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Jiht? Well, look here, Ji Mr Donovan Pane is also an artist I have uy in town Maybe Vann is the answer to everything

Mr Schubert returns just then froin class, and everyone hushes to pay attention Vann, surprisingly, flips the page of his sketchpad to a fresh one, then starts taking notes as Mr Schubert lectures on I quickly follow suit, trying with all ht to keepartist seated next to me

An artist I’e in two months

Wow What a difference a few e of words ht as air I feel less alone I feel a spark of hope I even feel permitted to smile, should I decide to

These are all feelings I didn’t expect to have today

At one point while taking notes, we buize, there is a very brief moment in which our eyes connect to one another’s, we pull our elboay, and then we’re back to taking notes like nothing happened

But in that tiny e of power enter ives allop It’s a tiny moment of vulnerability, an instant where all his bad-boy exterior is stripped away leaving him exposed, just for that one second, that one h his eyes, I swear I can see straight to his soul We are both transported to that ht when the world faded away and it was just us in my little shed

Then it ends, and we’re just classain

I really wish he’d bump my elbow one more time

The bell comes before I expect it, and then the rustle of books, backpacks, and chatter fills the rooh the noise, re us all to read chapters 4 and 5 in our textbooks before tomorrow Vann rises from his stool and tucks his pad under an ar

I notice “You alright?”

Vann eyes ym now, huh?”

I open my mouth to answer, then freeze for so two periods back-to-back every day? “Yes,” I choke out finally “Yeah Of course Phys-ed”

“Okay Let’s go”

I blink, hugging ether?”

“Well, we’re headed to the same place, aren’t we?”