Sshh…Keep This a Secret

"Who is your partner?" she pressed on as she turned to look at the rest of the class.

"Who is her partner?" Monique asked the class, but a majority of the students stared at her blankly. Her eyes then fell on a spot where instead of two, there were three students in a group. 

"Hey, be her partner," Monique told the girl, Mia, in the group of three.

Mia turned to look behind her, assuming that she wasn't the one being addressed.

"I'm talking to you," Monique told her, and Mia chuckled nervously, and all of a sudden, her baby face was filled with rage. She had a clenched jaw, furrowed brows, intense eye contact, and reddened skin.

"Me and her..."Mia said in a high pitched voice, looking at Michelle from up to down and rolling her eyes in disgust, then saying, " NEVER,"

Every eye was on Monique, and the students waited with bated breath to see how she would react.

"What?" Monique asked in a breaking voice.