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Shortly after Honey joined the team, the instructors started pushing Roseanne more and more into special classes for advanced skills and leadership. At the moment she was top pick for the position of captain of the expedition. That meant that she had to get up an hour before everyone else for special morning training. Her whole schedule was also shifted to the point where she only really got to see the team, and more importantly Raven during their homework sessions together. Instructor Violet, who was their group's head instructor, said it would only be for about ten weeks. And those weeks felt eternal to Roseanne.

She had special classes and special tutoring sessions all by herself, while Raven was stuck with the others. Roseanne knew she and Raven weren't at all exclusive, not that romantic relationships were even allowed in the Garden. They were just friends. But it had taken the first few days without him for her to come to the realization that she had a crush on him. It had started out as a friendship when they were children, but now that they were older and were spending all that time together, her emotions took a turn. She knew she wouldn't act on them, and she knew neither would he for the duration of their training or their time in space. She just wanted to spend time with him and let their relationship grow. Perhaps, upon their return and if he turned out to feel the same way, they could start something.

Roseanne had confessed those feelings to her room mate Scarlet after the first week of her special training away from the group. Scarlet had promised to keep her lips sealed and not tell a soul about it. Roseanne didn't even know that her so-called friend had told Ciel of her crush back when she had been crushing on him. Now they were getting along again. Scarlet always seemed to act nice whenever she and Roseanne were alone. But whenever they were with the rest of the team, she always had to pick on her room mate. If it wasn't about her looks, it was about her hair, her clothes, or the stereotypes about her province. Roseanne merely sat there and took it quietly, with the occasional come back here and there. Raven continuously told Roseanne that Scarlet wasn't her friend. If she were, she wouldn't be treating her the way that she did.

Friends didn't treat friends that way.

The following Monday after Roseanne went away for her special leadership classes, she returned to her dorm to leave her bag before heading for breakfast. Normally she headed to breakfast without her backpack in the mornings. But since now she had a class before breakfast, she had to go back to her room to drop off her things. She had physical training after breakfast anyway, and her physical training things were in her locker in the training building. 

As she turned the hall onto her floor and walked towards her door, a smile touched her lips at the sight of Raven. She hardly saw him anymore and there he was. But her smile soon turned into a look of confusion when she saw his expression turn into a look of horror, and the door opened to reveal Scarlet in her red pleated skirt, white button up, red blazer, and red shoes. "Ready for breakfast when you are." She grinned at him happily, and he was frozen in place, not looking at her but at Roseanne who had stopped a few feet from the door, also frozen. That was when it all fell into place and it all dawned on her. 

Raven wasn't there because he was waiting for her like he used to. He was there because he was waiting for Scarlet. Her friend's expression turned into a victorious grin for a fraction of a second before it dropped into a fake look of pity.

"Oh my gosh, Roseanne!" She said with a gasp, and Raven still stood there motionless as though his soul had left his body. "I thought you were at your special training thing."