The Serial Bully

chapter 48~ An irksome Cole

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I tried to tune out the chatter emanating from the students sitting haphazardly in the classroom whilst simultaneously trying my absolute best to assimilate the passage from the textbook I was poring over. This i must confess was proving to be a very strenuous task.

My attention was diverted from my dilemma by a mild pat on my shoulder followed shortly after by an enthusiastic "Aren't you excited?"

I swiveled around to be met with a smiling faced cara "huh?"

"You aren't?" She interrogated as she sat on the desk, something we could only do during a free period.

"About what?" I mused

"The trip the school organised for us." She bubbled not at all discouraged by my ignorance.

"Huh? when?." I asked pondering when exactly this had happened, to whom exactly it had been announced and how exactly the information had circulated and I hadn't at any point in time caught wind of it.

"The flyer announcing it is on the notice board. You didn't see it?." She twiddled her pen around her fingers.

"I didn't, I guess I'll have to start going to that board regularly." I lamented, the thought already breeding a slight headache at one side of my head.

She enthused "I'll be honest with you the actual reason I'm hyped is because we're going without our uniforms anddd, any occasion that doesn't require uniforms is always a happy one."

"Even funerals?." I teased

"Even funerals." Cara agreed with a nod

"Cara!." I chided snorting a laugh

"I was just kidding but..." She trailed off to stare at my neck

"What's the matter?" I questioned, touching my neck self-consciously.

"I don't know how you do it girlie. Look at you buttoned all the way up to the top." She eyed my button like it were an unrecognised specie from outer space.

"I like it better this way and besides it has become an habitual thing for me." I explained lightly

"I noticed you had it all the way buttoned up right from day one of your resumption to this school. The heat really doesn't get to you?" She contemplated

"Not exactly." I replied searching through my head for the right words to describe it.

"I get it." Cara nodded, looking in fact like she didn't get it at all.

"So what's the trip about and where's it going to be? And also when is it going to be?." I asked, I was beginning to get curious and to be frank the topic of buttoning up was beginning to make me slightly uncomfortable.

"Ok first things first, the trip will take place next week Monday." She informed me

"And it's Wednesday today, that's less than a week away. There's always, always somewhere to go around this place." I observed

"True, you won't believe the amount of aesthetic shops you haven't even visited yet. We definitely have to explore after the exams, brace your wallet." She did a little dance with her head

"I'll try. So onto the next question, where are we visiting?." I quizzed

"We're visiting some institutions to learn how they operate and structure opinions on them to help guide our career choices, in whatever field we may in future want to invest our time and effort into, or we can decided if we want to volunteer there." Cara explained with a blank stare as though she were parroting a speech that had been recited to her