Chapter
12 (Emma's perspective.) Emma walked down the
hallway in a very nervous manner. She approached her locker to get
her books for her next class. She watched Manny fumbling around in
her locker. She looked like she was busily searching for something
important. Emma opened her locker. There was a piece of tape
stuck on the outside. Why was their tape stuck to her locker? She
pulled it off without a second though. Then glanced in her locker
mirror. She smiled at the reflection. She looked very tired and kind
of pale. Emma grabbed her books and headed for Ms. Kawn's
English class. She was barely on time, she carefully slipped into her
chair right when the bell rang. Liberty was behind her chattering
away to J.T. Emma gazed out the window. English was the last
thing on her mind. She was in a sort of trance… there was a tiny
bird in a bird's nest. She was watching it with admiration. She
came out of her trance when Ms. Kawn tapped loudly on her desk. It
startled Emma so much she dropped her pencil out of her hand. The
rest of the lesson she looked at Ms. Kawn but she had not heard one
word. Emma's attention seemed to be fixated on her the conversation
with Craig. It was like that for the rest of the day. Lunch
couldn't even draw Emma away from her thoughts of him. She sat at a
table with Manny and Darcy. She carefully opened her brown bag and
ate her sandwich. (If you were to ask her what she had. She wouldn't
be able to tell you.) Manny was jabbering away about some new
make up. Sometimes Emma wished she would notice other people. Sure
Manny is Emma's best friend… but sometimes she could talk about
herself a little too much. She didn't notice that Emma wasn't
paying attention to her. She just kept on talking. She looked
around for any sign of Craig. So far she hadn't seen him. Emma
threw away her trash and walked with Manny to their lockers. Emma
opened hers and glazed in the mirror again. While Manny searched
frantically in her locker. "Em, do you have a pencil?"
Manny asked a she looked in her untidy locker. Emma watched
her with a smirk. It was somewhat humorous to see Manny in the mess
of her locker. "Yes, here you go." Manny reached
out for the pencil… when she did a note fell from the inside her
locker. In huge letters, EMMA was written on it. Emma stared at it
for a minute then bent down to pick it up. "Manny, where did
you get this?" She said noticing the tape on the edge of the note.
"Did you take this off my locker?" Emma stared at Manny.
She had a very unpleasant look on her face. She reminded Emma of a
young child who had just gotten scolded for doing something
bad. "Yes, I did." Manny managed to choke out before
turning around and walking off. She didn't bother to close her
locker before leaving. "Manny! Wait! Why?" Emma yelled
after Manny. Manny had suddenly became deaf. Emma knew she heard her
but she had just kept walking.
Emma stared down at the letter and
carefully opened it.Unfolding each edge with ease until it was
opened.