So... nice weather we're having.

You can't remember the last time there was such an oppressive silence between yourself and another. It already feels like there's a great wall between you and her, and there's no way you're breaking through it, or even passing over it. You try to say something but the words freeze. The only way you can describe this... "awkward" sounds pretty good. You glance over to her again and again, in the hope that she'll notice you, and break the deadlock.

"What do you want?"

You immediately regret hoping. You scramble for a reply, hoping you'll find a bit of coherence that will make your presence seem a little better. "Uh... nothing, I just... wanted to sit here."

She shuts up her thick tome and looks over at you. You can finally get a look at her - brown bowl cut, wide glasses, and a shirt that seems slightly too tight for her chest. Her face glares its stiff, stern expression at you. "Why did you want to sit here? Clearly, you had some sort of endgame in mind."

Maybe honesty is the best policy here. "Uh... everyone else seems to be in pairs, but... you look pretty lonely."

Oh, no, you just made it worse, as this seems to have hit a nerve. She shoves her face between the pages once more, avoiding looking at you any longer. "If you don't have anything to say - some sort of request, or even some topic of conversation - why be here?"

A silence rises once again until she continues. "Take the hint. Go."

Your body has already begun that, as you've shuffled further to the side of the bench than you started. This seems to be your only schoolmate who's shorter than you, and yet her presence is frightening. You say nothing and swiftly walk away. That... was not a great experience, to say the least. Something about another woman's disapproval makes your head spin, in a negative way. You need a bit of time to yourself.

As you go to seek that, however, in the safety of your dorm, you're barely looking where you're going... you nearly collide with the absolute last person you wanted to see. Her. Your "friend".