“…taken?”
“huh?” replied Riew while removing her headphones.
“is this seat taken? do you mind if I sit here?”
Riew turned around to see who it was that wanted to come sit in the back corner table she had claimed for herself since the
beginning of the year. no one had ever ventured over to try and sit with her, one because no one particularily wanted to and two because she always sat with her back to the rest of the world as if it would shut them out. at first she didn’t recognize who the guy was but then after a few seconds she realized it was the new guy who had just transfered into the school and was in her morning math class.
“um, no.. its not taken but…”
“ok good, thanks” said Win as he threw his books down on the table and took a seat across from her. Riew looked at him a bit confused, but didn’t say anything because he too seemed to want to separate himself from the rest of the world. Win pulled out his headphones looked over at her, gave her a smile and put his headphones on and went to work on his assignments.
Riew continued to stare at him, trying to figure him out when he looked up at her. embarrassed she quickly put her headphones back on and went back to reading her book, but it was too late.
“you’re Riew right?”
Riew looked up to find Win staring at her. once again she took out her headphones and replied “yea, we have math class together right? sorry I didn’t catch your name.”
“Win, it’s Win or I guess you can just call me the new guy like everyone else seems to be doing.” he said with a faint smile as he fiddled with his headphones.
Riew looked around and she could tell people were staring at them. “you know if you want to fit in around here, it’s probably better that you don’t sit here. not that i mind, but you know being new and having no friends that kind of sucks.”
“yea i know, but i’m just kind of tired of the whole trying to fit in thing. moving around kind of gets you use to that. but whats wrong with sitting here?”
“um… simply? me.”
“you? what is that suppose to mean?”
Riew didn’t say a word and just looked at Win with a weak smile. she closed up her booked and stood up “i have to get to class now, if you stick around long enough you’ll know what I mean. but it was nice meeting you. bye!”
with that Win watched her walk away and he realized that people were turning their heads as if they hadn’t been watching. what was the big deal he thought, but decided to forget about it and went back to doing his homework during his free period.
1/30/09
