Playing hard to get

"Hello! Hello!" With the unexpected distraction, her diverted mind filled with the thoughts of yesterday's conversation with Leonard was reinstated back to the present by the voice of her maths teacher Mr Ethan, on his face wore a look of annoyance at his student who hadn't been paying attention to his earlier teachings.

"Where did you go miss Evelyn?." He asked with knitted brows, his hands crossed across his chest as he stared down at Evelyn.

"I..I.." she stuttered unable to make up a believable excuse, and how could she? just yesterday she had learned that she was tossed like trash at birth to be adopted by terrible religious extremist parents. without thinking full of rage and sadness she had sprinted away from Leon's room back to her domitorium completely drenched in rainwater.

The night had been terrible with her spending most of it lost in thoughts about her miserable unfortunate life, getting only two hours of sleep she had decided to attend classes today to help deflect her m