Well, since there's nowhere else she obviously needs to be, Eva will just keep talking to her friends until the bell.

There's drama! As usual. Erik does show up, naturally, because of course he does. Janet is chilly polite to a confused Verity, Amber is cool and aloof and barely pays attention, Brittany can't wait to graduate and meet college boys since her heart was broken by the fact that the new junior is gay (not that she would've made a move or even indicated her interest anyway).

And eventually: the bell.

Yeah, it's very terrible that the new junior is gay. Eva sighs about this fact along with Brittany.

Not that she would have made a move either.

When the bell occurs, she goes to homeroom, and then after that she has Bio! Yay Bio.

Bio happens! It's biological.

It in fact is! Jean is her lab partner, and they work well together!

And after this, Eva has French. Yay French.

Nobody seems to like French. It's kinda disappointing.

It's also hard to pronounce and you have to pout.

French is not hard to pronounce and wait, what, pouting? Eva's great at pouting. The 'u' sound is kinda a pout, but she can totally do that.

Anyway. French and whatever. At least it's not Latin.

And after this she has English! Does anything totally unexpected happen in English?

English is unexpectedly boring!

...wait, expectedly. The narrator meant 'expectedly.'

That is true. English is expectedly boring.

Eva, however, can cope with this! She can write comprehensible paragraphs of well-formed thought backed up by proper sources.

And it's all utter bullshit, but she can fake it really well! Yay.

And then: lunch!

Indeed lunch.

She sits at her table with a bunch of her friends. There are a few overlapping conversations, but she gets the main points from each and tries to pay attention when necessary.

Then she also looks around the cafeteria to assess the continued mood. Again, any signs of impending doom?

Wow, she's being horribly negative today, isn't she.

Not yet! The cafeteria is fairly empty, as people arrive there from class. Sadde is sitting alone, apparently anxiously waiting for someone. Brad hasn't arrived yet, and Willow is, for some reason, not sitting with Sadde.

Huh. Trouble in paradise?

… Okay, that was mean. She didn't mean… to mean it… that way.

Theo walks into the cafeteria.

Sadde looks frustrated with something!

Theo seems to be confused by Sadde's reactions.

The conversation seems to proceed normally, whatever problems they'd been having apparently (at least temporarily) resolved.

Theo is looking just thrilled about some things now.

"Eva?" Brittany asks, waving a hand in front of her face.

"Huh?" she asks. "Sorry, I didn't catch that."

She follows Eva's line of sight and sighs. "I don't think there's any hope for him."

Huh?

… Oh, right, for her getting with Theo. "Yeah, unfortunately."

She's not particularly talkative right now, and she's feeling kinda bad about it.

"...hey, are you okay?" Brittany asks in a rare moment of awareness.

Eva smiles and says, "Yeah, I'm just a bit tired is all."

This is why she keeps people around and puts the effort in, she reminds herself. They can be so… nice.

"Are you sure?" Brittany asks, clearly out of her depth. It's usually Eva who's—on top of things like that.