CHAPTER FOUR:WHAT. CASSANDRA Everything about this school was weird. The teachers asked for your pronouns at the door. It made me feel things. About that girl, specifically. I learned that her name was Andromeda, and somehow, everything felt new and strange. She made me blush. I never did that! I hated whatever the heck this feeling was. Let's go to my first class; english. I came in late, after being caught milling about in the halls. “Ah, you must be Cassandra. I’m Mr. Penchins, and my pronouns are he/him. What might yours be?” I harrumphed and simply sat down instead of answering. He assumed that I was “questioning” whatever that means, and began actually teaching the class. What the hello without an o was a pronoun anyway? I half listened to the class, but with my unfortunately photographic memory, I remembered everything. I wondered continuously about that weird feeling about not feeling like a boy or a girl, also wondering how the heck I was supposed to sit through a boring lecture without falling asleep? The class ended about 37 minutes and 29 seconds later, and I headed to lunch. Mathew, Anna, and I sat at a table together for the first fifteen minutes, both of them acting weird. Mathew got weird and moved tables when a kid called him over to their table, the extra cherry on top of weirdness was that the kid had called him Ava. Anna left 23 seconds later. I sat in silence for about 37 seconds before that voice asked: “Can I sit here?” I looked up at Andromeda, the absolutely gorgeously annoying girl. I nodded, and she sat down across from me. I ate instead of looking at her. She was just so annoying and dumb and nice and gorgeous and-gah, this is so stupid, but it was at that moment that I realized that this was a crush. Allow me to tell the reader that crushes are annoying, they mess you up at all times. Back to the story now. “Hi, I heard that your name is Cassandra?” Andromeda said, I made a non-committal sound, and she took it as a yes. “Nice to meet you, I’m Andromeda White, she/her pronouns.” She put her elbow on the table in what would have been a beautiful pose, if her elbow hadn’t slipped. She crashed into the table right as the bell rang. She unfortunately managed to sit back up. She stood at the same time as me, and winked at me saying “I’ll see you in math” I was speechless. How could I be in the same room as her for an hour, and not go insane? NEXT: Patience mortals who feel attraction. PREVIOUS: FIRST:
Quick thing about Cassi. Her main weapon is sass, and another thing is that she loves logic, things making sense. But she also ignores things that don't make sense. But later in the book, she is going to fall apart when everything makes sense, and her world is crashing down around her. That was not quick at all. NEW THUMBNAIL PROGRESS: %100
