The teacher writes a little note and hands it to Eva.

She takes it, trying to smile, and then walks to the nurse's office, wiping at her eyes in the corridor before her tears smudge her mascara.

She cannot cope with this little sleep, okay? She thought she could, but she keeps dreaming about demons stabbing her and various gruesome ways in which she dies, and she feels like she is running on no sleep at all and it is not okay.

The nurse is in alone in her office. She looks up and looks concerned. "How can I help you, dear?"

"Do you know anything about nightmares?" she asks, sighing. "I mean, I haven't got any sleep in the past like four days because I keep having these stupid nightmares." She sniffs and says, "I fell asleep in class."

Okay, so, maybe she's not being the most coherent she could possibly be, but– circumstances.

"How did you get no sleep if you had nightmares? Or do you mean they woke you up and you couldn't get back to sleep?"

"I mean I feel like I got no sleep, even though I did."

She still looks like she might be about to cry.

"...I'm not really prepared to help you with that. I could give you some sleeping pills, but I'd need your parents' permission."

"I don't know, I just. I need a bit of a break from my lesson right now, because all I was gonna do was freak out in that room, or burst into tears, or something, and I just couldn't deal with that."

Yes, she is indeed crying by this point. She wipes at her eyes, though, and gets a tissue out of her bag.

"Oh, dear, you can stay here if you like. Do you want some tea? Maybe some hot chocolate?"

"I… Thanks," she sniffs, taking a seat, "but I think I'll be okay? Maybe some water?"

"Sure, dear." And she gets some water on a plastic cup and offers it to Eva.

Eva takes it, dabs at her eyes a few more times, and then drinks it and sits there, trying to calm down.

The nurse will resume doing whatever-it-is she'd been doing before Eva came in once it's clear her help won't be needed.

Then, about five minutes before the end of the lesson, Eva gets up, thanks the nurse, and walks back to class to get the work from the teacher so she can catch up.

The teacher gives it to her and asks, "Are you feeling better?"

"A bit, thanks," she says, smiling kinda tiredly, and then she leaves for the cafeteria.

At least she can have like 45 minutes of interaction with people at her own pace, now. She doesn't need to do anything but sit there, explain that she's tired, and talk to her friends as she wants to anyway.

Her friends are waiting for her at their usual table! They all have food already.

Well, in that case she'll go fetch some food!

Hum hum hum. Sitting in a line, moving around to get some food, talking to people if they're nearby.

You know, it's so nice now she's had her little breakdown. She can just… breeze, even though she's super terribly sleep-deprived.

Until, that is, Sadde, who was just in front of her on the line, suddenly trips and falls, dropping her tray in a very weird arc.

Brad's snicker is the only thing that breaks the sudden silence, his foot positioned very suspiciously relative to Sadde's flight. "Should watch where you're going, Woods."

Eva blinks a bit, her bubble broken by the loud noise.

Theo crouches down over Sadde, then glares at Brad and says, "What the fuck?"

He sneers a bit. "I was relaxing here and she tripped on my foot. Wasn't looking where she was going."

Sadde remains there, on the floor.

Eva blinks at the scene a bit more, then notices the blood.

She looks down for a second, then puts her tray on the counter beside her and leans down to help Sadde up, trying to be comforting, but giving Brad a look that says back off.