wasn't like I was lonely or an outcast or anything,in fact, I was quite well liked - however, my closest friends were always the more reserved and prude type.

While that wasn't necessarily bad - it's what I resonated with mostly - these are not the type of people that are going to get you to experience a RomCom school life at all.

While I continued to get lost in my thoughts, I didn't notice my mom pulling up the windows and expectantly looking at me from the rearview mirror,all signaling her interest in starting a conversation. Ever since I got reincarnated into this world one year ago, I've been trying to make amends with my mother,whom I apparently have not been on good terms with in my past life. However, this didn't prove to be easy,seeing as she was very career-oriented and rarely at home, thus resulting in few opportunities to do so. But - whenever one did present itself - I would try to take it and strike up a conversation with her.

This time however, it seemed that she was the first to talk to me, which ,quite frankly,took me by surprise.

„Y/N?"

Her calm voice suddenly rings through the car and swiftly jerks me out of my thoughts.

„Ye...yes?",I yelp cutely, still in shock over her suddenly starting a conversation with me. I pretended to not know what she was going to talk about, even though I had a strong feeling it was going to be about that one thing.