Nora O'Reilly is the kind of girl who always gets her tests handed back to her face down.

That said, she's also the kind of girl that everyone wants to be around. You would know. You've been in school with her since 5th grade, when your family moved to this shitty town, and you've always admired the way she winks at her friends when she tells them a joke ir flips her hair when she does something right. Not that you've ever had any kind of meaningful interaction with her that would ingrain you her memory.

You've just been two different people in two different lanes. Nora loves to act and to sing, and you've spent all the extra time you have from minimal social life on nerd shit like building a laser that pops balloons. You dream of being an engineer and having a basement full of cool gadgets with varying degrees of legality.

You said through all your math classes. Always the first to hand in your tests, always the one to answer the teacher's questions, always the one to remind them about the homework that no one but you did. Now in the last semester of your senior year, you are still the same. Though you are a tad more shy, as your assigned seat is right next to Nora O'Reilly.