Noelle opened the door to the classroom ten minutes after their encounter and walked in. She saw Susie in her usual spot and didn't know what to say to her. What would she say after THAT? Noelle did seem to notice something different about her, though. She had pushed her hair away from the eyes. Did she catch me staring before?! Was Noelle's first reaction, but she soon shook those feelings away. It can't be that, right? If it is, that would be so embarrassing for Noelle!

Noelle wanted to go up to her but at the same time, it would probably annoy Susie. She gave into those feelings and gingerly walked up to her, her fingers playing around with one another. "Hey."
Susie looked up to Noelle and took her legs off of the desk. "Hey."

Noelle decided it would be a good idea to point out how Susie's hair suddenly looked different. Well, duh. She moved it out of her face because Noelle was staring at her eyes. Maybe she did it to impress Noelle? "Your hair is different." In a way, Noelle hated herself that she wasn't the best at talking to others. She was always shy while speaking to other monsters. Always has, always will be.

Hearing that made Susie crack a smirk. "That it is. Glad your eyesight is fine." Noelle felt a small stab in her chest. Susie didn't seem to be taking Noelle seriously, but who would? She was being dumb for asking such stupid questions. Noelle was about to say something back, but was cut off by Susie.

"Hey, I'm bored. Wanna skip school today?"
Susie's voice broke Noelle out of her thoughts and she slightly jumped in surprise, almost immediately bursting out into a fit of coughs. "H-Huh?" She began to stutter as she tried to stop it. She managed to force the coughing away, thankfully. As Noelle had her coughing fit, Susie raised a brow and leaned forward a bit to get off the chair, but leaned back when Noelle stopped. It was almost like she wanted to help with Noelle's coughing.

"Ah.. sorry. Why do you want to skip and where would we go?!"

Susie stifled a laugh in and her smirk turned to a wide grin. "Dunno. Your place, maybe?" Noelle instantly blushed and her heart skipped a beat. Why did Susie suddenly want to skip and go to her place? Did she... have other plans?
"Pfft, dirty minded, aren't you?" Susie let out a laugh. "I just wanted to know if you had video games. There's one that I'm DYING to play!" The girl let out a slight sigh, both relieved and disappointed. Relieved because she wasn't the best at romance and that she didn't want to take things quickly, and disappointed because of her love for Susie, and wanting to do things with her. It was very confusing for Noelle, and sometimes she didn't know what she wanted. Sometimes, she thought she was disgusting and gross for thinking about her and Susie together.

Oh..How did she know I played video games?

Noelle remembered that she often invited Kris over to play video games when they were younger. That was years ago though, and the two of them since grew apart. Kris.. was a little different too, just like Susie, and the two of them probably hung out. Kris must have told Susie then. She thought as she let out a tensed sounding chuckle. "Well.. what's the game?"

"Hmm.. I played an older game from it when I was younger. It was like an adventure game where you explore dungeons and beat up bad guys, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever."

Noelle thought for a moment to think of the game Susie was describing. "Is it the Legend of Zorro?" She asked, her lips forming into a smile.

Susie suddenly stood right up and her face suddenly showed proper emotion. The once quiet, calm girl all of the sudden turned the opposite. Susie excitedly grabbed Noelle's shoulders and began shaking her back in forth in excitement. "Yes! Oh my god, Noelle! You gotta let me play it! Let's get outta here!" She soon began emitting nonsense about the game series and how much she wanted to play the newest game from it, all while having her hands tightly on Noelle's shoulders. Noelle soon placed her hands on Susie's wrists which caused her flinch and stop talking almost instantly. "Oh.. was I talking too much?" She very soon calmed down and pulled herself away from Noelle, her whole attitude changing back to how she usually is.

"Sure. We can skip and play the game."

"Great! Let's go."

The two of them walked out of the classroom and into the hallway. Luckily, it was still too early for people to show up, but others would start to show up at school soon. Noelle stopped at her locker to grab her backpack quickly before shutting and locking it while Susie waited at the front doors of the school. Noelle lightly jogged back to Susie and let out a cough and the two of them left the school and began to walk to Noelle's home. As they just left the school, Susie pulled out some cigarettes and a lighter from her pocket. She pulled one out, put it in her mouth and lit it, then blew out some smoke a few seconds later.

Noelle looked over and noticed her classmate smoking. She didn't say anything because she knew it wasn't her place to say anything about it. Noelle simply focused her attention to her surroundings. It was a windy fall morning. Half of the trees were already red, and it was slightly cold out. At times like this, Noelle was happy she was covered in short fur.

The two of them passed by some of their classmates, and two of them stopped in front of Noelle. Ugh, what do you two want?! Noelle thought to herself and mentally groaned. The two monsters who had stopped her were Monster Kid and Snowy. "Did the rich girl finally learn how to skip?" Monster Kid let out a cackle, and Snowy laughed next to him. Luckily Snowy wasn't much of a threat, but it was Monster Kid who was the pain in the ass. Susie stopped in her place and blew out some smoke and watched them in silence. Noelle glanced over to her but it seemed like Susie wasn't going to step in. Noelle let out a small huff and didn't say anything back to Monster Kid. Monster Kid scowled at her and placed his hand on her shoulder, which Noelle instantly swatted away. "What do you want?" Noelle asked in a harsh tone. Since the Holiday's were the wealthiest family in town, some of the other kids from... poorer families would harass her every once and a while. Monster Kid was one of those families. Noelle guessed he lived in one of those run down apartment homes northeast of town. At first, Noelle would get upset and cry to her parents about his harassment, but after many calls and visits from Undyne, Monster Kid wouldn't stop. Noelle eventually learned to suck it up and ignore him though. At this point, they were plain annoying to Noelle and probably harassed her in attempts to get free cash from her.

Luckily, Monster Kid and Snowy were wusses and never actually tried to beat up the girl, though.
At least, that's what she thought.

Monster Kid's face widened to a grin and he shrugged. "Nothing much, really. Now I'm curious why you're suddenly skipping with..." He nudged towards Susie, who was staying out of their little talk and still smoking, "The freak over there." Noelle gulped and she found herself biting the inside of her cheek. She felt bad for Susie, that everyone thought of her like that. "She isn't as bad as you think-" Noelle spoke up quietly, but was cut off by Monster Kid's laughter. "Dude, you're the only one who thinks that! We can all tell you're les for her!"

"Go get her, partner!" They could hear Snowy cheering him on in the background.

Noelle's expression didn't change at all. Okay, why is he such a pain today? Just let me go home. Noelle was going to try something new today. She took a deep breath and pushed Monster Kid back with all her might, which caused to trip backwards and almost fall. Almost is the key word. He quickly regained his balance and let out a growl as he rolled his hand into a fist. "You bitch!" He tried to lay a hit in her, but he froze up and his facial expression turned to pain. Susie was now behind him, digging her cigarette into the skin on his back. She blew out some more smoke and slightly grinned. "So what?" She muttered out behind him. Since Noelle could see her eyes now, she looked a little more scary. She looked.. almost like a feral animal.
She continued to twist the cigarette into his back until a black spot formed. The other classmate hissed out in pain.

"O-Ow..Speak clearly, dude!" Monster Kid tried to pull away from Susie, but she grabbed the back of his shirt and lifted him above the ground before he could escape with one hand. "I said.. So what if she's a lesbian?"
"Yeah, yeah, just let me go, man." Judging by his expressions, Noelle could tell he looked terrified. Susie's smile turned into a toothy grin. "...Nah. Maybe I wanna turn you into a pile of dust first."
"Eep!" Susie let out an evil laugh and dropped her classmate to the ground with one hand and tossed the cigarette to the ground with her other. He began to run off, but turned around. "I'll tell officer Undyne about this!" "Go right ahead!" Susie yelled back.

Snowy stared at the two girls before running off behind Monster Kid. Noelle crossed her arms together. "They're so annoying. Sorry about getting you involved."
"Eh, it's no biggie. I'm surprised you haven't killed them yet."

Noelle let out a small laugh. "To be honest, I'm surprised I hadn't killed them yet too! Anyways, let's get back to my place and play video games."

"I'd love that."