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Mpov

This conversation was getting out of hand. This boy was way too observant. I had to give him credit though. He was persistent. So when he decided to back off, I was glad. And him telling me to smile big wasn't that hard to do. He was very amusing to say the least.

"So where are you heading?"

That was a big topic change from what he was talking about a few minutes ago. I guess he was serious about no talking about it.

"Oh, I'm heading for lunch. Are you going for lunch as well?"

"Yeah, but we should hurry or we'll be late."

"Yeah, we wouldn't want that."

Across the hall, since I had really good hearing, I heard some of the kids talking about Natsume.

"Hey did you hear about Natsume?" "What happened?" "He used to be so angry, but now he's really calm down." "How did that happen?" "They say it's because of that new kid that transferred here. He was paired up with her." "No way. That's impossible. We need to get her somehow." "But how-"

"Are we going to lunch or what?"

I blinked a few times before realizing that we've been standing here for a couple minutes. I refocused on Natsume, trying to block out what they were saying. I, then, processed what he just said.

"Yeah, sorry. Just distracted by something."

"Oh, really. What is it?"

"Oh nothing really. Let's go. What are you having?"

He stared at me for a few seconds before he answered my question. We resumed down the hall toward the courtyard. That's where the students had lunch when the weather was nice.

The entire time we were walking, we were talking about random things. I kept on asking him questions out of the blue, like what his favorite color was, what he liked to do in his free time, etc.

"Where would you love to live?"

He looked like he was thinking. While he was doing that, we got our lunches and sat down.

"Hmm. Maybe Italy. I would love to try their original spaghetti. Ha-ha."

I smiled. I actually thought that he was giving me honest answers. Italy seemed out there, but he loved there for some reason and I wasn't going to denounce him for it.

He looked at me and something flickered in his eyes, like he just realized something.

"Oh yeah. Before I forget, I wanted to ask you what your Alice class is?"

I just looked at him as my smile faded. I was getting along great with him and I didn't want to ruin it because of the school. That wasn't fair.

"Um, I don't know. They didn't tell me yet."

"Okay, tell me when and maybe we could have the same Alice class so we could hang out together."

He softly smiled at me, so to not ruin it I smiled back at him. He was going to find out eventually, but I didn't want to be the one to tell him.

"Ok sure."

At the moment, the bell rang, signaling that lunch was over.

"Um, lunch is over, so I have to be going. Buh bye."

I waved at him, then stopped when I saw the expression on his face. It looked so sad and haunted. I didn't know why, but it made me feel guilty. I didn't know what else to do, so I got up and waved, then turned to go through the cafeteria doors.