It's the next day and the same thing happened for breakfast now I'm already at school but Grant isn't here guessing he's still sleeping so instead I'm walking with Stella to homeroom
She's cool, I became friends with her during middle school, the girls at that stage were either too scared or too cocky to talk to the boys but Stella is different she doesn't care what anyone thinks and she mostly hanged out with the guys and it didn't make it awkward almost like it's natural
After homeroom was over and first and second period dragged on without Grant it was Third Period, Art.
I walk in strange enough I'm early usually I'm late if I was walking with Grant, I sat down in my seat and scrolled through Instagram waiting for the bell to ring
I see a selfie Grant posted
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With the caption that reads: with my favorite girl 💗
My blood starts to boil but being able to contain myself I tucked my phone back into pocket as soon as the bells rings the last few students walked in as did the teacher
"Morning students" she says
"Morning Ms. Tennessee" couple people said
"I know that this my first year and all I just hate to see this very room be divided by cliches, people being uninvited to conversation being judged by the way they look or how they dress which is why I'm assigning you a project with partners of my choosing" she says causing people to groan
"You and partner will make portrait of each other, and will learn new things about each other, then you'll come back and share your portrait that did of each other and list five facts that you never knew about them" she says
As Ms. Tennessee starts to name people their partners I zoned out thinking about Grant and that picture he posted until I heard my name
"Bailey and Lexi" Ms. Tennessee says as move along her list of names
I looked at Lexi who sits a couple rows in front of me, she looked at me before looking back at the front the rest of time Ms. Tennessee told us that we can have free time to talk to our partners or work on other assignments
I'm sitting across from Lexi looking down at my hands more to avoid her she must've noticed how time started to end because she finally spoke up
"Tomorrow you could come over my house and I start your portrait" she says packing up her stuff
"Uh sure" I nodded
"Cool" She says as the bell rings
I grab my stuff and walked out of art and into lunch
