Like, your one minute sad, and one minute you feel like you're on top of the world?”
“Yeah, sometimes, I guess.” I say awkwardly. How does he understand me? He opens his mouth to speak again, but is interrupted by the loud PA speaker’s voice.
“Please excuse the announcement. An emergency assembly is going to begin within fifteen minutes. Can every teacher please lead their next class to the gymnasium please. Thank you.” After the speaker has quieted, the boy said a word that I personally would not like to repeat.
“What, it’s just an assembly?” I ask him.
“No,” he starts, “they're having an assembly because of you. Listen, it’s clear already that you're not normal, and they want to stop you from doing anything that they see as dangerous.”
“I don’t do anything dangerous! I don’t plan to do anything dangerous!”
“They don’t care,” he shushes me, “you are different, and that scares them.”
“Why an assembly though?” I respond in question.
“You’ve been to one of these before. They tell the whole school about how they should report strange behaviors, and all of a sudden your friends are telling the principal about all the little things you do. The little quirks you have that you didn’t even notice will be tied against