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Haruna hates those girls at the back of the class.
Reasonably, they should clash together. They're all too different from each other, apperance and personality wise. Someone as tacky as Mika, who treats school like it's some kind of fashion show and always wears ridiculously bright makeup and those stupid accessories thinking it makes her prettier, who says 'darling' and 'sweetie' in a stupid annoying voice all the time shouldn't be happy to talk to someone like Natsumi, who wears makeup to make herself look a like freak from the outside too, who's hair is always half covering her face anyways, who speaks so flatly yet does so at the most startling of times. And that's just one example. No one in friend group is like the other, but somehow they like each other.
Which, in Haruna's eyes, is absoloutley bullcrap. Friend's shouldn't be completely different from each other! Umika got that through her head. Tsumugi's a complete ditz but even she's not even as ridiculous as those girls.
Akemi doesn't wear ridiculous makeup, thank goodness, but she still decides to pull her stupidly long and curly hair up into those childish pigtails and wear her stupid handmade flower accessories. Thankfully she's pretty shy, but if you're stupid enough to bring up nature or environment around her there's no shutting her up. Who even cares that much about the environment these days, when there are more important things to think about?
However, at the very least most of those girls put effort into their apperances. Mikako and Yoko are a different story.
Actually, Haruna is convinced Yoko does put effort into her apperance, just to make herself look as terrible as possible. She rolls up her pant legs (and why pants in the first place? Why not actually dress like a girl?) and wears sneakers that are most definitley not within school regulations, wears blue and blacked stripped gloves, keeps her long blue hair messy and wild and barley seems to brush it. Her glasses are clearly barley being held together with tape. It's as loud and tomboyish as she acts. She clearly thinks she's better than all the other girls at school, and all because she decides to dress like a boy instead! She has the gall to sit with girls who are so feminine, and yet she clearly looks down on feminity herself. She hasn't said so, but Haruna knows it.
Mikako, meanwhile just seems to barley brush her hair, stick a hair clip in, and call it a day. She's so plain compared to her friends that it loops right back to her annoyingly standing out. She's smart at the very least, and Haruna could almost respect her if she actually did something with it. If she wore just a little bit of makeup (makeup that looks natural while still making you look pretty, like the makeup Haruna herself wears, not in the weird or tacky way those other girls do so), smoothed out her hair, covered up those ugly scars of hers, straightened her posture and spoke more charismatically, she could really be someone. Haruna thinks they could even be good friends if they did. But she doesn't, and that frustrates Haruna to no end. Mikako is just as bad as her tacky, stupid friends for that.
But Mikako doesn't make Haruna nearly as angry as Aisha does.
Aisha Harrods walked into the classroom one day, with her silly pink bows and pink backpack and a sickly sweet British accent and said she'd hoped she could be friends with her classmates, all while acting nervous. Haruna saw right through her, of course. Aisha would play the part of the sweet new girl, and then...well, Haruna wasn't entirley sure what she'd do after that, but she knew no one would want to be friends with a girl like Aisha. She'd been smart that day, placing her bag next to her chair so she wouldn't have to sit next to Aisha. Umika and Tsumugi had found it amusing, giggling behind her, and Haruna knew they understood too.
But of course those stupid candy coloured girls at the back of the class had taken her in. Glared at Haruna and offered Aisha a seat with them, one that stupid new girl gladly took with a smile. Haruna can't say she's suprised those complete losers were so quick to want yet another misfit into their friendgroup.
But it wasn't fair that Aisha made friends so easily. Haruna had spent her whole life building up her reputation, making herself into the perfect and proper girl she is today. She'd followed her parents advice throughly. She'd worked to make people admire her, want to be her, respect her, fear her even. She'd kept Umika and Tsumugi in line, made sure they knew exactly who she was and who they were going to be with her. And yet Aisha waltzed into the classroom and gotten a friend group before they even knew her.
Really, who can blame her for being less than kind to those girls? It's their own fault for making themselves into misfits, making themselves stand out like that. The insults and remarks Haruna throws at them are only the truth, and that's why they get so annoyed when they hear it. Umika and Tsumugi agree with her. They rarely disagree with her.
Though Umika and Tsumugi aren't perfect themselves. Umika will sometimes get a little too bold, sometimes thinking she's the one in charge, and so Haruna has to remind her of her place. Tsumugi is sweet, but she's flightly and can say stupid, stupid things sometimes. She'd be lost without Haruna. But she knows her loyalities, and so does Umika at the end of the day. That's all that matters to Haruna. She doesn't need them, per say, but they're useful to keep around.
There are rare moments - though she'd never admit to them - where she does wonder how those candy coloured girls seem so happy with each other. Haruna hates them and how silly they act half the time, but they seem so unafraid of how people view them. Haruna's spent her whole life making sure she's viewed the way she wants people to veiw her, but those girls don't seem to care. Sometimes she wonders how it would be if she was like that.
Of course, she always brushes off those thoughts as ridiculous. Having them is her only flaw, really. If she were like those girls, she'd be annoying, just another clown at school. And she's better than everyone else at school. She's perfect.
Haruna Dante knows she's better than those Candy Coloured Freaks.