Chapter 1
Nevermore Academy was still mourning the loss of a few students that had sadly lost the battle against Crackstone, that was noticable when the quad was quieter than usual, the studens no longer had those happy faces on them, everything just seemed gloomier. The worst part had been loosing Principal Weems, she had been principal for some years now, but beeing murdered by a teacher had been the worst bertail the school had endured.
Someone had taken control of the school while they waited for a new Principal to take the position, and everything had been fairly calm, repairs were going on, some parts were still out of limits due to how destroyed they were and there still was no substitute for Thornhill, son Botanics class was canceled for the time beeing.
Wednesday had had a hard time with her recovery, being in a sling had taken a hit to her ego, but her shoulder had to heal, the arrow had apparently gone deeper than she thought and the doctor told her to keep it in the sling for at least three weeks. She hated feeling usless when there where some thing she couldn't do, but even if she hadn't admitted yet, she got lucky. Having an injured arm ment tha Enid was giving her her undivided attention, helping her without making her feel bad and somehow bringing the girls closer.
She had been feeling different since the hug. She remembered how terrified she felt when seeing Enid's face full of blood, the deep cuts along her eye and the fear in her blue eyes, and the regret had consumed her since that day, She knew all of that had happened because of her and even if everyone kept telling her that she was the one to save the school, she couldn't shake the felling the Enid could have died because of her.
This had taken her to (knowinly or not) take care of Enid as well, she had been paying a lot more attention to the wolf, even more knowing that the girl had shifted for the first time, and had been struggling a bit with herself. Her wounds had healed rather quickly, her werewolf blood doing it's thing, but the scars were still very visible, and Wednesday kneo how that was affecting Enid. She had cought her many times looking at herself in the mirron, staring at the scars along her face and the disgust in her eyes when she did so.
Some people, like their friends, were beeing very supportive of the both of them, they knew how hard it had all been on them and helped however they could. Yoko assuring Enid that those scars made her look badass, Bianca became good friends with Wednesday, Ajax had talked to Enid, givving her space and time to heal and not pressuring into anything and Xavier had forgiven Wednesday for everything after she saved his life.
Everything was fine, everyone she cared about was safe, so why didn't she feel ok? She had been barely sleeping, her dreams plagged with nightmares, and not the enjoyable kind, she hadn't been able to writhe a single thing and it had been already three weeks from the fight.
What the raven didn't notice, is that Enid had noticed this as well, she had seen the huge black bags under her eyes, she noticed how she hadn't written anything, haw she was barely eating, and she did bnot know how to aproach this. In reality, all Enid wanted to do was hug the problems out of her tiny frame, but she wasn't stupid, she knew that that hug had been an extremely rare situation and that she probably was not getting another one any time soon. However, some things had changed, Wednesday was beeing more "touchy" than usual, which was nothing at all.
Everyone had noticed how the girls relationshipd had changed, Wednesday acted completely different with Enid than with the rest of them, the were constantly worried about eachother in a way they were with no one else, but there was a specific moment when everyone realized what was actually happening, and apperently, the only ones who hadn't realized were them.
Wednesday was leaving the quad, going back to her room, her socializing battery had been worn down today and she needed just some time alone in silence. Enid wasn't there, she had been held back by a teacher about some homework, son the raven didn't really have anything keeping her there. She had started walking back when she accidently crashed into someone
"Ouch! What the h…" Two hands instantly came to her waist, keeping her from falling over, and her anger rose in a fraction of a second because, who dared to put their hands on her? But all that was gone as soon as she realized whos hands they were
"Sorry! I wasn't looking and oh, Willa, hey hi…. Sorry" Came Enid's cheering voice, taking her hands away once she saw the two long black braids.
Both girls straightened their clothes and the wolf asked "Are you leaving already? Mr. Fitts had some questions about my homework but I was just coming to you guys"
"I have had enough social interaction for the day, my brain needs to rest from other people voices for a bit, I will be in our room if you require my presence"
The gang, still sitting at the table was quiet, looking at their interaction. It had became an interesting subject to see them interact, so confident yet so shy around eachother, some even had bets about when were the wolf and the raven gonna realize their feelings for eachother.
"Oh, okay. I'll see you in class then." The wolf started walking towards the table when a pale hand in her arm stopped her.
"Wait" Without even realizing what she was doing, Wednesday reached up to fix Enid's collar wich was all messed up. "There, know go"
Flush had rised all the way up to the wolf's cheeks, not expecting it in the slightless but endeared about the action, a big fang showing smile crept on her face. "Thanks Wends" And without a second though she leaned down and planted a kiss on the ravens cheek, leaving her no time to respond and jumping away.
Wednesday just stood there, procesing, Enid had kissed her on the cheek and it had not bother her in the slightless, which was wierd, and scary, and what the hell was going on.
After a few steps, Enid stopped in her tracks, what had she done??? It's not like she hadn't been dyeing to do that but in front of everyone? And out of the blue? I mean, was she flustered about Wednesday fixin her collar? Yes, one hundred percent but how did it occur to her to KISS her??? This was getting harder by the day.
She decided to just roll with it for the time beeing, continuing her walk to her group of friends, but when she sat down, knowing look were being sent her way from each one of them, of course, the first one to ask was Yoko.
"What the hell was that?" She asked, her fang showing with the huge grin on her face.
"What was what?"
"You kissed her, You" (She pointed a finger at Enids face)" kissed Wednesday" (now pointig towards the girl was a few seconds ago)"in the cheek and she didn´t kill you."
"Why would she?" Enid asked, looking at her hands on the table, pretending not to be dying inside
"Umm because she's Wednesday??" Bianca said with a tone like it was obvious.
"Yeah, we can't even invade her personal space without risking a finger beeing cut of." Came the gorgons voice
"Well I don´t know okay?! I don't know why I did it, is it bad? Is she gonna hate me now??" She let her worries get to her, she didn't know why she had done it, it somehow just felt right. They had been more comofrtable around each other recently, they touched, a hand on a shoulder, a hand on a lower back when passing behind the other, Wednesday had even pushed some hair out of her face one day when telling her how beautifull her scars were when she found her crying about them. Once she took the time to think about it, it wasn´t normal behaviour for Wednesday, and maybe that ment something, maybe the girl was trying to tell her something without actually speaking, or maybe she was just as confused as herself. Enid decided to let the subject go, standing up and walking towards her next class.