Before starting, Lulu had worried that everyone would be hard to get along with.
She worried she wouldn't make any friends.
She worried she would always be alone.
She worried...
She worried about so many things.
But after she really started kindergarten...
She found everything was much better than she'd imagined.
She made a very good friend on her first day.
Everyone else was nice, too.
Though her personality kept her from talking much with the others,
they still called on her whenever something came up.
Whenever she ran into trouble, they helped her.
She was timid and afraid to answer the teacher's questions, so the others would joke around to put her at ease and cheer her on.
She liked kindergarten.
She liked her class.
She liked Anna.
She liked her other classmates.
She liked her teacher...
But when she went to kindergarten that morning...
she immediately sensed that something was off in the classroom.
She learned what had happened.
She couldn't believe it.
Her first instinct was to believe Anna.
She didn't think Anna would lie.
Anna had never lied.
But when she saw how worked up her classmates were...
she didn't dare speak up.
She was a little angry with herself for being so timid.
And a little used to it.
That was just the kind of person she was—so timid.
She didn't even have the courage to change.
Anna, alone against every other student in the class...
Choosing...
It didn't seem as hard as Lulu had thought.
Lulu didn't want the other students in her class to reject or isolate her.
Though she couldn't bear to be without Anna...
without Anna...
there were still other classmates who talked to her.
They wouldn't deliberately ignore her.
She wouldn't be at the center of