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𝓟𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙪𝙚

Dolores Orphanage was really testing Reyzel's patience today. The teacher's incessant explaining. The kid behind her obnoxiously chewing on their pencil. And the fact that her quirk was rendered useless for the next 30 minutes.

Reyzel cursed the fact that- ironically- her time-manipulation quirk's biggest obstacle was time itself. Only able to skip 15 seconds into the future every 30 minutes? Seriously?

She wanted to use her time-acceleration, but the confidence she had in her puny body surviving the exhaustion of speeding up time for a whole school day was non-existent. She was stupid, but not that stupid.

...Okay, so maybe she was that stupid. Despite being against it at first, Reyzel thought about it and realised she didn't give a shit. Spending all day at the nurse's office was better than listening to an old gob teach the square root of pie.

So soon followed the consequences of her actions. The nurse had given Reyzel an ice pack and told her to stay in bed. For the whole school day, she gnawed on the ice pack out of pure boredom and complained once it gave her a stomach ache (which the nurse prescribed yet another ice pack for).

"Rey!" Auburn-hair stumbled in after the bell rung. A boy that Reyzel had been calling family since she could remember, despite different blood running through their veins. "Dude, what happened!"

"Natsu!" Reyzel groaned, noticing how the hand over his mouth tried to hide his laugh. Tangled in the blanket of her nurse-bed cocoon, her quirk-exhaustion wasn't any better, and the plethora of used ice packs were stacked up beside her in vain.

Natsu laughed at his best friend's misery. It was a sight he was used to. "You didn't learn your lesson from last time?" He grabbed the nurse's wheelie chair, sitting on it backwards and rolling up to Rey.

An uncountable amount of times Reyzel had done this before. Overusing her quirk for stupid things before regretting it soon after.

Reyzel shushed him. "Last time was only for one class," she avoided eye contact. "This time I skipped through the whole day-"

"Are you stupid?!" His guttural cackle contradicted his harsh wording. "Wrong question," he corrected, "you are." Reyzel mustered all her strength and smacked his arm, hissing at the sting of her palm. The sting worsened when Natsu didn't even wince.

He continued. "Anyway. I was planning on sneaking out tonight, but since you're... Y'know."

Their nightly sneaky outings. Rey and Natsu never missed one. Not even a nasty fight stopped it from happening. They'd meet at the same spot, and forget about it as the moonlit night carried on. They could count on each other and the escape from their puny, lonely world at the orphanage.

Reyzel waved him off. "Go without me!" Memories of their previous sneak out session resurfaced. "I don't wanna third-wheel you and that person you met at the takeaway place again." Watching Natsu and the sandwich blondie flirting was not worth getting out of bed.

"Your loss," Natsu smiled. "They make killer sandwiches, dude. Don't blame me when I get free food and you don't." He ruffled Reyzel's bed head, who stuck her tongue out.

The moon wasn't slowing its pace, and the excitement of Natsu hastened along with it. Twirling his thumbs together, his smile faded from its usual mischievousness. Obviously, he was gassed up to see his little crush. "Okay, I'm gonna get ready then!"

Rey looked at Natsu before he left. "If you're not back with a bacon sandwich I'll kill you." Natsu pulled a mighty middle finger, and goofily slammed the door on his way out. They both knew he'd get her one.

But what Reyzel didn't know was that she'd stay up all night waiting for a sandwich and a boy who would never come back.