Trying to look smart but not too smart to threaten anything they say
&& @Luca
Ella had been in the library all morning, finishing up the assignment she had for after two weeks in a few hours. Her mother ha started bugging her again ever since she got home about taking the last year more quickly. But even if Ella had stopped caring as much as she used to about hiding her GPA, she still didn’t want to show off. Like, now, she wouldn’t hand in the assignment for a week and a half, just keep it in her backpack until the final days came… just so her classmates wouldn’t whisper behind her back like they used to before.
Sipping on her hot just-made black coffee, she walked slowly through the park, contained in thoughts and trying to scroll through her music to find the new song she had downloaded and wanted to listen to when her body hit a wall. Or… a solid body. Still felt like a wall when she crashed in it and went flying back, the coffee spilling over on the ground where the cup had already fallen. Her hands both tried to grab the flying phone and to save her from a rough landing.