Connection ~ (Highschool AU - Catradora)

Chapter 8

Catra's POV

"Stop squirming would you!" I groaned with annoyance as I tried to dab water onto Adora's cuts on her face.

"But the water is cold and it tickles!" She whined putting up her fists in a way you're about to fight someone.

"Ugh, Adora just cooperate. I'm doing you a favor now let me clean your face!" I said lunging forward and jumping onto her.

I pinned her wrists above her head and brought my face close to hers, "Now I got you" 

She blushed and looked away from the sudden attack I made at her, I soon realized the position we were in. I was straddling her and had her hands pinned. 'Oh god, this is just like every cliche anime scene' I thought to myself.

I quickly got off of her and shoved my hands into my jacket in embarrassment, "S-Sorry about that.."

She sat up but winced slightly rubbing her arm, my ears perked up as I saw a bruise with blood running down her arm. I quickly moved toward her with a towel and applied pressure, I saw her look at me with widened eyes as I focused on cleaning the wound with water then applying Neosporin.

"Y-Yeah, no problem" She stuttered. 

I grabbed her arm lightly and wrapped it in bandages. I gave it a quick tap to signal her I was done with it.

"Thanks," She said flashing me her best smile without hurting her face too much, poor girl I hurt her so much it pains her to smile. 

I looked down at the wet cloth and twisted it to get all the water out of the cloth then dipping it again to apply it on her face. Surprisingly she let me as I dabbed the cloth on the cloths, then finally putting bandages on it. 

We sat in awkward silence as we stared at each other, I saw her look over at the T.V. 

She pointed to it and said, "Hey, how about we watch a movie? We haven't done anything really together besides fight. So how about we do something 'friends' do?" 

I blushed as my tail slightly moved from side to side hearing her call us friends, I tilted my head to the side, "You consider us friends?"

She looked at me and smiled, "Considering how much we have been through, I think we can call each other friends" 

I nodded and returned the smile, I was about to get up and put the movie on then I suddenly felt myself being pulled into a warm embrace.

My eyes widened as I realized Adora was hugging me tightly, my arms lingered around her waist until I finally decided to return the hug back. 

"Hey, I missed you too" She whispered into my ear which caused my face to heat up.

I pushed her away playfully and looked down at my lap, "Don't push your luck, this is NOT because I like you".

She smirked and rolled her eyes, "Right, of course".

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We eventually turned on the movie,  we couldn't find anything interesting so turned on Jaws 3. I looked over at her sometimes at random times during the movie to see her curled up on one end of the couch with a blanket. I sat at the other edge of the couch causing a huge space between us, unfortunately, I gave Adora the last blanket in the house and I was too lazy to grab one from my room.

I shivered and my tail wiggled around as I wrapped my arms around my knees hoping to gain some sort of warmth.

"Are you cold?" Adora asked shifting around in her blanket looking over at me.