"Isn't it kind of magical?," Moon asks with a dreamy sigh as her gaze leaves the library's window to look across the table towards her study buddy. The blonde didn't seem to hear her, his earbuds firmly in his ears loudly playing some jazz music. But as Moon continued to stare at him with a prominent pout another option seemed more plausible: he was actively ignoring her, which made sense given that they did have a final tomorrow. And he, unlike her, did not give into distractions - something Moon was known to either do, or to be .

"Gladion," Moon says firmly, continuing to hope that her friend would look up to just acknowledge her presence, to hum nonchalantly, to roll his eyes at her, to dosomething. But alas all he did was continue to glance at his laptop and scribble in the nearby notebook.

Yeah, he was totally ignoring her and Moon wouldn't have that.

"Gladion, Gladion, Gladion, Gladion, Gladion-"

She could see his eyebrow twitch as she continued when suddenly he quickly looks up and sharply asks, "WHAT?" a little too loudly. Nearby students turn with scowls on their face to a look at the sudden outburst as Moon just smiles at all of them with a cheeky wave of her hand.

"Don't you think it's magical,?" she repeats in a whisper as she looks at Gladion with sparkling eyes. Gladion stares at her in utter confusion.

"What are you going on about, Moon?"

Moon gestures around the library and then towards the outside window-the campus illuminated only by the lampposts and the faint light from the moon behind the trees.

"3AM, silly!"

Her carefree declaration was something Gladion could not wrap his mind around. Here they were, supposed to be studying for their last final of the semester. A class that would either make or break their plans to graduate within four years-and all Moon could do was say something so incredibly random, so naively innocent-

"Like think about it Glads," Moon continues. "At 3AM people could be sleeping, clubbing, drinking, crying-"

"Or studying like we're supposed to," Gladion interrupts as his pen taps on Moon's unopened book. What has she been doing for the past 5 hours anyways? "Stop romanticizing hours of the day and get back to studying."

Moon scoffs at his logical approach to everything. "It's fine, sometimes being a complete nerd comes in handy. I got this!"

He rolls his eyes. "Moon, being a self-declared nerd won't get you to pass anatomy tomorrow," he mutters, his focus going back to the notebook in front of him when he hears Moon whisper a quiet "hmm, really?" only to be followed by the sound of her chair scraping the linoleum floor.

His head snaps up to see what Moon could be up to now, but he's met with her leaning over the table between them, her face only centimeters apart from his. His eyes bounce around her bright features not knowing where to stare at as he feels the heat rise to his own cheeks.

Moon didn't seemed bothered at all as a coy smile makes it way onto her own face.

"We'll see about that."

From: Moon [9:12AM]

Grades are out~

From: Gladion~ [9:18AM]

87%, but for the love of Arceus please tell me you passed.

From: Moon [9:19AM]

Hmm, what's that? I can't hear you over my 98%!