"Grey Fortin and Alice Hayes," Mrs. Darvis glanced up, then looked back at her paper and called out the next pair. Grey looked over at me, raised an eyebrow. A small smile played at the edge of his lips. I looked away.
At Grey's house the next day, we laid out the rubrics for the projects. Science fair. A month and a half to do it. Three days to determine our subject and have it approved. Grey yanked a few library books out of his backpack. Electricty, 101 Science Projects for Kids, The Sun and You.
"So." He paused. "What are you intrested in?"
"I don't know."
"Cummon."
"Whatever, you can pick. Tell me what to do, I'll do it. I really don't care much."
He leaned forward, "So how about I do all the real work but let you do something small and stupid, so that you still get the grade?" Wow. He sounded sincere. No one ever made that offer.
I accepted his offer happily.
"Well if that's what you want, get over it," he smiled as he talked, joked. I sank back against the wall.
"Whatever."
Mrs. Fortin poked her head into Grey's bedroom. The room was painted a deep green, his brown bunk beds giving a forest look. Selves lined the top of the walls, and various toys and booked collected dust upon them. Mrs. Fortin asked if we would like some snacks, nachos, crisps, anything? We accepted, and five minutes later munched away on a bag of BBQ crisps.
Grey started quizzing me, trying to pull out a subject that I would find interesting. I replied to each one with a careless, 'sure,' 'if you want to,' 'whatever.'
"What about the frog?" He smiled slightly again. "You know, we could study how it heals over the next month."
For the first time that day, I smiled and agreed wholeheartedly.
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