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November, 10th (2)

Noah's POV:

The second time Nymphadora walked in late with a slip signed by the nurse, it worried me.

She takes the only empty seat in the class, which is in front of me by some luck, and starts copying the math equation on the board.

She is not okay.

No shit, Sherlock!

"No swearing in my class, Mister Anderson." Miss Helen scowls at me and I mutter a quiet apology. 

The following 10 minutes go by glancing at Nymphadora every 30 seconds. I am surprised she didn't notice me, and if she did, she did a good job hiding it. None of the guys had this class with me, which is good, otherwise, they would have made fun of me being whipped.

Never in a million years would I have thought that she needed to go to the nurse's station when she said she had to go somewhere before class. 

15 minutes before the class ends, Nymphadora crosses her arms on the desk and buries her head in it. Her headache must be pretty bad.

Luckily, she gets away with sleeping now, too.

"Nymphadora, wake up." I shake the sleeping girl up when the class ends. She lifts her head and looks at me with cute sleepy eyes. "Nymphadoraaaaa," I say in a sing-song voice and she snaps out of her cute look and immediately adjusts her mask.

"How's your headache?" I ask as she packs her things. 

"It's killing me." She groans.

"I have an idea," I say, "Why don't we skip school and have fun? I am sure it will help with your headache." I say without giving it much thought.

"Ashley..." She trails off.

"We can pick her up on our way. Let's go before the next class starts. Hurry up!" I say and she promptly gets up.

I got the feeling that she has never skipped a class, let alone the entire day, hence the hesitation.

We make our way to the Juniors' and I wait for Nymphadora outside the admin office while she gets Ashley. Luckily, I had brought my car instead of my bike. I quickly text the guys to meet me at a cafe about 15 minutes from school. I know I should tell Nymphadora but she would straight up refuse if she knew that there were others involved.

Once she has Ashley, we make our way out. It was getting pretty cloudy, indicating rain or a thunderstorm and Nymphadora was only in a hoodie so I wear my jacket after we get in the car for obvious reasons. 

"So, where do you want to go?" I ask, backing out of the parking lot.

"Anywhere is fine," She replies.

"Okay, so there is this new cafe that just opened, I was wondering if you wanna go there?"

"Suit yourself," she says, resting her head on the headrest and closing her eyes.

"You can have a nap or something if you want to, I'll wake you up when we get there." I offer and she opens her eyes to look at me with a side glance.

"Are you sure you are not going to kidnap me and Ashley and ask for ransom money?" She asks.

I dramatically gasp and place one hand on my heart in mock hurt. "How could you think like that?"

She giggles which causes me to let out a laugh.

As we stop at a traffic light, I open the glove compartment and fish out a lollipop. I offer it to Ashley who hesitates at first but accepts it and slumps in her seat.