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lder and whispered into my ear,

at him and put a fry in my mouth. “He’

try to be friends w

said, “You say that l

sometimes." He pinched

ears tune into the other conversations so that I didn’t h

teachers. He makes chemistry fun and he jokes around a lot, he kind of reminds

y favorite teachers, when I was pleasantly surprised to fin

to him, “Mind a partner? I figure you would want to par

are made? Talking to people you don’t know yet?” There was a line

refreshing, and not a lot of peo

you need an escape from whoever ends up sitting next to you “ I point

to talk to Kiran, “You know another way to make friends and meet p

ing down. “Why are you so hellbent on me going to

be

o himself, “Yeah, I’m definitely not going,” then he looked at me and whispered, “but thanks for

he can be a little rough around th

back, adjusting my posture during our s

wn and began writing so

ne of them being next to Kiran. I had a feeling that he didn’t want to be at the table with the

e – his name is Jackson, and he slacks a lot in his classes. I knew that Kiran would be doing all the work and Jackson would ta

ran while I played with the

th and he practically snarled

apologizing to the girl next to me as she mum

“He’s your cousin, you can handle hi

Kiran with a smile. I was pleased with mys

who folded his arms on the table before laying his head down. I pee

him and whispered

g. Dammit, Aurora, you know better than that! I mumbled a quick apol

was looking at me, so I looked back at him

table as he looked at me and a

was acting smug

d to look away before he saw me

oard for us, “Today we will begin our class by opening our books to page 32, and there we will find the

ced mine in the center of the desk for us to share. He whi

ld get along with some of the people here! He was funny, in a dry humor kind of way, whi

t as an opportunity to sneak a piece of paper inside his jacket pocket with th

sked halfway through class and my heart skipped a bea

g that gets confiscated here ge

cks," he

so I unzipped my jacket to show him the wire that was threaded from my pocket and up through my sleeve to my hand so that every time I rest my h

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