***5 Days Later***
***Monday, Lunch break***
The seat next to Ryan is still empty. Goldie has not yet returned to school!
'Ugh! How long does she intend to keep me waiting?!', a grossly impatient Ryan.
'It has been an entire weekend. Could it be she's still quarantined?...', he wonders.
Goldie had been absent on Thursday and on Friday, and now, it was Monday, the beginning of a new week, and Ryan thought… surely, Goldie will be back to school by Monday.
But this was Monday, and there was no sign of her anywhere. It made him worry a little.
'She was being too reckless during the Club Day event. She must have hurt herself…', he reasons.
As he thought, she needed someone to look out for her. Now he was really really worried about that beauty.
"Hah…", he exhales, staring out the window blankly.
