"Ow!"
The sun had pierced my blind eyes. Blind to the forces that really drive our pathetic reality, until last night. I almost turned inside when I recalled something that Feferi said; it was something about seeing them that made you sensitive to light. The air was calm, the sky unclouded, so why did I feel that little pit of unease in my stomach? I did my best to keep operating as normal. My first class wasn't until noon, so I definitely had time to kill.
I stopped over at Jade's shop for a bite to eat. Her bakery and coffee shop was quite good, but she stubbornly insisted on keeping a number of assorted small mammals in there. You needed about three lint roller sheets to get the hair off of you.
" Hi Rose! Where'd you go? It's been A MONTH!" she chirped.
" Oh, that was nothing. Just a little research trip." Vagueness is always good if you don't want someone to know what you've been doing.
' Nothing? We meet every week, at least! I'm your friend, so tell me what you've been doin'!"
" I….was studying."
"Some test."
" Ha, yeah. Cephalopod anatomy is so difficult. My brain was so exhausted at the end, I had to go to the hospital so they could teach me how to breathe." When in doubt, sarcasm.
" No. REALLY. I can take you to the kitchen. The staff are all on their lunch break." Lunch break, was it THAT late?.
"Um, what time is it?"
"Twelve-thirty. You alright?"
"NO."
"You seem, a little unfocused. Something wrong?
I grabbed a random unfinished hairy pastry, and scarfed it as I ran to Marine Biology.