Anella sat in class twirling her pencil in her fingers. Thoughts of Tyler swarmed her head. She was brought out of her daydream by the loud beeping of her phone. The class stared at her; the teacher unimpressed with her noisy distraction.
"Anella, if you must take that, do it outside of the classroom. No phones."
Anella walked out with her head hung, avoiding eye contact from the teacher. She felt embarrassed, her face pink and her heart fluttering she closed the door behind her. The eyes of her class, no matter how its happened to others before, made her feel a spectacle and all the more awkward. With a quick shake of her head, she remembered the reason she was out in the hall. Her hands wrapped tightly around her phone.
Looking down, the LED light blinking bright blue rapidly, Anella was in a state of confusion. Blue was the colour of Carl, and though she hadn't heard from him at all over the winter break, she felt her stomach turn. Anella unlocked her phone and clicked her messages tab.
It was Carl. She thought to herself how odd it had been to hear from him again. "Gym?" Anella shook her head. School would drag on to about 530 tonight unless they let the class out early by fifteen minutes. She fiddled around with her phone and gauged the likelihood of her going to meet up with him at the gym. Anella had not heard from him for at least 2 weeks, its been a long day, and frankly she had better things to do like watch "How to Train Your Dragon" for the 17th time. She started typing away at her phone.
That sounds nice and all, but I'll be pretty tired after class and I don't feel like shaving my legs just to get all sweaty.
Anella laughed at herself and felt satisfied with this answer, it wasn't a lie, and it sounded in her humour. As she began walking back to the class and her poorly manicured hand reached for the door handle her phone buzzed again. She was somewhat excited to see Carl's response to her humorous excuse.
You're going to hate this but; I just don't have the energy for you right now.
Anella's face cringed in confusion. She was little disappointed in his lack of humour, but replied anyway; turned off her phone and returned to class.
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