Sweetheart

17

Aina was attempting to complete her psychology homework, squinting in concentration.

"Habituation...decreased responsiveness toward a stimulus after it has been presented numerous times in succession. Damn that would be helpful right now."

She looked at the clock and saw that it was around 3:30 in the morning.

"I have to be up soon and I still haven't finished. What is Fernandes thinking giving all this homework to people that work all the time?"

After another half hour, Aina decided to take a break and go get a snack. She crept down the stairs as quietly as possible and grabbed a juicebox and pudding from the fridge before creeping back up the stairs. She thought back to the events that had happened and blushed before shaking the thoughts out of her head.

"Focus!"

She turned back to the worksheet and quickly filled it out before placing it back in her folder. She then took out her calculus homework.

"This should be easy. It's just the power rule again."

She was able to finish the entire set of problems in about five minutes and she sighed in relief when it was finished.

"I really must be tired if I need a calculator to do three time six."

A small giggle escaped her lips as she made fun of herself. After looking through her bag, she found her English assignment.

"I have to read fifty pages? Jesus Christ I'm never getting to bed."

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"Well good morning, salutatorian. May I say that you look like absolute shit?"

"Thanks, Luce."

"What happened, A?"

"I had way too much homework to do and I didn't get home from work until midnight. I didn't have time to sleep."

"Are you gonna be okay today?"

"Yeah I should be fine. My boss gave me the day off today so I'll just go home and take a nap after school."

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"Aina, are you paying attention?"

She snapped out of her trance and sat up straight.

"Yes ma'am."

"Can you do this problem on the board?"

"Oh right. Sorry."

She stood up and quickly solved the problem before sitting back down. The teacher thanked her and looked towards the back of the class.

"Mister Dragneel! Please pay attention."

The class turned around to see he had his head hung back over the seat with his notebook covering his eyes.

"I'm way too tired for this shit, teach."

"Nap in detention."

"Whatever you say."

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Aina sat at her usual table in the library and put her head down for a few minutes.

"Miss Labelle, don't you think it's against school rules to sleep during class?"

She looked up and glared at Natsu before grumbling and laying her head back down. He laughed and sat down next to her.

"Now now, salutatorian. You're supposed to be setting an example."

"All of you can go kiss my ass. I'm too tired to be an example."