"Ayup."

"Ok."

He scans the courtyard for Brad. Is he anywhere to be seen?

Sure! There he is, with his jock friends.

Well, it would obviously be a bad idea to start anything just yet.

Yes, it would. Eva makes her way over to Brad. She smiles, starts fiddling with her hair, and asks, "Can we chat?"

Taking the answer to be a yes (obviously), she leads him out of Theo's view. She has something to handle.

Yep, he follows her, with a slight sneer on his face. His friends' reactions vary from slightly amused to encouraging, but they don't make a fuss of it.

Theo turns back to Sadde and Willow and smiles. "So, we have Bio first? ... I don't think I have any lessons with you, Willow – I'm guessing you're not a junior?"

"Oh, no, I'm a sophomore."

"Yep, she's a baby and I'm corrupting her."

"Might want to be careful, Willow. You see how quickly he's corrupted me."

She blushes a little.

"We actually dated for a while. Didn't work out."

"Oh. I guess... that's a shame? At least you're still friends, though!"

"Yeah, Willow's rad." Bell! "And we should probably go to class."

"Yeah."

And so Theo walks alongside Sadde to Bio.

Sadde says 'bye to Willow and then: Bio!

And Sadde doesn't actually sleep in Bio, because he finds it interesting, right?

Cells. And organelles. And stuff. Sigh.

Well Sadde himself does find it interesting, even if last night left him somewhat tired.

Tired? Pff. Theo's not.

It's really not interesting. Eventually the lesson ends.

And Sadde has Latin!

"See you at lunch? Or are you gonna sit with your new jock friends?"

Theo has French!

"I'll probably sit with you today. It didn't start anything on Monday, so it should be fine."

"Your social naïveté is endearing."

"Oh, merci beaucoup. I'm surprised you know that word – isn't it a bit too French for you?" He sticks out his tongue.

"Careful with that tongue, someone might end up stealing it," he says, and attempts to pinch it between his index finger and thumb.

Theo jerks back. "Yeah, I really hope not. There's probably something that does that." He looks a bit miserable. "I should probably get to French, anyway."