Hello ! I'm not dead yet and I'm still working on my two other stories but I had this one building up in my head for so long that I couldn't wait anymore to write it down. Another story with an OC but with deeper inspiration and this time, a GIRL (I see you Male OC haters. I see you.)

Harassment

It's pretty common in a lot of school actually, I could even expand this in the field of work and even at home for some person. Humans are by all means animals after all. There are dominants and dominated ones. Well I wouldn't say that actually, more like, strong ones and weak ones. The strong often feel the need to bully someone who's weaker than them to shine in society. The poor person never asked for anything in most of the case but to show how much of an alpha he is, the strong will make a hell out of his target's life.

That's one easy biased way to put things. If I want to be accurate about my line of thought I must add a lot of factors to the equations and god knows how bad I am at Math. Anyway, past traumas, stress, anger, pain... There are a lot of things that can make you become the bully or express all of your frustration on someone else. We can't escape this reality, rules are rules. They won't protect you from the wild surrounding you. Adults have it tough you can say but we all know better. Children are the scariest of them all.

Sure you can say that a child is innocent and has no knowledge of good and evil. If you want my opinion I don't think that it's true at all. You can see that one child is bad pretty quickly. He will be bad with others, he will dominate them and hurt them to get his way. I think being born innocent is not true at all, at least not until you are able to be put with other children like you. While they are little, it's not so much of a trouble, with good parenting you can limit this trait of personality right away but sometimes it won't work. They will evolve and grow up. High school students and Middle school students are the worst. Social pressure, internet, violence, bullying, harassment, cruelty. They say we are still children but in this world in this epoch, we are well versed in those things.

It's a complicated topic and I don't want to lose myself more into this than I already am. Why am I thinking about this you ask ? Well it's because of what I saw and lived through I must say. Middle school was hard and it still left a big scar on my mind. That damned confession. They didn't really need much to start making my life worse than it already was. But I've become better than that. As a loner I was able to live through this nonsense and not be picked on in High School. This the key to survive. Don't stand out, keep low profile and try to erase your very existence. But not everybody can do as well as I am. This brings me to the origin of my line of thought.

Hachiman's POV

We started our third year and everything was better between Yukinoshita, Yuigahama and I. We talked and acted about the situation we were in and we manage to avoid the status quo and go straight forward. It was a sad and hard day for all of us but thanks to this we are way close than we were before. I can finally say, maybe, that we are 'friends'. I'd really like to call them that but as a loner I know better and we all know, deep inside, that our bonds will be shattered for most because of college. Except if you all go in the same so you can make it last a little bit longer but that's not what I seek. I want something genuine. Not a fake relationship with someone that won't last.

Everything's was looking good so far. The Service Club was doing better than before, it was a new year and the last for me, I hope so at least, Math I pray you don't make me repeat a year. Isshiki was doing a very good job as the president of the Student Council. She's still a sly fox and get others to do the pack mules. Shiromeguri-senpai went to college. Hayama is not in my class but Miura is still here with Tobe and Ebina. Where are the two side characters ? Ooka and Yamato was it ? Were they even here in the first place ? Looks like they weren't here either. Not that they were bothering me anyway. Yuigahama is seated in front of me this year. I hope she won't embarrass me too much. Finally I can also see a long silver ponytail with a tint of blue in the corner of the room opposite from me. Kawasaki Saki. Not bad for a last year in Sobu but there is still this annoying bitch. Sagami Minami. This girl that I sacrificed my reputation for so that she could do her damn job. She was more serious after this day and worked harder I must say but she was still a bitch.

The only new thing so far was a new student that I never saw before. Not that I give a damn about others normally but it was not a transfer student, don't get me wrong. She came from another city and needed to finish her last year of High School here. Must be tough changing city and going in a new school for one year before going to work or attend College. You can create absolutely no bond. Groups are already formed and people won't try to invite you in their dynamics. I rectify, this is the life, this is the dream I always had. Can I change school ? No ? Well too bad... Anyway, she is the source of my line of thought...

End of POV

"Welcome to your third year in Sobu, I'm Hiratsuka Shizuka and I'll be your homeroom teacher this year. Before we start class, I'd like to introduce to you a new comrade to you. She came to finish her last year here after moving to Chiba" She said after clapping her hands to get the student's attention.

"Come."

The door was then opened and a girl of average height came in. She was avoiding eye contact while walking in front of the people in the room. Soon she was next to the teacher.

"Introduce yourself." Said the ever so cheerful Hiratsuka.

The girl was not smiling. She had a plain look on her face from the little we could see of her behind her long silver hair with a gradient making it going from silver to grey to blond, meaning she dyed her hair. Her eyes seemed lifeless but not like the eyes of a dead fish of the eyes of a corpse. More like the eyes of someone who doesn't care about anything in the world. They were empty.

After two seconds or so, she lifted up her head a little revealing her face and more of her features. She wasn't bad at all but she was 'special'. She looked like a delinquent but not on the same level as Kawasaki Saki. She really looked like a problem child in a bad way. She had a bottom lip piercing, a metallic ring on the right end of it. She had circular black earrings on her earlobes covering almost all of them. On her left ear she had three more earrings, three blacks, one on the upper part of the earlobe and one on the helix and a clip on black earring between those last two. Her uniform was too long for her on her arms. Making the sleeves go above her hands and covering them completely excluding the tip of her fingers. It was kinda cute in a way but not enough to blow away the delinquent look. She was wearing black tights below her skirt. Her hair was smooth and straight but a bit curly. Her hair was tied in a wild side ponytail letting a lot of hair free to give her a fashionable look. Longer than Yui but shorter than Miura. You could say that those feature were already a lot but the one thing that caught the attention was her eyes. She had a perfect Heterochromia. Her left eye was a light brown while the right one was green.

She walked to the blackboard and wrote her name in kanji before bowing in front of us.

Hiratsuka was looking at her with a warm smile and coughed a little to get the student's attention.

"She is Kuwahara Naho, she is in a little predicament so I hope you'll help her to find her place here. I won't tell more than needed. Well... There's an empty place on the left of Hikigaya here." She said pointing the empty seat next to Hachiman.

She nodded and walked to the seat and put her belongings on the table to be ready to work.

Shizuka sighed at the possible problems she will have to face with this student and the whispers started in the whole room. It was always the same thing when a new one appeared in the school. Some whispers were not nice ones. Those came from the corner of the room where Sagami Minami and her clique was.

"Predicament ? Not even introducing herself decently. It's like she's looking down on us ! I'll show her to show some respect later. Being an arrogant brainless bitch is not a predicament." Whispered Sagami to her friends.

They all gave Naho the odd eye.

Miura was just minding her own business. She couldn't care less after all. She was the Queen Bee. Yuigahama was intimidated for a moment at her appearance close to her and Hikigaya but she smiled quickly after and introduced herself with her intoxicating catch phrase.

"Yahallo Kuwahara-chan ! I'm Yuigahama Yui ! And this is Hikki !"

She only looked at Yui with a blank face devoid of any emotions before looking away. Hachiman chuckled.

"Must not be a riaju fan." He said to Yui who pouted as an answer.

After a little while, the whispers disappeared and time passed for the first hour of this new school year. Hachiman ignored the newcomer completely, after all, he was a loner, she was a loner, he was not good at math but this time one plus one would never equal two. Still, the class was really boring today so he decided to let his eyes wander in the room in his stealth Hikki mode. Nobody was paying great attention there. Tobe was dozing off, Miura had a hard time to stay still in her seat, she was really bored but did not want her phone to be confiscated. Ebina was having some weird facial expression while writing frantically on a sheet of paper. This scene gave a chill to Hikigaya who knew better that it was NOT related to this lesson. Sighing, he looked a little bit more before his little nap to regain his depleted energy. Kawasaki was the most serious of all, focused and well behaved.

Ladies and Gentlemen, here is the model student of the class, except she is a scary brocon who is easily flustered. Thought Hachiman.

Finishing his mental speech, the loner noticed he was being stared at by Kuwahara. She was neither annoyed, surprised, curious or anything. Her face was the face of someone who has no interest in anything in life. A face devoid of passion and life. Yet, those brown and green eyes of her gave an outstanding feeling of pressure when you were being stared at by them. Embarrassed, Hachiman gulped and decided to talk as little as possible.

"Did I said that out loud ?" He asked.

The girl turned around and picked a sheet of paper and wrote something on it. She then turned around once more to face Hikigaya and showed him the paper like it was a photo on her phone. On the sheet, only a word was written : 'Yes...'

The pressure was there when she wasn't looking away. Hachiman averted his eyes in front on him and decided to keep focus on the lesson. Suddenly a realization came to his slow tired mind.

Predicament... Sheet of paper... Word... Communication ? He thought.

"Are you-" He started to ask while turning in her direction.

He couldn't finish his sentence that he saw a little new paper on the edge of her desk with 'You guessed correctly, I'm mute' written on it.

EDIT: corrected a little mistake where I included Hayama when I said he wasn't there and wrote where the hachiman POV started and where it ends before the third person one.