I was in the lab for Physics and sat a table across from Carrot, who was sleeping in his weird position as Professor Chutney was blabbering about density. I am, as naturally, loved Professor Chutney and has never slept in any of her class. Honeydew, who sat beside me and barely awake, tried to urge me into a conversation.
"Apple, eh umm, I forgot what to say but me and Peach has something going on lately," she said.
"What is it?" I said as I was copying down what Professor Chutney said.
"Uh, yes. Peach thinks Carrot likes you." Honeydew said as she tried to keep herself awake.
"Uh, no," I said. I was wondering why would he ever like me? His last crush, a total blast but it was Strawberry. Pretty fruit who belongs in pretty popular fruit cliques not solo ugly math-obsessed fruit like me. Put aside pointers but veggies love pretty fruits. But then about the crush, Strawberry hated him so much since then.
"We saw it, he likes to look at you, he talks to you, the way he asked you Maths was really freaking different than how he was interacting with other fruits." Peach stops writing and continued Honeydew, who has finally slept in.
"Okay guys, take the apparatuses, we're going to study the link between density and volume of these metal objects." Professor Chutney said as she pushed in a levelled cart into the laboratory. As I heard her, I instantaneously looked behind and found that precisely 86.78 percent of the class has fallen into the basic Professor Chutney-induced sleep. Carrot finally woke up and was in group with Zucchini and Leek. I was grouped with Peach, Honeydew and Redcurrant. All the other fruits and veggies were still asleep and Professor Chutney was already fed up by them.
Honeydew, still high after waking up, went to the cart with me. We observed the metal weights of various shapes and I took out this weird can with a weird looking spout, which was pointing downwards. I wasn't that noob, I knew that was a Eureka can.
"Use the Eureka can to measure displacement and I have prepared this electric scale for weighing." Professor Chutney said as she went to see the technician for a broken projector.
"Professor, can you look up the volume formulae for prisms of octagonal, pentagonal cross sections and also for an octahedron?" I said as I took away all the masses back to our workbench.
"Yes, Apple." she replied as she was scrolling up in her phone and wrote them on the board.
"Thank you." I said and picked up the Eureka can, heading to the back sink. I filled the water up the spout and returned to my bench. Peach and Honeydew were already measuring masses of the object and jotted them down in Honeydew's notebook.
"Nice, I have the Eureka can ready." I said.
"We have a problem, actually." Peach said as she was struggling to balance the spherical mass on the scale.
"Why don't you guys use the-." I said but I was cut off. All of my groupmates were smirking.
"-beaker and just legit minus the beaker's mass." Leek appeared out of a sudden in front of us, well, I think just to act as if he has outsmarted me.
"Shut up, how dare you cut me off!" I said, asserting my superiority in devising clever ideas, eheh. Having cooled down several minutes later, I helped them measure the sphere. Suddenly...
"Apple,"
"Yes?" I said as I turned around.
"What is the volume for the sphere?" it was Carrot who called me and asked.
"Four over three, pi radius cubed." I said as I dropped a cube into the can.
"Ok." he replied and I quickly look away. I looked back once and I found him smiling. It was kinda weird because I've known him as an expressionless person, though. Nonetheless, I continued my experiment with Peach, Redcurrant and Honeydew. I should not think much about neither Carrot's expressions nor the explosion that happened with Salad's group at the back and also that broken beaker Leek dropped.
"Ey, we've finished our experiment already. Where's professor?" I said. Speak of the devil, Professor Chutney came back with a box and Carrot tried to hide away Leek's broken beaker.
"Professor, Leek had a broken beaker." I said. A calm Professor Chutney changed into a mad one and walked to Carrot's workbench.
"Leek! Sweep up all the shards. Less marks for your group's carried marks for this experiment." She said as Leek rushed to take the broom. I could see Carrot's varied expressions again as he glanced subtly madly at me.
*
Class was already dismissed and I stayed in and Carrot was still in the lab. As I finally came out, Carrot got me standing still at the outer wall. His hair was cut close except for a few short locks that were kinda let loose but what made me intimidated was his freckled pale white face.
"Apple," he said.
