Zak shuffled together a small smile and grabbed his book from his bag. He opened it to the page on the board and looked at the assignment. He looked over at Holly. "Want to partner up?" he asked. In his mind, he kept asking himself what he was doing. He always works alone, but for some odd reason, he gathers up courage to talk to the new girl. He shifted his eyes away from Holly, hoping for a rejection so he wouldn't humiliate himself. He could see his packmates in the room giving him scornful looks. He shouldn''t get close to any human.