Sitting in her Poetry class Olivia wished that she had not left her cell back in the dorm room. She knew exactly where it was too, on top of her desk, beeping smugly as it charged when Olivia really needed it.
Had her phone been with her Olivia would have texted Viola to find out what was wrong. When she left the Physics class room she had seen Viola walking across the Quad, keys in hand. That meant Vi was going somewhere off campus, which narrowed down where she was going. Vi wouldn't skip class for something trivial. So it was a Kia and Yvonne thing or it had to do with her parents, which was unlikely because they had postponed their honeymoon until Vi and Sebastian were at school.
It was a good thing that today was the first day of school, otherwise Olivia would have missed a lot of things while she was replaying Viola running out of class like she was being chased by wolves. Olivia was equally distracted during her Calculus class, but the only thing that the class did was to read the syllabus.
Somehow Olivia made it until lunch without bursting. She even managed to walk through the lunch line, get her food, and walk toward the table where they always sat before searching for her girlfriend.
At the table Olivia found only disappointment. Duke and Andrew were talking, soccer most likely. Toby and Eunice sat there as well, thankfully keeping their hands to themselves. Maria and her new squeeze, Henry, were also there. Olivia opted for the chair next to Maria, instead of the one next to Eunice.
"Hi," Olivia said with feigned cheerfulness to the table. Everyone said some variation of 'hello' as Olivia sat. Eunice smiled and began riffling through her bag, and even as a debutante it was hard to be nice to Eunice all the time, so Olivia turned to Maria.
"Where's your girlfriend?" Maria asked putting on her 'twiterpated' face. "I thought you were joined at the hip." Olivia didn't mind Maria's good natured teasing. She had minded the stir their relationship had caused with the majority of the school when people found out, but with all gossip it subsided quickly.
"Viola missed Government and English," Eunice interjected. Olivia had figured as much but the fact that Eunice was keeping tabs on Vi was weird. "I took extra notes for her," Eunice wheezed, handing a stack of papers to Olivia.
As Olivia thanked Eunice, who immediately turned back to Toby, Maria rounded on Olivia. "Why did she skip? And it wasn't anything between you two, you were in Poetry, if not mentally all there."
Olivia graciously ignored Maria's dig and shrugged. "I don't know where she went, she rushed out of Physics and I haven't seen her since."
Duke and Andrew who looked interested for a while turned back to talk of soccer. Eunice and Toby were busy. And Henry left Maria with something about football.
"Maybe there is another woman," Maria suggested. "I'll listen around, see what I can find out."
Olivia was hurt by Maria's suggestion. But a small part of her worried if Maria might be right. "No," Olivia said simply, both to quash he doubts about Viola and to Maria's plan.
"Well than eat your sandwich and go to class. She has PE with you so maybe she'll be back by then," Maria said giving up. She didn't much care what Viola was up to, only offering to help at all because of Olivia.
Olivia did as Maria suggested. She did her best to not think of what Vi was doing or where she went. Olivia even managed to pay enough attention to turn in her summer work for her European History class and then do well of the pop quiz on the map of Europe.
Olivia made her way to the girl's locker room to change for PE. The class passed slowly with out Viola there to make jokes about ridiculous outfits they were made to wear or do impressions of Malcolm to make Olivia laugh.
Half way through the period Olivia spotted the figure of Viola walking slowly across the field to the group of PE students. Smiling Olivia moved to be close to Viola when she finished her explanation of tardiness to the coach.
At this distance it was impossible for Olivia to miss the expression on her girlfriend's face. Or lack there of, because Vi was not smiling like she always did or even frowning in concentration. Her face was oddly blank.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Ok I got you excited for Eunice goodness and didn't deliver, I know. Ok so how do you like numero quarto? Good, Bad, UGLY? *Announcer Voice* What led to the blank look on Vi's face? Is the Yvonne/Kia problem fixed? And the question we've all been waiting for: Will Gold make an appearance? Find this out on the next thrilling segment of How the Chips Fell. And now TV 11 news at 10:30.