My imaginary friend is not suited for climbing.

  Not being able to grab on to the fence seems to be a difficult hurdle for her to overcome.

  I’m pretty sure that weakness also means that she can walk right through it, but she is refusing to humor the possibility at all.

  “Can’t we just spend the break somewhere else?”

  “J-just jump.”

  “I can’t jump that high, and I think the fence being there means you shouldn’t go there.”

  Exactly, and that is what makes it the perfect spot to spend the break.

  No one else should come here, so I can be totally alone, and once I go behind that wall there I will be completely out of sight from the other side of the fence.

  The only real problem is Ami refusing to come to this side.

  “I-its the only place to be alone.”

  “I do want to be alone, it’s been infuriating how you’ve been ignoring me all day. But are you sure there is no other place that I can actually get into?”

  “Y-yes.”

  Any place that is easier to get to will be filled with smokers trying to evade the teachers, I’m lucky they haven't started coming here too.

  “Fine, but if this doesn’t work we are finding another place. Close your eyes.”

  I kind of want to see how high she manages to jump but I close my eyes as instructed anyway.

  She is having a rough day because I have to ignore her most of the time, so I guess I can humor her a little.

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  “Disgusting.”

  Did she ask me to close my eyes so she could insult me?

  “People are not meant to pass through things Mai. It was horrible, I don’t want to do this ever again.”

  Oh, she just walked through in the end, I knew it was possible.

  I probably shouldn’t bring up how she will have to do this again to get out of here.

  “I can’t believe school is actually worse than you made it out to be. I thought you were just being overly dramatic.”

  I was trying to properly convey the horrors, but it’s difficult to predict how an imaginary person will experience things.

  “I-it gets worse.”

  "At least you could actually talk to people, I had to sit there and be ignored by everyone.”

  I don’t know if it's out of kindness or she finally lost hope in me, but she seems to consider what I did back there as talking rather than just hyperventilating.

  “T-that’s not a good thing.”

  “You should at least have answered me in writing when I talked to you in class.”

  “I-it’s weird.”

  “There is nothing weird about you writing in class.”

  Well, yeah but if the girl sitting next to me in class takes a peek and thinks I’m having an imaginary conversation with myself, she will make fun of me. Or worse, try to talk to me.

  Either option ends up with me making a total fool of myself.

  “I’ll get mad if you keep ignoring me.”

  “I-I'll try.”

  Since Ami has been wearing an annoyed expression since earlier, I should give in before things get out of hand.

  She can get incredibly petty when she gets like that.

  “Don’t try, just do it. I don’t understand what the teacher is talking about so it’s been extra boring to me.”

  No one understands what they babble about, and it would have been just as boring either way.

  “How much longer do we have to be here anyway?”

  “T-twenty minutes.”

  “And then we can finally go home?”

  Oops, I thought she meant how long until the break ends.

  “F-five hours.”

  Ami’s eyes grow wide when she realizes this torture is just starting. It makes me wonder if she understands we have to come here six times a week.

  “If you keep ignoring me I will make you regret it.”

  It’s not like I want to ignore her, she is my best friend after all, but that threat adds to my motivation.

  Well, I like it best when Ami is happy anyway, so I should definitely try my best.