Messiah GXG : BOOK ONE (Completed) The Other Side Of The Game Series

THIRTY-FOUR

G R A C E

I watched as my classroom emptied itself of students, with Keylen as usual trailing behind them all. Leann Roberts, the class psychologist sighed next to me and I smiled as I heard Samuel and Jeff both release laughs.

"Y'all laughing but I'm tired," Leann stated, and I turned my head to look over at her as she moved closer to my desk to place the book she had been jotting notes in down on the surface.

Her words only increased their laughter, and widened my smile into a grin. I mean we all felt it, we were all exhausted but it didn't stop us from finding amusement when one of us pointed it out.

Before any of us could move to comment any further the door opened to reveal Denise, another coworker of mine.

"Everytime lunch rolls around you guys look like you're about to have a breakdown," Denise pointed out with a snicker as she pushed the door closed behind her with one hand while the other held a clipboard.

"I'm in the middle of one right now," Leann told her and Denise chuckled as she stood before my desk.

"I just came to see which one of you guys are going to be volunteering at these fundraisers," Denise pointed out with a slight shake of her clipboard.

"How many we got this time around?" Jeff asked with a scratch of his tatted neck as he and Samuel moved over to us.

"One, it's a few weeks out,"

"Let me sign it," I told her and she handed me the clipboard, which had me lifting the pen from it and in the same instant my phone started to vibrate, leaving me to glance over to it.

M

The sight of her name had me using my free hand to lift the phone, while already knowing what she was calling for as I moved from my signature, to fill out the rest of the information asked including my name, job, age, number, email, volunteering position, pronouns, etc.

I answered the device and was greeted with the sound of her clearing her throat.

"Hey," I greeted, dividing my attention between her and the form.

"Hey, I'm outside,"

"I assumed, give me a minute and I'll be out,"

"Okay," She stated before ending the call, and with that I wrote down my pronouns.

"Who was that?" Denise asked, and I simply smiled, even though the act was unintentional.

"A friend," I offered since I wasn't quite ready to release Messiah to the world.

"The same friend that be sending you lunch?" She questioned in a teasing and curious tone and I released a breathy laugh.

"Mind your business," I told her as I placed the pen back onto the clipboard before pushing it in her direction.

"You are our business," Leann pointed out as I stood and I kept my smile as well as my words as I moved to walk out of the classroom. "We gon have Jeff investigate,"

Her final words as I left made my smile widen once again into a grin as I moved down the hall. Soon what I needed to talk to Messiah about reentered my mind, and it stayed there until I was out of the school and in the parking lot, where I immediately spotted her car. With some steps, I was at the vehicle, and I quickly moved inside with a close of the door behind me.

"I got you curry chicken and rice," She announced, her accent thicker than usual in those words as she spoke while lifting the box from the bag on her lap, outstretching it towards me.