[She never likes talking about this part and it's probably clear in the way she hesitates and even more so in the way she hold his hand just a touch tighter because she needs that support.]

I said before... that people didn't like espers, right? That applied to all of us, no matter who we were or... how old we were. Even when I was only a kid, adults thought I was... creepy.

[Not to mention the fact that people didn't hire her fellow espers to work at daycares just like they didn't allow them in certain schools, on most modes of transportation or even at amusement parks. Her expression is quiet for a moment before she takes a deep breath, shrugs and tries to smile it off.]

And I was kind of a really bad kid too, back then. I was gloomy and uncute and when Aoi-chan got here- that is, our other friend. Mine and Kaoru-chan's. When she got here, I may have sort of... bullied her. I was such a brat. All because she looked like she was happier than I was. [Though Aoi had thought at the time that she had essentially been sold to the government so her family's business could stay afloat, all because her family never told her that was not and would never be the case.]

But when Kaoru-chan got here... it was much better. She kind of... just has that way, you know? That way of loving you even when you don't love yourself... [She's said too much and coughs awkwardly, trying to wave that off.] That sort of thing anyway. She used to put on all these weird stories with our toys, making them move and doing all these different voices. She was always cheerful, no matter what.