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Just as the bell was ringing Isaac ca into his seat which he then proceeded to nearly fall out of I steadied his chair before it fell over

“Thank you, for that lovely entrance Mr Friedh Isaac blushed and looked around at the class ere all giving hilances He shook his hair out of his face and placed his book bag on the desk

My hand shot out and grabbed his ar my lips

“Isaac! What is this?” I shrieked in a whisper, referring to the black lines snaking along the inside of his arm in an elaborate pattern

“A tattoo,” he said

“Well, that’s obvious But why?” I begged to know

“It was for my birthday,” he mumbled under his breath

“Isaac,” I whined, “ould you want to ruin your body with a bunch of less ink?”

“It isn’t less You wouldn’t understand,” he snapped Clearly, so my only human friend and I intended to find out what it was

“Tryat hi

“I can’t tell you If I told you what it was for I would be breaking the oath,” he said in all seriousness

“You’re joking right?” I looked into his blue eyes and knew the answer before he spoke it

“I wish I was,” he sighed, his hair falling into his face and covering his blue eyes He flicked the dyed dark blue strand over his eye so he could see me better I had always like the way the dark blue strand blended in to his dark brown, almost black, hair

“So, you can’t tellnot to call attention to us

“No,” he said si down at his feet Normally, I would have pressed thea bunch of questions about so that was obviously none of my business