Silvia Bell was 20 years old, a psychology major in college who had come to the high school to simply study it's students for her quarter final project late in the summer. For her thesis, originally it was going to be on the student body as a whole, until she noticed an odd pair. A red haired boy in a baggy, turquoise hoodie and a black haired boy in a funny looking purple hat, who on first glance saw the latter kiss the other's hand before they parted ways. It wasn't that, however, that got her attention, it was what she overheard after the boys were a good distance away.
"Are those two dating yet?" "Don't think so, Seto would be blushing more if they were I bet." "Oh come on…how many years has it been now?" "Why're you asking me?" "Because you've known them for, like, forever." "I dunno, middle school maybe? Crow was always like that with Seto anyways."
Silvia quit eavesdropping on the conversation and started walking again, thought after thought passing through her mind, and when she saw the pair again she asked them if she could watch them during school, for a college paper she told them. The boys agreed, and Silvia called her professor, telling him that she was changing her thesis.
The week passed slowly, and soon the lavender haired student had gotten used to the boys schedules. They had five total classes, only two of which they shared and they shared the same lunch. She also noted that Seto shared three of his classes with a girl they were friends with named Ren, and in one of those classes all three were there, and in another it was Crow and Ren. On the first day of her studying the pair, she had watched Seto. She had seen how in class with only Crow, he was animatedly happy, with only Ren he deflated a little, with both happy again, and alone her was very quiet and only spoke when spoken to first. However during lunch he seemed to completely perk up with Crow there, but not Ren (who was in class).
The next day she took to following Crow throughout the day. Much like Seto, Crow changed depending on who he was with in class. With only Seto, he would talk until yelled at by a teacher then fall to whispering and laughing. When it was just Ren, they didn't speak much but he kept up a good attitude, still talking when he wasn't supposed to only to get glared at by the silver haired girl, she found out from Ren's explanation that he had been making snide comments all through class. With both Seto and Ren, Crow got a detention on the first day Silvia was studying him but didn't seem at all deterred by it, but when he was completely alone a few classes later he was suddenly making all kinds of rude comments towards people who may or may not have deserved it. Like Seto, he was completely back to normal at lunch, and on the next day she followed him she noted that whether he got detention or not, if he was in class without Seto he got a nasty attitude.
On the fourth day, Silvia asked Ren if she could borrow her for a little while during one of the classes she did not share with either boy, the girl answered yes with no questions, and ended up borrowing a science teacher's room by request of Ren (who oddly called the teacher PF), when PF(?) heard it involved Crow and Seto she agreed.
"You've noticed it too, haven't you?" Ren asked, leaning her elbow on the desk she sat at, eyeing the older woman calmly. "The way Crow and Seto act around each other?"
"And without each other, and with only you." Silvia clarified, hearing a chuckle from PF at the main desk up front, and seeing a mildly annoyed look now on Ren's face, only for a brief second "If its them alone, or with you added in, they're very energetic and happy…among other things. However if one is alone with you, his attitude changes just a bit, but put one of them completely alone and they seem like completely different people."
"Have you found anything else, Miss Bell?" Silvia turned to look at the silver hair teacher (she didn't look old, was her hair dyed?).
"Honestly, they seem the happiest together. They act like lovers almost, though by what I hear them and students who know them say, I know differently."
"No, you wouldn't be too far off. They're in love, they're just blind to it." Ren said, looking completely serious. The bell rang signally the next class, and Ren left, leaving Silvia to her thoughts as she watched the boys interact during lunch and part ways after. And Ren had a point…maybe the boys were just completely blind to it?
Her week school week with the group of friends ended, and she went back to her college, contemplating how exactly she would make her notes into a respectable paper. She stayed up late in her dorm, finally driving her roommate Sai to ask what the hell was wrong, and when Silvia didn't answer she stole a peek over her shoulder, looking at the lap top and then at notes scattered around her desk.
"Wait, you weren't studying Crow and Seto from Moon High were you?" The eye patch wearing girl ask.
"Yeah, did you know them?" Sai was a college freshman, a year under Silvia. The girl had come to college right after graduating from the same school she'd been at for a week, the thought had never crossed her mind.
"Did I know them? I locked them in a classroom my senior year to try and get them to confess to each other, nothing ended up happening though and I got a freakin detention." The girl said, rolling her eyes. Silvia laughed and Sai walked away, falling onto her bed and playing with the little stuffed toy her boyfriend had won her and Silvia got back to work, thinking now she knew what to write.
In the end, she made two copies of her paper. One to turn in, and one to send to PF at the high school, though she didn't get a reply back.
The next time she heard from PF actually, was February. A letter had been in her mail box and she'd read it up in her room, Sai reading as usual over her shoulder. Sai smirked, and Silvia felt happy. The letter was signed Professor Firth
