Misled

5. 'Ryder Blake Is A Mystery'.

5. 'Ryder Blake Is A Mystery'.

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“Failed, failed, failed, barley made it, failed, sort of, the worst grade ever, didn’t even get the date right, ha this one didn’t even get his name right,” Barbie said laughing a little.

“No way,” I snatched the paper from her hand and read it over.

Name: Sonora Ralph.

“What’s his name?”

“Scott, I’m sure. There’s no one named Sonora in this class, and only Scott has Ralph as a last name.” She said matter-a-factly. She took the paper and put it back in the pile that was graded.

I was in her class room helping Barbie grade. Well, we’re mainly laughing.

“Huh,” She had approval written all over her face.

“What?” I took a bite out my apple that Barbie gave me. She turned the paper over and pushed it towards me.

“All his answers are correct.” She pointed the name and continued to grade. I put the apple down and wiped my hands on my shirt. I picked up the test and examined it.

Name: Ryder Blake.

So Mr Muscular is secretly Mr Smarty. I smiled down at the test then placed it back on the desk.

“He’s actually really smart, he just never pays attention.” She said grabbing the test and marking it a one-hundred.

“What do you mean?” I picked the apple back up.

“He none stop talks to Wade and just zones out sometimes. You know what surprised me once that he did recently?” She asked looking over at me through her eye lashes.

“What?” I bit the apple.

“He zoned out. I went over to him to get his attention. When he finally snapped back to reality, the first word he said was ‘Marley’.” I widened my eyes. “Yup, everyone was surprised. Then his ex girlfriend Melissa got so mad.” She snickered at the memory.

I was still caught up on the whole he-said-my-name-after-he-zoned-out thing. That was big.

“What’d you do?” I leaned forward, interested.

“I asked him why he said your name and he just brushed it off.” How typical. I scoffed. “It was cute, though. He seemed so worried, I don’t know why. By no one gets to Ryder to the point where he says their name after coming to reality.”

“Now bring your ass in here.” Someone said cutting me off. I and Cynthia looked over to her door that just swung open. General Lucas-ew-charged in with Ryder behind him, mad.

Ryder’s eyes opened in surprise when he saw me. He collected himself and brought his eyes to how they normally were.

“Ah, Marley, I’ve been meaning to ask. How’s the Mrs?” General asked wiggling his eyebrows. I gave him a disgusted look.

“Still happily married.” I put emphasise on happily to make sure he would get that my mom didn’t want to leave my dad anytime soon. Or ever.

“Mhm, I see. Why are you here with Ms Miller?” He asked raising his eyebrow.

“Why are you here, General?” Barbie asked rubbing the bridge of her nose. “I’m obviously busy.” She gestured to the papers.

“And having Marley around isn’t making you busier?” He asked a little astonished. Hey, I’m not that bad.

“No, she’s actually helping. Can we please hurry this along?” Barbie asked grabbing another paper.