Riley~
Just ten minutes later, I am much less confused that I was during class today. I actually understand how fossils were formed, and it makes sense that when the water gets squeezed out of mud, the mud turns into shale, not back into dirt. Earth science has always confused me more than anything else. Now what we learned actually helps my brain, but it won't change my beliefs.
"So this has always confused me. What actually is schist?" I ask as a final test.
"Well," she says, and then bursts into peals of laughter. I can't help but laugh with her, as I knew what she was laughing about. We laughed like we had known each other for years, like best friends. We laughed about so much more than just that joke. We shared all of our experiences-in real life for her, in books for me-with laughter.
Eventually, Mr. Wilson stops talking to Mrs. Moran and starts to come in the room, when the woman stops laughing and pokes me in the arm, points to Mr. Wilson, and dissipates into thin air. I think that I am hallucinating, that maybe I am wrong, that maybe that was not Annabeth, that maybe this was all in my mind, and that maybe I just wanted to know her so badly that I just made myself see it. Whatever it was, I think, it must be bad.
"How are you doing in here?" Mr. Wilson asks.
"Quite good actually," I reply, but I think very different thoughts. No thanks to you, is what I really want to say, but I don't. Obviously, because if I did, I would get in trouble, that is the last thing I needed. "I think I get it. I can go home now." I say, speaking only the truth.
"Alright, if you think you understand it then go ahead." Mr. Wilson replies obviously confused, because I had never said that I understood something to do with science so quickly before. "And don't forget to do the homework for tomorrow." He reminds me, before I get a chance to leave, just to make sure that I don't forget. Oh, I won't.