Adora's POV

Catra was acting weird in the morning before and during the 1st period, it definitely started when that boy asked me out. I don't know why it was just a boy asking me for my number. She shouldn't freak out or anything.

"What should I do," I asked Glimmer.

It was after the 5th period and we had lunch. 

"Well..if you ask me. You know, it's a possibility...Catra might like you a little more than you think" She responded taking a bite out of an apple.

I hid the half of my face in Catra's hoodie mostly to hide the blush, but the smell of her hitting my nose causing me to blush even more.

"W-What do you mean?" I stuttered.

She groaned and facepalmed, "Girl, I mean she literally has a crush on you. Didn't you say you both like literally kissed"

I took my hands out of Catra's hoodie and waved my hands around gesturing a no, "What, no! I meant that we ALMOST kissed, not that we did"

"Oh well, but you're still wearing her hoodie. So don't you think that is going to have an effect on her" She said pointing to the hoodie I was wearing.

"True, but she knows we're just friends" I answered firm.

"Adora, what do you want? Friends or no friends" She questioned.

"I..we're just friends. Nothing more, she would never like someone like me" I said.

"I didn't say that. I asked what do you want, Adora?" She questioned once again.

"Friends, I want to be just friends" I lied. 

I obviously want something with Catra, but If we become lovers. Then that puts us at risk of us possibly losing each other if something like breaking up happens. I don't want to lose her again, I just got her back.

"Okay, then if a situation pops up where she asks to go out with you tell her that you want to just stay friends" She clarified.

I nodded, then hearing the bell signaling for us head to our last period. I waved goodbye to glimmer and made my way over to my 6th period.

I jumped feeling a familiar furry arm around my neck and shoulder.

"Hey, gorgeous" Catra whispered into my ear.

I looked over at her and blushed, "W-What?" 

"I'm kidding! When you get all blushy, it's hilarious. God, you are easy to tease" Catra said sticking her tongue out releasing my shoulder from her arm. 

I pushed her, making the blush go away fast from embarrassment. Why did she calling me gorgeous have such a huge effect on me, she is such a tease! This is why I'm never going to date her! That is such a lie...

"Hey, don't get all butthurt over one little joke" Catra whined. 

"I'm not" I reassured giving her a smile and seeing a text message pop up on my phone. 

It was from the mystery guy, which I never got his name. 

It read:

'Hey..Adora! I know I never got your name, I'm Antonio! A and A, get it? Because we both have the same letter for our first names? Yeah, I'm not funny'

"God, he's cringy," Catra said over my shoulder causing me to jump.

"Jeez, creep. Don't scare me like that. And yeah, I agree. He's kind of cringe" I answered still staring at the text. 

I replied back:

'Yeah! Haha, that joke did kind of suck, but that's okay'

I got an instant reply from him:

'Yeah, so I was wondering if you wanted to hang out tomorrow after school'

I stared at the text and pondered, maybe I could give guys a chance. Maybe, if I went out with him, Catra and I could just stay best friends and not go into risk of us getting together.

I was about to reply when I heard Catra say something.

"Hey, so. Did you want to walk somewhere after school tomorrow since were busy today and stuff?" She asked with her ears perked up.

I sighed, I was stuck between Catra and this random boy. I knew I was gonna regret this decision but, It for the best. 

I shot him a text:

'Sure what time?'

I then looked at Catra who was still grinning at me.

"I'm sorry, Catra. The guy from this morning asked if he wanted to go somewhere tomorrow. And, I agreed. Maybe we can hang out after all of our busy stuff today, like another sleepover" I told her with a hint of sadness.

I heard her growl and saw her ears droop which meant she was getting sad, but she quickly hid it with a smirk.

"So, it's a competition huh?" Catra said.

"What?" I asked confused.

"I just have to show you, that I will make today better than the day you go out with him," She said crossing her arms.

I giggled and grabbed her arm dragging her into class, "Yeah, okay doofus. No boy is gonna beat my best friend" 

I heard give a small whimper when I released the word 'best friend' out of my mouth but was cleared up when she cleared her throat. I still wonder if Glimmer was right, what if Catra did like me? Would that mean, If I broke her heart she will ignore me? No, we've been through so much, she won't leave me If I reject her..right?

"Damn right" She confirmed sitting down in the big room with the rest of the students. 

We sat against a wall with our backs to it, she put her arm around my shoulder and let out a tired sigh.

"I want to just get this over with, I'm tired of this hell" Catra groaned leaning her head on my shoulder.

I always remembered she would be touchy when she was tired and would always use me as a pillow. But now, I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. I didn't want to give her mixed signals if it was true she liked me, but I liked the feeling of her being next to me, she gave me warmth.

I heard whispers around the room, with people giving us looks. I mean, to be fair. It looked like we were a couple from a stranger's perspective, we were being touchy plus I was wearing her jacket. And the people in our class literally saw us fight and her almost killing me. That was the talk of the school right now, I even got asked if we were dating. 

"People are staring," I told her

She buried her head further into my shoulder, her mane tickling the side of my neck.

"Let them stare" she yawned. But hear ears twitched hearing the door open then slam, the loud clicking of Mrs. Grant's high heels. 

"Alright, class. Yesterday, was a great example of how the class will be from Adora and Catra. Although, you will not go to the extreme of almost killing each other. But I will allow fighting of such here" She said standing at her desk.

"Today will be a bit of light reading, no fighting. Please open your textbook to page 84 and read the whole section. The homework will be next to the door, please complete that worksheet after you are done. If you finish early read the next section since that is for homework as well" She finished then sitting down.

She eyed me and Catra, but Catra was to busy sleeping on my shoulder to even see that. She pointed to Catra telling me to wake her up.

"Catra" I whispered into her ear

"Whaa.." She groaned out.

"Wake up, we have to actually work," I said handing her the book from her backpack.

"Do it for me" She said pushing the book down onto my lap.

"No, why would I do that" placing the book into her lap

She waited a moment, then lifted her head to stare into my eyes.

"Because..you love me" She grinned and tapped my nose.

My breath caught in my throat looking at her with wide eyes. I was literally at a loss for words, why would she say that?

"Stop looking at me like that, I meant as a friend" She chuckled taking the book from her lap and flipped through the pages.

"Right..," I responded looking through my own textbook to find the section we were supposed to be reading. 

I couldn't shake off the feeling of what Catra told me, I should have known that she meant it in a way friends love each other right? Why did I think of the opposite, god my mind is all over the place. All these different feelings about Catra, I couldn't even pinpoint which one I was feeling.

I looked over at Catra, she was busy doodling on her homework, It was a picture of two figures fighting with swords. She turned her head noticing I was staring at her doodle. She wrote 'Adora' next to one and 'Catra' next to the other one. I smirked at it as our eyes made contact, she returned the smirk. As the class went on, our paper was just filled with random doodles, some making no sense. And some being flat out funny, we had to stifle our laughter to keep from getting in trouble. We lost track of time, we didn't even notice the bell was about to ring.

As if on time, we heard the bell ring. Catra yawned and shoved the homework lazily into her backpack and stood up stretching her arms. I quickly followed, watching the students exit the room.

"Adora and Catra, please come here" We heard Mrs. Grant say.

We both looked at each other and nodded. We approached her and waited for her to say something.

She folded her hands and rested her chin on them.

"So, how do you feel about yesterday," She asked.

Catra shook her head and forced her palm onto the desk causing a huge loud echo through the room.

"You asked to talk about our feelings right, well we didn't ask to be reminded about yesterday. We apologized, were through with it" Catra told her.

She chuckled lowly and unfolded her hands, she took both of our hands. 

"I know very well, but would you like the know why I asked you to be here?" She asked.

We both looked at each other and nodded.

"You both are very good fighters, even without swords. This is why I need your help, there is an underground fight club where there is a bunch of teenagers fight illegally. The prize is a ring, a very special ring that costs a fortune that I need. It once... owned boy a person you happen to know..Shadow Weaver" She added.

We both looked at her with widened eyes but stayed silent.

She coughed, then continued, "I was a good friend of Shadow Weaver, and she gave me that ring. I was planning to sell it to make a fortune for myself, but it got stolen one night from me in my house. I know have acquired the information that a bunch of teens has it, and the winner of the fight club gets that ring. I see potential in you two that one of you could win it for me" She finished.

Catra then crossed her arms and scoffed, "Really, Mrs. Grant? You expect us to just join an illegal underground fight club, which means we're practically asking to get hurt?! Sorry, fighting is nice and all. But, I'm not about to do it for someone like you. Right, Adora" She said, then looked at me.

I didn't look at her right away, "What's in it for us?"

Mrs. Grant gave a light chuckle, "If you can retrieve the ring for me, I can do many things for you. I can get you a free ride to college, a fair amount of money, and..tell you where Shadow Weaver is.."

Catra and I looked at each other once again, It seems we were both thinking the same thing since we nodded in unison.

"And if we refuse?" Catra asked.

"I was hoping you would ask that I can easily get Catra expelled from doing physical assault on you. Which can also get her thrown in jail for attempting to murder someone, also I know you ride to school with a motorcycle without a driver's license" She stated with an evil grin.

I watched her with my breath hitched, maybe we had no choice out of this situation. I then heard Catra growl and slam her head against the table once more.

"I can easily get out of that situation with the motorcycle, but you have no proof of what happened yesterday!" Catra yelled.

Mrs. Grant let out a scoff and grabbed a remote then pressing the power button, rolling down a huge projector screen. The video that began playing was a video of exactly what happened yesterday. She must've been hiding somewhere filming us fighting and the video showed definitely assault. 

Catra watched with widened eyes and put her palms over her face, while I stood there watching the video with anger.

"Turn it off!" I said grabbing the remote then pressing the power remote which shutdown the video making the projector go black.

"So, what's it gonna be girls?" She asked.

I gulped and spoke impulsively.

"I'll do it" 

Catra looked over at me and grabbed my shoulders, "Are you stupid, Adora! You could get yourself killed in that place, and you're really going to do it for her! Forget the consequences, I'd rather get thrown in jail then let you get possibly killed"

I took her hands off my shoulder and took them in my hand, "Catra! It's fine, I would rather sacrifice myself, then let yourself get thrown in jail. Besides, what If I survive, she told us that we would get money and plus we get to know where Shadow Weaver is!"

I watched her exhale and look into my eyes, which then adverted to Mrs. Grant. 

"You said we could both do it right? So, Adora and I could switch off fighting?" Catra asked.

Mrs. Grant nodded and smiled, "That is fine, as long as you can get the ring. But be careful, if you get both enrolled in the fight club, you may end up having to fight each other on accident. And once you enter, you can't stop fighting until the person is fully unable to stand up. One of the rules of the ring"

We both gulped, "You mean we have to possibly fight each other?" Catra asked squeezing my hands that were in hers.

Mrs. Grant nodded, "But, maybe you can enroll as a team. But that rule may be removed".

I exhaled and cupped one of her cheeks to look back at me, "Listen, it will be fine. Were doing this for our own good. Just think of the good outcome that could happen from this"

She nodded and leaned into my palm causing me to smile.

I looked at Mrs. Grant who was smiling at us, "Listen, why would you ask us? There are also seniors in this elective, why not ask the stronger?"

Her smile fell, "This is because I have never seen such strength and such potential radiate off someone so young. And besides, seniors are almost young adults, some will become 18 before the fight club even starts"

For some reason that boosted my confidence a little as a person, "When does this fight club even start?"

She held up a finger signaling us to wait, she shuffled through her desk and found a flyer that had all the information about the fight club, "It starts about 3 weeks after homecoming, so it is coming up soon. I ask you to come here every Tuesday after school to train for it, I will give you this flyer when it comes a bit closer towards the event".

We nodded as this new information flowed into our brains as we tried to process it all.

"I know this is a lot of information to process, but it will all make sense towards the date. And, I can not thank you two enough for accepting to help me. It really does mean a lot" Mrs. Grant thanked.

Catra held up a hand, "This is not for you. I'm doing this for Adora, and to make sure that she doesn't get hurt".

I blushed and added in, "S-Same!"

She tilted her head, "I see you two both mean a lot to each other, are you perhaps dating?"

I could tell both of Catra and I's face heated up at that moment.

"N-No!" We stuttered in unison.

Mrs. Grant laughed and waved her hand giving an 'okay' from our response, "Alright, please come back next Tuesday to discuss more. It's already getting towards sunset, so you are dismissed".

We both nodded and exited the classroom.

I stopped and looked at Catra, "So, a fight club huh? You ready to kick butt?"

Catra's ears drooped causing me to frown, "What's wrong?" 

"It's just, I'm worried one of us is going to get hurt. This is a big task, Adora. Were only in freshmen and were going to be in some fight club that could get us thrown in jail" Catra firmly said.

I stepped closer bringing my arms over her shoulder and pressing my forehead to hers, "It's gonna be okay, Catra. Nothing really bad can happen as long as we have each other" 

She released a sad sighed, probably remembering back to the day I told her that, "You promise this time?"

"I promise" 

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A/N: Lots of gulping and plot twists..and I hope I didn't make to many spelling/grammar errors >_<