[onhold] Through All Seasons

8│Winter: 'Cause baby when I'm with you I don't know where I'd rather be.'

I woke up early the next day, realizing I was still angry at Thomas and frustrated with my entire life situation. 

On my way to school, I thought about Thomas. He left me when I needed him most. On the other side, I realized, I had no true answer about what he was feeling towards me. I always thought he had a crush, but now I wasn't even sure he considered me as a valuable friend or a friend in that matter. 

My hair was unkempt when I arrived at school thanks to the heavy wind. While walking in the building, I tried to calm them with my fingers. I had very thick hair which did not come in handy at the moment. 

I arrived at my locker and got my Spanish and history books out. As I got up again, my locker was shut. I was startled for a second until my eyes met his. 

"Good morning, sunshine." His rough voice sent electricity shocks through my body. 

"I'm not a ray of sunshine," I answered grumpily to underline my statement. 

"Apparently not," he chuckled. "We meet after school to go over the script together." It wasn't a question, it was an order. 

Every atom in my body screamed no, don't let him boss you around, but the truth was we had to go over the script. If we started rehearsing tomorrow, we needed to get some lines in our heads today. But why was he so motivated to do so? I thought being part of this play was on his bucketlist on the last spot. I wished I was able to figure him out, just a little bit. Just 10%, pretty please. 

"I take it as a question and my answer is 'sure'. Let's meet in the classroom of Mr. Stein, he probably leaves it to us." I started walking to my Spanish class while Collin walked beside me. 

He spotted Rowan at his locker and left me in an instant. 

I shrugged my shoulders and continued to walk towards the Spanish classroom. 

I thought about everything other than the work in front of me. I got out my drama script silently and started to read act I over and over. It surely did no harm to be prepared for later.

As soon as the bell announced the end of class, I stumbled out to get to history - and Collin. We didn't have a fixed seating order so in order to stay away from him as often as possible I switched seats to the opposite side of the room, further away from Collin and right next to a small window. 

I didn't believe one second that he'd notice. 

I sat down and prepared myself for another boring episode of history. Again, a small remark, yes, world wars are highly important and we need to know that stuff to prevent it from happening again, but Mr. Stein's monotonous voice was not very helpful at all. He mostly just sat at his desk and read the chapter about the event. He was still into it and hyped about it, but still chose to lecture us this way. 

Collin entered the classroom right before Mr. Stein and sat down at his usual seat. For one second, I thought seeing confusion in his face before he turned to the front. 

"Hello class," he said as he entered the room. 

I groaned quietly. 

"I hope you understood now everything about the events leading to world war I and the world war itself. Any questions so far? Last chance!" Once more I wished I understood something to even be able to ask a question. "No? Alright, alright. My fellow teacher Mr. Hill suggested to me a new approach to teach. I will form groups of three and each group gets a question - in our case regarding the world war of course. You will prepare a small presentation of ten minutes until Thursday. Everything else is up to you. I won't suggest a frame or a method or a presentation style."