Awww he likes to sit in the back too? I missed that, that's adorable. Definitely lots of time together, then! If they've been sitting near each other for a lot of years now, plus battling it out in Chess Club, he's probably got a much more astute idea of what kind of person she actually is than the average student. He's got to see the smirks, the eye-rolls, and the occasional frustrated scribbling. Nevermind the battling and cutting comments in Chess Club when she gets really competitive, a la "If I were your court, I would just end it all before I had to suffer any further humiliation. I would off the Queen, and then I would turn the blade on myself."
SO I'm thinking they could've been friendly in classes and rivals on the chessboard? Then this year she was suddenly incredibly, incredibly cold, to the point of looking contemptuous and snapping when she did speak, because she doesn't know how to deal with those awful little feelings? We could kick off from this haze of strange new behaviour?
That's because Sophia's got awesome taste. :) Nora quite likes her, especially when she picks on people who really, really deserve to have their flaws pointed out.
Haha. Nora probably flirted back charmingly, because nothing serious was ever proposed.
Awwww. You keep memerizing those statistics, Becca. You keep memerizing them. So sad.