AN: Holy crap, I'm alive. I hope you've been well. This short story is actually an idea for a much longer piece (not Line related) - a screenplay I need to get around to writing one of these days. I'll put it in the queue with everything else...

18. "I'm not obsessing. I'm just curious." (post A Fine Line)

"So, explain it to me again."

"It's pretty simple, Wes."

"Yes, but what do you do?"

"Whatever you want to - that's the whole point. It's more about what you're not doing. What sort of weird school system did they have in England anyway?"

"Let me get this straight - the whole senior class just doesn't show up for the day?"

"Pretty much."

"Seriously, I'm not obsessing. I'm just curious. Why didn't we do this last semester?"

"Well, it's tradition for the senior class to skip however many days into the school year as the class, or whichever Friday falls closest. Unfortunately, in the Fall, school policy usually makes it difficult to skip a Friday and still perform or play. That's why our senior class has chosen twenty days into the Spring semester."

"You Yanks are weird. How do you find out about this stuff?"

"I know people."

"So if I show up next Friday..."

"You'll pretty much be the only one."

"Aha." The British transfer student studied his girlfriend a moment longer and asked, "What sort of plans did you have in mind?"

The young woman smiled wickedly and answered, "The kind of plans I think you'll definitely enjoy."