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Jennifer's POV:

It's been 1 week since the incident dealing with Mason and Arielle in front of my apartment. I wanted to tell Kaelynn about what happened but Arielle told me not to, that it was none of my business, so I simply just let it slide.

Arielle was supposed to come to school today, and I was anxiously waiting for her to enter my classroom. She hasn't spoken to me since what she told me in the hospital about her not wanting to be around me anymore because of Mason.

The bell rang and there was still no Arielle so I sadly walked over to close my door.

I started teaching for a few minutes when I heard a knock on the door. I opened it and saw Arielle. She was wearing the white polo shirt and gray  skirt with a white sock on one leg and a nike slipper on her foot and on the the other leg a cast and she was holding crutches. I looked at her shocked.
"You're actually here." I said to her, shocked.
"Yea I am, can you let me in now?" She asked.
"Right, of course." I said to her and opened the door wider so that she can come in. She hopped over to her desk with her crutches and I looked at her full leg cast on her left leg and it tore me apart.
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I finally finished teaching the class, which was hard since Arielle's presence distracted me the whole time.
The bell rang and I saw that Arielle was packing up her things so I called out to her "Arielle can you please stay behind for a little?"
She didnt say anything but instead stopped packing up.

Once all the kids left the classroom I closed to door and walked over to my desk. I got some homework and notes for her and walked over to her desk and gave them to her "Here, this is what you missed." I said to her.
"Thanks." Arielle said taking the papers and putting them in her purse.
I stood there silently, watching her and then she asked "Is that all?"
"Do you need help getting to your next class?" I asked her.
"No that won't be necessary Ms.Murphy." She said getting up out her seat, putting her bag on her shoulder and grabbing her crutches.

She started to hop away with her crutches when I walked over to her and stopped her.
"Arielle." I said to her, causing her to turn around slowly.
"Yes Ms.Murphy?" She asked.
"Are you really going to give up on us? Like this?" I asked her.
Arielle directed her gaze towards the ground not looking me in the eyes.

"Are you?" I asked her again.
"I have to." She said quietly.
"Why? Do you honestly think that he's going to hurt me? Hurt you? I would never let that happen." I said to her.
"You don't know that. I didn't think that he would do this to me, but he did. I don't want him doing worse to you." She said.
"Arielle trust me-"
"No Jennifer." Arielle said cutting me off.
"Just forget it...okay?" She said to me and turned around and left my classroom.

Did she just break up with me? I thought to myself.

She couldn't have broken up with me because we were never dating in the first place.
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Arielle's POV:

I was currently hopping away to 5th period, trying to get there on time. Usually I wouldn't have worried about being late to 5th period but Ms.Rose has been acting very strict lately, and even stricter with me than with anyone else.

I was still in the elevator waiting for it to reach 3rd floor and when I got out I heard the bell rang.

Just great. I thought to myself.

I hopped towards the classroom and when I got there I knocked on the door. I waited for a minute and she finally opened the door, she had a smile on her face but once she saw me the smile was wiped off of her face.

"Why are you late Ms.Agostinelli?" She asked me.
"You can kinda see why." I said to her pointing to my leg.
She rolled her eyes at me and then opened the door letting me in. I went over to my desk and sat down.
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Nothing interesting happened during class. The bell rang and I quickly tried to pack my things so that Ms.Rose couldn't yell at me for "not packing up quick enough."
When I was about to finish packing my things Ms.Rose said to me "Stay after."

What does she want me to stay after for? Probably just wants to give me homework. I thought to myself.

After the last kid she closed the door and walked over to my desk.
"If you want to give me my missed homework feel free to do it already." I said to her.
"I didn't make you stay after for homework, I made you stay after to talk about your tardiness." She said.
"It's not my fault I was late, I can't exactly speed walk." I said.
"Well the do your best to get here on time." She said sternly.

What? Is she crazy?

"Look, I don't know what's gotten into you, but you need to stop treating me like this because I've done nothing to deserve it." I said to her sharply.
"So kissing Ms.Murphy isn't something you recall doing?" She asked.
"You saw that?" I asked shocked.
"Yes I did." She said a little bit quieter, sounding a little hurt.

"What does that have to do with anything?" I asked her.
"You lead me on, flirting with me, then what happened at the party, and then you go and kiss her." She said.
"Look Ms.Rose, you're my teacher, I'm your student. I'm sorry but that night at the party...I was just drunk, and the flirting, it didn't mean anything." I said to her.

She pressed her lips on mine and then quickly pulled away.
"You can't tell me that you didn't fell anything?" She said looking at me intensely.
"Look Ms.Rose I have to go." I said to her and quickly got my purse and put it on my shoulder.
"Arielle, answer the question." Ms.Rose said to me.
I got up out my seat and put pressure on my cast and it hurt but I didn't have time to get my crutches, I had to leave the classroom, so I quickly left the room holding in the screams of pain.
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Seventh period was finally over and I didn't have any plans after-school. I walked over to my guidance counselor's room and knocked on the door. I heard a come in and walked inside.

"Hey Arielle." Ms.Gomez said to me.
Ms.Gomez was my guidance counselor. She was in her 40's but looked 30 she had black hair and light brown eyes. She was sort of my second mom.
"Hi Ms.Gomez." I said to her closing the door behind me.
"Didn't I tell you to call me Patricia Arielle? She asked.
"I'm sorry, I haven't been here so long I forgot." I said walking over to a seat and sitting down.

"What did you need?" Patricia asked.
"Can I get transfer papers please?" I asked her. Patricia looked at me shocked and asked "For what class?"
"Ms.Rose." I answered.
"I thought she was your favorite teacher?"
"Yea was, now she's been acting weird and now she treats me terribly." I told her.
"Really, and do you know why?" She asked.

I thought back to what she said when she started talking about Jennifer and I and answered "No, I don't."
She filled out the transfer paper and said "Just get her to sign the only blank spot on this paper and bring it back to me."
"Do I have to get her to sign it?" I asked.
"Yes, now leave I have an appointment." Patricia said to me.
"Wow bye to you too." I said to her closing the door.

Just great I have to make Ms.Rose sign it. I can wait until tomorrow. I thought to myself.

I left the school and got an Uber to Starbucks because I could really go for a Oprah Cinnamon Chai Frappe. After I was finished I realized how dumb I was to call an Uber because now I have to pay again to call another one. So I decided to call an UberPool instead because it was cheaper. But then I thought about how that was a bad decision because I could now be sharing the Uber with a sweaty old guy.

Before I was about to cancel the Uber it stopped right in front of me and it would've been rude to tell the guy that it didn't want to go on. So I reached for the car handle and closed my eyes as I was getting inside. I was fully inside and I could the door and the driver started driving. 

After a couple of minutes I heard a female voice say "Are you okay?"

I opened my eyes and looked over to my right, the direction the voice was came from. The woman looked like she was in her 20's, maybe 22,23. She had brown hair and light green eyes with some freckles on her face, she was breathtakingly beautiful. She was wearing a plain white t-shirt and denim shorts with sandals on her feet. She also looked oddly familiar.

"Uh yea I'm fine." I said a blush creeping onto my face.

"Mind telling me what the whole closing your eyes thing was about?"

"I thought, you were gonna be a smelly old man so I closed my eyes." I said  to her, now realizing how stupid my idea was.

She laughed and said "Wow, I'm flattered. If I was a 'smelly old man', did you think closing your eyes was gonna make me go away?"

"I didn't think it all the way through." I mumbled.

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We finally got to my house and  I said "This is me." and was getting ready to get out of the car when I stopped and asked her "What's your name?"
"It's Emily, Emily White. Yours?" She said.
"Arielle Agostinelli. Um have we met before?" I asked.
"No, I don't think so, I'm pretty sure I would've remembered someone as pretty as you." She responded.

Did she just flirt with me? I thought to myself.

"Give me your hand." She said so I did and she put a piece of paper in it and closed it.

I blushed at this and then got out the car. "Bye Arielle."
I waved at her and said "Bye." I turned around and walked to the door of my house and unlocked the door. When I was about to fully close the door I looked out of it one last time and saw Emily still in the Uber waiting for me I smiled at her and she smiled back and I then proceeded to closing the door.

When I was walking to my room and passed by Amanda she asked "What's with the smile on your face? You meet someone special?"
I thought about Emily and answered "Yea, something like that." and went into my room.

I opened my hand and looked at the piece of paper and saw it was her number.

Maybe Emily and I sharing an Uber could be the start of something.