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NorBela: Difficult Arrangement
Lukas sighed, heading into the class. Another schoolyear was starting.
He waited for the teacher to assign the seats, and he was pleased to note that he was sitting next to his girlfriend, Natalia. She smirked upon noticing the arrangement as well. It was fortunate that their relationship wasn't common knowledge, or they wouldn't have been in this situation.
But once class started, they realised that they had a little problem.
Lukas was right-handed, while Natalia was left-handed. And Natalia was sitting on Lukas's right. More than once, the two of them had gotten frustrated at each other for bumping their arms as they wrote.
The next day when Lukas entered the classroom, he noticed that Natalia was sitting on the other side. He sat down, looking at her questioningly. When the teacher came in, she froze upon realising that the two had switched seats.
"Bondevik, Arlovskaya, what is the meaning of this?" the teacher demanded.
"I'm left-handed, he's right-handed," Natalia said plainly. "We were just inconveniencing each other."
The teacher narrowed her eyes, but accepted the explanation. Lukas sighed, before glancing towards Natalia.
"You're amazing, you know that?" he asked.
"Save it for when we're alone," she said, though he could see a faint blush on her cheeks.
Somewhere in the middle of class, Lukas found himself holding Natalia's hand under the desk while the two of them continued with their work, and they were glad that they sat at the back of the classroom.
The prompt was: 'Person A is right handed and Person B is left handed. They sit next to each other in class and their arms bump against the other's while taking notes.'
This prompt actually reminded me of when I was in primary school. In fourth grade, we weren't in the hall with the grades 5-7, and instead a classroom where we sat next to each other (the others sat as grade 5, 6, 7 in order to discourage cheating). We were arranged alphabetically, and the girl directly above me on the class register was left-handed while I'm right-handed. The teacher had just finished the arrangements when she saw the two of us sitting next to each other, and immediately told us to switch places. We eventually figured out why, and the two of us had a mutual agreement that she would always sit on the left side while I would sit on the right. The agreement lasted into high school.
Also, interesting fact. The South African schoolyear is from January to December (or rather, mid-January to late November/early December). So when I read the Harry Potter Books for the first time, I couldn't understand why their school was starting in September.