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Chapter Three, AKA: Too much information
Maybe promising to get to know Mr. Logan hadn't been as good of an idea as she had thought. Why was he so quite all of a sudden? The one time Rachel wanted him to start a conversation he was silent, awkwardly silent. Rachel shifted uncomfortably in the hard plastic desk seat she was forced to sit on. Deciding that saying something about it would get more detention, if at all possible, she kept silent.
Garfield looked intently at his papers, grading them carefully. Well, that's what he should have been doing, instead of staring at his student who kept shifting around in her seat. Why was she doing that, anyway?
"Uncomfortable?" Garfield said, not looking up from his papers.
"Not anything I can't endure." At least she didn't have to go 'home.' Anything was better than that place.
"You seem awfully quite." She added to her previous statement.
He looked away from his papers and rubbed his eyes, pretending to stare at the chicken scratch handwriting of his students was handicapping his vision. He looked at her for a second, noticing the closed book on her desk, facing downward. Now that he thought about it, did he ever get to find out the name of that book? Nope, and it would bug him for the rest of his life if he didn't.
Rachel watched as her teacher moved from his desk to sit beside her.
"What book are you reading?" Instead of answering she flipped the rather large book over, exposing a title and author.
"Angels and Demons by Dan Brown." He read out loud. "I've actually read this one. What do you think about all that stuff he said about religion?" Rachel decided this might be a good way to get to know him, even if he needed to improve his vocabulary.
"I don't really care. I'm an atheist." Garfield's eyes widened a little.
"That's a big decision to make when you're still in high school." Rachel huffed.
"That's a pretty big book to read for someone of your mental capacity. Looks like we surprised each other." He decided to ignore the sarcastic remark for now.
"What do you think about the romance?" She glanced up at him, looking at him critically. "You know, the romance between the Harvard professor and the scientist?"
"Pointless." It was a pretty small thing to say for him to make such a big deal out of it.
"Let me guess, you don't believe in love either?" The look she gave him clearly said she didn't.
"How do you know it doesn't exist when you don't even have a boyfriend?" Rachel flinched visibly at the comment. It was true, she didn't have a boyfriend now, but she had had one. Not the most positive things to say about the relationship.
Garfield noticed her flinch at the comment.
"Bad relationship, huh?" She glared at him.
"I don't want to talk about it."
"That makes sense. I don't like to talk about Terra, either." Damnit, she hated having emotions like curiosity. Letting out a sigh and knowing she was going to do something she would regret, she spoke anyway.
"Who's Terra?"
"Old girlfriend?" He stated vaguely. "You know her, the school counselor. We went out for a few years, turns out she was cheating on me." 'That's not that bad.' "With three other guys. She kept asking to get back together with me, but I kept saying no. She still tries to talk to me every once in a while," he finished. Rachel stopped the remark that came bubbling up to the surface of her mind.
Neither said anything for a while, and Rachel wished Kori and Richard hadn't gone out on their date.
"So, what did your boyfriend do to you? Cheated on you?" He asked casually. Her head snapped in his direction, her eyes hostile.
"I don't want to talk about it." Garfield shut his mouth. He hadn't meant to offend her. Rachel looked up at the clock, grabbed her books, and walked out the door. He sighed; he was going to have to apologize about that on Monday. He watched the second hand tick on the clock, trying to hypnotize him. He focused his vision back on to the clock, reading the time. She had left twenty minutes early.
A/N: Sorry the chapter was so short; the next one will be longer. I just needed them to get closer to each other, and what better way to get closer to someone then by getting farther away?
