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Odessa smiled weakly up at the girl and wiped a stray tear from her left cheek. [color=red][I] " Thank you. If anything, this is going to make my love for music stronger. I know Mr. Johnson would have wanted me to continue playing." [/I][/color] She picked a small piece off her muffin and sighed. She didn't really know what to feel right now. She always went numb after things like this happened but right now, she felt. . . Strangely at ease. It struck her as odd that her physical body was acting like she was sad but her mind was completely blank. In any case, she couldn't let this girl know what she was actually feeling. She had to play the part. [color=red][I] "I haven't gone to any of my classes today. I've been afraid I would just break down. I think I'm just going to go home." [/I][/color] 

Using her peripheral vision, she tilted her head down towards her lap  and watched the girl carefully. She was oddly staring at her black notebook. Odessa quickly rose from the table, smiled at the girl and said [color=red][i] “I have to be going now. Lunch is almost over and my Aunt wants me home.” [/i][/color]  She shoved the notebook into her backpack and walked past the girl headed towards her house.  The way she had been looking at her notebook made Odessa wonder what she had REALLY wanted. She had never met this girl before and she somehow doubted that she was actually concerned about Odessa’s fragile mental state; she wanted something. She kept walking without turning around, secretly hoping the girl would follow her.