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touch me as he entered. I was amazed
at how quickly my infatuation with Kiran turned into disgust. Had I
known he was going to sell me out in front of everyone, I doubted I
ever would have found his faultless features so alluring
before.
    Regretfully I took my seat next to
Kiran on the floor. I pulled my knees in as close as I could and
disdainfully, rested my forehead on them. I gave myself hope that
there was a way to avoid these irritating boys in the hole we had
been banished to.
    “ So what are you?” Kiran
asked pointedly. I lifted my eyes and found him staring at me
intently. Avoidance was clearly out of the question.
    “ What do you mean?” I asked
dryly. I had lost all patience for him. And for the first time I
noticed Talbott staring at me as well.
    “ What are you?” he asked
again, pronouncing each word crisply and clearly. If this was some
weird game, I was not in the mood. I laid my head back down on my
knees.
    “ What he means to say is,
which are you?” Talbott interjected, apparently hoping to elicit
some type of answer from me; I, however, had no idea what kind of
answer they were even looking for. After responding with silence,
he continued, “We were not aware of you before we came; are you
witch, or psychic?”
    My head snapped up in reaction to his
ridiculous question. I saw then that they were just playing another
joke on me. How irritating. I was speechless, and my temper was
slowly rising. I may have made a fool of myself before, but that
did not mean these teenage boys needed to continue humiliating
me.
    “ She’s not one of you?”
Kiran tilted his head towards Talbott and asked softly.
    “ No, not in the least. And I
cannot get a read on her. Can you?” Talbott responded just as
softly. They were speaking to each other as if I was not here and
my patience was drawing thin.
    “ No,” Kiran sounded almost
as frustrated as I felt. The strangest thing was that they were
actually maintaining a straight face as though they really were
serious.
    “ I’m neither,” I almost
laughed as I said it. “I am actually an elf, a Christmas elf. Santa
gave me some time off so that I could go to school. He’s such a
nice old man,” I rolled my eyes, not just at them, but at myself, I
couldn’t believe I was playing their games.
    They both laughed a little nervously
and looked at each other. Kiran adjusted his sitting position and
our legs bumped each other. I couldn’t tell if he did it on purpose
or not, but as soon as there was contact between us I began to feel
the prickles and heat like before. It wasn’t as intense and my
pride told me I could handle it. There was no reason to panic and
flee from the room; at least not yet.
    “ Where are the papers we are
supposed to grade?” I asked Talbott, seeing a large stack of loose
leaf notebook paper in his hand. “Can I have some, please?” I
choked out manners, trying to be the better person, although they
were making it extremely difficult.
    “ Talbott will do it,” Kiran
answered quickly, without even looking at his friend.
    “ I would rather grade my
share, thank you,” I suddenly felt sorry for Talbott, to have a
friend like Kiran, but I shook my head trying to rid myself of the
feeling. I needed to remember that he had been just as bad as
Kiran. Ok, well maybe not just as bad, but the mere fact that he
indulged Kiran put him in the same category.
    “ Really, Talbott will do
them. He’s actually probably already finished,” Kiran insisted. I
looked to Talbott but he just smiled. I realized that Talbott was
going along with Kiran’s orders happily and really not going to
hand over any papers.
    “ Ugh. Fine,” I
resigned.
    “ Your last name is
Matthews?” Talbott asked out of the blue.
    “ Yes,” I was getting tired
of this.
    “ Nothing?” Kiran asked
cryptically to Talbott.
    “ Nothing,” Talbott responded
just as cryptically.
    “ Do you have any questions
for me?” I assumed Kiran was talking to Talbott, because I