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It was a normal usual day for Rubbery, get up, brush hair and teeth, walk to school, be lonely, cry, listen to Taylor Swift, sleep or don't, and repeat.

She was walking to school like usual but then she noticed someone walking with her.

"Um, hi?" the girl says to him.

He doesn't say anything.

"Of course he doesn't want to talk to me, first people make fun of me as a joke then people don't ever ever want to talk to me again. Things have never been the same.

"Oh uhh hi?" He says to her. "Sorry didn't hear you."

"Oh no don't be sorry! You're fine!"

"Ok. I'm Putty."

'Rubbery!'

And after that interaction they both kept walking.

Then again after they went into the school Rubbery walked the halls and of course she got called by boys things  But then again she just ignored it even though she hated it and wished for her life it would stop but no. The last time she tried to make people stop didn't do anything and the only thing they did was they just teased and did it more often. 

Thankfully Putty had no idea what was going on because they have completely different classes at the other side of the school because they are a grade apart which Rubbery being in 10th and Putty being in 11th.

What made it much worse is that no one would do anything about it because they would just get you in trouble or just blame you and call you 'distracting' which was extremely untrue and was clearly happening to Rubbery and her parents surely did nothing about it. 

When the last bell rang she was so excited to get out of this living hell she is in so she quickly grabbed her bag and things and walked fast out of there.

While she was walking home she was thinking to herself “Hm. How did someone talk to me when no one ever cares about me?” “Weird.” She kept walking acting like nothing was wrong.

She got home and immediately went to her room. She looked out the window of her bedroom and gazed at the sky. 

Then she heard her phone ring.

”He-Hello?” She said softly 

“Rubbery? It’s Cuppy, can you hang out with the group today? We’re going somewhere.” Cuppy said through the phone.

”Sorry I can’t, I am really busy sorry.” She was not busy.

Rubbery felt extremely awful. She lied to her friends, she doesn’t want to do anything. She doesn’t want to do anything anymore at all in her life at the moment.

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After the next bell rang Rubbery got up and went to her locker. While she was at her locker she noticed a group of people coming up to her. It was...Picture, Knifey, and Cuppy?! What were they doing?

"Hey, Rubbery?" Cuppy said anxiously

"Yeah? What's going on?" the young girl asked

"We think you shouldn't be apart of our friend group and be friends with us." the other girl said.

"What?!" Rubbery said confused.

"Yeah. Sorry." Cuppy said while they were walking away.

Oh.

Oh.

The poor girl was still processing what was going on, did her friends actually like her?! And if they did why did they just leave her like that!?

She started to develop tears in her eyes then the next thing she did was to just run to somewhere she can cry and be alone.

She found herself in the library with tears rolling down her cheeks she was in a hard to find corner just doing nothing except balling her eyes out.

It's been a half and hour and she is still in the library, her eyes red and her hair is all messy.

A voice called out "Rubbery?" Who said that? Everyone probably hates me or doesn't care about me at the moment or forever she thought.

Then someone walked up to her with a worried expression. It was..

Putty?! Why would he care?! He has better things to do with his life right now other than care about her.

"Yeah?" the girl said sniffling, her cheeks were red and hot and she was holding it together because she didn't want to burst right into tears right in front of her best friend. 

"What's wrong?" Putty asked while kneeling down to reach Rubbery's level

Rubbery sniffed and took a breath. "My friends just left me and now everyone probably hates me."  

"It's going to be okay." he said as he moved Rubbery's hair behind her ear.

As he said that Rubbery gave a weak smile at him.

”Well what do I do?” She said with less tears in her eyes now.

”We’re going to figure it out together. I’ll always be by your side.”

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Rubbery was lying awake on her bed staring at the ceiling. Thinking. Thinking of how she broke down and cried in the library for a half an hour.    And how Putty was the only one who cared about her in the whole world right now.

“I mean he is the only person I care about and he cares about me all the time.” She says to herself.

It was 2:13 am she just couldn’t sleep. Instead she was thinking about Putty. 

"I just can't stop thinking about him." the girl says

The very next day goes by and the only thing she is looking forward to go to school is to see Putty. Just him. No one else in the whole universe right now because no one has been so special to her until now.

But shall that feeling will never exist, she thinks to herself laughing. Laughing when she is secretly dying on the inside. She doesn't tell anyone because she doesn't want to feel like she is bothering everyone she talks to. That's why she is really quiet.

"I don't know why I but I feel this certain type of way when i look or think about Putty." she says in a dreamily voice in a whispering tone to herself while she was getting ready feeling excited. She never felt this way for a long long time. 

She looked up at the clock and noticed the time. "7:15...7:15-shit I'm gonna be late." She said to herself while grabbing her bag and heading out the door.

As she was walking her face lit up. She saw Putty! She almost ran to him when she saw him. 

When she caught up to him she said "Hi!" She was never in her whole life been this happy before.

"Hi!" he said back with a smile on his face.

"You look happy today." he said still with a smile on his face.

"Yeah, just excited to see you!" she said genuinely. 

As she said that she started to blush. After she noticed she quickly turned her head away so he couldn't see it.

"Your cute." he points out. 

The girl didn’t notice but was slightly blushing as she gave a smile. 

“Was h-he flirting?!” She thought to herself.

Putty looked at her and adjusted his glasses.

Putty mostly wore contacts but today he decided he would wear glasses.

After the next bell rang she went to her next class. "Chemistry." she read to herself.

She sits down in her seat and notices Putty sitting across from her 

“Fuck.”