Well, and here I was thinking today would be the same. Insults here and there, the constant talking as if I’m deaf, the teacher insisting that I'm disrespectful and ungrateful. And it was, everything was going as usual, so why did I get angry?! It’s nothing new! I guess I do have a threshold. But, even more puzzling is this girl. Why does Akita Fujimoto the class president three years running have a hold of my hand. Where is she taking me?
    It doesn't take long to get my answer as she leads me out into the school garden dome. “W-wait aren’t only staff and the garden club allowed in here?”
    “Don’t worry. I’m a member of the garden club, we’re allowed to bring people with us.”
    “O-oh, but why are you bringing me here.”
    “Because. I can see it in your eyes your agitated, but you’re also sad. I’m sick of seeing how sad you are as well as how people treat you. So I thought I’d bring you here and see if it’d cheer you up.”
    “y-you can see all that?”
    “Yeah.”
    She, she looked into my eyes?
Soon we’re at the back of the dome and she stops, looking out the glass windows at the sun bathed islands that float around in our atmosphere. They look so surreal, it’s amazing. “Wow.”
    “Pretty isn’t it?”
    “Yeah.”
    She let’s go of my hand and turns to me. Slowly I look away from the islands and to her as she stares right into my eyes. “I’m sorry that they treat you like they do, and I’m sorry that I didn’t listen to myself and try and help you sooner.”
    “W-why are you apologizing to me?” I slowly look down and away from her deep and remorseful purple eyes. “I’m just a mutt, I’m used to what they say, you don’t have anything to apologize for.”
    “A mutt?” surprise and confusion fill her voice. I look back to her as she tilts her head to the side a bit, her long chocolate brown hair swishing as she does.
“You didn’t know?”
“Didn’t know what?”
I pause for a second. “My mother is human and my father is a Wokago from the planet Nina”
“Wokago?”
“Yeah, also known as water walkers.”
She moves her head up right again her eyes lighting up. “That sounds so cool!”
“I-it is?”
“Yeah!” She spins on a heal and looks back out the glass. “To have such an interesting family sounds fun.”
I crack a small smile. “Yeah, it is.” I look back outside as well. “My mom is an elementary school teacher, and she’ll sub for teachers here.” I look down to my feet. “She fought really hard to get me in here.”
“What about your dad? does he work?”
“He’s trying. He’s been trying for years to get even a decent job, He has an amazing memory and can do so much. But no one will hire him because of his species.”
“That’s a little messed up.”
I look back to her. “huh?”
“That no one will hire your dad because of what he is.”
“You, you really think so?”
“Of course.” she looks back at me. “He sounds like an awesome person.”
“Yeah, he is.”
She turns fully so she’s facing me. “Alright, I’ve made up my mind.”
“A-about what?”
Suddenly she goes into a bow like mama when she’s apologizing or showing respect to someone like her boss or a co worker. “How would you feel about being friends? Sorry I’m not very good at this.”
“F-friends?”
“Y-yeah, I’ve been wanting to ask you for a while but I’m terrible at doing stuff like this. S-so what do you say? think we could be friends?”
A surge of emotions that I thought I’d locked away boil up inside me. Before I know it my vision blurs a bit as tears well up and slide down my cheeks. “You, you’re not kidding are you.”
She looks up at me. “Of course no- oh my gosh. are you crying? Oh no. I’m sorry!” She straightens up pulling a handkerchief from her pocket and starts drying my tears.
“Don’t be sorry, I, I just wasn’t expecting, I don’t know what to think, I, I don’t know what to say.”
“Then don’t think, what is your instinct and heart telling you to say.”
I sniff a bit and grip my shirt right over where my hearts reside. “They’re telling me that for once this isn’t a lie, that you're not just taking pity on me. And that I should say yes.”
“So?”
I smile. “Yes, I, I’d love to be your friend.”
I swear stars started spinning in her eyes as a wide smile spread across her face. “Yay!” She moves forward and wraps her arms tightly around me. “I’m so glad!”
I find myself giggling a bit as I wrap my arms around her as well. “Thank you”
I’m not alone anymore.