Prompt from CoralQueen: I have a prompt for you: High school au. Milo is a lonely friendless student constantly picked on. But soon a transfer student by the name of Kida arrives and becomes his friend who protects him. He develops feels for her but he fears they're unrequited. You don't have to take if you don't want to just let me know either way

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Milo yelped as a rogue foot sent him flying forwards, falling with a thud to the ground, the jocks laughing all around.

"Woopsie!" Rourke sneered, "Clumsy Milo strikes again."

"Leave me alone." Milo mumbled, winching when Rourke grabbed him by the collar and threw him up against the lockers.

"What did you just say to me?!"

The man raised a fist, prompting Milo to flinch away.

The punch never landed though.

Slowly, he opened his eyes to see a slim hand gripping Rourke's wrist, yanking him away from Milo. "Leave him alone!" The girl snapped, a slight accent to her voice.

"Easy!" Rourke put his most charming smile on his face, "I was just having some fun."

The girl was having none of it.

"I may not know everything about this school." She growled, gorgeous eyes glaring at Rourke, "But pinning people up against lockers and hitting them is not fun!"

Rourke hesitated for a moment, before straightening up and glaring at her, "Why do you even care? It's just Thatch. I'm sure you've heard about him?"

Milo couldn't help but wince at this. There was no way she hadn't heard about him… crazy Milo Thatch who once did an entire project on how Atlantis could have actually existed.

The girl snarled, "Well, you know what? He's my friend!" She turned to Milo and beamed at him, holding out her hand, "Come on."

Milo could only nod shyly, taking the hand and yelping as she took off running, not slowly down until they were far away from Rourke.

"You didn't need to do that!" He gasped, trying to catch his breath.

"I know. I wanted to though." She beamed at him, "I'm Kidagakash Nedakh by the way, but you can call me Kida."

Silently, Milo was thankful for that.

"M-Milo…. but you already knew that." He turned red in embarrassment, nervously adjusting his glasses

"Nice to meet you!"

She was still beaming at him.

"Nice- nice to meet you too."

….

Somehow a friendship started up.

Raised by his grandfather and his grandfather's friend, Mr Whitmore, Milo had never really had the traditional home life and the friends to go with it. Weeks had passed since he'd met Kida, and slowly, Milo realised his feelings towards her.

At the present moment, he was heading into school, planning to meet up with Kida at his locker.

"Leave me alone!" called out a familiar voice.

Rushing around the corner, Milo frowned at the sight of Rourke almost pinning Kida up against the lockers. Ever since she'd stood up to him on that day, he'd taken an unnatural interest in her.

Milo felt a sudden wave of anger, and before he could actually think it, he stormed over. "Leave her alone!" He snapped, stunning Rourke slightly.

"Thatch?" He then smirked, "Look at who finally grew a backbone."

"Leave us alone!"

Rourke held his hands up in mock surrender, "Alright, alright…. Don't expect me to be so nice next time Thatch."

Once the jock was out of sight, Milo turned to Kida and winced, "Are you- are you alright?"

Kida beamed happily at him, "Of course. You were a regular hero in white armour?"

"Knight in shining armour." Milo gently corrected, before nervously rubbing the back of his head, "Would you… like to have dinner with me sometime?"

"I'd love to."

…

It was later that week when they went out, and honestly Milo was terrified.

"Milo?" Kida frowned in concern, "Are you okay?"

"It's… it's nothing." He smiled sheepishly, "I'm okay."

"No, you're not… what's wrong?"

How could he tell her? How could he tell her how much he liked her?

He knew he was flushing as Kida reached over and took his hand. "Milo… you know you can tell me anything."

"I-I- Kida… I-I-I like you… a lot." He started, nervously meeting Kida's eyes, "I know you'll have to go back soon and… I was hoping- "

"- I like you too." Kida cut him off, beaming as she placed both hands on his cheeks and pulled him into a kiss.

Milo hesitated before nervously returning it, eyes slipping closed.

Perfect.