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Pina walked out of the bathroom, shaking and tearing up. She felt her wrist be tugged back by something and she squealed, " P-please, Aya... I really don't want to get into a fight... I..." She was a little startled when she heard Espio's voice.

" I thought I heard you yell. You... Where in the bathroom... I was wondering if you were being bullied or if I need to piss off." There was a bit of nervous humour in his voice. Pina turned to look at him, " A... Are you being sarcastic..?" Espio tilted his head, " W-what? No... Your face is red... You were being bullied, weren't you?" Pina nodded a little slowly, " I... Guess... But... They were telling the truth... So it wasn't bullying..." Espio frowned and held his arms out, encasing Pina in his embrace, as he wasn't sure how else to deal with this situation. Pina's response took him aback, she didn't push him away, but rather threw her arms around him and started wailing. The bell rung, and Pina apologized for being so inappropriate.

" It's fine... Come on, let's get to class. If those girls pick on you again, come tell me and I'll fix it. I promise." He smiled and began walking.

" Th... Thank you..." She toddled after him before he turned around as he continued walking and held out Pavi.

" Do you know who this belongs to? I found it on the ground when I walked out of math..."

Pina stared at the rabbit a little embarrassed. She looked away without responding. Espio smiled, " Pina... If it's yours, you don't have to be embarrassed. It's cute. " He chuckled and gave it to her. Pina looked at it and smiled, " Th... Thank you..." She mumbled as they walked into class. The teacher was also female.

Blond hair, pulled into pigtails. She looked extremely young for what you'd expect of a teacher, with short, yet modest clothes and lots of ribbons. She gave a disappointed frown. Her pink and orange eyes shut with a sigh, but she reclaimed her smile and gestured her hands to the class and then at the board, " My name is Aminka Rilla. You may call me what you wish, as I am not too many years older than you. Everyone at the moment is socializing, drawing, playing their phones, watching the movie... Etcetera." Aminka smiled.

Pina nodded and smiled, Espio smiled, " Thank you, Ms. Aminka." He sat down at a table with no people and instantly the table flooded with the same girls that had bothered Pina before she could sit down. Aya looked at her, " Oh, I'm sorry, but I'm sitting here. You can go sit at that table alone, it seems like you have all of your friends gathered over there." She grinned and the red haired girl that is part of her crew snickers," Oh, Aya, she shouldn't sit at a table. She should be sitting in one of the guys' laps, like a good whore." Aya snickered at the comment, " Ruby, why don't we just leave her in the trashbin? That seems appropriate... " Ruby smiled, as well as a blue haired girl that Pina had heard someone in the bathroom whisper something of disapproval to her, referring to her as " Topaz." She couldn't make out who was whispering, but she figured it was the girl who looked depressed with their jabs.

Aya stood, as well as Topaz and Ruby. Aya pretended like she was standing and stretching, walking around to loosen up as Ruby and Topaz grabbed Pina's arms and dragged her outside. Pina squealed, " Wh-what are you doing..!? This is-- AHH! " They dumped her head-first into the trashbin as the janitor walked away. Too bad it was empty, but the bag collapsed onto Pina and her head was hurt. They tied the bag around her ankles and Aya gave a snide laugh, " I hope she chokes. They walked into the room as Pina was trying to get out. Espio stood when he saw Pina was gone, he was pre-occupied talking to a red haired male. He walked to the front of the class and cleared his throat, " Ms. Aminka... I believe there is need for punishment and assistance."

She looked up from the papers she was sorting, " Oh? What happened? I promise I will bring down necessary disciplinary actions." Espio nodded, " I believe Aya and her group have done something with Pina, though I am not exactly sure what. I'm afraid they might have hurt her..."

" No! Unacceptable behaviour! I will not tolerate bullying! Aya! Topaz! Jade! Ruby! Come here this moment!"

Aya turned around with an annoyed eye as she muttered something to the group and all but Jade began snickering. " Yes? "

" Where is Pina?"

" I don't know... I saw her go to throw something away, maybe she went to the bathroom."

" Go to the office. All of you. Come on, Espio. " Aminka began out the door after the group left. Espio followed Aminka and immediately they rushed to the trashbin. Espio pulled the body out of the bin as Aminka pulled off the trash bag, " Pina? Are you alright? " They both asked, worried. Pina's face was a pale blue from suffocation in the bag and tears ran down her face as she passed out. Espio picked her up and Aminka looked worried, " Come on, come on, we need to see the nurse!" Espio nodded and followed her down the hall, walking into a room that he had seen only when he was running errands for teachers in junior high. He set Pina down on one of the white beds and stood beside Aminka as she talked to the nurse.

The nurse nodded as they left, " Thank you! "

Espio followed Aminka back to " History" and sighed, " I hope they get punished to the fullest extent... She might have died!" Aminka nodded and sighed, " I do, too. Ugh, poor girl... " Aminka sighed as they entered the classroom and the bell rang. A girl with dark red highlights among black hair stood and walked to Aminka and Espio, her ben drowned backpack slung over her shoulder, " Is Pina alright? What happened?"

Aminka sighed, " The nurse said she may have major injuries in a worse case scenario, since she has a low-iron deficiency, the upside down motion made her faint, and will probably make her sick for a few hours, but the suffocation was serious. She was breathing slowly as we left, with trouble, but I think she'll be fine." She walked to her desk, " We're going to visit the infirmary after school to see how she's doing, you just come to my room if you want to tag along. Go ahead and get to class, okay?"

Espio and the red haired girl nodded, as the last person walked out with them, the same one that was talking to Espio earlier. The red haired girl looked at Espio, hoping that the boy would overhear, " I'm Flame. I met those girls a week before school started when I was helping the teachers. I almost got in trouble from their bullying because of Ruby's resemblance to me. Jade's not that bad, really, she doesn't support bullying at all, but she always seems to be in their group. I think Topaz is her sister."

Espio nodded, " I'm Espio. I think they need to be punished, especially Aya..." He took a small moment to think about the girl and shook his head, " Do you know Pina?" Flame looked away for a moment and then looked at him again, " Our fathers did some work together once and I went to her mansion. It was very far away. Japan or Russia. I think she lives in an inne down the street. She was never allowed to leave her room... She may have escaped."

Espio nodded, " Are you going to visit her after school?" Flame responded to his inquiry with a nod. They pushed open the door to the Language Arts class and a male with black, red, pink, green, and blue neon coloured hair turned to look at them with eyes like fire, one black and one completely white with no pupil. He gave a smile with pointed teeth.

" Espio... Pina... Flame... And Knux? Is that right? There are only 3 of you..."

Espio stuttered a little, " Pina's in the infirmary. 3 of your other students are in the office."

" So I've heard. Well, you are my last class of the day, and I have three classes... And so that means I have three languages every year for teaching. We're going to take a vote." He wrote on the board.

1st hour- Icelandic & Igbo & Dutch
2nd hour- Russian & Italian
3rd hour-

" Since our 'hour' is actually 3 hours, thanks to the school system's 14 hour day, we can have more than 1 languages, limited at 3 max." The teacher stated. " My name is Hisoka Kurigane. You may call me Hisoka."