Callie was having a good week. She felt very happy, which didn't always happen, so she was grateful. She got an 84% on her physics exam and was very proud considering it was her worst subject and was getting 100's on every english assignment. It felt good to be doing good in school again. She sat in English as Timothy was explaining the assignment in front of her.
"Okay, we're going to be doing interviews. The point of this is to get you guys to go deep. I'll be assigning your partners."
Callie listened as he named off pairings.
"Callie and Emmet." He called out.
Callie was about to get up and until she saw Emmet make his way towards her.
"Hey." He said, putting his stuff down, and pulling another desk up.
"Hi." Callie said nervously, she was nervous if he would say anything about the picture.
"Well, we might as well start. What is your biggest accomplishment in life?" Emmet began.
Callie hesitated, then answered. "Keeping my little brother safe in all of our foster homes."
Emmet quickly wrote it down and looked up.
"Uh- what is yours?" Callie asked.
"My greatest accomplishment is yet to come. There's no way to measure the greatest accomplshiment if I have not lived my entire life." Emmet smiled.
"Nice answer." Callie admitted as she wrote it down.
"How would you describe yourself?" Emmet read the nexgt question.
"Um- I'm not sure." Callie said.
"I feel like you're really uncomfortable with me or something. C'mon open up. That's the point of this assignment." He said smiling.
"Okay okay. Well, I have a hard outer shell that I hate letting people crack, but when it is cracked, you can see that I do have actual emotions and am pretty open about how I feel." Callie said.
"See that's what I'm talking about. Well I would describe myself as an open minded person. I'm good at taking in new ideas." Emmet said.
They asked almost half of the questions on the paper until the bell rang.
"Callie, you seem like a pretty cool person. Do you think you'll ever let me crack that shell of yours?" Emmet asked.
Callie smiled. "We'll have to see I guess."
"Can I join you at lunch today?" He asked.
"Sure." Callie was grateful that someone actually wanted to get to know her.
Callie got through the next few periods of the day. She was actually excited to go to lunch. There was something about Emmet that kept her interest. She scoped the tables until she saw Emmet by himself. She walked over and put her stuff down.
"Hey." He said, genuinely happy to see her.
Callie sat down.
"So I feel like this whole interview thing is totally overbearing. Like we're going super deep but I barely know anything basic about you." Emmet started.
"Well, what do you wanna know?" Callie asked.
"I don't know. What do you like doing, what are your talents? Interests?"
Callie laughed. "I don't really have any talents. I mean I can kinda play the guitar. I guess music is my interest."
"Guitar? Really? I tried learning how to play, but I learned fairly quickly that I pretty much sucked." Emmet said smiling.
"Well, what about you?" Callie coaxed.
"I can draw." He said, pulling out a sketch book.
He definitely wasn't. This guy had raw talent.
"Wow. These are amazing. Did you like take classes or something?" Callie asked.
"Nah. I kinda just took it up when I was a kid. Whenever my parents would get into a big fight or something I would just sit in my room and doodle." He responded.
"Well kinda sucks how it started to be honest. Sorry about your parents." Callie responded.
"It's not your fault. No family is perfect. They're split up now." He shrugged.
Callie gave him a smile.
"I feel like I'm getting no where with this shell." He said.
"It's not easy for me to trust people, especially after the whole picture situation." Callie said, looking at her feet.
"Yeah, I remember that. I didn't wanna bring it up though." Emmet said. "How are things with that?"
"Hopefully dying down. I don't know if I can handle all these girls in shorts with half their butt hanging out the side calling me a slut anymore." Callie said with a small smile.
"People suck Callie. I know we aren't really good friends yet, but it doesn't take much to know you haven't had the easiest life." He said sincerely.
"Thanks, Emmet." Callie responded.
The bell rang, signifying the end of lunch.
"See you later?" Emmet asked.
"Definitely." Callie said, and she meant it.
FINALLY! NON BRALLIE SHIPPERS! haha but anyways, thanks for your thoughts guys! You guys are awesome, as usual! I know someone said they wanted to see Callie have a girl love interest but I've never really seen Callie as a lesbian so I feel like if I were to make her with a girl I would be very bad at it but that's just my opinion! Love you all xoxo