Black Sheep ran to her room, the room she shared with everyone else. It's the first place she thinks to look.
Everyone else had stayed behind in the cafeteria, but if Shadow wasn't there, there were only so many other places he could be.
"Shadow?" She calls out into the half empty dorm.
Mime bomb smiles at her and waves.
She runs up to him. "Hi, Mime bomb! Have you seen Shadow-san anywhere?" The mime smiles wider and points at her bed.
She looks over, there was a note. "Thanks!"
Walking closer to the bed, next to the note was a little origami sheep.
Black Sheep smiles, the little sap abandoned them so he could be all mysterious and leave her a note and gift. She feels her cheeks heating up just slightly, it was kind of sweet.
In the note he wrote he'd be at the beach. It didn't ask her to join him, nor did it imply she would, it was just letting her know where he went.
She breathes a sigh of relief.
That day, professor Maelstrom had made them take a surprise test. It wasn't too dificult. Black Sheep could tell the teacher probably just enjoyed the initial panic on the students faces whenever he pulled something like surprise tests.
That class had been their last for the day, and Maelstrom let them leave as they finished their own test, as opposed to waiting for everyone to finish.
Shadow had left very early.
Black Sheep was close to done with her own test when she noticed him walking out, but she took her time with reviewing everything before leaving.
When she got outside Le Chèvre was there already but Shadow was long gone. Chèvre and her waited for the rest of the gang so they could get dinner before going back to the dorm. But when they got to the cafeteria, Shadow-san wasn't there either.
Graham suggested they get food, Tigress chewed her ear for "being a stalker" and Chèvre told her to shut up. El Topo suggested Shadow might've been tired and she figured he could be right!
Now, she made her way outside.
The weather was nice, a slight breeze in the air. The sun was about to set, rendering the shy with hues of orange and purple.
She spots him sitting in the sand.
Neither say a word when she walks up to him and sits by his side.
She breathes in the sea side smell and feels the heat of the after school sun on her face. She looks at Suhara, whose eyes never left the horizon.
He ducks his face further into his folded arms, supported on his knees. He shrugs.
She smirks teasingly. "Should I call Mime bomb over to translate?" That gets him to look at her once.
"Very funny." He deadpans.
He unfolds his arms and stretches his legs. She gets a good look at his expression.
"Are you ok?" He looked kind of sad.
He shrugs. "Missing home, I guess."
She couldn't relate. For as long as she remembered, VILE was her home. And yes, it was quite literally a tropical paradise.
"Do you... want to talk about it?"
"Do you?" There's another meaning behind that question.
Yesterday, after school, they snuck out in the middle of the night to look at the starts. He then told her about Japan, about karaoke, about his home. He even taught her a couple of words in his native language. But when he asked her about herself, she clammed up on him and refused to share a word. She was afraid it had hurt his feelings. Her suspicions becoming more of a reality until she found the note.
"S-sorry, I didn't." He turns to her with an apologetic look. "T-there are some things I did not tell you about... it... it's a sore topic for me. I got defensive." He looks down.
The hands in his lap fidget with each other.
She looks at the horizon where the sun had started to dip.
"It's a pretty view." She sighs.
He looks at what she's looking, then he turns to her again.
"Not as pretty as you." He whispers.
"What?" Had she misheard him?
His eyes widen and he looks away.
"I, uh... sorry for leaving you all without a warning." He rubs the back of his head. Black Sheep couldn't see, cause he was facing away, but his cheeks were burning bright.
"Oh..." She figures she did mishear him. "Tigress is mad, but other than her no one cares." She shrugs.
He obviously couldn't care less about Tigress' opinion.
"Not even you?" He spares her a glance.
"Of course I care! You're my best friend!" He looks disheartened by that.
She thinks back on the previous night. "Are you mad at me?" He suddenly looks surprised.
"For... not talking about my childhood?"
Only then does he realize how his behaviour might’ve made her think he was mad her.
"It's fine if you do not want to share your past with me, baby lamb. I'm not mad about that." She looks at him expectantly. He sighs. "I did some bad stuff back at home... before I came here. Talking to you about it made me remember it." He rubs his head. His hair was getting long. "I-" His voice cracks. "I'm a bad person."
Black Sheep gasps. "No you're not!" He doesn't acknowledge her. "Shadow... Suhara." That gets him to look. "You don't have to tell me about that stuff if you don't want to. But you're not a bad person. You're kind and you're sweet." She takes the little origami he made for her out of her pocket. "You're amazing."
He frowns, albeit weakly. "That stuff doesn't mean anything. It's just some paper."
"It means a lot to me." She presses the sheep close to her chest. He blushes.
"You do need to stop calling me that tho."
She smiles at him, he smiles back. If either notice the other's cheeks red like roses, neither choose to comment on it.
They rearrange their position to finish watching the sunset, shoulders pressed against each other.
They stay like that almost to the end until Black Sheep's stomach rumbles. Shadow-san starts laughing like a little kid and she punches his arm.
"Did you skip dinner?" He asks between snorts when her belly insists on rumbling non stop.
"It's your fault I did!" She slaps his arm for every laugh.
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