1] Beginnings
The first time they meet she breaks his nose. He doesn’t realize what’s happened until he’s sprawled on his back, the cold of the concrete seeping into his skin through his thin jacket. He stares foolishly up at the sky for several seconds before the pain registers in his dazed brain. The incident, as he decides to call it, lands them both in the dean’s office. His nose is stuffed with tissues that a rather unsympathetic Takashi had given him between fits of hysterical laughter, and she is slouched two seats away, steadfastly trying to glare a hole in the too cheerful poster on the opposit