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Him.

The new girl was back today.

Like it has been for the past few days

she never said a word.

The teacher gave the class directions

of what our project would be.

We were all to study The Odyssey

and make a poster board for it.

It would be due the day before Christmas break.

Today was November 17th.

Everyone scattered and shuffled over to their partners 

and I hesitantly pulled my desk over to the new girl's desk.

She nervously looked up at me

and I noticed how blue her eyes were.

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