Fourteen minutes late. Fourteen. One minute more and Kay would have had been considered absent—which would have had been his first ever absence in the span of two weeks. When he arrived, he slipped into the vacant seat that Gina had saved for him beside her. This earned him a curious look from her, which he couldn’t really answer due to the fact that he had a lot of notes to catch up on taking. It was by the end of the class when everyone was packing up to leave, that Gina hurriedly said goodbye to her other friends, grabbed her bag, and approached Kay.
“Kay Benedict! Late for class! Who are you and what have you done to my friend?” she exclaimed in jest while Kay zipped up his bag.
“You know that Kay isn’t my real name, right?” he asked, although he was pretty sure Gina thought that tha
