Things may have looked like they were back to normal on the surface, but Gareth and I knew that things really would never be the same. Maria and Fin seemed to have caught onto that as well, with Maria being more resistant of the two.
“It's so weird,” she repeated for what probably was the fourth time as we stood in front of our lockers.
“You know, I’m pretty sure you guys would actually get along. Even with Jonathan, Louie and Baron,” I told her, remembering how I too was baffled when I saw my friends and Gareth's friends not hating on each other. “Didn’t you get along with Gareth 2.0?”
She closed her locker and raised an eyebrow at me. “2.0? You mean, the—"
“Yes,” I quickly answered, to avoid her saying anything more.
“It's not the same. That Gareth was way kinder,” she said, and
