A notorious perfectionist at school, his peers see him actually forgetting his bag and failing to turn an assignment in on time as a sign that he's human after all. That he's just as normal as them. It has classmates that have never spoken to him before clapping him on the shoulder and inviting him to join their study groups. His teammates on the soccer team grin and tell him that he's got it all, brains and charm, when he tells them he's skipping the late practice because he promised his girlfriend he'd meet up with her.

Strange, how she's somehow his gateway to being as far from normal as possible, at yet more normal than he's been in years.

Just as he said he would, he waits for her at the gates to her school. His uniform gets him a lot of looks from those exiting, double takes and even one who stops to ask him if he's lost.

"No," he tells them. "I'm waiting for someone."