The school week passed without Sean seeing Lundi. He only had one class a week with each grade, and she was never in the eating area during lunch breaks. It was becoming more and more apparent that other students preferred not to associate themselves with her. He remembered what it was like when he was at school – how girls could be best friends one minute and enemies the next – but this was an entirely different level of exclusion. He wouldn't go so far as to call it bullying, but there was a definite sense of unease among the students whenever she was mentioned.
"Girls are too hard to understand," Sean groaned, flexing his arms as he rocked back on his seat.
The last class of the day had been the ultimate test of his patience. The grade eights had nasty attitudes, and it quickly became obvious that the short bundles of oversized egos could not be trusted with something long and pointy until safety gear was in place. The entire brain-numbing ordeal had left Sean with several bruises and a headache. To top it off, Jack had left a pile of grade ten assignments with a note reading 'need to mark - urgent' on his already cramped desk. After attempting to read a few, Sean had firmly decided solving a homicide case was far less tedious, and wouldn't leave him feeling like he would rather amputate his hands than cross out another line that read 'CPR stands for Condoms and Preggaz is Retarded'.
"This is exactly what I want to be doing on a Friday night," Sean muttered sarcastically, tossing down his pen.
His shoulders sagged as he checked his leather-band watch. It blinked 20:05. With the amount of paperwork still crowding his desk, he wouldn't be finished until morning. A peaceful image of him and Lundi curled in a bed somewhere drifted into his thoughts. He could picture her lovingly snuggling into his chest as he wrapped his arms protectively around her, enjoying the feel of her soft skin and silky hair...
He scowled as he glanced down for a moment, knowing he was going to need an hour-long, cold shower to remove that enticing image from his downstairs brain. Sniffing, he realized he needed a shower anyway. He remembered seeing a male showering room near the school hall. Surely no one was at the school at that hour of the night who could walk in on him.
All he had to do was find a towel.
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