One sided love (DeltaRune: Susie x Noelle)

❀ Chapter two ❀

Alphys rubbed Noelle's back as she finished coughing up the flower petals. By now, most of the class was standing around the girl and teacher, watching the scene with confusion.  The teacher looked at the closest student, which was Berdly. "G-Get her water." Alphys stuttered. Berdly's face looked slightly disgusted, but he quickly forced himself to smile and act like he actually wanted to help his classmate. "Sure thing." He said as he grabbed Noelle's water container and walked out of the room, mumbling and grumbling to himself. Nobody could catch what he was saying though, but it was most likely negative things about Noelle.

Noelle finally stopped coughing and began to wheeze a bit. Her hands and legs were shaking as she did so. She felt terrified and confused to why she was coughing up flowers. This type of behavior doesn't seem like stress and it scared her even more. Alphys leaned a little closer to Noelle and spoke so no one else could hear. "I-I want to speak with you after class.." She whispered to the girl, who was now clutching her chest and panting heavily. What now? Why on earth does she want to speak with me? The girl thought to herself, but only giving her teacher a light nod since she was unable to speak properly from being out of breath. Berdly came back and handed the filled water container to Noelle. She took and and drank a bunch. Soon after that, she regained her breath and placed a hand on her knee to pull her body up. Alphys moved her hand off of Noelle's back and stood up before Noelle slowly pulled herself up. Now, she saw the entire classroom staring at her for making that scene. She guessed they were all judging her as well due to a few whispered echoing around the room.

This was the quietest the class had been.

Alphys could see how awkward Noelle looked and interrupted the silence. "Um.. how about we all continue to work on the projects, o-okay?" Some classmates exchanged whispers and turned back to their groups. Noelle guessed all the whispering was about her. However, the whispers turned to normal chatter quickly. "A-Are you alright now?" Alphys asked the reindeer, voice filling with concern. "Yes, I am. T-Thank you." Noelle still sounded like she was out of breath, but she did feel much better. Alphys slightly nodded before going back to her desk.

"Jeez, that was such a scene." Berdly stifled a chuckle before grabbing his Hamlet book off his desk. "That doesn't excuse you from getting out of this practice time. I have to get a hundred percent on this, you know!" He groaned at her and put emphasis on the I. He opened the book and flipped through the pages with his nails and ended up where the two of them left off. Noelle felt her legs still a little shaky, so she sat on top of her desk.

Out of all these monsters in this class..

Noelle began to think as she found where they left off from the book.

...I hate you the most. I hope you die.

Noelle felt like a low piece of shit for thinking like that about a classmate, but he was getting more rude as and self-righteous as time went on. "We have to start this scene again, thanks to you." He muttered out loud to himself, though loud enough for his partner to hear as he flipped a few pages back with his nails. Noelle shot daggers to the bird monster, but he didn't seem to notice. He cleared his throat and began to rehearse his lines.

The two of them rehearsed their lines until school ended. Berldy wouldn't even let her leave to go to the washroom or even take a drink of water because it would get in the way and ruin his precious mark, which made Noelle want to slap those stupid glasses off of his face. By the time school ended, Noelle's throat and chest were practically killing her from the pain of talking. School ended at three o' clock and once the clock hit three, everyone grabbed their items and cleared out of the classroom within the first ten seconds like a pack of wild animals. Once everyone left, Susie got up and left, slamming the door after herself. Noelle was still sitting on top of her desk and found herself admiring her classmate as she left the room.