Almost! Enough she can realistically excuse getting up to leave.

Great! Time to walk back to class, then. Preferably in comfortable silence.

It's almost like she hasn't met Madoka. She chatters companionably, about the classes and people they're passing, mostly.

She endures this quietly. Apparently telling Madoka off only makes her more powerful.

She's beginning to get a sense of things!

Alas, eventually they arrive to their classroom, and the teacher (this one more stern than their homeroom teacher) makes Madoka stop talking.

Thank god.

Maybe this teacher will also be interested in actually teaching them? Homura thinks the sternness is a good sign.

The teacher does seem mostly interested in getting history lessons through their thick skulls, yes!

Oh good. Homura is interested in learning the history lessons!

She will take very diligent and elegantly styled notes in her second notebook, color coding her headings in two different shades of blue. She is so focused on learning well that she almost manages to forget that Karigane Madoka is present.

(She does not manage this, but she tries.)

Kirigane Madoka takes no notes but does stare at Homura a lot! It's almost like she has the exact opposite strategy.

Homura ignores this.

Homura tries really really hard to ignore this.

Their teachers over the rest of the day are variably good or bad at reigning in Madoka, and also variably good or bad at teaching!

One notes they're doing a group project, and would Homura like to join one of the groups?

Homura really really would not!

But, fine.

Are any groups one person short?

Madoka's group only has three people rather than four!

Of course it does.

She joins the group and looks straight down at her notebook without saying anything.

Madoka's extremely happy Homura's joined them! She actually gets her caught up on what they've done so far, even.

This is surprisingly helpful! Homura pays close attention and thanks her formally.

"Aw! You don't need to thank me, Homura-chan! I'm just a helpful person..." (Her friend snorts.)

Homura will get to work. Working is great because it is a) the right thing to do and b) a distraction from Madoka, whose existence is even more alarming at close proximity.

Madoka is either totally oblivious or fully leaning on being alarming! It's really hard to tell. She's definitely cheerful, and thanks Homura for helping so much, though. (And also slacks and goofs off a lot.)

This is not endearing at all. Homura will not be endeared in the slightest.

Madoka's friends mostly seem to find her mildly exasperating!

That is because nobody here takes school seriously enough, apparently, except for the history teacher! Homura takes school Very Seriously and so finds Madoka the correct amount exasperating, which is Extremely.

(Madoka's friends also seem only mildly affected by Madoka's face, which is equally baffling.) 

Madoka for some reason keeps putting her face in Homura's line of sight! Rude.

Madoka will be Ignored.

Is school over yet. Shouldn't school be over yet. Homura doesn't know how much longer she can take this.

School, eventually, ends.

Madoka would like to know if Homura-chan wants to hang out!