“Is this seat taken?”

Spencer looked up from her doodling to find Ashley smiling at her. “Oh wow, Ashley Davies, choosing to sit with me instead of Kid-with-BO? I’m honored!” Spencer laughed, pretending to fan herself with her hand.

“Shut it, you,” Ashley said, rolling her eyes. Kid-with-BO turned to look at them with a wounded expression, causing both girls to snort with laughter.

It was Monday morning, and both girls were in Creative Writing class. Taking Ms Norwood’s threats of deducting participation marks for every time a student was late for class rather seriously, Ashley had shot into class the second the bell rang.

“I saw you running in like Speedy Gonzales there,” Spencer teased.

“You’re not a very nice person, Spence,” Ashley said breezily.

“Well it’s definitely not my personality that gets me them ladies,” Spencer said, cocking her fingers like guns at Ashley.

“Seriously, Spence? Finger guns? What era are you from?” Ashley laughed.

The two girls were so caught up in their flirty banter that they didn’t notice that the entire class was silent. Ms Norwood stood at the front of the classroom, her hands on her hips. “Ms Davies, Ms Carlin, I’m so glad you managed to resolve whatever it was between the both of you last week, but if you really don’t mind, I have a class to teach!”

Both girls stared blankly at Ms Norwood, Spencer biting her bottom lip to stop herself from bursting into laughter. Ms Norwood, however, seemed satisfied with their sudden silence, and turned to the rest of the class again.

Spencer took out her notebook and under the pretense of taking down notes, wrote “Someone peed in her coffee this morning” and tossed the scrap of paper discreetly to Ashley. Spencer turned back to the front of the class as she heard Ashley unfold the paper as quietly as she could. She quickly schooled her face into one of utmost attention when Ashley let out a loud snort beside her. Luckily, Ms Norwood was too into her lecture to notice the two girls’ childishness.

The rest of the class passed by quickly and obliviously to Ashley and Spencer as they traded notes back and forth like two girls in the fourth grade. Before they knew it, the bell rang and they managed to catch Ms Norwood saying “…due next week in class!” before her voice was drowned out by the stampede of students rushing out of class.