A Series Of Emotions

Ch 1. Introductions.

"What are you even doing? Why are you so blank?"
No response.

"Do you really just not talk?" Alexander scoffed, crossing his arms and spinning around to look at her sitting in what was usually his stool. "What's the point of constant silence? I can't be the only one who thinks it's boring."

Leo shot a lopsided grin before rolling her eyes as she got up and walked towards her designated seat with her laptop.

Working on the yearbook was Leo's passion. Well, maybe just the photo part, and Alexander just happened to be a good writer. It's why they were editors, actually. Because sure they hated each other passionately, but they made for a damned good pair. She never cared about writing or words. It's why she rarely chose to let them fall from her lips. It's always been this way. The silence around those she doesn't know. It's not that she wasn't capable of talking, it's just that she chose not to. Especially not to Alexander, who insisted to be referred to as Alex instead of an eye roll or just shrugged off.

Alexander slid into his stool across from Leo's. He let out a small grunt and logged in, typing away instantly to god knows what. The girl drove him absolutely insane. She always had an opinion and it usually always counteracted his. She never vocalized it, but she made sure she was heard too. It drove him crazy that two out of ten people on the staff have heard what she sounded like too, not that it mattered to him. Or so he pretends. Cas and their advisor. It wasn't like he could exactly ask either since it was clear the two had tension built up by frustration towards each other.

"I don't get why I try to talk to you half the time." He murmured to himself, causing Leo to shrug her shoulders as she focused on her uploading pictures to their football spread.

After a few moments of silence within the classroom, their advisor left to her car to get something. It was an Editor Afternoon, which means the top three in the staff were to stay after school to work on the yearbook. As soon as she left, Leo knew this was his chance. Well, maybe not a romantic chance, but a chance to work his charming trait that translated to her end as pure annoyance from Alexander since it'd be a while before their Advisor's return. But they were finally alone together, and that's what Alexander wanted.

"Hey Leo..." he started, his eyes locked onto her face to catch eye contact with her. As soon as she looked up from the laptop, her eyesight line barely above the computer itself, he continued. "Would you say your water bottle half-full or half-empty?"

And as soon as the words left his lips, her eyebrow arched up in confusion and she crossed her arms.

"What do you think?" He pressed again, reaching for her water bottle.

His arrogant smirk that he wasn't quite aware of fell when she snatched it from his reach.

"Oh, we're not playing nice?" He let out another small huff and Leo returns a blank expression blinking back at him.

Alex wasn't sure what to do with himself as a smile crept onto her lips. It was his turn to shoot a confused look, and he did. All Leo could do was let her inner monologue laugh as she opened the bottle and slowly but surely drank the rest of the bottle. Before he could speak, she set the bottle down and went back to work.

It's empty.

That's all that Alexander's spread said at the top instead of Varsity Football.