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Chapter 7 - Leo

School is dumb.

It makes me super tired.

Can I leave?

That was the haiku I wrote for class. I'm good at art but not writing. I can only paint. The edges of the paper are covered in doodles. One was of the school burning but I had to erase that one so they didn't think I was going to actually do it. For the record, I wasn't. Just saying. I sighed. Literary arts is such a stupid class. I was just doing it to get the credit, without the credit, I couldn't graduate. I glanced up at Iris for the millionth time that period. Her hair was styled in a loose bun that I always loved. I'd had a crush on her for years but could never tell her. She's like my best friend and I couldn't bear to lose her. She caught my eye from across the table and smiled at me. She glanced over at the teacher and passed a note under the table.

What did you write? It said in her elegant handwriting Here's mine:

Life is rough

But we still fight through it all

When it's hard

I know it's not great but it's something.

I love it. I wrote Mine's not any good:

School is dumb.

It makes me super tired.

Can I leave?

I passed the note back and watched as she read it. She laughed a little before scribbling something down.

Yours kind of reflects everyone's mood. It read. I smiled at her and tucked the note into my pocket. Just then the bell rang dismissing us to lunch.