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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4ffdd6e69c420f56d806245135ad700e"Alexei thanked the worker, than walked over to Lyla. "Are you following me?" He didn't want to be rude, but he wasn't in the mood to around anyone. The stress of the upcoming modeling and filming were beginning to affect him. It wasn't the large amount of work he'd be doing that bothered him, it was revealing himself that was. Maybe he should've listened to Illya last night. There was still time to convice him to give Royal another chance, a different punishment than suspending her./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="a2d32ded9eab529f581d0f1f54d19806""Hey, wait up!" Lyla dashed after him. "Want some help? I might not know Emi well, but I can offer another option." She smiled. Lyla wanted to make more of an effort to get to know the other students not just in her class, but the school as well. Apart from Zoey, Floral and Sylive were the ones mainly spend time with. Ania joined them occsasionly, when forced by the other two. Issac had approached her about an interview, once again it was because of her travels. When he wasn't with Issac, Mason was at practice. She didn't dare approach Aero alone. The guy could be pleasant, but was mostly anti-social. Devin was normally with him and the two always left right after school. After the incident during chemsitry class, Lyla didn't have the strength to held Mara outside of school. Calex and Emi were glued together and also left once school ended. Illya had spoken with her during break a few times, but never for long. Him and Alexei always seemed to be busy. Then there were the other classes she hadn't spoken to anyone from there, there than Marinette, Alya, and Adrien. Who were also always busy. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4ffdd6e69c420f56d806245135ad700e"Alexei thanked the worker, than walked over to Lyla. "Are you following me?" He didn't want to be rude, but he wasn't in the mood to around anyone. The stress of the upcoming modeling and filming were beginning to affect him. It wasn't the large amount of work he'd be doing that bothered him, it was revealing himself that was. Maybe he should've listened to Illya last night. There was still time to convice him to give Royal another chance, a different punishment than suspending her./p
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