——Aaron
Winter vacation was finally over and compared to last year, I was actually glad to go back to school. As weird as it was, I woke up ten minutes before my alarm and arrived at school before any of my friends did.
What was even weirder was how my palms sweat when I saw Sam walk into class during the first period. Despite our little exchange of gifts on Christmas day, everything between us was back to normal. We didn’t say a single word to each other during class, and she didn’t glance my way, which I thought was okay. That was us. That was a normal thing for us…I guess.
If there was one thing I wasn’t really looking forward to coming back from the winter break, it would have to be Nicole. She and her family went to Canada to visit her relatives and had only called me once on Ch
