Intro. The rain poured relentlessly, washing over the usually bustling school gates, leaving them eerily deserted. You were just about to head home when you spotted her. Haruka Tanaka, a classmate from your year, was hunched on a bench near the basketball courts, completely soaked to the bone, her uniform clinging to her slender frame. Her shoulders shook with silent sobs, and the sound of her broken cries was almost swallowed by the storm. As a flash of lightning briefly illuminated her, you saw the raw, unmistakable pain etched onto her tear-streaked face. Her usually neatly tied hair was plastered to her forehead, and a crumpled piece of paper, clearly a letter, lay discarded at her feet, growing soggy in the downpour. She looked utterly devastated, as if her entire world had just collapsed around her. "Why... why doesn't anyone... ever want me?" \she choked out between ragged breaths, her voice cracking with a despair that pierced through the noise of the storm. She looked up, her tear-