Professor Firth, fondly called PF, by her students, had actually known Crow and Seto throughout middle school, as well as Ren. She worked at both the middle school and the high school, you see, she taught science at both, but to different degrees. At the middle school she was one of the counselors who eavesdropped on anything that went on in the office, including the monumental amount of times Crow and Seto were in there for apparent PDA. She actually witnessed this one day, and later on that week both boys were in there for that exact reason. She wasn't stupid, she saw the signs even if the two boys didn't, and let them off with a warning. The principal sent Seto and Crow her way a lot after that, and when she tried to get the two of them to realize their possible feelings for each other, neither saw what she was seeing. So she didn't push it.

She did, however, talk to her assistant from the local college's little sister about it, because Ren was good friends with them both and in her office often.

"So they've always acted like that?" She asked one day when Ren was in her office. She'd fallen asleep in one her classes a again, something the teacher complained about because it happened a lot. Both knew it was because Ren had nightmares when she slept at night (about being trapped in a class cage...), but it was a topic Ren didn't enjoy talking about, and they generally almost always got on the topic of Seto and Crow.

"Actually, it used to be a lot worse. Crow used to kiss Seto's forehead until fourth grade when he got yelled at for it by the teacher, he's been kissing his hand almost ever since." She said with a shrug. Through most of the trio's years of middle school, she kept an eye on them, so when they got into high school you can guess what happened then.

She got all three in her science class freshmen year, and had decided to try an experiment. She already knew Crow didn't like sharing Seto with strangers, that was easily apparent (Seto wasn't very social, but it was still worrying…), so she decided to try an experiment. When they did partner labs for the first month, she set up the pairs herself, and always set Seto up with someone who was not Crow or Ren. The first and second times it seemed both were fine, by the fifth time Crow had 'negotiated' with Seto's partner for a switch, and she'd been nice after that and let the class choose their own partners.

Now it was their sophomore year, winter of their sophomore year, and she didn't have them both in class. Not at the same time at least, Ren and Seto were in one of her morning classes but Crow was alone in her after lunch class. And she noted that the college student had a very good point that she only noticed with Crow, that he was in fact a very large jerk when Seto and Ren weren't there, and she wondered if it didn't have to do with just Seto missing in the equation.

She got her answer a few months later in February while she was talking to her assistant from college, Ren's brother Shin about proposing to his girlfriend Sai. Today would have been the day for it, after all. The scene she saw from her window while Shin talked was a snowy one in the school's main courtyard, and she only half heard what the man was saying as she watched a scene play out, almost like out of a romance novel. Today truly was the best day for such things.