The bell rang, dismissing all students to head for their snack and socializing break. Lagging behind is a girl with an image worthy of deeming her bookworm, but her competence fails to agree. She is in no hurry as she doesn't choose to eat much or talk much or do much in that half hour.

Now the teacher has been long gone for ten minutes, under the impression that all the students have already eagerly run out of the classroom. The girl is bluntly sitting in her seat, a few feet from the teacher's desk no less.

"Hey, you."

It wasn't a hey, you, kid sitting there or anything of that rude sort, but...a considerate address.

A conversation remains unremembered the entire ride home, only the amount of time it lasted, and the smiles she couldn't hold back while strangers blubbered on about unfair bus rights.