Hi it's the thirtieth I'm.... currently stressed h i don't like how i ended this one but the rest of it is... fine I was getting better at not staring. I only looked over maybe four minutes after the bell rung—and only because I heard Fuji made a little scoff-chuckle. I blinked at him and he noticed me, tucking his phone back into his backpack and picking his pencil up off his desk while turned to me. “Corrupt’s just feeding my brother lies about school. I’m the fact checker, apparently.” I was stunned for a few moments before managing to speak. “You—have a brother?” “Hah, yeah. I only found out about him maybe a week ago? He’s been at…” He trailed off, glancing down at his textbook. I watched his free hand clench a bit and easily filled in the unspoken part of his sentence. At Estuary. His brother had been at Estuary, and Fuji doesn’t want to say anything about that because he guaranteed that I’ve stuck him with a needle at least once. But he was wrong either way, because Print doesn’t let me stick needles in people. Not that I would, anyways. But I ignored it because I didn’t want him getting mad at me again. “… What’s his name?” “Oh, uh—Inigo.” … And I froze for the second time in a minute. Inigo. Blondish-whiteish hair. Yellow eyes. Instantly my brain filled in the picture behind the name because I’d heard it before. I’d seen him before. I’d talked to him before. But all I could do was repeat the name back to Fuji, because if I said anything more then he’d accuse me of hurting his brother. But I doubted there was a way I could hurt him because he reminds me of Fuji. I sighed as he nodded. “I assume he doesn’t go to school?” “No, at least not yet.” “Makes sense.” I was at a controversy now. I wanted to keep talking to him but class had technically started. I felt awkward but I wanted to hear more about his brother, and I wanted to stare but I knew I couldn’t. So I just nodded and looked back at my textbook and tried not to think about the glow of those yellow eyes in a concrete basement.
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