A rather long and exhausting school day was over now and Taiga, of course still in her school uniform, slowly strolled down the street towards home. Careful to not show anything to other passersby she let a drop of water from the rain, which was currently pouring down, float in her hand absentmindedly.
Yes, she was extremely bored with her life. No real friends meant no real adventure, no interaction with others which she so desired.
But either she is seen as too timid and shy, or as too much of a tomboy. Can't they finally decide on one thing or another? Although she much more preferred being a tomboy than being timid, it seems, she just couldn't get rid of her image she earned once. 
The rain was still drizzling around her and completely drenched her clothes, however it didn't really matter to her, no, she even liked it. As her element was water, she felt really at home in it and so she had also managed to become the school's swim team's captain.

Recently, though, a new student had joined the team who really envied her position as captain and wanted Taiga gone. Not that the new student would openly admit that, but since Taiga wasn't stupid the student's scheming obviously did not go unnoticed. It even went so far already that a few of her teammates began detesting her.
For Taiga, today had been the worst day she had experienced so far. The new girl, Heather, had went to Taiga stretching at the pool edge, then she had slapped her on the butt so hard Taiga got hurled into the pool.
A loud laugh had come from Heather then jeering "Hah, the little girl got dunked! Are you gonna cry for your mommy now? By the way, you got no real boobs and no real ass, how old are you? Ten?" Utterly humiliated and also a bit hurt from the hard impact, Taiga had climbed out of the pool, drenched but almost literally steaming with anger, she built herself up in front of Heather, which, to be fair, wasn't really intimidating due to her body size, and bellowed at the over 1.70m girl. "That's the last straw! That's it, Heather! You're dismissed! Get out of here, I don't want to ever see you again here!"

With her finger in Heather's face and her own twisted with anger she did a snap turn and walked to the waterproof folder with the team applications. She took out Heather's application and then a big red marker writing a big "FIRED" onto it. Then she repeated what she had said earlier just in Japanese and a little more offensive. 「退部しろクソヤロ！もうここに顔を出すな！」[Taibushiro, kusoyaro! Mou koko ni kao wo dasuna!]
However, the rest of the team resented her for that, especially since a lot of the girls rather liked Heather, so Taiga called it quits for the day and retreated into the cabin, without even doing any real practice today.

That's when it started raining and she just went for a walk down the street instead of taking the bus. She also now spotted a café she hadn't seen yet and thought to herself <<It's a shitty day already, why not go for a coffee or something...>>
So she crossed the street and slowly entered the cafe, careful not to wet everything with her dripping clothes and waited on the counter.