Aware

Tillo Lando: February 29th,20XX

I fought the instinct to look down at the floor as over thirty pairs of eyes bore into our faces. Kaja, who I knew was currently regretting the exorbitant amount of eyeshadow she had piled on top of her eyelids, didn’t shy away from their stares but instead choose to look around the room and make eye contact with each of them.

One by one.

I could tell this threw them off by the way they would shift in their seats and switch their focus of attention to whatever else was in the room. My classmates would first stare at Kaja and then, when she met them with an even more intense glare, would look at something else. The ceiling, the student that had brought us here… or me.