Computer Class

Absences and Binary Numbers

Camila
Going into softball practice, I immediately dropped my sports bag and went towards Lauren who was putting on her cleats. When she felt someone walking towards her, Lauren looked up and smiled at me. But that smile was gone as soon as she saw my sour expression. "Okay who hurt you? Who do I have to beat up? Do I have to call the girls?" She bombarded me with questions before I could even sit down next to her.

I let out a small chuckle at my best friend's over protective mode. "No Lo. You don't have to beat someone up but I feel like you're going to beat me up once you hear what I'm going to say." Lauren looked at me confused so I started my explanation of what had happened earlier today.

Throughout the whole story, Lauren just glared at me the whole time making me uncomfortable. After I was done explaining the situation, she simply grabbed a random sandal that was in her softball bag and started hitting me with it while calling me various things in Spanish like pendejo and other things.

After a couple hard hits from her sandal, Lauren sat down and I thought she was done but she hit me one more time and had put the sandal away completely. Then there was a somewhat awkward silence. I was scared to talk, afraid that Lauren might go back to Latina Mom mode again and start hitting me with this damn sandal.

I slowly unravelled myself from the position I used to defend myself while Lauren was attacking me and saw that she was trying to calm herself down by using breathing techniques. After a couple seconds Lauren had finally calmed down. She looked at me and said, "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK KARLA CAMILA CABELLO?!" I flinched at the tone of her words and went back into my protective shell mode. I would usually tell her to not call me that but at the moment I didn't want to die.

Lauren got up and started to pace back and forth, something she did when she was either nervous or mad. "You know you messed up big time Camila. I know you don't like when people pity you but God – Y/n is not that kind of girl. She just wanted to help you catch up Camila and I'm pretty certain she already knows how smart of a person you are; I mean she can practically look at anyone's grades on her laptop. Gosh Camila you are defiantly going to have to fix this."

I sighed knowing that she was right. I did mess up with Y/n. "Is there any way that you can help me fix this Lo?" I said pleadingly. I really wanted to fix this with Y/n. I didn't want her to unfriend me before I could actually take the time and get to know her.

She stopped pacing and glared at me for a couple seconds before letting out an exaggerated sigh. "Fine" She said while dragging out the i. "But you owe me big time Camila." I nodded in agreement and hugged her with all my might. "Thanks Lo." I said while giving her multiple kisses on the cheek. "Yeah, yeah. I get it but you gotta change. We need to start practice." I gave her a mock salute before grabbing my bag and changing to my softball outfit.

Y/n
I woke up to arms protectively wrapped around me and the smell of breakfast aroma in the air. I rubbed my eyes to try and get the drowsy feeling out of them. Once I was fully conscious, I carefully got out of Hitman's embrace without waking him up. I grabbed a nearby pillow and placed it in his arms.

I went the nearest bathroom and brushed my teeth to get rid of the awful smell of morning breath. When I was finished, I went to the kitchen to see that the rest of the squad was already awake. "Morning." I said to catch their attention. They all looked at me at once, which was a bit weird, and had replied with, "Good morning Siege." But with a happier tone than me since they were more of a morning person than me.

I went towards Blue, since he was the closest to me, and kissed his cheek. He was sitting on a stool that was near the counter while drinking his usual cup of coffee, made by Wolf, and scrolling through CNN. He had on his reading glasses and a pair of black Nike sweatpants with the matching shirt. "Hey Blue." I said while looking at the article he was reading. It was something about Standing Rock and a pipeline being built on it. Blue simply kissed my forehead as a response and went back to reading.