Brent catches her eye.

- What? he asks incomprehensibly.

"Nothing," she says angrily.

She hates herself for wanting to touch him. For what he thinks, what are his lips, and whether he knows how to kiss. For wanting to know more about him.

Jess is taking notes after the teacher, and now it's her turn to catch Brent's eye. She turns sharply, but he immediately lowers his eyes. And she wants to smile.

The lesson ends. They are the last to leave: he hesitates, looking for something in his backpack, and she deliberately lingers, only why she herself does not understand.

Together they walk to the door to exit the...