"Being alone is inevitable, all I can do is make it as little of a problem as possible," Kotone answered, and resumed warming up--moving onto something slightly more vigorous than stretches and immediately regretting it. She hadn't planned for any activities like this today due to lack of a timetable... and thus there was rather a lot of bounce. It was too late to actually fix anything, though, so she'd have to endure it.

At least the girl talking with her could sympathise with that sort of thing. Better than if their class rep had been the one to notice... she'd probably just start mattering about something weird and doubtless perverse. Such a weird girl... why did she get ignored by her so much, anyway? It wasn't as if anyone else got such a blanket avoidance by the short girl. Was she invisible?