Misdirection
She'd carefully evaded him for weeks.
Since the first day he'd started as a teacher.
But not due to fear or hatred or anything of the like.
Quite the opposite in fact.
The truth of the matter, and what she'd have died before confessing to Black*Star or even one of the girls, what had haunted her since the first moment they'd spotted him on the castle rooftop, was that she absolutely, unmistakably, undeniably had the hots for the samurai-turned-sensei.
So she planned her steps, learned his routine, and kept out of sight.
What she didn't know was that he was avoiding her too.
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