Too Different?

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  "Why is it spinning?" I covered my mouth to stop my laughter.

"I don't know." The video was strange, where did the fox really come from?

"Okay, this is our presenter for today, he's awfully shy. He's an old student of mine, Mr. Blaund?" The teacher announced and stepped out the classroom for a moment.

Justin took that opportunity to put his phone away, and try to stop laughing. Though, because of that video, it was hard to break our grins.

"H-hello class." A short man walked in the classroom. He shuffled around, held a briefcase, and had the brightest green eyes I've ever seen. Something tells me he's a lawyer.

"He's one of the best lawyers in the state. I can't believe it's been just eight years, huh?" The teacher shook his hand.

"The eight years were harsh though."  His voice was off, I looked up at him. He was wearing wide-rim glasses and a cute patterned vest. He stared back at me so I looked away quickly, he took the glasses off.

"I brought papers too." He turned towards the teacher pulling papers out of his briefcase.

"What's this for Harry?" The teacher asked, I assumed his name was Harry Blaund. I grinned thinking of the name, it could be useful when I get my flow of ideas for stories.

"I-I'm not that good at speaking freely so I made this."  He showed the worksheet and the teacher's face lit up.

"That's a great idea!" She took the papers and swiftly passed them to every other person in the class.

"People with papers find partners, if the person with a paper chooses you partner up with them. It'll be fun." She counted down and everyone separated, I guess no one wanted to pair up with anyone random. Ginger had a paper, I had none and had a feeling Summer and Hunter would partner up and Emily and John.

"I bet you thought you didn't have a partner." I felt a hand grasp mine. "You have me." Justin grinned pulling me closer to where he was, my hands were cold so they were warming in his.

"Everyone have a partner?" The teacher looked around, happy and disgusted faces filled the room.

"I don't want to be her partner." Ginger complained, Emily stood next to her as John stared at her with longing eyes. I snorted at the fact neither of them got a paper though they were sitting next to each other.

"Luze, give me your hands." Justin took my hands in his, I pulled them away.

"Justin.. no, they'll see." He retook my hands.

"Oh well... You better hide us then 'cos I'm not letting go." He grinned evilly. I dragged us to the computers so we could hold hands without them seeing.

"So we're creating an argument. Person with the paper creates a case as the defendant, the partner acts as the accused lawyer to prove them innocent. Write your case on this paper below." I read aloud looking at the paper.

"Like a murder or something?" Justin asked.

"I guess something like that. Looks like I can't help with your crime, I'm just the lawyer." I snickered, he was bullying me so I bullied him back.

"What? Luze no help me. Help me." He whined tapping the pencil.

"Nope, I can't." He pulled my face close to his and put a book in front.

"If we do it like this, they won't know." I moved the book out of the way.

"I already said do it yourself." I giggled at his childishness. Harry announced we had five minutes left so  Justin whined and began writing on the paper in a speedy manner.

"C-can I have the papers now?" Harry asked meekly standing in the middle of the class. I got up to give him the paper but Justin refused to let go of my hands.

"Ah. Oh my god. Let go." I tugged and he let go and I gave Harry our paper.

"I think I like this one. Oh and this one. Where's Luze, Diamond, Chester, and Emily?" Harry pulled out his glasses and slipped them coolly on his face.

The four of us stood up and walked over to him. He flipped through the papers before pointing at me, he opened his mouth as if he was to say something but no words came out. He then laughed and gave me the paper.

"Read this. Then we'll determine who's guilty or not." Harry's grin was more malicious than Justin's. Since when have boys been this scary?

"O-okay." I took the paper and began to read.

Twelve year old girl missing for two years, finding remains of her body the police found Justin's fingerprints on the objects around. What made Justin suspicious? There were fingerprints on an axe and also a large roll of garbage bag. Prove Justin is innocent?

"What?!" My jaw dropped after reading that and I stared at the small drawing after the last words. How was he supposed to be innocent after that?

"Ready?" Harry looked at me, confident, a little too confident. I then grew a huge smile of my face, it was like a story I've written before.

"I'm ready." I breathed in heavily then got ready, hopefully I remembered the content.