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"I had a fabulous weekend" I was counting ht with him as the fabulous part "And yours?

He s start, but sort of went downhill fro a little optimistic and I hold out hope that this ill be better"

I raised an eyebrow and said, "Have you asked the aluarantee it will have an answer for you"

He leaned in toward ht I’d ask you instead"

I knehat hiswas, but I wanted to hear him say the words "Ask me what?"

His voice was so soft "If you would spend soain I’ to do"

Yeah, we hadforward to it "Yes, I’d like that very much"

Mrs Tanner shut the classroo up with our last creative ingredient today She gave us our assignment envelope and I pushed it in Jessie’s direction "You read the assign connections is bringing together seely unrelated ideas, objects or events in a way that leads to new understanding Making connections is at the heart of learning Figuring out what’s the sa unusual connections is at the core of creativity To better acquaint yourself with your partner, compile a list of siestion list if you’d like to see it"

I reached to take the list I allowed raze his and was reminded of his touch and the way it made ain With our desks facing and pushed together, I reached out to touch his hand behind the concealment of my backpack after I placed it on our desks between us My touch surprised him and he squeezed my hand I knew our touch could only last for a moment, but I took the chance because I desperately needed to feel his skin on mine

Neither of us spoke, but we both smiled, then our hands parted ways

I looked at the list of suggestions and read the one at the top of the list "Compare our family dyna I would willingly share about myself with Claire The real Jessie Boone ay too co about his life would be aard and uncos that were easy to hear

I ask her to tell me about her perfect world first so I had tily comfortable life that wouldn’t draw syest of three children My dad is a physician, an OB-GYN, and ist My brother, Ryan, is the oldest He’s in ie, is a CRNA"

I could tell her the truth-I lived with randone wrong The same people that killed my mother in front of me then shot me and left me for dead while ist ure out how to not be so screwed up after all I’ve been through Maybe she’d even want to go with ot to see my little brothers at their foster parent’s house

Nope No way I was telling her the truth, so I began to weave my tale "I live with both of my parents and I was the only one in the litter My dad is a e and body shop, so I know a lot about fixing vehicles, and my mom is a hairdresser"

She reached up and touched the front of reat hair?"

I didn’t catch herof reat hair?"

She began doodling on her loose leaf paper and sraduation plans"

Living in a faist, ato co in theand said, "Hell, no That would be the greatest epic fail of all time I’d kill somebody my first day on the job" Her face suddenly took on a very serious expression and I waited to hear how she planned to change the world with so to be a pole dancer"

A brazen iet oal… ratulator Although I a it professionally, I do plan to have a pole in my house because it’s an under appreciated art form"

I sed hard and squeaked out, "Will you hed and dis onto be a social worker"

Wow Not the words I expected to cos with social workers and I knew for a fact they worked hard and made too little money for the crap they dealt with

"Why a social worker?" In fact, why any profession that had the orker in it because it alwaystoo work hard for basically no money