She sat up after the teacher checked on them. "Yeah, that is pretty creepy," she agreed in a whisper. Her throat was starting to feel a little sore from talking in a lower voice all day. Even now, talking in a whisper, she had to make her voice a tad lower. "After taking the first two years of high school at my local trashy high school, I realized I wasn't growing into the best person I could be. The learning criteria was easy peasy, the people around me were dumb druggies, and none of my friends seemed to give any thought to their future, let alone give any support to my goals. So I looked into private schools away from my town, and the rest is history," Diana explained, looking ahead of her as she explained this. She then turned to Derek. "Are you from this town? Have you been going to private boarding schools your whole life?" 

She was realizing that she, too, wanted to learn more about her roommate. So far all she knew was that he's known Harry since childhood, used to be called Derkie, and has some on-and-off thing going on with Cadence. [i]What if we run into Cadence tonight?[/i] Diana thought. [i]Is she the type of person to sneak out like Derek is?[/i]