My grades were normally average, but I surprisingly took first place in English this time.
Just as the teacher praised me, Arden showed up at the classroom doorway.
The whole class burst into loud excitement; nobody cared about my result anymore, and everyone stared at him.
“Wow, our school actually has such a good-looking boy!”
“You fool, he must be new here, or we would’ve seen him earlier!”
Only then did I understand that he was now Calliope’s neighbor and soon also my classmate.
What I did not expect was that when choosing seats, Arden picked me.
“Rayne, you’re the only boy I know here, I’ll rely on you.”
“I know you and Calliope are close. Can you both take me along?”
He smiled like a gentle winter sun. And I… couldn’t think of any reason to say no.
From that moment, another person stepped into the place that once held only Calliope and me.
I didn’t have many classmates close to me, and after Arden came, people around us began to say Calliope, and he was the right pair, even though the girl who liked someone was Calliope liking me.
“School beauty with school prince, why is Rayne squeezing in?”
“Who knows, maybe a frog dreaming of a swan.”