DIFFERENT -Eli Moskowitz-

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written from Kay's perspective 

The two of us walked to the kitchen together for dinner. I was walking behind Eli, and waited for him to sit down at the table before I sat next to him, and his mom sat across from us on the other side of the table. 

"Let's eat!" Mrs. Moskowitz said, and she started dishing each of us up a plate, with, like she had said, chicken and potatoes. After we all had our plates, she gasped and stood up from the table "I forgot drinks, what does everyone want?" She asked. I looked over at Eli, seeing what he was going to have, cause I would just have the same thing as him.

"I'll just have water mom." He told her, then looked at me. 

"Me too please." I said, looking from Eli to Mrs. Moskowitz. She nodded and walked away from the table to go get our drinks. 

"Your mom is really nice." I said to Eli, taking a bite of my potatoes. 

"Thanks, I think she can be a little much, but trust me, she's being extra nice right now. She is trying to impress you, probably hoping you stay around and don't ditch me." He said with a kind of sad smile. I placed my hand onto his shoulder to comfort him, but also so he knew I was being serious. 

"Well, if that's what you think she's doing, then once I leave you can tell her she doesn't have to because I'm not ditching my new friend, I like him too much to do that." I told him with a smile, and I rubbed my thumb on his shoulder for just a moment before pulling it away, just before him mom came back over, with a glass of water for each of us. She handed me my water, then Eli his. She must have noticed Eli's blush, and she winked to him when she handed him his glass, thinking I wouldn't notice, but I did. I thought it was cute how she was acting with him. She set her own glass of water down, and sat back in her seat, and we all started eating. 

"These potatoes are amazing!" I exclaimed as I took another bite of them. 

"Thank you." Mrs. Moskowitz said with a smile. "So since we're just hanging out eating, now can I know the story of why you're wearing my son's sweater?" She asked. A blush ran across my cheeks in embarrassment as I recalled the memory of the guy dumping the tray down on my head. 

"Well, I ended up at a lunch table, filled with quite rude people, and they were making fun of Demetri, and Eli, and Miguel-" I started telling her but she cut me off.

"Who's Miguel?" She asked. 

"He's another new kid. He ate lunch with us today, and we have some classes together, so he's a new friend too I guess." Eli told her, before she nodded and then looked back at me expecting me to continue the story, so I did.

"Well the table I sat at originally was making fun of them, and I didn't like it, so I left and went over to Eli's table, and they were a lot nicer. Then some mean guy from the first table came over and told me to come back over, and when I told him I didn't want to, he dumped my lunch on me, so my shirt was ruined and I needed something else to wear, and Eli became my hero and offered me up his sweater." I finished looking over at Eli with a smile. He shyly smiled back at me, and his mom kept looking between us. She seemed to be judging us, as if questioning how true the story was. I mean, yeah I left out a few details, but they weren't important. I didn't need to admit to Eli and his mom, that Yasmine and her friends were making fun of Eli's lip, and I surely wasn't going to mention that I may have slapped the guy first, cause that would just make me seem like a bad person, and I'm sure Mrs. Moskowitz would not want me to be near her son ever again if I told her that part. So I left out those sorts of details. 

"Well then-" Mrs. Moskowitz said pulling me back to reality "-it's good to hear that my Eli's been making some new friends." She said, and Eli put his head down embarrassed that his mom had said that in front of me. I discreetly put my hand on his knee, under the table so his mom wouldn't see, in hopes to make him feel better.