Joint post w/ CrystalMushroom

After the seven mintue mark, Gale released his shadow link with Andrew. From the abilities that he learned from Andrew, he was by far most proficient using shadow link. However, because his body wasn't fully used to using his shadow, he grew tired using it for a given amount of time. He slowly closed his eyes and went to sleep. 

Alexa was spent from repeatedly reopening her barrier around herself. Yes, she did it because she didn't want to allow him anytime to talk to her at those 2 minute intervals. The other reason, she heard another student saying "Yall ugly!". She couldn't place the voice, but she didn't want to give time to anyone at this point. Her head was a little light headed after doing this for so long. She hadn't done that in a long time. Not since middle school.

'Man I don't miss this feeling.... I'm glad my secret meeting days were over.'

The thought made her sad. She didn't have a lot of friends in middle school. She was well known but only for the use of her quirk. Everyone liked spreading secrets and rumors inside her barrier after school, but no one trusted her because she knew everyone's rumors. That was so lonely back then. Her hands fell out of their position and her barrier fell. She let out the air like a sigh and breathed in normally. 

Something landed softly on her shoulder.

Gale's head landed into Alexa's shoulder once she dropped her barrier. He didn't wake, just snored.

Alexa instinctively froze when she heard the breathing. Her head slowly turned to look at what she already knew. Gale was asleep on her shoulder. Her first thought was to shove him, but he seemed really peaceful. Also, him snoring would be better for her than him talking. She'd sigh again. 

"Great..." She'd whisper to herself.

Gale was dreaming. He knew it was a dream but he couldn't wake hinself up. He was at home watching television. There was a news report on about his brother stopping an armed group of robbers. 

"You're still awesome," He said turning to his left. 

"I know," his brother said with a smile as he put on his jacket. 

"When you get home from the agency, we're going to tour U.A. right?"

"Yes. Yes. Yes. When I get back, I promise we'll tour the school. See ya when I get back."

That was the last time he saw his brother.

After some moments on the bus, she had started to play with her phone again. It didn't take long for her to notice that he wasn't snoring anymore. There was some sort of muttering. At first, she was worried he would say something silly at first, but it sounded distant and childlike.  She couldn't make it out at first, but she heard one thing "going to tour U.A, Right?" Her heart sank. There was only one person he could have been asking that. 

Back in elementary school, there was two heroes that Alexa loved more than anything. All Might, because he was the perfect hero( her father loved him and that she inherited), and Quake, Galen's older brother. She liked him because he was a really nice guy, handsome, friendly, and he was a hero she would see around. He was the neighborhood hero. The one out and about, talking to the people, the kids, helping everyone with a smile. When she got into middle school, rumors spread that his younger brother attended the school. Of course, everyone tried to hunt him down and see if he was anything like his brother. He wasn't. He was dorky, impulsive, quieter, and no where near as cool as him. Kids fell away after sometime, but Alexa didn't. She was determined become friends with this guy just to get closer to his brother. A chance to meet her crush was so close she could feel it. Then something happened, she found out how nice he was on his own and they truly became friends. In a way, he was the only person who didn't want to use her quirk for secrets and actually wanted to come around because of who she was as a person. It was nice. Coming around, seeing his family during the year. Catches glimpses of his brother from time to time walking home together. Until, that day came. When Quake was killed during an attack.

Alexa felt sorry all over again as she looked at her sleeping friend.  

It was strange, she never realized how similar the two of them looked before.