[COLOR=blue][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]E V A N D E R  D A R I O[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][sup]Social Conscience, Mather Memorial High School[/sup][/INDENT]

The two weeks went by in a flash for Evander, and it went on normally. Emily sustained quite a few burns, but nothing too major, much to his relief. They would often talk about the fire and who could have possibly started it. But Emily, like many others, chalked it up to Louis and Elroy, both of which were had been reported missing after that. It was extremely suspicious after all - to have disappeared after the arson. And when Louis was found and he began stating that he and Elroy were the ones who caused the fire - the mystery was solved. The people now rested easy, knowing that the arsonist was caught.

However, Elroy remained missing. Search parties were sent out but he hadn't been found yet, and two weeks had already passed. It made Louis claimed that he left Elroy in the woods to rot, but no body was found. It made Evander doubt that Louis was telling the truth. The body would've been there unless someone moved it. But Evander didn't care much for the happenings so he didn't chalk up any conclusions and only waited for what the police investigations would come up with. However, the fact that the people were still well aware and feared the fact that there was a fire still remains. His parents still warned him that it is possible that it wasn't Louis who was responsible for the fire and urged him to be careful.

After all, an ice-powered human had no chance against someone who wields fire with them.

And now here he was, finding himself drifting off as he waited for the class to start. He hadn't gotten particularly closer to any of them, gotten involved with some small talk out of class or discussions in class but nothing more than that. If the point of this class was to know yourself better to be more sociable, then he was certainly not meeting the goal. But, at the very least, he got to know the others more than just baseless rumors and passing by them by chance.

He raised his head to look at the board as Sir Jonas began scribbling something on it. Like most of the others, he also felt that their teacher had been hinting something with his 'define this one word' lectures. It was as if there was a hidden message within it but it continued to elude him, his mind dancing around the lecture trying to find what exactly the teacher is trying to get at. 

Then there was also the case of Winter starting to act... a little bit odd. Evander didn't know the girl that much, only bordering acquaintance by this point, but he could tell. The way she acted on the first few days, and how she acted when he passed by her or was part of the class she was in, was different from now. It was like she was worrying about something only she could understand. Maybe it was a family problem so maybe he shouldn't pry. But he couldn't help but feel kind of worried, albeit only a little, for the girl. She and Sir Jonas seemed to have an understanding as well, as he noticed that they had been exchanging looks every now and then.

They were presented with another question as to what the word missing means to them. Sebastian joked about what he felt the meaning was - that the certain something that was missing was the whole point of this class. But Winter gave a more serious reply. Memories. It was like she was hinting at something there, shooting that look at the teacher. There it was again, that feeling where he [i]is[/i] forgetting something. Winter mentioned the dance. Evander didn't know how or why, but he only remembered leaning on the wall and the finding himself on the ground, meters from the wall he was standing on, with fire above. But he disregarded the feeling, thinking it was like the same phenomenon before where something dire had happened and his mind just couldn't register it anymore.

To Evander, however, he had no answer to the teacher. He didn't feel like anything was missing yet. Maybe what he was missing was that drive to socialize, but he didn't feel like that was truly the answer that Sir Jonas was looking for - even if the question (along with most of his other questions) were subjective. So he took the chance to wait and see how the teacher would react this time to Winter's answer this time around.