Adora's POV

Small movements behind me caused me to begin to stir from a very comfortable sleep I was in. I groaned out a noise, trying to signal to stop moving.

"Sorry, for wakin' you up but we have to go to school soon" I heard Catra's voice enter my ears.

"Shut up, still sleeping" I mumbled.

I felt Catra poking at my left cheek, "C'mon"

I whined pushing my curled body up against her in the best of my abilities, "No, I want to cuddle"

"Since when was I the one to tell you to go to school?" Catra teased.

"You're rubbing off on me" I mumbled still half-asleep.

I felt a fast shift in the couch as I felt the small furs on Catra's cheek smudge against my cheek, making me giggle.

"Hah! That tickles" I laughed trying to move away from her cheek that is smashing against mine.

"I won't unless you get up!" She challenged.

I decided to playback and I let my tongue run along her cheek, but I grimaced quickly feeling fur on my tongue.

"Ew! Fur!" I mumbled, bringing my finger to my tongue trying to scrape the fur off of it.

"That's what you get for licking me" I could practically hear the smirk in her voice.

I grumbled to myself and attempted to stand up from the couch but when I was pushing off the couch with my right hand, but It wasn't enough to hold up my body since I had tripped forward.

I then felt a quick hand tug on my shoulder, pulling me back.

"Woah, you okay?" Catra asked concern.

I shrugged off her hand on my shoulder, feeling a sudden wave of anger. I can't even get up off the couch without someone helping me, I'm just useless. I've been feeling like that a lot actually, there have been so many things that I haven't been able to do because of my shoulder.

"Yeah," I said dryly, walking away from Catra.

I then felt her turn me around suddenly, making me roll my eyes.

"Hey, what's wrong?" She asked brushing her fingertips against my cheek.

I sighed and tried to move away from her by moving to the side, but of course. She was one step ahead and followed my movements by stepping in front of me, right after I did.

"It's nothing" I mumbled.

"Clearly it's something because you're acting this way" She fought.

I let out an annoyed sigh, I don't want to fight with Catra. I'm sick of doing that, but I can't help but feel angry at her nagging.

"I told you, It's nothing!" I yelled, a little too loud.

I saw her step back slightly, eyes widened.

"Catra..." I mumbled reaching out to touch her, suddenly feeling guilty for yelling at her.

"Adora, I'm just trying to help you" She whispered.

Now, a huge wave of guiltiness filled my chest. She's just trying to help, I'm just being moody. I walked towards her slowly and went to touch her again but I held myself back.

"I just feel useless," I said, trying to make sure my voice doesn't crack. I don't want her to see me weak like this.

"What?" She questioned, clearly surprised.

"I..I can't do anything anymore! I can't do a lot of things I use to be able to, Catra! I can't...ride my bike, I can't hug you with both of my arms on my own, I can barely even type with my left hand anymore. You saw me! I can barely even get up off the couch or else I will fall! God, just putting clothes on is a challenge. When I put on my backpack during school it looks like it's the hardest thing to do! And carrying a backpack filled with notes and books on just one shoulder isn't easier than it looks. My arm looks like a hanging piece of nothing" I cried clutching onto my numb left arm.

I could tell she was holding in her breath since when she finally was going to respond she let out a long exhale.

"Adora, you're not useless," She said bringing her hand to my injured shoulder.

"If anything, you're the strongest person I know. You can get through every day, even during school without using that arm or shoulder of yours. Some people wouldn't even try as hard as you. You are a survivor, Adora. You survived literally getting stabbed If I know you. You aren't going down just because of some injured shoulder. Sure it's going to be hard at first, but I know you will push through this." She comforted with confidence.

"What if it doesn't get better? What...If I'm stuck like this forever?" I panicked feeling water form at the edges of my eyes.

Catra noticed my eyes becoming teary, which she instantly stepped closer and brought her hand to one of my teary eyes and wiped the unshed tears away, "Then, I know you will get through life with or without a working shoulder or arm. Plus, if you need an extra shoulder to use, I'll be there"

"I don't want to have to rely on people for my problems" I mumbled pushing my forehead to her shoulder.

I then felt Catra's arms wrap around me and hug me close, "Learn to rely on someone's shoulder for once...again no pun intended"

"Okay..." I said, not very promising since Catra didn't seem convinced by my answer.

"Adora, come on. Don't you believe me? Just because you can't do a few things doesn't make you useless, you know what you do without having a workin' arm?" She asked staring deep into my eyes.

I visibly gulped, "W-What?"

"Make me so happy" She whispered, her lips practically brushing against mine.

I began to feel shy, feeling my face burning up and Catra's hot breath wasn't helping it either.

"But, I could've done that with my working shoulder," I said.

She then rolled her eyes and brushed her lips against mine making my heart jump out of my chest, "Yeah, well. You make me happy either way, so that's something you should be proud of. So you're not useless, besides I'm sure with enough physical therapy that shoulder will be fixed in a jiffy!"

I nodded and mustered up the best smile I could.

"There's that smile" She gleamed giving the best smile she could back as well.

I then suddenly jumped up wrapping my legs around her waist latching my right arm around her neck.

"Woah!" She said tumbling back, wrapping one arm around my waist and holding us up with her other hand by gripping a nearby counter.

"You make me happy too, Catra," I said peppering her nose with small kisses.

The small kisses to her noise caused her to let out a series of small giggles that made my heart swell with happiness.

"You know, for a person who said that they can't do anything because of their injured shoulder. Getting onto me seemed pretty easy" She teased, running a hand along the side of my body.

I shivered at her touch, then sliding off of her body to get back onto my feet, "Well, uh. I guess you're just easy to climb onto?"

"Hah, that makes no sense, Adora" She laughed.

"Since when do I ever make sense," I said wiggling my eyebrows.

"Never"

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"Here," Catra said handing me a hot chocolate as we exited the nearby store we used to go to a lot as kids.

"Thanks," I said taking a small sip then wincing feeling the sting of the burn my tongue.

"Too hot?" She asked, not drinking out of her cup yet.

I nodded as we walked hand in hand down a similar rode to school. Sometimes, Catra and I walk to school because we want the exercise, or we just want too. But most of the time, if Catra is over at my house or I'm at her house we take her motorcycle.

"Have any plans today after school?" Catra asked taking small sips out of her cup now.

"We have that thing with Mrs. Grant, and I have to go shopping with Glimmer" I replied after throwing away my empty cup into a nearby trashcan.

I saw her eyes flatten a little, "You finished that already? And, oh right we have that. You sure you can't cancel with Glimmer?"

I shook my head, "No, I have canceled my plans with Glimmer to many times. Why?"

"It's...nothing. I just want to hang out and see you as much as I can before that fight club thing" She replied with a small shrug.

I tightened my grip on her hand, "Don't worry. After tomorrow, I'm free almost every day. Plus homecoming is happening soon, I get to see your terrible dancing"

A small smirk tugged at the corners of her mouth, "Oh yeah? I'm a better dancer than you will ever be"

"I'd like to see you try," I said kicking the back of her foot making her trip making her glare at me slightly.

As we walked down the boring road down to our school, a comfortable silence grew between us. But that was broken off when I felt Catra's grip on my hand had gotten harder which meant she was trying to get my attention. I tilted my head in a way to say, 'yea?' in her direction.

"Are you still planning to train with your shoulder? Or enter the fight club" She asked, a slight concerning tone in her voice.

I furrowed my brows, "I...yeah. I have to train, to get better obviously. I'm sure my shoulder isn't going to get better by the time the fight club rolls around, so I'm going to need to learn how to fight without...my other shoulder. Plus, I'm not letting you go in alone"

"Just, be careful. Alright? Don't push yourself too hard if it hurts" She mumbled.

I smiled at her concern for me, "Don't worry. You will be there too, you can stop if I'm being irrational"

"Oh, don't worry. I'll be there to stop you from breaking another shoulder" She teased bringing my knuckles to her lips, placing soft kisses there.

I smiled at the small contact she made, "Anyways, about homecoming. Are you going to wear a dress?"

"I am, but. I kinda wanna see you in a suit" She said, I couldn't tell if her voice went lower when she said that.

"Oh?" I said, slightly amazed. Catra usually hated dresses, but she liked to wear feminine clothes.

"Does that mean I get to see you in a dress?" I said a glint of hope was probably shown in my eyes.

"U-Uhh, I mean. Do you want me in a dress?" She asked shyly.

I grabbed both of her hands, making us stop.

"Please!" I said with my best puppy eyes.

I tried to hold back a smile when a small tint of red rose on her cheeks,

"F-Fine, but only because I get to see you in a suit" She mumbled.

I pumped my fists in the air victoriously

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It was after 1st period and Catra and I were exchanging our goodbyes since we weren't going to see each other until 6th period, and were in different friend groups so we rarely talked during school unless if it was the classes we had together.

"I'll see you in 6th?" Catra said after placing a bunch of wet kisses against my lips, with her arms loosely around my waist.

I nodded bringing my hand up to run my hands through her hair, causing slightly loud purrs to escape her throat.

"You better stop, before someone hears" She warns playfully.

I let out a small laugh and placed my lips against her forehead, then stepping out of her embrace to wave goodbye.

"See you in 6th," I said finally answering her question from before.

We then waved our goodbyes

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"You promise no raincheck today?" I said to Glimmer as we were walking to our group of friends. We now sit on the field that had a lot of grass, but I don't have too much of an issue since Catra sometimes plays on the field and I get to secretly watch. Usually, when she plays she steals glances at me, and I pretend I don't see her since it's fun to see the many ways she tries to get my attention from across the field.

"Yes, I promise. Mom and I made up so it's fine" She said tossing me a container of rice. I grinned catching it, Glimmer's mom packs a lot of food that she can't finish so she gives me the leftovers of what she doesn't want.

"Great!" I said, digging the spoon into the container of rice and putting it into my mouth.

"So, have you and Catra decided to wear dresses or suits?" Glimmer asked while giving the other half of her sandwich to Mermista.

I waited to finish chewing my rice, and finally gulping it down.

"Yeah, Catra said she wanted to see me in a suit. So, I'm gonna wear a suit and she's going to wear a dress" I answered, looking over at the field to see Catra tossing a football to one of her friends.

Glimmer looked the way I was looking and smiled, "I see, so we gotta make you look handsome"

"Apparently" I smiled continuing to watch Catra from afar.

"I'll pick you up after that class with Mrs. Grant," She said.

"Ah, yeah," I said slightly dazed.

"Did you even hear me?" Glimmer asked annoyed.

"Mhm, pick me up after thing with grant" I mumbled.

"I'm still worried about you fighting" She mumbled back, worriedly.

The slight worry in my tone made my eyes snap back to her, "It'll be fine"

"If you say so"

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"Ugh, today was so tiring" I heard Catra say stretching her arms as we waited for Mrs. Grant to come back into the classroom for our weekly meeting with her.

"Today was alright," I said with a slight yawn.

"You tired?" She asked, nudging me lightly.

I shook my head about to speak but Mrs. Grant the sound of Mrs. Grant's heels clicking made me shut up instantly.

"Hello, ladies. How are you doing today?" Mrs. Grant asked pulling out a bunch of random equipment that I have never seen before.

"Good, what's that for? If I may ask" I said pointing to the rack of items that was filled with training dummies, punching bags, weights, etc.

"For you, obviously," She said setting up dummies that stood up on there own.

I looked at Catra who had her eyebrows furrowed, "What's wrong?"

"Just worried" She shrugged.

I sighed and waited for Mrs. Grant to finish her course of setting up things.

"Alright!" She said with a small huff. "We're going to practice your arm strength against these dummies. The good part about this is that your dominant hand isn't the one injured, so that means it won't be as hard".

I nodded and walked up to one of the dummies, I went into a stance as if I was about to punch someone. I clenched my fist into a ball and threw my hand straight into the side of it, I let out a loud groan that almost sounded like a whine.

"Why in the hell are the dummy's hard as like a rock!" I yelled holding my pulsing knuckles. I felt Catra's hand lightly touching my shoulder, with her eyes giving me a comforting look.

"Well, if you're going to punch someone then a bone isn't going to be soft is it?" Mrs. Grant asked.

I shook my head.

"Now, I'm going to mark places that you want to aim for when punching. Catra pay attention to this too" Mrs. Grant said grabbing a red marker and drew x's on different parts of the dummy.

I nodded once again once she gave me the signal again, I aimed for all the different parts of the body and punched at the best of my ability. After 3-4 punches, I got tired.

"That's what we need to work on, your stamina" She emphasized pointing to my hard breathing from punching the dummy.

"As well as..." She mumbled.

I tilted my head not knowing what she was saying, It all happened in one second, as she darted forward suddenly moving behind me her back to my back and her hands grabbed my arms held them up. Her grip was so tight it restricted any movement from my hands, I groaned out loudly feeling left arm up in an angle it wasn't supposed to be.

"Ow, Ah! Stop! Please!" I whimpered wanting her to let go of me.

"H-Hey!" Catra yelled darting forward to get her off me, but Mrs. Grant managed to trick her out by turning us to the side making her trip and fall forward right before she reached us.

"Your reflexes, and reaction time" She finished, finally letting go of my arms.

I let out a shaky exhale, as I held onto my left shoulder, waiting for the pain to slowly wash away. Which eventually it did.

"Why did you do that?" I whined.

"We didn't ask to get beat up, and you know Adora isn't 100% healed yet" Catra hissed, crossing her arms.

"Adora needs to learn that people aren't going to hold back in that fight club. She asked me to help her, this is my method. Expect this to happen many times, she needs to get used to her shoulder being in situations like this. Learn to maintain the pain, and work through it" She explained.

I nodded, "Okay, do it again"

"Adora, are you s-" Catra started.

I looked at her and nodded.

Mrs. Grant suddenly darted and did the same movements that she did before, 'I recognize her pattern now...if I just...' I thought to myself.

I darted my eyes and waited for the perfect time to strike, I then pinpointed the best time and grabbed her arm and twisted it the other way, making her slightly get caught off guard.

"Nice, move," She said.

I smiled at her compliment.

"Never let your guard down" She then brought her other arm up and elbowed me right in the middle of my arm which made me loosen the grip on her. Which to then she turned around and hooked her foot behind my leg, kicking right in the shin making me fall to my knee. And with one final blow, I felt a foot to my stomach. I groaned the blow to the stomach had made me fall back now onto my back.

"Adora!" Catra scurried over to my body and slid next to me.

"I'm fine" I coughed, sitting up.

"Can't you go easier on her?" Catra begged.

Mrs. Grant exhaled, "I suppose I could, but I'm only giving an accurate situation of what would happen"

"Just, go easier until she can learn to fight better with her right shoulder" Catra compromised.

"Very well" Mrs. Grant replied.

"Is Catra going next?" I asked, hoping that she won't have to go through what I had to just go through.

"I would, but our times up" She answered, looking at her watch then back at us.

"Alright," I had gotten up with the help of Catra.

"Same time. Same place?" She asked.

We both nodded and grabbed our backpacks, heading for the door.

"Adora?" She then said before we were about to leave.

I looked back at her with a questioning look.

"I'm sorry for going so hard, you know this is only for your own good right?" She reassured.

I smiled at her reassurance.

"Yep, I know"

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Right as the door clicked which meant it was fully closed, Catra darted toward me. Her hand caressing the side of my face.

"What are you doing?" I chuckled.

"You took such a beating, are you okay?" Catra asked worriedly, still inspecting my face.

I took her hands off of my face, "Catra, I'm good"

"I don't like her touching and hurting you like that, even if it's for helping you," She said frowning.

"I know you do, but I promise you. If it's too much, I'll tell her" I promised.

"Promise?" She asked for reassurance.

"I promise" I reassured putting my pinky up to my lips then held it out for her.

She smiled and copied my actions as our pinky's met.

"We sure are making a lot of promises lately" I joked.

"We are," She said smiling.

I was about to lean in to steal a kiss, but a honk caused me to jump back.

"ADORA, GET YOUR BUTT IN HERE!" A voice screamed out of a car window.

I turned my head to see Glimmer in the front seat with her mom in the driver's seat. I couldn't help but giggle at her.

"Well, I guess Sparkles is stealing me from ya" Catra frowned.

I tilted her chin up and gave her my best smile, well the smile that always killed her.

"Ah, stop it" She blushed.

"No" I whispered, smashing my lips against her. A small groan escaped her mouth as I slid my tongue into her mouth without permission.

Catra gasped at the sudden contact but smiled quickly against my lips.

"ADORA!" Another scream came.

I rolled my eyes and broke off the kiss.

"I'll see you," I told Catra, that still seemed dazed from the kiss.

"Gotcha, don't forget to text me" She winked.

I gave her a wink back, "I would never forget"

I pulled her into a hug and ran off in the direction of Glimmer's car, waving back to Catra in the process which she returned.

"Bye!" She yelled at me.

"See ya!"