$ting / NessCas

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Another day began, as marked by the knocks on your bedroom's door.

You opened your eyes, waking up. You directed yourself to the kitchen and greeted your mother. She served you breakfast and you then ate it.

You then got prepared for school and left your house.

Once at school, you sat on your typical desk. Lucas wasn't at school again, apparently. You sighed.

Your friend Jeff then approached you, saluting you. Then a lot of your other classmates surrounded your desk.
"Why were you absent yesterday?" "Are you okay?" "Ness... are you feeling good?"

You lied to your classmates telling them that you had been absent to school because you were a little bit sick. They all told you they wished you get better. You didn't care.

The class soon started and Lucas didn't get to class. You kind of felt bad and upset, he lied to you.

Half of the class went by, when Lucas arrived. You were actually quite surprised. Then you felt guilty for thinking he lied to you. Lucas didn't seem to be like that.

The teacher finished explaining the subject and then left a five-exercise classwork. Lucas missed half of the lesson, so you did quickly the five exercises and let him copy them. Lucas didn't want to copy them at first, but you convinced him into doing so; because if he didn't, he'll get a zero. Lucas copied the five answers in his notebook, and promised you he wouldn't do it again.

The bell rang, and as you exited the classroom, you encountered Paula. You introduced Lucas to her, and she examined him quickly before introducing herself. Then after, she began talking to Lucas about how the next class, philosophy, sucked. Lucas nodded, saying he was kind of bad at that subject.

It kind of made you feel weird the fact that he got to speak to Paula so naturally in such little time; while he barely talked to you...

The three of you got to philosophy class. You sat on your typical desk at the back of the room. You overheard Paula asking Lucas if he wanted to sit next to her, but to your surprise, he denied – saying he wanted to sit next to you. And so he did.

The rest of the class, you both whispered to each other things about how dumb the lesson was, or how you disliked some of the people's philosophical opinions. Lucas would often try to contain the laughter you provoked him. You would often smile back at him.

Lunch time came around and Lucas and you decided to go eat together. It was indeed kind of cool spending all this time with him.

Once at the lunch table, all of your friends joined you. At the beginning they would all talk to Lucas enthusiastically, but that later developed into a random conversation between only Lucas and you. You knew it was sort of selfish from you; excluding all of your friends and centering only in Lucas. On the other hand, you didn't really care about what your friends were talking about. You preferred talking to Lucas more.

Lunch time finished, and Paula pulled Lucas by the arm, saying that he would be leaving with her because they both had history class together. You then said bye to them, and left Lucas and Paula alone.

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A boring chemistry class later, you got out of the class and into the hallway. You scanned through it, in hopes of spotting Lucas – which you did. You waved at him, and he looked at you sort of nervous... and awkward.

You both walked together towards art class, the penultimate class before school's over. Once in the classroom, you tried to talking to Lucas, but now he seemed somewhat sad. The teacher told all of the class to continue working on the paintings you all started last week.

Half of the class went by, and Lucas and you didn't cross words. It was very uncomfortable to you. You then peaked at Lucas' canvas to see what he was drawing – it was a picture of what seemed to be his family. And it was indeed a very beautiful picture. You had no idea Lucas could draw like that. It was absolutely more well-done that your drawing of your dog King.

After staring into the picture for a while, you decided to break the silence between Lucas and you and asked him what class he had next.

"Uh... I have p.e." he said.
"Really? Me too!"
"Yeah."
"Will you playing any particular sport in the class?"
"What do you mean?"
"Oh! Well... here at school you can choose to practice a sport the entire school year. You can play volleyball, basketball, or even baseball... like me! Uh... there are other sports though... I just can't really remember them haha." You explained.
"Hm... okay."

Then you both stayed silent for the rest of the class.

Once P.E. came, you expected Lucas to go play something like table tennis or volleyball; but he didn't. You were overly surprised when you saw him in the baseball field, holding a  bat. Maybe he just wants to try something new. You thought.

"Yo' Lucas!" You said whilst running towards him.
"Hi, Ness." He replied.
"Sooo... why'd you came to baseball?" You asked.
"I wanted to see you." He said, and you could feel your cheeks grew red.
"I wanted to see you play! T-that's what I meant!" Lucas corrected himself, and you could perfectly see him blushing as well.

The class went as normal as possible. You could see Poo practicing some type of martial art next to the baseball field, while Paula was holding a baseball glove and talking with some friends while she "played" baseball. Jeff was really roaming around the track field with Tony. Lucas was staring at you the entire time.

You were holding your ever-trusty wooden bat. You were about to swing. The ball approached you, and you hit it. Yet another home run. You ran through all of the bases and as you did so, you glanced quickly at Lucas. He seemed ever so excited! That made you so, so happy.