A/N: OH MY GOODNESS I HAVE HAD SUCH A BUSY SUMMER AND SCHOOL STARTED AGAIN and Im kinda dying inside but thus story gives me life so its all good. I am totally enjoying writing this, and I hope you're totally enjoying reading this! :) I hope it won't take as long to upload each chapter...

timeskip to their 6th period class (P.E)*

Apparently today, Commander Iverson decided it would be great to have his Physical Ed classes run 5 miles in the 45 minutes they had for that period. They were currently 3.8 miles in, and he clearly felt the cadets weren't running to the best of their abilities because he was jogging alongside them, shouting things like, "YOU CALL THAT RUNNING? MY GRANDMA COULD RUN FASTER THAN THAT AND SHE'S BEEN DEAD FOR 15 YEARS" and "HOW DID YOU EVEN MAKE IT INTO THE GARRISON, WE ONLY TAKE THE BEST HERE". Naturally, the students were not pleased with this, but what could they do but run. Tiegan and Shiro were jogging alongside each other when Iverson came up from behind them.

"I KNOW YOU CAN RUN FASTER THAN THAT, CADET! SPEED IT UP, OR YOU'LL BE RUNNING INTO NEXT CLASS!!" he shouted, looking directly at Shiro before throwing Tiegan a smirk and sprinting ahead to scream at some other poor kid.

"I thought there was no running on school grounds" Shiro muttered to Tiegan. She merely laughed.

"Betcha I can beat you to the finish!"

"I wouldn't count on it," he grinned. They both were pretty excellent runners, so it usually was a tie. She smirked,

"Alright, if you're so confident that must be why your laces are coming undone."

"Ha, nice try. I'm not falling for that again."

"Okay, if you say so!" Tiegan said with a glint of mischief in her eyes. Shiro was slightly suspicious, but he knew the second he looked down she would take off.

"Ready?" he asked. She glanced at him and nodded. As they were already jogging, he figured he'd just kinda say, "GO" and they'd begin. Before he could say anything else, a loud whistle was blown.

"YOU CADETS GET YOUR ASSES IN GEAR! I WANT YOU SPRINTING TO THE END! NOW!!!" Iverson screeched as he slowed down to make sure all the students heard him. As he passed by Tiegan and Shiro, he kept pace with them and said surprisingly quietly,

"No rush, Ms. Raze. I have every confidence you will make it to the end on time." Glancing at Shiro, then down, then back up again with a slight sneer he continued, "Just don't push it." He then slowed down to continue with the other students.

"So, you ready?" Shiro smirked.

"Shiro wai-" Tiegan started but was cut off by Shiro's "Go!" and him speeding up from their jog to a sprint.

At first, all was well. They were sprinting along pretty fast, neither one pulling ahead of the other. But then, all of a sudden, Shiro was unable to pull his foot forward to keep up with his momentum. Time seemed to slow down for him as he struggled to bring his foot underneath him, but he lost the battle rather quickly. Shiro threw his arms out to shield himself from the gravel below. He felt Tiegan's hands grab his arm, and would've told her to let go...that she couldn't stop his fall, if they hadn't already both crashed into the gravel causing all sorts of scrapes and scratches along their forearms and shins.