#28: Distracted

"Dendy, would you please come here to my desk?"

"Um, yes Ms. Quantum" Dendy got out of her seat, a million things ran through her mind, feeling the stares and snickers from the other students, wondering what her teacher needed as she approached her desk.

"Dendy..." Ms. Quantum began in a low whisper, "Do you remember that number coding assignment I gave last week?"

"Of course" her heart began racing, nothing she did was ever good enough to impress her overbearing teacher.

"Now usually. I'd probably be happy about something like this but I am not. You did not do your work as perfectly as you normally do. In fact this is horrific"

Hearing those words shocked Dendy. She wasn't sure whether she was more surprised at the fact that she affirmed she was a good student, or the fact she didn't do her best on this assignment. What happened?

"W-what do you mean?"

Ms. Quantum squinted her eyes, roughly slamming Dendy's assignment in front of her. A big red F was visible in the top right corner of it.

"Read it, and tell me if this is what I asked you to code"

She glanced down at it,

::::20 8 5 18 5 19 19 15 13 5 2 15 21 20 13 25 2 5 19 20 6 18 9 5 14 4 11 15 20 8 1 20 13 1 11 5 19 1 12 6 12 21 19 20 5 18 5 4 14 5 18 22 15 21 19 1 14 4 10 15 25 6 21 1 14 14 15 20 19 5 5 13 20 15 7 5 20 20 8 5 20 8 15 21 7 8 20 1 13 15 21 20 15 6 13 2 23 8 1 20 19 15 5 22 5 18 14 15 13 1 20 20 5 18 8 15 23 8 1 18 4 9 20 18 25 8 5 19 20 9 12 12 1 16 16 5 1 18 19 9 14 13 2 20 8 9 14 11 9 13 1 25 2 5 18 15 13 1 14 2 12 12 25 9 14 20 5 18 5 19 2 14 8 9 13::::

Which read:

There's something about my best friend K.O. that makes me feel flustered, nervous, and joyful. I cannot seem to get the thought of him out of my head whatsoever. No matter how hard I try, he still appears in my head. I think I may be romantically interested in him.

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Dendy felt her face burn in embarrassment.

"Now for something like this I'd make you read it out to the entire class." She said with a smirk, watching Dendy's expression turn frantic.

"I-I apologize Ms. Quantum. I was distracted..."

"Clearly. But since I'm not evil anymore" she paused with a chuckle, "I will let you do it again, for a lower grade."

"T-Thank you"

"Alright now go sit down"

Dendy nodded and nervously made her way back to her seat, K.O. turned in his to face her, "Dendy what happened?"

"Er...I need to redo my coding assignment" she responded back slowly, K.O. looking quite confused.

"Huh? But why?"

"I didn't do it correctly."

"That's weird, you're so great at coding though"

"Yes, but I did get somewhat distracted. So I typed out something I shouldn't have"

"Oh, well I hope whatever distracted you won't distract you again so you can do it right" he gave her a reassuring smile.

Dendy felt her face turning red again, "That may be impossible"