The first thing that Gogo noticed was the wetness below her lips and on her chin. Sitting up with a groan, she looked down at the pile of papers below her. Part of them were drenched wet, and the others were a pile of hastily written notes next to margins full of messy doodles.
"Sleeping beauty finally woke up," a voice suddenly said. It was followed by a laugh.
Gogo blinked for a moment, and then finally recognized the voice. Sitting beside her was Honey, her bangs slightly blocking her eyes, and her face turned down towards her own notebook. It was full of neat, loopy handwriting, and the page was gradually filling with more and more.
"What happened?" Gogo put a hand to her face and wiped away the drool, before using both of her hands to wipe the sleep out of her eyes. Even then, the world was still a blur in her eyes.
"Isn't it obvious? You fell asleep." Honey's tone was casual, and she wrote while she spoke. "I tried to wake you up, but you were out cold. You had been asleep for..." She paused, looking down to the bubblegum pink strapped watch on her wrist. "Thirty-two and a half minutes, not counting the time that I've been talking to you. That makes you that much more behind on studying for your chemistry final."
Gogo groaned. Her nap had been an unexpected but blissful break from the notebook below her.
"While you were in dream land, I made some flash cards." She picked them up from her desk and shuffled them. Gogo didn't see much more than a few swirling letters. "How about we take a break over looking at notes and just use these? It'd be nice to try something different."
Gogo groaned.
"Hey, whether you like it or not we have to study for this." She reached out, putting a hand on Gogo's shoulder and giving it a firm squeeze. A rush of heat ran through Gogo's skin, and she had to look down to her hands. Inside, her heart raced and her stomach fluttered. "You need to especially. You won't get a good grade by doing nothing."
"Yeah, yeah, you've said the speech a million times before." For a moment, she almost wanted to lay her head back down and go to sleep again. "You don't need to waste any more time saying it to me again."
Honey chuckled. "Alright, I won't." She held a flash card up and grinned. "But hey, at least this cloud has a silver lining."
"Uh, what?" Gogo raised a dark eyebrow.
A smirk crossed Honey's thin lips. "Oh, I thought you would know."
"Know what? Is this something else about the final?"
Honey shook her head. "No, it's just something to think about. Since you fell asleep and are behind on studying, you'll have to stay a little later at my house tonight."
Gogo returned the other girl's smile. "I never thought of it that way."