The heating unit rattled
a student in the other room tapped his desk
some students down the hall chatted
the heating unit ceased, and then somebody in my room sniffled
forcing me to glance up and seek the cause of the abnormal noise
a fellow teacher reading a book while holding a white nose tissue, crying
and I gently asked my fellow teacher if she cried or just suffered a sinus attack
(already knowing the answer)
and she, barely looking up from the book
nodded in assent to one or both of the questions
returning to a very emotional story
while I delicately returned to my computer
leaving her to drown happily in the sea of literarily initiated passions
TR
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