Post by mac on Feb 19, 2017 4:41:23 GMT
Arthur knew that they’d be assigned a project soon, but he hadn’t thought it would be on a Friday. He assumed it would be next Monday when it was assigned – just like the syllabus said it was. Instead, the professor said that they ‘should pick partners early’ and ‘get to work drafting their ideas’ while he ‘picked the object the pair should sell once they partnered up’. That all sounded well and good, but one thing that sucked severely was that Arthur didn’t really have any friends in this class. In most of his other business courses he had acquaintances, who would pair up with him on assignments. His math courses were different – no partnerships required there.
Arthur drummed his mechanical pencil on the desk as everyone around him shifted their chairs and moved to work with friends or acquaintances. When the only person in the class he sort-of knew, but sometimes clashed with, passed by him and chose someone else he glared at the back of their head. Right. He didn’t want to work with them, anyway. Still sucked they chose someone else over him, though.
As the moving stopped, Arthur finally figured he should go off and find someone to work with. He got up and scanned the classroom. He bit down on his lower lip at the state of it. Most everyone was paired up. Was there a group trying to be a triple pair? If that was the case then he’d have to break friends up and there was nothing more annoying that having his partner whine because they didn’t want to be separated from their friends. He wished the teacher just did a stupid lottery thing instead of letting students pick their friends.
As he surveyed the classroom he spotted someone who had yet to be paired with anyone – a quiet kid he barely recognized. His name... Arthur had to think for a second before he remembered: Sydney. He was in a few of his other classes too. Arthur took a breath and approached the guy, stopping in front of him.
”Uh. Hi.” He said, clearing his throat. He had to remind himself not to make it weird by sounding too awkward, which he was already failing at doing. ”Want to work together on this?”