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Nonon would deny it all day, but she was a good student. She studied hard, got all A’s, did all her work.
But this library was lonely.
And she hated it.
“What are you doing?”
“If it isn’t The Dog?” She smiled then went back down to her notes.
“What are you doing, Snake?” He sat across from her.
“What does it look like?”
“Studying.”
“Give the man a gold star.”
“But you don’t study.”
“Of course I study, what did you think I was? Just a pretty face?” She looked up from her color coded pages.
“Well… and a good fighter. Decent musician. I guess I would qualify you as a fine friend.”
Nonon just stared at him, too tired to come up with a witty retort.
“You come here often?”
“Everyday. 5 til closing.”
“That’s 4 AM.” Inumuta put a thermos of coffee on the table.
“Not allowed to have coffee in containers like that in the library.” She pointed out and went back to her notes.
“Its midnight now.” He put the coffee away.
“Yeah.”
“Did you eat dinner?”
“I have a meal at the 24 hour diner next to campus on my way to my apartment.”
“And what time do you get up?”
She looked up at him through her lashes. “When I do.”
“You get lonely?”
“What’s it to you?”
“Want a study companion?”
“YOU are offering to be MY study buddy?”
“I guess if you want to put it in childish terms.”
“Fine.” She sighed. “Now let me study.”
A few weeks later she was eating lunch with Satsuki.
“I hear you have study dates with Inumuta now.”
“They aren’t dates.” She said back.
Lord this was going to bite her in the ass … She sighed. Wasn’t it?