"There you are," he said happily. "How was your weekend?"
"Well, I guess." Josh sighed. "I mean, I spent most of it with my sister. There wasn't much else to do."
"Ah," Mr. Walker replied. "Did you guys stay in touch with each other?"
"A bit..."
Mr. Walker grinned. "I was worried when I saw you two weren't speaking. That's not good!" he said.
"No, it's okay," Josh insisted. "Things were fine; we just didn't talk a lot."
Mr. Walker gave a relieved sigh and let go of Josh, before turning around and facing the board and writing the new name of the class on it. After that he told Josh that he should sit down next to his partner and then walked back to the front of the room and joined the rest of the teachers who were all standing at the front. The lesson began and Josh kept glancing over
