A new friend

There was a girl in our class who was repeating second year. She wore glasses and she had a skin pocket on her forehead. She looked very weird to me and her eyes were very small behind her glasses. 

We once made fun of her appearance too. I said she looked mentally ill to me. I knew i shouldn't have said that but when Seiko and Aoi were making fun of her i couldn't help but do the same. I later decided that i would never disrespect someone's appearance again. 

I knew she wanted to be friends with us. Her old friends were in third year now and she had no friends at all in this class. I had always seen her looking at us with longing in her eyes. So i decided i would talk to her. 

One day, I came to school earlier than usual and only her and me were present in the class. I said good morning to her so that i didn't seem rude. She said good morning to me too. 

She was very tall. I had never noticed her height but now that i had seen how tall she was, I was a bit intimidated. 

"Would you like to sit with us?," i asked. 

She agreed and she sat behind me. 

That day, as usual, Kaoru and me were sitting together and Aoi and Seiko were sitting in front of us but there was an addition to our friend group and her name was Megumi Kobayashi. 

The next day, Kaoru was absent so Kobayashi-san asked if she could sit next to me. I agreed. She said she wanted to sit with me everyday. I agreed to that too. But I was worried that she would want to sit with me when Kaoru would be present too. That made me a bit anxious. 

I was being formal with her just like Seiko and Aoi were but she said that all four of us could call her by her name. 

She told me many things about herself. Her life was very different than i thought. 

Megumi's parents died when she was twelve years old. Both of her parents were doctors. Her father had been shot by an unknown man when he was coming home one day. He was immediately rushed to the hospital but he could not survive. Her mother died later too.

Megumi had two younger siblings: Runa and Sae. Runa was in the first year of high school and Sae was in the first year of middle school. They lived in an orphanage. Their father's younger brother had sent them to it after he had kicked them out of their house. They had lived there for many years now and Megumi said she and her siblings were very happy there. 

Megumi and me had gotten very close. I was the one who introduced her to my entire friend group. I told her everything about me just like she did. I thought she would never give my space to anyone else. 

But soon, she found a new friend whom i brought into the friend group: Aya Sawamura.