<span style="font-weight: bold">Aaron's house </span><br/><br/>Maya felt a sense of confidence when Aaron had given her that smile of certainty. During times like these, she always felt a pang of guilt for ever doubting him in the first place. Being Aaron’s friend was sometimes a bit of a rollercoaster ride for her, nonetheless.<br/>One minute he had it all figured out, the next he’d seem far removed. In the end, he always seemed to get it together though.<br/>However, she wanted to make a point of posing some questions to him later on. Perhaps after school. At the very least, after they give their presentation.<br/><br/>Maya drank more of the hot chocolate, before obliging to some buttered toast that was given to her by Aaron’s mum. She always felt very welcome here given the hospitable nature of both Aaron and his mum.<br/><br/>“Ok Aaron, if you say so…” she gave in, watching the cat dunk the toast in eggyolk “and yeah, I remember<span style="font-weight: bold">that</span>sub.” She rolled her eyes, hoping to god that they wouldn’t be left in that unfortunate position again.<br/><br/>“I really dunno what his problem with Jacob was. His verdict on giving him a detention was just too militant,” she said shaking her head with a light scowl upon her soft features “hopefully we don’t get that geezer again.”<br/><br/>“I’m sure our institute have learnt their lesson,” Aaron advised, getting up to place his plate and mug in the sink. Rinsing them with medium flow lukewarm water “besides, these are our final assessments coming up. Students and parents are going to complain about lack of consistency if it comes to it and our school is not gonna want to deal with the trouble.”<br/><br/>“Yeah… good point. It makes sense,” Maya agreed, pulling her weight by bringing her cutlery to the sink to have them thoroughly cleaned and rinsed.<br/><br/>Once Aaron and Maya had done their courtesy chores, Aaron’s mother stood up and performed a single clap with her hands held together.<br/><br/>“Well, I think it’s time you young ones got going… the bus will be outside any minute now,” she said, looking between the two of them.<br/>Maya checked her watch. Her calm expression creasing somewhat.<br/><br/>“Looks like we have 2 minutes to catch the bus…” she gritted her teeth.