She shook her head after having read the letter that was delivered to her by her roommate, got up and changed.
She brushed her hair and brushed her teeth before gurgling some water and spitting it out.
Gold Ship had already left the room, leaving her to contemplate her situation.
The dreams were getting worse, for one.
She didn't know the exact reason why, but she wouldn't be surprised if it was because she was running more and more often.
No, that wasn't it.
She was enjoying it.
Enjoying her life here, even if it had only really just started, Spica was fun and energetic and she was having a blast of a time with her teammates.
It was… fun.
She enjoyed being with them.
The banter they had, the teasing jokes even the small particularity of each of them, whether it was McQueen being unable to not say 'Desuwa' every five sentence or after a comment.
Vodka being prone to getting nose bleeds.
Scarlets need to be number one.
Teio's love of hachimi.
Gold Ships unpredictable nature.
Or even Spe-chan being unable to not eat more than ten portions, which even to her was unheard of and she loved food!
The most she had ever eaten was five…
Semantics aside, she wouldn't be surprised if the uptake in her nightmares was because of that.
After all, who was she to enjoy all of these benefits, to be with all those people.
Who was she to deserve that…
Her eyes glanced towards the letter that she had left on the counter.
Who was she to deserve her love.
Orfy… she loved her.
That, above all doubt was something that wouldn't change.
Her feelings for a person who she had only met a handful of times back when she was younger but whose image had imprinted itself on her.
But… were her feeling for her even true anymore?
Orfevre was… well she was… beautiful.
No.
Not even that could equate to one ten-thousandth of the beauty that she exhibited, whenever she was near her her heart would race!
Her face would heat up to an extreme!
Even just remembering that soft yet firm touch on her chin would make her heart soar!
How could she even face Orfy now!?
It felt like she was cheating on her with somebody else! That she was being stolen as her beloved watched! And she could do nothing! She would turn into putty the moment she even heard Orfevre's voice.
The effect she had on her was umatched!
Suddenly an image passed in her mind.
It was well… she didn't even WANT to describe it!
That's how filthy she felt for even thinking of it!
But what was she supposed to do to get over these feelings!
'You could always just beat Orfevre… after the race is over, you could just pin her down, and suddenly she wouldn't be the one in control anymore, it would be you. And wouldn't that just be wonderful?'
She stuttered at the thought, it was tempting yes… but she couldn't do that! That would be betraying her love for Orfy even more!
'Ah… but wouldn-'
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU DAMN IMPURE THOUGHTS!!!!!" She screamed into the sink.
"…I should probably go to class now shouldn't I?"
The silence was loud and deafening and it all but urged her to leave and go to class.
That and the annoyed groan from a room over helped.
…
After attending class for the day and avoiding Orfevre as much as umanly possible out of fear of what she would do to her she went to the club room and met up with the rest of the team.
Inside she saw the familiar faces of most of her teammates interacting vividly with… what seemed to be a… carrot? No, it wasn't a carrot when she looked closer she saw that it was actually another umamusume.
Before she could speak she felt a hand fall on her shoulder, she looked to the upward and to the side and saw her trainer standing there.
"You're probably wondering who that is, aren't you?"
She nodded her head meekly before answering, "I sadly can't say that I recognize her."
"That's fine," he removed his hand from her shoulder before cupping his hands around his mouth and speaking, "Oy Suzuka, I got somebody I want you to meet here!"
Suddenly the carrot haired uma, who's name was apparently Suzuka poked her head out of the group as her eyes brightened and a smile bloomed on her face as she looked at trainer Okino.
"Trainer!" She said as she suddenly exploded forward in motion and caught him in a bone crushing hug, if the cracks she heard meant anything.
"S-Suzuka, l-let go!" Her trainer stammered as he tried to resist having his back blown out.
She squeezed tighter for a few seconds as the trainer's face became red and then slowly became purple.
Luckily before she went too far she stopped crushing Okino's poor back as the man put his hands on his knees and panted for a few seconds before speaking, "As I was trying to say, I'd like you to meet your newest teammate, she basically has the same running style as you."
Suzuka looked at her with a pensive look, before her eyes went down to her chest and then suddenly, "Unfair…" her face lost all color and she all but collapsed.
"Huh?"
She looked around for answers with the rest of the team only to see most of them trying their damndest not to laugh. The only one who looked rather annoyed at the spectacle that was ongoing was their trainer.
"Suzuka… please stop sulking and introduce yourself properly," his tone was dry and he all but begging her to stop being over dramatic.
"It's unfair… why is hers so much bigger than mine if we run the same?" She said sadly.
She looked at her chest and wondered for a second, where they really that big?
"They're not that big though?" She said in a whisper.
Suzuka only groaned as she got up.
It was in that moment that she wondered something, 'How did we even get to this conversation?'
Suzuka eventually looked at her, in her opinion, rather modest chest and then to her own, for lack of a better term, flat one, before eventually speaking, "Nice to meet you, my names Silence Suzuka. Everybody just calls me Suzuka though…"
Deciding to ignore the previous conversation she responded in kind, "Hope for Tomorrow, everybody just calls me Hope though, nice to meet you, Suzuka-Senpai."
For whatever reason after saying that her senpai's mood went up, as she was all smiles.
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Author notes
Chapter is a bit late, sorry about that, don't really have much to blame except for me procrastinating, but what you going to do.
Oh, also feel free to try and get me to do a bonus chapter, I got a week off, so I won't be doing much anyway.
50 powerstones for 1 extra chapter, another 50 for 2 and so on and so forth.
This is GreekAntrielos signing off, till next time.