Matt reappeared nearly an hour late from lunch ten minutes into the start of lesson 6 I Vaguely wondered why he was bothering with the last class of the day but as he apologised briefly to the teacher and slid in the empty seat next to me I looked at him and saw something was very wrong, he gave me a weak smile and just grabbed my hand gripping it tightly before looking back at the front as if finding the lesson riveting and this was English lit so I knew his attention was feigned, I was ok with allowing that but I could see he was unhappy so that was the reason I was annoyed. I just gripped his hand and sat quietly next to him as he sat with his book open in front of him pen in one hand my hand in the other he just stared at the front of the classroom but his eyes were unfocused he clearl
