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I couldn't stop thinking about what Chase had said despite the absolute lunacy of him even attempting to dig through someone's personal files. Part of me was still hating on the fact he did it, while the other part couldn't get rid of the fact he had blatantly stated -- "Don't you get it? Gabe doesn't exists. He's a ghost!" I tried to come up with a thousand reasons why he wouldn't have any past of records or his parent's records--maybe they went into a witness program and had all their files put under a new name, or maybe Gabe was adopted and there is no record of his biological parents or maybe, just maybe, Chase found the wrong Gabe.
The crazy thing? I didn't even know Gabe's last name, let alone his past childhood.
It made me begin to wonder if what Chase implied wasn't exactly wrong.
"Okay, carbon cycle. What does the carbon cycle consist of?" Gabe began to quiz me wiggling his brows as he kept up the quizlet screen away from my prying eyes. We were currently having another round of us taking turns quizzing each other for Mrs. Cushner's upcoming test. To my utter dismay, midterms were just around the corner and I was barely scraping by with B's and one C. I couldn't fail my environmental science class or else I won't pass sophomore year and won't be able to get any scholarships for college--I couldn't fail. You can only be in kindergarten so many times before it starts to look incredibly lame on one's record.
So, with a heavy sigh, I groaned. "Ugh! How am I supposed to memorize all these stupid cycles when I can barely memorize a number chart in Spanish?"
Gabe chuckled lightly, "Look, it's not that hard--"
I scoffed lightly, "Coming from the guy with straight A's and an honor's roll."
He shot me a curt look, "Just try."
Seeing how he wasn't going to let me simply say no or bypass this quizzing altogether, I squeezed my eyes real tight, trying to go with the best possible guess in my head. "Um, well, the carbon cycle gets effected by factories and shit--"
"Which are called. . .?"
"Does it matter what they're called? They're factories," I bluntly mused.
Gabe shook his head, grinning mischievously, "You have to use the right connotation if you want to get the full points."
"Okay, greenhouse effects and shit," I dryly quipped.
Gabe smirked, "Okay, so what's the cycle in a whole round order?"
"There's the trees that breathe, which give life to animals and people, and the people and animals breathe air, thus carbon, and the factories spew out shit--"
Gabe was about to correct me when I said, "I mean, greenhouse effect," he winked at me as an earnest 'good' before I added, "and then percepiption happens because of all the dust and crap in the air, and it rains, and everyone's happy, and the end."
