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And just like that, we snap back into our stiff characters and resume the rest of the scene Ms Joy calls ti to pick up with scene five at too home

Toby catches me by the exit doors, just like he did yesterday “Hey, V-Vann?”

I face him “Sup?”

He grips both of his backpack straps like he’s hanging on to a parachute, pulling them towards each other across his chest as he wrestles for the rest of his words It’s adorable, watching him think He’s a very expressive thinker “I was just, uh … thinking …” Obviously “… thatout again”

I try not to s around all over the place,a mess of my insides “Sure”

“Sure? Yeah? Alright, great!” A relieved s out, then! Maybe we could even go over soet ives a less-than-kind gaze at the seats where the random onlookers sat “… all of the …”

“Unwelcoood”

His eyes light up “Does it?”

“Yep Also we need to get more comfortable with each other”

“With … each other?”

“Didn’t Ms Joy basically imply today we’re terrible actors?”

“I … wouldn’t go that far,” he insists Then he reconsiders it “Actually yeah, I guess she did”