It had taken him around 15 minutes to find the local, but now when he finally found it he could take it steadily. He had taken a seat in the back of the class; he didn't want to have contact with any of the other people.
He didn't sense when the other students came in one after one. His gaze was on the landscape outside. The trees were tilting slowly in the wind; some birds were jumping outside of the trees, on the green grass. It was pretty cold inside the local; actually, it had been pretty cold inside the whole building.
He heard a voice beside him. "Excuse me?"
He looked at the person. It was the boy from before; the boy that had shown him local 71.
"Hm?" Nico sat back in the chair.
"Can I sit here?" He looked at Nico with a smile and pointed at the chair beside Nico.
Nico nodded and smiled at him.
The guy laid his books on the table and sat down in the wooden chair besides Nico.
"So what's your name? I didn't get to ask you earlier?" The blonde-haired guy turned his head towards him. He smiled towards Nico.
"Uhm…" Nico looked at him. Why the hell did he say uhm? Why couldn't he just say his own name? "Nico." His voice was low, but apparently, it was high enough for the other one to hear it.
"Nico? That's a cool name. I feel like I've heard it before." He looked down at the table with a small laugh.
"Oh, you have?" Nico lifted an eyebrow at him. "What's your name?"
He laughed a small laugh. "Will."
Nico tilted his head. "Are your name Will?"
"Yes." Will nodded. "Why? You don't trust me?" He lifted an eyebrow at Nico.
"No, it's just…" Nico looked at him. What the hell did he try to say? Could it be him? Wouldn't that just be really cliché? It wasn't him. Probably just another person with the same name. "Forget it." He smiled an uneven smile.
"Are you sure?" The other guy looked shortly at him, before Nico nodded. "Okay."
They both looked up, when an older woman came into the room. Her gray hair was sitting in a ponytail, and she was wearing a grayish dress with flowers on.
"What a horrible dress." Nico could hear Will whisper-talking to himself. Nico did totally agree. Who did even sell such a dress?
She walked right up to the front of the class and looked out over the students. "Take a good look at the person sitting next to you. The next two months you are going to make a project of an optional subject. If you need help you can always ask me, but try first. Good luck." She smiled to the class. The class suddenly became noisy.
A lot of the students complained about the groups or that they had too short time.
Nico looked at Will just to find Will glancing at him. "So I guess we are together." He smiled towards Nico. Nico nodded. He didn't normally like groups, but he didn't want Will to be alone. Maybe he could convince the teacher to let Will be in another group and Nico could do the project himself? No, of course that wouldn't work. What should he then do?
"Are you ok?" Will looked nervous at him. "Did you hear what I said?"
"Oh, no." Nico looked at him. "I'm sorry, will you say it again?"
"I just asked you if there was something you wanted us to make a project about?" Will smiled towards him and tilted his head. Nico could see that he was holding a pen in his hand. It looked like he had written something down.
"Not really." Nico itched himself on the neck. Then he looked at Will. "What about you?"
Will lightened up. It was like he had waited for Nico to ask him what his thoughts were.
Nico leaned closer to Will, so see what he had wrote down, while Will were talking about it. He told about a project he once had wanted to make, but his classmate had said no and they had gone with something else. Nico didn't really catch what it was about but it was something with Space. Will kept talking about the different planets and life on them. He also talked about stardust and meteors.
"Will?" Nico smiled at him. Will turned his head towards Nico and looked a bit confused at him. Nico couldn't figure out if it was because Nico was sitting closer to Will than he did before, or if it was because he had stopped him while he had been talking.
"Yes?" Will looked unsure at him. Like he was scared that Nico would turn the space project down.
"You really want to do it, right?" Will nodded. "Then let us do it."
Will looked confused at Nico. "Are you sure? You don't want to do something else?"
"No." Nico smiled towards him. "Where are we going to start?"
Nico could see Wills face lighten up. "Research!"