2-Chapter 10: June V June V1The next day began a peculiar lifestyle at North Yomi.It was unpleasant at first, obviously. I knew the answer to How could they? but only felt all the more out of place and rebellious. Intellectually, it was understandable, but emotionally I couldn’t accept it. Every single person in the class, including the teachers, treated Mei and me as if we didn’t exist. In response, Mei and I acted as if every single person except the two of us wasn’t there. What a twisted, unnatural situation.Still, no matter how warped or unnatural, gradually people get used to the situation they find themselves in. Since the rules were crystal clear, I would even say it was a couple steps up from how terrible I’d felt at my last school. As day after day went by, I started to see that things really might not be that bad, and that idea started to win out.It’s not so bad…I mean, compared to the unsettled situation of only a few days ago when the “what?”
