It was almost the end of the class right before lunch. Everyone looked bored as hell, and half of the students were even on their phones, texting away. Nobody even tried to hide their phone, and the teacher didn't do a thing about it. Alphys was known as the extremely shy and weird teacher, so this type of attitude from the students to her was the norm, since Alphys wouldn't be able to say anything to stop them due to her extreme anxiety. She just went on and tried to teach a science lecture to the class that bothered to pay attention. And those were a very few select students: Berdly, Noelle and Temmie all actually listened to her class while everyone else was goofing off.

Once the clock hit noon, everyone stood up which cut Alphys off from her lecture. "O-Oh, is it lunch already?" Nobody said a thing back to her and they all walked into the hallway, chatting and laughing to one another. Alphys grabbed a bag and followed them, the door shutting after her. The only students that was left was a reindeer monster, Noelle and her mysterious classmate, Susie. Not much was known about Susie and Noelle was told to stay away from her from both her mother and her peers. But that same mysterious aura of her classmate drew her in and the next thing she realized was that she wanted to learn more about her.

Her curiosity eventually developed into love. Despite never talking to Susie before, Noelle had fallen in love with this rebellious and mysterious girl. She was constantly wearing ripped jeans with a messy top and cardigan, and her hair was so overgrown and messy that it covered her eyes. She wanted to know more about her and why she dressed like that. She wanted break that cold shell of Susie's. Unfortunately, today was not the day she was going to confess her feelings to her. Noelle looked at the girl, who was sitting at the back of the class with both her legs resting up in the desk and her claws behind her head. She looked like she was most likely sleeping. Noelle took a step forward towards the sleeping girl, but stopped herself. No.. I won't wake her up. She thought.

She placed a hand on her chest, which she found was aching and took a deep breath. She found the area around her heart to be aching lately, and she didn't know why. She concluded it was the stress and worry from two things: Her love for Susie and being too scared to confess it to her, and the fact that she was gay, and too scared to come out to her parents about it.

Worries and stress tend to give one chest aches and shortness of breath, so she continued to push the feelings away. Soon, I'll do it. Noelle thought as she turned to the classroom door and opened it. Soon, I'll get rid of these worries. She walked through it and shut the door gently after herself so her classmate can sleep in peace. By the time she went to her locker to grab her lunchbox and made it to the cafeteria at the other side of the school, everyone had just finished eating and they were all cleaning up to go outside for the remainder of the lunch period. They all passed Noelle until she was the only one left in the lunchroom. She let out a small laugh. "Haha.."

I could almost hear mother ask me how my day was: "What happened at school today, Noelle?" Mother would ask me during dinner. "We learned so much during class, and I talked with all my friends during lunch!" It was the same evening routine for her everyday. She would have to lie to her parents about learning a lot during class as well as spending time with her friends.

Truth was, class was so annoyingly loud, an almost deaf monster wouldn't be able to concentrate due to the noise, and nobody had any interest in Noelle! They all had their friend groups, and who would have any interest with the shy, nerdy and un-confident girl? She would just bring them down. Noelle clutched the area around her heart again and walked over to a lone table. She sat on the seat and placed her lunch box on the top. She let out a small cough and pulled out a ham sandwich from a brown paper bag that was shoved into the small tin box. She took a bite out of it. It was plain as ever. Two pieces of bread, both lightly buttered and a piece of ham slabbed in between. Mother couldn't even put some pepper on it, huh.. The reindeer thought to herself, swallowing some food. Her throat burned a bit, and she drank some water from a water container to rinse it down.

Pathetic, useless, loser. She wanted to cry from these words. Noelle truly hated lunchtime the most.

She finished her sandwich and got off of the chair, and went out of the room with the lunch box in hand. Noelle went to her locker, put the lunch box into it, closed the door and went back to class. She didn't bother going outside with everyone else, because she wouldn't do anything with anyone anyways. Why depress herself even more? She sat at her desk and sat down to wait until lunch ended. Noelle didn't realize that Susie's position had changed. Her legs were now off of the desk and now had her arms on the table, and was leaning forward. Noelle coughed and wheezed a little more after leaning down to pull her phone out from her bag. The girl also pulled out the water container and drank some more water to help with the throat pain.

Once she drank the water, the coughing eased up. Noelle sighed in relief and opened the app game she was planning to pay. Ten... Twenty... Even thirty minutes passed when students began to walk back into the classroom to get ready for the second half of the day. Everyone sat down with tons of chatter and movement, and they all continued to act that way when Alphys walked back into the room. Noelle respected the teacher she hated though. She at least dropped her phone into her bag and swapped it for a notebook and pen.

"U-Um.. what subject am I teaching now again?" The students at the front row could barely make out what Alphys was saying. "R-Right, I-I'm teaching English.." She let out a small sigh before clapping her hands together in hopes of shutting the class up. They didn't shut up, of course. Alphys made small uh's and um's, and was now just wasting her time and effort. Noelle's classmate, Berldy snickered. "Ahem.. u-um.. class?" She paused for a few moments before turning to the board and grabbing a piece of chalk. She reached up and began to write on the board. Kris who was the only human student wrote a message on their notebook before tearing out the paper. They folded it into a paper airplane and sent it to Alphys, which hit her in the back of the head. After hit, Alphys paused but soon continued to write. She wrote the date and her name on the upper corner board, and in big letters she wrote HAMLET PROJECT right in the middle of the blackboard. She turned back around and placed her claws on her desk. "Stop talking or I'll make this project due tomorrow! Do you understand?"

The class instantly shut up. There were a few low murders in the back of the room though. "Did you like.. hear that? She didn't stutter for once." Monster Kid whispered to someone. "We must have really pissed her off." Another monster, Snowy whispered back. A few laughs and chuckles echoed around the room, before actually going quiet.

"G-Good.. haha.. So as you all know, w-we finished HAMLET yesterday, so we must do a p-project for it! You must memorize a two-person scene, then wear costumes and a-act it out. It is due a w-week from now. I am giving you the rest of the day to work on I-It since this is the only um.. class time I'm giving you. Group up into partners, then t-tell me the scene you wish to preform." When Alphys was finished making her speech, she sat at her desk chair and pulled out her phone. Everyone grouped into their usual partners. Snowy with MK, Catti with Jockington, Temmie and her hard-boiled egg and Kris shifted backwards and paired up with Susie, who had her legs up on the desk and was fast asleep again.

Berldy turned towards Noelle. "Well, if I HAVE to be your partner..." Noelle took another sip of water. Out of all these classmates, she hated Berldy the most. He was narcissistic, arrogant, self centred and just a real dick in general. In order for her conversations to go the fastest with him, she always went along with the bird monster. She swallowed the water to help her burning throat. "Well, who do you want to be?"
"Who do you think, dumbass? Hamlet!"
They picked a scene that focused mainly on Hamlet, and Noelle was whoever else was in that scene. "Good. Now tell the teacher what we're doing so we can start to practice." The girl did as he said and told Alphys the act and scene and went back to the classmate, who was now standing next to their desks and holding the Hamlet book. Noelle grabbed her book and they began to act it out. A half and hour passed before Noelle could feel the coughing coming back up. This time, it wouldn't stop. She got down on her knees and coughed into her hands. I can feel something coming out. She thought as she began to tear up from the pain in her chest and throat. "What the hell are you doing?!" She could hear that ass next to her yell out to her.

Noelle was starting to cause a scene, since some other kids stood up to look what was happening. Alphys noticed her coughing fit, got up and ran over to her side. "U-Um are you okay?!" She stuttered and keeled down next to her to rub her back. Noelle coughed and hacked some more before she could feel something coming up from her throat. Some red stuff came out of her mouth. "Ew, is that blood?!" She could hear someone in the back screaming. "Nasty!"

Alphys' eyes widened a bit when she saw what Noelle had coughed up. "Wha..." She began to say out but lightly coughed again. What the hell? Noelle thought to herself as she also got a clear image of what it was.

Noelle didn't cough up blood or anything, but somehow coughed up some red flower petals.