One sided love (DeltaRune: Susie x Noelle)

❀ Chapter one ❀

It was almost the end of the class right before lunch. Everyone looked bored as hell, and half of the students were even on their phones, texting away. Nobody even tried to hide their phone, and the teacher didn't do a thing about it. Alphys was known as the extremely shy and weird teacher, so this type of attitude from the students to her was the norm, since Alphys wouldn't be able to say anything to stop them due to her extreme anxiety. She just went on and tried to teach a science lecture to the class that bothered to pay attention. And those were a very few select students: Berdly, Noelle and Temmie all actually listened to her class while everyone else was goofing off.

Once the clock hit noon, everyone stood up which cut Alphys off from her lecture. "O-Oh, is it lunch already?" Nobody said a thing back to her and they all walked into the hallway, chatting and laughing to one another. Alphys grabbed a bag and followed them, the door shutting after her. The only students that was left was a reindeer monster, Noelle and her mysterious classmate, Susie. Not much was known about Susie and Noelle was told to stay away from her from both her mother and her peers. But that same mysterious aura of her classmate drew her in and the next thing she realized was that she wanted to learn more about her.

Her curiosity eventually developed into love. Despite never talking to Susie before, Noelle had fallen in love with this rebellious and mysterious girl. She was constantly wearing ripped jeans with a messy top and cardigan, and her hair was so overgrown and messy that it covered her eyes. She wanted to know more about her and why she dressed like that. She wanted break that cold shell of Susie's. Unfortunately, today was not the day she was going to confess her feelings to her. Noelle looked at the girl, who was sitting at the back of the class with both her legs resting up in the desk and her claws behind her head. She looked like she was most likely sleeping. Noelle took a step forward towards the sleeping girl, but stopped herself. No.. I won't wake her up. She thought.

She placed a hand on her chest, which she found was aching and took a deep breath. She found the area around her heart to be aching lately, and she didn't know why. She concluded it was the stress and worry from two things: Her love for Susie and being too scared to confess it to her, and the fact that she was gay, and too scared to come out to her parents about it.

Worries and stress tend to give one chest aches and shortness of breath, so she continued to push the feelings away. Soon, I'll do it. Noelle thought as she turned to the classroom door and opened it. Soon, I'll get rid of these worries. She walked through it and shut the door gently after herself so her classmate can sleep in peace. By the time she went to her locker to grab her lunchbox and made it to the cafeteria at the other side of the school, everyone had just finished eating and they were all cleaning up to go outside for the remainder of the lunch period. They all passed Noelle until she was the only one left in the lunchroom. She let out a small laugh. "Haha.."

I could almost hear mother ask me how my day was: "What happened at school today, Noelle?" Mother would ask me during dinner. "We learned so much during class, and I talked with all my friends during lunch!" It was the same evening routine for her everyday. She would have to lie to her parents about learning a lot during class as well as spending time with her friends.

Truth was, class was so annoyingly loud, an almost deaf monster wouldn't be able to concentrate due to the noise, and nobody had any interest in Noelle! They all had their friend groups, and who would have any interest with the shy, nerdy and un-confident girl? She would just bring them down. Noelle clutched the area around her heart again and walked over to a lone table. She sat on the seat and placed her lunch box on the top. She let out a small cough and pulled out a ham sandwich from a brown paper bag that was shoved into the small tin box. She took a bite out of it. It was plain as ever. Two pieces of bread, both lightly buttered and a piece of ham slabbed in between. Mother couldn't even put some pepper on it, huh.. The reindeer thought to herself, swallowing some food. Her throat burned a bit, and she drank some water from a water container to rinse it down.