[middle school au]

[angstennou]

Who: Teen!Nephrite and Homura
What: Nephrite helping a girl who fainted at gym class
When: ??
Where: Some middle school?


Nephrite was late to class. He had gotten in a fight with another school's bullies on his way to school again. His only luck was that this day started with P.E. class, and he did good enough at that so the professor cut him some slack. While he rushed to the field where the other boys were finishing their warm-ups, he passed by the girls' side and noticed some agitation.

Looking closer, it seemed one of them had fainted and no one was doing anything but freak out? Are you stupid or what? With a huff, Nephrite opened a path through the girls (what was easy, because as soon as they saw him they backed off) and picked up the girl to take her to the nurse.

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[braidstobows]

"I just don't want to be any trouble," said Homura softly. Although he made her nervous, it wasn't really about Nephrite, except for the fact that he wasn't Kaname-san who had taken her to the nurse on that first day, but who hadn't been there for the gym class incident.

"I was in the hospital for a heart condition," she explained, "so I'm still pretty weak." And useless. But that was a whole different issue.

[angstennou]

"I told you already that it's no trouble!" Really, she wasn't heavy and Nephrite didn't care about missing classes, so.

A heart condition? That sounds serious. "Can't you ask for being dismissed from gym class then?"

[braidstobows]

Homura shook her head. "Now that I'm well enough to attend school again, I want to participate fully."

It wasn't quite that simple. Mostly, she wanted to... well, try to be less of a waste of space. She wanted to silence the people who whispered about her difficulties behind her back. She wanted to stop being embarrassed when she didn't know the answers in class,and she didn't want anyone to have to carry her again.

[angstennou]

"You shouldn't push yourself too hard though. And school isn't fun, I'd rather do something else outside."

Nephrite might like school better if people didn't badmouth him all the time, or if he understood anything in classes, but yeah. Even when he was trying to be nice he wasn't welcome, so he wanted to try to find somewhere he fit in.

[braidstobows]

Homura glanced downward. "But..." she protested, "if I don't push myself, I won't ever become anything more than useless!"

Although it was a bit of an outburst, she meant every word. She didn't like the life she lived now, where she was dependent on so many people, unable to do so many things for herself.