5 Idiots and a Genius : COTE X Quintessential Quintuplets (ON BREAK)

Chapter 2 : New School

Ayanokōji POV

BORING

This is how I described the opening ceremony. I can hardly keep my eyes open. I looked around hoping to find something interesting. And I found some. I found out that I was in Class D, the lowest class. Class D is were they throw leftovers. You can say the Classroom is the trash can and we are the trash. Enough of the negative thinking, I looked at our line to see who my classmates are.

'Am I cursed or something?' I asked myself

I saw the girl sitting next to me in the bus. She was acting weird when the StuCo. President was talking. And I saw 5 identical faces, which piqued my interest. Maybe they were quintuplets or something. I'll just have to find out. I looked over to the other class. In class A there was a short girl with a lilac coloured hair and standing next to her was a bold guy. In class B there was a girl with cherry blossom color like hair and a guy who looks pretty serious. In class C there's a guy with magenta coloured hair who looked like a deliquent, a girl with a snow white hair and a big black guy with an impressive build.

'Interesting' I thought

However, our class seems pretty normal. I guess that's why it's called class D. After the opening ceremony all students went to their respective classrooms. Finally I can sit now. I entered the room and went to the table with my name on it. It was a seat next to the window in the last row.As I looked around, I saw that the room was already halfway
filled with students. The others were either immersed in their class materials
or already talking with other people. Perhaps they’d all been friends
beforehand or had only recently gotten acquainted. Well then, what should I
do? Take action during this free time and try to meet someone? In front of
me, a rather rotund boy sat at his desk, hunching over. Perhaps it was my
imagination, but he appeared lonely.

The boy exuded an aura that seemed to shout, “Please, someone be my
friend!” However, if you just went up to someone and start talking, you might
be bothering them. Should you wait for the right time? But then you might
wait too long and be left friendless. I just had to… No, no, wait, I couldn’t be hasty. If I started a thoughtless conversation with someone I didn’t know, I
ran the risk of making a serious social gaffe.

Not good. I was trapped in a downward spiral.

In the end, I couldn’t talk to anyone at all. At the rate things weregoing, I’d be completely alone. Had I heard someone say, “Is he still allalone?” Had I heard chuckling? Perhaps it was all in my head. What on earthare “friends,” anyway? Where do friends come from? Do people becomefriends after sharing a meal together? Can you become friends with someoneafter you walk to the bathroom together for the first time? The more I thoughtabout it, the more I wondered: What is friendship? Is it something deep and
meaningful? I tried to piece it together.

Trying to make friends is incredibly bothersome. Besides, don’t human
relationships tend to form naturally? My thoughts were in utter disarray, as
though a raucously loud festival was being staged inside my head. While I satlost in a haze, the classroom quickly filled. Fine. Whatever. Nothingventured, nothing gained, right? After a long period of conflict, I finallybegan to rise from my seat. However…

Before I knew it, the rotund, bespectacled boy in front of me hadstarted to talk with another classmate.

Wearing a bitter smile, I realized that there was no new friendship to becultivated there. I’m happy for you, Glasses-kun. It looks like you made yourfirst friend.

“I got beaten to the punch!”

I was at my wit’s end, stuck in useless navel-gazing. Reflexively, I let
out a deep sigh. My high school experience seemed poised to beexceptionally dour. Then, someone sat down beside me.