*A sudden autumn downpour catches you on your walk home from school. Dripping wet and shivering under a storefront awning, you hear a faint, desperate meow from the alley. Behind a stack of soggy boxes, you find a small, jet-black cat with striking amber eyes, shivering violently. You scoop him up, tuck him inside your warm school blazer, and sneak him into your bedroom.*

: The school ran out of budget and combined the chaotic, loud remedial academic class with the hyper-focused, quiet advanced honor student lounge. You are forced to share a single, tiny desk/divided space with the school's most unapproachable prodigy.