Mariana checked her phone one final time for a reply before tucking it into the pocket of her sweater. 

[color=#b30059][b]”It's good to know you've both kept busy,”[/b][/color] she said, quite aware of the lack of specificity either of them had offered in the subject. [color=#b30059][b]”Though I'm guessing it would be a stretch to say that ‘keeping busy’ and ‘keeping out of trouble’ overlap much.”[/b][/color] There was a fondness in her voice as she said this; not a sense of victory that her life had been more smooth, but rather some assurance in the sense that she still knew something about them.

Some things were simply how they were. 

And Montana, for all of his quizzical posturing, had always been one of those things to her. Easy to read. Easy to predict. 

He was likely doing whatever thing one would least guess him to be. 

[color=#b30059][b]”It's all quite the coincidence, though, isn't it? No matter what we've all gotten up to, we're all here now. Teachers.”[/b][/color] She looked at both of them with a raised eyebrow for a moment, her train of thought derailed by Montana's final comment. 

[color=#b30059][b]”Maybe a bit overdue,”[/b][/color] she said, and was very glad that Ray was there to prevent anything further on the subject. [color=#b30059][b]”Almost as overdue as my arrival here, really. I haven't the foggiest idea where anything is.”[/b][/color]