After Roland said his hello to the Avery girl, she looked at him to reply in a nervous tone. Roland thought to himself that this might be the chance that she will actually talk to him and he could get to know her, but instead she tried to make avoidable and distant just like their last encounter. She spoke towards him to remind him that she didn’t want him near her and that it wasn’t best to talk to her, and after she said what she had to say, she tended back to her sketch to whatever it was she was doing, but that wasn’t enough to make Roland just get up and leave. As she got back to her hobby, Roland replied.

[i]“Uh huh, but you can’t get rid of me that easily.”[/i] He smiled as he started to grab for something out of his book bag.[i] “Besides I had to at least give this back to you.”[/i] In his hand he had the treatment pad that she had given him yesterday for his face when he fell. He reached his hand out to her with the pad in his hand and spoke again.

[i]“I think this belongs to you. I wanted to at least thank you for letting me use it. It was really nice of you, even though you still ran away from me.”[/i] And as Roland finished speaking, his face expressed a gentle smile of kindness while he handed her what had belonged to her. 

[i]"Here, take it."[/i]