LIB

Chapter 29

            Blake put a hand on my shoulder and squeezed it gently. “Apparently people actually like you here.”

            “Some of them must like you too, because it couldn’t have been easy to get Braille onto this paper.”

            He ran his other hand over the paper, finding the few messages that were written in Braille. “I guess that’s true. Maybe my status as an asshole is slowly fading. I might have to do something to get it back.”

            I smacked him in the stomach lightly. “No, you can lose that status. I like it better when you’re nice.”

            “I’d still be nice to you,” he assured me.

            I rolled my eyes. “That’s not what I meant. We should probably get going to our first class.”

            We started going down the hallway, but stopped when we heard our names being called. Rachel came hurrying up to us and she was almost vibrating in excitement. “That video of you two is so amazing!” she squealed.

            “Uh, what video?” I asked.

            Her excitement dimmed a tiny bit. “You mean you don’t know about it?”

            “No?”

            She whipped out her phone and fiddled with it for a moment and then handed it to me. I looked down at the screen and my jaw dropped when I saw myself and Blake in the music room at my place. The video showed us playing around for a moment and then we started actually playing the song and singing.

            Blake leaned over my shoulder a little. “Why can I hear our voices coming from your hands?”

            “Rachel handed me her cell phone,” I replied. “Apparently a little birdie was taping us after my first day of physical therapy, when we were in the music room. Three guesses who it was.”

            “I only need one. I’m going to kill Sophie,” he grumbled.

            “Why?” Rachel asked in shock. “Everybody loves the video! Everyone has been talking about it since it got posted. It’s had over half a million hits already.”

            My eyes widened. “Seriously?”

            “Yeah, and you should read what some of the comments say. I think you’ve inspired a lot of people.”

            I looked up at Blake. “Maybe we shouldn’t kill her. If we’ve helped even one person in some way, then the video was worth it.”

            He sighed. “Fine,” he agreed reluctantly. “But you have to promise to try and get a video of her doing something embarrassing.”

            “I can try to do that. We really need to get to class right now though. We’ll see you at lunch, okay?” I said to Rachel, handing her the phone back.

            “Okay. I need to go find David anyways, I seem to have lost him somewhere along the way.”

            I chuckled as I watched her scurry away. “That girl really has too much energy sometimes. I don’t think she ever actually just walks anywhere.”

            “I never would have thought David would date a girl like her. He was always so calm and laidback about everything.”

            We started heading towards our classroom again. “Well, they say opposites attract. I mean, we’re opposites when it comes to our personalities, and yet we fit together really well.”