April looked up at Cori. "So then I said…" "You said what," asked Cori. April looked in horror. "What happened," April said while pointing at Cori's eyes. "What, oh you mean this?" Cori pointed to her black eye. "I was ice skating the other day, turns out ice is slippery." "Cori Faliva," the teacher called. Cori shot up her hand. The teacher looked up and flinched. "What happened to your face Faliva?" "First rule about fight club is that we don't talk about it." "If you didn't want to talk about it then you could have said so," the teacher replied.
Cori just shrugged. April began to play with the led in her pencil as the teacher lectured about what he expects. Some of the led fell out and rolled next to Cori's arm. April reached over and picked up the pieces. She touched hand slightly and Cori shrank back. "Sorry." April didn't realize that Cori was most likely mysophobic. Cori didn't reply but just stared at her. She quickly turned away. As the day inched on, April noticed that everyone gave her funny looks as she passed by.
"Red, hey red," Casey said. "Is there something more interesting than my beautiful mug?" "No, I'm just thinking," April replied while she picked at her food. During her conversation with Casey, she kept stealing looks of Cori with her friends across the cafeteria. "Who are you looking at," Casey said as he looked through the crowd of students. "Cori, she's hurt." "Her, why do you even care?" "Well I like her." "Like, like like?" "No, I mean as a friend," she said as she punched Casey in the arm. Casey muttered something under his breath. "I didn't hear what you said but I don't like it. I just think that she's avoiding me."
"Why?" "I don't know. I think she's mysophobic." Casey gave her a blank stare. "It means you're afraid of germs." "What a lame fear." "You're the one who's afraid of Master Splinter." "Talking about things we shouldn't talk about. I am truly ashamed." April rolled her eyes. "Whatever. It's a good thing it's Friday though. Otherwise it would be really awkward." "It already is," Casey said as he took his tray away.