"...and so there I was, in the frozen wilderness, surrounded by an army of saber-tooth grizzly bears, completely nude! My only option was to beat one of them to death with my bare hands, ho ho no pun intended, and use its skin to provide me warmth!" Port said, puffing his chest out in pride. "Thankfully the cubs saw me as the Alpha in the pack, so they obeyed my every command and brought me food whenever-"
"Um, that's cool and all," Ruby hesitantly interrupted. "but my question was, what page of our textbooks do we need to turn to?" Port paused for a moment, cleared his throat and quickly changed the subject back to Ruby's question.
"Yes, so as I was saying, please turn to page 822 of your textbook. Today we learn about which parts of a Goliath Grimm are edible and which are not and will lead to nightmarish diarrhea. Believe me, speaking from personal experience, this is not a mistake you wish to make! Now, when faced with a Goliath, you must blah blah blah..."
Port droned on as Pyrrha flipped open her textbook. She was barely paying attention to any of this, as her eyes had been focused on Jaune's new haircut. His usual golden blonde messy tangle had been neatly trimmed and it made him look even more handsome than usual. In fact, Pyrrha was so distracted that she failed to notice the corner of her textbook and sliced her thumb with a nasty paper cut.
"Ow!" she said, instinctively drawing her thumb back to suck on it. A slow trickle of blood began to ooze out and she sighed, ready to raise her hand to be excused to the nurse's offices. But then something extraordinary happened - Jaune took her hand in his. "Jaune...? What are you d-doing?" she stammered.
"Check this out! I finally discovered what my Semblance is!" he beamed proudly. He focused carefully on the cut, as Pyrrha's hand began to glow a light shade of blue and the sharp, stinging pain of the papercut began to fade away. In fact, Pyrrha watched in amazement as the papercut slowly closed up and her finger looked good as new. "TA-DA!" Jaune said with flourish normally reserved for a hacky stage magician. "Pretty cool, right?"
"Yes, that is...pretty cool..." Pyrrha said blushing. The gears were starting to turn in her head and a slow smile spread on her face.
"And so you see class, when you add the chemical element known as Yasdnil at EXACTLY 100 degrees with warm tap water, you will see the water NEUTRALIZES the acidic nature of the previous composition!" Oobleck ranted, scrawling on the chalkboard with the ferocity of a crazed sniper writing their manifesto. Now Pyrrha was familiar enough with Yasdnil to know the proper methods to handle it, but a little splash here wouldn't hurt, especially if it got the results she wanted.
"AH!" she yelped, as the few spots that touched her skin began to sizzle. "Oh it burns, it burns..."
"OH MAN, hold still!" Jaune said, quickly grabbing Pyrrha by the arm and focusing his Aurora on it, letting his Semblance do its work and heal her fried skin. She felt the same calming waves rush over and soon her skin was back to normal. She exhaled softly, feeling like she was coming down from a sugar high.
"Thank you, Jaune. I appreciate that" she said, trying her best to hide the smile that was spreading to her face. She wasn't exactly keen on the idea of hurting herself over and over, but a few "accidents" here and there would be perfect for an excuse for any kind of physical contact with Jaune.
And indeed, for the rest of the day, she 'bumped' her head on Nora's hammer, 'tripped' over Sun's tail and even asked Penny for a hug. The injuries were nothing serious, but Jaune was there each time, eager to show off his newly discovered Semblance and heal his 'best friend'.
Best friend.
Oh, how she hated that phrase, though she would never say it to his face. In truth, the physical contact was amazing, but he was doing it with the sense he was helping a friend, nothing more. And the truth killed her.