Ashley?" I heard a voice call.
I turned my head to either side, trying to figure out where it was coming from.
I sat up slowly, noticing I hadn't eaten in awhile. Now I knew how Mandy felt. I was a bit dizzy.
I heard heavy footsteps come towards me and immediatly tensed.
A few yards ahead of me I saw Cory. He was in jeans and a long sleeve green and white horizontally striped shirt.
"Ashley? Hey, you alrite?" he asked when he'd reached me.
In his hand he held a Subway bag.
He sat down on the ground next to me, offering me the sandwich.
"Here, thought you might be hungry."
He smiled. I opened the bag. Inside was a thing wrapped in white paper with the Subway logo on it and put it on the bag on the ground in front of me. I unwrapped it and realised it was a vegetarian sandwich.
I looked at him.
"Vegetarian?" I asked.
"I didn't know what you liked so I got you vegetarian."
"Thanks. Where's..."
"Rachel?"
I nodded, starting to eat t he sandwich; "yeah."
"Class. Why aren't you...?"
In class.
"Bathroom. I bumped into Puck in the hallway and he told me to fuk off."
"Oh."
"You must be freezing."
"No, not really...actually."
"Oh. Why you out here, anyway?
"Well..." I replied, embarassed; "he and I decided to ditch math."
"Oh, of course."
"And we got to talking and...I'd brought up that I'd offered to help him with the bills, and then he took off."
"Ashley."
"Yeah?"
"He doesn't want help."
"Yeah I know that's what he told me."
"Oh."
I ate more of my sandwich.
"Why?" I asked in between bites.
"Because, the last person who helped him...they fell in love and he, got his heart broken."
"Oh. I didn't know that."
"Yeah he keeps himself pretty closed off."
"I know."
"Oh. He doesn't like being reminded of his past."
"It sounds tragic."
"Yeah. It was."
"Was it Santana?"
"Who...broke his heart?"
"Yeah."
"No, someone else."
"Oh."