"I see," I responded only with that. I knew this would happen eventually, but nothing could prepare me for hearing about my new life.

"I'm Kaigo Miyago and I'm sure you want to hear about where you'll be going after your visit here"—she reached into a satchel bag she had brought and pulled out a packet of paper—"but I was asked to give you this right away." She put the packet on the table. It was completely blank on the front except for the word "Assessment" in bold letters. "It's a test to see where you are academically so we can plan your education accordingly. But if you feel that you're not ready or aren't at your best since you are in the hospital, we can delay it for another time or you can take it now. It's your choice." Kaigo explained sweetly.

"I'm ready now, I suppose." I didn't think I could wait. I wanted to get all of this technical stuff over with.

"Okay, the estimated time it should take you is two hours, but you can take all the time you need. I will be here if you have any questions but I can't give you any answers that may hint you to a question. If you don't understand a question, you can skip over it to come back to later." She put a pencil on the packet and smiled. "Whenever you're ready."

I looked down at the book still in my lap and grabbed it. I handed it over to Kaigo. "I was reading this, so could you hold onto it until I'm done?" I gave her my own smile. I knew what she was thinking. What lots of people were thinking about me. I only had a nine-year-old's education and I wasn't close to the academic level of my age. So I wanted to gauge her reaction of me reading a college-level textbook.

She eyed the book a bit with wide eyes before putting her smile back on. "Of course." She took the book and placed it in her bag on her lap.

I looked at the packet and opened it. I was greeted with a question about English: "Which of the following verbs would replace the blank in this question: Are you going to _ with us?" The answer choices were (A) swimming, (B) swam, (C) swum, and (D) swim. I circled "swim" without hesitation. This is going to be a breeze. I continued and found more questions about English, basic math, Japanese grammar (which was a bit hard), and a few questions I think were meant to judge my IQ. I finished quite fast and so I decided to check over my answers. I went through it pretty quickly again. Assuming I had enough time—and partially because I was nervous—I checked my answers over again. There were maybe seventy-five questions in the whole packet.

Finally, when I was satisfied with my work, I laid down my pencil. "Done," I said triumphantly.

Kaigo looked up from her own clipboard that she was writing on. She gave me an odd look before looking at her watch. "Asuga… it's only been fifty minutes. I told you that you could ask me any questions. Perhaps you'd like to check over it?" She was actually assuming that I had skipped over many questions and that was why I didn't finish within her "estimated" time limit. Adults seem to think they know everything and kids can't function without guidance. How wrong they are. Especially with me.

"Ms. Kaigo, I checked over my answers twice and didn't leave a single question blank. I am finished." I gave her a smile of my own.

"A-alright," she said and collected the pencil and packet. "I know there is much you want to here but I am on a tight schedule so I'm going to use this extra time I have to grade this and return to my to office. The next time I will see you is most likely going to be when you have been discharged." She bowed started to leave.

"Ms. Kaigo!"

She looked back. "Yes, Asuga?"

"You still have my book," I said with a smile. She quickly opened her back and pulled out the textbook. She handed it to me almost with hesitation. Maybe it was the fact I called it my book instead of the or because I remember it.

"I thought my bag was a bit heavier than usually." She gave me another smile and we exchanged our "thank you"s before she walked out the door.

After she left, I had the rest of the day to myself. I was going to be discharged soon, I could tell. I had hardly any bandages left on me and my ankle was healing nicely. The nurse checked on me again later and confirmed my suspicions. It would either be the next day or the day after that.

By then, I checked the clock, and it was close to eight o'clock. I was feeling tired, but it was hard to go to sleep if I wasn't already exhausted. Insomnia was the problem. As I tried to fall asleep, my thoughts would consume me. Will the League find me? Do they know where I am? Would I be put in jail for conspiring with the League? Where would I go after being here? I didn't know how to get rid of them. I tried to push them out by thinking about the heart and what I had read in the textbook, but the harder I tried, the worse they got.

I sat there in my bed in a fearful state until exhaustion finally led to sleep.

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Insomnia! This is something I've wanted to include because I suffer from it. It's actually really scary and anxiety-inducing. You lay down and watch the minutes and hours tick by. The only thing that's entertaining you are thoughts you don't want to have. Yeah, it's pretty bad. Also, I bet you're wondering about Asuga's early bedtime. Yes, she goes to bed a little after eight. This will later change to about nine for reasons that will be explained later. I actually figured out that Bakugou does this too! I started freaking out when I saw that he goes to bed at like 8:30 because that was after I wanted Asuga to be like that and I automatically thought of a scene they could have together. But I'm not spoiling, so you;ll have to wait until I write it (if I write it).

Peace!