Don't Touch Me (Catradora HS AU)

Hanging Out With The Newbie

Catra's POV

The design of Catra's motorcycle that is later mentioned in the story, may or may not have lost the will power to do a description of it, lol. 

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I have no idea what the hell happened back there, but one question keeps on popping up over and over again in my head. 

Why didn't I hit her? 

She knows I don't like being touched, its not a secret. Everyone in Brightmoon High knows that about me. But for some strange reason, I didn't hit her when she pulled me closer to her. Maybe I was too flustered to really focus on what I was doing? Or maybe it was because she startled me when she pulled me down? 

Maybe in some weird way she is different than all the other dip shits here. 

I don't know. Usually when this happens the person who even dared to touched me either ends up in the hospital or earns themselves a few broken bones and a sweet pair of two black eyes. It's my combo deal.

But I didn't and that's the real problem here, and no thanks to her, I barely had time to eat. So instead of going to class, I decided to skip and eat underneath the large oak tree that was planted a few years ago in the back of the school. Ever since I decided to sneak out of my adoptive mother's home and came to explore the forest behind the school my freshman year one night, it kind of became a place for me to let out all my negative thoughts, worries, regrets, and just in general a place where I could find some peace and quiet. 

It was my own beautiful safe haven, my escape from the harsh reality I live in outside of school.

 I had just finished the food that Scorpia had kindly brought for me and was simply enjoying the peace and quiet that had surrounded me. 

Or I was, until the last person I expected to come back here and find me showed up.

Adora was looking around and calling my name repeatedly, I have no idea why she was looking for me, but I was beyond grateful that the forest was about sixty yards away from the school. So that gave me about sixty yards of a head start to run away from the determined and psychotic blonde teen. But I didn't want her to catch me running away like a coward, that was the last thing I wanted. 

So instead of running, I simply got up from my rather comfortable spot on the trunk of the oak tree and whistled a few times to get her attention. Apparently she heard me because she started jogging over to me, her book bag looked heavy. Like she had a bunch of books and papers stuffed in there. 

Once we met each other, I let her catch her breath before speaking, "What do you want Newbie? And how did you know to come back here and look for me?" I inquired with one brow raised.

Taking another breath, she set her book bag on the ground and replied with a smile, "Hey Catra, you weren't in class and I finished my work a bit early so I offered to look for you, and Scorpia said that unless you drove off on your motorcycle, you would be back here somewhere." 

Of course Scorpia told her where I would have most likely gone, she suspected something with Adora and I earlier today and grew even more suspicious when I sat down with her at our usual table in the cafeteria with a blush still lingering on my cheeks that I hadn't noticed until she pointed it out to me. I was about to say something when a sudden thought occurred to me.

"Wait so... if you're in my class right now, why did you offer to look for me and not Scorpia?" I asked in confusion. I silently made an assumption in my head as to why Scorpia didn't come, but I wanted to hear what blondie here had to say first.