Here is the next chapter. It's a bit different, I think, but hopefully you'll understand what's going on... HINT: It's still Matt & TK.
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It was sad, she decided after a week of watching. It was unfortunate and cruel that such a young boy was as depressed as he was. The bus driver pulled up to the school, letting her charges walk off in rush, each adding to the babble of voices assaulting the untainted morning air. All, except the one boy whose head was down and whose body language screamed unbearable sadness.
She had been driving him for two years now. Two years of knowledge and two years worth of insight to know that this young boy was not a happy child. His unusual behaviour had begun growing serious just the other week. First, he'd started sitting near the front, where none of his classmates were willing to sit with him. Then, he stopped smiling at her when she greeted him in the mornings. That was the moment when she'd known for sure that something was definitely wrong with the young boy... and it was also when she realised that there was nothing she could say or do to make it better.
Later that day, after she picked up the young boy from school and had pulled up beside his stop, she watched in silence as he stomped down the bus stairs, head down, and out onto the sidewalk where an even younger boy was waiting for him.
At that precise moment when he noticed the little boy's presence, a smile exploded on his face as she had never seen before - such a welcoming smile - and the image of the two of them, grinning at each other unabashedly was a memory she never forgot over the years. Hand in hand with the little boy, the one she had driven back and forth for the past couple of years walked home, his complacent smile never wavering.
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